Re: [CentOS] tmpfs says No space left on device

2010-12-01 Thread James Hogarth
On 1 December 2010 14:13, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I have a server where we use tmpfs as a cache for temporary files used by a web application.  But occasionally this tmpfs thinks it is full when it isn't. [r...@flask-yellow tmpfs]# touch file touch: cannot touch

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
As per the Redhat Virtualisation Expo yesterday... API/ABI compatibility is maintained within the point releases. If your stuff is certified on 5.4 it will run on 5.5/5.6. In addition there are compatibility libraries to get anything running on 5.X on 6.0... and when you move to 6.0 then anything

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
This... is theory. In practice, major architectural changes will break things and need to be tested. For example, the anaconda environment for RHEL 6 does not contain the dirname command. The environment for RHEL 5 did. I anticipate that CentOS 6 will also lack it. Who would know that

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: Hi all, For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread James Hogarth
Work is currently ongoing on QA for 5.6 ... once that is out then you'll start seeing the other updates that depend on that. James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread James Hogarth
Ah, so that's what it is.  I had kind of assumed everyone had been distracted by work on CentOS 6, until I saw the recent massive update to CentOS 4. Centos6 is pretty much on hold until 5.6 is out the door due to the number of systems it has an impact on (ie no existing C6 systems to update

Re: [CentOS] premature question on 5.6

2011-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2011 15:55, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: What will be the correct way to migrate ext3 to ext4 going from 5.5 to 5.6? Will something after the update ask if you want to migrate the file systems? Looking forward to some file system speed ups with large files. Thanks

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread James Hogarth
Our network consists of aaa.bbb.ccc.0/19.  That's CIDR notation for 8,192 addresses. But what has that got to do with www.yahoo.com moved into our /19 your comment is pretty unclear. IMHO, fully updated purpose-built servers running 4.8 should have more or less the same vulnerablity

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread James Hogarth
I think I do; he's an ISP, and apparently someone inside his address block (the CIDR notation /19; his actual block is publicly found by doing a quick nslookup of his domain name, noting the IP address of the DNS server(s) listed, and then a whois of the IP address of the DNS server(s).  

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread James Hogarth
Joe, Randy and James are my mentors of 15, 5 and 5 years, respectively, and all said the same thing, namely nuke and repave, be sure to be current on BIND since it is a purpose-built box (ns1). Perhaps is it a difference in language and what you mean by mentor and where I would mean old

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-19 Thread James Hogarth
Johnny has remarked on the importance of trust. My trust in RedHat went down when I learned they are not shipping all the SRPMs.  Some say it is due to human error.  If that is the case, why should I think they are better at backporting security fixes than at making sure a manifest of SRPMs

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-21 Thread James Hogarth
Far be it from me to take credit for someone else's work. I also don't have the CentOS 6 information, which is what I've really been wanting all along. There is no C6 info yet. Maybe he will release it once it's all worked out. After all this I wouldn't blame him if he didn't. How hard is

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

2011-02-23 Thread James Hogarth
I don't want to raise the drama, so please don't take this wrong. In this case though, I do think that a warning on the ML about a security issue is justified. You can't be too careful. Except that this issue does not affect BIND in rhel and thus CentOS therefore making it yet more pointless

Re: [CentOS] how to make centos safty(php+mysql)

2011-02-28 Thread James Hogarth
as someone else said, directories need 'execute' privilege (which really means permission to list the dir). Not quite... +r allows listing of the directory and +x allows traversing (cd) into/through the directory. James ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed)

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
Setting up Upgrade Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) for package: kdepim --- Package gnokii.x86_64 0:0.6.29-1.el5 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: libical.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnokii -- Running

Re: [CentOS] Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed)

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
Out of date mirror for whom? I currently have the same gnokii as you do (6.2.27), but yum is complaining that it now wants to update it to 6.2.29 but can't as kdepim (and others) have a dependency on the old version. Unless I've misread the error message? gnokii-0.6.27-2.el5.x86_64 is the

Re: [CentOS] Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed)

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
On my system I can see that dep in EPEL given by the package I mentioned. i.e. the package I have installed, the same as you. Presumably your machine will try to update to the newer gnokii.x86_64 0:0.6.29-1.el5 in due course too. Nope I said the info was found from yum info from the repos...

