[CentOS-es] instalación de CentOS

2010-03-08 Thread Juan Carlos Saavedra libia
Bueno es la primera vez que escribo y aprovecho la oportunidad para saludar a los miembros de la lista y felicitar a todos los que colaboran con sus ideas, ayudas y consejos. Sepan que soy nuevo en lo de servidores, en general nuevo en Linux, pero ya he practicado sus comandos. He revisado algo

Re: [CentOS-es] instalación de CentOS

2010-03-08 Thread Jaime Salinas
Te recomiendo que instales ubuntu en una partición primaria al igual que la partición del boot de centos, de esa forma podras iniciar cualquiera de los dos sistemas sin problemas, a mi me paso que al estar instalado un sistema en una partición logica no podía arrancar, y luego instale en

Re: [CentOS-es] instalación de CentOS

2010-03-08 Thread Oscar Osa Pueyo - kiakli
Hola, Al 08/03/10 14:57, En/na Jaime Salinas ha escrit: Te recomiendo que instales ubuntu en una partición primaria al igual que la partición del boot de centos, de esa forma podras iniciar cualquiera de los dos sistemas sin problemas, a mi me paso que al estar instalado un sistema en una

[CentOS-es] automatizar la creacion de repositorios

2010-03-08 Thread Abel Alfonso Fírvida Donéstevez
Hola a todos: quiero construir un repositorio de centos y ya tengo todos los archivos src.rpm hay alguna forma de automatizar la conversion de estos en rpm sin tener que construir uno por uno con rpmbuild gracias en adelanto ___ CentOS-es

[CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 09:14 +0100 schrieb Marcus Moeller: Hi all. is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind.

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Christoph, is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind. And also to this list ?-) Marcus

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/3/8 Marcus Moeller m...@marcus-moeller.de: Hi Christoph, is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind. And also to

[CentOS] Solutions Linux : Paris, March 16th - 18th

2010-03-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Will CentOS be present at the Solutions Linux fair in Paris ? Other question. I'm currently re-reading The Definitive Guide to CentOS. The book's introduction mentions 10 million CentOS users worldwide. Wow! I wouldn't have expected that much. How do you get this figure? By the number of

Re: [CentOS] Solutions Linux : Paris, March 16th - 18th

2010-03-08 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Will CentOS be present at the Solutions Linux fair in Paris ? Not that I am aware of. [1] Maybe someone would want to go next year? Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Events -- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger

Re: [CentOS] CentOS server running java - won't let go of swap

2010-03-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
I have Crashes with the b09 too. How did you upgrade the version? We repackaged the Fedora SRPM. (it was discussed on this list in December/January: [CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel) You can find the SRPMs as well as x86_64 and i386 versions here: http://www.argeo.org/linux/argeo-el/5/plus/ We

[CentOS] openldap-2.3.43 and db4-utils - DB_VERSION_MISMATCH

2010-03-08 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, I just started to set up a test ldap server and followed some tutorials. One topic is the tuning/monitoring of the bdb. So I installed the db4-utils and executed a db_stat -h /var/lib/ldap/ -m. The answere is no stat, but: db_stat: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version

Re: [CentOS] openldap-2.3.43 and db4-utils - DB_VERSION_MISMATCH _ SOLVED

2010-03-08 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, openldap-2.3.43 in centos 5.4 comes with db 4.4 build in ... ldd /usr/sbin/slapd |grep db libslapd_db-4.4.so = /usr/lib64/tls/libslapd_db-4.4.so (0x2ab12959) and also ships his own db-utilities ... /usr/sbin/slapd_db_archive /usr/sbin/slapd_db_checkpoint

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 DNS resolution issue

2010-03-08 Thread Pitshou Asingalembi
John R Pierce wrote: Gaurav Nangla wrote: I can ping the google.com http://google.com ip addresses (209.85.231.104) but can't ping the FQDN, obviously DNS is broken. I can also ping the nameserver ip addresses specified in /etc/resolv.conf. well, the DNS servers given by your

Re: [CentOS] Tripwire on Centos

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Aiello
this is actually a new CentOS install on a VM and I was able to compile and install tripwire-2.4.1.2-src. I did find that I had to compile and then install otherwise the linker complained. Has anyone else used tripwire on CentrOS? Is aide better? Is there another choice? Bob

[CentOS] Multi-wan setup, trying to build a script that ease setup, need help :)

2010-03-08 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Working on a multiwan script based on the page http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html You can find the script at http://pastie.org/859350 I'm trying to make sure that the logic is correct, and that it'll work I think it would, and ideas to make it a better script, feel free to

[CentOS] which FS is appropriate for a 2TB-sized partition?

