Re: [CentOS-docs] Searching the wiki

2008-05-25 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Eugene Fong wrote: Agreed Majorly. Probably should use google search on the entire wiki Write plugin - I will integrate it ... =:) Ralph pgplfrY7E8tvV.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Searching the wiki

2008-05-25 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Dag Wieers wrote: I guess the default really should be text search for most users. Alain? --- /home/ralph/modern-CentOS/modern-CentOS.py 2008-05-19 21:10:02.0 + +++ /var/www/wiki.centos.org/wiki_instance/data/plugin/theme/modern-CentOS.py 2008-05-24 18:32:15.0 + @@

Re: [CentOS-docs] I want to add a tip.

2008-05-25 Thread Ned Slider
Florian La Roche wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:19:11PM +0900, TAIRA Hajime wrote: Thanks. I think this step should be a bit more verbose, telling people to replace 'sda' with the actual disk device. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ReinstallGRUB I added verbose information about

Re: [CentOS-docs] I want to add a tip.

2008-05-25 Thread TAIRA Hajime
Thank you. Best regards. TAIRA Hajime [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://pantora.net/ CentOS WikiName: HajimeTaira On 2008/05/25, at 18:34, Ned Slider wrote: Florian La Roche wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:19:11PM +0900, TAIRA Hajime wrote: Thanks. I think this step should be a bit more

RE: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
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Re: [CentOS] USBDisk question

2008-05-25 Thread James Way
i have the same question ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] saslauthd for sendmail SMTP relay

2008-05-25 Thread Bernd Bartmann
Hi, I'm running a Centos 5.1 server that uses saslauthd to allow sendmail SMTP relaying for some clients. saslauthd is configured to use method shadow to lookup the username / password directly from /etc/shadow. This setup has been working for several month now, but is broken since last Monday. I

Re: [CentOS] saslauthd for sendmail SMTP relay

2008-05-25 Thread Ian Blackwell
Bernd Bartmann wrote: /var/log/maillog: AUTH failure (LOGIN): authentication failure (-13) SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed /var/log/messages: saslauthd[3665]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=username] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=shadow] [reason=Unknown] Does someone

Re: [CentOS] saslauthd for sendmail SMTP relay

2008-05-25 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ian Blackwell wrote: Bernd Bartmann wrote: /var/log/maillog: AUTH failure (LOGIN): authentication failure (-13) SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed /var/log/messages: saslauthd[3665]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=username]

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Fred Noz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to easy maintenance, readonly-root adds a layer of security. The security is broken if someone gains access to the root user, but then many security protections are lost if someone gains root. However, this should

Re: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
William Warren wrote: I'm not a fan of RAID 5 at all since it can only tolerate one failure at all. Go with raid 10 or something like that which is able to handle more than one failure. Intermittent, uncorrectable sector failures during rebuilds are becoming an increasing problem with

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Why are you still using CentOS 4? Do you have an issue with Centos 4? I prefer to wait for RH to work most of the kinks with their new releases. Centos 5 has new versions of various libraries and software. They have never been able to guarantee zero breakage. Eg: I have heard of

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Christopher Chan wrote: Why are you still using CentOS 4? Do you have an issue with Centos 4? I prefer to wait for RH to work most of the kinks with their new releases. Centos 5 has new versions of various libraries and software. They have never been able to guarantee zero breakage. Eg:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
MHR wrote: My main system is a CentOS 5.1 64-bit desktop with gobs of disk and a couple of printers attached that work just fine. I have it set up with samba so my VMWare guest Windows XP can access most of the files and the printers. But, when I try to connect to the printers from a

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
So they say, and correct me if i'm wrong, that RAID10 is a RAID 1 of RAID 0. A mirror of stripe sets. You said it's not that, i lost you on this one. Heh, I dare say most of us are lost on this one. It is a blinking new module for md that is not available on Centos 4. This should help

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Christopher Chan wrote: So they say, and correct me if i'm wrong, that RAID10 is a RAID 1 of RAID 0. A mirror of stripe sets. You said it's not that, i lost you on this one. Heh, I dare say most of us are lost on this one. It is a blinking new module for md that is not available on

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Linux wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is much more intelligently designed than any closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. This was valid until...quite a few years ago. Has