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
You need qemu-spice for using SPICE, which does not ship with RHEL5 or RHEL6. On top of that, SPICE is only supported by Red Hat for RHEV, not libvirt. That may change in the future, ... but when, nobody knows ;-) -- No you don't Dag. qemu-kvm and libvirt in RHEL6 already supports SPICE...

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
KVM is included, you just have to select it. There is a loyal following of Xen in the community, but I use KVM for my servers. I'm often called 'dumb' for even talking about KVM, but I like it. (and I'm not saying, nor have I ever said, that KVM is better than Xen) Yes, I know KVM is

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
Interesting, could you shed a light on what exact XML is needed ? http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsGraphics http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsVideo You need to set the video type to qxl and the graphical type to spice ... then set the appropriate attributes on the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 Samba Mount problem

2011-03-03 Thread James Hogarth
Then I run tailf /var/log/message command and find the following error message : kernel :CIFS VFS: server IP of type Samba 3.0.25a-04.E6 returned unexpected error on SMB posix open, disabling posix open support. Check if server update available. What is the size of the ISO? Can that old a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 Samba Mount problem

2011-03-03 Thread James Hogarth
Oh , The ISO size is about 4.7G . But that can work well before Before what? Was there a change? A quick google leads to (at least one point in time) needing -o lfs in the mount command to the samba instance since large file support wasn't there by default... Unfortunately I don't have

Re: [CentOS] bind 9.7.3 and libp11 engine_pkcs11 of fedoca core 14

2011-03-05 Thread James Hogarth
2011/3/4 fakessh @ fake...@fakessh.eu: hello list centos. I installed the packages  libp11 and engine_pkcs11 of fedora core 14 on my  centos 5.5 to allow me to compile the latest version of bind. this is the only way I found to compile bind 9.7.3. you know another way to compile bind 9.7.3

Re: [CentOS] creating a htpasswd file for certain urls

2011-03-18 Thread James Hogarth
the entire site needs passwd protection except for the  Below  Urls . http://beta.somesite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/large_1990782-e1299229 617964.jpg http://beta.somesite.com/?cat=592feed=rss2 With my limited knowledge could a ReWrite rule work here? Take a look at the Location element

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS clustering and Support.

2011-04-01 Thread James Hogarth
One we start our qualification, we might need some help in resolving issues/defects on CentOS. Can we open a channel or Point of contact who will be able to help us out with such issues. I would also request to forward this email to the right forum if the mailing list we are sending to is

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-10 Thread James Hogarth
On 9 April 2011 23:42, Tom Brown t...@ng23.net wrote: Hi Is there any ETA for the SRPM's from the base tree of 5.6? I need to get my hands on the src for the centos-release package as i have to rebuilt it to prevent the repo definitions from being included. I see the src's for the updates

Re: [CentOS] updates to package

2011-04-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 April 2011 13:06, Bernard Fay bernard@enodegroup.com wrote: Well, I would like to know what will be the changes before we apply the updates.  I would like to generate a kind of a report showing what will be the changes for all packages with available updates. Is there a way to do

Re: [CentOS] How to list virt machine size with virsh?

2011-12-09 Thread James Hogarth
What I miss in that overview is the memory size of clients. I found virsh dominfo client but that is for just that one client (and I have several running). The same question for xm top. I found that there seems to exist virt-top, but I could not find this in a repository for Centos5. For

Re: [CentOS] How to list virt machine size with virsh?

2011-12-09 Thread James Hogarth
Funny I was thinking about a similar script line. Then I thought, this is silly I must have overlooked the obvious. Let's ask the list :-) The machine is dual bootable (Xen/Kvm). It serves as a backup for two other machines running Xen (centos5). That's basically the only reason I'm still on

Re: [CentOS] ESX to KVM on CentOS (was:Re: How to list virt machine size with virsh?)

