[CentOS-docs] wiki.centos.org logo behaviour

2009-05-14 Thread Mats Karlsson
Im curious ? When I click on the logo in upper left corner on wiki.centos.org then I get to the wiki frontpage, not the www.centos.org page!?! This is a bit redundant IMHO, I already have the frontpage menu, but there is no way to navigate back to www from the wiki as I can see. And thats the

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki.centos.org logo behaviour

2009-05-14 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Mats Karlsson wrote: Im curious ? When I click on the logo in upper left corner on wiki.centos.org then I get to the wiki frontpage, not the www.centos.org page!?! This is a bit redundant IMHO, I already have the frontpage menu, but there is no way to navigate back to

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki.centos.org logo behaviour

2009-05-14 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: 2009/5/14 Dag Wieers d...@centos.org: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Mats Karlsson wrote: Im curious ? When I click on the logo in upper left corner on wiki.centos.org then I get to the wiki frontpage, not the www.centos.org page!?! This is a bit

[CentOS-docs] CentOS LiveCD 5.3 release notes

2009-05-14 Thread Patrice Guay
I created both English and French release notes pages for the upcoming CentOS LiveCD 5.3: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.3 http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.3/French The content is quite similar to the one from the CentOS LiveCD 5.2 except

[CentOS-es] VirtualBox e internet.

2009-05-14 Thread Monica BM
Buenas chicos!! Yo aquí con mis problemas. Estoy instalando máquinas preparadas en Vbox. En todos los equipos funciona perfectamente menos en 1. En ese 1 lo que pasa es qeu cuando en la interfaz de red le pongo Bridged adapter, que es como tendría qeu funcionar, pues no le coge IP. Y le

Re: [CentOS-es] VirtualBox e internet.

2009-05-14 Thread emmanuel segura
y porque no pruevas a usar ip fijo 2009/5/14 Monica BM monica...@yahoo.es Buenas chicos!! Yo aquí con mis problemas. Estoy instalando máquinas preparadas en Vbox. En todos los equipos funciona perfectamente menos en 1. En ese 1 lo que pasa es qeu cuando en la interfaz de red le pongo

[CentOS-es] Propuestas para tema de tesis (Jorge Herrera)

2009-05-14 Thread Antonio Hernandez Benitez
Por que no trabajas en un cluster, para modelos matematicos o algo aducativo propio de la universidad, puede ser ocupando lo sequipos de la uni o equipos algo obsoletos y que puedan sacarle un provecho... ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H. Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:24 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question I wanted to do a netinstall of the 5.3 release, and the

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
James Pearson wrote: - [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] - [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer mentioned ... No, Eric is doing ext4 (and has been for quite some while

[CentOS] Postfix: user unknown

2009-05-14 Thread Manuel Monteiro
Dear all, I have a mail server based on a CentOS 5.3 machine with postfix. Most of our users are on LDAP (on localhost) but we also have some local users and we are using PAM for authentication. Sometimes emails are not delivered to an user (happens either with users on LDAP or

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Ralph Angenendt wrote: James Pearson wrote: - [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] - [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer mentioned ... No, Eric is doing ext4 (and has been

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-14 Thread James Bensley
I have written my script but I wanted to add this on before and after the update to see the difference but all it returns are zeros? Anyone have any idea why? #!/bin/sh f=0 #Folder count d=0 #Domains count (one per line in each file) u=0 #Url count (one per line in each file) t=0 #Total of

[CentOS] Possible SAN Issue

2009-05-14 Thread Alan Bartlett
Just a quick ping to the general m/l. Is there a SAN expert out there who could spare some time to have a look at this forum post, please? URL -- http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20273forum=39 Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] File compare word by word

2009-05-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
Find the `spiff' utility. It will compare files word by word and highlight ONLY the word differences. One can also compare numbers and change the resolution of the comparison. This lets the text 1.0 equally compare to 0.1e+1 or even 0.9, if the fudge factor is large enough in the

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-14 Thread James Bensley
Update: these lines should be: + $X                d=`expr $d + 1` and snip                u=`expr $u + 1`        fi done James ;) -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a-- C++$ U+ L++ B- P+ E? W+++$ N K W++ O M++$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+ DI D+++

Re: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting..