Re: [CentOS] saslauthd for sendmail SMTP relay

2008-05-25 Thread Ian Blackwell
Bernd Bartmann wrote: Thanks Ian. That's indeed the reason. service saslauthd status gives saslauthd dead but subsys locked. Now, what could be the reason why saslauthd was not running any more? cu, Bernd. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] saslauthd for sendmail SMTP relay

2008-05-25 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ian Blackwell wrote: Bernd Bartmann wrote: Thanks Ian. That's indeed the reason. service saslauthd status gives saslauthd dead but subsys locked. Now, what could be the reason why saslauthd was not running any more? Hard to say without seeing the logs. Does

RE: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

2008-05-25 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MHR Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] CentOS-Samba question My main system is a CentOS 5.1 64-bit desktop with gobs of disk and a couple of printers attached

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Christopher Chan wrote: William Warren wrote: I'm not a fan of RAID 5 at all since it can only tolerate one failure at all. Go with raid 10 or something like that which is able to handle more than one failure. Intermittent, uncorrectable sector failures during rebuilds are becoming

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: May 25, 2008 08:56 Typically most vendors recommend a two-prong approach, keep the database data files on a RAID5/RAID6 type array and keep the log files on a RAID10 array. I can not comment on most vendors but for the PROGRESS RDBMS RAID5 is definitely not

RE: [CentOS] how to debug ssh slow connection issues.

2008-05-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:55 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to debug ssh slow connection issues. Try to change this in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: May 25, 2008 08:56 Typically most vendors recommend a two-prong approach, keep the database data files on a RAID5/RAID6 type array and keep the log files on a RAID10 array. I can not comment on most vendors but for the

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Nikolay Ulyanitsky
I can not comment on most vendors but for the PROGRESS RDBMS RAID5 is definitely not recommended. It will work but you will see a significant reduction in performance. We strongly recommend that our clients go with RAID10 (as in RAID 1+0). In-house we only use RAID10. +1 Write performance of

[CentOS] How is this possible?

2008-05-25 Thread MHR
As an experiment, I am attempting to build a more recent version of GNOME than 2.16.0 on CentOS 5.1. I've tried both garnome and jhbuild, and neither one works quite right. Jhbuild blows out looking for a dbus-glib-1 revision = 0/74 (the release rev is 0.70), so I downloaded that and tried to

Re: [CentOS] How is this possible?

2008-05-25 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
MHR wrote: As an experiment, I am attempting to build a more recent version of GNOME than 2.16.0 on CentOS 5.1. I've tried both garnome and jhbuild, and neither one works quite right. Jhbuild blows out looking for a dbus-glib-1 revision = 0/74 (the release rev is 0.70), so I downloaded that

Re: [CentOS] How is this possible?

2008-05-25 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Tru Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... just my 1st and last warning: if you break your setup don't come complaining here :) I presume you mean my GNOME setup, and yes, I know - there are instructions on both jhbuild and garnome on how to avoid that. Hopefully

Re: [CentOS] How is this possible?

2008-05-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
MHR wrote: However, that raises another question: why does the build (either one) not know the machine architecture on which it is running and therefore detect the proper library to which to link? Did you ask the people who wrote that buildsystem ? what did they say ? -- Karanbir Singh :

Re: [CentOS] How is this possible?

2008-05-25 Thread MHR
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you ask the people who wrote that buildsystem ? what did they say ? Yes, I was emailing back and forth with them yesterday. So far, on this problem (the latest in a line), no response yet. Of course, I did not

[CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
Hi, Without any update, hardware/software modification, etc... one of my systems Hourly restart problem started again. Currently, I counted 5 restarts at 59th minute. No log entry, no console error, nothing really interesting. If I do not see camera records with my own eyes, I'll suspect about

RE: [CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread Gregg McClintic
Anything in the bios called watchdog turned on? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Gregg McClintic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything in the bios called watchdog turned on? Waiting for morning (it's late night here) for further diag. Should I disable it? Or is it malfunctioning because of CentOS? Thanks...

Re: [CentOS] saslauthd for sendmail SMTP relay

2008-05-25 Thread Ian Blackwell
Bernd Bartmann wrote: It did start without any problems. Looks like I found the cause. From the logs I see that someone tried a brute force attach on the SMTP relay with several username / password combinations. Then one of the attempts lead to a segfault of saslauth. Which probably means that

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux wrote: However, this should *never* be used alone for security concerns. A compromiser can easily run that simple mount command to remount read-write after root access. I've been reading some of your recent comments, Anonymous looser, and I've really got to say this - you seem to make

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
MHR wrote: Perhaps I was not clear in my original email, the point being that you dont need to rebuild drivers when kernels update ( in 99% of the cases ) Is that now true also of the nvidia driver(s)? I haven't seen anything so to indicate. The nvidia driver, for me, built against

[CentOS] Opinions about SSH and DNS

2008-05-25 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, As part of securing SSH we currently have UseDNS set to yes. But we are finding that a number of ISP's are deliberately refusing to configure matching forward and reverse DNS records. So I am wondering how many of you are still using this option?