2011-12-09 Thread James Hogarth
James, I'd be interested in knowing some of how you handled the ESX to KVM migration, and some caveats you might have found along the way. This is from our internal wiki from notes I wrote at the time - will be pretty busy here between now and christmas but happy to answer any specific

Re: [CentOS] No eth0 on centos 6.2

2012-01-06 Thread James Hogarth
On 5 January 2012 22:57, Jeff jtu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help and info! Here's the relevant link from the upstream vendor's release notes: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.1_Release_Notes/ar01s01.html Naming convention for network interfaces

Re: [CentOS] Local privilege escalation bug in kernel

2012-01-25 Thread James Hogarth
Do we know if this bug affects Centos? The bug did not affect centos 5. The bug did affect centos 6. The fix from the upstream vendor was released on Monday afaik. The centos update was released Tuesday evening. James ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] [OT] Broken system practical tests

2012-01-26 Thread James Hogarth
A while ago when doing my RHCE someone mentioned to me a rather nifty site that can randomly break a system in a variety of ways - useful for practical testing of a candidate. It was something like monkey test or something... Anyway as you can see my memory is failing me does this ring

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Broken system practical tests

2012-01-26 Thread James Hogarth
Okay found it... don't know where I had monkey from... For the record if useful for anyone else: http://trouble-maker.sourceforge.net/ James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Heads up on major Firefox update incoming

2012-02-23 Thread James Hogarth
As a heads up since this might have a large effect on people The upstream vendor has rebased form firefox 3.6 onto firefox 10... This effects both centos5 and centos6. I'm not sure reading this whether this is the extended update support version of if they intend to follow Mozilla's new

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-18 Thread James Hogarth
snip Except for a handful, all of my systems are on 5.5. I don't have to update until this is fixed Then you are probably vulnerable to the CVEs you do realise that '5.5' stopped getting updates when 5.6 was released? Apart from a specific costly situation upstream there is only '5'

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-07-05 Thread James Hogarth
If you're running a database on it, you might re-think using a journaled filesystem. For that, ext2 will be faster and much less prone to unrecoverable data loss. Did you mean EXT4, or in actual fact EXT2? I thought EXT4 was faster than EXT2? The optimum on an EXT basis for a filesystem

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL - Centos

2011-07-11 Thread James Hogarth
Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm yum update reboot, and voilà The above

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL - Centos

2011-07-11 Thread James Hogarth
Yes, I know, for that machine, it's just a desktop that has x-window, gnome and a console opened up all day. I don't mind it if it function strangly... In any event, I'll just wipe the whole thing... Ah fair enough - just wanted to give a heads up (and point to the yum reinstall option) in

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL - Centos

2011-07-12 Thread James Hogarth
An idle question: What is the advantage of switching to CentOS 6 if you already are running SL6? Or at least... what is the purpose? I'm not really clear on the difference (other than CentOS is the noisier bit of the party). Plus when you have many systems (read 100+) to manage it is far

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 sync from ftp yum repos into Spacewalk

2011-07-12 Thread James Hogarth
When I try to sync CentOS 6 from different ftp mirrors using spacewalk command spacewalk-repo-sync I get this message 'Unable to load package', 'Invalid information uploaded to the server' for 38 packages.  When I check, these 38 packages are not named correctly. For example, sync command

Re: [CentOS] cent0s-6 and virtualbox

2011-07-18 Thread James Hogarth
Indication was when they supported (or just forced, cant remember witch) Virtualization only on x86_64 on RHEL/CentOS 5.x. They only support KVM as a host technology for virtualization now. KVM requires the CPU virtualization extensions to function. The functions are only available on the CPU

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - VM network bridge issue

2011-07-19 Thread James Hogarth
I built a CentOS 6 machine to host several CentOS 6 guest servers. As all guests will be Internet facing I set up the host with two bridged NICs and assigned an Internet facing IP address to br0 and a local IP address to br1. Each guest was installed using br0 and br1 with virtio drivers. On

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - VM network bridge issue (SOLVED)

2011-07-20 Thread James Hogarth
Initial thought is a routing issue particularly with multiple NICs. What does 'ip r s' reveal? That was it!  ip r s showed that I had the local facing NIC (eth1) as the gateway, which caused all outgoing packets to be routed to the local network DUH!. Yup been there before. So

Re: [CentOS] NetApp DataFabric Manager/Sybase/SQLAnywhere on CentOS?

