Re: [CentOS] disk partitioning: 6.0 install to harddrive using liveCD

2011-09-26 Thread John Doe
From: cen...@trodman.com cen...@trodman.com I'm planning to set up a test Centos 6.0 box (has CDROM, but no DVD) with these partions: Why not use the netinstall or minimal CDs...? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Intel Ethernet and module e1000e

2011-09-26 Thread John Doe
From: Volker Poplawski vol...@openbios.org I'm facing a serious problem with the e100e kernel module for Intel 82574L gigabit nics on Centos 6. I had pbms with my Intel 1000e too. Installed elrepo's kmod-e1000e and so far so good... http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-e1000e JD

[CentOS] Firewalling outbound connections...

2011-09-26 Thread John Doe
Hi, would anyone know a soft to firewall outbound connections (applications phoning home, etc...). It would detect an unknown (to him) app that tries to connect to the outside world and it would popup a allow/deny request...AppArmor might be a bit overkill... Anyone have any experience with

Re: [CentOS] Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)

2011-09-23 Thread John Doe
From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com Let's say your operating policy is no patch updates without testing first in the test environment.  Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test.  Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is there a way

Re: [CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

2011-09-22 Thread John Doe
From: Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com Is there a way to update a CentOS 5.4 server to 5.6 (but not 5.7)? yum update takes me all the way up to 5.7. First, this is normal; yum update will always take you to the most recent 5.x Second, you will miss important security/bug fixes by

Re: [CentOS] w3pw install

2011-09-22 Thread John Doe
From: Tim Dunphy bluethu...@jokefire.com I'm attempting to install the w3pw password wallet on centos 5.6 http://w3pw.sourceforge.net/ The interface works well enough, but for the life of me I can't find the default password for setup or the file in which this is set. Does anyone happen

Re: [CentOS] sudo wildcards problem: for every argument a *-wildcard? Better solution?

2011-09-21 Thread John Doe
From: Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:48 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: Tried with -- ? Maybe replace the last * with [! ]* doesn't work. Any other idea? I tried the following in /etc/sudoers:   myuser    ALL=/o*/te* And cat /opt/test   #!/bin/bash   echo

[CentOS] Kickstart mdraid on two disks, from usb key detected as sda instead of sdc...

2011-09-20 Thread John Doe
Hi, I am trying to adapt my kickstart usb key to optionally auto-setup mdraid on two disks...  But I have one server that keeps attaching the usb key to sda instead of sdc... My kickstart creates the raid devices on sdb and sdc partitions; but then I expect it not to work once the key is

Re: [CentOS] sudo wildcards problem: for every argument a *-wildcard? Better solution?

2011-09-20 Thread John Doe
From: Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com  I allow the user tommy to run this command as root sudoCommand: /app/appname/connectors/*/*/current/bin/* $ sudo /app/appname/connectors/zur/namename/current/bin/othername agentsvc --i --u root --sn 1m7command Sorry, user tommy is not allowed to execute

Re: [CentOS] PDF Reader/Editor for CentOS 5.7 (32 bit)?

2011-09-20 Thread John Doe
From: Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com Trying to install xpdf, with yum, I get this dependency error from rpmforge: 1:xpdf-3.02-8.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems   -- Missing Dependency: libXm.so.4 is needed by package 1:xpdf-3.02-8.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge) Error:

Re: [CentOS] mount exFAT filesystem on centos

2011-09-19 Thread John Doe
From: MOKRANI Rachid rachid.mokr...@ifpen.fr Is there some simple tool to mount exFAT filesystem on CentOS (2.6.18)? Google says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Support_on_Other_Platforms JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Cons of disabling *.i386 and *.i686 in a 64bit Distribution

2011-09-15 Thread John Doe
From: James Nguyen ja...@callfire.com So the premise for this question is that I setup an exclude=*.i368,*.i686 in my yum.conf. While doing a yum update I come across missing package dependencies for instance mkinitrd for the i386 package. What about using multilib_policy=best instead? JD

Re: [CentOS] Flesh Playerproblem

2011-09-14 Thread John Doe
From: Ashish Shaligram ashish8li...@gmail.com I have installed centos 6, i have already installed flesh player, browser ask for flesh player.  how can i solve the problem?  Check that the plugin file is installed. ll /usr/lib*/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Or replace mozilla with your

Re: [CentOS] Missing ipa-server package on centos6?

