[CentOS-es] Sobre NAT y DNS

2010-07-30 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Hola lista, me gustaría montar un servidor pasarela con NAT y DNS, usando IPTables y BIND9, en un Centos5.5. La red mas o menos es así: **** *Red PPP*= *Server Asincronico * * Acceso Dialup

Re: [CentOS-es] Sobre NAT y DNS

2010-07-30 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
lo que quiero hacer es esto mas o menos la computadora que esta fuera, recibe los IP por DHCP, tanto cuando se conecta en la red local que cuando se conecta por PPP a traves del servidor asincronico. Yoinier. -- Yoinier Hernández Nieves. Administrador de Redes. Nodo Provincial Teico Las

[CentOS] Samba PDC + BDC using LDAP

2010-07-30 Thread Basil Kurian
I am trying to implement Samba Domain Controller with replication using LDAP . My intention is to create two Samba DC servers with LDAP backend , then to set one as master and other as slave , then replicate LDAP database in master to slave I shutdown second samba server and only first samba

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
On 07/30/2010 07:37 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: In my old computer I have a much bigger hard drive then in this one -- and I plan to hand that old computer down to one of my sons -- keeping his current drive from an even older computer. Currently the hard drive on my old computer has SuSE Linux,

Re: [CentOS] hplip under CentOS-5.5

2010-07-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: Is anyone successfully using hplip under CentOS? When I try to print on my HP Officejet J4580 I always get the error -- Printer Filter foomatic-rip-hplip for printer oj not available: No such file or directory

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:37:21 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: In my old computer I have a much bigger hard drive then in this one -- and I plan to hand that old computer down to one of my sons -- keeping his current drive from an even older computer. Currently the hard

Re: [CentOS] hplip under CentOS-5.5

2010-07-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:19:12AM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Is anyone successfully using hplip under CentOS? When I try to print on my HP Officejet J4580 I always get the error -- Printer Filter foomatic-rip-hplip

[CentOS] mdstat and /dev/mapper

2010-07-30 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, In the past I used software RAID-1 and monitored /proc/mdstat to make sure things were ok in the array. I am starting to play with /dev/mapper and was wondering how I monitor this for a disk going bad. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Postfix SMTP auto on remote relay server

2010-07-30 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, Does anyone know how to configure Postfix to use SMTP authentication on a relay host? i.e. I have a Linux server, running PostFix on an ADSL line with a dynamic IP. Thus I can't just send out emails from this server but need to relay it via our ISP's SMTP server, which is very unreliable.

[CentOS] [CORRECTED] Postfix SMTP authentication on remote relay serve

2010-07-30 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Sorry about the previous post, I see the subject had a typo. So here's the correct one :) Does anyone know how to configure Postfix to use SMTP authentication on a relay host? i.e. I have a Linux server, running PostFix on an ADSL line with a dynamic IP. Thus I can't just send out emails from

Re: [CentOS] hplip under CentOS-5.5

2010-07-30 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: Wow, that's pretty old. I think rpmforge has newer, but regardless, I wound up installing from source. The hplip page for CentOS is a bit off (dated, I imagine), I have my own page on

Re: [CentOS] hplip under CentOS-5.5

2010-07-30 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:27:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:20:58PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: Wow, that's pretty old. I think rpmforge has newer, but regardless, I wound up installing from source. The hplip page

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 07/29/2010 10:57 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any reason to use LVM on a personal desktop install of CentOS? It seems to me, for my purposes, that LVM is just a pain in the neck -- although I've always just

Re: [CentOS] Wifi not working (Solved--Sort of...)

2010-07-30 Thread Phil Savoie
Stephen Harris wrote: Create a simple S09 script (eg S09PROMISC) which basically just does /sbin/ifconfig wlan0 promisc up eg create this as /etc/init.d/PROMISC and then do chkconfig PROMISC on #!/bin/sh # PROMISC puts wlan0 in promisc mode # # chkconfig: 2345 09 91 # description:

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Todd Denniston
Ron Blizzard wrote, On 07/30/2010 01:37 AM: Is there any reason to use LVM on a personal desktop install of CentOS? It seems to me, for my purposes, that LVM is just a pain in the neck -- although I've always just let CentOS set it up during the install in the past. I would like to be able to

Re: [CentOS] [CORRECTED] Postfix SMTP authentication on remote relay serve

2010-07-30 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Hi, If you want to send mail via another server, Pls edit /etc/postfix/main.cfin following way. relayhost = an.ip.add.ress of isp mail server then , restart postfix as follows service postfix restart On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Sorry about the

Re: [CentOS] [CORRECTED] Postfix SMTP authentication on remote relay serve

2010-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
On 30/07/10 13:22, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Sorry about the previous post, I see the subject had a typo. So here's the correct one :) Does anyone know how to configure Postfix to use SMTP authentication on a relay host? i.e. I have a Linux server, running PostFix on an ADSL line with a dynamic

[CentOS] Announce list digest ??