2010-03-08 Thread Khusro Jaleel
Thanks to all of you for your help, and especially Tim Shubitz who faced the same problem and his solution worked perfectly for me. However, now that I have properly created a GPT partition of size 2.7TB, which filesystem is best on it? This filesystem will be used to store backups of various

Re: [CentOS] which FS is appropriate for a 2TB-sized partition?

2010-03-08 Thread Alan Hoffmeister
On 08/03/2010 09:53, Khusro Jaleel wrote: Thanks to all of you for your help, and especially Tim Shubitz who faced the same problem and his solution worked perfectly for me. However, now that I have properly created a GPT partition of size 2.7TB, which filesystem is best on it? This

[CentOS] how to download the source of kdebase

2010-03-08 Thread cjzjm100
Hi,man! I want to see the source code of konqueror and some of softwares in CentOS,so i tried to down the SRPM,but i found that all in kdebase were patch files. Where can i download the full source code. By the way i had tried this:yumdownloader --source kdebase,but it could not find kdebase.

Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-03-08 Thread Warren Young
On 3/6/2010 4:04 PM, nate wrote: if you can upload source code, you can upload a precompiled binary True, but most attacks are automated, and try to attack as wide a range of machines as possible. If I were to write a bit of malware for *ix that needed a custom binary on the target machine,

Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-03-08 Thread m . roth
On 3/6/2010 4:04 PM, nate wrote: if you can upload source code, you can upload a precompiled binary True, but most attacks are automated, and try to attack as wide a range of machines as possible. If I were to write a bit of malware for *ix that needed a custom binary on the target

Re: [CentOS] which FS is appropriate for a 2TB-sized partition?

2010-03-08 Thread Nux
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: On 08/03/2010 09:53, Khusro Jaleel wrote: Thanks to all of you for your help, and especially Tim Shubitz who faced the same problem and his solution worked perfectly for me. However, now that I have properly created a GPT partition of size 2.7TB,

[CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of them as server boards, but then they recommend them as for SMB, I'm somewhat puzzled about it. It would be nice to know what MBs you are using, pros

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Gordon McLellan
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of them as server boards, but then they recommend them as

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of them as server boards, but then they recommend them as for SMB, I'm

Re: [CentOS] which FS is appropriate for a 2TB-sized partition?

2010-03-08 Thread Martin Jungowski
If it helps: we're running several 10-15TB filesystems with ReiserFS and never had even the slightest problem with it. The current limit, however, is 16TB even for ext4. Or, to be more precise: the filesystem could handle more than 16TB easily, however the tools necessary to create the

Re: [CentOS] which FS is appropriate for a 2TB-sized partition?

2010-03-08 Thread Khusro Jaleel
On 8 Mar 2010, at 16:09, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: JFS. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 The article you linked to suggests XFS though? I'm also now thinking about EXT3 with a mkfs.ext3 -T news for example so that I get more inodes?

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, 5400 series CPU). I have an Asus board that runs Linux and Opensolaris just fine, but will not allow any version of Windows to install. I want one of those :) Regards, Michel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 DNS resolution issue

2010-03-08 Thread Gaurav Nangla
I tried everything you put forward, but didn't work. I had openSUSE 11.1 installed in a VM as well, DNS worked fine with it. Best Regards, Gaurav On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Gaurav Nangla wrote: I can ping the google.com http://google.com ip

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 DNS resolution issue

2010-03-08 Thread Gaurav N.
UPDATE: I tried with FreeBSD8 as well and the DNS query didn't work. This is beginning to look more and more like an issue with my UTStarcom *WA3002G4 ADSL2+ Router and its NAT config or the lack of it.* * * *My setup and the ip addresses:* *Router 192.168.1.1* *Windows 192.168.1.2*

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 DNS resolution issue

2010-03-08 Thread Gaurav N.
Here's the dig-google.pcap file attached, if it helps. Best Regards, Gaurav On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Gaurav N. gaurav.knan...@gmail.com wrote: UPDATE: I tried with FreeBSD8 as well and the DNS query didn't work. This is beginning to look more and more like an issue with my UTStarcom

[CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread Uwe Kiewel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a strange su hehavior on a CentOS 5.4 32Bit installation in a VMware ESXi virtualizied environment: If I am root and want to change the user to a non-root user, the system prompts me for a password: [r...@halifax ~]# useradd test00