2011-09-14 Thread John Doe
From: Armin Herbert armin.herb...@atrics.de I can't seem to find the ipa-server package in centos 6; it is not available on my favourite mirrors, nor do the release notes mention its absence. Has it been overlooked when assembling the distribution? Dunno but CentOS 5 and 6 have the same ipa

Re: [CentOS] Issues with successfully completing rsync with msync.centos.org

2011-09-13 Thread John Doe
From: Christopher Hawker cwhawk...@gmail.com I am trying to establish a mirror, and when I execute the rsync command, it only creates the directories and selected files. It does not download the entire iso collection or repo files. And which rsync command? JD

Re: [CentOS] trouble building an rpm

2011-09-13 Thread John Doe
From: Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se It's not a good idea to build rpms as root (unless in a throw-away vm). Build as user or even better using mock. Am I missing something or building an rpm as a non-root user for security reason won't do much when, in the end, the rpm will be installed

Re: [CentOS] Issues with successfully completing rsync with msync. centos.org

2011-09-13 Thread John Doe
From: Christopher Hawker cwhawk...@gmail.com The rsync command on the CentOS website, on the page that tells you how to setup a mirror. The one with --exclude isos ? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: file and directory permissions

2011-09-13 Thread John Doe
From: Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.de I find nowhere the explanation of the dot in file permissions like: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  457 Aug  4 17:27 config I have searched in forums, Red Hat deployment guide, storage administration guide etc  … Google dot in permissions... Results

Re: [CentOS] Issues with successfully completing rsync with msync. centos.org

2011-09-13 Thread John Doe
From: Christopher Hawker cwhawk...@gmail.com I have been using this one: rsync -aqzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS /path/to/local/mirror/root If I can, I want to mirror: mirror.optus.net/centos as it is nearer my mirror server and the internet connection for the server is through Optus (in

Re: [CentOS] disk duplication question

2011-09-12 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com When I take a duplicated disk and stick it in the new box which is different than the master machine of course all seems to work except the network. Is this the correct way to do this? Making a master and being able to stick the duplicated disk in

Re: [CentOS] Please confirm: Centos 6's Anaconda doesn't install i686 RPMs on x86_64 arch

2011-09-09 Thread John Doe
From: Robinson Tiemuqinke hahaha_...@yahoo.com  I just like to confirm whether this is true: on x86_64 arch machines, Centos 6's anaconda/kickstart will install only noarch and x86_64 arches RPMs, and no i686 arch RPMs installed by default.  This seems like exactly different from Centos 5  

Re: [CentOS] Problems with the epel GPG key

2011-09-09 Thread John Doe
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us I just went to install fail2ban, and it kept failing, complaining about the EPEL GPG key. It was installed... and yum worked, once I did ln -s /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL You did not say on whichCentOS version

Re: [CentOS] Problems with the epel GPG key

2011-09-09 Thread John Doe
On 09/08/2011 06:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I just went to install fail2ban, and it kept failing, complaining about the EPEL GPG key. It was installed... and yum worked, once I did ln -s /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL Oops, it installed for me but

Re: [CentOS] Centos6: missing link for mysqlclient

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.de I am installing snort from source. Besides of a lot of additional libraries, I needed a link ln -vfs /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so Are there reasons not to install with yum install mysql-devel ? I have found many

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com I learned from Anne that if I boot to level 5, after I enter the username, can select Gnome or KDE.  I note that the default is always Gnome.   How can I make the default KDE?   How can I get KDE with startx after booting to level 3?