RE: [CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread Gregg McClintic
To be honest I have no idea what is needed by the kernel for the bios to beable to check that the os is responding correctly. I enabled it on a test server and had the same issue on a default 4.6 cent install. I could have the name in the bios (the service ) incorrect ie, watch guard,watch dog

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading some of your recent comments, Anonymous looser, and I've really got to say this - you seem to make some authoritative style comments on things you really dont know much about. eg. in this case - the

Re: [CentOS] Opinions about SSH and DNS

2008-05-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, May 26, 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: Hi People, As part of securing SSH we currently have UseDNS set to yes. But we are finding that a number of ISP's are deliberately refusing to configure matching forward and reverse DNS records. So I am wondering how many of you are still using this

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux wrote: A cd-rom can provide security as a readonly mount, but readonly mounted ordinary filesystem/disk means almost nothing. Dont you read comments like administrator remounts read-write? Why? If your blockdev is exposed to the OS as 'ro', your administator can go jump off a cliff if he

Re: [CentOS] Chip set support

2008-05-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
John Bowden wrote: NVIDIA® nForce® 430 MCP Lan= NVIDIA® nForce® 430 MCP built-in Gigabit MAC with external Attansic PHY. The forcedeth drivers in the CentOS-5 kernel seem to work fine for that interface -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [CentOS] Hourly restart

2008-05-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 18:33 -0400, Gregg McClintic wrote: To be honest I have no idea what is needed by the kernel for the bios to beable to check that the os is responding correctly. I enabled it on a test server and had the same issue on a default 4.6 cent install. I could have the name

Re: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: William Warren wrote: I'm not a fan of RAID 5 at all since it can only tolerate one failure at all. Go with raid 10 or something like that which is able to handle more than one failure. Intermittent, uncorrectable sector failures during

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Just asking. I don't use CentOS as a desktop OS, so the firefox problem doesn't bother me at all, but CentOS 5 is an upgrade in many regards, and I find it very stable. I have yet to try RAID10 with it though, as soon as I can get my hands on enough spare HDD's :) I believe you cannot do

Re: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Nikolay Ulyanitsky wrote: I can not comment on most vendors but for the PROGRESS RDBMS RAID5 is definitely not recommended. It will work but you will see a significant reduction in performance. We strongly recommend that our clients go with RAID10 (as in RAID 1+0). In-house we only use RAID10.

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Linux
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you cannot do it via the installer yet. Can anybody confirm the presence of raid10 personality in Centos 5? Installer does not have raid10 as an option. Not sure whether boot cd has this module or not. But

RE: [CentOS] how to debug ssh slow connection issues.

2008-05-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:27 PM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Leafey Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 2:17 PM

Re: [CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-25 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Saturday 24 May 2008 21:55:57 Robert Spangler wrote: First of all, thank you Robert for pointing some points. For the sake of discussion, may I say something too? Since you believe that he wants a very strict firewall why are you setting the default policy's to ACCEPT?  Security 101, strict

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Linux wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you cannot do it via the installer yet. Can anybody confirm the presence of raid10 personality in Centos 5? Installer does not have raid10 as an option. Not sure whether boot cd has this module

RE: [CentOS] cups causing segfault

2008-05-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:58 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:31 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P.

[CentOS] I/O statistics per PID

2008-05-25 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I've found a great tool called pidstat which is able to report I/O disks statistic. But, it's only for kernels 2.6.20 and later only, is there any tool for Centos xen kernel? Thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio

Re: [CentOS] get widescreen 1280x800 for intel 965GM chipset

2008-05-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 25 May 2008 21:31:53 -0400 Chen Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have trouble to get 1280x800 resolution. The driver used is I810. I don't know if the chipset is too new for the xorg driver, and can anyone tell me if there is a fix, maybe with 915resolution?

RE: [CentOS] how to debug ssh slow connection issues.

2008-05-25 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 12:15 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to debug ssh slow connection issues. On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL