[CentOS-docs] Wiki contribution

2010-02-04 Thread Hugo Doria
Hi guys, I want to update and add some content to this page: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk The page have instructions for Spacewalk 0.6, but there's a newer version (0.7) and some changes are needed. I already updated my spacewalk install and would like to contribute

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2010:0076 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security and bug fix update

2010-02-04 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0076 kernel security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0076.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.EL.i586.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2010:0076 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security and bug fix update

2010-02-04 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0076 kernel security update for CentOS 4 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0076.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-89.0.20.EL.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS-es] SAMBA

2010-02-04 Thread Mario Ganga
2010/2/3 Lic. Domingo Varela Yahuitl domin...@linuxsc.net mmm manual como tal o como tu lo deseas dificilmente lo encontraras, pero si no queires salirte de los GUI's, te recomiendo swat, pero si te gustan los comandos que es lo mas viable pues esta todo en el howto de samba y en el archivo

Re: [CentOS-es] SAMBA

2010-02-04 Thread Germán Bobr
Mario: Si estas en un ambiente de empresa busca un manual de configuración de SAMBA como PDC (Controlador de dominio) (Tambien vas a tener que aprender como configurar los clientes windows para trabajar dentro de un dominio) En resumidas cuentas, dentro de un dominio, todos los equipos se

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread John R Pierce
Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this purpose ? Thank you yum install kvm Then

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/2 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one of the following options: I am very happy with XenServer in our data centre. Use qemu for testing / devel purposes. Ben ___

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, February 04, 2010 04:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, February 04, 2010 04:14 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2010 04:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread John R Pierce
I may be mistaken, but I thought those were only available to RHN subscribers, and are not open source or free to redistribute. The virtio block drivers? Really? I think I remember something about it being leaked...need to check Nope

Re: [CentOS] atime, relatime query

2010-02-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:03 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: For DB performance there's a lot more useful areas to spend time tuning. As DBAs often say you can get 10% more performance tuning the OS and getting better hardware, and you can get 1000% better

Re: [CentOS] Updating gfortran in CentOS 5.4?

2010-02-04 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2010/2/3 Jon Forrest jlforr...@berkeley.edu: On 2/3/2010 10:49 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote: There is also a gcc44-gfortran rpm which is based on gcc 4.4.0. Would that help you? I wonder if that rpm allows the version of gfortran and associated libraries it installs to be located in something

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread MHR
2010/2/3 Hadi Motamedi motamed...@hotmail.com: Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this purpose ? I use VMWare Server - it's free from VMWare, though I'm using version 1.0.8, and I hear

[CentOS] Yum: strange dependencies

2010-02-04 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, On Centos 5.4 minimum installation, I tried to install these packages (notice the dependencies): === Package Arch Version

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread Radu Radutiu
Just for the reference if you want to keep SELINUX enabled and create a new instance of sshd (with the stock CentOS 5.4 sshd) with sftp only you can do the following: -create a copy of /etc/ssh/sshd_config e.g. cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sftpd_config -chage /add the following lines in

Re: [CentOS] Yum: strange dependencies

2010-02-04 Thread Wahyu Darmawan
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: Hi all, On Centos 5.4 minimum installation, I tried to install these packages (notice the dependencies):

Re: [CentOS] Yum: strange dependencies

2010-02-04 Thread Wahyu Darmawan
I mean have you used 'exclude' to exclude yum dependencies packages before? Salam, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Wahyu Darmawan wahyu.darma...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.orgwrote: Hi all, On Centos 5.4 minimum installation, I tried to

Re: [CentOS] Changing size of a xen guest filesystem

2010-02-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me on a production server. I wish there would be a command

Re: [CentOS] Changing size of a xen guest filesystem

2010-02-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me on a production server. I wish there would be a command

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
John R Pierce wrote: I may be mistaken, but I thought those were only available to RHN subscribers, and are not open source or free to redistribute. The virtio block drivers? Really? I think I remember something about it being leaked...need to check Nope

[CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
I have a CentOS 5 machine with an external 500G USB disk, formatted with JFS. How do I get this to mount automatically at boot time? If I add to /etc/fstab: /dev/sdb1 /var/video jfs defaults 1 2 fsck.jfs complains at boot time: Error: Cannot open device /dev/sdb1 Usage: fsck.jfs ... ...

[CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Folks, I have a couple of questions which I hope that you will be able to assist with, first some background. I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large number of domains (6000+)

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? It turns out to be some sort of race condition: If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: ... STRING=$Checking filesystems echo $STRING sleep 2 echo ls 1 ls -l

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/4 Mogens Kjaer m...@crc.dk: On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? It turns out to be some sort of race condition: If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: ...         STRING=$Checking filesystems         echo $STRING        

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Sergej Kandyla
Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this purpose ? Thank you yum install kvm Then

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:37:06PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: It turns out to be some sort of race condition: The problem with USB disks is that they aren't always ready as quickly as the rest of the OS, so the kernel hasn't been able to detect them yet. What you might be able to do is use

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 02/04/2010 02:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: ... how about mounting that drive on rc.local ? That's too late; I need it before /etc/init.d/mythbackend starts. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25,

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Simon Billis wrote: Hi Folks, I have a couple of questions which I hope that you will be able to assist with, first some background. I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large

Re: [CentOS] Block network at logoff on workstation

2010-02-04 Thread Ross Walker
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 iptables rules and sits behind a Verizon FiOS firewall/switch

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
Mike wrote: Simon Billis wrote: snip I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large number of domains (6000+) scan the mail removing spam and then forward the ham to another server for

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mogens Kjaer wrote: How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? Mogens Try adding 'user' to the 'options' field in /etc/fstab: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html - -- - -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Nichols
Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? It turns out to be some sort of race condition: If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: ... STRING=$Checking filesystems echo $STRING sleep 2

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mike wrote: Simon Billis wrote: snip I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large number of domains (6000+) scan the mail removing spam and then forward the

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 02/04/2010 03:36 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: ... Be sure to put a timeout in that loop lest it hang forever if that external device is absent. Yes, I have added the following: for (( times = 1; times 120; times++ )); do echo Wait for /dev/sdb1 $times if [ -b /dev/sdb1 ]; then

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Warren Young
On 2/4/2010 7:10 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 02/04/2010 02:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: ... how about mounting that drive on rc.local ? That's too late; I need it before /etc/init.d/mythbackend starts. # ls /etc/rc`runlevel | cut -c3`.d/*myth* Then write a script in /etc/init.d to wait for

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, One approach here if it is practical to collect/maintain all of the valid recipient addresses is to build a virtuser table with a default reject for each domain the relay handles plus the list of all valid addresses. This is very efficient if you can automate the table updates or the

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, running make -C /etc/mail but this has no effect on the sendmail.cf file. My Does it not give output? Have you tried adding -d? I get an updated sendmail.cf file but the only diff is the header telling me when it was complied. Adding -d give the following (I've removed the non relevant

[CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread mattias
How to install alsa for sound I use vmware and it requre alsa ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : On second thought, a bash file calling zenity in a cronjob will be better. You can have zenity show any message you want in a window on the desktop and the only option available in that window can be ok. kalarm would allow the user to change the alarm, and that's not

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, I would question how real time that would be for every email for 6k+ domains. If a few have a large client base, or are expecting responses from a mass emailing, it might start to take a *while*, unless you've got pretty heavy duty equipment and networking. It's the same thing

Re: [CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
mattias a écrit : How to install alsa for sound I use vmware and it requre alsa # yum install alsa-utils ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, February 4, 2010 10:08, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: Have you looked at using rssh as the users shell? You can limit the user to a chroot sftp only. Its not stock, but ssh can then be. http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rssh/ I looked at rssh briefly yesterday when someone suggested

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Sergej Kandyla wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: Dear All I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this purpose ? Thank you yum

Re: [CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread mattias
Yes but the command alsa not exist Like debian you can do Alsa reload To load alsa drivers -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] För Niki Kovacs Skickat: den 4 februari 2010 16:13 Till: CentOS mailing list Ämne: Re: [CentOS] alsa

Re: [CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
mattias a écrit : Yes but the command alsa not exist Like debian you can do Alsa reload To load alsa drivers $ alsamixer And then : # alsactl store ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
3) But when I add it to crontab like this : # crontab -e 15 22 * * * /usr/local/sbin/warning.sh ... nothing happens at the given time (10:15 PM). Any idea what's wrong here? Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's crontab it is, when applicable).

