[CentOS-docs] Introduction

2009-03-26 Thread cen...@cferthorney.com
Hi, I'm Dave, and I am run a small company in the UK called Contemporary Fusion. Basically I contract out Systems Adminstration to small companies who can not afford a full times systems person - and CentOS is my prefered Server distro (Being RHCE certified I am more comfortable in an RPM

Re: [CentOS-docs] How to back up a running KVM guest

2009-03-26 Thread Julian Price
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Julian Price wrote: Hi Ralph Thanks for setting up the page. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest I have written a first draft and I will improve it over the coming days. But is it going in the right direction? I'm going to take a look at it later

Re: [CentOS-docs] KVM HowTo

2009-03-26 Thread Julian Price
Scott Robbins wrote: As the original author of the KVM article, I'm quite happy with someone taking it over and updating it. I fear that VirtualBox has become so covenient, I haven't used KVM in months and months, so can't really continue to properly maintain the article with changes that

[CentOS-docs] Request for wiki page

2009-03-26 Thread RedShift
Hello Is it possible to create a wiki page under my user (GlennMatthys)? Title: Manual install of CentOS without the installer Category: Howtos Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-March/073802.html Reference:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for wiki page

2009-03-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
RedShift wrote: Hello Is it possible to create a wiki page under my user (GlennMatthys)? Title: Manual install of CentOS without the installer Category: Howtos Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-March/073802.html If you make sure your rpm commands actualy do work

Re: [CentOS-docs] Introduction

2009-03-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
cen...@cferthorney.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas? I would also like to ask Karan or one of the Wiki admin team to create a wiki page for me to allow us to put up ideas for RSS feeds. Once we have a definitive list I will start making the gadgets and also look into creating a CentOS

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for wiki page

2009-03-26 Thread RedShift
Ralph Angenendt wrote: RedShift wrote: Hello Is it possible to create a wiki page under my user (GlennMatthys)? Title: Manual install of CentOS without the installer Category: Howtos Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-March/073802.html If you make sure your rpm

Re: [CentOS-docs] How to back up a running KVM guest

2009-03-26 Thread Julian Price
Ralph Angenendt wrote: You can either use absolute links [:/HowTos/KVM this is a link] or relative links [:KVM this is a link]. See the syntax reference to make sure, this is off top of my head and I might be wrong. Ralph That's what you'd think, but it's the other way around

[CentOS-docs] Home page access please

2009-03-26 Thread Ed Heron
Please give me (EdHeron) access to my homepage. Assuming wiki pages are created the same way as a home page would be created, I'd like to see how to create a page before I commit to creating a wiki page. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list

Re: [CentOS-docs] KVM HowTo

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 02:35:51PM +, Julian Price wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: As the original author of the KVM article, I'm quite happy with someone taking it over and updating it. I fear that VirtualBox has become so covenient, I haven't used KVM in months and months, so can't

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 net-snmp - security update

2009-03-26 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0295 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0295.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.ia64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp - security update

2009-03-26 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0295 net-snmp security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0295.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 net-snmp - security update

2009-03-26 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0295 net-snmp security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0295.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.x86_64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0373 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) systemtap - security update

2009-03-26 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0373 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0373.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/systemtap-0.6.2-2.c4.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/systemtap-runtime-0.6.2-2.c4.s390.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0295 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) net-snmp - security update

2009-03-26 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0295 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0295.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.s390.rpm

Re: [CentOS-virt] Backing up a running KVM guest

2009-03-26 Thread Julian Price
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Another one, although I'm sure that some will loudly protest about it :-) I've had excellent results with rsyncing the complete content of Xen VMs to other Xen VMs. It works flawlessly even for MySQL database in full swing. Maybe it makes a difference if you use InnoDB,

Re: [CentOS-es] Ayuda con Servidor que no arranca

2009-03-26 Thread Rubén González
Hola, habías dicho que se quemó la fuente. En algunos casos picos de voltaje (producto de la circuiteía de la fuente) en el momento del cortocircuito ingresan a la placa madre y dejan chips dañados no detectables a simple vista. Si este es el caso necesitas cambiar la placa madre. Para

[CentOS-es] Sobre Gnome!

