Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-28 Thread Alan Sparks
David McGuffey wrote: Seems to me that any IDS must be tied to the yum update process so that one is not dealing with hundreds/thousands of changes that were brought in by a yum update that I choose to apply. Is OSSEC any less noisy? Nope. -Alan

Re: [CentOS] On-Boot Scripts

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Sparks
Victor Subervi wrote: I'm a bit rusty. It's been a couple of years since I've run my own server, and I don't know this OS. And as we all know, each OS is different. I'm trying to install scripts I wrote years ago to do my MySQL backups. I've loaded my scripts to /etc/rc.d/init.d Now how do I

Re: [CentOS] Installing libssl-dev

2009-11-12 Thread Alan Sparks
Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I can't yum install libssl-dev because apparently it doesn't exist. Please advise. TIA, Victor You probably want openssl-devel. -Alan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Install libnet-server-perl on Centos

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Sparks
Dhiraj Chatpar wrote: Please help me as i am not able to find any way to install Libnet Perl Server I used to install this on debian using apt-get install libnet-server-perl Command I just cannot figure out how to install this on Centos. Please help

Re: [CentOS] FYI: centos 5.4 and xen not working

2009-10-24 Thread Alan Sparks
Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/24/2009 07:43 AM, Farkas Levente wrote: i just let you know that xen not working properly in centos 5.4 there are upstream fix for this, but for those who use xen it's better to wait until centos release updates for 5.4 otherwise xen's domU won't start.

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

2009-10-22 Thread Alan Sparks
vijay shanker wrote: Hello guys; I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 But i know i am using right password to root. Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do. You really need to configure /etc/sudoers, if you have not already. -Alan

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Alan Sparks
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Les, What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo It works. If I set; SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key and a value. Doesn't for me on stock Apache in CentOS

Re: [CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Sparks
John R Pierce wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just don't want to have to support it long term). I

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Sparks
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. I do it all the time, a couple of (Xen) VMs packed

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the shutdown command

2009-10-16 Thread Alan Sparks
Buz Davis wrote: I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts root and buz. I would like to be able to issue shutdown from the account buz, and thus created /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry buz (without any quotes). I still get the error message only root can do this

Re: [CentOS] bind question, please help

2009-10-07 Thread Alan Sparks
Look into allow-recursion. Perhaps something like: options { allow-recursion { localhost; internal-network; }; }; adrian kok wrote: in my understanding: 1/ this allow internal network can query zone and outside allow-query { localhost; internal-network; }; recursion

Re: [CentOS] Build a Firewall (Can I learn to do this...)

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Sparks
Not that it's incredibly difficult to do by hand, but it is a complex undertaking fraught with some risk in doing it wrong. I believe you'd be much better served looking at some of the firewall applications out there, such as IPCop or Smoothwall. Another one to look at is Shorewall

Re: [CentOS] Script consumes memory

2009-09-29 Thread Alan Sparks
Perhaps I'm missing it, but where are your definitions of DIRNAME and BASENAME? Without them, you're probably re-executing the script in the bactick references. Basically a fork-bomb. -Alan Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I have the following script that when executed, consumes memory and makes the

Re: [CentOS] mounting images created using dd that contain two partitions

2009-09-26 Thread Alan Sparks
Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am trying to mount images that I previously created with dd and the images have two partitions (swap and LVM). I use these images to house data for my Xen Guests. You'll probably need at least kpartx to mount the partitions out of the image. Maybe even

Re: [CentOS] Where to download rpm packages for centos?

2009-09-16 Thread Alan Sparks
Peng Yu wrote: If you could help me on finding packages for downloading and installing them in my home directory, that would be very helpful. I also find the following link on how to run rpm in my home directory. Does it work for my problem? http://www.techonthenet.com/linux/build_rpm.php

Re: [CentOS] Where to download rpm packages for centos?

2009-09-16 Thread Alan Sparks
Peng Yu wrote: I have been trying this way. But there are some source packages that I can't find. For example, I am looking for imlib-config. Do you know where I can download its source package. Regards, Peng Well, there's RPMs for it in the EPEL repository. But since you have no root

Re: [CentOS] Problem kernel module DRBD on CentOS 5.3

2009-09-09 Thread Alan Sparks
David Suhendrik wrote: Hi All, I'm just tried to install and build replicate failover PDC using DRBD and HA, but i can't load DRBD kernel module. Now i'm using CentOS 5.3 up to date. This DRBD's installed: /kmod-drbd83-xen-8.3.2-6.el5_3 kmod-drbd83-PAE-8.3.2-6.el5_3 drbd83-8.3.2-6.el5_3

Re: [CentOS] Problem kernel module DRBD on CentOS 5.3

2009-09-09 Thread Alan Sparks
David Suhendrik wrote: Thanks Alan, This is error message when start service DRBD $ sudo /etc/init.d/drbd start Starting DRBD resources: Can not load the drbd module. I don't get any error message, and i think problem is DRBD kernel module, not ?? $ sudo cat /proc/drbd cat: /proc/drbd:

Re: [CentOS] Problem kernel module DRBD on CentOS 5.3

2009-09-09 Thread Alan Sparks
David Suhendrik wrote: Alan Sparks wrote: David Suhendrik wrote: Thanks Alan, This is error message when start service DRBD $ sudo /etc/init.d/drbd start Starting DRBD resources: Can not load the drbd module. I don't get any error message, and i think problem is DRBD kernel

