Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread John Doe
From: CentOS List centosl...@gmail.com I had a cfml application running on mysql database. Can some suggest a realtime backup solution via ftp say every 5mins without damaging the database? Wouldn't a simple mysqldump work? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html JD

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-18 Thread John Doe
For controller, what is the interface on your drives?? SCSI, SAS?? Dell 2950, SAS 6 Host Bus Controller. Integrated SAS 6/i(base): 4 port SAS controller (does support RAID 0/1) But I don't know if that is descent hw raid or crap raid... JD

Re: [CentOS] Gpg-agent will not start

2009-02-17 Thread John Doe
From: Steve Huff sh...@vecna.org What am I missing? [sh...@srdce ~]$ yum provides /usr/bin/gpg-agent gnupg2.i386 : Utility for secure communication and data storage I have Base and rpmforge repo and No Matches found... Which repo provides this package? Fedora? JD

Re: [CentOS] logs such as messages, boot.log, and kernel contained 0 size

2009-02-16 Thread John Doe
Frank Ling franklin...@yahoo.com *.info;*.!warn;authpriv.none;cron.nome;mail.none; -/var/log/messages I guess you alread tried to restart syslog. From the manpage: You may prefix each entry with the minus ‘‘-’’ sign to omit syncing the file after every logging. . . . Maybe try to

Re: [CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-13 Thread John Doe
From: Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even if the shell is not doing anything. When this happens I can still switch to another VT with alt+f2 and

Re: [CentOS] Nagios: Error: Service check command ... not defined anywhere!

2009-02-13 Thread John Doe
Alexander Farber schrieb: I have problems posting the question below to the Nagios mailing list (my subscription is not accepted for some reason). Still using 2.x here but, isn't there a commands.cfg file with some check_http definition? In doubt, take a working check_xyz and grep it in all

Re: [CentOS] Nagios: Error: Service check command ... not defined anywhere!

2009-02-13 Thread John Doe
From: Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com Still using 2.x here but, isn't there a commands.cfg file with some check_http definition? In doubt, take a working check_xyz and grep it in all the conf files and see if you missed any... thanks - yes, I always grep -ri for

Re: [CentOS] Nagios: Error: Service check command ... not defined anywhere!

2009-02-13 Thread John Doe
From: Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com I have problems posting the question below to the Nagios mailing list (my subscription is not accepted for some reason). You should complain to the administrators of that mailing-list. I still think my question isn't offtopic here -

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 x86_64 DVD

2009-02-12 Thread John Doe
From: ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com I’ve pulled this down with Firefox, wget, a bittorrent client and an ftp client using Windows as well as Linux hosts. Is something wrong with the distributed DVD image? It has failed an MD5 check every time I’ve pulled it

Re: [CentOS] installation needs libpng but rpm is there

2009-02-11 Thread John Doe
From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com Ann kok wrote on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:15:33 -0800 (PST): configure: error: png library not found. please install libpng This signals that you are not using an rpm. Get an rpm version of what you want to install. Or just install libpng-devel as

Re: [CentOS] Regd: Clarification on Linux Upgrade

2009-02-09 Thread John Doe
These questions are all answered by reading the archive of this mailing list. My question is upgrade from CD/DVD without yum http://www.google.fr/search?q=centos+install+upgrade First answer... Look for Download Instructions and for Upgrade Options and process recommendations JD

Re: [CentOS] where is PD???

2009-02-06 Thread John Doe
From: mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw I don't know why ORACLE software complain. Server did have KSH. $ which ksh /bin/ksh $ rpm -qa|grep ksh ksh-20060214-1.7 Maybe because the installer expects to be run from ksh and not bash... JD ___

Re: [CentOS] Installation Help needed , CentOs on FC9

2009-02-06 Thread John Doe
From: Linux student mysubli...@gmail.com I want to install centos on fc9 machine remotely and i don't want to ask/request datacenter people for installation .Is there any possibility to do this using live CD? yes i am allowed to request datacenter to boot system from LiveCD. I think you

