Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-03-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 26 Mar 2013, at 23:34, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: What, I *shouldn't* tell him what he's doing wrong? Just try to do his job for him, and let him come back, again and again, without ever actually learning something? This is a list not personal email. Just ignore it if it upsets you and let

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-03-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 26 Mar 2013, at 22:13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As a friend said once, yo mama dresses you funny, and you need a mouse to delete files Wow! Hardly a friendly introduction for a newbie to Linux. Attitudes like this ensure users go scurrying back to Windows. As my mother used to say, If

Re: [CentOS] Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

2013-03-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 26 March 2013 18:58, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Had you, for example, searched to find out a) how to look at a file, b) looked at the files I suggested you look at, or c) showed you'd done ANYTHING other than read my response and go, duh, what's that mean?, I'd have been willing to work with

Re: [CentOS] moderate rant un updates

2013-03-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 15 Mar 2013, at 18:16, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: a) I called it a *moderate* rant - I wasn't spitting, screaming in ALL CAPS, or calling names (except, by implication, the other admin I work with who did this to me). Seems unfair to continue to blame them when the solution

Re: [CentOS] Hi

2012-12-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 31 Dec 2012, at 16:15, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As to *what*? Restaurants: 15% tip. You forgot my top tip; never eat yellow snow. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 9 Aug 2012, at 22:03, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Please don't top post. Please trim your replies. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Baffled by selinux

2012-03-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 5 Mar 2012, at 22:02, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: Have you tried httpd_use_nfs? Without being able to see/read the OP's original question, some help for you. Try http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/SelinuxBooleans instead. Ben ___

Re: [CentOS] Rozwa¿ania odno¶nie storage?

2012-01-13 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 13 Jan 2012, at 15:44, Leen de Braal l...@braha.nl wrote: I for sure do not understand a word of it. Let me Google translate it for you: Hi. Currently I am dealing with a cluster of mail, in which files mail messages are stored on users raid software-at that shared by NFS. Multiple NFS

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 January 2012 02:30, Bennett Haselton benn...@peacefire.org wrote: In other words, when SELinux causes a problem, it can take hours or days to find out that SELinux is the cause -- and even then you're not done, because you have to figure out a workaround if you want to fix the problem

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-11-30 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 30 Nov 2011, at 18:51, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Ssh is mostly about being able to log in. I've always adopted the policy of disabling root logins, making admins use a separate account with public/private key authentication and then requiring them to use su to elevate

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 16 November 2011 14:02, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: So not only does the overall SNR leave, well, everything to be desired but not we are tolerating this type of language? Good job - you've made an already useless list that much worse. You rule. As much as I detest people

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 16 Nov 2011, at 15:19, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: hmm... Strom over a teacup My reply concerned the huge amount of drivel being posted to this list. The topic is supposedly CentOS - not stressed sysadmins sounding off. Simples really. Ben Sent from my iPhone

Re: [CentOS] bond of bonds

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 15 November 2011 13:08, Fred Wittekind r...@twister.dyndns.org wrote: You can bridge two bonds together, and enable STP to prevent a loop. Although, don't get it wrong on a production network, it's not pretty. Use decent switches, interlink them and create one big LACP bond across both.

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 15 Nov 2011, at 18:33, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: thats not amazon's target demographic, anyways. whats your point? Here we go again. What does any of this have to do with CentOS, the topic of this list? Does every thread have to degenerate into bickering? If only my iPhone

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (WHOA)

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 15 Nov 2011, at 20:10, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: Until various repeat offenders on this list are moderated or otherwise dealt with this nonsense is going to keep on happening. The signal to noise ratio has always been pretty low on this list but lately it has become so

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 7 Apr 2011, at 00:18, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear. I keep a USB CD drive to hand for servers without optical drives. Slightly defeatist but much easier; just

Re: [CentOS] My new server

2011-03-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 26 Mar 2011, at 15:40, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: while I'd agree with the rest of your assessments, on servers 1 nic is NOT that common, Neither are servers for €160! At that price I would expect to buy another card or just use vlans! Ben Sent from my iPhone

Re: [CentOS] My new server

2011-03-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 26 Mar 2011, at 17:25, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Well, I was hoping to connect one to my ADSL modem (non WiFi) and one to my router (LinkSys WRT54GL router). If you can't implement vlans, what about 'trunking on the cheap' with both subnets using the same switch? Not ideal,

