Re: [CentOS] 1 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC under CentOS

2010-12-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Timo Schoeler wrote: Well, Realcrap is known to be crap everywhere. Ask the OpenBSD guys. ;) Intel. Broadcom. That's what we use here w/o any issues; however, there are some Intel NICs that are *not* able to handle Jumbo Frames due to an internal design glitch. I've had

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Steve Clark wrote: it hangs for a long time, this is when I don't have connection to the net, if I have connection there is just a slight pause while tries to do the DNS lookup. What makes you sure it's a DNS lookup that causes the long hang when there's no network

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Scott Robbins wrote: Just to eliminate other possibilities--are either of these authenticating against an LDAP server? That was entirely the line I was probing. nsswitch.conf would be telling. jh ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-13 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: I know about audacity, but I want a command line tool that will work overnight, on a batch of mp3 files, each about 15MB per hour. You've got a command line tool that does what you need, it just needs rebuilding with mp3 support. I'm with John Doe's

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5.5 64 bit issues

2010-12-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Neither. I'll ignore the fact that I, and the folks I work with, *always* use linux text (though pxeboot is starting up), and point out that once you've run the installation, you usually have more stuff to do: update everything from install source

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, cornel panceac wrote: my first language was pascal. if i'd had the opportunity, i'd start with c. herbert schildt's teach yourself c was great for me. Ahh Schildt. Yes, I learnt from that book too. A tad dry, and it tends to teach you syntax more than real program

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: If a package is installed, eg sox, the repo it came from is no longer showing. It just says 'installed' which is not that helpfull. Maybe the repo should be shown in an immutable field, that does not get updated when the package is installed? How

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Philix T A wrote: 1) RAID 1 is good for reading while writing is a overhead for the disk and may hit the performance Write overhead is minimal, since you're just writing out the same data twice to two equal performance drives (typically). I'd really not worry about the

Re: [CentOS] Remote firefox configuration

2010-12-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I am open to any suggestions. :-) I suggest you simply modified the user's prefs.js in their profile in ~/.mozilla. // 0 = blank, 1 = home (browser.startup.homepage), 2 = last visited page, 3 = resume previous browser session // The behavior of

Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s

2010-12-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: Thanks for all the responses! I've read MaximumRPM from: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/index.html Which helped me a great deal. I'll start a new thread regarding using RPM to build packages. You'll find MaximumRPM will have taught you a

Re: [CentOS] linux batch job sleep problem???

2011-01-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, mcclnx mcc wrote: we have Redhat 5.5 on server. Recently we tried to use sleep command on batch job script some sleep work but some not sleep. any one have ideal? sample program === #/bin/bash set -v program1 sleep 30 program2 sleep 60 program3 sleep

Re: [CentOS] Recompiling source rpms for i386, i686 and x86_64 on the same box?

2011-01-13 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: That is going nto be unnecessarily slow. If you can run mock on the Xen server itself, you'll get a noticeable speed-up, especially with large packages like the kernel and Xorg and gimp and Samba. Roughly what sort of performance hit do you see

Re: [CentOS] input/output error while copy

2011-01-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Robert Spangler wrote: On Friday 14 January 2011 04:01, Ritika Garg wrote: When I give the command cp file1 file2 then the error comes: cp: cannot create regular file `file2': Input/output error This occurs sometimes and it occurs when I am giving the command inside

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

2011-01-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS would likely only be used as a desktop OS by people who also run servers and like everything to be the same. They all assemble approximately the same set of upstream packages, though, so it is possible to make them all do the same things with

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

2011-01-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: That's not true for desktop applications and environments. If you don't have something current you are missing the improvements that many thousands of man-hours of work have made. But I guess that's the bit I don't /always/ buy into. In the

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

2011-01-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: Sorry, but Outlook 2003 and 2007 are huge improvements over earlier versions - and lacking tight integration between messaging and calendar/scheduling has been one of the places where free software really missed the boat. But then that's partly

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I don't know about you, but a user leaving his desk (for any purpose, other than going home) doesn't cause a security risk. I trust all our staff, and when Andrew goes on lunch I expect him to leave his PC unlocked. I think I see things differently.

