RE: [CentOS] symbolic linking

2008-05-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
Frank Cox wrote: I have a number directories under /opt on computer jack. I want some (not all) of them to appear in /opt on computer jill. I have the /opt directory on jack mounted on jill under /mnt/jack If I go into the /opt directory on jill and do this: ln -s /mnt/jack/opt/files .

RE: [CentOS] Need help with rsync.

2008-05-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
James B. Byrne wrote: I have two hosts which have their respective keys loaded into each others .ssh/authorized-keys2 file for root. I want to move a directory tree from one host to the other via rsync to maintain a shadow structure of the application provided on the main host. This is the

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alain Terriault wrote: Just wondering if any one ever consider/use Coraid for massive storage under CentOS? http://www.coraid.com It seems like a very reasonable option.. comments ? I have one of those installed on CentOS 4.6 with 1TB of storage. I'm sharing it between three servers. I

RE: [CentOS] Copying files from specific date.

2008-06-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rajeev R. Veedu wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Huff Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:34 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Copying files from specific date. On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:16 AM, Rajeev R. Veedu

[CentOS] Confirming grub installation

2008-06-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
I have two drives in a software mirror. Other than setting the bios to boot from the second drive, is there any way to confirm that grub is installed properly on the second drive? -- Bowie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Confirming grub installati on

2008-06-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
Peter Farrell wrote: 2008/6/9 Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have two drives in a software mirror. Other than setting the bios to boot from the second drive, is there any way to confirm that grub is installed properly on the second drive? When installing CentOS - sometimes the RAID

[CentOS] Excluding packages from mirrored repo

2008-07-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
The RPMForge Tools list appears to be dead, so maybe someone here can help: I am mirroring the Centos4 updates repo using mrepo. My systems are all servers and have no need of OpenOffice, so I would like to be able to exclude the 4GB (i386 x86_64) of OpenOffice rpms when I mirror the repo. I

[CentOS] Cleaning up smp kernels

2008-07-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
I have used the package-cleanup utility to remove old kernel packages, but I noticed that it only removes the 'kernel' and 'kernel-devel' packages. It does not touch 'kernel-smp', 'kernel-hugemem', etc. What is the recommended method of cleaning up these other kernel packages? Should I just 'yum

RE: [CentOS] Cleaning up smp kernels

2008-07-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used the package-cleanup utility to remove old kernel packages, but I noticed that it only removes the 'kernel' and 'kernel-devel' packages. It does not touch 'kernel-smp', 'kernel-hugemem

RE: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff

2008-07-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Johnny Hughes wrote: You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with yum, but with: rpm -e `cat list` But, that is just my advise. I didn't think there was any functional difference between:

RE: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff

2008-07-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Johnny Hughes wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: You are trying to remove kernel-utils ...you don't want to do that. That might cut back the deps a bit. Also, i never remove packages with yum, but with: rpm -e `cat list` But, that is just my advise. I didn't

RE: [CentOS] Personal Wiki for CentOS

2008-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Joseph L. Casale wrote: For ages I have been keeping docs and notes in Public Folders inside an Exchange server and want to move this out to a more modern facility that allows tagging and searching via a web interface for keywords so I can keep all my notes more organized. Anyone have

RE: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with

RE: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Florin Andrei wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I know it's security through obscurity That's not necessarily a bad thing. It is bad if it's the _only_ protection. Right. I was just trying to head off the inevitable objections. Not that it worked... :) -- Bowie

RE: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread Bowie Bailey
Lanny Marcus wrote: Thank you! gvim is slick. As you wrote, it has lots of help and it will be easy to learn how to use vi, by learning on gvim. Better than holding a cheat sheet or having a book open, trying to figure out what to do, when learning. There is a nice vi cheatsheet available

RE: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
John Thomas wrote: Mad Unix wrote: Am trying to install perl module File::Find, but not able it gave the following cpan[1] install File::Find snip I made the mistake of trying to use cpan when I was young. I am now older and wiser and have read things like:

RE: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Karanbir Singh wrote: Steve Huff wrote: If someone would come up with a way to automate the dependency resolution so that I could grab and package everything at once, then I would do it, dag has a script that does just this. can you post a link? i've just been searching dag's

RE: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mad Unix wrote: Am trying to install ftpsync-1.2.33, prerequisite [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftpsync-1.2.33]# cat README | grep :: - File::Find, IO::Handle - Net::FTP - File::Listing cpan[2] install File::Find Running install for module 'File::Find' The most recent version 1.12 of the module

RE: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Karanbir Singh wrote: Steve Huff wrote: If someone would come up with a way to automate the dependency resolution so that I could grab and package everything at once, then I would do it, dag has a script that does just this. can you post a link? i've just been searching dag's

RE: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Karanbir Singh wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/dar/dar-perl.py What exactly is this program supposed to do? Can someone give me an example of how to use it to install a Perl module and its dependencies? There is an rpmforge mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Deduplicated archives via hardlinks [Was: XFS or EXT3 ?]

2010-12-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/3/2010 4:14 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 12:51 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/03/10 12:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Whenever anyone mentions backups, I like to plug the backuppc program (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html and packaged in EPEL). It

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2010 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6 addresses equally accessible. I've been following the NAT debate here and something

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2010 12:43 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 18:10, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/7/2010 11:36 AM, Tom H wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2010 1:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 12/7/10 11:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming that the ipv4 and ipv6 firewalls are as good at allowing/disallowing access, makes his current ipv4 and his future ipv6 addresses equally accessible. I've been

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/14/2010 2:38 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Keith Roberts wrote: snip Sorry for my lame email replies, (please excuse the pun), but I had problems with my email recently. I've just had to clear out ~6,000 SPAM messages from my new hosting providers web mail account :( *sigh* I've

Re: [CentOS] was, Re: Stripping silent periods from MP3s, is: forged spam

2010-12-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/14/2010 3:32 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/14/2010 2:38 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Keith Roberts wrote: snip Sorry for my lame email replies, (please excuse the pun), but I had problems with my email recently. I've just had to clear out ~6,000 SPAM messages

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/16/2010 2:15 AM, Philix T A wrote: 1) RAID 1 is good for reading while writing is a overhead for the disk and may hit the performance Unless you are doing something (such as video editing) that relies on ultra-fast hard drive access, you will probably never notice the difference. With

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/16/2010 3:20 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: Hello Keith, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm error: cannot write to

Re: [CentOS] use parted to create raw paration????

2010-12-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/17/2010 9:48 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: Thnks. Can you tell me where is RPMforge third-party repository? I search whole CENTOS 5.5 X86 installation DVD and can NOT find it. That's because it is third-party -- meaning that it is not part of the official CentOS distribution. You can find

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/25/2010 9:42 AM, S Mathias wrote: Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this list :\]: ## Q1) when cabling, is the color order important? like: straight

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/28/2010 2:51 PM, Morten Torstensen wrote: On 28.12.2010 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote: The colors are not important aside from standardization. If you need to fix one end of the cable, you have to make sure it's the same as the other end. If you use the standard color scheme

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/29/2010 9:52 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question From: Raymond Lillard r...@sonic.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:36:43 AM On 12/28/2010 08:01 PM, Drew wrote:

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/30/2010 8:19 AM, ken wrote: Given an HTML file which looks like this: - begin snippet - HTML HEAD TITLE We've Lied to You#8230;/TITLE META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT=Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79LINK REL=HOME TITLE=Maximum RPM HREF=index.htmlLINK

Re: [CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

2010-12-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/30/2010 10:24 AM, ken wrote: On 12/30/2010 09:18 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/30/2010 8:19 AM, ken wrote: Given an HTML file which looks like this: - begin snippet - HTML HEAD TITLE We've Lied to You#8230;/TITLE META NAME=GENERATOR CONTENT=Modular DocBook HTML

Re: [CentOS] RHCE question

2011-01-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/14/2011 9:27 AM, mahmoud mansy wrote: guys i am preparing muself to take the RHCE self study way and i wanna know what is the best OS (fedora 14 or centos 5.5) and in the same time i wanna it to be a general usage OS Since the RHCE exam is based on RHEL, that would be the best OS to work

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/16/2011 3:45 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: If you still want CentOS and aren't in a big hurry, you might wait for the CentOS6 release which should be coming soon. CentOS 5.x

Re: [CentOS] nvidia failure with new kernel

2011-01-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/17/2011 3:08 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: After looking at the recommended web site, I did the uninstall, and then ran: yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11- drv 21 | tee el.log I got: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error getting repository data

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/19/2011 4:00 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: the LiveCD will not install the operating system. It is purely for demo or diagnostic purposes. But there comes an option Install to Hard-disk after we see the Live CD

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/21/2011 4:14 AM, S Mathias wrote: my /tmp is too small [when i want to use convert]. how can i set imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? I'm not going to tell you to go away as some others have done, but I will give you a few tips that will help you get more

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/21/2011 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/21/2011 9:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: 4) Ask the question in the right place. This list is great and has lots of smart people, but it is not the proper place for all questions. Your question about Imagemagick would probably be better asked

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/21/2011 2:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well. However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab, the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and eventually the machine

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.8

2011-02-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/3/2011 4:43 PM, Y. K. Liu wrote: Hi, I installed CentOS 4.8 (not CentOS 5) on VMware Fusion using an ISO file I downloaded. During the installation, it asked me to enter a user name and its password. I tried to enter root for the user name, but it would not let me do that. So I had to

Re: [CentOS] Looking for back versions of centos 3

2011-02-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/14/2011 1:23 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Yeah, I'm rebuilding a server with Oracle RAC and I wasn't sure exactly what version of RedHat was used to build it originally. Centos 5.5 results in the external iscsi volumes being improperly sized. It turns out Centos 3.5 works. Once, many

Re: [CentOS] RECALL: http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

2011-02-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/23/2011 6:42 PM, David Brian Chait wrote: To quote Rodney King..Can't we all just get along? Every time I see that quote, I hear Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Batman. -- Bowie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 3/24/2011 2:48 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: I never understood the term Hig Availability : does it mean available as in soliciting ? High Availability means that you are pushing toward 100% uptime for your services. You try to make sure that no one event can take you down. What

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/4/2011 12:22 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: Wow - you haven't lived All my work-stations have dual monitors. If you regularly use a browser and a word processor or spreadsheet you will benefit. If you are trying to set up servers and compare between them, it is very useful too. Makes copy paste

Re: [CentOS] Many thanks and a little hint concerning httpd on 5.6

2011-04-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/8/2011 3:25 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: fred smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: I am grateful for the CentOS Project. I like it's stability and long-term support. I haven't seen a 5.6 release announcement yet. Have I missed it? I did not use the word

Re: [CentOS] iptables package issue

2011-04-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/8/2011 4:00 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/04/11 20:56, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place. So a quick check: # yum whatprovides

[CentOS] Yum missing dependency

2007-07-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
I haven't run any updates on my systems recently, but now I'm trying to get them up to date again. When I run a yum update, I get this error: Error: Missing Dependency: initscripts = 7.93.26.EL-1 is needed by package httpd I did a Google search, but I didn't find anything relating directly to

RE: [CentOS] Yum missing dependency

2007-07-26 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: initscripts = 7.93.26.EL-1 is needed by package httpd Show us the output of yum -d 5 update, please. [...] Dep Number: 1/1 httpd requires: initscripts

RE: [CentOS] Is installonly option needed?