2009-03-26 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Hola lista, me he instalado gnome-globalmenu, pero no me aparece el applet, lo instale a traves de yum desde el repositorio de AL-Desktop. Sugieren agregara HOME/.gnomerc la linea export GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gnome Pero no me lo muestra en la lista de applets a agregar. Ademas, me gustaría

Re: [CentOS-es] Ximian Evolution

2009-03-26 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Debo aclarar que el mismo problema tiene el nautilus! Yoinier. El jue, 26-03-2009 a las 19:06 -0400, Yoinier Hernandez Nieves escribió: Hola lista!!! Tengo un problema con mi evolution con problemas. Primero, la maquina se me frizo, y la reinicie, ahora, el evolution me abre sin la barra de

Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con tiempo

2009-03-26 Thread Fernando Rojas
KnX wrote: No te quedará otra opción que usar : http://www.encuestafacil.com/ Saludos. On 26/03/2009, *Phil Phil* fchanj_t...@yahoo.com.mx mailto:fchanj_t...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: Hola listeros Tengo un problema y espero me puedan ayudar, soy nuevo en LINUX, soy

Re: [CentOS-es] [l-plug] Clonacion

2009-03-26 Thread Victor Padro
2009/3/26 carlos restrepo restrcar...@gmail.com Utiliza el comando dd (man dd), los modelos de disco son irrelevantes, lo que debes tener presente es que el disco receptor sea igual o superior en espacio al que estas realizando la copia. Existen programas como Acronis que te permiten hacer

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 18:31 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:14:13 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: FM quality radio remotes are usually done with ISDN lines and hardware encoder boxes like aTelos Zephyr.. otherwise, its juts a voice dialup line, analog lowfi voice.

[CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
So far, OpenVPN has been working very well for me. Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't have (yet?) an OpenVPN client, so I'm forced to work with what's available. The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? The

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Hywel Richards
Florin Andrei wrote: The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? I know this doesn't answer your question as put, but it may be worth taking a different tack and supplying whatever services wrapped with

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Frank Cox wrote: I don't think you will be able to compress a radio signal enough to fit over a dial line without a lot of loss. You would need several lines multiplexed together for a decent sounding broadcast. Well, that's what I'm looking into. I remember listening to streaming audio

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Florin Andrei wrote: So far, OpenVPN has been working very well for me. Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't have (yet?) an OpenVPN client, so I'm forced to work with what's available. The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread James Bensley
I would of thought that ISDN would be the perfect solution and if not settle for a standrad POTS line and use one of the folloing; http://www.tieline.com/ http://www.glensound.co.uk/GS-MPI004%20Broadcasters%20Mobile%20Phone.htm http://www.pots.audiotx.com/

Re: [CentOS] how to access encrypted EXT3 partition from Windows

2009-03-26 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:19:30AM +, Ionut Vancea wrote: you can also check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE Very interesting. Thank you for the reference. John -- I'm sorry but our engineers do not have phones.

Re: [CentOS] how to access encrypted EXT3 partition from Windows

2009-03-26 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Thanx John, I'll check it out you can also check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE Cheers, Ionut === Ioan Vancea http://www.vioan.ro ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2009-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 March 2009 18:59:51 Steve Huff wrote: On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - I'm thick. I've looked at that page and seen only what I'm already familiar with. Please, in plain English, how do I set ssh to come in on port 22022 (service called ext-ssh already

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
Frank Cox wrote: I'm looking into costs and feasibility of moving a live feed from a FM radio station from the station to a point that's past the usable range of their radio signal. It's a rural location and Internet service is not available at the station. If the destination was closer or

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-26 Thread J Potter
look at HP Procurves. That is what I use. You can get 2524's quite cheap on ebay. We used these for years, and they were great, and super cheap on EBay. HP support was fantastic as well. The 26xx series allows for light layer 3 routing; you may want to snag the 2626 or 2650 instead of the

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
RedShift wrote: RedShift wrote: Hello Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and put them in one

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 26, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: RedShift wrote: As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install CentOS without any installer: That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to get the right drivers installed if you wanted to

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread RedShift
Phil Schaffner wrote: RedShift wrote: Another way to get CentOS on such a configuration would be to do everything manually, thus installing the base system by creating the necessary disk allocations and then rpm -i all the required packages to get it to boot. (I've done this before, it's

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross Walker wrote: RedShift wrote: As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install CentOS without any installer: That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to get the right drivers installed if you wanted to build a disk to be moved to a different machine?

