[CentOS] Re: RE-export nfs mounted share

2008-06-09 Thread David G. Miller
whoami i [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Barry, First of all thanx for your reply but i already used the options crossmnt,fsid=0 in my exports file still i am not able to re-export it. Regards lingu On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] perl

2008-08-21 Thread David G. Miller
Mad Unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am trying to install perl module File::Find, but not able it gave the following cpan[1] install File::Find CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.15) Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:03:21 GMT Running install for module

Re: [CentOS] Fixing filenames with directories with spaces in the names

2010-12-28 Thread David G . Miller
Craig White craigwh...@... writes: Should be simple and perhaps I'm tired but it's not coming to me. In its simplest form... for old in `cat $FILENAME`;do echo $old dirname $old new=$(echo $old | sed 's/\*/\-/') done I'm trying to take out some stupid Macintosh things - in

Re: [CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread David G . Miller
mcclnx mcc mcclnx@... writes: We have several csh batch scripts using #!/bin/csh -v. It work fine, before Centos 5.5. After cenos 5.5, it will NOT execute and only list history. Anyone know why? Thanks. Actually, the script is executed: [dave@fraud ~/bin]# ./ctest.csh echo this

Re: [CentOS] #!/bin/csh -v not work on CENTOS 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread David G . Miller
Cameron Kerr cameron@... writes: On 27/01/2011, at 7:27 AM, David G. Miller wrote: chmod -R g+rx,o+rx Nelson/ cd What is the result of 'cd' (a shell-internal command) in this version of tcsh? It is the same as in sh? As expected, cd with no directory is the same as cd

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-04 Thread David G . Miller
Rainer Traut tr.ml@... writes: Hi, to prevent scripted dictionary attacks to sshd I applied those iptables rules: SNIP Lots of good advice from several people. All of the suggested solutions mean you still have to wade through log entries from the unsuccessful attacks. I've been

Re: [CentOS] Retrive data from repartitioned / reformatted, hard drive?

2007-06-29 Thread David G. Miller
Mark Hull-Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/28/07, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The title says it all. One of my clients showed me a 120 GB hard drive that his daughter accidentally formatted, according to him. I booted the first CD I had at hand - a Slackware 11.0

Re: [CentOS] filtering ssh regardless of the port

2007-09-19 Thread David G. Miller
David Hrb?c( [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bazy napsal(a): And yes... I will use layer 7 filtering. http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/protocols Patch my kernel, my iptables, and iptables -A INPUT -m layer7 --l7proto ssh -j DROP ;) Yes, the only way. D. Silly question. If you're just

Re: [CentOS] Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and, stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email, reporting

2007-09-23 Thread David G. Miller
Alexander Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr and stdin, which is easy: backup.sh /var/log/backup.log 21 However, I would like to propagate only stderr

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP CentOS 5: Impossible to, restore WinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread David G. Miller
Alain Spineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) That's probably a good thing. You don't know what else was changed (e.g., registry entries, etc.) that won't keep

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-29 Thread David G. Miller
Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 7:23 AM, David G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now everything (sort of) just works (TM). I say sort of because I'm still running ndiswrapper since every time I've tried the bcm43xx kernel module it hasn't worked with my WAP

Re: [CentOS] Quantum scalar i40 tape partitions

2012-01-31 Thread David G . Miller
Xinhuan Zheng xzheng@... writes: Hi All, I have a Quantum scalar i40 tape library. I need to configure it to TWO tape partition libraries, e.g., library_a and library_b, so that each library has its own tape drive. Then connect this physical tape library to two different CentOS servers so

Re: [CentOS] install detecting disk as sdb not sda

2012-02-04 Thread David G . Miller
wwp subscript@... writes: Hello Ross, On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:01:53 -0500 Ross Walker rswwalker@... wrote: On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:34 PM, wwp subscript@... wrote: Hello Jerry, On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:24:14 -0500 Jerry Geis geisj@... wrote: I am trying to install 6.2 on

Re: [CentOS] Shrew Soft VPN Client for CentOS 6

2012-02-24 Thread David G . Miller
m.roth@... writes: Hi, Dave, dave@... wrote: Where I work uses the Shrew Soft VPN client to access remote resources. I have found pre-built rpms for EL5, various versions of Fedora, and appropriate packages for non-rpm based distros but no rpm for EL6. I have downloaded the

Re: [CentOS] Shrew Soft VPN Client for CentOS 6

2012-02-25 Thread David G . Miller
Les Mikesell lesmikesell@... writes: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM, David G. Miller dave@... wrote: I ran tcpdump on my gateway's interface to the the 'net while running a ping on Does the VPN create its own tun interface? If so tcpdump should be able to see the decrypted packets

Re: [CentOS] Shrew Soft VPN Client for CentOS 6

2012-02-27 Thread David G . Miller
David G. Miller dave@... writes: Les Mikesell lesmikesell@... writes: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM, David G. Miller dave@... wrote: SNIP Recap: I could build and run the Shrew Soft VPN client but I couldn't get packets back to the application process. They made it to the NIC on the box

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing, Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-29 Thread David G. Miller
Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8-28-2008 4:15 PM William L. Maltby spake the following: On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:50 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: snip I have motherboards in my garage older than you! ;-D PIKER! I've mobos still running (when I fire 'em

[CentOS] USB flash drive and VMs (Was Curmudgeoning)

2008-09-03 Thread David G. Miller
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until relatively recently. They didn't work in 98 first edition, nor in NT4 or Win2000 - again, from

Re: [CentOS] USB flash drive and VMs (Was Curmudgeoning)

2008-09-05 Thread David G. Miller
Marcelo Roccasalva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flash support under qemu seems to be about the same as CD-ROM support. That is, you can access a device present at start up but it's not swappable. You can swap cdrom from qemu monitor. I haven't tried, but I think the same thing can be

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-20 Thread David G. Miller
Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: Hmm. I wonder then if that is a bug in CentOS. Since the default shown from the earlier posts indicates that several other pieces, including the server daemon, should come along with the mandatory piece, mysql. No,

Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times, when connecting to host

2008-10-29 Thread David G. Miller
Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:30 -0500, David Miller wrote: I have a CentOS 5.2 server running Apache 2.2.3 (yum installed) and drupal 6.5 on ESX 3.5. We're using Name Based Virtual Hosting on it - 2 hosts. The problem is that when I pull up a web page

Re: [CentOS] offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help

2008-11-01 Thread David G. Miller
fabian dacunha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote with horrible intentional misspellings: Dear All, its a offtopic question but really apprecite if someone would advise n help i have been running a mil server with sendmail and have sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org as my dnsbl. i had other servers which are

Re: [CentOS] close open relay

2008-11-13 Thread David G. Miller
Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (with a few extraneous bits removed): Original Message Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 03:33:11 PM -0500 From: Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] close open relay hi

[CentOS] CentOS/RHEL, PHP and zip archives

2008-11-19 Thread David G. Miller
I'm trying to get bulk photo uploads working with a Drupal web site. The person who coded the Drupal photos module I'm using decided to use a zip archive as a means of batching together a collection of picture files for a bulk upload. Apache is reporting the following PHP error when the bulk

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-11 Thread David G. Miller
Toby Bluhm t...@alltechmedusa.com wrote: Or switch to postfix. I plunked relayhost = smtp-server.roadrunner.com into main.cf away it went. Having read the rest of the thread, I respond at the risk of furthering the flames. The sendmail configuration line is just as trivial:

Re: [CentOS] mp3 to wav converter

2009-01-12 Thread David G. Miller
John jse...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:13 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] mp3 to wav converter Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread David G. Miller
Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why we don't need to install an anti-virus or

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-23 Thread David G. Miller
Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:42 PM, David G. Miller d...@davenjudy.org wrote: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI

Re: [CentOS] Drupal installation

2009-07-24 Thread David G . Miller
Timothy Murphy gayle...@... writes: Does anyone have experience of drupal installation under CentoOS-5.3 with MySQL database preferably accessed through phpMyAdmin. I want to install drupal more or less as an experiment, and I'm looking for a 1- or 2-page document that just lists

Re: [CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread David G . Miller
Tom Brown t...@... writes: Hi On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue. What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct

Re: [CentOS] A bit more on the Firefox 3.5.issue

2009-08-12 Thread David G . Miller
Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@... writes: I hadn't logged into Fedora for about ten days -- which was the last time I updated it. I updated it again today and it already had 315 Megs of updates. I think Fedora is a good distribution, but I don't think I would want that kind of upkeep traffic. (Which

Re: [CentOS] protecting multiuser systems from bruteforce ssh attacks

2009-08-21 Thread David G . Miller
Eugene Vilensky evilen...@... writes: Hello, What is the best way to protect multiuser systems from brute force attacks? I am setting up a relatively loose DenyHosts policy, but I like the idea of locking an account for a time if too many attempts are made, but to balance this with

Re: [CentOS] card reader issue

2009-02-06 Thread David G. Miller
Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: I have never done anything with a card reader before so I have no idea what I'm doing here. I have a laptop with a card reader in it and when I put the card in I see this in /var/log/messages: Feb 5 13:28:58 localhost pcscd:

[CentOS] Scripting Oddity

2009-02-09 Thread David G. Miller
I've been playing around with qemu and wanted to make the guest OS instance visible on my network. This meant getting bridging and tun/tap working. After getting things working by pasting command from the CentOS wiki article plus adding a few enhancements, I decided to capture the process in

Re: [CentOS] text processing problem with bash/perl

2009-02-13 Thread David G. Miller
Dennis Kaptain dkapt...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: Hi, Anyone has some ways for the following text processing problem? I have a text file containing two stanzas attached below. I want to uncomment the stanza with 'host=localhost' line, while left the other stanza unchanged.

Re: [CentOS] probem with bind???

2009-02-22 Thread David G. Miller
fabian dacunha fab...@baladia.gov.kw wrote: Dear All, I am sorry for posting this query here but hope someone can help me out i have been running Centos 5 as my prinamry DNS n Mail server with bind 9.2 every thing works fine but in my/var/messages log i see continuosly the below meesages

Re: [CentOS] I have a test system that hangs hard...

2009-03-07 Thread David G. Miller
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: See embedded comments. I'm not familiar with the specific package mentioned but these are just a few standard debugging ideas. I have a test system: Centos 5.2 on an OQO, that has been hanging hard. I have to unplug it and pull the battery so I

Re: [CentOS] grub issue

2009-03-16 Thread David G. Miller
Indunil Jayasooriya induni...@gmail.com wrote: Pls see below [r...@authpassword ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that #

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread David G. Miller
Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ned Slider Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrade Thomas Dukes wrote:

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread David G. Miller
Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote: Robert wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: snip I'm in France (Europe), snip C'mon, Niki! Give us a break. Our knowledge of world geography is not THAT bad on this side of the Atlantic. :-) Where's the Atlantic? Is

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-16 Thread David G. Miller
Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Hi all, I'd like to deploy a solution with dual-booting systems where CentOS 5.3 is already installed and WinXP will be installed to a separate disk. I found

[CentOS] Threading and CentOS mailing list digest

2009-04-17 Thread David G. Miller
Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: John R Pierce wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:34:49 -0700: odder, I don't see a In-Reply-To: header, so I dunno HOW it appears threaded just fine. It's been put in the thread according to the time sequence because the header you mention is

Re: [CentOS] Threading and CentOS mailing list digest

2009-04-18 Thread David G . Miller
Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@... writes: David G. Miller wrote: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@... wrote: What is happening is I get the CentOS mailing list in digest form. SNIP I avoid the problem by accessing this list via the mail-to-news gateway on news.gmane.org and suspending

Re: [CentOS] Threading and CentOS mailing list digest

2009-04-18 Thread David G . Miller
Kai Schaetzl mailli...@... writes: David G. Miller wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:39:50 -0600: What is happening is I get the CentOS mailing list in digest form. Ah, that explains it. Other people usually just reply to the digest (which then creates a new thread with Digest