Re: [CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Uwe Kiewel wrote: [r...@halifax ~]# useradd test00 [r...@halifax ~]# su - test00 We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3)

Re: [CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread Don Krause
Hi, I have a strange su hehavior on a CentOS 5.4 32Bit installation in a VMware ESXi virtualizied environment: If I am root and want to change the user to a non-root user, the system prompts me for a password: [r...@halifax ~]# useradd test00 [r...@halifax ~]# su - test00

Re: [CentOS] Backuppc-updates on CentOS

2010-03-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-25-2010 1:44 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: Hi all, I installed BackupPC on one of my Centos 5.4-machines following the wiki at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC#head-725ed151d366bcf182cea92f765c373900cfc9dc, where BackupPC is installed from the c5-testing repo.

Re: [CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread Uwe Kiewel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.03.2010 21:21, schrieb John R Pierce: Uwe Kiewel wrote: [r...@halifax ~]# useradd test00 [r...@halifax ~]# su - test00 We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three

[CentOS] /etc/group file entries

2010-03-08 Thread Bill Campbell
Looking at the documentation of the /etc/group file including some google searches, it appears to me that, contrary to the man pages for group, Linux systems generally do not put membership user names for the user's primary group in the record for it in the /etc/group file, only for secondary

[CentOS] looking for lshw xml parser

2010-03-08 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, Google brings up one concrete hit at http://chadsikorra.com/?p=96 but I contacted the author and he said it is buggy and needs a fair bit of work, so I decided against using it. That's about all I was able to come up with. Anything else out there? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat

Re: [CentOS] looking for lshw xml parser

2010-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, Google brings up one concrete hit at http://chadsikorra.com/?p=96 but I contacted the author and he said it is buggy and needs a fair bit of work, so I decided against using it. That's about all I was able to come up with. Anything else out there? lshw,

Re: [CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread Dan Burkland
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Uwe Kiewel Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:17 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] strange su behavior -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a strange

Re: [CentOS] /etc/group file entries

2010-03-08 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:48 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: Looking at the documentation of the /etc/group file including some google searches, it appears to me that, contrary to the man pages for group, Linux systems generally do not put membership user names for the user's primary group in the

Re: [CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread Uwe Kiewel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.03.2010 22:03, schrieb Dan Burkland: [r...@halifax ~]# useradd test00 [r...@halifax ~]# su - test00 We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

Re: [CentOS] LVM Stripe

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 06:40 AM, Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: Hello list, I have a question about LVM. My server has five disks and I will use it to create a LVM environment. I saw in the lvcreate man page that I can use the “-i” option to set the number of disks that I want to stripe

[CentOS] Kernel Errors

2010-03-08 Thread Robert Spangler
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I am receiving these in my log file and do not know what they mean or what to look for; Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: cmd

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 09:08 AM, Robert Spangler wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I am receiving these in my log file and do not know what they mean or what to look for; Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr

Re: [CentOS] LVM Stripe

2010-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 06:40 AM, Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: Hello list, I have a question about LVM. My server has five disks and I will use it to create a LVM environment. I saw in the

Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sunday 07 March 2010 09:54:23 am Les Mikesell and MANY others wrote: While I typically do have the compilers and kernel headers installed on general purpose servers where I might want to run VMware server or rebuild a source rpm, I would not be very comfortable if I did not have a

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors

2010-03-08 Thread Matty
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Robert Spangler mli...@zoominternet.net wrote: I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I am receiving these in my log file and do not know what they mean or what to look for; Mar  8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Gordon McLellan
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com wrote: I'm targeting E5520. I'll buy in Argentina, with a high stack of all sort of costs threw upon the product, so budget may not mean much to foreigners. Eduardo, Are you going to be writing your own HPC

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of them as server boards, but then they recommend them as for SMB, I'm somewhat

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? for real numeric stuff (as opposed to things like video processing that utilizes sse3), the AMD processors often outperform Intel. current AMD dual socket server processors

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

2010-03-08 Thread nate
Gordon McLellan wrote: If your application can't support GPU based processing, I think Peter's suggestion is most fitting. Load up a rack of dual socket 5520 servers from Dell or HP and then save some money by building your own shared-storage to feed the cluster. The big vendors crank out

Re: [CentOS] strange su behavior

2010-03-08 Thread Uwe Kiewel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 09.03.2010 02:16, schrieb Spiro Harvey: On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:28:44 +0100 Uwe Kiewel m...@kiewel-online.ch wrote: that almost sounds like sudo, not su. is it aliased or something? I don't think so: [r...@halifax ~]# file /bin/su You've