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

2011-02-17 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 17 February 2011 16:06, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: List infraction per http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16. This was amusing to start with, but now it's irritating. Please stop. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 6 Feb 2011, at 21:40, Buz Davis buzda...@earthlink.net wrote: Is there a simple way to adjust the time? Easy way - use the 'date' command, see http://linux.die.net/man/1/date Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 6 February 2011 22:33, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: Could do Ben. But the idea of ntp is that it does it for you automatically, without having to intervene yourself and set the time manually :) Agreed but OP asked, Is there a simple way to adjust the time?. Ben

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 22 January 2011 23:43, Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't ask for web forums. I am asking for mailing lists with GNU mailman. I don't know any and couldn't find with Google. Name me a few! That's not the purpose of this list either. Ben

Re: [CentOS] disk quotas + centos 5,5 +xfs

2011-01-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 18 Jan 2011, at 02:16, aurfal...@gmail.com aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: is any one aware quotas not working in 5,5? I'm using XFS as a file system. They work just fine; first hit on Google, http://linux.die.net/man/8/xfs_quota Ben ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.6 is out

2011-01-13 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 13 Jan 2011, at 21:31, mahmoud mansy jecko...@gmail.com wrote: but it only offer me the beta`s iso`s? Suggest you contact RedHat. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] poppassd and different password

2011-01-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 6 Jan 2011, at 07:24, fake...@fakessh.eu fake...@fakessh.eu wrote: but I wonder if the password and changes in the chroot or also to the outside of the chroot Difficult to say without knowing how you configured it. Why not create some temporary accounts and test it? Ben

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Linux, Windows AD domain, and IDs

2010-12-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 4 December 2010 14:34, Ryan Wagoner rswago...@gmail.com wrote: You need to use IDMAP to do this. Have a look at the below link, specially the IDMAP storage in LDAP section. Alternatively, install Windows Services for UNIX on the Active Directory box, and define each user's UID within AD.

Re: [CentOS] problem sending/recieving mails

2010-11-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 2 Nov 2010, at 11:12, ma...@linuxmail.org ma...@linuxmail.org wrote: Thanks, i will do that when i visit the site coz its a remote site. Can you ping it? What results do you get from traceroute? And using the mail service ports? Ben ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ip aliasing on bonded interface possible?

2010-09-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 5 Sep 2010, at 18:35, Robert Arkiletian rob...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone successfully created a bonded interface (bond0) with say two nics AND also then aliased that interface to get bond0 and bond0:1 (for an alias ip) I just want to know if it's possible and reliable Oh I forgot to

Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ?

2010-09-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 Sep 2010, at 19:56, kalinix calin.kalinix.co...@gmail.com wrote: It's not about of paperwork. It's about the change process which should be wery well implemented and tested, re-tested and tested again. And when you think it's done then you should re-test once more. Sounds like they

Re: [CentOS] Iptables questions

2010-08-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 10 Aug 2010, at 22:33, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: If nothing is listening on that port, then whats to 'ban' ? I experimented with something similar - wrote a small C program that listened on port 22, dumped the source IP to a log which was then picked up by fail2ban. Worked

Re: [CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

2010-08-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 2 August 2010 11:14, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: I believe that's incorrect.  One often first needs to boot into Linux and use fdisk to remove or reformat (in fat32 or ntfs, if possible). Have you actually installed Windows? The installer will happily delete any partition, even

Re: [CentOS] setup firewall with 3 nic cards

2010-05-08 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 8 May 2010 14:12, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: then I do iptables -L again and the rule is not there. Am I missing something? Try iptables -t nat -L, though you may want to use the -n option too. From the iptables manpage[1]: -L, --list [chain] List all rules in the selected

Re: [CentOS] gcc?

2010-05-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 May 2010, at 08:38, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please let me know if such a complete package if available? Lots - do some basic research to find one that meets your needs, for example http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Linux+c%2B%2B+IDE Ben

Re: [CentOS] Math?

2010-05-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 May 2010, at 09:51, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any software package like MATLAB for Windows available for centos? MATLAB for Linux? http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/requirements.html and http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/current_release/linux.html

Re: [CentOS] Emulator for CentOS x86 platform?

