Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread g
hello phil, On 09/29/2013 10:49 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi. The other day I burnt a copy of a CentOS 6.4 64 bit netinstall disc, verified the disc which passed about a third of the way through the install it informed me that there was no CD in the drive refused to carry on. So I burnt

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/30/2013 11:49 PM, g wrote: 1st, i would not consider a net install unless i was protected by going thru a good firewall server. a DHCP/PXE server isnt going to reply to internet queries, and your TFTP server should be restricted to local addresses only, this pretty much secures a

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread g
hello john, On 10/01/2013 02:20 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/30/2013 11:49 PM, g wrote: 1st, i would not consider a net install unless i was protected by going thru a good firewall server. a DHCP/PXE server isnt going to reply to internet queries, and your TFTP server should be

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/1/2013 1:16 AM, g wrote: from all that i have had to go thru trying to get kde going, it looks like i will try again to see if centos will install kde instead of gnome. # yum -y groupinstall KDE Desktop should be all it takes to install KDE on an existing install. I don't run CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread g
On 10/01/2013 03:27 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/1/2013 1:16 AM, g wrote: from all that i have had to go thru trying to get kde going, it looks like i will try again to see if centos will install kde instead of gnome. # yum -y groupinstall KDE Desktop ah so. thank you very much. i knew

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 incoming SFTP

2013-10-01 Thread John McKelvey
Barry, I will check on firewall, though I have not deliberately activated one. This machine has run for several years without this occurance. I will check on port 22. All other machnes on the LAN are Windows. Many thanks for getting back to me. John On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Barry

[CentOS] Linux tool to check random I/O performance

2013-10-01 Thread mcclnx mcc
we just purchase new I/O card and like to check I/O performance. for sequence I/O performance test we can use hdparm -t /dev/xxx bur for random I/O performance test which Linux command I can use? ** our environment does NOT allow install third party software.. Thanks

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 incoming SFTP

2013-10-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John McKelvey wrote on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:27:55 -0400: The catch is that I can not connect to the box using SSH That's obviously not true or just half of the story. Did you actually try *sshing* in? Your title mentions sftp, not ssh. So, what software are you using to connect? I would

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 incoming SFTP

2013-10-01 Thread zGreenfelder
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:27 PM, John McKelvey jmmc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a CENTOS 5 box that can reach the internet and can ping to/from all windows system on my home network. The catch is that I can not connect to the box using SSH from any windows machine, though they can

[CentOS] Login prompt often hangs

2013-10-01 Thread Dolev Farhi
Hi all, I have a strong Dell server running RHEL5.5 every now and then the server hangs (SSH access is frozen) and when attemping to login the prompt hangs and after a while the message can't update CMOS clock from 2 to 47 CIFS VFS No respone for cmd 114 mid 188 only a reboot causes it to work

[CentOS] CIFS Share with encrypted credentials

2013-10-01 Thread Dolev Farhi
Hi, I have a CIFS share that I mount on a CentOS6.4. Currently I am keeping the password in a regular hidden file, for example /test/.cred with the username and password. the /etc/fstab directive points to that file. for example: //10.0.0.1/share /mntcifs

Re: [CentOS] CIFS Share with encrypted credentials

2013-10-01 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Dolev Farhi do...@sys-blog.net wrote: I have a CIFS share that I mount on a CentOS6.4. Currently I am keeping the password in a regular hidden file, for example /test/.cred with the username and password. the /etc/fstab directive points to that file. for

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 incoming SFTP

2013-10-01 Thread Tony Sweeney
Surprisingly (to me, anyway), the SSH daemon is off by default in CentOS; you need to 'chkconfig sshd on' and 'service sshd start' as root in order to be able to ssh in. Tony. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John

[CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-01 Thread Eugenio Pacheco
Hi, After reading the tutorial at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 I have the following question: What should I put instead of splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz and root (hd0,0) on /etc/grub.conf? Should I leave those lines untouched? If so, how would

Re: [CentOS] Linux tool to check random I/O performance

2013-10-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/1/2013 4:37 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: bur for random I/O performance test which Linux command I can use? you asked this a month ago and got several replies. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast

Re: [CentOS] SysRq over usb serial adapters

2013-10-01 Thread Warren Young
On 9/30/2013 21:34, Barry Brimer wrote: I'm using 115200, 8N1, VT102. I can echo m /proc/sysctl-trigger, and dmesg shows that the sysrq was received when initiated via the procfs interface. But not over serial, and that's what I need. I could be wrong .. but you may need to edit your grub

