[CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
Hi CentOS experts,* Short Version* I would like to produce a weekly report in HTML for each CentOS 5.x server we have indicating configuration compliance with some industry benchmark. I am looking for a tool or tools to implement this, I am happy to use 3rd party proprietary stuff if

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On 02/02/12 00:04, Kwan Lowe wrote: Next was auditing, which I think may apply to your question. For the configurations, we are experimenting with cfengine and puppet. They allow you to track configuration changes, reset changes, etc.. I've also used CVS to track configuration files

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On 02/02/12 00:26, Les Mikesell wrote: Is anyone looking at salt instead of puppet yet? http://saltstack.org/ I had such a bad experience with puppet, that I ran like a jilted teenage lover on a rebound into the arms of chef... unfortunately I may not have reviewed all the options

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In the past this was my partition scheme: Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) /boot = 200MB swap =  1024MB (1GB) /var = 20480MB (20GB) /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) /usr =

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Hinton webmas...@ew3d.com wrote: On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Mattersimon.mat...@invoca.ch  wrote: from http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86

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

2011-08-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP I got:        iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 uname -a =  2.6.35.4 #2  (don't know how

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31652 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lucian wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:25 PM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: When did they change/lose their name? I was trying to go there here at work, and the site was blocked. I put in a ticket, and get a response that I may have been

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:04 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/25/11 2:58 PM, Craig White wrote: some of us have moved to ubuntu/deb but I think the real reason is... http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2010-November/018282.html I saw that when I was perusing the mail

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:39 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: no -- it was off topic noise, not a WAG -- speculation and randon attempts at entertainment do not belong or matter here, any more than Roth's failure to google and read the back archives of the proper mailing lists did

Re: [CentOS] stupid question about kickstart file

2011-08-19 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Boot from the DVD/ISO, press tab at the first install screen, and point to your ks file with ks=,,,. Right, but that doesn't answer his question. The op does not have ip connectivity:

Re: [CentOS] stupid question about kickstart file

2011-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 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.? examples? ftp/http/dhcp is not possible due to network limitations. I do

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate the installations as I did for CentOS 5 using

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, ping, tracert, dig

Re: [CentOS] offline root lvm resize

2011-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Sean Hart teve...@gmail.com wrote: Finally figured it out, took me a good part of the day but.. For some reason the device names of the raid arrays where changed md0 became md126 and md1 became md127. this all must have happened while in fedora 15 livecd. I

Re: [CentOS] centos6 xen

2011-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:44:18AM -0400, Tom H wrote: That blaming CentOS for the switch to KVM and the deprecation of Xen doesn't make sense since it's simply re-rpm'ing RHEL. Ok, that makes sense and I fully agree

Re: [CentOS] centos6 xen

2011-07-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Peltonen peter.pelto...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:56 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:53:23AM +0200, Juergen Gotteswinter

Re: [CentOS] centos6 xen

2011-07-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:41 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:27:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: 2. A so-called Enterprise Operating System like RHEL. And your gratuitous edit of this point serves what purpose exactly? That blaming CentOS for the switch

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? When I try to boot the Live ISO it starts to do

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Trey Dockendorf treyd...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo.  This works just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored.  I have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet zabbix

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

2011-07-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/23/11 12:09 PM, Tom H wrote: Even after this explanation I don't understand your objection to helping someone with a firewall and routing issue on a CentOS box. You might have a point if the executables didn't

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 stephen.jamieson@navy.mil wrote: Those options are no longer supported in GDM. I think that they were removed with GDM 2.24 (at the latest, probably 2.22) and C6 is running GDM 2.30. That is unfortunate... I suppose

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Friday, July 22, 2011 02:10:22 PM Tom H wrote: You can use sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --set --type=boolean true because the gdm user controls the login screen but the above works too

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

2011-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:02 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/23/11 10:22 AM, Kristopher Kane wrote: this sort of thing really belongs on an iproute2/netfilter mail list, however, as its not at all centos specific. So John, exactly what is CentOS specific?  Should I only

Re: [CentOS] kickstart ksdevice in centos6

2011-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I have a line in my kickstart file (ksdevice) # Network information network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on # Default network to boot ksdevice=eth0 # Auto reboot (to being next install faze) reboot

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Friday, July 22, 2011 12:22:31 PM Gerhard Schneider wrote: Using gdm is getting harder and harder but you can try: gconftool-2 --direct \   --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \   --type bool --set

