Re: [CentOS] Backup of large filesystems 500GB

2013-05-27 Thread Mike Watson
, Mike Watson mi...@crucis.net wrote: I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't be FAT32. FAT32 can go to 2TB (you just can't format one that size in windows), but has the 4GB file size limit. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Changing disk UUID after cloning

2013-05-22 Thread Mike McCarthy
*If the disk is in /dev/sda2 then generate a new UUID with uuidgen and apply it with tune2fs myhost # uuidgen b13fddae-a3c3-4d17-8220-7773eb404dec myhost # tune2fs -U b13fddae-a3c3-4d17-8220-7773eb404dec /dev/sda2 Mike * On 05/22/2013 04:12 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Glenn Eychaner wrote: So

Re: [CentOS] Apache stops without evident cause

2013-04-30 Thread Mike Burger
(every 15 minutes) sweep notices that the httpd process is gone and restarts it. This may be a potentially stupid question, but have you looked at your logs? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Burger
in anticiaption of your kind responses to the questions above. You're welcome. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Burger
-- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Burger
On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger mbur...@bubbanfriends.org wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can 1) Check the version of my cent os lsb_release -a From the question, he wants

[CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
to need to change that power.conf file to tell some program that the power button's been pressed, rather than making a call to shutdown, but I haven't been able to figure out what program to which I need to make a call. Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
to make to that file so that it gives a prompt first. I'm guessing that there is a program out there already that will prompt for a shutdown, I just don't know what that program is. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
is logged in. But what about when the workstation is sitting there at the login window? At that point, when the action from power.conf is taken, there is no power manager, so it does the shutdown. I'm wanting to get a prompt in that situation, too. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems

Re: [CentOS] partprobe command showing error

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Burger
Hi, I've created a new partition on /dev/sda on my CentOS machine after which fdisk -l gives output as: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14350028009327+ 83 Linux

Re: [CentOS] partprobe command showing error

2013-04-17 Thread Mike Burger
Not on the boot disk. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 Thanks for the reply... But isn't it true that if I use partprobe command, I don't need

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread Mike Burger
Mondo? http://www.mondorescue.org -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 Does anybody here have any idea how to make an exact copy of a drive that has LVM

Re: [CentOS] OT: A lightweight monitor software

2013-03-15 Thread Mike Burger
I'm liking Xymon, quite a bit. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 Hi all, I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm

Re: [CentOS] SSL Certificate

2013-03-11 Thread Mike McCarthy
a permanent exception so it will never complain again. Other servers that make connections to deliver mail with STARTTLS generally don't care. Mike On 03/11/2013 07:05 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear All This is my continuation of postfix setup. Following link http://campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php

Re: [CentOS] What can I do to UNDERSTAND why I can't reach centos.org (but everyone else can)?

2013-03-01 Thread Mike Easter
in default ICMP mode, all but the last will ICMP traceroute. The last one needs tcptraceroute. traceroute is not the best tool for some purposes. All but the last of those will ping ICMP. -- Mike Easter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Is 6.4 out?

2013-02-27 Thread Mike Burger
Talk about timing. LOL Just 50 minutes ago, Johnny Hughes sent out an email about 6.4 packages in the Continual Release repo, noting that testing still has to be done before making a full-on CentOS 6.4 release. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Mike Burger
Then there is the actual update. I learned long ago NOT to run yum over an SSH connection, as WHEN that connection breaks in the middle of an update, you can have quite a problem to clean up. All I have done todate is to start vncserver and connect via vnc to then run yum. I can even drop

Re: [CentOS] Problem with installing 'kerberos'

2013-02-19 Thread Mike Burger
I'm trying : ' yum -y install krb5-workstation ', but I get : Error Download packages no more mirrors to try And can't find a solution by searching... Could be your yum cache is hosed up. Try yum clean all and then try again. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Bugtracker: how to give up on an issue?

2013-02-16 Thread Mike Burger
Tilman: Just log into to Bugtracker, go to the open request, and mark it closed. You should also be able to take yourself off of the list of folks watching the bug, so that you stop getting emails regarding the bug in question. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide

Re: [CentOS] Really changing the hostname

2013-02-14 Thread Mike Burger
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 02/14/2013 01:13 PM, Digimer wrote: On 02/14/2013 01:11 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I need to change the host name on a test server, and in the past when I used hostname to change the hostname, it did not seem to change it

Re: [CentOS] About DNS service

2013-02-11 Thread Mike Burger
Have you configured your BIND installation to answer requests for domain.com? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 I've followed these commands

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble updating glibc on Centos 6.3

2013-01-21 Thread Mike Burger
is that you're trying to install an RPM that was built for OpenSuSe and not for CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora. My suggestion would be to try to install one of the versions that was built for Fedora 14/15, or download and rebuild the src.rpm for one of those versions against your system. -- Mike Burger http

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble updating glibc on Centos 6.3

2013-01-21 Thread Mike Burger
Thanks for the idea. That rpm seems to get me closer but I get: Setting up Install Process Examining /root/Downloads/gammu-1.32.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm: gammu-1.32.0-1.2.x86_64 Marking /root/Downloads/gammu-1.32.0-1.2.x86_64.rpm to be installed Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail logs?