Re: [CentOS] SysRq over usb serial adapters

2013-10-01 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: On 9/30/2013 21:34, Barry Brimer wrote: I'm using 115200, 8N1, VT102. I can echo m /proc/sysctl-trigger, and dmesg shows that the sysrq was received when initiated via the procfs interface. But not over serial, and

Re: [CentOS] Weird netinstall issue

2013-10-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/10/13 08:20, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/30/2013 11:49 PM, g wrote: 1st, i would not consider a net install unless i was protected by going thru a good firewall server. a DHCP/PXE server isnt going to reply to internet queries, and your TFTP server should be restricted to local addresses

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 incoming SFTP

2013-10-01 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/10/1 Tony Sweeney tswee...@omnifone.com Surprisingly (to me, anyway), the SSH daemon is off by default in CentOS; you need to 'chkconfig sshd on' and 'service sshd start' as root in order to be able to ssh in. r several years without this occurance. I will check on port 22. All other

Re: [CentOS] CIFS Share with encrypted credentials

2013-10-01 Thread Eero Volotinen
//10.0.0.1/share /mntcifs defaults,credentials=/test/.cred Since this file is readable by the root user, I figured if there might be a way to encrypt this file, and with decrypt this file with a script so the mount will succeed, and then encrypt it again. or maybe there is

Re: [CentOS] Partitionable Raid

2013-10-01 Thread Billy Crook
If sda fails outright, sdb will BECOME sda. This is usually the case when a drive fails. If sda is skillfully overwritten in specific places with the intention of producing a curcumstance in which Linux kernel raid will fail, then Linux kernel raid will fail. On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:03 AM,

[CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-01 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, Are there any utilities or tools to look at historical data of Memory, CPU Utilization or IO activity on CentOS 6.4 or 5.9 Version? For example the how much the memory was consumed for the period of last six months. Regards, Kaushal ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Are there any utilities or tools to look at historical data of Memory, CPU Utilization or IO activity on CentOS 6.4 or 5.9 Version? For example the how much the memory was consumed for the period of last six

Re: [CentOS] Historical Data related to CPU,IO and Memory

2013-10-01 Thread Mark Eggers
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:48:20 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Are there any utilities or tools to look at historical data of Memory, CPU Utilization or IO activity on CentOS 6.4 or 5.9 Version? For example the how much the memory was consumed for the period of last six months. Regards,

[CentOS] installing centos with oos ntfs format drives

2013-10-01 Thread g
greetings. i am going to run a fresh install of centos 6.4 and want to mount 3 partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box. if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and /dev/sdb1 as ntfs, will install install ntfs software or will i have to select it

Re: [CentOS] installing centos with oos ntfs format drives

2013-10-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/1/2013 8:00 PM, g wrote: i am going to run a fresh install of centos 6.4 and want to mount 3 partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box. if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and /dev/sdb1 as ntfs, will install install ntfs software or

Re: [CentOS] installing centos with oos ntfs format drives

2013-10-01 Thread g
hello john, On 10/01/2013 10:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/1/2013 8:00 PM, g wrote: i am going to run a fresh install of centos 6.4 and want to mount 3 partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box. if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, and

[CentOS-es] Forzar cambio de contraseña con el primer inicio por ssh.

2013-10-01 Thread Monica BM
Buenas: Como indico en el título, busco la manera de obligar a un usuario a cambiar el password cuando inicie sesión por primera vez. Se de la existencia de la opción: chage -d 0 {username} Pero me gustaría que fuera de forma automática, también he probado con la opción EXPIRE=0 en el fichero

[CentOS-es] Usuario Nagios

2013-10-01 Thread Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin
Hola a todos. Acabo de instalar nagios, para monitorear una serie de servidores. accedo a la plataforma web con el usuario nagiosadmin y la contraseña respectiva que yo le asigne-- Mi pregunta es como puedo crear mas usuario con acceso a Nagios y con distintos privilegioses posible??

Re: [CentOS-es] Usuario Nagios

2013-10-01 Thread Francesc Guitart
El 01/10/13 15:44, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin escribió: Hola a todos. Hola, Acabo de instalar nagios, para monitorear una serie de servidores. accedo a la plataforma web con el usuario nagiosadmin y la contraseña respectiva que yo le asigne-- Mi pregunta es como puedo crear mas usuario con

Re: [CentOS-es] Usuario Nagios

2013-10-01 Thread Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin
Ok muchas gracias por tu ayuda, también me respalde en esta info http://diablo.craem.net/wordpress/?p=875 y logre justo lo que andaba buscando. El 1 de octubre de 2013 10:28, Francesc Guitart francesc.guit...@enise.frescribió: El 01/10/13 15:44, Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin escribió: Hola a