Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:25 -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Hetrick wrote: I'll test it out and make the appropriate changes within the next few days. John, After getting things to work, I ran into a kernel panic problem when trying to

[CentOS-docs] Diskless Setup

2008-04-17 Thread John
Max, Would you please zip up the contents of /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg. You can send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. After you use the Nettboot Tool to configure the diskless client it will not update the pertinate files to do so. So in saying it will not boot the default OS. Maybe

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-17 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: 2008/4/8, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rafał Ślubowski wrote: I've mentioned consolehelper just because I think I can write such section. Of course it should be proofreaded because of my English. Brilliant. I'm more than happy to proof read if you would be so kind as

Re: [CentOS-docs] Diskless Clients

2008-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
John wrote: There will be no system-config-netboot in CentOS5. However, there were plans to get cobbler into the centos-extras's repo so that people can start using that instead. Karan, do you know of a date in question it may be in the extras-repo for centos 5 and and please all the deps

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0145 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 ImageMagick - security update

2008-04-17 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0145 ImageMagick security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0145.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/ImageMagick-5.5.6-28.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update

2008-04-17 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0223 seamonkey security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0223.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0223 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 seamonkey - security update

2008-04-17 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0223 seamonkey security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0223.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0176 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 openoffice.org - security update

2008-04-17 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0176 openoffice.org security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0176.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0223-02: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update

2008-04-17 Thread John Newbigin
The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2008:0223-02 Critical: seamonkey security update Files available: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.15.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.15.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.15.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I emailed Stephen over at Xen/Citrix about the issue and this is what he sent back: You must have ESP... I was just thinking about this! I had to can my current project and use something else as I just couldn't make any headway! I am only left with two small

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: What's your pciback/bridging issue(s) maybe I can help. -Ross I would be more grateful then you can imagine:) As far as the pci stuff goes I have to get home and dig my notes out (based on your help from before), likely you'll spot my blunder once I iterate

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What happens if you just remove the ifcfg file for this interface? What does Xen do with it? What if you have an ifcfg file, but setup no IP address on it? Bear with me Ross, my Linux skills are new :) Won't CentOS create the ifcfg on the fly when it boots (I think thats what happens, I may have

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: you should disable NetworkManager with Xen or bad things will happen. NetworkMangler is only installed with Gnome right? I did a minimal install without Gnome. Check I think it's include in the 'core' group. I would just

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
make sure the modprobe.conf options are there prior to running mkinitrd. That could be the ticket there! I didn't know that mattered. I will try again tonight. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
Christopher G. Stach II wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I want the other nic to be in a bridge, but not have any ip or connectivity outside the bridge especially to the host. It will plug into a DSL modem and a vif associated to this bridge will be the red interface on a Linux firewall (Lab

Re: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Hennessy
Sorry about that, my previous e-mail had just '--chunk' toward the bottom. It should have been '--chunk=256' Please see the quoted snippet for detail. On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Mark Hennessy wrote: Ok, I stop the array and rebuild with mdadm --create /dev/md2 --assume-clean --level=5

[CentOS] policygentool in selinux-policy-devel-2.4.6-106

2008-04-17 Thread Winslett, Chris
I just installed a fresh copy of Centos 5.1, yum upgraded all, and the following error occurred with selinux-policy-devel-2.4.6-106.el5_1.3 rpm. When I was trying to run policygentool, I was getting the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:34, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you have your own mirror, the easiest way would be to get those bz32 kernels in your repo. Johnny Hughes or other CentOS devs need to chime in here about the plan for those kernels, but my (wild) guess is that those kernels stay there until

RE: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mark Hennessy wrote: I'm using Centos 4.5 right now, and I had a RAID 5 array stop because two drives became unavailable. After adjusting the cables on several occasions and shutting down and restarting, I was able to see the drives again. This is when I snatched defeat from the jaws

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:34, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you have your own mirror, the easiest way would be to get those bz32 kernels in your repo. Johnny Hughes or other CentOS devs need to chime in here about the

Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

2008-04-17 Thread Florin Andrei
Michael A. Peters wrote: I lost my internet connection earlier today. My home network was still up - it's just the router couldn't get an IP from the cable modem. During that period, my CentOS 5.1 install was extremely slow (2.6 GHz Athlon w/ 2GB ram) at starting non network applications -

[CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew @ ATM Logic
I have an issue on a server that stops to ask SMP or not so SMP on bootup. Its a pain as its a remote unit, and if I update (or the power goes out for 3 hours) the server will not restart I remember back in the day editing a start up file to tell it what kernel to start... Is that the file

Re: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Hennessy
Thanks for answering my e-mail!! On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Mark Hennessy wrote: ok, now it says that the array is recovering and will take about 10 hours to rebulid. /dev/sd[c-i] say that they are active sync and /dev/sdj says it's a spare that's rebuilding.