2010-04-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 18 April 2010 12:23, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please let me know which qemu rpm package do support for UltraSPARC platform? Try Google. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 18 April 2010 02:24, david walcroft dwalcr...@bigpond.com wrote: The burnt dvd does not boot on a system reboot. Why not just buy a CentOS CD or DVD from one of the companies listed here, http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=24 ? Ben

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 14 Apr 2010, at 17:05, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Or use HP's :) I had the same issue (admittedly with RedHat 5.3) with an HP server with the on board NICs detected last. Just edit the ifcfg-ethX files so that MAC refers to the NIC you want it to be. Ben

Re: [CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 9 Apr 2010, at 15:29, kalinix calin.kalinix.co...@gmail.com wrote: He just said 'please stop top posting' in the post you replied. :) What about please trim your replies too? No need to quote an entire thread when you reply. Ben ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Mounting a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Hard Drive

2010-03-22 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 22 Mar 2010, at 09:53, Keith Beeby k.be...@albion.co.uk wrote: Is there a way of getting this volume to mount so I can copy of the data? I see Fedora has HFSPlus support I'd be tempted to connect the HFS+ RAID back to the Mac and copy the data using rsync. Sure it won't be as quick as

Re: [CentOS] Looking for Newsletter Stuff

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 5 March 2010 17:07, Garry.Dale garry.d...@gmail.com wrote: I like this idea, too.  However, I feel compelled to point out a violation within your Data Center [5]. [5] http://wiki.centos.org/GarryDale?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=didiCIMG0027.jpg Mandatory in the UK! At least at my

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 4 March 2010 14:01, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-) The ATA Secure Erase command is generally faster but more difficult - see

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 4 March 2010 19:24, Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: No, it doesn't exist.  Oddly I have another user called cfmaster who can write files in there just fine: When was the user scarolan added to the cvsgrp group? Have you logged out and back in since? Ben

Re: [CentOS] DHCP client not working with Windows DHCP / dynamic DNS server

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 March 2010 09:53, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.clara.co.uk wrote: In the OP's scenario, the DNS entries are updated by the DHCP server when it grants a lease to a named client. The question is, what info is the DHCP server receiving from Windows clients to enable this, that his CentOS

Re: [CentOS] how to open a tcp port?

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 Mar 2010, at 12:21, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: How can I distinguish which package is missing from my CentOS server What are you trying to achieve? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] how to open a tcp port?

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 3 Mar 2010, at 12:49, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: I do not want to re-install the OS with all of the packages selected from the installation media . I understand that. What do you want to achieve out of this whole process? What service do you expect to interact with over

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 February 2010 06:54, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: atexit.py should be part of the base python RPM in EL5    # rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py    python-2.4.3-27.el5 Did this get solved in the end? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 Feb 2010, at 16:51, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart. Had a similar problem and easiest solution in the end was to buy a USB CD drive from

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 February 2010 17:42, Ian Murray murra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: It's a hardware issue with the server drive. Having said that, the CentOS net install CD is pretty small, so server's drive might read it enough to get going... Any virtual drive support in the ILO / similar? Ben

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-02-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 27 February 2010 20:46, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:    atexit.register(atexit_handler) NameError: global name 'atexit' is not defined Have you remembered import atexit ? A Google search doesn't really help me, except confirm that I don't know anything about python:)

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-02-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 27 February 2010 20:56, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I did see the python docs link and saw that line, this script for cluster server is known to work as is. I haven't got ready access to a CentOS box - what version of Python are you using? atexit is only available in

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-02-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 27 February 2010 22:56, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: there are people running some variant of it, and it's a perfect solution for my need:( How did you get the script onto your box? Python can be very picky with whitespace. Ben

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-02-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 Feb 2010, at 01:21, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I just browsed the git repo at rh's site and used wget with a -O. What's the URL? Determined to get it working now! :-) Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [OT?] recommendation for simple wiki S/W to run on centos 5.4?