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com   I grabbed a new SSD  M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. I am disappointed.  I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with CentOS 6 on the disk. It really doesn't feel faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that was in it. The SSD is giving me (in the

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org get a copy of iozone setup on the box, and get it to run through a few iterations with the 5400rpm disk and then the SSD. FYI, here's an iozone of my SSD (some numbers look a bit strange)... Dunno if I used correct parameters... Auto Mode Command

Re: [CentOS] Centos6 : Pan newsreader

2011-09-07 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com Where can I get the latest pan newsreader that would work with KDE 4? Google pan rpm and first answer is repoforge repository... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] pan reader and gmime

2011-09-07 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com Running: yum list available | grep -i gmime shows results for CentOS 5, but not for CentOS 6. It seems to be needed by my pan. What should I do? Google gmime rpm and first answer is repoforge repository... JD

Re: [CentOS] Selinux extra packages and compiled apps

2011-09-07 Thread John Doe
From: Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com setools and setroubleshoot are not required to be run by SELinux. setroubleshoot-server is supposed to be able to be used on server machine and able to send email on errors that it sees. I installed setools-console since it was small. And, instead of

Re: [CentOS] Selinux extra packages and compiled apps

2011-09-06 Thread John Doe
Russ herrold wrote: Quick question: do I really need to install the setools/setroubleshoot packages or can I live without them?  They want to install 80 packages (gnome stuff, gstreamer, gtk, tcl/tk...) and I would like to avoid installing all sort of graphical tools/libs on my lean servers.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: snort, fwlogwatch

2011-09-05 Thread John Doe
From: Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.de in CentOS 5 fwlogwatch is available. CentOS 6: I have found nothing. fwlogwatch is in the same repo for C5 and C6: rpmforge/repoforge.   C5 # yum list | grep fwlogwatch   fwlogwatch.i386    1.1-1.el5.rf   

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: snort, fwlogwatch, initlog

2011-09-05 Thread John Doe
From: Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.de T hank you. I have added rpmforge ... fwlogwatch needs initlog. Line 27:     initlog -c $FWLOGWATCH -R -A -X 888 -Pn success || failure In CentOS 5 part of the installation. Not recognized as a dependency in CentOS 6. You should tell

Re: [CentOS] Managing permissions for web folders

2011-09-02 Thread John Doe
From: Ruslan Sivak r...@vshift.com We have a web folder /var/www/somesite that's a root for one of the sites.   Apache serves files out of here.  It is an svn checkout, so that updates could be done by using svn up.  Everything has been going great when I use the root user to update, but now I

Re: [CentOS] xvfb question

2011-09-02 Thread John Doe
From: bcb bbow...@bigelow.org I recently upgraded from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0.  Since the upgrade, Xvfb will, on occasion, just stop Maybe: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498357 JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Unable to run yum update

2011-09-02 Thread John Doe
From: david da...@daku.org   The system involved is a 64-bit system, installed via the net about a     yum update   encountered the following diagonstic   Error: Package: yaf-1.3.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (@rpmforge)               Requires: libfixbuf-0.9.0.so.8()(64bit)              

[CentOS] Selinux extra packages and compiled apps

2011-09-02 Thread John Doe
Hey, I am in the process of trying (and convincing my colleagues) to learn/setup selinux as we switch to 6.0... Quick question: do I really need to install the setools/setroubleshoot packages or can I live without them?  They want to install 80 packages (gnome stuff, gstreamer, gtk,

Re: [CentOS] Error installing latest CentOS kernel from %post section of kickstart

2011-09-01 Thread John Doe
From: Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com     Installing    : kernel-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686                      185/378 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template In the mean time, I just manualy add the grub entry for the new kernel and it boots fine (not sure if there are

Re: [CentOS] Cannot start SSH at boot

2011-09-01 Thread John Doe
From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com On a particular CentOS 6 install, I must start SSH manually: # /etc/init.d/sshd start I have tried to configure it to start automatically: # chkconfig --level 3 sshd on Maybe try:   chkconfig --del sshd   chkconfig --add sshd Do you see the symlinks?  

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread John Doe
From: Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning. http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Postfix not set top start after upgrade

2011-08-30 Thread John Doe
From: Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il I noticed that after the lastest yum update on CentOS 5.6 we get Postfix 2.3.3, but the status of the postfix service (chkconfig --list postfix) changes to off. So after a reboot, it doesn't start automatically. I don't recall this ever happening before.

