[CentOS] busybox for centos

2010-02-05 Thread premrajm
Hi, I am trying to build busybox for the centos-5.3,but facing issues in installing the busybox executable into the centos filesystem. Is it possible to build a busybox for a server platform (x86) with centos. Thanks and Regards, Premraj Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 05:20 +0100 schrieb Dan Burkland: Hey All, Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to authenticate against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to complete this particular setup however I have run into some difficulties

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 19:31 +0100 schrieb Alan McKay: It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least something

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Geoff Galitz
In (HPC) clustering pdsh is very popular. It's available in .tgz with spec-file and rebuilds nicely on c5 with rpmbuild -tb ... https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh.html Coming from the HPC world I've been a long time PDSH user. I believe it is available in rpmforge, so there is no

[CentOS] /etc/ldap.conf pam_filter

2010-02-05 Thread Nobody ist perfect
Hi, we use an openldap server / samba as domain controller for our windows/linux workstations. on a specific server, login should only be allowed, if the certain user is member of a group (let's call this group login). All the users in the domain are members of the group Domain Users. Therefore

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
On 4 February 2010 21:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: For pure RHEL/Centos/Fedora environments (especially centos/rhel) I can recommend Spacewalk for any reasonable number of systems (20+) for the combination of package management, configuration management and kickstart management... Has it

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, On 2/4/2010 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: What do you mean? Forwarding to the virtuser expansion address should work just like any other address. It sounds like he didn't forward before, but queue and deliver (e.g. he's the only available MX and queues for a firewalled MX or

[CentOS] About the openfire question ~

2010-02-05 Thread Majian
Hi, guys: Would anyone know what causes this error message ? It's not the first time I've seen it but is the first time I've seen it so often. openfire verison is 3.6.4 . at org.apache.mina.filter.executor.ExecutorFilter$ProcessEventsRunnable.run(Execut orFilter.java:283) at

Re: [CentOS] pls help about changing network card but assign to another ethx

2010-02-05 Thread linux-crazy
Hi, Thoght of sharing this with u will be handy I was upgrading my workstation yesterday, only the case and harddisks remained the same. Almost everything went well, even new init ramdisk wasn't required, but I was stuck on networking for a while. And the problem was called eth0_rename. After

[CentOS] how to get logs from a time-range

2010-02-05 Thread hqm8512
Hi, I want to get logs from a time-range, like from 11:00:11 to 13:00:00 ,How should in do it in the bash shell? All logs in a file . ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /etc/ldap.conf pam_filter

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 11:38 +0100 schrieb Nobody ist perfect: Hi, we use an openldap server / samba as domain controller for our windows/linux workstations. on a specific server, login should only be allowed, if the certain user is member of a group (let's call this group login). All

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, On 2/4/2010 3:17 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy would be nice. Will clustering not work with certain apps? We have a couple mysql dbases,

Re: [CentOS] how to get logs from a time-range

2010-02-05 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:38:23 +0800 (CST) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, I want to get logs from a time-range, like from 11:00:11 to 13:00:00 ,How should in do it in the bash shell? All logs in a file . man grep MIME-Version: 1.0

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simon Billis wrote on Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:06:36 -: I am queuing and delivering using mailertable currently I figured something along this line. - hence the issue with backscatter as some of the domains do not have catch-all accounts. Not to mention the extra stress on your system for

[CentOS] logwatch/shorewall warnings

2010-02-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running a little web-server under CentOS-5.4 , with shorewall as firewall. I used to get messages about attempted intrusions, with the IP addresses of those attempting to connect. This stopped some time ago, and my logwatch reports now are very bare. I don't recall changing the settings of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to authenticate against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to complete this particular setup however I have run into some difficulties such as not being able to lookup domain users via getent passwd. W2k8r2

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 4, 2010 6:18 pm, Drew wrote: Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy would be nice. I'm in the process of going through something like that right now. The solution

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 4, 2010 6:34 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: On 2/4/2010 3:17 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy would be nice. Will clustering not work with certain

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote: On Thu, February 4, 2010 6:18 pm, Drew wrote: Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy would be nice. I'm in

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2010/2/5 James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com: There has been substantial development since last April. 0.7 is very usable in production (and indeed makes my life much easier) and 0.8 is due soon. James Do you use PostgreSQL or Oracle as backend ? It seems Postgresql support is a bit far

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Dan Burkland
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chan Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:59 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2) On Friday,

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Simon Billis wrote: The point would be able to include a default reject rule for each domain, which means that you have to supply valid forwards for all addresses you don't want to reject at the relay. (You could default to forwarding, but that doesn't help with the backscatter issue). But