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Burger
. As a result, it's likely that CentOS does the same. One can install an alternate MTA if they like, but the stock install of CentOS drops Postfix on the system as the MTA. Sendmail is no longer the default MTA installed by upstream or CentOS. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail logs?

2013-01-15 Thread Mike Burger
Doesn't really matter, though...Sendmail logs via syslog, and syslog usually defaults, on a RH/CentOS system, to /var/log/maillog. Double check /etc/rsyslog.log to be sure. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just

Re: [CentOS] sysctl -p at startup?

2013-01-08 Thread Mike Burger
at some other point and i get to find out all about SoftMAC and its scanning ways https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760497 Mike: Just on a hunch, check your /etc/rsyslog.conf file and look for: # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. kern

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 as Firewall/Router

2013-01-04 Thread Mike McCarthy
Why not try reconfiguring using /usr/bin/system-config-firewall-tui instead of a manually created configuration. Mike On 01/04/2013 12:01 PM, Tim Evans wrote: I'm replacing an ancient Solaris 'ipf' firewall/router with a brand new CentOS 6.3 system. In the olden days, I successfully used

Re: [CentOS] Help Getting Postfix relaying via Gmail

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Burger
Check this tutorial: http://charlesa.net/tutorials/centos/centosgmail.php -- Eero, RHCE Eero, How do you work around the issue of Google/Gmail rewriting your From email address to your gmail address when relaying via Gmail? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide

Re: [CentOS] Help Getting Postfix relaying via Gmail

2012-12-27 Thread Mike Burger
2012/12/27 Mike Burger mbur...@bubbanfriends.org: Check this tutorial: http://charlesa.net/tutorials/centos/centosgmail.php -- Eero, RHCE Eero, How do you work around the issue of Google/Gmail rewriting your From email address to your gmail address when relaying via Gmail? Well

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7 eth0, eth1 and arpwatch flip flops

2012-12-26 Thread Mike Burger
-- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 Dear all, Has anyone experienced this whilst running DRBD over eth1 between two CentOS 5.7 servers? eth1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7 eth0, eth1 and arpwatch flip flops

2012-12-26 Thread Mike Burger
On 12/26/2012 04:33 AM, Mike Burger wrote: 169.xxx.xxx.xxx is most certainly a routable IP block, as far as internet standards go. Most of 169/8 is, but presumably he meant 169.254.0.0/16. The only non-routable (i.e. reserved for private networks) IP blocks are: The list is slightly

Re: [CentOS] Question: How to utilize multi-core CPUs

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Watson
Thank you. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Question: How to utilize multi-core CPUs

2012-12-23 Thread Mike Watson
I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a quad-four box. The model only indicated dual core but CentOS is telling me there are four. This is the first multi-core Linux installation I've had. What is the best way to utilize the multi-core CPUs? I'd like to distribute the load but I'm unsure how to do that.

Re: [CentOS] Question: How to utilize multi-core CPUs

2012-12-23 Thread Mike Watson
, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:22:52 -0600 Mike Watson wrote: The model only indicated dual core but CentOS is telling me there are four. Hyperthreading, where two physical cores are split into four virtual cores. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Watson
Thank you. That worked. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/06/2012 02:52 PM, Mike Watson wrote: Ahh. OK, I'll make the change and post the results. :-[ mw -- Lose

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Watson
://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/07/2012 11:00 AM, Mike Watson wrote: Thank you. That worked. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 12/06/2012 02:52

[CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Watson
Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created /etc/sysconfig/desktop and entered $DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being used. Any other suggestions? mw Just create the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Watson
]; then preferred=/usr/bin/kdm Which will be used in starting kdm :) On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Mike Watson wrote: Sorry to be so slow in responding. I've done what you suggested. I created /etc/sysconfig/desktop and entered $DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. I rebooted but there was no change. GDM is still being

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-01 Thread Mike Watson
The last reply to this subject said to modify /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change GDM to KDM. This would then enable the KDE login screen instead of the default Gnome. However, when I checked my CentOS 6.3 system, there was no such file, no /etc/sysconfig/desktop. I've not been able to find any