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I think I see things differently.  Allowing others to access your account *is* a security risk.  It potentially opens confidential data open to other people, and leaves that specific user open to abuse through people using their machine.  You might as

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide? In our

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: Yes but someone's posted a global gconftool-2 recipe. Run gconf-editor as root and you can edit the global mandatory rules too. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook baconeater...@gmail.com wrote: By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how can I disable this system-wide? Many

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Excuse me, but when I was in college, I heard the spiel about not leaving workstations unlocked, if only because some idiots would get cute and do something from your terminal to embarrass you, and/or aggravate someone else. cat .bashrc EOF echo

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Benjamin, I'm sorry to say this, but you're wrong! I'm fairly sure he's not. Now, since we're doing the name-calling thing, let's get that out of the way. Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with something right now. And

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: That won't really work. The NFS clients run cPanel and we need a way for end-users to have full access to their backups all the time. We used to run backup over FTP, but then when a client wanted to restore data one of the techs first had to download it

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain automount maps and run the risk of issues with the automounter (I've seen large production environments in which

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Always Learning wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Now I know why locate never usually worked for me - it hadn't updated. find is fast, especially when I restrict the search paths. But locate is faster still, in all but the smallest of cases. I'd only tend to use find

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Wrong again. Never use public key access for root accounts, it simply compounds the security risks. Passphrase protected SSH keys can be used, reasonably, for account access on other hosts, but should be avoided for root access. If you *HAVE* to

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-28 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: One *does* have to remember the mlocate package's limitations. It doesn't browse network mounted directories, it doesn't browse /tmp or look for other excluded targets, and it runs with the nightly cron jobs. So if you're looking for files in

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-28 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 14:50 +, John Hodrien wrote: All configurable via /etc/updatedb.conf if your local needs differ. How does one remove it ? yum erase updated ? It is not present in any CRON. If it's installed, it should have

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI disk preperation

2011-02-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: *OR* as a special case, if access is *only* read-only (or read-only to all but one initiator). I get the all read-only case, but wouldn't the read-only clients end up caching filesystem data that has since been changed by the read-write client? I'd

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: They have *everything* to do. Look, I *said* this is OT, but since you insist, the overwhelmingly *bad* design decision was to put the GUI into ring 0, instead of the way Windows 3, and X on *Nix, and *everybody* else did, resulting in a GUI error

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Always Learning wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 19:21 -0700, compdoc wrote: ECC allows for single bit errors to be corrected and multiple bit errors to be noticed. I know what it is and I've used it in the past, but I just don't see many errors going on in desktop

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: But the accumulated costs of the higher end motherboard, memory, shortage of space for upgrades in the same unit, the downtime at the BIOS to reset the disabled by default ECC settings in the BIOS, and the system monitoring to detect and manage

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Trust me, it's a pain in the keister in production. If the standard is now enabled, good: I haven't had my hands inside a server in a year, I admit it. (My current role doesn't call for it.) It *didn't* used to be standard. Are you sure it is? I

Re: [CentOS] Samba quota for AD users

2011-03-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, John R Pierce wrote: On 02/28/11 7:28 AM, system minami wrote: Can someone please help how to enable samba quota for Active Directory users' home directory automatically ? Samba has quota support? Good luck with that. Quotas are generally a file system thing,

Re: [CentOS] Samba quota for AD users

2011-03-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, system minami wrote: # repquota -a (snip) user -- 40 0 0 7 0 0 (snip) W2K8AD1\administrator -- 124 0 0 28 0 0 W2K8AD1\samba -- 4 0 10 1 0 0 It seems

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm particularly looking forward to the built-in chroot capabilities and GSSAPI support in OpenSSH, and the major release improvements to git and subversion. What does the new GSSAPI

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm particularly looking forward to the built-in chroot

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Have you backported OpenSSH 5.x to CentOS 5? Because I don't see the full features set without OpenSSH 5.x, such as GSSApiKeyExchange. Nope, I like the simple life. Hmm. What you've described is an ssh_config option, which is set to no by

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: If this works, you've just solved a *BIG* problem for me: I'd been handed (ordered before I arrived on the site) the issues of getting Centrify OpenSSH to play nicely, and this avoids the OpenSSH 5.x does not read .bashrc and read user aliases for

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: NFSv4 is *NOT* your friend, and Kerberizing it effectively is not trivial. I'm using Centrify for that and to have a reliable upstream vendor who can actually support it. (I'm on a contract.) What's the issue you're encountering, besides the lack

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: 1Gbe can do 115MB/s @ 64K+ IO size, but at 4k IO size (NFS) 55MB/s is about it. If you need each node to be able to read 90-100MB/s you would need to setup a cluster file system using iSCSI or FC and make sure the cluster file system can handle large

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Laurence Hurst wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:11:52PM +, Digimer wrote: How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 when it is released? For me the big wins with CentOS 6 should be SSSD to simplify and centralise (on the machine) network

