Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Mike McCarty
M. Fioretti wrote: Hi, there is a remote (VPS) Centos 4.2 server which *may* have been compromised. Reinstalling everything from scratch isn't a problem, it may even be an occasion to improve a few things, the question is another. I use rkhunter and chkrootkit. I run them regularly. If you

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Romeo Ninov
Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Marco Fretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, we had the same problem with newer HP pcs and servers (broadcom nics). pxe works well on broadcom, the install not. doesn't matter if you're

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-04 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:22:19PM -0700, MHR wrote: I just got a nice, shiny new machine at work, a Core 2 Duo, on which I ... went and got the latest VMWare Server, 1.0.7, from VMWare, pulled down their rpm, installed it, and ran vmware-config.pl, which is what I have to do (at home) after

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Lanny Marcus wrote: snip However, in the imap.gmail.com folder INBOX.msf file properties, Type is shown as C source code and MIME type is shown as text/x-csrc This is irrelevant, whatever tool you are using to see the type of that file is wrong. If someone on the list can point me to

Re: [CentOS] mysql

2008-09-04 Thread Mad Unix
However, am thinking to do the following mysqlhotcopy --allowold --flushlog -u lt;username --password=lt;password lt;dbname /var/backups/mysql/ or /usr/bin/mysqldump -u -p --all-databases -a /var/backups/mysql/$(date +%Y%m%d).sql tar cf - /var/backups/mysql/$(date +%Y%m%d).sql | gzip

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Romeo Ninov
Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Marco Fretz [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread John R Pierce
Paolo Supino wrote: On the other hand if you were right about it than RHEL/CentOS/Fedora installation would be unsuitable in any multihome configuration because it would map ETH devices differently (albeit once in a while) which means one whould have to swtich the cables because of network

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Paolo Supino
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo, this problem occur only in RHEL/CentOS/other RH based distros and not in Slack, SuSE, Debian, etc. I was not going deeper in the problem, but that is the reality. BTW: You can play with MAC address in incfg files, but

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Romeo Ninov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote / napísal(a): Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd scribbled on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:13 PM: 2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just the blind leading the blind. I've noticed that sometimes only a not-so-new-newbie can

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Romeo Ninov a écrit : Absolute true, but very often newbie ever if find/detect the problem give stupid/dangerous/senseless solution/idea. Reminds me of what happens in Ubuntu forums and the likes on a daily basis. User A: Help! 3D acceleration doesn't work! Compiz no works! User B: Try to

Re: [CentOS] Adding patch to Centos Kernel - early build failure

2008-09-04 Thread Duncan
Tru Huynh wrote Here it goes (testing key signed and not gone through the regular built system): http://people.centos.org/tru/kernel+bz453094/ Cheers, Tru Thank you, thats great. From what i can tell looking at the .spec it is almost identical to the one I have built (although I only

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Romeo Ninov scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:36 AM: 2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just the blind leading the blind. I've noticed that sometimes only a not-so-new-newbie can help another newbie. A pro can sometimes not see the problem from

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:03:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Romeo Ninov scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:36 AM: 2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just the blind leading the blind. I've noticed that sometimes only a not-so-new-newbie can help

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Romeo Ninov
Anne Wilson wrote / napísal(a): On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:03:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Romeo Ninov scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:36 AM: 2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just the blind leading the blind. I've noticed

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:30:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so this list should be kept a bit more professional than the others. I might be touching the zealot/religious angle here. 8-) My opinion is that Ubuntu is to linux what etch-a-sketch is to personal computers. Sort of. ;-)

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:22:11 Romeo Ninov wrote: It's good that a newbie wants to help other newbies.  As for the quality of information, I've seen people who have several years of experience give advice that was true years ago but completely wrong now.  A newbie basing his

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anne Wilson scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:39 AM: On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:30:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so this list should be kept a bit more professional than the others. I might be touching the zealot/religious angle here. 8-) My opinion is that Ubuntu is to

