[CentOS-es] problemas con raid en centos 5.2

2009-03-01 Thread sergio feijoo
Hola, mi nombre es Sergio, vivo en Mar del Plata (argentina) estoy instalando centos 5.2 en un equipo con mother ASUS-P5Q-C-DS3R que tiene el controlador raid de Intel ICH10R. Cuando instalo, configuro los dispositivos raid, la instalación termina sin ningún mensaje de error, pero después el

Re: [CentOS-es] problemas con raid en centos 5.2

2009-03-01 Thread Arturo Limon
Por mi experiencia al respecto: - No pongas el boot en raid. - Tengo esa misma placa en Windows, pero no se me ha ocurrido utilizar el raid y probar en Linux. Si es lo que llaman un fake raid puede que no te de más que dolores de cabeza. En otro equipo (Fujitsu Primergy) me encontré con eso y

Re: [CentOS-es] Montar servidor de correo

2009-03-01 Thread Antonio Gálvez Horna
Hola Walter Gracias por el dato pero sabes he querido implementarlo pero de arranque me tope con unos problemas, aquí te dejo en la pagina en la que estaque http://www.tuxjm.net/docs/mailserver-howto/ch04s02.html No entiendo esto: # groupadd -g 5000 vmail # serado -g 5000 -u 5000 -m -d

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
- Original Message From: Michael Klinosky m...@enter.net The X wiki suggested that I try adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags Option AllowMouseOpenFail 1 EndSection Using cat xorg.conf, I seeSection InputDevice , which refers to the

Re: [CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge + vanderkooij rpms

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
thanx. - Original Message From: tdu...@sc.rr.com tdu...@sc.rr.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Cc: Linux Advocate linuxhous...@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:38:35 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge +

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Spangler
On Saturday 28 February 2009 23:45, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 2009-02-16 17:42:05,354 ERROR:

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error, and X refuses to start). I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't want all the packages in the default setup, so I have to go thru every group and sub-group to de-select most - that was a big

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 19:39, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Looks like rpmfind doesn't show any for RHEL :/ You might have to roll your own. Let's try and get Apcupsd working first, your

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Michael Klinosky m...@enter.net wrote: Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error, and X refuses to start). I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't want all the packages in the default setup, so I have

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:23 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: ... I have some Fedora install disks (if they'd be of any help) - but not a rescue CD. It seems like CentOS doesn't have a rescue CD - would Fedora's help? The CentOS install disk IS the rescue CD - try install CD #1 (or the DVD

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Kwan Lowe wrote: Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: rpm -q synaptics 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? If not, is this laptop connected to the Internet? If so, you can do: yum -y install synaptics This will

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: snip NUT RPMs seems to be available from EPEL. NUT 2.2.0 is available for CentOS 5. Here are the i386 RPMs:

[CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot floppy. Any suggestions?

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Bart Schaefer wrote: I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Bart Schaefer wrote: I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin Krieser
2.1's support ends in a couple months. The last time I tried to put a Linux on an obsolete box, it was on a computer with only 80MB of RAM. Pick an old enough distribution to fit that, and I had all sorts of problems getting a PCMCIA LAN card to work. If I had got it to work, it would

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: snip NUT RPMs seems to be available from EPEL. NUT

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
When I try to start the ups daemon, I get the below error: ups failed. The error was: Starting UPS driver controller: [FAILED] Starting upsd: [FAILED] Starting UPS monitor (master): [FAILED] I have never used NUT before, I just knew it existed. Apcupsd has always done what I need but I would

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:09:47 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think)

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: Kwan Lowe wrote: Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: rpm -q synaptics 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? If not, is this laptop connected to the

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Sorry, I meant to change this before I sent it. The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, s/three/four/ s/Input/Command, input/ If you're not familiar with regex, the above may be meaningless to you.

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip CRAP! Forget my other post too. Just replace interactive with command and we should be good. The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, replace and interactive. Default on startup is interactive. From

[CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have an issue with a busy CentOS server exporting iSCSI and NFS/SMB shares. Some of the files are very large, and when they get deleted IO climbs to an unacceptable rate. Is there a way to purge a file with little to no IO overhead on ext3? Thanks! jlc

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to do a simulated power failure, to verify that it will in fact shutdown the box after 2 minutes! Plug the PC into a stable power source, let the same PC monitor the UPS. Unplug the UPS and place a load on it, watch what it instructs the PC to do :) Check your halt scripts for a command

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread John Hinton
Agile Aspect wrote: Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 2009-02-16 17:42:05,354 ERROR: 'iptables -D INPUT

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to do a simulated power failure, to verify that it will in fact shutdown the box after 2 minutes! Plug the PC into a stable power source, let the same PC monitor the UPS. Unplug the UPS and place a load on

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread Agile Aspect
John Hinton wrote: Agile Aspect wrote: Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 2009-02-16

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
Actually, it is a rather OS dependent package and the rules for CentOS are difficult to write. That really doesn't belong on the fail2ban list either. i have a basic fail2ban with tcp-wrappers /etc/hosts.deny combo working. i couldnt get the iptables thing working properly. You

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is it the ext3 or the exports. M It's on the ext3 fs when rm'ed locally via ssh (I export some ext3 fs's over NFS and SMB). 1) What is the local storage on (controller, disks, raid, etc) HP MSA20 (scsi = sata discs) 2) Does the IO go up if you do the delete locally, remotely or both 3) What is

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread John Hinton
Agile Aspect wrote: John Hinton wrote: Agile Aspect wrote: Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q

[CentOS] PAM and vsftpd

2009-03-01 Thread RobertH
i have been researching for alternatives. it is latest centos 4 (4.7) and uses vsftpd 2.01 started (again) investigating possible PAM or PAM module way... Q: is there a PAM way to control repeated crack retires on vsftpd? possibly something that can be done in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd i have been

Re: [CentOS] PAM and vsftpd

2009-03-01 Thread RobertH
of course, replying to own post. gigegigegige ;- what i found was pam_abl http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl it is in dag land. search for pam_abl dag rpm does anyone have an experience they are willing to share with the group re: pam_abl ? thanks in advance - rh