Re: [CentOS] Possible repo polllution

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Burger
located in the 32bit repo directories...they're not usually intermingled in the actual download directories, last I checked. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1

Re: [CentOS] Possible repo polllution

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Burger
On 11/30/2012 09:13 AM, Mike Burger wrote: From: Tony Molloy tony.mol...@ul.ie Is this a case a repo pollution, it can't be necessary to have i386 packages in the x86_64 updates. Just checking before I delete these packages. You need them to run i386 apps on a x86_64. JD True, but i386

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

2012-11-19 Thread Mike Burger
running Apache on your desktops? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

2012-11-19 Thread Mike Burger
Order allow,deny Allow from all /Limit LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS Order deny,allow Deny from all /LimitExcept /Directory The Directory directive pointing at /home/*/public_html is likely your issue. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dont work

2012-11-15 Thread Mike McCarthy
/documentation.html thoroughly. Mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mdX and mismatch_cnt when building an array

2012-11-15 Thread Mike V
Steve Thompson smt@... writes: CentOS 6.3, x86_64. I have noticed when building a new software RAID-6 array on CentOS 6.3 that the mismatch_cnt grows monotonically while the array is building: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md11 : active raid6 sdg[5]

Re: [CentOS] Issue installing Centos server on Vmware Fusion/Server

2012-10-31 Thread Mike Burger
that VMP tries to use, and then uses the ISO I want it to use. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] full image backup

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Burger
Hi every body I am a new centos user. I installed centos 6 on my laptop and add some software to it. How can I create a full image (boot able) back up of it. ( some thing like windows full image backup). please help! Mondo Rescue! http://www.mondorescue.org/

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

2012-10-25 Thread Mike Burger
if someone plans on running an attended, periodic update. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

2012-10-25 Thread Mike Burger
I am about to set up a computer with Centos 6 that I'll probably never see again. I don't want to give out the root password, but I would like to have it automatically and transparently update itself. What is the best way to do this? I have been looking at webpages about yum-cron and

Re: [CentOS] list of websites visited through centos

2012-10-18 Thread Mike Burger
on this. How to achieve this. Take a look at squid proxy server (http://www.squid-cache.org/) and squidguard (http://www.squidguard.org/). Both are available in the CentOS repositories. Dansguardian is pretty good, as well, and also works in conjunction with Squid. -- Mike Burger http

Re: [CentOS] About email

2012-10-12 Thread Mike Burger
the domains for which it should be accepting mail. Have you configured Postfix for this? What does postconf -d show you for mydomain, mydestination and relay_domains? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops

Re: [CentOS] Setting PS1 for ordinary users

2012-10-11 Thread Mike Burger
-- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore. --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1 On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:48:23PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: To clarify the situation. The ONLY difference

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Watson
I'll try that and let you know. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 05:15 PM, Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:51:17 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: Login

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Watson
According to xorg.0.log, it's seeing the EDID fine. All the info was there. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/09/2012 04:25 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot pam issues (Resolved)

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 04:51 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Mike Watsonmi...@crucis.net However, another user on the same system works! User bob was the one I created on the initial CentOS install, joe

[CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've a nagging problem that I'm trying to fix---the screen resolution changes. I've a flat screen monitor that has 1600x900 capability. However when I logout and then log back in the resolution changes to 1280x1024. When I looked at the xorg.conf.d

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
is an empty directory. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 12:38 PM, Nux! wrote: On 08.10.2012 18:20, Mike Watson wrote: I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Frank Coxthea...@melvilletheatre.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:52:18 -0500 Mike Watson wrote: My previous box, Fedora 7 used Xorg but I can't find the Xorg.conf file for 6.3. All I've found so far

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 01:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 8. October 2012. 12.52.18 Mike Watson wrote: On 10/08/2012 12:38 PM, Nux! wrote: On 08.10.2012 18:20, Mike Watson wrote: I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 01:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 8. October 2012. 12.52.18 Mike Watson wrote: On 10/08/2012 12:38 PM, Nux! wrote: On 08.10.2012 18:20, Mike Watson wrote: I've installed CentOS 6.3 on a new system. I've a nagging

Re: [CentOS] X/Display resolution configuration

2012-10-08 Thread Mike Watson
retained---only for the duration of that session. mw -- Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rises up and smites thee. -- William Kershner http://crucis-court.com http://www.crucis.net/1632search On 10/08/2012 04:19 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Monday, 8. October 2012. 15.54.19 Mike