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
On Fri, February 5, 2010 8:03 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote: On Thu, February 4, 2010 6:18 pm, Drew wrote: Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of

[CentOS] directory and file permission help

2010-02-05 Thread adrian kok
Hi I move a zip file from window to linux but all permission of folder and files are kept in 700 How can I change it one time? I don't need to change directory under directory to change as folder as 755 and files as 644 Thank you for your help Send instant messages to your online friends

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Bo Lynch wrote: Currently we are doing the low tech method. Daily and weekly backups both onsite and off along with RAID and all that other good stuff. I was just wondering if clustering was a better way of handling things. Thanks for the info. If you are looking at VMware, ESX(i) is the

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread nate
Bo Lynch wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Depends on the hardware, ideally esxi, though it is very picky about hardware. And you should budget for it, storage will be a big concern if you want

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server notice that server doesn't cost money. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html both are

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
Bo Lynch wrote: Currently we are doing the low tech method. Daily and weekly backups both onsite and off along with RAID and all that other good stuff. I was just wondering if clustering was a better way of handling things. Thanks for the info. If you are looking at VMware, ESX(i) is the

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Drew
Thanks for the info. Looks like VM would be the way to go. I have been looking at Vmware and virtualbox. Would you recommend Vmware over virtualbox? Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. I know some will

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Bo Lynch wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. There is a free version of ESXi - which is really the same as the paid version with the cluster management and vmotion functions

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Drew
When you talk about the free version are your referring to Vmware server or is there a free version of Esxi? The website is a little misleading with free trail and such. ESXi is free to use. ESX / vSphere is the paid version. -- Drew Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
On 5 February 2010 13:18, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/5 James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com: There has been substantial development since last April. 0.7 is very usable in production (and indeed makes my life much easier) and 0.8 is due soon. James Do you use

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Ault
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 07:57 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: Currently we are doing the low tech method. Daily and weekly backups both onsite and off along with RAID and all that other good stuff. I was just wondering if clustering was a better way of handling things. Thanks

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread nate
Drew wrote: When you talk about the free version are your referring to Vmware server or is there a free version of Esxi? The website is a little misleading with free trail and such. ESXi is free to use. ESX / vSphere is the paid version. A common confusion point. While there is a free

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server notice that server doesn't cost money.

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Bo Lynch wrote: When you talk about the free version are your referring to Vmware server or is there a free version of Esxi? The website is a little misleading with free trail and such. You have to register, but the way it works is that you download a full-featured ESXi demo with a 30-day

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
Does anyone have any experience with KVM or OpenVZ? If I can stick to something that is not proprietary that would be great. I didn't realize there were so many options. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Bo KVM is easier (like VMware) than OpenVZ when using virt-manager to manage

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Athmane Madjoudj Does anyone have any experience with KVM or OpenVZ? If I can stick to something that is not proprietary that would be great. I didn't realize there were so many options. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Bo ___ If you

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: The point would be able to include a default reject rule for each domain, which means that you have to supply valid forwards for all addresses you don't want to reject at the relay. (You could default to forwarding, but that

[CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Bo Lynch sent a missive on 2010-02-05: On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R. Do you have any shared storage that you're

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server notice that server doesn't cost money. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html both

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Alan McKay wrote: It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least something running under cron to make them independent.

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Simon Billis wrote: Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: The point would be able to include a default reject rule for each domain, which means that you have to supply valid forwards for all addresses you don't want to reject at the relay. (You could default to

[CentOS] Kernel error - help please

2010-02-05 Thread Phil Savoie
Hi All, Just received this error from logwatch: - Kernel Begin WARNING: Kernel Errors Present [c0405a89] error_code+0x39/0x40 ...: 2 Time(s) -- Kernel End - Any ideas? I don't know what this

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
ESXi is free, but usable on one system. ESX is the full-blown version, costs, and I *think* comes with the console... which, for some unknown reason, is WinDoze *only*. I believe both can be administered via browser. maybe because there are more windows users that Linux and / or Mac OS X and

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
Bo Lynch wrote: Does anyone have any experience with KVM or OpenVZ? If I can stick to something that is not proprietary that would be great. I didn't realize there were so many options. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Bo Philosophically, I don't see how running on ESXi

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Depends on the hardware, ideally esxi, though it is very picky about hardware. And you should budget for it, storage will be a big

Re: [CentOS] directory and file permission help

2010-02-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
man chmod Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:55 am, Les Mikesell wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: Does anyone have any experience with KVM or OpenVZ? If I can stick to something that is not proprietary that would be great. I didn't realize there were so many options. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Bo

Re: [CentOS] Kernel error - help please

2010-02-05 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 09:50 -0500, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, Just received this error from logwatch: - Kernel Begin WARNING: Kernel Errors Present [c0405a89] error_code+0x39/0x40 ...: 2 Time(s) -- Kernel End

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Bo Lynch
On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:57 am, Les Mikesell wrote: nate wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Depends on the hardware, ideally esxi, though it is very picky about hardware.