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: The OP wanted 90MB/s per node and we have no clue whether the application he is using is capable of driving 1MB block sizes. I thought he wanted 90MB/s reads per node (and I've demonstrated that's doable with NFS). The only reason I'm not showing it

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: Well on my local disk I don't cache the data of tens or hundreds of clients and a server can have a memory fault and oops just as easily as any client. Also I believe it doesn't sync every single write (unless mounted on the client sync which is only

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, wessel van der aart wrote: does anyone here uses nfs without sync in production? does data corrupt often? Yes, I use it. If you had an NFS server that regularly died due to hardware faults, or kernel panics, then I wouldn't consider using it. all the data send from the

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: The absolute definiton of safe here is quite important. In the event of a power loss, and a failure of the UPS, quite possibly also followed by a failure of the RAID battery

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:25 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: I think you're right that this is how it should work, I'm just not entirely sure that's actually generally the case (whether that's because typical applications try to do sync

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to do http authentication without passing my username/password considering server is already binded to AD, thus authenticated. Would I be able to utilize PAM authentication for this purpose? mod_auth_kerb can use

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: Thank you, John. I forgot to add that we cannot generate keytab from AD server for various reasons that I have no control over. Would mod_auth_kerb still work? My google searches all point to keytab file being there... Yes. If you join AD

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: Thank you, John. I forgot to add that we cannot generate keytab from AD server for various reasons that I have no control over. And are you really sure this is the case? If you can join to a domain, you can

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate is one unknown system hang every few weeks, how many wees

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, compdoc wrote: +36C and +39C are likely your cpu and motherboard temps. You have to look at the temps in the cmos and match them. The +87C is likely just a miss-reading by lm_sensors. Anything running that hot won't be stable. In testing nVidia graphics cards to

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Simon Matter wrote: - Take a vacuum cleaner and *carefully* clean the whole box. Dust can really do bad things because it is not a perfect insulator. Take the wrong vacuum cleaner and static your machine to death. jh ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: John, Thank you for all your pointers! You are right.. I was able to create a keytab file. Still having some issues with getting apache to work the way I wan to, but will continue troubleshooting it. No problem, and I'll be interested to hear

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi Asya, You must set the servicePrincipalName attribute on the service account (MYSERVER$ in this case) to include all of the hostnames that will be used to access the web server which in this case would be at least HTTP/myserver.server.com. One

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, David Brian Chait wrote: It appears as though you need to create a proper SPN/keytab from the AD server: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.express.doc/info/exp/ae/tsec_SPNEGO_config_dc.html I've done this just with

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, David Brian Chait wrote: I looked in AD configuration and see that my server does not have appropriate ServicePrincipalName for HTTP (only host). Of course it doesn't, you gathered that ticket by joining the domain with Samba, but are not using samba auth with apache...

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: [root@myserver conf]# klist -k Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab KVNO Principal -- 2 host/myserver.server@core.host.edu 2 host/rmyserver.server@core.host.edu

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-17 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:58 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi Asya, You must set the servicePrincipalName attribute on the service account (MYSERVER$ in this case) to include all

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-18 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi John, Arguably it's not the end-of-the-world to go though CNAMEs. If it works for you, then don't let me deter you. Indeed it does, and it was the only way I could see you /could/ do this. Especially if you're not a domain admin. I'm still not

Re: [CentOS] Replace NIS by Active Directory

2011-03-18 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, MOKRANI Rachid wrote: Hi, I'm looking a wiki or share experience for replace NIS authentication by an existing Active directory Server (W2003). The problem is on the management of id and gid. How to move 1000 actual NIS users to AD ? Create matching accounts in AD.

Re: [CentOS] Replace NIS by Active Directory

2011-03-18 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It can otherwise be done manually, but the data entry time wasted for your engineers well justifies the price of a Centrify license or two. What do you mean by manually? Can't this all be done with ypcat, ldapmodify and a shell script? After

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi John, Actually I think this practice is now considered poor behavior. I look at a lot of packet captures and I don't recall seeing PTR lookups. At least not from Windows clients. Also I recall there was a discussion about this on the Kerberos list

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi John, You would not have to create dummy machine records. The servicePrincipalName attribute on an AD account is multi-valued and clients can request and get a ticket for ANY principal in that list. So you only need one account. And you do

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Yes, but using the machine principal you're able to request any number of service principals that are SERVICENAME/machinename.  For this to work in a virtual hosting environment, you need multiple machine names (since we're talking about making a