Re: [CentOS] Update to CentOS 6.0 without CD/DVD reader

2011-08-30 Thread John Doe
From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net John Doe wrote: From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net I've installed a substitute box - and HP MicroServer - which by a miracle has CentOS-5.6 installed on it. Now I'm wondering what is the best way to install CentOS-6, given

Re: [CentOS] Postfix not set top start after upgrade

2011-08-30 Thread John Doe
From: Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il On 30/08/2011 13:33, John Doe wrote: From: Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il I noticed that after the lastest yum update on CentOS 5.6 we get Postfix 2.3.3, but the status of the postfix service (chkconfig --list postfix) changes to off. So after a reboot

Re: [CentOS] Upstart file format

2011-08-30 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com Where can I find documentation on the new format of the files in /etc/init.d/? You have a bit more info with:   man 5 init And google says:   http://www.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript#LSB_Header JD

Re: [CentOS] [C6] Some typical apps missing?

2011-08-30 Thread John Doe
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 14:56 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, pavucontrol,

Re: [CentOS] External vfat devices show uppercase filenames, how to change defaults for GNOME desktop?

2011-08-29 Thread John Doe
From: wwp subscr...@free.fr I've recently switched from Fedora 11 to CentOS6. Now my SD cards (automatically mounted on plug) contents is displayed as UPPERCASE filenames. I well see in mount's man that vfat's shortname option can be set to either lower, win95, winnt, mixed. OK, that's for

Re: [CentOS] perl-Sys-Filesystem on 6.0

2011-08-26 Thread John Doe
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us I'm trying to install a number of perl modules, and yum gives up with perl-Sys-Filesystem, because it has a dependency of perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) Not sure where you get your perl-Sys-Filesystem from but it works for me: Dependencies Resolved

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up

2011-08-26 Thread John Doe
From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net     I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's

Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized

2011-08-26 Thread John Doe
From: sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com I had a Centos 5.5 OS  running for about 6 months used as a Xen VM server prfectly running 3 Virtual machines Its a Sun Blade server with 8 core Xeon Proceesor with 32 GB Ram couple of days back I added another 32 gb ram . The bios shows

Re: [CentOS] Problems with kickstart installation into a Virtualbox

2011-08-25 Thread John Doe
From: anax a...@ayni.com binary /usr/bin/fusermount. This binary was installed without execute permission for everybody, so it could be invoked only by the userid root and members of the group fuse, which is not, what i had expected. Same permissions as with CentOS 5... # ll

Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread John Doe
From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net Keith Roberts wrote: Could we have a centos-offtopic list please, so anything that would be considered OT can be posted there? I don't think that is necessary; this newsgroup does not seem to me to be over-loaded with OT material, or indeed with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com On my newly installed CentOS 6 I am running KDE (I think; I selected it in the setup, but how would I know?). Only God would know... It has three default icons: Computer; Root's Home; Trash.  I do not see them in /root/Desktop. How can I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 KDE: remove default icons

2011-08-25 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com I solved the problem with:   yum remove nautilus But now, when I put a directory in /root/Desktop, it does not appear on the desktop. I am now looking for a another file manager -- perhaps the one used in my older CentOS. Since you seem to

Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-22 Thread John Doe
From: Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net Executing 'whoami' confirms Apache is the user. Giving Apache group rw on the /etc/sysconfig/iptables and ensuring the /sbin/iptables is executable by all, fails to resolve the problem. Is there any method of running iptables from an Apache originated

Re: [CentOS] stupid question about kickstart file

2011-08-19 Thread John Doe
From: Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi Is is possible to use kickstart file to install rhel from dvd drive? Mainly idea is to clone one anaconda.ks file to about twenty machines.? Something like (that was for 5.x):   mount $MYISO /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop   cp -a /mnt/cdrom /tmp/cdrom

Re: [CentOS] which firewall to automatically block bandwidth abusers?

2011-08-19 Thread John Doe
From: Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com the servers in question provide a free service and no money is generated from it, but the client still pays for bandwidth so we'd like to cap heavy users a bit to avoid expensive bills. Hum, if it is www traffic, maybe put squid as a reverse proxy and use

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-17 Thread John Doe
From: Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com However, I can't wrap my brain around the new NetworkManager to get it to configure the eth0 interface to obtain an IP address from our DHCP server. I've seen the FAQ on the wiki and the interface is up, but it doesn't get an IP address.  I've

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel Warning.