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread Alan McKay
Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Kernel error - help please

2010-02-05 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:21:35 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 09:50 -0500, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, Just received this error from logwatch: - Kernel Begin WARNING: Kernel Errors Present

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/5 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? Try the XenServer mailing lists or wiki? http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: SNIP What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use [domain] and go to the A record of the same name it might be a problem - but that

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 9:35 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me What's the difference for a basically-embedded piece of an application? But, looking at the complexity needed to manage a single OS

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 8:44 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Alan McKay wrote: It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least something

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: Have you investigated any of the mostly-software alternatives for this like openfiler, nexentastor, etc., or rolling your own iscsi server out of opensolaris or centos? I have and it depends on your needs. I ran Openfiler a couple years ago with ESX and it worked ok. The

Re: [CentOS] About the openfire question ~

2010-02-05 Thread Ramon Nieto
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Majian jian...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys: Would anyone know what causes this error message ?  It's not the first time I've seen it but is the first time I've seen it so often. openfire verison is 3.6.4 . It is not a Centos related question, have you asked at

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
ESXi is free, but usable on one system. ESX is the full-blown version, costs, and I *think* comes with the console... which, for some unknown reason, is WinDoze *only*. I believe both can be administered via browser. maybe because there are more windows users that Linux and / or Mac OS X

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me I've heard that before... yet I, personally, know of both postgresql and mysql in serious production use. For example, one company that not only does managed security

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
Except that VMware is *based* on RHEL. Why would you *not* have a Linux-based console? The best is to have a cross platform console because there a lot of linux sysadmin (including me) who run linux as a primary desktop OS -- Athmane Madjoudj ___

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 9:53 AM, Simon Billis wrote: SNIP What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use [domain] and go to the A record of the same name it might be a problem - but that might work if you try it. Where I've used it, the delivery hosts had their own names that

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread nate
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Except that VMware is *based* on RHEL. Why would you *not* have a Linux-based console? A common misconception. The linux based console is a VM in itself, and is used for management purposes only, it runs on top of the hypervisor. nate

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 10:12 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ESXi is free, but usable on one system. ESX is the full-blown version, costs, and I *think* comes with the console... which, for some unknown reason, is WinDoze *only*. I believe both can be administered via browser. maybe because there are more

Re: [CentOS] About the openfire question ~

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 10:09 AM, Ramon Nieto wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Majianjian...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys: Would anyone know what causes this error message ? It's not the first time I've seen it but is the first time I've seen it so often. openfire verison is 3.6.4 . It is not

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-05 Thread John Doe
From: Ian Forde ianfo...@gmail.com On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Matt Iavarone
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Athmane Madjoudj athma...@gmail.com wrote: ESXi is free, but usable on one system. ESX is the full-blown version, costs, and I *think* comes with the console... which, for some unknown reason, is WinDoze *only*. I believe both can be administered via browser.

[CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Thom Paine
I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4 and then run CentOS as a vm? This would give me the options to roll out

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4 and then run CentOS as a vm? This would give me the options to roll

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Python just seems like something that should be avoided in system management tools.  Remember having to do special case things like having to 'yum update python\* yum\*' sometimes to keep the rest of an update from

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Python just seems like something that should be avoided in system management tools.  Remember having to do special case things like having to 'yum update python\* yum\*' sometimes to keep the rest of an update from

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: On 2/5/2010 9:53 AM, Simon Billis wrote: SNIP What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use [domain] and go to the A record of the same name it might be a problem - but that might work if you try it. Where I've used

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Thom Paine painet...@gmail.com wrote: I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Never had a problem with perl updates breaking anything. I do remember a few years back, when it seemed as though any time I tried to install or upgrade something that was in python, it *ALWAYS* wanted a different subrelease, and

[CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter, redux

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
Does *anyone* have a clue where gdm-simple-greeter stores the usernames it presents? I know that it is not getting it out of /etc/passwd. based on users who can log in, since I have several machines where one user, who's rolled off, is still showing, even though /etc/passwd has him as having a

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 11:54 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: There are many benefits to virtualizing. Except for a few laptops, everything in my house is virtualized with either ESXi, VMWare Server, Xen or KVM. Besides the flexibility, I like the ability to access the servers from whichever room I'm in. I can