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread RedShift
Raja Subramanian wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Mogens Kjaer
RedShift wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during reconstruction. Is this right? When I have replaced a disk and added several partitions to an array, the rebuild is

[CentOS] Acrobat Reader 9 on Centos 4.7

2009-03-26 Thread tblader
Hello, Anyone know how to get Acrobat 9 running* on Centos 4.7? Looks like a libc conflict: /Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared \ libraries: /apps/Adobe/Reader9_libs/libstdc++.so.6: requires glibc 2.5 or later dynamic linker Thanks Thomas [*] -

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring IP masquerading on LVS load-balancing

2009-03-26 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, March 25, 2009 17:40, Barry Brimer wrote: ipvsadm -L -c -n should do the trick. Just following up, now that I'm back at work and have tried it. Yep, excellent. Using that with watch gives me a nice display. (I'm load-balancing a rather small load of rather compute-heavy web services

[CentOS] manage different profile with a laptop

2009-03-26 Thread MOKRANI Rachid
Hi, I need to use different profile with some linux CentOS laptops. - I need to connect the laptops at work with NIS, automount, DHCP - The same laptops can be use at home without NIS etc..but with personal wifi connection - The same laptops can be use in travel without

[CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, to install current PC models (with new Intel NICs) via Kickstart/PXE, I wanted to add the newest e1000e-Treiber to initrd.img. With this modified image, the Kickstart kernel crashes with the following error messages: [...] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:44:34 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Ross Walker wrote: RedShift wrote: As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install CentOS without any installer: That looks useful. Do you have any hints about how to get the

Re: [CentOS] help on kerberos5--- solved

2009-03-26 Thread fabian dacunha
Thanks Guys i already did solve the problem of gettin kinit work kinit Administrator and after enterring the password worked grt here my krb5.conf which is workin perfect [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: To modify the initrd.img, I took the original CentOS 5.2 image, unpacked with cpio/gunzip and replaced modules/2.6.18-92.el5/x86_64/e1000e.ko with a current version. This driver module had been created on a freshly installed CentOS 5.2 host with kernel 2.6.18-92.el5

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread nate
Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, to install current PC models (with new Intel NICs) via Kickstart/PXE, I wanted to add the newest e1000e-Treiber to initrd.img. With this modified image, the Kickstart kernel crashes with the following error messages: Maybe you need to increase the memory allocated

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread John Doe
Frank Thommen wrote: To modify the initrd.img, I took the original CentOS 5.2 image, unpacked with cpio/gunzip and replaced modules/2.6.18-92.el5/x86_64/e1000e.ko with a current version. This driver module had been created on a freshly installed CentOS 5.2 host with kernel

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-25-2009 5:00 PM Frank Cox spake the following: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:32:07 -0700 Scott Silva wrote: If the radi station has phone lines, they should be able to get something like a T1 or fractional part. Much more reliable and more bandwidth. I don't think it's available there.