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anne Wilson scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:44 AM: Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great many newbies, which is a real shame. Well said! (That's what I was trying to say initially but didn't quite succeed.) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Anne Wilson a écrit : Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great many newbies, which is a real shame. I wouldn't call it hostility. More in the sense of a polite - and sane - scepticism. There's a French saying which may illustrate this: Hell is paved with

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-04 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:11:26PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 09:38 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008, Ric Moore wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:19 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: For shame! WfW was 3.11, 3.1.1, IIRC

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Niki Kovacs scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:16 PM: So, to answer the question above: IMNSHO, the best advice comes from an expert who *can* think like a newbie. (At work, I usually deal with the opposite paradigm :oD) There is no more dangerous user than a user that knows *a

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:44 AM: Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great many newbies, which is a real shame. Well said! (That's what I was trying to

RE: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I've /never/ seen RHEL/CentOS or any of its predecessors renumber ethernet ports on a working system.. Yeah, I have never seen it renumber either? I've seen it number them backwards, such that eth0 was the port labeled '1' outside the chassis and eth1 was port '0', but it was extremely

[CentOS] swap memory crash

2008-09-04 Thread lingu
Dear all, I am getting below syslog error on my oracle database server running on RHEL4U5. During this time my swap shows zero on both available and free in the top command output , result in total system hang. can any one guide me how to fix this issue of memory and exactly what this error

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: On the other hand if you were right about it than RHEL/CentOS/Fedora installation would be unsuitable in any multihome configuration because it would map ETH devices differently (albeit once in a while) which means one whould have to swtich the

[CentOS] Compiling v6tun from KAME

2008-09-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I need vtun working over IPv6. The version from rpmforge does not seem to support IPv6 (binds to 0.0.0.0:5000 if I specify binding to the interface, and won't let me put in an IPv6 address for address binding). So I was pointed to the KAME (which does not provide any FC/RHEL support. The

Re: [CentOS] Re: Help me

2008-09-04 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 06:36:45PM +0100, Martyn Hare wrote: Top is preferred, it's a standard just like it's a standard to put: Its possible you have only been exposed to a very narrow slice of Internet life. Please see the IETF document RFC-1855 Section 3 3.0 One-to-Many Communication

Re: [CentOS] What is the minimum ISO to build a server?

2008-09-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Florin Andrei a écrit : Often I just use the first CD (out of the regular set of install CDs). http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/centos/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-1of6.iso Choose customize package groups (or whatever is the name of that option) and then unselect all package groups

[CentOS] Nagios 3 RPMs

2008-09-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
Is anyone working on Nagios 3.x RPMs? If not, perhaps I'll whip some up and submit them to some appropriate repository. Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Nagios 3 RPMs

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Geoff Galitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone working on Nagios 3.x RPMs? If not, perhaps I'll whip some up and submit them to some appropriate repository. There are a couple working nagios3 spec files that were passed around on the rpmforge mailing list. It

Re: [CentOS] Adding patch to Centos Kernel - early build failure

2008-09-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tru Huynh wrote Here it goes (testing key signed and not gone through the regular built system): http://people.centos.org/tru/kernel+bz453094/ Cheers, Tru Thank you, thats great. From what i can tell looking at the .spec it

Re: [CentOS] swap memory crash

2008-09-04 Thread nate
lingu wrote: Dear all, I am getting below syslog error on my oracle database server running on RHEL4U5. During this time my swap shows zero on both available and free in the top command output , result in total system hang. can any one guide me how to fix this issue of memory and exactly

Re: [CentOS] Nagios 3 RPMs

2008-09-04 Thread Grant McChesney
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:31 AM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoff Galitz wrote: Is anyone working on Nagios 3.x RPMs? If not, perhaps I'll whip some up and submit them to some appropriate repository. Dag's repository has had them for some time. I haven't tried the binaries, only