2011-07-20 Thread James Hogarth
I am trying to install DFM 4.0.2, and have tried on both CentOS 4.8 i386 and CentOS 5.5 x86_64.  I have edited my /etc/redhat-release file to be equal to RHEL's, as the DFM installer immediately aborts if that isn't right.  However, I still have errors during the install: ...

Re: [CentOS] looking for CentOS 5.0 x86_64 dvd iso (preferably not torrent); must be 5.0

2011-08-05 Thread James Hogarth
I'm looking for CentOS 5.0 x86_64 dvd iso (preferably not torrent); must be 5.0 Out of curiosity why 5.0? That hasn't had any security updates since 2007-11-07 RedHat maintains ABI annd API compatibility throughout the major number line and anything that was 'written for 5.0' should run

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms - SOLVED

2011-08-20 Thread James Hogarth
I was certain I had missed some steps in setting up the exports, but simply could not remember them.  Nor could I find the guide that got me started before.  This morning I found it.  I cannot recommend this guide too highly - so you might like to bookmark it for a reference sheet - for next

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread James Hogarth
pg x.y versions prior to 9.0 replaced the PG 8.1 that came in EL5 (9.0 and later install to new directories so they can exist side by side). further, the newer libpq isn't directly compatible with the older libpq, so this compat-libs package provides a 'shim' library to fake the older

Re: [CentOS] Mount --bind source / mountpoint out of sync

2011-08-22 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 August 2011 20:48, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 08/22/2011 07:01 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: I have a shared web server that users can SSH / SFTP into to access their web content.  Each users home directory is in a change root, and I use mount -o bind to put their

Re: [CentOS] (Centos 5.6) Server Time NTP Facility

2011-08-30 Thread James Hogarth
However I am curious to know why strange sites contact our servers on port 123 and why the installed Centos time software listens on every available IP address. For your first part either people probing you or have you checked to see if a previous admin had joined the ntp.org pool with your

Re: [CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

2009-12-07 Thread James Hogarth
Depending on the script placing it in /etc/init.d could work (with appropriate symlinks to /etc/rc.x) however does the script follwo standard behaviour for /etc/init.d scripts? (eg start, stop, restart, status.) If you just want the script/java file called you could just pop it into

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-11 Thread James Hogarth
On that today perhaps those thinking of ext4 for production systems - especially shared multiuser systems - should check out CVE-2009-4131 ... CVE-2009-4131: Arbitrary file overwrite in ext4 Insufficient permission checking in the ext4 filesytem could be exploited by local users to overwrite

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-11 Thread James Hogarth
Best advisory link I've found: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3468 2009/12/11 James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com On that today perhaps those thinking of ext4 for production systems - especially shared multiuser systems - should check out CVE-2009-4131 ... CVE-2009-4131

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-13 Thread James Hogarth
Owned by apache in tmp? Sounds like an insecure web app or injection attack. 2009/12/13 Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-17 Thread James Hogarth
I have google gears installed on our 64bit firefoxes on firefox 3.5.5 in centos 5.4 with flash 10 - all from rpm ;) Works very nicely.. 2009/12/17 Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com On Wednesday 16 December 2009 23:51:43 Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/12/09 23:37, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Silly question x64 vs i386

2009-12-17 Thread James Hogarth
working on HTML5 ported code (safari/firefox) Plenty of time to do that ;) 2009/12/17 Ryan Pugatch r...@linux.com James Hogarth wrote: I have google gears installed on our 64bit firefoxes on firefox 3.5.5 in centos 5.4 with flash 10 - all from rpm ;) Works very nicely.. Google

Re: [CentOS] google gears on 64 bit centos 5.4?