2010-02-24 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 24 February 2010 13:56, Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com wrote: I'm becoming a fan of dokuwiki (http://www.dokuwiki.org/). I recently had to install it for someone in our office and it was a doddle using the EPEL repo. I haven't used it through, but they seem very happy with it! Ben

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/5 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? Try the XenServer mailing lists or wiki? http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/2 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one of the following options: I am very happy with XenServer in our data centre. Use qemu for testing / devel purposes. Ben ___

Re: [CentOS] Auto exit lftp on bash script

2010-01-27 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/27 Alan Hoffmeister alan...@gmail.com: lftp -e  mirror --reverse --delete --only-newer --verbose /var/bkp /test_bkp ;quit -u user,password somehost.com Read the manpage. Replace -e in your original command line with -c. Ben ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Auto exit lftp on bash script

2010-01-26 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/26 Alan Hoffmeister alan...@gmail.com: how can I exit lftp and finish the bash? Use the -c flag instead? From the manpage: -c commands Execute the given commands and exit. Commands can be separated with a semicolon, `' or `||'. Ben

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/15 Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se: IMO the most likely reason for one server working and not another one would be HP shipping (or bounce-your-servers-around-the-globe as I like to call it)... Sadly that problem does not seem unique to HP. Ben

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk: Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better memorize the after hours password for HP support. I have had lots[1] of problems lately with DIMMs becoming defective in six month old G5 HPs. Could

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk: Boy, a Tyan or Supermicro solution is looking better by the minute for the new server I plan to get the school for its library server and other uses. If only Supermicro had a local distributor...I have not had a good look

Re: [CentOS] what provices replace command?

2010-01-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/9 Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com: I am used to using the replace command to quickly replace strings in file, but it's not available on some of my fresh CentOS 5.4 servers. Is sed suitable for what you need to achieve?

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/7 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: I've had 2 drobo's at work - and i can assure you that it is essentially a wasted device. I agree with this. We had a Drobo on loan for a while, I found it sluggish and detested the way it over-reports its free space. Couldn't wait to hand it

Re: [CentOS] unattended fsck on reboot

2010-01-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/6 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com: But, on the other hand they should never need it, except perhaps when installing the OS if you don't use a full-auto method or clone disks. Reminds me of the quote, In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practise, there is.

Re: [CentOS] I thought Y2K was over with?

2010-01-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/2 Gilbert Sebenste seben...@weather.admin.niu.edu: Apparently not. On a command line, type: date '+%G' Looks perfectly correct to me - from man strftime %Gis replaced by a year as a decimal number with century. This year is the one that contains the greater part of

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

2009-12-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/31 Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com: I'm using an Avocent DSR1020 and it works just fine. I'm quite happy with Avocent kit, but haven't tried it from non-IE browsers yet. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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

2009-12-13 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/13 Thomas Dukes tdu...@sc.rr.com: The udp.pl file was owned by apache.  Not sure that would matter.  I have no cluse as to how it got there.  The date on the file was oct 09 and those logs have already been rotated out. I'd recommend reinstalling from scratch, just to be safe.

Re: [CentOS] Samsung M800

2009-12-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/1 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net: Unfortunately, my phone doesn't show under /proc/scsi/scsi.  I suspect that it won't show up until it is in mass storage mode, and if I can get it into mass storage mode I probably won't have to worry about the issue described in that tech note.

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/2 Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com:  In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions what I can do, would love to hear about it. Do you just have the one LDAP server? I would probably set up a slave and add it to your client's ldap configuration. Ben

Re: [CentOS] Unable to share directory via Samba?

2009-12-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/1 James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com: I removed the smb.conf file and wrote a new  one manually but  for some reason it only wants to let me connect as Guest and not a real user with some privileges? Have you got SELinux enabled? Ben ___

Re: [CentOS] Unable to share directory via Samba?

2009-12-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/1 James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com: No I haven't but thanks for having a guess xD Worth a shot! :-) I've wasted far too much time in the past on a new samba server only to realise I'd forgotten to disable SELinux. What permissions do you have set on /home/mars? Ben

Re: [CentOS] Unable to share directory via Samba?

2009-12-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/1 James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com: I removed the smb.conf file and wrote a new  one manually but  for some reason it only wants to let me connect as Guest and not a real user with some privileges? Okay... had a closer look and suggests that your users are not authenticating properly.

Re: [CentOS] Samsung M800

2009-12-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/12/1 Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net: I wish it did have that option.  Unfortunately, if it does it's so well hidden that I can't find it. Does this help - http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html#ts9 ? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/10 Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com: I installed mysql using yum, so I have an /etc/init.d/mysqld file. For some reason, however, mysqld doesn't boot on reboot of the machine. Please Execute the command chkconfig mysqld on Ben ___

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/7 mark m.r...@5-cent.us: What do you mean by 'rebooted apache'?  You have to reboot the whole machine to change selinlux settings. No, you don't. Either the echo, or the setenforce command will change it. Rebooting probably turned SELinux back on again. Run the setenforce permissive

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/7 Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com: selinux must be off because I moved the whole folder to a backup. Did you edit /etc/selinux/config to disable it? Please, just try the things people are suggesting rather than dismissing them instantly - it'll be much easier in the long run.