Re: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
I have an issue on a server that stops to ask SMP or not so SMP on bootup. Its a pain as its a remote unit, and if I update (or the power goes out for 3 hours) the server will not restart I remember back in the day editing a start up file to tell it what kernel to start... Is that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
these are not virtual machines? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew @ ATM Logic
I have an issue on a server that stops to ask SMP or not so SMP on what OS ? either /etc/grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf Ok, it was grub, and this is what I have.. I see default=0 how should I change that to one of the items below Thanks, default=0 timeout=5

RE: [CentOS] policygentool in selinux-policy-devel-2.4.6-106

2008-04-17 Thread Winslett, Chris
So the fix below is a solution to the first step of the problem. Turns out, policygentool actually does need polgen and not sepolgen. And polgen is in no RPM's I could find in the CentOS 5 repos. How I fixed this was replace the CentOS 5 file with the Fedora 8 policygentool file. The

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:38 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: John wrote on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:52:32 -0400: I have just put 2 + 2 together in figuring out you are the same one that was asking about the kickstart configuration a few days back on how to configure it. wrong math. So you are or

Re: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
Ok, it was grub, and this is what I have.. I see default=0 how should I change that to one of the items below Thanks, default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.2.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL ro

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
Tom Brown wrote: these are not virtual machines? the cobbler server is (currently) a VM yes - the clients are not. Why should that make any difference? actually in that example the client was also a VM i remember now - but the symptoms are the same on 'real' clients thanks

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 17, 2008, at 14:02, Akemi Yagi wrote: Any chance this will happen before next Wednesday? That's when I'm planning to start my upgrades... I doubt it, but you never know because this is up to our upstream vendor. I was thinking about a new centosplus kernel before next week -- is

[CentOS] Firewall/router

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I was using pfSense in a vm under esx but I want to move to Xen and prefer something that can run as a pv guest. Anyone got any reco's of what can run on top of CentOS to perform a similar role as pfSense (perform nat/pat and firewall etc between two interfaces)? Thanks for any ideas! jlc

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 2008, at 14:02, Akemi Yagi wrote: Any chance this will happen before next Wednesday? That's when I'm planning to start my upgrades... I doubt it, but you never know because this is up to our

RE: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew @ ATM Logic
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Brown Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP Ok, it was grub, and this is what I have.. I

Re: [CentOS] policygentool in selinux-policy-devel-2.4.6-106

2008-04-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Winslett, Chris wrote: When I was trying to run policygentool, I was getting the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/selinux/devel/policygentool, line 25, in ? Import polgen You should report that upstream at

RE: {Disarmed} [CentOS] I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Indeed, the LSI logic controllers that ship with some HP workstations do not provide adequate RAID protection and as such, is recommended that you either install another RAID controller in the machine or use software RAID. Most onboard controllers are pretty lackluster, and those that use fake

Re: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Bob Beers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Andrew @ ATM Logic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Humm, ok but for some reason it does not start the top, or any one, it just sits waiting for someone to manually hit enter on one of

Re: {Disarmed} [CentOS] I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.

2008-04-17 Thread Martyn Drake
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you don't dislike HP's controllers designed for the its servers, like the P800 etc, as they are using the same chip as your preferred controller :) The e/p line of smart array controllers have been the most

RE: {Disarmed} [CentOS] I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.

2008-04-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Maybe so, but I've found the P800s to be incredibly flakey. Wow, they are very nearly the same card! Made by the same folk to? Bad luck I guess, all my SA controllers have been rock solid! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Brown wrote on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:40:21 +0100: Why should that make any difference? The conversations looked a bit like you had several clients with the same MAC in the LAN. This can happen if one copies existing config files. Also, I know there are cases where a DHCPOFFER (or any DHCP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.12.212 (192.168.12.117) from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0: Any hint where that (192.168.12.117) comes from? I see that you have the same on your successful conversation, though. Is there a chance you have two DHCP servers on the

[CentOS] Simulate RJ 45 Port

2008-04-17 Thread gopinath
how to simulate a RJ 45 port to act as serial port any option in Centos 5.1. Please help me out on this. Regards, Gopinath M Signal Networks Pvt. Ltd. Smile... it increases your face value! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Simulate RJ 45 Port

2008-04-17 Thread John R Pierce
gopinath wrote: how to simulate a RJ 45 port to act as serial port any option in Centos 5.1. Please help me out on this. huh? You'll have to be a WHOLE lot more explicit as to what you want to do here. on x86 hardware, RJ45 ports are almost always ethernet, serial ports generally

Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment

2008-04-17 Thread John
gopinath wrote: How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out... Ignore my previous post to you. I see your problem and it did not register in my brain untill today. This will not work in CentOS 5.0 or 5.1. Currently there is no workaround that is *KNOWN* to just

Re: [CentOS] Simulate RJ 45 Port

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:35 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: gopinath wrote: how to simulate a RJ 45 port to act as serial port any option in Centos 5.1. Please help me out on this. huh? You'll have to be a WHOLE lot more explicit as to what you want to do here. on x86 hardware,

[CentOS] How to Contact Package Maintainer

2008-04-17 Thread Art Age Software
Hi, I'm wondering what the correct channel is for communicating with the maintainer of a particular package in the Extras repo. Specifically, I would like to find out who maintains the DRBD 8.0.x package, as there is a newer version (8.0.12) that I would like to see added. Or, alternatively, what

Re: [CentOS] How to Contact Package Maintainer

2008-04-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Art Age Software wrote: Hi, I'm wondering what the correct channel is for communicating with the maintainer of a particular package in the Extras repo. Specifically, I would like to find out who maintains the DRBD 8.0.x package, as there is a newer version (8.0.12) that I would like to see

Re: [CentOS] stunnel

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:40 PM, CentOS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I had notice that my logwatch has a heap of stunneling like the one below. Is there a security breech? Well, just stunnel by itself doesn't mean there's a breach, unless you never configured anything to use

[CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have centos 5 w/o gui. i can only have access via ssh. i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what editor i can use to exam what those character are??? i use vi, but i don't know what is ^@ may be an editor that can show ASCII as dec or hex. thanks

Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is it worth the effort of changing this and

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:56:36AM -0700, Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have centos 5 w/o gui. i can only have access via ssh. i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what editor i can use to exam what those character are??? i use vi, but i don't know what

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: John wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:42:42 -0400: And, I say for him to use a floppy if the server has a floppy drive. Ahm, what makes you think there was a floppy? My decision to use a USB stick? USb floppy but from what I gather by

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Hiep Nguyen
yes, corruption indeed, but i want to study why the program writes ^@ to this file. t. hiep On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:56:36AM -0700, Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have centos 5 w/o gui. i can only have access via ssh. i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters,

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:13:40AM -0700, Hiep Nguyen wrote: yes, corruption indeed, but i want to study why the program writes ^@ to this file. It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 which

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Harris wrote: It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 which shows as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen strange characters in DOS files before.

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:54:45AM -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Harris wrote: It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 which shows as

Re: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Max Hetrick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Harris wrote: It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 which shows as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 16, 2008, at 19:21, Akemi Yagi wrote: You have another choice here if you would rather not wait for the next update of the centosplus kernel. The standard kernel with the same NFS bug fix is available from: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/ I have just checked the kernels in

RE: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have centos 5 w/o gui. i can only have access via ssh. i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what editor i can use to exam what those character are??? i use vi, but i don't know what is ^@ may be an editor that can show ASCII

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

2008-04-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 16, 2008, at 19:21, Akemi Yagi wrote: You have another choice here if you would rather not wait for the next update of the centosplus kernel. The standard kernel with the same NFS bug fix is available from:

Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

2008-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bart Schaefer wrote: You can fix *most* of this by making sure that there are entries in /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1, etc., but I was never able to get the problem to entirely go away in all circumstances. OK - my /etc/hosts file contained the following EXCEPT for the last line (fqdn) added

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

2008-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:42 +0100: Is there really no clear information on the anaconda screen that indicates its looking for a SOURCE to install from rather than a TARGET to install to ? In hindsight I know what it means but at the time of the encounter I didn't

Re: {Disarmed} [CentOS] I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.

2008-04-17 Thread Martyn Drake
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deja vu, I just installed an HP DL where I thought I had problems with the external RAID controller, but it hadn't. In bypassing I also had to read some information about those HP Embedded SATA RAID controllers. AFAIK,

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

2008-04-17 Thread John
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:42 +0100: Is there really no clear information on the anaconda screen that indicates its looking for a SOURCE to install from rather than a TARGET to install to ? In hindsight I know

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

2008-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John wrote on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:52:32 -0400: I have just put 2 + 2 together in figuring out you are the same one that was asking about the kickstart configuration a few days back on how to configure it. wrong math. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

[CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Mark Hennessy
I'm using Centos 4.5 right now, and I had a RAID 5 array stop because two drives became unavailable. After adjusting the cables on several occasions and shutting down and restarting, I was able to see the drives again. This is when I snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Please,