2011-08-17 Thread John Doe
From: Lisandro Grullon lgrul...@citytech.cuny.edu Can someone give me clues as to whether my memory is going bad or I am having problem with the actual board. Thank you in advace. Any led on the motherboard (even better if next to a RAM slot)? Usually, the best (if you can) is to swap RAM

Re: [CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

2011-08-16 Thread John Doe
From: Pete O\\\'Connell pedrooconn...@gmail.com Hi swapping out bash for tsch doen't work unfortunately. The window that gets created when you do this only stays open for a split second. Works for me with:   $ cat test.sh   #!/bin/tcsh   ls $*   /bin/tcsh -i   $ gnome-terminal --tab -e

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread John Doe
From: Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications which gets installed with CentOS 6 if every option is deselected in the installer so that I can see what I can remove which isn't really necessary once installed? Maybe try something like:   grep

Re: [CentOS] Can two machines in the same network have the same hostname with different IPs?

2011-08-09 Thread John Doe
From: Indunil Jayasooriya induni...@gmail.com my task is to have 2 zimbra servers with mail.example.com with 2 ips 192.168.0.1 is the primary, I want to rsync /opt of this server to the other server 192.168.0.2. then, primary fails, I have a backup on the other server. no data lost This is

[CentOS] OT: headless fanless silent 2 HDs micro server/pc...

2011-08-09 Thread John Doe
Hey, A bit out of topic but I am looking for a micro server/pc if anyone knows a descent one... I found many nice NAS but I would like to have full access to the OS (install CentOS, etc). Dream one would be - Very quiet (fanless) since it will sit in my bedroom. - Headless - Small. - 2/3 HDs

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread John Doe
From: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel. but it did not modify the grub.conf file. Is this the new behavior or...? Have you moved grub.conf at all - like to a different boot partition, or changed any symlinks to grub.conf? I did not move

Re: [CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

2011-08-08 Thread John Doe
From: Pete O'Connell pedrooconn...@gmail.com hi, bash is unavailable to me on my machine unfortunately (it is a work machine) the command must be sent in a tsch shell. any way to do this in tsch? Did you look at tcsh man page? If you did, you must have noticed that it accepts the same '-i'

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-08 Thread John Doe
From: Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com You don't need to do that. Add the updates repo as a 'repo' line in the ks, it will install anything new at once saving time and cruft. The thing is that I setup the kickstart with the target network configured (which will not work in our

Re: [CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

2011-08-05 Thread John Doe
From: Pete O\'Connell pedrooconn...@gmail.com HI, but using watch you don't get the cursor back. Because when the command exists, the gnome-terminal session exists... Best would be the following if you find out how to add your commands to the bash call...   gnome-terminal --tab -e bash -i

[CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

2011-08-05 Thread John Doe
Hey, I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel.    ...    Installed:     kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6  kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6 but it did not modify the grub.conf file.   #boot=/dev/sda   default=0   timeout=5   splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz  

Re: [CentOS] MySQL package to install on CentOS/RedHad 6.x

2011-08-04 Thread John Doe
From: SZ Quadri s...@quadri.in Does anybody know a repo where mysql-workbench package(s) is/are available for C6? I did a quick search on pkgs.org and it does not return any results for C6. Maybe try: ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pool/1/mirror/mysql/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/ You might have to get the

Re: [CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

2011-08-03 Thread John Doe
From: Pete O'Connell pedrooconn...@gmail.com Hi I am trying to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window like above. I want to run a command for each tab within the body of the above command. AAA and BBB are both profiles I have created and also predefined environment variable on my

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart and CentOS 6 episode 2...

2011-08-01 Thread John Doe
My problem was 'cmdline' (worked fine with CentOS 5 though)... I switched to 'text' and it works now (with the DVD isos). JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Kickstart and CentOS 6 episode 2...

2011-07-29 Thread John Doe
Hey, I solved my The installation source given by device ['sdb2'] could not be found. Apparently ignoredisk is so strong it not only ignores the disks to be partitioned but also the disks holding the installation source... Now I ran into:   In interactive step cleardiskssel, can't continue In

Re: [CentOS] Subnet expansion

2011-07-28 Thread John Doe
From: Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org Currently I have this network: 10.1.16.0/22. 10.1.16.0-10.16.17.254 are DHCP managed 10.1.18.0-10.1.19.254 are statically assigned If I need to expand it to: 10.1.16.0/20 1. What is the best way to do it with minimal network disruption? I am no

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart and CentOS 6...