2007-07-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
Brent L. Bates wrote: I made the mistake of updating a kernel once instead of installing it. If one upgrades a kernel and there is a problem, one can't easily go back to the old one. If one installs a new one, then one can quickly and easily go back to the old one as you have BOTH

RE: [CentOS] SATA vs. SAS

2007-08-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Peter Arremann wrote: On the other hand, data reliability is another issue. We have tons of sata based disk arrays and have had no issues yet (because our systems are all on UPS and multiple circuits) but if you don't have infrastructure like that, you are more likely to lose data on a sata

RE: [CentOS] SATA vs. SAS

2007-08-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Feizhou wrote: Option 1) 2 servers each having 2.0TB raid disk with SAS drives, 2GB ram and standard other features. If going down this road, why not look into getting one of those fancy new storage enclosures where the RAID is built into the enclosure and can allow 2 servers to

[CentOS] csgfs update for 4.5

2007-08-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
Anybody here know when there is going to be an update for the cluster packages for the 2.6.9-55.0.2 kernel that was released in June? The packages available from the repo are compiled against 2.6.8-55. I want to update my GFS cluster to CentOS 4.5, but I don't want to do such a major upgrade and

RE: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
Brian Mathis wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chkconfig ntpd on will cause ntpd to sync and start the ntp daemon every boot. service ntpd start will start the daemon right now. Matt You can set the servers you want to use in /etc/ntp.conf And

Re: [CentOS] 5.7 x86_64 DVD iso

2011-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 9/29/2011 12:24 PM, Michael Weiner wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:39 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.ukwrote: Then you've not looked very hard. Pick a mirror and it should be easy to find under the isos directory. Actually John, i did take some time to peruse the mirrors list on

Re: [CentOS] {Q} Relate to daylight saving time on Nov. 6 cron job

2011-10-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/10/2011 5:04 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: We have CENTOS 4.X and 5.X on DELL servers. On Nov. 6, 2:00 A.M. will change to 1:00 A.M. If I have cron job on 1:20 A.M., will it run twice? $ man cron ... Daylight Saving Time and other time changes Local time changes of less than three

Re: [CentOS] Hot upgrade from 5.2 Centos to 5.7 Centos

2011-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/18/2011 9:15 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: Hello Group, I am installed some application running on top of Centos 5.2 OS and these applications are running fine. However, we are thinking of upgrading our 5.2 Centos to 5.7 (hot upgrade). That is we want to upgrade from 5.2 Centos to 5.7

Re: [CentOS] C6 compatible wireless printers?

2011-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/19/2011 3:47 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: On 10/19/2011 09:40 PM, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Hi, Any success stories with C6 and wireless printers? Or maybe horror stories and what products to avoid? I'm looking at some HPs on amazon right now, some quite cheap, ~ £50, not bad. Ideally they

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/21/2011 6:22 AM, Steve Walsh wrote: Except. If you have a 6.0 machine, and enable the cr/ repo, then you don't just get the 6.0 updates. You get most of the post-6.0 updates, plus what's been built for 6.1 (effectively still in QA), plus some post 6.1 updates (Again, still in QA).

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I receiving security updates via 'yum update', which as far as I can tell hasn't installed any updates for

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/21/2011 9:43 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On Fri, October 21, 2011 15:39, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 10/21/2011 9:33 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: OK. So my question is. I have Centos 6.0 installed on a couple of systems. I have not modified any repos or installed any repos etc... Am I receiving

Re: [CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/9/2011 6:23 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: SPAMAssasin is a monster and the documentation is *BAD*. But I've gotten it working. Just post specific questions. SpamAssassin is not THAT bad. There is a fair amount of info out there on how to integrate it with various mail servers.

Re: [CentOS] Using the CR repo

2011-11-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/28/2011 7:37 PM, david wrote: At 04:32 PM 11/28/2011, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:07:27PM -0800, david wrote: Please do not top-post to the centos mailing lists - thank you. Is priority=1 more important than priority=2? If so, then I already have Yes. highest priority is

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/30/2011 10:31 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote: On 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. I am currently running 5.3 and yum info db4 tells me that they have version 4.3.29. Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3?