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread mattias
No no no not kvm Vmware are the best -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] För Chan Chung Hang Christopher Skickat: den 4 februari 2010 16:19 Till: centos@centos.org Ämne: Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:04 -: I am attempting to stop any backscatter that these servers cause by only accepting mail for specific us...@domain or for domains with a catch-all account. I believe milter-ahead or smf-sav can be used for this. Kai -- Get your web at

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Geoff Galitz a écrit : Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's crontab it is, when applicable). Check your root mailbox for an error, I'm assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual culprit in a case like this. No mail for root. I

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
Geoff Galitz a écrit : Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's crontab it is, when applicable). Check your root mailbox for an error, I'm assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual culprit in a case like this. No mail for root. I

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
I know nothing about vmware and virtualbox on this score. VMware ESX(i) has their own set of optimized drivers for disks (and Lan). Forget the names off the top but they are paravirtualised and are available for Linux Windows. -- Drew Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : I assume you've checked /var/log/cron, to make sure it ran. Yes, it looks so. On further thought, here's a nasty one: on that line, echo $PATH. I wonder if you need all the X paths, and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, for zenity to run. I think I do grasp in

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : I assume you've checked /var/log/cron, to make sure it ran. I think the problem boils down to this : How can I run a graphical application from crontab ? I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't succeed either. rant Phew, how I hate

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
No no no not kvm Vmware are the best Yes and No. Each has their own strengths and their own weaknesses. I use ESXi in production because the smaller footprint and 3rd party tools I have make management backup exceptionally simple to use. I'm also supporting a mixed Windows / Linux shop so I

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 9:09 AM, Simon Billis wrote: Hi, I would question how real time that would be for every email for 6k+ domains. If a few have a large client base, or are expecting responses from a mass emailing, it might start to take a *while*, unless you've got pretty heavy duty equipment and

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
I think the problem boils down to this : How can I run a graphical application from crontab ? I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't succeed either. I think if you did something like this: -- #!/bin/sh # set DISPLAY export DISPLAY=localhost:0 #

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
You wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : On further thought, here's a nasty one: on that line, echo $PATH. I wonder if you need all the X paths, and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, for zenity to run. I think I do grasp in theory what you suggest, but I wouldn't know how to get it into practice.

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 9:05 AM, Simon Billis wrote: Another would be to use MimeDefang as the framework instead of mailscanner. It has an option to check recipient addresses via smtp to the delivery servers before accepting. You may have to write a snippet of perl to get that right for multiple

[CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread robert mena
Hi, I am trying to update a CentOS 4.4 but the yum update gives me error messages Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?' Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?' What's your mirrors config file look like? I'm thinking something in the url is messed up. Most likely a missing '/' after the 8080. -- Drew Nothing in life is to be

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, February 4, 2010 11:26 am, Geoff Galitz wrote: I think the problem boils down to this : How can I run a graphical application from crontab ? I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't succeed either. I think if you did something like this: --

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 9:47 AM, Drew wrote: I know nothing about vmware and virtualbox on this score. VMware ESX(i) has their own set of optimized drivers for disks (and Lan). Forget the names off the top but they are paravirtualised and are available for Linux Windows. Yes, if someone is starting

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 60, Issue 1

2010-02-04 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:36 +, Ned Slider wrote: I might be wrong, but I don't think the freely available drivers are signed, unlike the virtio drivers supplied by Red Hat through the Supplementary channel which are signed. The download page that was just posted here says: QUOTE: Code

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
James B. Byrne wrote: snip I am not sure what effect disabling SELinux support in SSH actually has from a security standpoint. So, if anyone cares to enlighten me on the the consequences I would like to know. I was under the impression that sshd runs unconfined in the current CentOS?