Re: [CentOS] Problem kernel module DRBD on CentOS 5.3

2009-09-09 Thread Alan Sparks
David Suhendrik wrote: Alan Sparks wrote: David Suhendrik wrote: Alan Sparks wrote: David Suhendrik wrote: Thanks Alan, This is error message when start service DRBD $ sudo /etc/init.d/drbd start Starting DRBD resources: Can

Re: [CentOS] Problem kernel module DRBD on CentOS 5.3

2009-09-09 Thread Alan Sparks
David Suhendrik wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:22 PM, David Suhendrikda...@pnyet.web.id wrote: Akemi, $ sudo rpm -qa --qf %{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n kernel\* | sort kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.i686 kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5.i686

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Alan Sparks
Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, I am running drbd protocol A to a secondary machine to have 'backups' of my xen domUs. Is it necessary to change the xen domains configs to use /dev/drbd* instead of

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Alan Sparks
Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello Alan, This is my current setup: Xen DomU DRBD LVM Volume RAID 1 What I first wanted to do was: DomU | DRBD LVM Volume RAID 1 If I understand you diagram, you have DRDB running

Re: [CentOS] httpd .htaccess rewrite for images

2009-08-17 Thread Alan Sparks
Dave wrote: In my httpd virtual host directive i have: alias /images /var/www/test.example.com/images Directory /var/www/test.example.com/images Options None AllowOverride None order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory Comments appreciated. Assume you mean that the rewrites are

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

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Sparks
Tom Brown wrote: 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 the time. Is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Alan Sparks
Bob Taylor wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 05:48 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Second, I am supposed to also kiss your ass? Is it necessary to insult me? I have said *nothing* to you to warrant this. Jeez, people, take it offline. -Alan

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Sparks
Brett Serkez wrote: Maybe because you are looking at the bridge's mac and not the ethernet's which would be peth0. No I am not. dmesg shows the kernel messages at boot and it is looking at the physical device, let's not get distracted, the issue is clear in this regard. As I

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Sparks
Jerry Geis wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Thanks, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] php-pdo

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Sparks
Peter Peltonen wrote: I wish to use PostgreSQL with PHP+PDO. I haven't use PDO before. I have the php-pdo package installed on my CentOS 4.7 server: # rpm -qa |grep pdo php-pdo-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10 Now when I try connect to the PostgeSQL db with this code: ?php print PDO testbr /; try {

Re: [CentOS] files not showing up in an nfs mounted filesysetm in timely manner

2009-07-30 Thread Alan Sparks
Blackburn, Marvin wrote: We have and nfs mount from a windows pc nfs server. A file is created on the server, but can take as long as 50 seconds to become available on the client. We are running Centos 5.2 (final), using NFS version 3. Is there anything we can do from the client side to

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Alan Sparks
Sam Drinkard wrote: Alan Sparks wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: NET::DNS is a core perl module. You don't want to get any version from CPAN. $locate DNS.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS.pm I don't believe on CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-26 Thread Alan Sparks
Sam Drinkard wrote: NET::DNS is a core perl module. You don't want to get any version from CPAN. $locate DNS.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS.pm I don't believe on CentOS this is a core module. Try a Yum install of perl-Net-DNS (in the base

Re: [CentOS] Regarding LARGE number of files in a folder in linux

2009-07-09 Thread Alan Sparks
Bob Hoffman wrote: This goes out to you admins who manage servers with a heavy load of information. I would like to know what you do about the number of files in a folder, or if that is a concern. I think there is a limitation or a slow down if it gets to big, but what is optimal (if

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Batch Job Scheduler/Manager

2009-06-30 Thread Alan Sparks
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have pretty loose requirements at this point, but I am looking for a tool (or set of tools) where I can automate and control a large group of tasks by a basic web front end. There is this, Java based but can run scripts in any language:

Re: [CentOS] 64-bit CentOS - your experience

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Sparks
przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: Hello, one of our developers is developing his Web applications (PHP-based+MySql) on 64-bit Fedora. He would like to use the same, 64-bit environment on CentOS. I am not against 64-bits (we use it for many, many years using Solaris) but what concerns me is the

Re: [CentOS] Missing latest kmod-xfs and kmod-drbd82?

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Sparks
Alan Sparks wrote: Since December there have been several kernel updates to the centosplus repository for centos4... but no updates to kmod-xfs or kmod-drbd82. Latest kernel is 2.6.9-78.0.13.plus.c4, but latest kmod-xfs is 2.6.9_78.0.5.plus.c4. Latest drbd82 kmod is also for 78.0.5

[CentOS] Missing latest kmod-xfs and kmod-drbd82?

2009-01-27 Thread Alan Sparks
Since December there have been several kernel updates to the centosplus repository for centos4... but no updates to kmod-xfs or kmod-drbd82. Latest kernel is 2.6.9-78.0.13.plus.c4, but latest kmod-xfs is 2.6.9_78.0.5.plus.c4. Latest drbd82 kmod is also for 78.0.5. I know there was a mention on

Re: [CentOS] Any idea when we will have updated kmod-drbd82 rpm for the latest kernel?

2008-12-31 Thread Alan Sparks
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:14 AM, mbneto mbneto at gmail.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos wrote: / Hi, // // After searching the archive I found one post (last october) complaining // about lack of kmod-drbd2 rpm for the lastest kernels. Almost two months // have passed