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Mike McCarty wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: Hi, there is a remote (VPS) Centos 4.2 server which *may* have been compromised. Reinstalling everything from scratch isn't a problem, it may even be an occasion to improve a few things, the question is another. I use rkhunter and chkrootkit. I run them

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: ... These were the two names mentioned on my yum list, so I updated my yum list (yum -y list yum.list), and I find that neither is present anymore. Both are in the EPEL repository. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10,

Re: [CentOS] mysql

2008-09-04 Thread nate
Mad Unix wrote: However, am thinking to do the following mysqlhotcopy --allowold --flushlog -u lt;username --password=lt;password lt;dbname /var/backups/mysql/ mysqlhotcopy doesn't support InnoDB last I checked(past week). InnoDB is generally the suggested engine to use for MySQL these days,

Re: [CentOS] Nagios 3 RPMs

2008-09-04 Thread nate
Grant McChesney wrote: Are you sure about Dag already offering Nagios 3? I don't see any mention of it on his site: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/nagios/ Your right, sorry bout that, I thought they came from Dag. Looks like they came from OpenSUSE, based on the versioning, I've since

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
mouss wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip The Thunderbird documentation says that it uses mbox files, but if so, where_are_they? Here's what it says: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq#import snip (Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files — one with no extension (e.g. INBOX),

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Charles Campbell
Mogens Kjaer wrote: Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: ... These were the two names mentioned on my yum list, so I updated my yum list (yum -y list yum.list), and I find that neither is present anymore. Both are in the EPEL repository. Mogens OK -- I followed directions as given by:

Re: [CentOS] NFS issues

2008-09-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS developer, Tru, compiled a patched version of regular kernel and is offering it at: http://people.centos.org/tru/kernel+bz453094/ Also, the fix will be in the upcoming kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 according to the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: snip If someone on the list can point me to where the mbox files for Thunderbird on Linux are located, that will be much appreciated. You didn't tell us where you're looking, so I can't be sure... But I suspect you're looking in the right place. I am trying to

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Sep 4, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Charles Campbell wrote: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel- release Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release error: skipping http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release - transfer

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Charles Campbell
Steve Huff wrote: On Sep 4, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Charles Campbell wrote: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release error: skipping

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg ha scritto: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip However, in the imap.gmail.com folder INBOX.msf file properties, Type is shown as C source code and MIME type is shown as text/x-csrc This is irrelevant, whatever tool you are using to see the type of that file is wrong.

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Lanny Marcus wrote: However with IMAP the mail can stay on the server, so unless you tell your MUA to download a copy locally you only see index files. With the Evolution MUA, also using IMAP on gmail.com the mbox files are easily seen. in .evolution I suspect that I should post on a

Re: [CentOS] How to check for rootkit, troians etc in backed up files?

2008-09-04 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Charles Campbell wrote: Mogens Kjaer wrote: Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: ... These were the two names mentioned on my yum list, so I updated my yum list (yum -y list yum.list), and I find that neither is present anymore. Both are in the EPEL repository. OK -- I followed

[CentOS] upstream ipa on centos inside openvz container

2008-09-04 Thread Ivan Levchenko
Hi, I'm trying to install rh ipa server on centos 5.2. i downloaded the srpms and built them on centos 5.2. they installed perfectly (via yum localinstall to handle the dependencies). While going through the ipa-server-install script, while starting, ns-slapd seg faults. i did some digging and

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread mouss
Lanny Marcus wrote: My email is on gmail.com IMAP and yes, If it's on imap, then forget about TB mbox files. the messages are on the server (TB can cache messages, but you are not supposed to know how it exactly does. so don't play this game). I could start over with Thunderbird by

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niki Kovacs scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:16 PM: So, to answer the question above: IMNSHO, the best advice comes from an expert who *can* think like a newbie. (At work, I usually deal with the opposite