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
What cpio options did you use to re-create modules/modules.cgz and then the initrd.img? I used `cpio -ovF file` and `cpio -ov -H crc -F file` (I found the latter on http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/). However I could not find any officially looking information about how the

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
to install current PC models (with new Intel NICs) via Kickstart/PXE, I wanted to add the newest e1000e-Treiber to initrd.img. With this modified image, the Kickstart kernel crashes with the following error messages: Maybe you need to increase the memory allocated to ramdisk? by default I

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:27:10PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote: What cpio options did you use to re-create modules/modules.cgz and then the initrd.img? I used `cpio -ovF file` and `cpio -ov -H crc -F file` (I found the latter on http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/). However I could not

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Thommen
John Doe wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: [...] The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB) which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) [...] Just wondering... can you safely strip modules like you would

[CentOS] Creating a CentOS Print Server for Windows Clients

2009-03-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
A while ago I looked into this and was told not to bother as it was a hack at best. Anyone shed any reliable info on creating a print server for windows nt - vista clients both x86 and x46 for a few Canon and HP IP Printers. Would this be reliable, are there any caveats or issues to be aware of?

[CentOS] Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive

2009-03-26 Thread Agile Aspect
Hi - I've been asked to re-partition a Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive and install CentOS 5 on the new partition. It's a Dell Lattitude E5400 laptop. Is this even possible with encrypted drives? Does CentOS 5 need special drivers? Any help would be greatly

Re: [CentOS] Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive

2009-03-26 Thread nate
Agile Aspect wrote: Hi - I've been asked to re-partition a Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive and install CentOS 5 on the new partition. It's a Dell Lattitude E5400 laptop. Is this even possible with encrypted drives? How is it encrypted? Some new laptops come with

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 6:58 AM Mogens Kjaer spake the following: RedShift wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during reconstruction. Is this right? When I have replaced a

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread RedShift
Mogens Kjaer wrote: RedShift wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during reconstruction. Is this right? When I have replaced a disk and added several partitions to

Re: [CentOS] Creating a CentOS Print Server for Windows Clients

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 10:16 AM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: A while ago I looked into this and was told not to bother as it was a hack at best. Anyone shed any reliable info on creating a print server for windows nt - vista clients both x86 and x46 for a few Canon and HP IP Printers. Would

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:23:31 -0700 Scott Silva wrote: If they already have a microwave link to the antenna site, it shouldn't be that hard to repeat that signal to another site. They could put a microwave repeater at the antenna site and move the receiver that is now there to the third site.

Re: [CentOS] Creating a CentOS Print Server for Windows Clients

2009-03-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
It just needs a working cups and samba install to get it working. I run several linux print servers for windows clients, including driver installs. What/How do you handle authentication/perms for the printers? The only real problem I had was right before service pack 3 came out for XP. Some

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 11:19 AM Frank Cox spake the following: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:23:31 -0700 Scott Silva wrote: If they already have a microwave link to the antenna site, it shouldn't be that hard to repeat that signal to another site. They could put a microwave repeater at the antenna site and

Re: [CentOS] Creating a CentOS Print Server for Windows Clients

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 11:32 AM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: It just needs a working cups and samba install to get it working. I run several linux print servers for windows clients, including driver installs. What/How do you handle authentication/perms for the printers? The only real

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 17:49 +0100, Frank Thommen wrote: John Doe wrote: Frank Thommen wrote: [...] The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB) which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) [...]

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Hywel Richards wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? I know this doesn't answer your question as put, but it may be worth taking a different tack and supplying whatever

Re: [CentOS] Creating a CentOS Print Server for Windows Clients

2009-03-26 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: A while ago I looked into this and was told not to bother as it was a hack at best. Anyone shed any reliable info on creating a print server for windows nt - vista clients both x86 and x46 for a few Canon and HP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: So far, OpenVPN has been working very well for me. Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't have (yet?) an OpenVPN client, so I'm forced to work with what's available. The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Les Mikesell
Florin Andrei wrote: The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? I know this doesn't answer your question as put, but it may be worth taking a different tack and supplying whatever services wrapped with SSL/TLS

[CentOS] error when join my Centos machine to win2003 ADS server

2009-03-26 Thread fabian dacunha
Dear All, I have succesfully managed to have my kerberos configured n working without error when i say kinit Administrator and after entering password it works fine my krb5.conf -- [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server =

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/27 RedShift redsh...@pandora.be Mogens Kjaer wrote: RedShift wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during reconstruction. Is this right? When I have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Les Mikesell wrote: If you have a decent password (on all accounts) I wouldn't worry about about it too much. Move it to an odd port or even require a client certificate if your client software supports it. The non-standard port is a good trick, but even assuming the iPhone does support