Re: [CentOS] Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser on session null

2011-03-29 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, ken wrote: Like the error says, you need to specify the display. I.e., on the remote machine you must set the environmental variable DISPLAY... something like (export DISPLAY=192.168.1.42:0.0 firefox) Though this may work, this may well reveal another, different

Re: [CentOS] Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser on session null

2011-03-30 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, ken wrote: John, Whether or not it's more work is highly subjective. And it's not inherently insecure; people often *make* it insecure by lazily setting permissions to allow *any* server to have access. Even ssh can be insecure if it's not configured properly. You

Re: [CentOS] Best way to extend pv partition for LVM

2011-04-04 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Jay Leafey wrote: You COULD use option #1, but it requires some additional resources and a LOT of shuffling. Why do you need to shuffle? fdisk /dev/sda delete the PV partition create a new PV partition starting at the same sector but ending at the end of the now larger

Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-04 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, robert mena wrote: Hi Brunner, I need four network interfaces. This can be in one or multiple cards. The problem is just what you've described : lack of info regarding the compatibility/stability of such card under CentOS. And since some of those dual/quad cards cost

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

2011-04-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, rrich...@blythe.org wrote: 1) Move sshd to another port, one higher than 5000 I'd have mixed feelings about the Wisdom of running on a non-reserved port. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: rpm is here: http://rpms.plnet.rs/centos5-i386/RPMS.plnet/skype-2.1.0.81-1.el5.noarch.rpm source rpm is now currently publicly available since I rearranged my repository links/path but haven't finished. Since when did skype become noarch? I'm

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

2011-04-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Why, We've been running SSH on hundreds of servers on a port higher than 5000 for year now and no problems at all. I always feel slightly ickie about running services on ports normal users can run on (this obviously depends a lot on who can run

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: On 5.4.2011 21.49, compdoc wrote: For reasons of speed and ease of maintenance and backups, what I've settled on is: a small separate drive for the host to boot from, a small separate drive for the guest OSes (I like using qcow2 on WD Raptors), and then

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Scott Robbins wrote: Not all that unique, but a bit better--I think it's VolumeGroup00/lvm_root, VolumeGroup00/lvm_swap, and things like that. (Keeping both LVs in the same VG by default.) As far as I know it's much better than that: The volume group by default with EL6

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Just newer kernel and newer core packages that can drive newer applications. CentOS 5.5 kernel and core packages are 3-4 years old in the (Linux) world that dramatically changed since then. I wouldn't refer to the 5.5 kernel as 3-4 years old as

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos/LDAP authentication no more working in 5.6 ?

2011-04-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Alain Péan wrote: After further verification, it seems to be related to ticket granting. Here is what I have in /var/log/messages : su: pam_krb5[7200]: TGT failed verification using keytab and key for 'host/bardeen.lab-lpp.local@LAB-LPP.LOCAL': Cannot find ticket for

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos/LDAP authentication no more working in 5.6 ?

2011-04-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Alain Péan wrote: Hi John, Thnks for your answer. Here are the content of /etc/krb5.conf and klist -ke. I agree that there can be siomething missing, that was working before... The keytab isn't valid for the host as it doesn't contain a usable principal for doing a

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos/LDAP authentication no more working in 5.6 ?

2011-04-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Alain Péan wrote: Sorrry, little error with the output of klit -ke, because I am testing on a test AD domain at this moment. On the first machine, output is : # klist -ke Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab KVNO Principal

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos/LDAP authentication no more working in 5.6 ?

2011-04-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Alain Péan wrote: In fact, I solved the problem using the authconfig command, but I wonder if it is really correct, as I mixed kerberos and ldap. Here is the authconfig command for my test domain : Using kerberos and ldap is a perfectly reasonable thing to want to do, but

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos/LDAP authentication no more working in 5.6 ?

