[CentOS-docs] A new look for CentOS (was Re: Italian Translation Team)

2011-01-26 Thread Andrea Veri
After having a talk with Ralph on IRC, I changed a bit my original idea. I started thinking that before having a working centos italian istance on the website, it would be great to give a bit of vitality to the main CentOS website. The point now is: which kind of software should the main website

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

2011-01-26 Thread Lucas Timm LH
Yes, it will, works all the time with me but using SysrescueCD. But don't forget to backup your data before the resizing, any operation with disk partitions may lost data. 2011/1/26 Poh Yong Hwang yong...@gmail.com Hi, I have two guest vm instance running CentOS 5 with ext3 partition. I will

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

2011-01-26 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Poh Yong Hwang ha scritto: Hi, I have two guest vm instance running CentOS 5 with ext3 partition. I will like to reduce 1 VM harddisk space and using the 'release' harddisk space to add onto my second VM. Basically I need to know how can I reduce and increase an ext3 partition in CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Resizing EXT3 partition in guest instance CentOS5

2011-01-26 Thread Poh Yong Hwang
Hi, Great! Thanks for the quick response. I will try it out then. Yes. I do have backup for the host as well as the guest nodes. :) Regards yongsan On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Lorenzo Quatrini lorenzo.quatr...@gmail.com wrote: Poh Yong Hwang ha scritto: Hi, I have two guest vm

Re: [CentOS-virt] cluster of virtual machines using libvirt/kvm + Gluster

2011-01-26 Thread iarly selbir
I gave up to use gluster as storage, now using gfs2+storage everything is working fine... now a question came up, after alter /etc/cluster/cluster.conf, what services need I to reload/restart after add a new vm resource? Thanks - - iarlyy selbir :wq! On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Dennis

Re: [CentOS-es] nagios en centos

2011-01-26 Thread carlos restrepo
Hola Linuxero, en el archivo de configuración que utilices para matricular los hosts a monitorear (puede ser el que viene por default localhost.cfg, coloca una directiva para cada uno de ellos que contenga lo siguiente: notification_optionsd,r Lo anterior le dice a Nagios que cuando

[CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi All, How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable? I tried umount /bck but it hangs indefinitely umount -f /bck tells me the mount if busy and I can't unmount it: root@saturn:[~]$ umount -f /bck umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /bck: device is busy umount2: Device

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Edo
Hi, On 1/26/11 5:23 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi All, How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable? I tried umount /bck but it hangs indefinitely umount -f /bck tells me the mount if busy and I can't unmount it: Try: umount -f -l /bck HTH, -- - Edwin -

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edo ml2ed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 1/26/11 5:23 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi All, How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable? I tried umount /bck but it hangs indefinitely umount -f /bck tells me the mount if busy and I can't unmount

[CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread James Bensley
Hi List :) So, I have a folder1, its owner is user1 who has r+w on the folder. User2 is the group owner who only has read access (when I say user2, I mean the group called user2, because when you make a new user the OS can make them their own group). You can see these permissions below:

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:12 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List :) So, I have a folder1, its owner is user1 who has r+w on the folder. User2 is the group owner who only has read access (when I say user2, I mean the group called user2, because when you make a new user

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread James Bensley
On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Griman rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: chmod    0750    /directory And see what happens. Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and then worked this out shortly after :) Still, if I hadn't your response was quick so I

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Rudi Ahlers ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edo ml2ed...@gmail.com wrote: How does one mount an NFS share, to avoid system timeouts when the remove NFS server is offline? I would use a different approach: use autofs, then the share is mounted on the fly only when needed, and

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:31 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Griman rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: chmod    0750    /directory And see what happens. Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread Edo
Hi, On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:31 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Griman rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: chmod0750/directory And see what happens. Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and then

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Edo
Hi, On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edo ml2ed...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 1/26/11 5:23 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi All, How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable? I tried umount /bck but it hangs

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Lorenzo Quatrini lorenzo.quatr...@gmail.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edo ml2ed...@gmail.com wrote: How does one mount an NFS share, to avoid system timeouts when the remove NFS server is offline? I would use a

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 18:44 +1100, Les Bell wrote: Paul, if you want a basic explanation of the rationale behind the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, you might enjoy this article from a course I wrote years ago - it's a little dated, but still applicable today.

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread Les Bell
Edo ml2ed...@gmail.com wrote: If user1 writes a file in folder1 will user2 be made the default group owner, is there a way of enforcing this and with the required privileges (r for files, rx for directories?). Yes. If user1 belongs to the user2 group, that’s how it

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: That won't really work. The NFS clients run cPanel and we need a way for end-users to have full access to their backups all the time. We used to run backup over FTP, but then when a client wanted to restore data one of the techs first had to download it

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/26/11 5:35 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Lorenzo Quatrini lorenzo.quatr...@gmail.com wrote: Rudi Ahlers ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Edoml2ed...@gmail.com wrote: How does one mount an NFS share, to avoid system timeouts when the remove NFS

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/26/2011 04:31 AM, James Bensley wrote: On 26 January 2011 10:17, Rafa Grimanrafagri...@gmail.com wrote: Directories should have +x permissions. Do a: chmod0750/directory And see what happens. Hi Rafa, like a fool I sent that email and then worked this out shortly after :)

