Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-14 Thread Ned Slider
Cool - I wasn't aware you could do that - thanks for the tip! Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: List, Whilst I'm in the mood for contributing stuff, here's another little howto I wrote on securing SSH that has proved popular in the past:

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ned Slider napsal(a): David Hrbác wrote: David - sorry, I don't speak fluent sed, but I assume you're suggesting limiting the protocol to SSH2 only? ie, editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config to: # Protocol 2,1 Protocol 2 Yes, Ned. D. ___

[CentOS-docs] Use of CentOS logo on another wiki

2007-09-14 Thread Kenneth Porter
I'm writing a short howto article for WoWWiki and thought it'd be nice to add the CentOS logo to the page. I looked at Wikipedia and they have this page with the logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Centos_logo.png Note the issues mentioned there. I'd like to use it here, on another

Re: [CentOS] yum proxy username with @ character

2007-09-14 Thread David Toman
Shawn K. O'Shea wrote: I was really curious about this, so I googled around a bit. I don't know about the support in the environment variables, but from what I'm reading, the %40 encoding should definitely work if you use the proxy variables in yum.conf, ie:

Re: [CentOS] mailq.postfix manpage

2007-09-14 Thread Stefano Biagiotti
Feizhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefano Biagiotti wrote: On CentOS 4 I can't view the mailq man page. I installed postfix and removed sendmail. # LANG=en_US man mailq fopen: No such file or directory Cannot open man page /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz No manual entry for mailq # zcat

Re: [CentOS] mailq.postfix manpage

2007-09-14 Thread Feizhou
Stefano Biagiotti wrote: Feizhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefano Biagiotti wrote: On CentOS 4 I can't view the mailq man page. I installed postfix and removed sendmail. # LANG=en_US man mailq fopen: No such file or directory Cannot open man page /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz No manual

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Banton
Hmm, how are you creating your ext3 filesystem(s) that you test on? Try creating it with a large journal (maybe 256MB) and run it in full journal mode. The filesystem was created during the initial CentOS installation, and I've tried it with ext2 which made no difference. S.

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Feizhou
Simon Banton wrote: Hmm, how are you creating your ext3 filesystem(s) that you test on? Try creating it with a large journal (maybe 256MB) and run it in full journal mode. The filesystem was created during the initial CentOS installation, and I've tried it with ext2 which made no difference.

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 17:34 +0800 14/9/07, Feizhou wrote: .ohdo you have a BBU for your write cache on your 3ware board? Not installed, but the machine's on a UPS. I see where you're going with larger journal idea and I'll give that a go. Cheers S. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] mailq.postfix manpage

2007-09-14 Thread Stefano Biagiotti
Feizhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I also removed the sendmail package. man mailq --partial content-- SENDMAIL(1) SENDMAIL(1) NAME sendmail - Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface What do ls -al /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.gz and rpm -qf

[CentOS] Re: xdm

2007-09-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Craig White wrote: Anyway, KDM is display manager and I am only getting grey screen with X ... # tail -n 3 /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess # The following line was added by ltspcfg # *# Allow remote connects how do I enable non local logins? That's the right setting, but you

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RE: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Simon Banton wrote: At 08:09 -0400 14/9/07, Jim Perrin wrote: Have you done any filesystem optimization and tried matching the filesystem to the raid chunk size? No, I haven't. This is 3ware hardware RAID-1 on two disks with a single LVM ext3 / partition - I'm afraid I don't know how to

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Sebastian Walter
Simon Banton wrote: At 08:09 -0400 14/9/07, Jim Perrin wrote: Have you done any filesystem optimization and tried matching the filesystem to the raid chunk size? No, I haven't. This is 3ware hardware RAID-1 on two disks with a single LVM ext3 / partition - I'm afraid I don't know how to go

Re: [CentOS] Very strange problem i have faced in my 2 years carrier

2007-09-14 Thread Feizhou
Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: Unfortunately that isn't much use if you're running the default system with prelink as it changes large numbers of executables rendering the RPM verify close to useless. unless you are using a very old

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 15:43 +0200 14/9/07, Sebastian Walter wrote: Simon Banton wrote: No, I haven't. This is 3ware hardware RAID-1 on two disks with a single LVM ext3 / partition - I'm afraid I don't know how to go about discovering the chunk size to plug into Ross's calcs. You can see the chunk size

RE: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 09:41 -0400 14/9/07, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Try getting another identical 3ware card and swapping them. If it produces the same problem, then try putting that card in another box with a different motherboard to see if it works then. I've got three identical machines here - two as yet not

RE: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Simon Banton wrote: At 15:43 +0200 14/9/07, Sebastian Walter wrote: Simon Banton wrote: No, I haven't. This is 3ware hardware RAID-1 on two disks with a single LVM ext3 / partition - I'm afraid I don't know how to go about discovering the chunk size to plug into Ross's calcs.