Re: [CentOS] dropbox

2012-10-05 Thread Mike Burger
suggest to ask this here: https://forums.dropbox.com/ Or, one could simply search google for linux and dropbox...the first hit takes one to https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http

[CentOS] Dovecot pam issues

2012-10-05 Thread Mike Watson
I'm replacing my old Fedora 7 mail server with a new one running CentOS6.3. The old server uses plain-text logins and password for pop3 and IMAP. I'm unable to get dovecot to authenticate. It's failing the password check. Trying 192.168.1.50... Connected to orion (192.168.1.50). Escape

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread mike thompson
yum install ntfs-3g On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest. SELinux is enforcing and VM network is

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-27 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 10:34 AM, Vanhorn, Mike michael.vanh...@wright.edu wrote: I have two HP dc7800 convertible minitowers that are exhibiting the following issue: every 5-10 minutes, they will freeze for about 30 seconds, and then pick right back up again. During the freeze, it seems that nothing at all

[CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-27 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
... --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanh...@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
my step-by-step configuration until I notice the problem occurring. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanh...@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
boot in runlevel 3, i.e. without X? Yes. I was thinking it maybe had something to do with the graphics card, so I left it in runlevel 3, but the problem still persisted. It still may be the graphics card, though, come to think of it, so I may need to try taking it out. --- Mike VanHorn Senior

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 12:07 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: Do you have the latest BIOS? Yes. Did you get a CD to run tests (like Insight Diagnostics Offline)? Yes, I used my copy of the UBCD to run memory and hard drive diagnostics, and both passed. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems

Re: [CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-26 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 7/25/12 12:22 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: Hi Mike. Are you on 32 or 64 bits ? 64. I have thought of trying 32 bit, just to see if it made a difference, but if it does, that won't help me because we need 64 bits for the software we're running, anyway. --- Mike VanHorn Senior

[CentOS] problem with machine freezing for short periods

2012-07-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
to go back to 5.2, where the pci=nommconf is necessary, because at least back that far it appears to have been working for other people. However, I really would like to have this running 5.8. Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science

Re: [CentOS] OT - Is there a package to monitor network traffic

2012-06-14 Thread Mike McCarthy
How about tcpdump? Mike On 06/14/2012 01:07 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: We have a situation here that is a real mystery. Our MRTG on our outgoing router and a firewall server that protects our web servers is showing a spike every six hours. I can't find the server behind the firewall

Re: [CentOS] question for those who run mail servers

2012-05-31 Thread Mike Burger
and password, presumably you're allowing them to relay email, as long as they've authenticated. The iPhone provides that functionality with little effort required to configure. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http://dogpound2

Re: [CentOS] DKIM Pass - Fail

2012-05-02 Thread Mike Burger
) Yahoo appears to think that your timestamp is off by some amount of time in the future. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http://dogpound2.citadel.org https://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site

Re: [CentOS] Removing LVM

2012-04-09 Thread Mike Burger
James, From what you've written above, I don't see where you removed the LVs or the physical volumes from the LVM setup, using the LVM tools. If you want to remove the disk from LVM, that would be the proper way to go about doing so. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound

Re: [CentOS] SMTP Port 465 - Postfix

2012-03-30 Thread Mike McCarthy
like ATT wireless with my smart phone. Just make a copy of the standard smtp line, call it smtp-alt, then define smtp-alt to the port you want in /etc/services. Mike On 03/30/2012 10:51 AM, Prabhpal S. Mavi wrote: Greetings Dear Friends ! i have Postfix Running On CentOS 6.2 x86_64, TLS/SASL

Re: [CentOS] Reason for high load on CentOS

2012-03-25 Thread Mike Burger
First and foremost...top is your friend. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http://dogpound2.citadel.org https://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.8 broke sshd on IPv4

2012-03-14 Thread Mike McCarthy
Yes, that is it. I just commented the ListenAddress lines with # and let it use defaults which seems to make it listen on all networks again. Mike On 03/14/2012 05:13 AM, Maarten van Ingen wrote: Hi, I have seen this very same issue. We had the the option ListenAddress set

[CentOS] Upgrade to 5.8 broke sshd on IPv4

2012-03-13 Thread Mike McCarthy
this? Any recommendations on tracking this down? Thanks, Mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Running processes

2012-03-08 Thread Mike Burger
8 CPUs (or cores), and these standard processes are being started on a 1 per core basis. I have a quad-core proc, and have 4 of each of those processes (0-3). -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http://dogpound2.citadel.org

Re: [CentOS] yum update stuck...