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 stephen.jamieson@navy.mil wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: fred smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as In later Fedora releases, GDM has become

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michael Schumacher michael.schumac...@pamas.de wrote: There is no GNOME Desktop Environment group. Check with yum grouplist and you will see. And even installing KDE Desktop won't help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't have

Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: Fedora 12-15 for example need more space on boot partition (500MB is I am not mistaken) and CentOS5/Fedora6 only needed 100MB. F12-F15 need a larger /boot for the preupgrade tool (to upgrade from one version to the

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Louis Lagendijk lo...@lagendijk.xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 22:13 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? How are you mounting

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? How are you mounting the export? If you're not trying it from within Terminal, does it work from within it? The OS X firewall dos not appear to be a factor.

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: As Tom mentioned, you need the insecure exports option on the NFS server side, otherwise I don't do anything special on the client. I'm sourcing the automount maps through LDAP. Try mounting via IP address rather than

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-06-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain yet

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line. To boot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use. In fact, it's sort

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: those days will be over soon as even fedora has now switched to upstart CentOS 7 (based on upstream 7) will be a vastly different beast CentOS 7 will most probably have systemd not upstart.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:47 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Or edit /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3, or just init 3 from the command line (which you can reach via ctrlalt-f1) or I think you can append 3 to the kernel line... That doesn't work on Debian/Ubuntu because runlevels 2-5 are the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for Ubuntu. I don't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use. In fact, it's sort of refreshing to set up a new server that isn't overloaded with bloat from the very start. Setting up a new VMWare image w/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line. To boot into everything but X, you can append text to the kernel (grub1) or linux (grub2) line in the grub configuration.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Craig White wrote: heck it's still Linux and pretty much the same. Red Hat went far too long between releases and it is clear to me that I can't possibly rely on CentOS for timeliness. Timeliness, dunno. Ubuntu (or fedora) for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Odd you should mention it - a friend on a techie mailing list just tried to set up dual-boot XP w/ ubuntu, and had all *kinds* of grief, dunno if she just

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yeah, but some people appear to think (or at least that was what I got from the post of the guy I was replying to) that fedora is good enough for production. That was me. Using fedora isn't my choice but it's been running fine for the

Re: [CentOS] Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!

2011-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:53 PM, RILINDO FOSTER rili...@me.com wrote: On May 30, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Tom H wrote: Are the values of Domain in /etc/idmapd.conf the same on the client and the server? FYI: For nfsv4, there's no need to have any ports other than 111 and 2049. (Are you using

Re: [CentOS] Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!

2011-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM, RILINDO FOSTER rili...@me.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Tom H wrote: I was asking about Domain in idmapd.conf because there might be a difference between CentOS 5 and SL 6. It is actually commented out in SL6. There you go. Comment it out on CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!

2011-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM, RILINDO FOSTER rili...@me.com wrote: After getting a reasonably configured NFS4 setup working on my Scientific Linux server, I spent a majority of my evening trying to do the same with my Centos 5 box, with fruitless results. Most attempts to mount that

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/18/11 5:05 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Tom, you are way off the point I was making. RHEL, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, all other distro's are *developed* and can change at any time. That's why I said he should've

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/15/2011 06:10 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Where is Ubuntu telling people exactly where they stand on producing a their new releases. What about Red Hat ... how about Fedora. I don't know

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Saturday, May 14, 2011 01:30 AM, Craig White wrote: CentOS has always been a take it or leave it proposition and thus nothing has really changed except that many businesses have become reliant upon

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-05-08 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:19 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:34:54PM -0400, Tom H wrote: If CentOS had a communication policy, it could spare itself these types of articles... No.  These types of articles will continue to appear whether

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:06 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:27:16PM +0100, Ian Murray wrote: Maybe having it said so publicly and be such a respected Linux community member may help certain people wake up and smell the coffee. Respected?  I can't

Re: [CentOS] KVM problem after update to 5.6

2011-04-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Riccardo Veraldi riccardo.vera...@cnaf.infn.it wrote: Hello, after updating to Cents 5.6 and so to kvm-83-224 my KVM virtual machines qemu qcow2 based images do not start anymore. Looking at VM console the error message is that VM media is not bootable.