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

Re: [CentOS] How to reply to a digest

2009-06-11 Thread David G . Miller
David McGuffey davidmcguf...@... writes: I'm receiving the centos-request in digest mode. Using Fedora 10 and Evolution. When I tried to reply to a centos-request message inside the digest, the result doesn't seem to look right. I cut/paste the proper subject line (replacing the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread David G . Miller
Bob Hoffman b...@... writes: So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about something. I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that program to listen to it,

Re: [CentOS] More awk help

2009-06-25 Thread David G . Miller
Joseph L. Casale jcas...@... writes: Hey guys, Looking through my book and the web and I am not having any success returning data from a search. I need to have awk search for a string and print the first field which is no problem but now its returning two options as the input data has

Re: [CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

2011-05-02 Thread David G . Miller
Roland Roland R_O_L_A_N_D@... writes: Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) - Centos - Switch - LAN users Hw specs: 3 GB ram 3.0 core 2 duo 2 X 1 TB HDD 2 X 1 Gb NIC Your proposed

Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread David G . Miller
Karanbir Singh mail-lists@... writes: On 05/03/2011 07:57 AM, Steve Castellotti wrote: /We should have news, along with a release plan, for CentOS-6 in the next few days/ There is a plan, of sorts. I wanted to make sure the QA guys had a few days to mull it over before making it

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-10 Thread David G . Miller
Karanbir Singh mail-lists@... writes: Hi, On 07/09/2011 05:23 PM, Edson - PMSS wrote: I really like CentOS, but it is undeniable the delay in the release of version 6.0. yes, we all clearly take that on board - I hope the changes we are bringing in helps clear that, and prevent

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 dhcpd

2011-07-16 Thread David G . Miller
Timothy Murphy gayleard@... writes: I've installed CentOS-6 on my server (in parallel to CentOS-5.6) and now I'm trying to set up dhcpd. I'm not sure if there has been a change in dhcpd under CentOS-6, but I'm getting the dreaded message Not configured to listen on any interfaces!

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-04 Thread David G . Miller
Michel Donais donais@... writes: I restarted the a Centos 5.6 server tonight and I ran in this issue:   I was able to boot. Then instead of a normal boot with graphical interface the system requested : 'Enter run level' 'INIT' I typed 5 then I got 'INIT: no more process left in

Re: [CentOS] Networking question

2011-09-07 Thread David G . Miller
tdukes@... writes: Hello, Is it possible to use a mobile hot spot such as the one from Verizon to run a home network? Is there a way to do this without having to buy wireless cards? I was thinking maybe I would have to buy one for my centos machine which acts as my gateway but would

Re: [CentOS] Networking question

2011-09-08 Thread David G . Miller
tdukes@... writes: Lots deleted After checking with Verizon on their mobile Hotspot plans, it isn't feasible. However, I can do it through my unlimited data plan for my iPhone. 3G is faster than the Road Runner service I have. If I use the IPhone, I can use a USB connection. My centos

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread David G . Miller
Larry Vaden larry.va...@... writes: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca wrote:  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called oracle enterprise linux which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm curious -- has anyone here used

Re: [CentOS] APC Smart-ups quot;status codesquot; (slightly OT)

2010-01-30 Thread David G . Miller
m.r...@... writes: We got replacement battery kits for some of our APC UPS' (Smart-UPS, rackmount). I put them into one tray (it's for an RBC 43, which takes 8, and weighs a ton), and put it in, and let it charge. Idiot change battery led stays on. So I hit the test button, it discharges

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

2010-03-05 Thread David G . Miller
m.r...@... writes: m.r...@... wrote: [...] Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early

[CentOS] Silly question about 5.1

2007-12-03 Thread David G. Miller
I just rebooted my desktop system to pick up the 5.1 kernel, etc. One oddity I noticed is that the contents of /etc/redhat-release still says: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final) but: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/redhat-release