2009-12-18 Thread James Hogarth
working version - 0.5.33 if you need it let me know and I'll mail my XPI 2009/12/18 Dave tdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com tdbtdb%2bcen...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:15 AM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: I have google gears installed on our 64bit firefoxes on firefox 3.5.5

Re: [CentOS] google gears on 64 bit centos 5.4?

2009-12-19 Thread James Hogarth
that already has that XPI installed along with some other bits desired by default. 2009/12/18 Dave tdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com tdbtdb%2bcen...@gmail.com On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:12 AM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: I have an RPM package for a default firefox profile I deploy to our boxes

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread James Hogarth
Don't bind it to an IP (so listen shows 0.0.0.0) on either node of the cluster? When the IP address is floated across it will still accept requests on that then - in additional the the real node IP address. Given that you are talking a public IP address however it depends on your network

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread James Hogarth
Yes that's why it depends on his ISP and network layout Ideally he'd have his firewall allowing http in to his public IP (with appropriate routing) and the floating IP actually be a private IP in the internal address space that floats between two systems with private IPs in the relevant

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread James Hogarth
I was wondering this myself (we use F5) but if he doesn't have the budget for a redundant pair of F5's )they are pricey...) then he may be trying to get resilience this way That said a single front end apache server with mod_proxy and load balanced across N nodes (depending on front end

Re: [CentOS] Determine security updates

2010-01-19 Thread James Hogarth
Or I can highly recommend configuring a local spacewalk server It is certainly usable right now overall (even if still under development in some areas) and the Redhat guys are very quick to squash reported bugs. Getting it runnign here has made my life much easier in provisioning, configuring

Re: [CentOS] Grub boot loader?

2010-02-01 Thread James Hogarth
On 1 February 2010 08:33, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All On my CentOS server , the '/boot/grub/menu.lst' has the right

Re: [CentOS] atime, relatime query

2010-02-03 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 February 2010 10:20, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am aware that mounting filesystems with noatime option greatly increases speed. I have tried to follow discussion on the pros and cons of using noatime. I have however not been able to mount with the

Re: [CentOS] atime, relatime query

2010-02-03 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 February 2010 12:52, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:38 AM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: RHEL doesn't have a reltime enabled kernel so centos doesn't either by default. I believe that there is a kernel in plus that is reltime enabled but due

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

2010-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
On 4 February 2010 21:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: 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

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

2010-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
On 5 February 2010 13:18, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/5 James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com: There has been substantial development since last April. 0.7 is very usable in production (and indeed makes my life much easier) and 0.8 is due soon. James Do you use

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

2010-03-03 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 March 2010 21:20, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: Greetings All- I'm about to embark on some remote management testing and need a way to login to a remote system running CentOS 4.x/5.x via SSH, su to root (using a password), then execute a command. I currently login to the

Re: [CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 April 2010 12:57, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi All Yesterday i had installed wireshark on my centos box which does not have the GUI , It is actually a hardened box. I installed the tool using the following command: yum install wireshark After installation i dont know how

Re: [CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 April 2010 13:03, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Is the installation of tcpdump similar to wireshark , which is : yum install tcpdump ? How about getting started with it , Any documentation available for it ? Thanks Jatin Indeed yum install tcpdump man tcpdump will give you

Re: [CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 April 2010 13:13, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Thanks Michel I would explore more on the tshark usage. Thanks for the support. Thanks Jatin Of course tshark is nothing more than a wrapper to tcpdump effectively when being used to dump data as they both interface to libpcap

Re: [CentOS] rpm -U query

2010-04-23 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 April 2010 22:18, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: CentOS, RHEL, all versions. Suppose I am upgrading a package foo-1.0 to foo-2.0 (assume foo is not relocatable), and both packages have %preun sections in their .spec files. It appears that foo-1.0's %preun is run after foo-2.0

Re: [CentOS] rpm -U query

2010-04-23 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 April 2010 22:18, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: CentOS, RHEL, all versions. Suppose I am upgrading a package foo-1.0 to foo-2.0 (assume foo is not relocatable), and both packages have %preun sections in their .spec files. It appears that foo-1.0's %preun is run after foo-2.0

Re: [CentOS] System Resources Graphing

2010-04-27 Thread James Hogarth
Had zabbix at my last place... hated it... Use nagios + pnp4nagios now with sar running for detailed bits with a custom nagios plugin using sar for performance data. Works very nicely :) James On Apr 27, 2010 5:14 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, On Mon, Apr

Re: [CentOS] C5: correct place for routing scripts?