2011-04-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Alain Péan wrote: Indeed, nothing fails now. I want my users to authenticate against Active directory, and it works, and I would like them to be able to use their kerberos credentials, if they need, to access domain ressources, as shares. But I have still to see a problem

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

2011-09-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Janne Nyman wrote: I am trying to install CentOS 6 x86_64 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x220. During the installation it asks me to insert a driver. Has anyone done this successfully? You might want to be a bit more specific about what it's complaining about. About the only

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

2011-09-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote: Hi all, All resolved now. Thanks to Paul for pointing out the basics :) This had nothing to do with the e1000e as I thought earlier. It has to do with the AHCI mode set for the SATA interface. These where the steps I took to resolve it: 1.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

2011-09-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 10.09.2011 13:40, schrieb John Hodrien: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote: These where the steps I took to resolve it: 1. Start Laptop 2. When first boot screen appears, press F1 to get into the BIOS setup 3. Go to Config Serial

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Installation on Thinkpad X220

2011-09-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Janne TH. Nyman wrote: When lenovo's external CDROM/DVD is plugged into this port, I am unable to install linux in general or other OS's. Once I plug it into any of the other USB ports bottom left or right, it works perfectly. No wonder I haven't found any problem posts

Re: [CentOS] disk duplication question

2011-09-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, John Doe wrote: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com When I take a duplicated disk and stick it in the new box which is different than the master machine of course all seems to work except the network. Is this the correct way to do this? Making a master and being

Re: [CentOS] Installation on Intel DH67BL motherboard failed

2011-09-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Sanjay Arora wrote: Hello all I tried to install Centos 6 on Intel DH67BL motherboard with i7-2600 processor and a PCI Parallel/Serial port Card. This machine is running Win7, Ubuntu Fedora 15. Booting from DVD, the machine boots up in text mode loads vmlinuz and

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: Just ordered a Lenovo TS130. I think there are some issues with the Intel graphics with 6.0 and I saw where they are resolved in 6.1. Hopefully 6.1 can be released soon. If not, I can install Scientific Linux temporarily. Fingers crossed!! Or, just

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, David Hrbáč wrote: Dne 15.9.2011 9:22, Mathieu Baudier napsal(a): Sounds good! Thanks for the update. No it does not. Since cr repo breaks Spacewalk management. Breaks it how? jh___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: Golly. I grew-up in real computers. Relational databases are simply database structures, linking records. There is no reason to use joins and views IF the database is carefully planned. Joins and views are another overhead. Rule Number 01 in

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 05:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: Gmagic/Imagick are somewhat incapable of doing graphing at all. Have you ever really looked ? What about GmagickDraw::point and similar items ? I think the risk of the KISS approach is that

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
This whole thing has gone wildly OT, so I'll check out on this post. On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: Hopefully that is always possible - retrieving EXACTLY what was stored in the database. Why would one want the database to manipulate (change) data ? Is that a solution for lazy

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Timo Neuvonen wrote: I simply installed CentOS 6.0, downloaded kernel from SL6.1 repo, and installed it. Basically this is what was needed to make Intel graphics work, I think there were 1-2 other rpms I needed to upgrade too to fix dependencies, but this was easy to

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: I had the same problems with centos 6.0 and a SandyBridge laptop (Dell Latitude E5420 i5 2410M) openGL and DRI now work. (for my laptop also screen brightness and suspend to RAM work ok) Thanks a lot for this info, it's much appreciated. When I

Re: [CentOS] https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1245.html - CentOS 6

2011-09-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: What are you trying to say? Karanbirs response is three weeks old and AFAICS the 6.0/cr repo is still empty on the mirrors so there is no package for that problem available. If there are problems getting 6.0/cr going then fine but in that

Re: [CentOS] kickstart: gfx vs. txt mode

2011-09-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote: Hello, I seem to recall from my redhat5/6/7 days that certain installation methods used for kickstarting only invoked text mode install. Now I read that graphical install is default in kickstart on el5/6. However, in my test environment (with older HP

Re: [CentOS] kickstart: gfx vs. txt mode

2011-09-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:00:39 +0100 (BST) John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jure Pečar wrote: Any clues what am I missing? Does it just not like your graphics card? No, it works in gfx mode when installing from cd/usb

Re: [CentOS] Hello from RAQport Please remove this post

2011-09-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Alex Bajan wrote: Dear Centos, We did never receive the Server back from Australia And this forum is not to post incorrect disputes information from the users regarding some other companies. Link below

Re: [CentOS] is there a way to make the kernel see a new ethernet device without rebooting?

2011-09-27 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Jon Detert wrote: I have a VMWare ESX server with virtual machines running CentOS. I want to add an ethernet interface to one of the CentOS virtual machines. VMWare allowed me to add a virtual NIC to the CentOS virtual machine while it was running. However, the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Slow DNS lookups on CentOS6

2011-09-27 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Alfred von Campe wrote: Most of my desktops are still running CentOS5, but I have installed CentOS6 on a few of them. The users on those desktops are reporting that DNS lookups are slow, and from my brief tests, that does appear to be the case. After some googling, I

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