Re: [CentOS] 5.x install - loses display when launching, anaconda

2007-12-06 Thread David G. Miller
Tom Lanyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/12/2007, at 8:20 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: Tom Lanyon wrote: Hi all, Trying to install 5.0 or 5.1 (i386 or x86_64) on a new system from an install DVD. As soon as the installer launches anaconda, the screen shuts off and from this

Re: [CentOS] find IP address of device on network based on, MAC address

2007-12-15 Thread David G. Miller
John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: I have a device on my network that is not DHCP and I dont know the IP address of it and it has not method of finding it or changing it unless you know the IP address (setable by browser). Is there a way on linux, based on MAC

[CentOS] tar bug in CentOS 4.6?

2008-01-08 Thread David G. Miller
Since upgrading my server from CentOS 4.5 to 4.6 I've been getting the following error from amanda backups: mutilate /home lev 1 FAILED [compress got signal 11, /bin/tar got signal 13] I was away from the house for most of the end of December and had a couple of other issues that came up

Re: [CentOS] tar bug in CentOS 4.6?

2008-01-09 Thread David G. Miller
Nicolas Sahlqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First you have to figure out if the problem occurs in tar or gzip, do you get the problem if you tar and then gzip or is it combined (make a none compressed tar archive), in case no is the pipe somehow the problem, same crash with tar -z option rather

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs when Reading Local RPMDB

2008-01-10 Thread David G. Miller
Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of a sudden yum hangs on a Centos 4.5 (updated to the latest patch before 4.6) when I try to use it. clean metadata didn't help. The output of -d5 shows it gets to the point of Reading Local RPMDB and then sits there. The process doesn't die, but

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs when Reading Local RPMDB

2008-01-11 Thread David G. Miller
Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I do this without need I have a question: if the rpm db is corrupt shouldn't rpm -q or -qa stop working? Kai Not necessarily. A regular user can run rpm -q since it doesn't lock the database (your original posting showed rpm hanging on a FUTEX).

Re: [CentOS] OT: Dell BIOS and mixed drives

2008-01-16 Thread David G. Miller
Jerry S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] top posted his reply: In the BIOS you should also be able to specify the boot drive as well. jer Barry Schiffman wrote: I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both onboard SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one of each kind of drive into the bays to

[CentOS] Amanda oddity (amcheck)

2008-01-23 Thread David G. Miller
I'm slowly getting everything back to normal here after swapping motherboards on my server. I also took the opportunity to bring the server up to CentOS 5. I'm still getting services working but I have one oddity with amanda. Ever since I upgraded the server to CentOS 5, amcheck dies and

[CentOS] Monitor power save question

2008-02-01 Thread David G. Miller
I decided to try the x86_64 version of CentOS 5 on my new desktop since it has an Athlon 64 X2 CPU. The one really perplexing oddity is that the monitor no longer goes to power save mode (standby) if the system is idle long enough (e.g., overnight). The power management option is set to put

Re: [CentOS] DVD support on CentOS 5.1

2008-02-02 Thread David G. Miller
On Feb 1, 2008 2:17 AM, Ross Cavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package that you want to install from rpmforge is: gstreamer-ugly-plugins It should make gstreamer (and totem on centos5) be able to play dvds. I am not sure if it works, as I use mplayer on my personal

Re: [CentOS] Re: Monitor power save question

2008-02-03 Thread David G. Miller
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David G. Miller wrote: Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver vesa EndSection [..] and the video card is (this is a single card that shows up twice in lspci): 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies

Re: [CentOS] Re: Monitor power save question

2008-02-04 Thread David G. Miller
I wrote and now I'm answering my own post: nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David G. Miller wrote: Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver vesa EndSection [..] and the video card is (this is a single card

[CentOS] Re: Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-05 Thread David G. Miller
Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2/4/2008 2:43 PM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: Create a swap lv in the vg you created out of /dev/md1, assuming /dev/md0 is /boot. -Ross Oh, I thought it wasn’t good to run swap inside software raid? If I was wrong, I

Re: [CentOS] system gets suspended automatically!