Re: [CentOS] Re: Help me

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 06:36:45PM +0100, Martyn Hare wrote: Top is preferred, it's a standard just like it's a standard to put: : I would recommend top posting. : The appropriate solution has already been settled on, and has

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: IMVMHO, having been brand new to CentOS but a long time Linux user and sometimes administrator, delving into the depths of the kernel, returning to the Linux email list world (as an idiot AND a newbie) and now charged in part with porting a major real-life real-time app from FC1

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Tru Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have xinetd installed (not installed by default). rpm -q xinetd || yum install xinetd and re-run vmware-config.pl This is weird - I swear I checked that, and xinetd _was_ installed, but I just checked again and,

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 September 2008 18:04:49 MHR wrote: If you can take the time to scroll down to the bottom of an email to answer it properly (i.e., bottom post), then you can trim it on the way down.  If your email automatically bottom-posts, then I guess you just need to do some courtesy

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Ric Moore
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:15 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: So, to answer the question above: IMNSHO, the best advice comes from an expert who *can* think like a newbie. (At work, I usually deal with the opposite paradigm :oD) That is the Super User. Someone much more advanced than your usual

Re: [CentOS] Configuring an Intel 3945 wireless card: partial success

2008-09-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea why NetworkManager refuses to connect to my network? Niki If I remember, you are using the ipw3945 module. This is being deprecated and replaced by iwl3945. While the new one might not fix your problem, it

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip good advice] Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning! VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're all good for learning! Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how each is managed. Take snapshots

Re: [CentOS] swap memory crash

2008-09-04 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:53 AM, lingu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I am getting below syslog error on my oracle database server running on RHEL4U5. During this time my swap shows zero on both available and free in the top command output , result in total system hang.

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg ha scritto: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip If someone on the list can point me to where the mbox files for Thunderbird on Linux are located, that will be much appreciated. You didn't tell us where you're looking, so I can't be sure... But I suspect

Re: [CentOS] swap memory crash

2008-09-04 Thread nate
John R Pierce wrote: and, for that matter, someone running Oracle in production should have an Oracle support contract, and should work through them. Yeah both right, didn't even think about that.. I'd be pretty scared to run an Oracle DB with a newbie system admin. Not knowing what sort of

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:51 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: In addition, if you use kmail highlighting the section that you want to reply to will give you a clean start with only the appropriate bit copied, like this :-) It doesn't work if you need to intersperse many comments, but where

Re: [CentOS] USB flash drive and VMs (Was Curmudgeoning)

2008-09-04 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:41 PM, David G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until relatively recently. They

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: However with IMAP the mail can stay on the server, so unless you tell your MUA to download a copy locally you only see index files. With the Evolution MUA, also using IMAP on gmail.com the mbox files are easily seen. in .evolution I suspect

Re: [CentOS] OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
mouss wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If it's on imap, then forget about TB mbox files. the messages are on the server (TB can cache messages, but you are not supposed to know how it exactly does. so don't play this game). I now have the mbox files on my hard drive. I think that is the default

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 September 2008 20:02:25 William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:51 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: In addition, if you use kmail highlighting the section that you want to reply to will give you a clean start with only the appropriate bit copied, like this :-) It

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mike McCarty wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip good advice] Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning! VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're all good for learning! Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
Barry Olddog wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation, and it looks like Thinkmate makes what I need -- their vsx virtually silent variety. I hestitate because I wasn't happy with a laptop I bought a few years ago from a small outfit that sold Linux boxes exclusively. Does anyone have

[CentOS] kickstart debug

2008-09-04 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to do some new things with kickstart. I get a message that pops up Could not allocate requested partitions press OK to reboot. How do you go about debugging the kickstart file? How can I pop up information (in text mode) on the screen??? so I can see my values for my partitions.

