[CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

2011-12-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Has anyone else seen this on Centos 6.x x64? Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with ' vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual/right things. Once completed there is no 'vmware-tools' listed in 'chkconfig --list'. A reboot of the box leaves vmware

Re: [CentOS] VMware tools not installing init.d script

2011-12-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Hi, nothing in there I had checked. Cheers. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Brian McKerr bmck...@gmail.com Running vSphere 5.0 and I install tools from the VMware tar.gz file with ' vmware-install-tools.pl -d' it seems to do all the usual

Re: [CentOS] Hard I/O lockup with EL6

2011-09-26 Thread Brian McKerr
Have you checked the cables you are using ? On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.comwrote: On Monday, September 26, 2011 12:36:19 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: a) have you checked /var/log/message for memory or drive errors? Looked through the logs, there's

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Brian McKerr
I usually boot from the installer CD and go to a virtual terminal (Alt-F1). In the shell; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=512 count=1 I'd guess that the partition table has some microsoft funkiness in it that needs to be wiped. Take, care with this, it can and does eat

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Brian McKerr
Does it have to be 1RU ? These are excellent; http://routerboard.com/index.php?showProduct=90 5 GIGABIT etc On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: Hi List, I am looking for 1U firewall hardware, any ideas? Something like that (

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Brian McKerr
Sorry wrong URL; I was trying to point you to the RB750G model in particular. http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=90 Cheers. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Brian McKerr bmck...@gmail.com wrote: Does it have to be 1RU ? These are excellent; http://routerboard.com/index.php

Re: [CentOS] mail server best practices question

2010-05-10 Thread Brian McKerr
I use Mailscanner with postfix and Mailwatch to manage quarantine etc; http://mailscanner.info/ On the backup MX, I just use postfix and some basic anti-spam stuff. Very little gets through and even less gets through to the primary. I am aware that some spam techniques go straight to the backup

Re: [CentOS] Total Threads used in a system

2010-04-28 Thread Brian McKerr
I am aware that 'top' can be asked to show threads by pressing 'H'. The count of tasks then changes to include all threads. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I know we can get the total number of processes running in the system using the 'ps -A'

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

2009-12-02 Thread Brian McKerr
diff -y ? On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Simon Banton cen...@web.org.uk wrote: At 08:54 + 2/12/09, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I compare two files but not in line-by-line basis on my CentOS server ? I mean say row#1 in file1 has the

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
Slightly OT... Opensolaris has just had triple parity raid (raidz3) added to ZFS; http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/triple_parity_raid_z Pity we can't get an in kernel version of ZFS for linux. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009

[CentOS] ignore please.

2009-09-30 Thread Brian McKerr
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Re: [CentOS] How to setup a secondary DNS server pulling zones from Win2k3?

2009-03-05 Thread Brian McKerr
I found this useful... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd316373.aspx On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, we have a mixed environment at work: CentOS + Win2003 servers. The Win2k3 part contains: AD, DNS (inlc. dyndns), DHCP,

Re: [CentOS] Can sound be redirected from a remote computer to local computer?

2009-01-10 Thread Brian McKerr
Try NX from nomachine.com. The Free version FreeNX is in the centos extras repo. - partha chowdhury kira.lau...@gmail.com wrote: dcw wrote: I need to redirect the sound from a remote Centos 5.2 computer to my local Centos 5.2 computer. Both are i386 OS. Searching the web and

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKerr
- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This (CentOS5.1) box is my new imap server. Using system-config-security-level I opened port 143 tcp, and mail is readable throughout the LAN. I want a Roaming account on my laptop so that I can read mail while away from home. I have set up

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKerr
- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This (CentOS5.1) box is my new imap server. Using system-config-security-level I opened port 143 tcp, and mail is readable throughout the LAN. I want a Roaming account on my laptop so that I can read mail while away from home. I have set up

Re: [CentOS] Creating a Roaming imap account

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKerr
- Brian McKerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This (CentOS5.1) box is my new imap server. Using system-config-security-level I opened port 143 tcp, and mail is readable throughout the LAN. I want a Roaming account on my laptop so that I