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: That won't really work. The NFS clients run cPanel and we need a way for end-users to have full access to their backups all the time. We used to run backup over FTP, but then when a client wanted to restore data one of the techs first had to

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: That won't really work. The NFS clients run cPanel and we need a way for end-users to have full access to their backups all the time. We used to run backup over FTP, but then

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:07 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: It's your build environment that's the problem. They build for el5. Clean out your build root and recreate it and do a fresh .rpmmacros file. John Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libsrtp-1.4.4-2.20101004cvs.el5.em2.src.rpm Wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread James Bensley
Thanks to all for your replies; the ability to set the group ID (SGID) was the solution I needed, thanks very much guys :D -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...?

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: [...] .fs        # /bin/bash        find /data -iwholename *$1        find /ax -iwholename *$1        find /bx -iwholename *$1        find /cx -iwholename *$1 Obviously with the chmod +x.  The last one makes

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL fame swallowed Red Hat,

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 09:38 -0500, JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:07 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: It's your build environment that's the problem. They build for el5. Clean out your build root and recreate it and do a fresh .rpmmacros file. John Wrote:

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:02 -0500, JohnS wrote: The problem is RPM is trying to install into the main file system whereas el5 rpm does not need an incantation like so. I mean el6 sorry.. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Beers
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the response! On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:07 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: It's your build environment that's the problem.  They build for el5. Clean out your build root and recreate it and do a fresh .rpmmacros

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Beers
LOL, looks like our messages crossed in the ether, I applied a patch very similar to your suggestion: $ diff -pub libsrtp.spec libsrtp.spec.el5 --- libsrtp.spec2010-12-06 11:13:59.0 -0500 +++ libsrtp.spec.el52011-01-26 11:11:45.0 -0500 @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Source1:

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:01 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: DESTDIR=/home/ethan/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/libsrtp-1.4.4-2.20101004cvs.el5.em2.x86_64 Yea that probally confuses you and a lot of people. Pay that no mind. :-) Where/how is %{buildroot} defined in your build environment? Are you building on a

Re: [CentOS] pen drive, hard disk, cd not being detected

2011-01-26 Thread Ritika Garg
Among many messages that 'dmesg' displays, the following seems to indicate that something might be wrong: mtrr:type mismatch for c1fe,1 old:write-back new:write-combining I can't understand what does the above mean? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] ethernet configuration

2011-01-26 Thread Ritika Garg
'/sbin/ifconfig -a' returns: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU :16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1489 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1489 errors:0

Re: [CentOS] pen drive, hard disk, cd not being detected

2011-01-26 Thread Ritika Garg
The problem occurred after I downloaded and compiled the package for enabling wireless on the laptop from the site ' www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php' which I got to know from the site 'wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom' ___

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:37:48AM +, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Surely you mean stuff from the rising sun Illumos and OpenIndiana! Nope. Not convinced by what I read about them. Still have my unused Open Solaris disks from

[CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ...

2011-01-26 Thread Larry Vaden
For various reasons which seemingly fail the necessary/sufficient tests with the benefit of hindsight, I attempted to migrate a shell machine which is the beach front from which I work (not a production server) from CentOS 5.5 to Scientific Linux 5.5 yesterday. Karanbir is quoted on this list as

Re: [CentOS] pen drive, hard disk, cd not being detected

2011-01-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/26/11 8:53 AM, Ritika Garg wrote: The problem occurred you need to find a better email program for participating on lists. you posted 3 emails this morning none of which have a Referencers: header, or any quoted context, so they ended up unthreaded. now, my 'Centos folder has

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Beers
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:02 -0500, JohnS wrote: The problem is RPM is trying to install into the main file system whereas el5 rpm does not need an incantation like so. I mean el6 sorry.. John Yep, that make sense. For

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:35 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: +rm -rf %{buildroot} Now I know you rebuild it more than one time instead of once. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread David G . Miller
mcclnx mcc mcclnx@... writes: We have several csh batch scripts using #!/bin/csh -v. It work fine, before Centos 5.5. After cenos 5.5, it will NOT execute and only list history. Anyone know why? Thanks. Actually, the script is executed: [dave@fraud ~/bin]# ./ctest.csh echo this

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Beers
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:35 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: +rm -rf %{buildroot} Now I know you rebuild it more than one time instead of once. Well, it is recommended in

Re: [CentOS] ethernet configuration

2011-01-26 Thread compdoc
'/sbin/ifconfig -a' returns: lo Link encap:Local Loopback Your system is not seeing your network cards. It is only seeing your loopback device. I opened system-administration-network-edit-hardware device, and deleted the mac address from the box, and pressed Probe.

Re: [CentOS] pen drive, hard disk, cd not being detected

2011-01-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
and please switch off HTML, thanks! Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:11 Fri 21 Jan, Michael Gliwinski (michael.gliwin...@henderson-group.com) wrote: On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 22:26:08 Bob Eastbrook wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: But the locked screensaver wants the *same* password that you log in with. I'm having

Re: [CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27/01/2011, at 7:27 AM, David G. Miller wrote: chmod -R g+rx,o+rx Nelson/ cd What is the result of 'cd' (a shell-internal command) in this version of tcsh? It is the same as in sh? The history is listed for some reason after the script (in the above example starting with the chmod).

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:23 Wed 26 Jan, Rudi Ahlers (r...@softdux.com) wrote: Hi All, How do I unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unaivalable? I tried umount /bck but it hangs indefinitely umount -f /bck tells me the mount if busy and I can't unmount it: root@saturn:[~]$ umount -f /bck umount2:

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/26/2011 4:55 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: The specific solution is 'umount -fldir|device'. The general solution's a little stickier. I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain automount maps and

[CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Mitch Patenaude
We're running a large cluster, and are leery of upgrading them all to 5.5, but would like to find the latest security patches. Is there a repo for this? I can't seem to find a 5.4 specific update repo with anything since last March. Is 5.4 EOL'd? Thanks, -- Mitch

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/26/11 5:35 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: We're running a large cluster, and are leery of upgrading them all to 5.5, but would like to find the latest security patches. Is there a repo for this? I can't seem to find a 5.4 specific update repo with anything since last March. Is 5.4

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Gene
Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node cluster for seismic work. Gene Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:39 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/26/11 5:35 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: We're running a large cluster, and are leery

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Mitch Patenaude
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node cluster for seismic work. 300+ nodes total, 200 in a hadoop cluster used for mapreduce, the rest in a variety of headless datacenter roles (web,

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Gene
Our application vendors dictated version an patches. The system did what it was designed. That was its purpose in life. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Mitch Patenaude mi...@rapleaf.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you

[CentOS] Help - Seeking recommendations-script to install on CENT OS web server for backup to Network Attached Storage

2011-01-26 Thread Steve Eisenberg
Hello: I wanted to know if anyone on the list can recommend one or more scripts to install on a CENT OS web server that allows you to back up the entire box to network attached storage? Many thanks, Steve Eisenberg steve.eisenb...@gmail.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:51:51 -0800 Mitch Patenaude mi...@rapleaf.com wrote: without having to change versions. Upgrading to 5.6 would likely involve upgrading several core packages (mysql, ruby, python, bind, even glibc and the kernel). Is this a pipe dream? Shouldn't be. I never think of

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/26/11 5:51 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gene bran...@bellsouth.net mailto:bran...@bellsouth.net wrote: Can you tell us more about you cluster? Nodes? Purpose? I managed a small 90 node cluster for seismic work. 300+ nodes total, 200 in a

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-26 Thread William Warren
On 1/26/2011 8:35 PM, Mitch Patenaude wrote: We're running a large cluster, and are leery of upgrading them all to 5.5, but would like to find the latest security patches. Is there a repo for this? I can't seem to find a 5.4 specific update repo with anything since last March. Is 5.4 EOL'd?

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 09:58 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: You may not be aware of the locate command? Nightly there is a job that runs (updatedb) that scans the disk and saves file locations. Locate searches this database instead of you have to do a 'find'. The only thing it won't get are

Re: [CentOS] Help - Seeking recommendations-script to install on CENT OS web server for backup to Network Attached Storage

2011-01-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Steve Eisenberg steve.eisenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I wanted to know if anyone on the list can recommend one or more scripts to install on a CENT OS web server that allows you to back up the entire box to network attached storage? Many thanks, Steve

[CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Always Learning
Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a server. I created my SSH keys and copied the public part to the server and renamed it authorized_keys. My command line is: ssh r...@xx.com -p 1234 The output shows the logging-on routine wants 3 types

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/26/2011 4:55 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: The specific solution is 'umount -fldir|device'. The general solution's a little stickier. I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues while

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a server. you expect Passwordless SSH. If so, On your PC # ssh-keygen -t rsa ( passphrase should be empty ) Generating

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/26/11 10:57 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: BackupPC doesn't intergrate into cPanel. cpanel is pure crap. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:05 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/26/11 10:57 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: BackupPC doesn't intergrate into cPanel. cpanel is pure crap. And you are any better? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Cameron Kerr
On 27/01/2011, at 7:45 PM, Always Learning wrote: Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a server. I created my SSH keys and copied the public part to the server and renamed it authorized_keys.

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya induni...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a server. you expect Passwordless SSH. If so,

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Cameron Kerr came...@humbledown.org wrote: On 27/01/2011, at 7:45 PM, Always Learning wrote: Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a server. I created my SSH keys and copied the public part to the server and

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Cameron Kerr came...@humbledown.org wrote: On 27/01/2011, at 7:45 PM, Always Learning wrote: Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain automount maps and run the risk of issues with the automounter (I've seen large production environments in which

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Always Learning wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Now I know why locate never usually worked for me - it hadn't updated. find is fast, especially when I restrict the search paths. But locate is faster still, in all but the smallest of cases. I'd only tend to use find

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Wrong again. Never use public key access for root accounts, it simply compounds the security risks. Passphrase protected SSH keys can be used, reasonably, for account access on other hosts, but should be avoided for root access. If you *HAVE* to