Re: [CentOS] Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive

2009-03-26 Thread Rob Kampen
nate wrote: Agile Aspect wrote: Hi - I've been asked to re-partition a Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive and install CentOS 5 on the new partition. It's a Dell Lattitude E5400 laptop. Is this even possible with encrypted drives? How is it encrypted? Some

Re: [CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with RAMDISK: incomplete write ... after modifiying initrd.img

2009-03-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:56 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip It's been a long time since I dinked with this stuff, but... IIRC, there's several levels of strip. One strips everything, save for s/save/safe/ # RATS! standalone binaries (not dependent on run-time linking with a

Re: [CentOS] error when join my Centos machine to win2003 ADS server

2009-03-26 Thread Rob Townley
2009/3/26 fabian dacunha fab...@baladia.gov.kw: Dear All, I have succesfully managed to have my kerberos configured n working without error when i say kinit Administrator and after entering password it works fine my krb5.conf -- [logging] default =

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Les Mikesell
D Tucny wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during reconstruction. Is this right? When I have replaced a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 1:02 PM Florin Andrei spake the following: Les Mikesell wrote: If you have a decent password (on all accounts) I wouldn't worry about about it too much. Move it to an odd port or even require a client certificate if your client software supports it. The non-standard port is

Re: [CentOS] Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive

2009-03-26 Thread nate
Rob Kampen wrote: Excuse a really dumb question, how does this provide me with security? I assume it still uses the normal SATA interface and thus the OS writes to the drive as normal, but now it is encrypted onto the physical media. so now I steal the laptop, or just the physical drive,

Re: [CentOS] Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:06 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: nate wrote: Agile Aspect wrote: Hi - I've been asked to re-partition a Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive and install CentOS 5 on the new partition. It's a Dell

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-26 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/26 nate cen...@linuxpowered.net Luke S Crawford wrote: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com writes: If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you typically get download access to all of the firmware updates. Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-26-2009 12:50 PM D Tucny spake the following: 2009/3/27 RedShift redsh...@pandora.be mailto:redsh...@pandora.be Mogens Kjaer wrote: RedShift wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 and wired Ethernet on a Macbook Pro?

2009-03-26 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I recently installed CentOS 5.2 64-bit on a partition on a MacBook Pro 17 inch. It installed just fine, but wired Ethernet is not available. lspci shows it as nVidia...unknown. Is it possible to get wired Ethernet running on this laptop under CentOS without having to create a virtual machine

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 and wired Ethernet on a Macbook Pro?

2009-03-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: Is it possible to get wired Ethernet running on this laptop under CentOS without having to create a virtual machine installation of CentOS? If so, what is the magic? if you send me the device, I will have a go at making it all justwork :) -- Karanbir Singh :

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread mbneto
Hi, As the OP (original poster?) I've read all messages so far and instead of replying to each one I'd like to sum all up and perhaps clarify my post so we can move on with some more productive debate. A background info: I've been using CentOS for almost three years and I am happy with it.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The non-standard port is a good trick, Here's just an opinion: Security by obscurity only makes you feel good, it does nothing in reality. Anyone sufficiently talented to hack a service in order to gain root or do something useful would not be fooled by that. Set whatever your doing up right so

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Les Mikesell wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Maybe I don't trust the IMAP server enough to expose it. Maybe I should. Anything that can survive in a university environment should be safe enough for the rest of us. That's a good point. Okay, I have a few things to try now. -- Florin Andrei

Re: [CentOS] Acrobat Reader 9 on Centos 4.7

2009-03-26 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, tblader tbla...@flambeau.com wrote: Hello, Anyone know how to get Acrobat 9 running* on Centos 4.7? Looks like a libc conflict:   /Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared \   libraries: /apps/Adobe/Reader9_libs/libstdc++.so.6:

[CentOS] revisor tool

2009-03-26 Thread JC Putter
Hi does revisor work on centos 5.2 final? is it possible to create my own distro with config and all 3rd party installed software? __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3966 (20090326) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus

[CentOS] tar with -N option still picking up old files

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: I tried this command to tar up a set of data files updated since yesterday (The data directory contains multiple files with varying dates): /bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data When I look at the content of the test.tgz file, it looks like it copied the content of the

Re: [CentOS] tar with -N option still picking up old files

2009-03-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote: Hello: I tried this command to tar up a set of data files updated since yesterday (The data directory contains multiple files with varying dates): /bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data When I look

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread Spiro Harvey
I've got a couple of cents change here... On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:41:41 -0400 mbneto mbn...@gmail.com wrote: I do not have any sort of numbers of the popularity of CentOS but I suspect that we are very popular and in that sense a certain level of responsibility (to that community) is

[CentOS] security by obscurity [was: CentOS VPN server for iPhone]

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Joseph L. Casale wrote: The non-standard port is a good trick, Here's just an opinion: Security by obscurity only makes you feel good, it does nothing in reality. Anyone sufficiently talented to hack a service in order to gain root or do something useful would not be fooled by that. Set

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-26 Thread Scott McClanahan
A 3548 is only layer 2 anyway, i.e. ethernet switching, i.e. below IP... A model sometimes confused with the 3548 is the 3550-48, the 48x100M member of the 3550 series that replaced the 3500 series and as such the 3548, which does have layer 3 functionality in the EMI releases,

Re: [CentOS] Dell 120 GB 5400 RPM Encrypted Serial ATA Hard Drive

2009-03-26 Thread Ionut Vancea
Hi, 2009/3/26 Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com: Excuse a really dumb question, how does this provide me with security? I assume it still uses the normal SATA interface and thus the OS writes to the drive as normal, but now it is encrypted onto the physical media. so now I steal the

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Spiro Harvey schrieb: I've got a couple of cents change here... While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a positive spin. (In that it didn't want to put blame on anybody) I *do* agree with the

Re: [CentOS] security by obscurity [was: CentOS VPN server for iPhone]

2009-03-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I think that's a nice example of pervasive fallacious binary thinking, combined with an old tired slogan that by all rights should be dead by now. Ok... By the same token, we should not use firewalls, because they can be circumvented by people who are skilled enough, nor use passwords,

Re: [CentOS] security by obscurity [was: CentOS VPN server for iPhone]

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Let me introduce myself: Robert Moskowitz, ICSAlabs, an Independent Division of Verizon Business Systems. Security IS my business and I am a bit of a 'maverick' even in the labs on my positions. ICSAlabs is the company that certifies products: Firewalls, malware, IDS, IPsec, SSLvpn, etc.

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-26 Thread nate
Scott McClanahan wrote: I'll probably rule out anything that doesn't offer at least 48 ports of 10/100/1000, ssh, port mirroring or spanning sessions, snmp, unique spanning trees per vlan, and something like vrrp. It would be nice to have 802.3ad (I think that's the right one) capability to

[CentOS] mirrorlist.centos.org offline? NO A RECORD IN DNS

2009-03-26 Thread Danny.Terweij
Is mirrorlist.centos.org out of the air? because there is no A record for it. Which causes yum to fail. Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=x86_64repo=os error was [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known') Error: Cannot find a

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist.centos.org offline? NO A RECORD IN DNS

2009-03-26 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Danny.Terweij d.terw...@nettuning.net wrote: Is mirrorlist.centos.org out of the air? because there is no A record for it. Not for me: $ host mirrorlist.centos.org mirrorlist.centos.org has address 204.15.73.243 mirrorlist.centos.org has address 72.21.40.11

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist.centos.org offline? NO A RECORD IN DNS

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.03.2009 um 02:08 schrieb Marcelo Roccasalva: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Danny.Terweij d.terw...@nettuning.net wrote: Is mirrorlist.centos.org out of the air? because there is no A record for it. Not for me: $ host mirrorlist.centos.org mirrorlist.centos.org has address

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