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ? Thanks, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, February 4, 2010 12:07 pm, Niki Kovacs wrote: I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ? *If* the issue has to do with one user trying to display the message on a desktop owned by another user, that

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert mena wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:30:18 -0400: urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?' Note the ? at the end, you likely have a typo in your proxy config. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] Block network at logoff on workstation

2010-02-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
David McGuffey 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 iptables rules and sits behind a Verizon FiOS firewall/switch also configured with tight rules. I was wondering how to best

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:36 +, Ned Slider wrote: I might be wrong, but I don't think the freely available drivers are signed, unlike the virtio drivers supplied by Red Hat through the Supplementary channel which are signed. The download page that was just posted here

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, February 4, 2010 12:00, Ned Slider wrote: I was under the impression that sshd runs unconfined in the current CentOS? $ ps axZ | grep sshd system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh 2766 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd For example, you don't need to change the ssh_port in

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marko A. Jennings a écrit : Since the crontab entry I posted earlier works for me, I would concentrate on trying to determine why exactly yours is failing. Oooops. According to Murphy's law, your initial message is the only one I had been overlooking... and it's also a *working* example.

[CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I stumbled upon this while looking for something else http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340 And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what all is out there and what I should use. Is there

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:04 -: I am attempting to stop any backscatter that these servers cause by only accepting mail for specific us...@domain or for domains with a catch-all account. I believe milter-ahead or smf-sav can be used for this. Kai Indeed

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, February 4, 2010 05:28, Radu Radutiu wrote: Just for the reference if you want to keep SELINUX enabled and create a new instance of sshd (with the stock CentOS 5.4 sshd) with sftp only you can do the following: -create a copy of /etc/ssh/sshd_config e.g. cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:45 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: The solution being simply to define the cronjob for the user... since there's only one on the machine :o) You may want to beautify it a bit and have the script check to see if the user is actually logged in before trying to bring up the

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 11:45 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, I stumbled upon this while looking for something else http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340 And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what all is

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread 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 running under cron to make them independent. cfengine or puppet (or

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 10:14 AM, Drew wrote: No no no not kvm Vmware are the best Yes and No. Each has their own strengths and their own weaknesses. I use ESXi in production because the smaller footprint and 3rd party tools I have make management backup exceptionally simple to use. I'm also

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: I was actually going to start another configuration management redux thread as a follow up to a thread I started a few months ago. As Les mentioned, it's far more common in that situation to use ssh key authentication and a for loop, if your ssh key has a pass phrase use a

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Gavin Carr
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:31:39PM -0500, 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] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 12:31 PM, 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

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Wade Hampton
I've been using clusterit for several years for multiple small clusters. It works well and was easy to install. I believe I got the Fedora source RPM and rebuilt it for CentOS. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Gavin Carr ga...@openfusion.com.au wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:31:39PM -0500,

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 12:45 PM, nate wrote: Alan McKay wrote: I was actually going to start another configuration management redux thread as a follow up to a thread I started a few months ago. As Les mentioned, it's far more common in that situation to use ssh key authentication and a for loop, if

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread robert mena
Thanks. Somebody entered an incorrect information in /etc/yum.conf On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: Robert mena wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:30:18 -0400: urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?' Note the ? at the end, you likely have a typo in your

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

2010-02-04 Thread adrian kok
Hi I change eth1 from realtek to dlink but the centos is showing eth2 instead of eth1 In another version of linux, I can change 70-persistent-net.rules but I check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules but it doesn't have the file 70-persistent-net.rules please help Thank you Send

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

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description language I'd be very interested.  Cfengine v3 might be getting there but the

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:47:55 -: Indeed as can Scam-backscatter, but I'm attempting to not load the backend mailserver with connections if at all possible, Yeah, I see. If you fill virtusertable with the valid addresses then you have to give explicit forwards for each

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:47:55 -: Indeed as can Scam-backscatter, but I'm attempting to not load the backend mailserver with connections if at all possible, Yeah, I see. If you fill virtusertable with the valid addresses then you

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

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 1:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description language I'd be very interested.

[CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Bo Lynch
Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Bo Lynch ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote: Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do?

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 4, 2010 3:31 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote: Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks There are all types of clustering. What are

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

2010-02-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description language

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

2010-02-04 Thread James Hogarth
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... James ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do? I guess the main objective would be availability. We need more information then just an Availability

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/04/2010 06:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote: cfengine or puppet (or something else - slackmaster?) are where I want slackmaster, i dont know about - but are you refering to 'slack' ? its a fairly easy way to get started, and is essentially a wrapper around rsync. takes about 2 min to get setup

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 4, 2010 4:09 pm, Drew wrote: Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do? I guess the main objective would be availability. We need

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Les Mikesell wrote on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:08 -0600: 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

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

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
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 improved significantly since the end of this past

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