2011-07-28 Thread John Doe
From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com I am trying to upgrade my kickstart usb key to 6.0 and I ran into a few issues. I boot with:   append initrd=initrd.img ks=hd:sdb2:/ks.cfg repo=hd:sdb2:/centos and in the ks.cfg I have:   harddrive --partition=sdb2 --dir=/centos and on sdb2 I have:   sdb2

[CentOS] Kickstart and CentOS 6...

2011-07-27 Thread John Doe
Hey, I am trying to upgrade my kickstart usb key to 6.0 and I ran into a few issues. I boot with:   append initrd=initrd.img ks=hd:sdb2:/ks.cfg repo=hd:sdb2:/centos and in the ks.cfg I have:   harddrive --partition=sdb2 --dir=/centos and on sdb2 I have:  

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-26 Thread John Doe
From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com thats by cylinder, which is an old MSDOS legacy thing.  I believe parted and probably some other programs let you partition by sector instead. In my kickstart pre script, I use: ... | sfdisk -H $HEADS -S $SECTORS -uS --force -L $DEVICE For SSDs, I saw

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: Kevin C li...@tuxalafenetre.net I use a kickstart file to install my operating systems. In the kickstart file, I put the clearpart options to erase all my partition. But the install failed because the partition aren't erased. Does someone have the same issue ? Which clearpart

Re: [CentOS] Keyboards

2011-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us On my new Dell system, it's got a cardreader. More to the point, it's got an idiot menu key... *right* next to the right control key, and just where the annoying keyboard design has it cut down from the oversize space bar The result is that just

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: Kevin C li...@tuxalafenetre.net if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat EOF /tmp/partinfo Did you check the partinfo file to see if the variables are correctly replaced? In Python,Perl or Shell? I'm searching how to wipe all drives with parted or fdisk. In an external shell script. I just do

[CentOS] Bug in 6.0 i386 Basic server install...

2011-07-21 Thread John Doe
Hey, I tested centOS in vmware player (512MB, 1 IDE disk) and bumped into a post install failure to boot. While the minimal install works all the way, the Basic server one fails at the first post-install boot with following:   modprobe: FATAL: Could not load

Re: [CentOS] EL6, xinetd, and permissions. What am I missing?

2011-07-19 Thread John Doe
From: Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.com Staging for a rollout of EL 6, and ran into a very strange permissions issue with xinetd that defies all (my) logic. It's a script called spfiled that we use for messaging between our server cluster servers. I'm trying to get it to run with least

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-19 Thread John Doe
From: hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com centos. Can you please let me know where powerful centos stuffs for various purposes can be selected and installed from the internet? Hum... powerful stuff for various purposes is usually mysterious secret knowledge handed from masters to disciples...

Re: [CentOS] Burning DVDs

2011-07-18 Thread John Doe
From: Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs Udo Siewert wrote: A shot in the dark: my DVD image burned by K3B won't also boot. Using Brasero and all was fine. Not reproducable, but worth the attempt. All 3 DVD-s (2 x x86_64 + i386) are burned on K3B 0.12.17 on CentOS 5.6. x86_64 is tested

Re: [CentOS] Repositories for CentOS 6

2011-07-13 Thread John Doe
From: John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com But I'd really be happy to not see them recommended here unless the person making the recommendation takes ownership of all support issues that the user has from said recommendation.  That seems fair :) Maybe the yum priorities plugin paragraph in the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6: installing 32bit and 64bit RPMS via the installer?

2011-07-13 Thread John Doe
From: James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com Does anyone know how to get the installer to install the 32bit versions of 64bit RPMS? i.e. in the way it does for CentOS5. If you use a kickstart, you can specify packages with a specific arch:   %packages   glibc.i686   %end JD

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 CDs isos...