2008-02-05 Thread David G. Miller
Chandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am running CentOS-5 with latest kernel available by deault (2.6.23). I installed it on a Dell XPS machine having Intel Quad processors (4 parallel cpus). I use it to run a computational program and I need to keep the program running for 1-2 months

Re: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

2008-02-09 Thread David G. Miller
vincenzo romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've deployed new servers - installing new CentOS servers via PXE booting using its iso distribution stored on an NFS server. For certain server types; I'd like to install custom applications into a server and then generate an image of that

Re: [CentOS] How can I stop the eject of the DVD after install?

2008-02-14 Thread David G. Miller
Lundgren, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created my own install DVD with a custom kickstart file and modified the isolinux.cfg file to allow the system to boot off of the hard disk as the default mode. It will also use my kickstart file if I select it. Now I would like to make the

Re: [CentOS] OFF Topic: mysql installation problem

2008-02-15 Thread David G. Miller
Ed Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mouss wrote: anything in /var/log/mysqld.log? nothing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /var/log/mysqld.log [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Speaking of mysqld.log, check the ownership and permissions. I vaguely remember chasing a similar problem only to find

Re: [CentOS] Network configuration question

2008-02-17 Thread David G. Miller
Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is it somehow possible to connect this laptop with

Re: [CentOS] Lost my win dual boot

2008-02-26 Thread David G. Miller
Stephen McManus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally got my install working, Centos didn't recognise my m/board NIC so I had to install another NIC. Now, I've lost the windows install. I need it for my Walkman and Palm. Never, ever got any distro to see the Tunsgsten E. I can see the Win in Grub

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Email Wiki and/or mailing list

2008-03-02 Thread David G. Miller
Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David G. Miller wrote: sendmail, dspam and dovecot here. I keep saying I'll post an article to my blog about how I got dspam working with Apache 2.2. get it on wiki,centos.org instead :D I document how I did it on my blog. Especially when

[CentOS] Colors in vi for user rootRe:

2008-03-07 Thread David G. Miller
Mario Gamito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? Regular users have it, but not root's. I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing. Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito This was discussed previously soon after

Re: [CentOS] Colors in vi for user root

2008-03-12 Thread David G. Miller
Erek Dyskant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was discussed previously soon after CentOS 5.0 was released. The upstream distribution changed root from using vim (with syntax highlighting) to using vi. With the 4.X versions root was using vim. The 5.X configuration is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] radius WPA

2008-03-18 Thread David G. Miller
David Hl??ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , will be someone so kind and will provide mi howto, or working configuration of Acess Point WPA authentification using Radius Server . I have followed a lot of howtos, unfortunatelly no one works for me. Using Centos 5.1 . I put up a blog entry on

[CentOS] Sound card problem

2008-03-28 Thread David G. Miller
I came into an Abit AX8 motherboard and single core AMD Athlon 64 FX. I did a quick install of CentOS 5.0 on it to make sure everything worked and then returned the hard disk and case to the original owner. After getting a new case and hard disk, I downloaded the CentOS 5.1 cd images and

Re: [CentOS] Sound card problem

2008-03-30 Thread David G. Miller
William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 21:57 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: I came into an Abit AX8 motherboard and single core AMD Athlon 64 FX. I did a quick install of CentOS 5.0 on it to make sure everything worked and then returned the hard disk and case

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-11 Thread David G. Miller
Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux wrote on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:06:40 +0300: Every 59 minutes (maybe every hour) it reboots without any logs, without any traces and unfortunately with breaking software raid. After reboot dmesg does not have any strange entries. I

Re: [CentOS] xorg.conf disappear

2012-03-29 Thread David G . Miller
m.roth@... writes: Lars Hecking wrote: brick writes: Hi My system is CentOS 6. I need to edit xorg.conf. But it can't be find in /etc/X11. Where is it? How can I get the default setting? /var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you which configuration Xorg is currently using, which

Re: [CentOS] KVM and vnc together

2012-05-26 Thread David G . Miller
Arun Khan knura9@... writes: On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@... wrote: I have my machine CentOS 6.2 running KVM guest of Windows 7. SNIP Then when I remote in using VNC to my machine - the VNC always works fine. However, when I try to access the KVM session its like

Re: [CentOS] su path hard coded?