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/7 Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com: I moved /etc/selinux/config to /etc/selinux/config.BAK and created an empty folder to replace it. Then I rebooted the server. Check with the command getenforce please. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/2 ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com: Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? Make SSH use PAM for authentication and use the pam_preprofile[1] module to execute and appropriate script. You should test with public/private key logins to ensure that it also works

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/1 Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com: Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. As I said earlier, it is not a critical matter, but it does not instill confidence in me about CentOS distro. What other bugs are there? The interesting thing, at least to me, is that

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML G6 problem.

2009-10-31 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/31 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: Could You provide a link to such a howto? Why do you need CentOS 4? Have tried a USB CD drive? Or connecting a different CD drive temporarily for the install? Since you can boot okay, does v4 support net install? Ben

Re: [CentOS] Scripting help please....

2009-10-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/28 Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com: I dont know how to do this in a script. Could be a job for awk. Bit too busy at work to look into it further at the moment though. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Testing remote machine status in a script ?

2009-10-25 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/25 Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net: IF remote machine is switched on / connected to the network... Use ping and test the result; perhaps something similar to this: case `ping -qnc 1 10.0.0.2 21` in *'100% packet loss'*) exit 1 ;; esac See the script at the bottom

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/24 Gilbert Sebenste seben...@weather.admin.niu.edu: It will deny me if SERVER is anything but port 22. Doing a man sftp yields no help on how to solve that. Any ideas? From memory, try -o Port=222 Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/22 Jay jaybeat...@gmail.com: sudo su - sudo -s is so much neater! :) Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/14 Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com: I have some customer machines that have not been updated for some time, and are still on CentOS 5.2. Do you *need* to upgrade? If the machines are running anything critical, I would be tempted to leave them with 5.2. Ben

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/14 John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com:        Because advising someone to run with known vulnerabilities        is conducive to maintaining the integrity of critical        systems? If those vulnerabilities put your servers at risk in the environment that you use them, then that would

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

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/8 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: +1    Excellent advice. He should not be disabling updates.  Advice that's worth a lot more than 2 cents Depends upon your point of view. I like to know what my servers are doing and to have the opportunity to test that updates will not break

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

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/8 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: +1    Excellent advice. He should not be disabling updates.  Advice that's worth a lot more than 2 cents Depends upon your point of view. I like to know what my servers are doing and to have the opportunity to test that updates will not break

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/10 Gordon McLellan gordonth...@gmail.com:  The best part the vendors deal, the upgrades will cost us the same price if we buy the server from him or not - opting not to buy overpriced hardware causes the programming fee to inflate by an equal amount - how is that for service! Sounds

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Problem solved... This time I didn't use the CentOS Extras repo. However, still some problems with v5.3 until I just upgraded kernel, smb and nscd and now working and rebooting perfectly! :) Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/3 ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com: Nice, thank you, I did not think about this option. I'd use rsync -av Will preserve everything and can resume where it left off if interrupted. Usually used over networks, but equally happy with local file systems. Ben

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-30 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/30 Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt: in /etc/ldap.conf: bind_policy soft I may not have used the right terminology, but I mentioned this in my first message: They all obtain their authentication information over LDAP and to avoid the starting message bus hang problem[1], nscd is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-30 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Think I might just wait for v5.4 and try that. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to autoconfigure network?

2009-09-30 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/30 happymaster23 happymaste...@gmail.com: No, I want create files /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and others... Try running setup Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
I currently have about eight servers running a mixture of CentOS x86_64 v5.2 and v5.3 but none with the very latest updates. They all obtain their authentication information over LDAP and to avoid the starting message bus hang problem[1], nscd is set to soft failure. However, yesterday I set up

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/29 Dan Burkland dburk...@nmdp.org: I experienced the same problem and found a solution. In your /etc/ldap.conf file (which I had the ldap.conf in /etc/openldap symlinked to), add the following line to the bottom of the file: Due to the ssh problems, I can't check the actual machine at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/9/29 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com: having these lines in /etc/ldap.conf has helped me a lot... timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft My timelimits are still at the default of 120. However, the machine was bounced for me this morning and is apparently still stuck on