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Burger
even perform an orderly shutdown -r. I wound up hard booting, during which /tmp was fsck'd, clearing a fair number of orphaned inodes, and my yum update ran just fine after that. Just a thought. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Burger
filesystem layer. The fsck tool has no hooks to deal with the physical layer. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http://dogpound2.citadel.org https://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

2012-02-17 Thread Mike VanHorn
FWIW, on some of my workstations, when I have gotten the sector pending messages, I have been able to take the drive out and run the manufacturer's diagnostics on it (in my case, Seatools), and that fixed some things and I haven't had any issues since. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems

Re: [CentOS] SSD Drives

2012-02-02 Thread Mike
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, William Warren wrote: On 2/2/2012 1:19 PM, Matt wrote: Has anyone installed a high I/O application such as an email server on SSD drives? Was thinking about doing two SSD's in RAID1. It would solve my I/O latency issues but I have heard that SSD's wear out quickly in

Re: [CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Burger
Vreme: 12/17/2011 05:43 AM, Mike Burger piše: Hi, Matt. Sorry for the top post, but my iPad mail client seems averse to allowing me to bottom post. Just wanted to take a moment to note that I believe you've got things a little bit reversed. The use Of the route-ethX files and the ip

Re: [CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Burger
Vreme: 12/17/2011 05:43 AM, Mike Burger piše: Hi, Matt. Sorry for the top post, but my iPad mail client seems averse to allowing me to bottom post. Just wanted to take a moment to note that I believe you've got things a little bit reversed. The use Of the route-ethX files and the ip

Re: [CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Burger
Hi, Matt. Sorry for the top post, but my iPad mail client seems averse to allowing me to bottom post. Just wanted to take a moment to note that I believe you've got things a little bit reversed. The use Of the route-ethX files and the ip command are the newer method. Setting the NETMASK and

[CentOS] iscsid still starting up after turning it off

2011-12-09 Thread Mike VanHorn
and the ones where iscsid doesn't start), which seems to indicate, I think, that it is listed as a service twice. How can I tell from whence iscsid is starting, even after it's been turned off? Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright

Re: [CentOS] ip command

2011-11-18 Thread Mike Burger
of 255.255.252.0), the broadcast will actually be 10.1.23.255. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update

Re: [CentOS] Where is source address info of a route kept?

2011-11-16 Thread Mike Burger
as secondary. The routing subsystem is using the primary IP as the source. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman

[CentOS] questions about epil repo

2011-11-10 Thread mike and bud
hi, I installed the epil repo and imported the key but everytime i try to install a package from epil Public key for proftpd-1.3.3f-1.el6.i686.rpm is not installed I get this with evry package i try to install using centos 6 i686 ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] questions about epil repo

2011-11-10 Thread mike and bud
yes. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ljubomir Ljubojevic Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:54 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] questions about epil repo Vreme: 11/10/2011 03:46 PM, mike and bud piše: hi

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread Mike VanHorn
On 11/8/11 4:31 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:41:22PM -0500, Mike VanHorn wrote: How can I restrict access to a system based on NIS netgroups? Change nsswitch.conf so that it reads passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis And then in /etc/passwd

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread Mike VanHorn
Harris did work, but I'm puzzled as to why this isn't. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanh...@wright.edu http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~mvanhorn

Re: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Burger
of standing up, and installed Squirrelmail from the install media. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site

[CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-08 Thread Mike VanHorn
is still able to login. It appears that the access.conf is being ignored completely, so I'm thinking there's something I'm missing. How can I restrict access to a system based on NIS netgroups? Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science

Re: [CentOS] Cannot start SSH at boot

2011-09-01 Thread Mike Burger
that I've identified that, giving the proper command [1] fixed the issue. Thanks. [1] chkconfig --level 5 sshd on Or, to simplify things and enable it for all applicable multi-user runlevels, just run: chkconfig sshd on -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Mike
Perhaps the most important point here is that the script kiddies and/or bots usually make sure the target string, 'login' in your example is *not* contained within a single packet. You can verify this with wireshark. In any case just be aware that your solution will likely not have the

[CentOS] updating 5.6 but not going to 6.0

2011-08-25 Thread Mike VanHorn
I'm confused as to how to install updates for CentOS 5.6 without upgrading to 6.0. When I do a yum check-updates, the new *-release packages for 6.0 are listed, so I don't think I want to do a simply yum update. Is there a way to update 5.6 without going to 6.0? --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer

Re: [CentOS] help with gpg

2011-08-21 Thread Mike
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: Under Centos 5 I ran this command: gpg --passphrase-file /home/myuser/pass_phrase.txt -c ../Versions/program.x86_64.tgz and this worked fine. On CentOS 6 running the same command prompts me for the passphrase. Thats exactly what I dont want to have

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