2012-07-24 Thread David G . Miller
Stephen Harris lists@... writes: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:33:17PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Stephen Harris lists@... wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Can't you use the usual approach of 'su -' to pick up the target

Re: [CentOS] A question

2013-02-13 Thread David G . Miller
John R Pierce pierce@... writes: On 2/12/2013 4:51 PM, Bassem Sossan wrote: I'm beginner with Linux... I have found a good resource, it's a book called Beginning Red Hat Linux 9... the centos's version that I've installed centos 6... Is this book may be compatible with Centos 6 ?

Re: [CentOS] A question

2013-02-14 Thread David G . Miller
Les Mikesell lesmikesell@... writes: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller dave@... wrote: Red Hat Linux is ancient. SNIP I started with Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998. Mind your manners when calling RHL 9 ancient or I'll come over and hit you with my walker. In computer

Re: [CentOS] Not - Re: New DNS server up and running

2013-02-21 Thread David G . Miller
Robert Moskowitz rgm@... writes: It looks like no system, internal or external could access the DNS on my new server. IPTABLES was set for 53 both UDP and TCP. Firewall was OK. In fact a local system on the same subnet, thus NOT going through my firewall was denied access to the

Re: [CentOS] floppy drives

2013-04-08 Thread David G . Miller
mark m.roth@... writes: On 04/07/13 16:22, Frank Cox wrote: On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:18:29 -0400 mark wrote: All of 'em are old DOS. Just tried mdir a:, and the same: can't open, can't initials A:. I really doubt the drives themselves are dead, but Floppy disks have a finite

Re: [CentOS] floppy drives

2013-04-09 Thread David G . Miller
mark m.roth@... writes: SNIP But I'm over the first hump. Now I'm playing with /dev/fd1 and /dev/floppy-fd1 (and why is it trying to read a superblock when I try to mount it, when I've said -t msdos? Oh, well, onward in the fight.) mark I think mount uses the same error string

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-06 Thread David G . Miller
Cliff Pratt enkiduonthenet@... writes: How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get Have to be root if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user. Cheers, SNIP Odd combination of systems

Re: [CentOS] How to get Centos to recognize a Motorola RAZR V3 as a USB device?

2013-07-17 Thread David G . Miller
John Doe jdmls@... writes: From: Rock Rocksockdoc@... At this point, it looks like my main options are: a) Bluetooth b) Moto4lin c) kmobiletools I did not follow the whole thread but, the doc seems to talk about a mass storage mode...

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-28 Thread David G . Miller
Steve Thompson smt@... writes: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Bret Taylor wrote: A fairly simple solution is dd if=/dev/zero (or urandom) of=/dev/(device) I usually hit the disk with a hammer. Satisfying -s I run badblocks in write mode on the drive. badblbocks does four passes (all

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-03 Thread David G . Miller
Harold Pritchett harold@... writes: On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago using

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-18 Thread David G . Miller
Ashley M. Kirchner ashley@... writes: So I'm in a bit of a pickle ... I have a machine that needs to be repurposed from WinXP to CentOS. I downloaded the CentOS DVD and all then realized ... I don't have a keyboard/mouse for the machine. It only has USB ports on it, and I don't have a

Re: [CentOS] Headless system

2013-12-19 Thread David G . Miller
Billy Crook bcrook@... writes: What about when special modules need to be in the initrd for hardware upon which boot depends (raid cards, SAN HBAs, NICs sometimes)? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David G. Miller dave@... wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at ... writes: So I'm

Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2013-12-21 Thread David G . Miller
Scot P. Floess sfloess@... writes: All, I don't know if this will help y'all, but I have gotten Chrome working with CentOS 6.x: http://www.tecmint.com/install-google-chrome-on-redhat-centos-fedora-linux/ On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, Kwan Lowe wrote: No consolation for CentOS 6, but

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