2010-07-30 Thread Ron Loftin
It seems that the past month or so the CentOS Announce list digest has no longer been sent out to the general CentOS list ( this list ) although the CentOS Web site still says that this list is subscribed to the Announce list in digest form. I've been checking, and the announce message does not

Re: [CentOS] Postfix SMTP auto on remote relay server

2010-07-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:16 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to configure Postfix to use SMTP authentication on a relay host? i.e. I have a Linux server, running PostFix on an ADSL line with a dynamic IP. Thus I can't just send out emails from this server but need to

Re: [CentOS] Announce list digest ??

2010-07-30 Thread Todd Denniston
Ron Loftin wrote, On 07/30/2010 10:03 AM: It seems that the past month or so the CentOS Announce list digest has no longer been sent out to the general CentOS list ( this list ) although the CentOS Web site still says that this list is subscribed to the Announce list in digest form. I've

[CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread m . roth
Folks, I threatened to do this a few months ago Here's a first draft. I was thinking of it as something that might get posted the beginning of the month, or sent to someone who drops in with it doesn't work!!!. PLEASE feel free, no, *please* rip, shred, tear, rend this, and help me

Re: [CentOS] Samba PDC + BDC using LDAP

2010-07-30 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:11 +0530, Basil Kurian wrote: I am trying to implement Samba Domain Controller with replication using LDAP . My intention is to create two Samba DC servers with LDAP backend , then to set one as master and other as slave , then replicate LDAP database in master

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/30/2010 9:35 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Folks, I threatened to do this a few months ago Here's a first draft. I was thinking of it as something that might get posted the beginning of the month, or sent to someone who drops in with it doesn't work!!!. PLEASE feel free,

Re: [CentOS] DHCP failover ... Some questions.

2010-07-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/29/2010 3:36 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: Do you know if you have to do anything special in the case where the primary server has been down for a while and is then brought back up? That is, does the backup automatically re-sync the database with the new leases that have been given out, or

Re: [CentOS] mdstat and /dev/mapper

2010-07-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 30, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: hi all, In the past I used software RAID-1 and monitored /proc/mdstat to make sure things were ok in the array. I am starting to play with /dev/mapper and was wondering how I monitor this for a disk going bad. For disk

Re: [CentOS] Samba PDC + BDC using LDAP

2010-07-30 Thread Basil Kurian
thanks , let me check the log files of samba ! On 30 July 2010 19:46, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:11 +0530, Basil Kurian wrote: I am trying to implement Samba Domain Controller with replication using LDAP . My intention is to create two Samba DC

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:35 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I threatened to do this a few months ago Here's a first draft. I was thinking of it as something that might get posted the beginning of the month, or sent to someone who drops in with it doesn't work!!!.    PLEASE feel free, no,

[CentOS] KTorrent on CentOS 5.5 does not exist

2010-07-30 Thread MGW-Discussions
Greetings guys. What repo do I need to install to be able to install ktorrent? I have CentOS 5.5 however, when attempting to download a distro for use on a virtual machine, which only seems to provide a torrent, I am unable to locate any torrent clients, and yum installation fails for

Re: [CentOS] KTorrent on CentOS 5.5 does not exist

2010-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
On 30/07/10 19:59, MGW-Discussions wrote: Greetings guys. What repo do I need to install to be able to install ktorrent? RPMForge has it. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread m . roth
First of all, I want to thank everyone who's responded so far - keep them emails coming, boys and girls! (Seriously - I mean it.) Next: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:35 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I threatened to do this a few months ago Here's a first draft. I was thinking of

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 7/30/2010 3:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: First of all, I want to thank everyone who's responded so far - keep them emails coming, boys and girls! (Seriously - I mean it.) Next: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:35 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I threatened to do this a few months

[CentOS] DHCPD

2010-07-30 Thread tony . chamberlain
Not sure if there is a DHCPD/PXE forum so I will ask here. I have been trying to get netboot to work (i.e. a machine with nothing on it but a NIC card, no linux, no operating system, whatever) boots up and receives a file from a dhcp server. This dhcp server gives it all the Linux stuff it