2010-04-29 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 April 2010 13:21, Kimmo Koivisto koi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have several Centos 4 and Centos 5 servers. Because of the nature of the environment, there are some static arp entries made with arp command and then source routing made with ip rule/ip route -commands. Those commands

Re: [CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

2010-05-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 May 2010 05:37, sheraz naz sheraz...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I need to upgrade a system running 4.1 to 4.2, but before I do I want to list out all the packages that will be updated/installed/removed. I can run up2date -l to get a list of updates but does that show packages that need to be

Re: [CentOS] release of 5.5? (filesystem troubles)

2010-05-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 May 2010 12:02, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/5/14 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 05/14/2010 11:40 AM, James Hogarth wrote: 403's yet on repodata and some other important bits... not all the mirrors updated yet either (eg http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5

Re: [CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

2010-05-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 May 2010 13:51, Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:37 AM, sheraz naz sheraz...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I need to upgrade a system running 4.1 to 4.2, but before I do I want to list out all the packages that will be updated/installed/removed. I can run up2date

Re: [CentOS] A Directory/Subdirectories Disappeared - which logfile to look for this kind of information?

2010-05-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 May 2010 16:59, Tony Schreiner schre...@bc.edu wrote: please bottom post, more at the bottom ... On May 14, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Wang, Mary Y wrote: Thanks for the info.  There are only three of us who have the root access and I guess the date/time is more important to us.  We are also

Re: [CentOS] upgrading to a minor release 4.1 to 4.2

2010-05-14 Thread James Hogarth
Ah that makes sense Been there, done that and bought the t-shirt ;) For now use the 4.2 archive. Up2date will not remove packages without telling you and then only if a new rpm has obsolete in its header info. Good luck on your migrations to 5.x :-) On May 14, 2010 7:15 PM, sheraz naz

Re: [CentOS] OO and Firefox

2010-05-16 Thread James Hogarth
To my knowledge they don't build that version. The ff I use on systems that need ff 3.6 is the one from mark Harris's repo. http://www.mharris.ca/mharris-yumrepo.html James On May 16, 2010 9:56 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 12:07 -0700, MHR wrote: I would

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-21 Thread James Hogarth
On 21 May 2010 22:04, Ski Dawg cen...@skidawg.org wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: As for the redirection, I would handle it with mod_rewrite as follows: VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:443 ServerName domain.tld RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-22 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 May 2010 00:00, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: On 21 May 2010 22:04, Ski Dawg cen...@skidawg.org wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: As for the redirection, I would handle it with mod_rewrite as follows: VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:443

Re: [CentOS] Unable to execute a script , Permission denied

2010-05-25 Thread James Hogarth
On 25 May 2010 13:27, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I have a linux box which has CentOS running in it. I logged into the box using root and wrote a script in the /home/proc_threads directory. saved the file and quit. I changed the file permissions such that any user could execute

Re: [CentOS] Unable to execute a script , Permission denied

2010-05-25 Thread James Hogarth
On 25 May 2010 14:14, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Jatin Davey wrote: Here is the script that i am trying to execute as a non-root user: #!/bin/sh ps -C java -o thcount /home/proc_threads/tempfile awk ' { total += $1 } END { print total } ' /home/proc_threads/tempfile here is

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 and AMD chipsets.