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Michael Dross
I have recently installed ESXi4 on a new HP DL380 G6 with 12GB of memory. I am running CentOS 5.4 and CentOS 4.8. A few things I have learned. First, for best I/O performance you should use the Vmware Paravirtualized storage controller driver. It's a little bit of a hassle setting it up. You

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 11:30 AM, Alan McKay wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Python just seems like something that should be avoided in system management tools. Remember having to do special case things like having to 'yum update python\* yum\*'

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKay wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:45 PM,m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Never had a problem with perl updates breaking anything. I do remember a few years back, when it seemed as though any time I tried to install or upgrade something that was in python, it *ALWAYS*

[CentOS] was Re: gdm-simple-greeter, redux, is sorry for the dup

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
Not sure what happened... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 12:25 PM, Michael Dross wrote: I have recently installed ESXi4 on a new HP DL380 G6 with 12GB of memory. I am running CentOS 5.4 and CentOS 4.8. A few things I have learned. First, for best I/O performance you should use the Vmware Paravirtualized storage controller driver. It's

Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter, redux

2010-02-05 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:13:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Does *anyone* have a clue where gdm-simple-greeter stores the usernames it presents? I know that it is not getting it out of /etc/passwd. based on users who can log in, since I have several machines where one

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: We removed it from the Nortel BCM because the perl installation accounted for more than half the space on our embedded Linux. Can you put a realistic price on what the extra resources would cost these days? when you're running on an embedded single chip

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread nate
Thom Paine wrote: Any thoughts to this, or should I just put on CentOS 5.4 and be done with it? I know it's like asking what everyone's favourite colour is, but maybe a few replies will give me some ideas. I like the VM approach because it gives a foolproof to snapshot the guest and do

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 10:04 AM, nate wrote: Have you investigated any of the mostly-software alternatives for this like openfiler, nexentastor, etc., or rolling your own iscsi server out of opensolaris or centos? I have and it depends on your needs. I ran Openfiler a couple years ago with ESX and it

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Thom Paine painet...@gmail.com wrote: I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Michael Dross
Vmware tools installed the pvscsi library. But does not automatically reconfigure the boot/kernel to use it. Here is a good web page that explains the steps to remake the initrd. Once you have done that under settings in the vSphere Client change the SCSI controller setting to Paravirtual. I

[CentOS] Vmware Server interface bridge not work.

2010-02-05 Thread Saulo Bozzi
Hi list!!! Anybody, please, can help me. My CentOS 5.4 after that update to new kernel, my vmware server not work the interface bridge, with new kernel and old kernel. Only work with default install of CentOS 5.4, done update, not work. Anybody, please? ps.:Interface, nat, host-only, vmnet1 and

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Drew drew@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info. Looks like VM would be the way to go. I have been looking at Vmware and virtualbox. Would you recommend Vmware over virtualbox? Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: Somewhere along the line they switch from a CentOS base to rpath for better package management, but I haven't followed them since. Yeah the version I had at the time was based on rPath, I think they changed to something else yet again in the past year or so. trusted it

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Can you put a realistic price on what the extra resources would cost these days? Clearly you've never worked for a large company if you even ask that question. A $1 difference in cost over 100,000 units sold is $100,000

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 5:22 PM, Alan McKay wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Can you put a realistic price on what the extra resources would cost these days? Clearly you've never worked for a large company if you even ask that question. A $1 difference in

Re: [CentOS] Block network at logoff on workstation

2010-02-05 Thread David McGuffey
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:19 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:36 PM, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: I'm trying to reduce the attack surface to a home machine that is always on and connected to the Internet. It is running CentOS 5.4, with tight

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Wbinfo -u wbinfo -g do indeed work for me however getent passwd or getent group returns no AD users or groups. I have winbind entries in nsswitch for both the passwd group entries. Josepeh, I will try a newer RPM from a different repository and see if that resolves my issues. Did my

[CentOS] XEN

2010-02-05 Thread Matt
I have a fairly high disk i/o intensive email server I am thinking of upgrading. I was thinking of upgrading it to CentOS 5.x 64bit. I was also thinking of running it as a guest under XEN. Would this allow me to more easilly transfer it to faster hardware in the future? Or would running as a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Wbinfo -u wbinfo -g do indeed work for me however getent passwd or getent group returns no AD users or groups. I have winbind entries in nsswitch for both the passwd group entries. Josepeh, I will try a newer RPM from a different repository and see if that resolves my issues. Did my smb.conf

Re: [CentOS] XEN

2010-02-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Matt lm7...@gmail.com: I have a fairly high disk i/o intensive email server I am thinking of upgrading. I was thinking of upgrading it to CentOS 5.x 64bit. I was also thinking of running it as a guest under XEN. Would this allow me to more easilly transfer it to faster hardware in

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