Re: [CentOS] kickstart debug

2008-09-04 Thread nate
Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying to do some new things with kickstart. I get a message that pops up Could not allocate requested partitions press OK to reboot. How do you go about debugging the kickstart file? How can I pop up information (in text mode) on the screen??? so I can see my values

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread josh donovan
--- On Wed, 3/9/08, Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, 3 September, 2008, 9:08 AM Hi Good People, I've

RE: [CentOS] kickstart debug

2008-09-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I get a message that pops up Could not allocate requested partitions press OK to reboot. Got the clearpart in there? jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 04.09.2008 um 21:36 schrieb Lanny Marcus: Barry Olddog wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation, and it looks like Thinkmate makes what I need -- their vsx virtually silent variety. I hestitate because I wasn't happy with a laptop I bought a few years ago from a small outfit that

[CentOS] Problems making custom isolinux.cfg

2008-09-04 Thread treed
I have added a few custom RPM's to my CentOS 5.2 CD, dropped a kickstart.cfg file in the root of the CD, and now want to change the isolinux.cfg in the boot.iso so that it will automatically do a kickstart install when the CD boots up. I am using buildinstall to make the ISO. I edited the

[CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list

2008-09-04 Thread josh donovan
Hi folks, A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud. This is what he says in broken english - I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million to your account. This

Re: [CentOS] kickstart debug

2008-09-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Jerry Geis wrote: How do you go about debugging the kickstart file? By trying stuff, reading documentation or doing research. You know, community is about give and take and not only taking. I've yet to see *ONE* answer from you, it's always just ask, ask, ask, even with stuff which can easily

Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list

2008-09-04 Thread Ned Slider
josh donovan wrote: Hi folks, A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud. This is what he says in broken english - I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:34 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: snip May I suggest that, if you really want to learn how a Linux system gets put together, and works, then get a copy of Linux from Scratch and build your own? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Well

Re: [CentOS] Compiling v6tun from KAME

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I need vtun working over IPv6. The version from rpmforge does not seem to support IPv6 (binds to 0.0.0.0:5000 if I specify binding to the interface, and won't let me put in an IPv6 address for address binding). So I

Re: [CentOS] Configuring an Intel 3945 wireless card: partial success

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mogens Kjaer a écrit : Take a close look at what gets logged into /var/log/messages Sorry couldn't try this out earlier, as my wife went away for a few days with the laptop. Anyway, here goes. To try it out, I stopped

Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list

2008-09-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
josh donovan wrote: Hi folks, A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud. This is what he says in broken english - I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread Barry Olddog
- Original Message From: Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2008 4:49:02 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate? Am 04.09.2008 um 21:36 schrieb Lanny Marcus: Barry Olddog wrote:

[CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
To this point, whenever I've plugged a storage device (flash drive, mp3 player) into a USB plug, it's magically mounted and I get an icon on my desktop. I've just got a card reader and it doesn't automount. I can mount it manually with mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp and that works fine. I would

Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $ The way things are going, I'd rather have the €'s, preferably in the 50s of millions (Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah - waaah!) mhr {-;

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Barry Olddog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just leery of a maker that I don't know; I searched for reviews and comments, but found almost nothing. Maybe that's telling me something. Isn't Thinkmate a spinoff of IBM? Or am I confused by the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To this point, whenever I've plugged a storage device (flash drive, mp3 player) into a USB plug, it's magically mounted and I get an icon on my desktop. I've just got a card reader and it doesn't automount. I can mount it

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 05.09.2008 um 01:02 schrieb Barry Olddog: - Original Message From: Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2008 4:49:02 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate? Am 04.09.2008 um 21:36 schrieb

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Barry Olddog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just leery of a maker that I don't know; I searched for reviews and comments, but found almost nothing. Maybe that's telling me something. Isn't Thinkmate a spinoff of IBM? Or am I confused by the

Re: [CentOS] OT: workstation recommends: Thinkmate?

2008-09-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 05.09.2008 um 01:47 schrieb MHR: On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Barry Olddog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just leery of a maker that I don't know; I searched for reviews and comments, but found almost nothing. Maybe that's telling me something. Isn't Thinkmate a spinoff of IBM?

