[CentOS-docs] Wiki content policy?

2008-03-24 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, I have a general question about the CentOS Wiki policy that's probably best addressed here. Akemi and I were recently discussing (read Akemi was twisting my arm!!) the possibility of doing a Wiki article on SSL (what are SSL certificates, certificate generation, becoming your own

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Ern jura wrote: Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware and successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware? VMware is pretty simple: download the server rpm, install it, run the

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: ... I just started playing with VMware-server-1.0.5-80187 on a 64-bit CentOS 5 system system, and am having some issues with the hotkey switching. Running the vmware-server-console via an ssh

[CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command yum update. # yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories kbs-CentOS-Extras 100%

[CentOS] smartest way to setup new system (DELL PE 4600)

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, One of our servers (very old) died last week and I'm setting up a new CentOS 5.1 box to replace it. Primarily used as a samba fileshare on a mostly windows-workstation network. This system will, ideally, have the OS on a 146 GB SCSI drive, with user data on a 300GB SCSI, both

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command yum update. -- Processing

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command yum update. # yum update Setting up Update Process Setting

[CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Total users on this system is 20. Thanks in advance, -Ray ___

RE: [CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Total users on this system is 20. Check out the 'newusers' command. -Ross

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command yum

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command yum update. # yum update Setting

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Drinkard wrote: One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and protectbase plugins, as well as include/exclude statements on a per repository

Re: [CentOS] smartest way to setup new system (DELL PE 4600)

2008-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 March 2008 15:32:14 Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, One of our servers (very old) died last week and I'm setting up a new CentOS 5.1 box to replace it. Primarily used as a samba fileshare on a mostly windows-workstation network. This system will, ideally, have the OS on a 146 GB

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 March 2008 18:43:43 Sam Drinkard wrote:     As Jim just pointed out to me, I was unaware of the mixing.. I'll see what else I can muck up while trying to fix this :) I'm surprised that no-one mentioned the skip-broken plugin. You'd still have to sort out your clamav problem, but

[CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(52) /tmp ls thoth(53) /tmp ls thoth(54) /tmp ls thoth(55)

[CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? I do not seem to get a consistent result when I save resolv.conf configuration from GUI or by hand using vim

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(52) /tmp ls ...

Re: [CentOS] simple DNS question - reverse nslookup fails.

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
where 192.168.17.db is the name of the zone file. A good reference for DNS is http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ thank you for the reference and response... I have also checked the above and reviewed it and attempted to follow the configuration file samples; however I noticed in

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread mouss
vincenzo romero wrote: Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? I do not seem to get a consistent result when I save resolv.conf configuration from GUI or by

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
vincenzo romero wrote: Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? If you are using DHCP, then the content of resolv.conf SHOULD be at the mercy of your

Re: [CentOS] simple DNS question - reverse nslookup fails.

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
vincenzo romero wrote: where 192.168.17.db is the name of the zone file. A good reference for DNS is http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ thank you for the reference and response... I have also checked the above and reviewed it and attempted to follow the configuration file

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
So your first case is ALMOST right. resolv.conf should not point to the loopback address, but to the static address of the host. But if you have not configured NM for static addressing, well you get what you got. thanks much for replies ... so to be clear: qatest1 - 192.168.17.1 (DHCP

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run:

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Peter l Jakobi
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: You can also try running ``strace /bin/ls'' to see what is going on. Funnily enough, running strace will work just fine. Though, as I said, just about any command will fail -- 'ls' was just for testing purposes. That's funny. Or due

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: snip Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail. The 'w' command will fail too: thoth(118) /tmp w 16:06:51 up 5:34, 1 user, load average: 0.94, 1.46, 2.04

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on PS3

2008-03-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3? I would like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if anyone had any experiences.