Re: [CentOS] squid stops working several times a day

2009-02-04 Thread John Doe
this explains, why OpenBSD+Squid worked well for us at the same server - I guess OpenBSD's Squid package is better maintained. CentOS supplied Squid is running just fine here. Talking about squid versions: Advisory SQUID-2009:1 Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of

Re: [CentOS] squid stops working several times a day

2009-02-02 Thread John Doe
From: Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com [r...@ablprx01 squid]# rpm -qa|grep -i squid squid-2.6.STABLE6-5.el5_1.3 Sadly, CentOS squid packages are quite old. Squid recent releases are: 2.7.STABLE5 and 3.0.STABLE12... Latest 2.6 is STABLE22 I've checked /var/log/messages and also

Re: [CentOS] squid timeout error

2009-02-02 Thread John Doe
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.wisegeek.com/ * Connection to 174.132.22.20 Failed First, maybe you should post to the squid mailing list... Did you check your timeout values? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] /etc/X11/xorg.conf question

2009-01-30 Thread John Doe
From: Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com ... What do I need to include in xorg.conf for the resolution to be 1280 x 1024 instead of the current 1600 x 1200? Display is a Dell M991 and the Video Card is shown as Nvidia NV11 (GeForce2 MX/MX400). CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) fully updated. TIA!

Re: [CentOS] Question on script

2009-01-30 Thread John Doe
- Original Message From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:55:03 PM Subject: [CentOS] Question on script Hi all, I am trying to extract from the aplay -l output the Card and Device numbers. I had a script

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-29 Thread John Doe
Anyway, I managed and am currently extending the array to the 12 disks... It seems that it is going to take around 3 days! Maybe because the cache battery is not fully charged and so the writes are not cached... After that, I need to reduce the boot logical disk down to a dozen of GBs.

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-28 Thread John Doe
From: Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se If it does raid6 then you have a p400 or p800 controller, right? If so then hpacucli or similar can easily give you a small logical drive for the OS and then a large one for data. Yes, that's the plan but, the thing is to be able to run the utilities...

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-28 Thread John Doe
Yes, that's the plan but, the thing is to be able to run the utilities... I need either to make a live CD with the HP tools installed, or a temporary OS with the tools... First try will be to create a RAID6 on 3 disks (=1 TB, so no grub problems), install the OS, run HP ACU, extend the

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-28 Thread John Doe
From: mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw how to stop fsck on boot? in fstab: The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other

[CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-27 Thread John Doe
Hi, I just received a new server (HP DL180G5) with 12x 1TB HDs and I bumped into fdisks 2TB limits... Since this is an entry level server, I can't use the classic HP bootable utilities to create smaller volumes et can only create a big RAID6. I found out that: using parted, labelling it gpt and

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-27 Thread John Doe
From: James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com I have this problem, I just boot from usb sticks? A 512MB usb pen drive is (just about extinct!) only about £2.00 so get three, make one an ms-dos disk with parted and format it ready. Then pop-in CentOS and install it mounting the usb pen as /boot so

Re: [CentOS] Ping and traceroute...

2009-01-26 Thread John Doe
However do you have the luxury of having your members coming from a block of IPs World wide website... so it is either everything or nothing... Blocking ping has always been a pet peeve of mine. Aside from violating RFC-1122 (3.2.2.6 Echo Request/Reply: RFC-792 Every host MUST

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script - Compare packages. rpm.

2009-01-26 Thread John Doe
From: Tiago Dias tux.ti...@gmail.com I need a script which makes the package compação rpm's through two text files ... Since a file is the output of the command rpm-qa pkg.out And the second file is a list of several packages rpm's, multiple versions and architectures. Just for the

[CentOS] Ping and traceroute...

2009-01-23 Thread John Doe
Hi everybody, Right now, we are blocking pings and traceroutes to our website. But, in order for our members to test the connection when they are experiencing slow browsing, we are thinking about unblocking them... Are there still any security issues (flooding, etc...) in enabling them or is

Re: [CentOS] Udev Rules for mounting usb disks

2009-01-20 Thread John Doe
From: partha chowdhury kira.lau...@gmail.com my plan is to automatically mount five same brand usb disks in five different directories. I have written the following udev rule; Problem is, it does not mount them on boot, only when I plug them in. how do you expect to mount usb disks

Re: [CentOS] default stty profile settings in CentOS

2009-01-20 Thread John Doe
From: Sven alu...@gmail.com I am here at a customer who have this in profile (.cshrc): stty erase ^H kill ^? intr ^C Backspace clears the hole command line. How is the CentOS default? From the man page: erase CHAR, will erase the last character typed intr CHAR, will send an

Re: [CentOS] Udev Rules for mounting usb disks

2009-01-20 Thread John Doe
From: Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de Am 20.01.2009 15:33, schrieb John Doe: From: partha chowdhury my plan is to automatically mount five same brand usb disks in five different directories. I have written the following udev rule; Problem is, it does not mount them on boot, only when I plug

Re: [CentOS] Cron daemon with better precision?

2009-01-19 Thread John Doe
I'm on the hunt for a cron scheduler that supports definitions to the second. Obviously, every cron daemon supports minute/hour/etc but I have a special application that requires finer granularity. I know I know... someone will say The load will be horrendous on your system or Why

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread John Doe
From: Ian Forde i...@duckland.org On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:11 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote: Hello, Has anyone managed to redirect output of kickstart install to ILO serial console? I have to test and deploy the remote install with kickstart but have trouble debugging it because I

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-16 Thread John Doe
Or you could plug a cable into the iLO port and use the text console through your browser (https:///)... Or ssh... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] stack overflow

2009-01-15 Thread John Doe
- Original Message From: Peter Doherty dohe...@crystal.harvard.edu To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:49:40 PM Subject: [CentOS] stack overflow Hi, I've got a fileserver that runs Centos 5.2. It's been stable otherwise stable for maybe a year or more,

Re: [CentOS] hardware info

2009-01-14 Thread John Doe
Hi How can I know the hardware info eg: type of memory No need to turn off the machine Thank you Look in /proc or use a tool that sumarize it nicely (sosreport or others)... And look at the quickspecs documentation of your server. Even better, use your vendor utilities (if provided). By

Re: [CentOS] Bash cgi upload form

2009-01-07 Thread John Doe
From: Sean Carolan Anyone have a function or script for uploading files from a web browser with a bash script? I know this is possible to do with Perl, I'm wondering if the same is possible using only bash. Just curious here, from Sean's request info, this script would run on

Re: [CentOS] Bash cgi upload form

2009-01-05 Thread John Doe
From: Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com Anyone have a function or script for uploading files from a web browser with a bash script? I know this is possible to do with Perl, I'm wondering if the same is possible using only bash. I use curl. It can be a bit tricky if you use POSTDATA...

Re: [CentOS] Bash Script for Beginners! oh dear :'(

2008-12-23 Thread John Doe
Scenario: /some/directory/where/blacklist/is/stored contains about 40-50 folders called, adult, gambling, banking, warez etc. There is a folder for each blocking category (and in each folder is two files, urls and domains, standard stuff for web filtering!) I have a script to search

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2008-12-23 Thread John Doe
Then, I want to read from my own IMAP server when I'm away from home. Is there a better way than opening port 143? The easiest would be if you had a fixed external IP and only allow it; but I guess that won't be the case. Maybe using an other port than 143? But I don't think that would fool

Re: [CentOS] Raid1 -- Raid5

2008-12-19 Thread John Doe
From: Mariusz settl...@atp-czesci.pl I'm thinking of changing raid 1 to raid 5 (phisical -- in bios, now i've got 2 disks in raid1, i want to add 3rd disk). Will centos work correctly? If it is physical RAID, CentOS should only see logical disk(s) and not the underlying physical disks... I

Re: [CentOS] Problem after power failure: no more sound in Flash

2008-12-09 Thread John Doe
Power failures are funny (NOT!) things. Did you open the alsa mixer (right click the speaker icon) and see if one of the channels got muted? Maybe that's all it is. Are you able to play other sounds (like .wav files) using some of the utilities or hear sounds with other utilities? What

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