[CentOS] Kernel panic installing CentOS 5.2 in Parallels on iMac

2008-09-04 Thread Bart Schaefer
I'm unable to get much past the boot: prompt in the installer. The panic appears to be in powernowk8_init which according to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html has a recently-fixed null-pointer dereference. That errata is from August 4; the latest CentOS install ISOs are from June.

Re: [CentOS] mysql

2008-09-04 Thread Alessandro Ren
| John R Pierce wrote: Mad Unix wrote: I need to replicate MySQL DB of mulltiple server on SiteA to my DR-Site Site_B... all DB are alocated on RHEL,SuSE,Centos,Debian, FreeBSD servers. I need a script to take Multiple MySql DataBase Backup and then import to SiteB, the replica can be done

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:50:08 -0700 MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that a card reader is not a storage device per se and, hence, does not mount until you connect it with a card plugged into it or plug a card into it. I've never used mine any other way, and it always works just fine.

[CentOS] buildinstall cannot find modules

2008-09-04 Thread treed
When using buildinstall and CentOS 5.2 to create my own CD minus a bunch of unneeded RPM's and plus a few of my custom RPM's I find that the install CD that gets build does not install an initrd which renders the system unbootable. I also notice that when I run buildinstall with the -debug option

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have plugged it in with a card already in the reader. As previously stated, I can then mount it manually and read the contents of the card. Actually, you didn't specify in your original post whether or not you had a card

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic installing CentOS 5.2 in Parallels on iMac

2008-09-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to get much past the boot: prompt in the installer. The panic appears to be in powernowk8_init which according to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html has a recently-fixed null-pointer dereference.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:24:46 -0700 MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just going on my own experience here - I have one, older card reader that mounts only when there's a card in it when I plug it in, and I unplug the reader before unplugging the card, too (usually after unmounting it, too).

[CentOS] compiling libarchive

2008-09-04 Thread Mag Gam
Has anyone been able to compile libarchive and archivemount? I want to use this with fuse. The compile is very tough for libarchive, I keep getting c -o tar/bsdtar-util.o `test -f 'tar/util.c' || echo './'`tar/util.c mv -f tar/.deps/bsdtar-util.Tpo tar/.deps/bsdtar-util.Po gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

[CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Last week, I started seeing very strange behavior in one of the networks that I manage. The office LAN uses a Linux firewall which masquerades their workstations over their DSL connection. There are probably ~75 workstations in the office LAN. Their mail server is in a collocated facility

[CentOS] Custom install DVD with new (SB600 chipset Intel network) kernel modules

2008-09-04 Thread Keith Wilkinson
First, congratulations on the fabulous CentOS Wiki. About the only information that I haven't found on it is how to create a custome install DVD with added kernel modules -- e.g. when the standard install DVD does not support the motherboard chipset (SATA drives network cards not recognized, for

RE: [CentOS-docs] potential wiki on encryption

2008-09-04 Thread Chris *
This is a newer version of the proposed whole disk encryption HowTo. I have added a section that attempts to combine the information in http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/EncryptedFilesystem. All information has not been incorporated, but I tried to keep the instructions for having non-root

[CentOS-es] sin acceso a samba desde fuera de la red

2008-09-04 Thread Fred Alexander García Natividad
Buenos días amigos; soy novato en linux y espero que puedan ayudarme. Mi problema es que no puedo acceder desde mi casa a mis archivos compartidos con samba; esto ocurrio luego de realizar una actualización de mi servidor con yum. He revisado la configuración, pense que podía ser el router, pero

Re: [CentOS-es] Squid y ftp

2008-09-04 Thread Enrique Rosario
Saludos. Conrespecto al ftp.proxy y el Frox las ultimas actualizaciones son del 2005. No se me parece como desatendido. No existe otro que este mas actual. -Original Message- From: Carlos Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos-es@centos.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008

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