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6 From

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de  wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: STOP IT! Take a few deep breaths! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Good ... if you don't like CentOS, then we do not want you to use it. For people who do like it, we do want you to use it. What we do not want is for people to think that they have a Service Level Agreement with CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is another example) because it makes the developers look like rank amateurs

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: Tom H wrote: It's the second time that I point out that the CentOS communication policy (if you there is one) is completely unprofessional. You can let off steam by saying we're volunteers, so we can tell you to use

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Hendrik hendrik.stew...@hotmail.com wrote: Or is that the Indian mentality? I hope that you're banned for this racist comment. (And as an added bonus, we'll be rid of someone who's making a mess of message threading and the mail archive.)

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Russell Jones rjo...@eggycrew.com wrote: Thank you! If forcing it to stop system-wide is not possible, is there any way of forcing IPv4 lookups to occur first then? You're welcome. In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:46:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote: In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when specifying ipv4 transport (-4). Umm, no.  The transport protocol is irrelevant to the query

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Russell Jones rjo...@eggycrew.com wrote: I am having a strange issue with CentOS 5.4 that I cannot seem to solve. Every DNS lookup results in records being requested first before A records. As a result, this causes a large amount of unnecessary DNS

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sam Trenholme strenholme.use...@gmail.com wrote: As an open-source developer, I understand the frustration of working hard and having a lot of freeloaders not appreciating my work. I feel people posting here talking about how unprofessional CentOS is acting

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files and slightly different locations for some config files. It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make sense to me

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files and slightly different locations for some config files. It's not

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglieno n...@viglieno.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't see anything. I think having some

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: It's a matter of personal taste, but I find more useful the -X (or - --exclude-from) option Yes, personal taste, but in crontab confusing not seeing the excludes and besides that it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast as we possibly can? What, exactly, is the problem here? You have my permission to use something else. Does that help? Good answer! :)

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: Let's face it most auditors these days are just accountants with Infosys Mgmt text books. Or former sysadmins who didn't make it in the management track but still wanted to be able to lord it over others...

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Saturday, February 12, 2011 09:02 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: Anyway, neither in windows nor in unix/linux you want to specify permissions on a per user level. Always groups. If the user leaves the

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 20:42 Robert Heller wrote At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi :) On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi s.c...@terabit.org.uk wrote: As you know, $HOME is generally located at /home/$username by default. I would like to re-locate all users' $HOME directories to something like

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: The key to *keeping* it off in RHEL 6, and I assume in CentOS 6

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: You clearly work in an insecure environment. By who's definition? The fact that you're PC is connected to the internet place you in the same environment

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security incident. It beggars my belief You now publicly declare that your company not just advocates the sharing of passwords, but certainly

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair bonding and bridges. It

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people actually work for money and need to address client issues then I'm sure your colleagues won't be please if you make them loose all their work just to be

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with something right now. And I'm not talking about administrative access. Sure, I can access any PC via root login, and frankly for that matter I can also

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: Yes but someone's posted a global gconftool-2 recipe. Run gconf-editor as root and you can edit the global mandatory rules too. Very true, as long as you can run a GUI app as root

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if it's been improved or

Re: [CentOS] nic bonding

2011-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, John Horne john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:05 +1300, Smithies, Russell wrote: I've just setup nic bonding on our server (DL585-G7 running Centos 5.5 x86_64) as detailed on the wiki:

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Philix T A philixli...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Dont create RAID for swap and / root partition (Not Advisable) Any rationale for this bad advice? 3) Swap Size size should be 2X the size of the Physical memory For a desktop, maybe. 6) My experience had always

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have sudo.i386    1.7.2p1-9.el5_5 installed I am using the same sudoers file, but the one on box A keeps trying to do DNS

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 12/10/2010 10:40 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have sudo.i386

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:34 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:16 +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly.  Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/8/2010 4:04 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: iptables is a de-facto standard on all Linux distributions nowadays.  It is not ratified by ISO, IETF or similar ... but how does that make the real life scenario any

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Ryan Wagoner wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 address, which complicates a number of protocols like FTP and

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
Rinaldo wrote: On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote:     b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC address

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: Trim your quotes. LOL I was in a hurry... I think that this applies to all in this thread so I hope that you've email everyone else... Also, please keep your commands on-list; I only caught your email because

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:32:32 am Tom H wrote: Is 172.16.10.72 a private address of yours or of your ISP? More to the point; do you have a route to his address? I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:27 AM, David Sommerseth d...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), Haven't switched yet, I have IPv6 at home using sixxs. I can't even figure out what address ranges

Re: [CentOS] Converting to Raid1

2010-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:59, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it?  Anyone have a link? Would be open to

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