2010-05-26 Thread James Hogarth
Use the live cd to test? Sent from Android mobile On May 26, 2010 8:16 AM, Ireneusz Piasecki irekp...@op.pl wrote: Hi. I want run Centos 5.5 with mobo ASUS M4A88TD-V Evo/USB3 which have AMD chipset 880G/SB850 Any idea, if kernel in centos 5.5 supports this chipset and SATA HDD will be

Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

2010-06-05 Thread James Hogarth
I can recommend spacewalk. It has come a long way since 0.4 having recently celebrated 1.0 It still uses Oracle but unless you have hundreds of servers I doubt you'll have too many problems there. Sent from Android mobile On Jun 4, 2010 6:11 PM, Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote:

Re: [CentOS] 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

2010-06-07 Thread James Hogarth
Anyone recall what kernel runs on the centos 5.5 live cd? Might be worth trying to boot off that to eliminate local config or modules as a problem and confirm a kernel only issue. James Sent from Android mobile On Jun 7, 2010 5:12 AM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:14

Re: [CentOS] rpm building and hyphens in Version tags

2010-06-08 Thread James Hogarth
Given that the rpm NVREA bears no relation to the name of the source tarball (indeed nothing is required in SOURCES to build an rpm) how about just removing the -pre4 from the archive name when saving it in SOURCES? You can still put pre4 in the release tag of the tarball. As for the setup macro

Re: [CentOS] grub, initrd and Co

2010-06-08 Thread James Hogarth
I think Craig might have nailed it... but also what is your devices.map as well? Sent from Android mobile On Jun 8, 2010 2:17 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Philippe Naudin philippe.nau...@supagro.inra.fr wrote: Le Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:30:40 +0200,

Re: [CentOS] MAC address changes after cloning

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Or depending on your requirements just drop hwaddr from ifcfg so it applies to the detected adaptor regardless of MAC Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 2:16 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: The MAC address shown in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX files is just the

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Plus at that point you might also be hitting problems with browser behaviour since you say it is a web app 2 gigs is a heck of a post... have you looked into any other solutions such as an uploader in flash or java capable of resuming transfers and streamed (partial) transfers rather than

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
And given that the xen kernel is not a Linux kernel but rather that centos is just dom0 so I'm not sure that init argument would do what the OP wanted anyway... Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: I'm trying to boot into the shell of a

Re: [CentOS] Booting into a shell and skipping init

2010-06-09 Thread James Hogarth
Err reread and disregard my thoughts - evidently too tired! But its true citrix forums would be a better audience esp given the upstream vendor and hence centos moving to kvm.. Sent from Android mobile On Jun 9, 2010 6:24 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: I'm trying to boot into the

Re: [CentOS] Correct permissions for uploading files

2010-07-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 July 2010 10:43, Markus Falb markus.f...@fasel.at wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2010 04:10, Todd Cary wrote: I am trying to implement PHP upload functionality for an application. When I attempt an upload in my test environment, I get the following error:

Re: [CentOS] yum update: When is new header data downloaded? (Trying to set up custom repository...)

2010-07-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 July 2010 13:29, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 07/12/2010 04:58 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: So, it seems like I managed to correctly update the repodata and all, but originally, yum concluded that it didn't need to download a new version, but could use the one cached earlier.

Re: [CentOS] yum update: When is new header data downloaded? (Trying to set up custom repository...)

2010-07-12 Thread James Hogarth
toralf.l...@pgs.com wrote: James Hogarth wrote: On 12 July 2010 13:29, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 07/12/2010 04:58 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: So, it seems like I managed to correctly update the repodata and all, but originally, yum concluded that it didn't need to download a new

Re: [CentOS] Problem with yum

2010-07-19 Thread James Hogarth
With the kernel logging an out of memory error? My first instinct would be to check free to see the status of RAM and swap and perhaps end unnecessary processes.. James Sent from Android mobile On 19 Jul 2010 20:18, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: On 7/19/2010 1:00 PM, James B. Byrne

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Re: Problem with yum

2010-07-21 Thread James Hogarth
Well a reboot would have the consequence of killing all processes and free up memory... Sent using Android mobile On 20 Jul 2010 22:25, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: On Mon, July 19, 2010 16:01, James Hogarth wrote: Sent from Android mobile -- Forwarded message

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