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-12-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/7/2011 7:07 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 08:06:55 PM James A. Peltier wrote: [Changing the port #] is completely and utterly retarded. You have done *NOTHING* to secure SSH by doing this. You have instead made it only slightly, and I mean ever so slightly, more

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS 6.1 still be supported?

2011-12-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/21/2011 3:31 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: Hello, Got a question, will CentOS6.1 continue to be supported with updates, or is it mandatory to upgrade to 6.2? Updates are available for 6.1. Apply them and you have 6.2... Think of the point releases as a large collection of updates.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 3/2/2012 1:01 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Digimer wrote: snip Boot from a live CD using the CentOS 6.2 install media. Once booted: bash# grub grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) grub root (hd1,0) grub setup (hd1) grub root (hd2,0) grub setup (hd2) grub quit bash# reboot This

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 3/2/2012 4:00 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: On 3/2/2012 2:46 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 3/2/2012 1:01 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Digimer wrote: snip Boot from a live CD using the CentOS 6.2 install media. Once booted: bash# grub grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) grub root (hd1,0

Re: [CentOS] cron job not running

2012-03-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 3/4/2012 10:25 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: hello list, I am attempting to backup a centos 5.4 (x86_64) server running mysql with a cron job. Here's how the cron job looks: [root@cloud:/home/bluethundr/backupdb] #crontab -l * 3 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump jfwiki

RE: [CentOS] RE: Logwatch / spamassassin

2008-09-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bob Hoffman wrote: So.. To answer my own question... so I edited the file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where localhost.localdomain is your hostname.servername And it worked. However, I am concerned about spoofing. I would think that mail

RE: [CentOS] /etc/rc5.d

2008-09-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: start() { date /root/joe.log /usr/bin/joevpn start RES=$? return $RES } This all works and everything. I am just curious as to why when I do a ps I get this: /bin/bash

RE: [CentOS] RAID / OS Monitoring tools ?

2008-09-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Spiro Harvey wrote: Now I want to be able to monitor the box, specifically with respect to the RAID drives so I'll know if one has gone bad and the RAID configuration has failed over to it. Anyone have any suggestions for tools to use ? We use 3Ware RAID cards, and they have a CLI util

RE: [CentOS] Re: DKIM

2008-09-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
John Hinton wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: Scott Silva wrote: A one stop shop on everything CentOS. I like that approach better. A new list for email only would probably lead to email threads on *both* lists, users being reminded to take the select inappropriate subject discussion to

RE: [CentOS] Faking RHEL with CentOS

2008-10-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
NiftyClusters T Mitchell wrote: If it is Oracle, Given the price of Oracle -- just purchase the RH product. It is common that the expensive packages are the most restrictive and putative. FYI, Oracle runs just fine on CentOS. -- Bowie ___

RE: [CentOS] find

2008-10-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman with the option files containing ... (that is where I can specify a string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just having the string as part of the name but actually containing

RE: [CentOS] find

2008-10-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
MHR wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Bo Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend taking a look at grep. THere are many ways

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Andy Harrison wrote: Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to know

Re: [CentOS] tar and gunzip help

2009-08-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: HI All, I have a directory tree that when the user un-gzips/untars it does into /opt by default. The directory tree is like: ugui | |-- misc files |-- source |-framework |-- misc files so when unzipped I want to end it with /opt/ugui and all the stuff below

[CentOS] Thunderbird installed for python dependency?

2009-08-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
I was starting to run a yum update on one of my servers and noticed that it wanted to install Thunderbird for some reason. Running yum with the '-v' option gave this output: gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.i386 requires: /usr/lib/python2.4 -- Processing Dependency: /usr/lib/python2.4 for package:

Re: [CentOS] self signing certificates

2009-08-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jerry Geis wrote on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:23:31 -0400: Was just trying to find a way so that users that dont know what this box is that is poping up wont even see the box. Sounds like there is no way around it - to just use https encryption. As has been said

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird installed for python dependency?