Re: [CentOS] Re: xdm

2007-09-14 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Craig White wrote: Anyway, KDM is display manager and I am only getting grey screen with X ... # tail -n 3 /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess # The following line was added by ltspcfg # *# Allow remote connects how do I enable

RE: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Feizhou wrote: Simon Banton wrote: At 17:34 +0800 14/9/07, Feizhou wrote: .ohdo you have a BBU for your write cache on your 3ware board? Not installed, but the machine's on a UPS. Ugh. The 3ware code will not give OK then until the stuff has hit disk. I see where you're

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? Goodness ... the Stuff you have in your closet at

[CentOS] 2 nics, 2 networks, 2 switches

2007-09-14 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Hi Everyone, I have a server with two NICs. One NIC is already configured for network A, but the second is disabled at the moment. I want to enable it too, but put it on network B. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that. Well, what I've tried hasn't worked anyway. Each NIC is plugged into

RE: [CentOS] 2 nics, 2 networks, 2 switches

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Hi Everyone, I have a server with two NICs. One NIC is already configured for network A, but the second is disabled at the moment. I want to enable it too, but put it on network B. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that. Well, what I've tried hasn't

[CentOS] Re: Re: xdm

2007-09-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: That's the right setting, but you (sometimes) need to completely restart X (or maybe only kdm?) for any changes in Xaccess to take effect. I wasn't sure how to restart kdm so I did a yum update and rebooted and

Re: [CentOS] 2 nics, 2 networks, 2 switches

2007-09-14 Thread Ken Price
What you're asking can be done a number of ways with different levels of complexity, the simplest using routing tables and IPTABLES. Instead of asking this list how to technically do this, I'd suggest that first you describe what you're trying to accomplish at a higher level. And be very

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
Lamar Owen wrote: If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least jumperable) UPS to the effort, about a 3000VA unit or so, that would help matters considerably! All my good UPS's are 120VAC at this point (my one good

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: xdm

2007-09-14 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:12 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: That's the right setting, but you (sometimes) need to completely restart X (or maybe only kdm?) for any changes in Xaccess to take effect. I wasn't sure

Re: [CentOS] Re: xdm

2007-09-14 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 06:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Craig White wrote: Anyway, KDM is display manager and I am only getting grey screen with X ... # tail -n 3 /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess # The following line was added by ltspcfg # *# Allow remote connects how do I enable

[CentOS] CentOS on s390; was: CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least jumperable) UPS to the effort, about a 3000VA unit or so, that would help matters considerably! As it turns out, I _may_ actually

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 23:07 +0800 14/9/07, Feizhou wrote: Well, I do not think it will help much with a larger journal...you want RAM speed, not single 250GB SATA disk speed. Right now, I'd be happy with being able to configure the 3Ware care as a plain old SATA II passthru interface and do software RAID1 with

RE: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 11:16 -0400 14/9/07, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Yes, a write-back cache with a BBU will definitely help, also your config, The write-cache is enabled, but what I've not known up to now is that the absence of a BBU will impact IO performance in this way - which seems to be what you and

[CentOS] Multiple IP Address

2007-09-14 Thread Brett Serkez
I'm hoping that someone on this list can shed some light on how Linux/CentOS decides which IP address to report when a Windows desktop attempts to access it via SAMBA/WINS. The CentOS system in question is running a single NIC and OpenVPN which adds two additional virtual NICs. This is a backup

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on s390; was: CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 14 September 2007, R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least jumperable) UPS to the effort, about a 3000VA unit or so, that would help matters

[CentOS] centosplus kernel question

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Foster
I noticed a new upstream kernel was released yesterday and now wondered how long until the corresponding version of the centosplus kernels are updated? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on s390; was: CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 September 2007, R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: If someone would like to donate a midsized 208VAC-capable (single-phase OK, but has to be 208 and not 240, or at least jumperable) UPS to the effort, about

[OT] Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
[Veering off-topic; mods, I'll not continue this branch of the thread much longer] On Friday 14 September 2007, John R Pierce wrote: I've gotten away with running some 208V equipment on a 120V UPS using a step-up transformer which had a 208V tap (and 220V, 240V). Of course, 3000VA is

Re: [CentOS] Multiple IP Address

2007-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
Brett Serkez wrote: I'm hoping that someone on this list can shed some light on how Linux/CentOS decides which IP address to report when a Windows desktop attempts to access it via SAMBA/WINS. ... Ultimately I'd like the CentOS system to always report its 10.44.0.x address. Is there anyway to

[CentOS] Segmentation fault YUM

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Bruno
Hi, today in yum update show this problem: Segmentation fault Any idea about this problem? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Segmentation fault YUM

2007-09-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On 9/14/07, Daniel Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, today in yum update show this problem: Segmentation fault Any idea about this problem? Could you provide us a bit more detail please? Which version of centos are you using, and on which architecture? Do you have any additional

Re: [CentOS] Segmentation fault YUM

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Bruno
Centos 5, i386 I dont have additional repositories. The system was installed recently.. On 9/14/07, Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Daniel Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, today in yum update show this problem: Segmentation fault Any idea about this problem?

[CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Ray Leventhal
When using ifcfg-eth0:x files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, should each file (where x increments appropriately) point to DEVICE=eth0:x or DEVICE=eth0:0? I apparently have my alias files all ifcfg-eth0:0 - ifcfg-eth0:7 show DEVICE=eth0:0. Is this right? It seems odd to me and while it does

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-14 Thread Lamar Owen
[Administrivia: should this be on CentOS-devel instead of the regular CentOS list? If so, please redirect.] On Friday 14 September 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: Whew. As typical, you have thoroughly thought through things. Let me see if the beast will power up and whether the OS/2 console

Re: [CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Barry Brimer
I apparently have my alias files all ifcfg-eth0:0 - ifcfg-eth0:7 show DEVICE=eth0:0. Is this right? It seems odd to me and while it does seem odd, the alias IPs are being appropriately responded to, answering pings and nameserver requests. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 =

Re: [CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On 9/14/07, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/RangeOfIpsOnEthx Suggestions are welcome and much appreciated. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Re: [CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Ray Leventhal
Jim Perrin wrote: On 9/14/07, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/RangeOfIpsOnEthx Hi Jim, Thank you for the link...it's definitely good to know one can assign a range of IPs with ease using that type of directive. As my additional IPs were not

Re: [CentOS] Segmentation fault YUM

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Bruno
I rebooted yesterday. Have 2 kernels I haven't messed with python recently On 9/14/07, Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/07, Daniel Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, today in yum update show this problem: Segmentation fault Any idea about this problem? Could you

Re: [CentOS] Segmentation fault YUM

2007-09-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On 9/14/07, Daniel Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Centos 5, i386 I dont have additional repositories. The system was installed recently.. And the rest of the information? Also, run yum in debug mode and see what it says. yum -d6 update -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth

Re: [CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Ray Leventhal
Barry Brimer wrote: I apparently have my alias files all ifcfg-eth0:0 - ifcfg-eth0:7 show DEVICE=eth0:0. Is this right? It seems odd to me and while it does seem odd, the alias IPs are being appropriately responded to, answering pings and nameserver requests.

Re: [CentOS] Accidentally removed glibc glibc-devel :: Help

2007-09-14 Thread Michael Watters
geekylucas wrote: Hi, I attempted to ugprade glibc glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot* What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue

RE: [CentOS] Multiple IP Address

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Brett Serkez wrote: pretty sure thats configurable in SMB.CONF [global] interfaces = [ (ip address or network interface or ip/mask or broadcast/mask) ...] Researched this before I emailed originally, this doesn't do it. Even if I specify only the subnet I want in all these

Re: [CentOS] Very strange problem i have faced in my 2 years carrier

2007-09-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Bill Campbell wrote: It appears that it's installing i386 and x86_64 versions of packages. ``rpm -qa | sort | uniq -c'' shows 337 packages with the duplicate names. rpm based distributions have supported and handled multilib for a very long time. You might want to read up about that and how

[CentOS] MS SQL server

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Barratt
Hello List, I need to access some data a MS-SQL server ie run a stored procedure or user-defined function or a select every so often maybe 3 times a day. Have centos 4.5 on intel xeon. Is there an obvious certain-to-succeed approach? perl DBI + ODBC spings to mind, have not tried it yet -

RE: [CentOS] MS SQL server

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tony Barratt wrote: Hello List, I need to access some data a MS-SQL server ie run a stored procedure or user-defined function or a select every so often maybe 3 times a day. Have centos 4.5 on intel xeon. Is there an obvious certain-to-succeed approach? perl DBI + ODBC spings to

Re: [CentOS] MS SQL server

2007-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
Tony Barratt wrote: Hello List, I need to access some data a MS-SQL server ie run a stored procedure or user-defined function or a select every so often maybe 3 times a day. Have centos 4.5 on intel xeon. Is there an obvious certain-to-succeed approach? perl DBI + ODBC spings to mind, have

RE: [CentOS] MS SQL server

2007-09-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Tony Barratt wrote: Hello List, I need to access some data a MS-SQL server ie run a stored procedure or user-defined function or a select every so often maybe 3 times a day. Have centos 4.5 on intel xeon. Is there an obvious certain-to-succeed