2011-07-12 Thread John Doe
From: Spook ZA spoo...@gmail.com On 11 July 2011 13:22, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: just wondering if CentOS 6 CDs isos are also planned, or if there will be only the DVDs ones...? Have a look here: http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2011/07/10/release-for-centos-6-0-i386-and-x86-64

Re: [CentOS] curlftpfs

2011-07-12 Thread John Doe
From: James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca CentOS-5.6 fuse-2.7.4-8.el5 fuse-curlftpfs-0.9.1-1.el5.rf I am trying to mount an ftp connection as a local file system using fuse and curlftpfs.  I can connect to the remote system (an HP3000 running MPEiX 7.5) and the directory seems to mount but

Re: [CentOS] Source Device Driver during installation in CentOS 6

2011-07-12 Thread John Doe
From: Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com I have loaded CentOS 6 on HP DL 180 G6 2U Server. How do i source device driver during installation. When i boot the system using CD/DVD, i do not see boot : prompt instead it says Enter and then select the installation method. Basically how do i

Re: [CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card

2011-07-12 Thread John Doe
From: Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com Yes I have setup RAID 1+0 Array using HP Smart Controller B110i BIOS. It shows usable disk space of approx 940 GB but the OS does not see it instead it shows all the 4 * 500 GB HDD. When you say It shows usable disk space of approx 940 GB, do

[CentOS] CentOS 6 CDs isos...

2011-07-11 Thread John Doe
Hey, just wondering if CentOS 6 CDs isos are also planned, or if there will be only the DVDs ones...? Thx, JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] make install?

2011-07-11 Thread John Doe
From: hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com #make But it prompts as No targets specified and no makefile found. #make install But it prompts as No rule to make target 'install'. If make says there is no Makefile, make install will not work either... Did you check the configure log file to see

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-07 Thread John Doe
From: Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand why do Hardware Vendors provide onboard storage raid controller chipset on the motherboard (fakeraid if its a software raid.).  Is it a marketing term for selling servers. Since it does not

Re: [CentOS] Mirror URL Times Out

2011-07-06 Thread John Doe
From: Torintino T torinti...@live.com From: markus.f...@fasel.at Check your DNS Server or /etc/hosts or whatever you use for name resolution. Yes, it's my ISP's DNS issue, i used another global DNS instead and it worked. Isn't the resolution of mirror.centos.org based on the (dns) location? If

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware

2011-07-05 Thread John Doe
From: Mark Weaver mwea...@compinfosystems.com Has anyone seen a supported hardware list on CentOS 6? I've been looking around for the last few days; even looked at RedHat's site but didn't find one. Maybe try here: https://hardware.redhat.com/ JD

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-05 Thread John Doe
From: Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com I am trying to install CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180 G6 which has HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver. I have 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD and configured RAID 1+0 using System BIOS, the BIOS detects usable disk space as 940GB disk space, when i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 on IBMX3200 M3

2011-07-01 Thread John Doe
From: Torintino T torinti...@live.com I tried to setup CentOS 4.7 on IBM X3200 M3 but i couldn't, isn't it compatible? if so what's the CentOS 4 release that's compatible with IBM X3200 M3? and should i install I386 or X86_64? In your server's product guide, you can read: Operating systems

Re: [CentOS] yum update - [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info

2011-06-30 Thread John Doe
From: ken geb...@mousecar.com So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors.  I was able to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop downloading around 1M.  Then I tried ftp... same deal.  This might be the reason for the socket error in yum. When you

[CentOS] yum bug...

2011-06-29 Thread John Doe
Hey, recently I experienced yum bugs on some servers... A simple 'yum update' gives me the yum usage... I noticed a difference between it and a simple 'yum':   # yum udpate   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities   usage: yum [options] COMMAND   # yum   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror,

Re: [CentOS] Mirror URL Times Out

2011-06-15 Thread John Doe
From: Torintino T torinti...@live.com  I am using Centos 4.7, i have an issue when i run yum update, the URL times-out even when i browse it on firefox ...  http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno Works fine here...Maybe try the url with wget and, if they

Re: [CentOS] Compiling PHP and MySQL

2011-06-14 Thread John Doe
From: Dvorkin, Asya dvork...@umdnj.edu Is there a way to find out what are the usual configure options that are used to compile binaries that are available through yum? php -i | grep configure or check from the srpm... JD ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] pam_succeed_if

2011-06-10 Thread John Doe
From: Daniel De Marco d...@bartol.udel.edu auth        required      pam_env.so auth        sufficient    pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass auth        requisite    pam_succeed_if.so uid = 500 quiet auth        required      pam_deny.so What's the use of the pam_succeed_if line? It will only

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