2009-08-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Bowie Baileybowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: I was starting to run a yum update on one of my servers and noticed that it wanted to install Thunderbird for some reason. Running yum with the '-v' option gave this output: Why is it

Re: [CentOS] unknown connection

2009-08-25 Thread Bowie Bailey
Manuel Monteiro wrote: Hello, Today I updated one of our computers running CentOS 5.3 32bit. After a reboot I notice the following with lsof –i sshd 3638 root3u IPv6 17317 TCP pc46.astro.up.pt:ssh-119.1.193.205:zephyr-clt (ESTABLISHED) sshd 3639 sshd

Re: [CentOS] yum repo priority

2009-09-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, I'm setting up some kickstart files for our standard configs, and need to install munin-node, which of course does not come from you folks, So I set up the Dag Wieers repository but in the repo file I set it to disabled so that it will never get used by mistake.

[CentOS] sendpage package

2009-09-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
Is sendpage or some other alphanumeric paging program available from one of the repos for CentOS 5? I've checked rpmforge and epel. I just wanted to check to see if it might be available somewhere else before I resort to building from source. -- Bowie

Re: [CentOS] sendpage package

2009-09-17 Thread Bowie Bailey
Stephen Harris wrote: Is sendpage or some other alphanumeric paging program available from one of the repos for CentOS 5? I've checked rpmforge and epel. I just wanted to check to see if it might be available somewhere else before I resort to building from source. Hylafax is in

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I am mulling over the thought of replacing my current solution, it works very well except for the following two issues: 1. LDAP recip verification for only one server, this gateway services multiple domains who's directories are independent. I need to be able to verify

Re: [CentOS] Antispam with Postfix

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ned Slider wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: 2. I use backup mx's, my current solution probably could work in this scenario but the support mechanism behind it is *very* weak and I can't get a perfect setup working. Spam hits the primary for a domain, gets

[CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect with the hplip driver. The problem is that when I have multiple print jobs in the queue, there is a delay of about 15 seconds

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server with an HP LaserJet 4 attached via JetDirect with the hplip driver. The problem is that when I

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 11:05 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: On Tue, September 29, 2009 10:49 am, Bowie Bailey wrote: I've googled for this and poked around linuxprinting.org, but couldn't find anything helpful. I have a CentOS 5 server

Re: [CentOS] Slow printing to HP jetdirect from cups

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
Peter l Jakobi wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:48:07AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I set the printer type as raw and then restarted cups just to make sure the change was active. No effect. Still have the delays. Avoid cups for a quick test: 2 ways: 1) get the lprng rpm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS With Windows Networks

2009-09-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
DTS Corp wrote: Am pretty new to CentOS and linux. I am trying to be able to share network drives and connect to a windows workgroup with CentOS. Machines are as follows. Workgroup has been changed from WorkGroup or MSHome to my own setting All of the client machines are formatted with

Re: [CentOS] how to turn off update info on /var/log/messages

2009-10-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
mcclnx mcc wrote: we have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL server. This server is inside firewall and it continue get error messages on /var/log/messages: error getting update info: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again anyone

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I know this is resolv.conf. I know I put in: nameserver

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. 13 IPs for your modem? Is this a business account or something? Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it automatically) like: 173.13.167.209 --

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Les, What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo It works. If I set; SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key and a value. I need multiple values for 1 key, as one would

[CentOS] iptables question

2009-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
The logs on my mail server are filling up with this kind of thing: Oct 19 17:03:51 bnofmail kernel: REJECT: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX SRC=195.140.240.6 DST=XX.XX.XX.XX LEN=189 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=6284 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=25 DPT=32776 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:18:16 -0400: The destination address is the private IP of the server. These seem to be related to outgoing email connections based on the source IPs Is 195.140.240.6 the public IP of that machine? Why do you obfuscate

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: conversation. The question is: why are all of these remote servers trying to make connections back to me on high-numbered ports? Should I be allowing these connections somehow? The remote server probably thinks that it's still supposed to be making

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