Re: [CentOS] DHCPD

2010-07-30 Thread Terry Polzin
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 19:35 +, tony.chamberl...@lemko.com wrote: Not sure if there is a DHCPD/PXE forum so I will ask here. I have been trying to get netboot to work (i.e. a machine with nothing on it but a NIC card, no linux, no operating system, whatever) boots up and receives a file

Re: [CentOS] DHCPD

2010-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
Am 30.07.2010 21:35, schrieb tony.chamberl...@lemko.com: Can I somehow tell my desktop only to handle PXE requests and anything else should go to 192.168.5.1? Configure your DHCP server only to talk only to certain clients. (deny unknown-clients) see man dhcpd.conf. Couple minor questions

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: First of all, I want to thank everyone who's responded so far - keep them emails coming, boys and girls! (Seriously - I mean it.) You're welcome. Next: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:35 AM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: You don't need LVM if you don't plan to expand the filesystem (or a particular mount point). Okay, thanks. By reading the responses, it appears the very least I should do is not let CentOS do a standard setup -- in

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Juergen Gotteswinter j...@internetx.de wrote: * snaphotting (great for db backup) * resizing partition * online partitioning I didn't know LVM would do snapshots -- I'll have to look into that. But I'm guessing the feature is pretty much worthless if the whole

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: LVM has a number of useful features and advantages.  The 'default' RedHat/CentOS LVM setup (basically creating one LVM volume taking up all available space for the root file system), is pretty useless.  With modern

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: You can use LVM for taking snapshots as well (very useful if you want to quiesce databases for the shortest possible time for backups) .  And you can use LVM to migrate data from an old drive to a new one or even to

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Todd Denniston todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil wrote: Best use for LVM I have seen... Reducing the number of times you need to enter the LUKS pass phrase to once per boot, i.e., one LUKS containing an LVM of / and Swap so that the system can boot with

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 04:11:17PM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: Is there any way to mount an LVM partition from another Linux distribution? Yes. They all support it. You might have to install a package for it, but it's been standard for a few years pretty much across the board. Whit

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:07:39 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Juergen Gotteswinter j...@internetx.de wrote: * snaphotting (great for db backup) * resizing partition * online partitioning I didn't know LVM would do snapshots --

[CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file

2010-07-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm using CentOS release 5.5 x86_64 with the stock php-5.1.6-27.el5 and would like to redirect PHP messages into /var/log/httpd/php_log First I tried adding that file name to /etc/php.ini: error_log = /var/log/httpd/php_log and restarted httpd, but the file didn't appear. I've touched it

Re: [CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file

2010-07-30 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Farber Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 18:47 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file Hello, I'm using CentOS release 5.5

Re: [CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file

2010-07-30 Thread Alexander Farber
So you think the httpd.* line in syslog.conf is correct? On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote: -Original Message- I still would like to move those messages to a separate file though, so I've added the following line to /etc/syslog.conf and reloaded

Re: [CentOS] hplip under CentOS-5.5

2010-07-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Dag Wieers wrote: Is anyone successfully using hplip under CentOS? When I try to print on my HP Officejet J4580 I always get the error -- Printer Filter foomatic-rip-hplip for printer oj not available: No such file or directory

Re: [CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file

2010-07-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:57:07AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: So you think the httpd.* line in syslog.conf is correct? No, it's incorrect. Syslog filters based on facility and priority. httpd is not a known facility. man 5 syslog.conf will list the available

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Klinosky
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: 2. We are not here to do your job for you. If you think we should, perhaps you should pay us. Before asking us, have you: a) read the documentation (RTFM)? b) checked the CentOS wiki for howtos and FAQs? i) http://centos.org, and click on

Re: [CentOS] When should LVM be used?

2010-07-30 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 17:32 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Yes, the *default* setup is just plain wrong, and in general should NOT be used. Yes, the default works (one big happy filesystem), and actually might make sense for a virtual server, but otherwise no. See Yea the default works but how

[CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?

2010-07-30 Thread Todd Cary
No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru. Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952

Re: [CentOS] What is the best strategy for updating CentOS from 4 to 5?

2010-07-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/30/10 10:26 PM, Todd Cary wrote: No doubt I have waited just a little too long, but I think it is time to upgrade before it is not supported. My server is not heavily used (mostly for viewing images) and my Admin skills are better than beginner but NOT guru. backup your files,