2009-05-14 Thread Johan Swensson
Try with the soft option. - Original Message - From: Michael Casey michaelcase...@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:06:31 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting.. What can I

Re: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting..

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Casey
I tried ls --color=never https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468049 it still waits I tried on the client side with other mount options: intr, soft it still waits update :D : I turn the NFS server down Clients hang reboot client client cant see the NFS share, but at least it doesn't

Re: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting..

2009-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Johan Swensson wrote: Try with the soft option. - Original Message - From: Michael Casey michaelcase...@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:06:31 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] if no NFS server

Re: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting..

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Casey
the fstab entry is this vim /etc/fstab 192.168.1.1:/mnt/share/ /home/user/Desktop/Share/ nfs defaults,ro,nfsvers=3,nolock 0 0 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Possible SAN Issue

2009-05-14 Thread Ross Walker
On May 14, 2009, at 6:48 AM, Alan Bartlett ajb.st...@googlemail.com wrote: Just a quick ping to the general m/l. Is there a SAN expert out there who could spare some time to have a look at this forum post, please? URL --

Re: [CentOS] Possible SAN Issue

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Alan Bartlett ajb.st...@googlemail.com wrote: Just a quick ping to the general m/l. Is there a SAN expert out there who could spare some time to have a look at this forum post, please? URL --

Re: [CentOS] Possible SAN Issue

2009-05-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Jim Perrin wrote: This is where LVM shines, because you can simply add another lun, add it to your lvm setup, and expand the filesystem on the fly. Just hope that $guru didnt use fdisk to setup things, when you need to grow the LUN a bit. - KB ___

[CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
Hi all, You know how I asked about procedures to build a dual-boot system with CentOS and WinXP a while ago? Well, I I've begun with a test machine. What I had from start was a working CentOS 5.3 32b system. What I did was to just add another empty drive configured as slave and then boot from

Re: [CentOS] Postfix: user unknown

2009-05-14 Thread nate
Manuel Monteiro wrote: Dear all, I have a mail server based on a CentOS 5.3 machine with postfix. Most of our users are on LDAP (on localhost) but we also have some local users and we are using PAM for authentication. Are you running nscd on the server? That should smooth out LDAP

Re: [CentOS] Possible SAN Issue

2009-05-14 Thread nate
Jim Perrin wrote: This is where LVM shines, because you can simply add another lun, add it to your lvm setup, and expand the filesystem on the fly. Also the OP should look into thin provisioning software that may be available for his EMC array. In some situations this can eliminate the need

[CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a new system (which happens to be different than most other systems I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortly after the partitions

Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-14 Thread Ned Slider
Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, You know how I asked about procedures to build a dual-boot system with CentOS and WinXP a while ago? Well, I I've begun with a test machine. What I had from start was a working CentOS 5.3 32b system. What I did was to just add another empty drive configured as

[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread James B. Byrne
Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was hammered by an IP originating in mainland China. This attack was only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service. We have long had an IP throttle on ssh connections to discourage this sort of thing. But I had not

Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 14 May 2009 15:41:02 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: Hi all, You know how I asked about procedures to build a dual-boot system with CentOS and WinXP a while ago? Well, I I've begun with a test machine. What I had from start was a

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Boyd
On May 14, 2009, at 9:46 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: 2. Moving pass the obvious and unhelpful everything, what services are particularly vulnerable to these types of attacks? Does a list exist anywhere? If it's reachable over the 'net, it will eventually get pounded. POP, IMAP, SMTP Auth,

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread nate
Alfred von Campe wrote: I've been using kickstart successfully with a local mirror going back to CentOS 4.X. I'm trying to install CentOS 5.3 via kickstart on a new system (which happens to be different than most other systems I've installed on), and the install process always hangs shortly

Re: [CentOS] Postfix: user unknown

2009-05-14 Thread Manuel Monteiro
Dear all, I have a mail server based on a CentOS 5.3 machine with postfix. Most of our users are on LDAP (on localhost) but we also have some local users and we are using PAM for authentication. Are you running nscd on the server? That should smooth out LDAP blips, though I would disable

Re: [CentOS] Network Install Procedure Question

2009-05-14 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- That was it...thanks for the help. The netinstall worked without problems. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Shubitz Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS]

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread Alfred von Campe
How long does it hang? CentOS 5.x takes much longer to get to the point where it is installing packages than 4.x, probably a good 3-4 minutes more, perhaps longer if your mirror is over a WAN connection, my mirror is on the local LAN and it does take a long time as well though it always

[CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience with our current fileserver is

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, May 14, 2009, James B. Byrne wrote: Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was hammered by an IP originating in mainland China. This attack was only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service. You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:44:11PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2009/5/14 Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Yes, using ext3 is a real pain especially on such large partitions. I advice you to switch to XFS. -- With best

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Hi! I'm justing in the process of setting up a new fileserver for our company. I'm installing CentOS 5.3 (64 bit) on it. One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. Now my experience

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bernhard Gschaider
Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included in the standard-kernel which option offers the smoothest sailing

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:23, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: which option offers the smoothest sailing (especially during kernel-updates):  - kernel from centosplus  - kmod-xfs from centosplus  - kmod-xfs from extras Use kmod-xfs from extras (it should be already

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009, James B. Byrne wrote: Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was hammered by an IP originating in mainland China. This attack was only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: Use kmod-xfs from extras (it should be already enabled in your yum config) unless you already need the centosplus kernel for another reason. See here:

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread David G . Miller
James B. Byrne byrn...@... writes: Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was hammered by an IP originating in mainland China. This attack was only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service. We have long had an IP throttle on ssh connections to

[CentOS] Printing graphics on CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread MHR
I am absolutely thrilled and delighted to report that the problem I have been having on CentOS since I first started using it, back in 4.4, of having all images (graphics) print out from the image viewer as all-black pages appears to be gone! I just printed 13 graphics from the image viewer

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:46 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was hammered by an IP originating in mainland China.  This attack was only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service. About 6 years ago,

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread James B. Byrne
On: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:36 -0700, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create iptables blocks when things like this happen. I went to the source forge website, but the rh rpm is inaccessible. I really do not wish to join yet another

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:46 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.cawrote: I went to the source forge website, but the rh rpm is inaccessible. I really do not wish to join yet another mailing list simply to report this so if anyone here is a member there as well please let them know.

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread nate
James B. Byrne wrote: I went to the source forge website, but the rh rpm is inaccessible. I really do not wish to join yet another mailing list simply to report this so if anyone here is a member there as well please let them know. looks like they already know..

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. An option I haven't seen suggested yet is to split this into several filesystems that

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 11:46 AM James B. Byrne spake the following: On: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:36 -0700, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create iptables blocks when things like this happen. I went to the source forge website, but the rh

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start anew: use XFS. This

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: It seems XFS might be added as a default to RHEL 5.4.. Probably not a default, but an option. I wonder which high-end customer *finally* drove them to do this (if, indeed,

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.05.2009 um 21:25 schrieb Bart Schaefer: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. An option I haven't seen suggested

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be If you can start

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-14-2009 2:21 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:23:05PM +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button).

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: If you are running CentOS-4, the last 2 kernels do not (yet) have corresponding kmod-xfs. You need to wait for CentOS devs to build those kmods or to supply a kernel version independent kmod. I have just pushed the latest .22

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:21, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a reasonable choice on a 32 bit machine?  I thought 4k stacks were a problem. Oh yeah, I failed to mention in my previous e-mail that all the machines I have running XFS are using x86_64 versions of CentOS. I

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-14 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:35:13 +0100 James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Update: these lines should be: + $X that should be lower case. My guess is that because your variables all equal zero, it's possible that something is wrong with: find /usr/local/squidGuard/db -maxdepth 1 -type d |

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:17:21AM +1200, Spiro Harvey wrote: My guess is that because your variables all equal zero, it's possible that something is wrong with: find /usr/local/squidGuard/db -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER; More likely he's using a shell that runs the while loop in

Re: [CentOS] Printing graphics on CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread fred smith
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:51:20AM -0700, MHR wrote: I am absolutely thrilled and delighted to report that the problem I have been having on CentOS since I first started using it, back in 4.4, of having all images (graphics) print out from the image viewer as all-black pages appears to be

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 14 May 2009 13:00:09 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: on 5-14-2009 11:46 AM James B. Byrne spake the following: On: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:36 -0700, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart hang trying to install CentOS 5.3

2009-05-14 Thread nate
Alfred von Campe wrote: I waited overnight and it was still hung in the morning. My local mirror is on the LAN, so it's not a network issue. hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have groups and stuff. I