Re: [CentOS] Introduction and request for help with virtualization

2010-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 11:30 -0400 schrieb Kevin Chang: I found a script via google: #!/bin/sh virt-install \ -n calcnode01 \ -r 1024 \ -f /dev/vmstorage_vg/calcnode01 \ --cdrom=/software/iso/CentOS-5.5_x86_64-boot.iso \ --accelerate \ --vnc \ -x

Re: [CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file

2010-07-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am 31.07.2010 14:48, schrieb Keith Roberts: It's a bit tricky setting up PHP error logging to a seperate file. This works for me on 32bit, Centos 5.5 and Fedora 12, and previous Fedora versions. Here are my settings: SELinux disabled at boot time. How about leaving it on and consult

Re: [CentOS] DHCPD

2010-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
Am 30.07.2010 21:35, schrieb tony.chamberl...@lemko.com: Can I somehow tell my desktop only to handle PXE requests and anything else should go to 192.168.5.1? Configure your DHCP server only to talk only to certain clients. (deny unknown-clients) see man dhcpd.conf. Couple minor questions

Re: [CentOS] Enabling X on headless server via network

2010-07-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am 25.07.2010 17:15, schrieb Dotan Cohen: Note that my goal is to start X, then ssh in and run Firefox remotely from a Fedora desktop. The server itself has no monitor. Thanks in advance for any advice. For that you do not need an X server on the remote machine all you need is X11

Re: [CentOS] redundant networked secure file system recommendation

2010-07-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am 19.07.2010 18:02, schrieb Boris Epstein: Hi all, We are currently running a NFS-based server centric setup. I would like to set up something where I can easily have more than one redundant server, security/authentication (this part seems a little flaky with NFS, at least did several years

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-26 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 20.05.2010, 19:02 -0400 schrieb Thomas Dukes: I am trying to add 127.0.0.1 to my resolv.conf. I added it through the system-config-network but if I reboot, its gone. I do not have the caching nameserver package installed. My ISP's nameservers are there. It must have

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Re: Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-17 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 15.05.2010, 09:04 +0700 schrieb David Suhendrik: Thanks for the help, a solution to this problem is to update the bios, and after using the newest version of bios I can use AHCI mode on the sata controller, and indeed this is the problem. But I had to install windows server

Re: [CentOS] Formatting file system too slow on CentOS

2010-05-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 11:38 +0530 schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: Greetings, On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:08 AM, David Suhendrik da...@pnyet.web.id wrote: @Rajagopal: This result: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda5 /dev/hda5: Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.08 seconds = 2.60

Re: [CentOS] Resolving dependencies from the command-line

2010-05-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 06.05.2010, 18:22 +0200 schrieb Marco Shaw: CenOS 5.4 x64 I'm stuck at the command-line. I'm only familiar with the RPM command, but AFAIK, that cannot automatically resolve any dependencies when installing packages. Is there a command-line utility that I can force to

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached, that the x86_64 1.4.5-1.el5 needs an update, I go to do that, and it complains that it's missing a dependency of libevent-1.4.so.2 (this is all 64 bit, CentOS 5.4). Clues...

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:20 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Chris wrote: Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached, that the x86_64 1.4.5-1.el5 needs an update, I go to do that, and it complains that it's

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 20:38 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Chris wrote: Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:20 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Chris wrote: Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached, that the

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2010, 18:16 +0200 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: I'm leaning pretty heavily in this directly actually, just given how little progress I'm making with CPAN itself. Next step I guess is to see if all my packages are available in RPMs. rpmforge has a lot, the only pain you

Re: [CentOS] wher cam i get the kickstart's rpm or gz?

2010-04-19 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2010, 13:09 +0200 schrieb hqm8512: HI erveryone, I want to install some machines with the kickstart,but i can't find the kickstart's rpm or gz,anyone know it? my server is suse 10.3,thank you! There ist no kickstart software. Kickstart is a mix of pxe, tftp,

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 22:23 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: Hey folks, Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? If so, maybe someone can point me to it. Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of CPAN modules, and the first basic problem

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 16.04.2010, 15:00 +0200 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 17:58 +0200 schrieb JohnS: On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:12 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: The eth? names are assigned in more or less random order at bootup Not exactly random but not always as expected:)

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 09:14 +0100 schrieb Marcus Moeller: Hi all. is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the installed system? Best Regards Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS magic to Active Directory login?

2010-02-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 04:07 +0100 schrieb Tom Bishop: I just set up a centos 5.4 server with this a couple of weeks agao, really straight forward, here is the best guide that I found, http://www.linuxmail.info/active-directory-integration-samba-centos-5/ The very same without clicking

Re: [CentOS] /etc/ldap.conf pam_filter

2010-02-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 20:27 +0100 schrieb News Listener: Hi Chris, Thanks, you mind, replace ldap auth with winbind auth ? my scene: on one side 1 smb server pdc with ldap, on the another side, 1 Xorg-Server with auth over ldap , the same from the first one (smb). i need to

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 01:10 +0100 schrieb Jay Leafey: If you are using AD for JUST authentication and not user information, you can use the PAM Kerberos stuff. We've been using it for a couple of years from both CentOS/RHEL 4 and 5 systems with good results. It was actually pretty

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 05:20 +0100 schrieb Dan Burkland: Hey All, Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to authenticate against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to complete this particular setup however I have run into some difficulties

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 19:31 +0100 schrieb Alan McKay: It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least something

Re: [CentOS] /etc/ldap.conf pam_filter

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 11:38 +0100 schrieb Nobody ist perfect: Hi, we use an openldap server / samba as domain controller for our windows/linux workstations. on a specific server, login should only be allowed, if the certain user is member of a group (let's call this group login). All

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 14:38 +0100 schrieb Dan Burkland: Wbinfo -u wbinfo -g do indeed work for me however getent passwd or getent group returns no AD users or groups. I have winbind entries in nsswitch for both the passwd group entries. Josepeh, I will try a newer RPM from a

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to run serial console redirection without xen kernel

2010-02-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 07:30 +0100 schrieb premr...@digilink.in: Hi, I have customized my centos Installation and removed the vitalization, Cluster and storage cluster support along with GUI support.I have enabled only server related packages. Regarding serial console redirection,I

Re: [CentOS] Not able to redirect console msgs to serial port

2010-02-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 06:27 +0100 schrieb premr...@digilink.in: Hi, Iam using cento-5.3 on x86 machine and iam working to get the console messages redirected to serial port. - - - Still Iam not able to see any console messages redirection on serial port.I have connected the serial

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010-02-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 14:14 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: 2010/2/1 MOKRANI Rachid rachid.mokr...@ifp.fr: Hi, I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). I need to obtain informations about : - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, Any ideas

Re: [CentOS] yum update error

2010-01-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 30.01.2010, 13:32 +0100 schrieb Majian: Hi ,all : Today I run the yum update command on my laptop, which is CentOS 5.4 i386. Then the screen displays the following message : r...@kuku ~ yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

Re: [CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 26.01.2010, 07:04 +0100 schrieb Alberto García Gómez: Hi fellows, how can I unrar (.rar of course) from my console? What package do I need? Saludos Fraternales Alberto please do not use reply to and then change the topic. Instead use new mail in you mail client to start a new

Re: [CentOS] perl updates always break perl programs, how to fix?

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 21:46 +0100 schrieb James Chase: I realize this is my fault because once upon a time I installed a package using CPAN and probably other admins on the system have as well but now whenever I update perl I have to jump through hoops to get perl applications to work

Re: [CentOS] perl-Mail-Box dependencies

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 21.01.2010, 17:25 +0100 schrieb Bowie Bailey: Does anyone know why the CentOS 5 package perl-Mail-Box from both rpmforge and epel is dependent on spamassassin? Looking at the source from cpan, it appears to be an option rather than a dependency (and is even commented out of

Re: [CentOS] About GLOBAL vars

2010-01-18 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 18:02 +0100 schrieb Alberto García Gómez: I install XAMPP in a server and know I want some binaries run as they were part of the system (I reaaly don't know if this correct). So I need that -pear- -pecl- and others run as: #pear install [PACKAGE] and not #cd

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate in CentOS 5.4 more brutal (to httpd at least) than in 5.3?

2010-01-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 13:08 +0100 schrieb Arturas Skauronas: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Christopher Thorjussen christopher.thorjus...@carrot.no wrote: I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a Apache Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new .rpmnew

Re: [CentOS] Cloned Centos Boxes - First Run to run again?

2010-01-10 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2010, 12:26 +0100 schrieb Mr Gabriel: I need to build a bank of 12 centos boxes, for an experiment I'm doing. I don't want to install centos 12 times, I'm using virtual box across three machines, how can I get the first run scripts to run again to that the box is

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 22:31 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: You can also run Linux on Apple computers. He was advertising OSX not Apple hardware financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 09.01.2010, 18:49 +0100 schrieb Les Mikesell: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 22:31 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: You can also run Linux on Apple computers. He was advertising OSX not Apple hardware That was not advertising. There is a big

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and so on. Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. Well that is really what the OP asked for NOT. There have been good answers so

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Hi, On 01/03/2010 07:38 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. Firstly, the sparc port isnt all done - or supported. But it would be awesome to get some

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 14:28 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general? Are redhat

Re: [CentOS] High l-avg with centos 4.8 on G2 only

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 16:51 +0100 schrieb fortin.pie...@bell.ca: Hi We deployed centos 4.8 on HP DL380 G2, G3 and G4 servers (same number of cpus). The same software is running on all servers. Only on G2 servers we see a low cpu utilization combined with high load-average. For

Re: [CentOS] High l-avg with centos 4.8 on G2 only

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:51 AM, fortin.pie...@bell.ca wrote: Hi We deployed centos 4.8 on HP DL380 G2, G3 and G4 servers (same number of cpus). The same software is running on all servers. Only on G2 servers

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

2009-12-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 31.12.2009, 12:34 +0100 schrieb Chan Chung Hang Christopher: Look at the first two columns. What column have higher numbers? If r, you're CPU-bound. If b, you're I/O bound. procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- -cpu-- r b

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

2009-12-29 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 05:44 +0100 schrieb Noob Centos Admin: since initially it seems like the high load may be due to I/O wait Maybe this will help you to identify the IO loading process: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/red-hat-backported-io-accounting-to-rhel5 Chris financial.com AG

Re: [CentOS] Recent Java OpenJDK RPMs

2009-12-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 26.12.2009, 14:48 +0100 schrieb Mathieu Baudier: Hello, I have quite a few issues with the default OpenJdk package on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 (e.g. crash of Eclipse [1], and now excessive permgen memory requirement causing the JVM to freeze and requiring a kill -9). These issues

Re: [CentOS] fully automatic installation FAI?

2009-12-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 23.12.2009, 16:46 +0100 schrieb David Mehler: Hello, Is anyone running a software package called FAI for Fully Automatic Installation on a CentOS server? I was wondering if there were any issues to running it? Thanks. Dave. Afiak thats the debian way for automatic installs

Re: [CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:51 +0100 schrieb Florin Andrei: So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 or so. What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? The Rpmforge Repo, see http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge. We provide nagios3

Re: [CentOS] Getting EXTERN.h, perl.h, etc

2009-12-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Charles E Campbell Jr: Hello: I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is

Re: [CentOS] Startup script woes

2009-12-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 02.12.2009, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Bielik: Ok, I think I'm going nuts. I simply want to startup a Java Service like so: daemon --pidfile=$PIDFILE --user $USER cd $WORKING_DIR /usr/bin/java $DAEMON_ARGS /dev/null 21 I can get it to startup alrite, but the litte thingy

Re: [CentOS] What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ?

2009-11-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009, 23:23 +0100 schrieb John R Pierce: zeroironhack wrote: What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ? # yum install php That should get you php 5.2.9 on centos 5 if you're running CentOS 4 or older, then I recommend upgrading to CentOS 5. Only if

Re: [CentOS] How Can I change CentOS CLI Screen Resolution to smaller text (without GUI)?

2009-11-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 15:00 +0100 schrieb Dhiraj Chatpar: I am not able to install this which i used to in debian.. i am now using centos. can you please tell me how to install apt-get install libnet-server-perl on centos? PLEASE HELP man yum http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk or Puppet?

2009-11-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 20:46 +0100 schrieb Les Mikesell: nate wrote: But will the tool do these changes for me? The tool will do anything you tell it to, it's a generic tool. OK, but if I have to write the script, why wouldn't I just write the script my way and automate it over

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 01.11.2009, 21:07 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 10/31/2009 10:01 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Just wondering what people use / recommend to keep multiple machines in sync with their iptables policy. I did use fwbuilder it can create and deploy rules. For a small number

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-10-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 18:42 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: hi, Just wondering what people use / recommend to keep multiple machines in sync with their iptables policy. I did use fwbuilder it can create and deploy rules. For a small number of machines it worked well for me. Chris

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Sergio Belkin: 2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com: Sergio Belkin wrote: 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan smcclana...@sigovs.com: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille: it will work when your mirror has 5.4 I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Was there an official CentOS 5.4 announcemnet already? financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München:

Re: [CentOS] continuing issues with %post

2009-10-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 04:17 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: Hello, I'm trying to do an unattended CentOS 5.3 install. For the most part it's working. As of right now i'm statically assigning the machine an IP which i believe will allow %post to resolve names? I also like knowing where

Re: [CentOS] post install freezes

2009-10-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 19:37 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: Hello, I'm doing an unattended CentOS 5.3 install in a virtual machine vmware. I'm redirecting output to a serial console because production boxes won't have monitors. I'm getting to the point of doing the post installation then

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 22:02 +0200 schrieb Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho: Mathieu Baudier wrote: I'm not sure that I understand. Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM specs used by CentOS? That would indeed be fascinating and useful to have a look at

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-13 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 13.10.2009, 02:06 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: Hi, Thanks for all your replies. I checked out spacewalk and cobbler, both of which look like they require a network support infrastructure, at least a tftp server. I want to use a CD or DVD. Kickstart sounds like the way to go,

Re: [CentOS] ifconfig showing same mac for 2 nics in same bond

2009-10-07 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 21:19 +0200 schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com: Hi all, I just noticed that my two nics that are bonded via mode 0 are showing the same mac addy in ifconfig. Is this normal because of the nature of my bond? Yes. financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München:

Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode

2009-10-07 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 20:28 +0200 schrieb ML: Nate, ifconfig ethX IP_ADDRESS netmask NETMASK route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY OK, so I was correct, I am doing ifconfig eth0 172.16.254.80 netmask 255.255.255.240 route add default gw 172.16.254.1 I am getting Network is

Re: [CentOS] RAM errors after kernel-update

2009-10-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 15:28 +0200 schrieb Michael Schumacher: Hi, I updated a server yesterday from kernel 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen to kernel 2.6.18-164.el5xen After rebooting, my message log is flooded every second or so with this error messages: Oct 6 14:52:20 xenserver1 kernel:

Re: [CentOS] bsd mkfile command in centos - a wish

2009-10-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 20:22 +0200 schrieb Michel van Deventer: Hi, On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:14 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Les, Yes, I do run dd to create Xen image files but was hoping to use a more elegant solution. Looks like I'll continue with dd but if any one

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

2009-09-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 05:16 +0200 schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com: Ok, this is what I did in the exact same situation (solution below gotten from the xen list). I use it religiously. Lucky I'm on both forums. ** First make sure your guest

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 24/09/09 21:32, Paul Heinlein wrote: I really wish RH would hop on the /srv bus. The broad distinction is fairly easy to grasp: /var for variable data of general interest to the machine, /srv for stuff related to a specific

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

2009-09-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb frank.brodb...@klingel.de: Hi, Pascal Robert prob...@macti.ca schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20: [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 16:27 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Franz: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 11:36 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Hi, I successfully managed to use SSL on a local webserver for testing purposes, following the section Using SSL in the Chapter Using

Re: [CentOS] sed (or other) magic to get RPM base names ?

2009-09-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: Hey folks, Once upon a time I saw some sed magic to take the output of rpm -qa and strip away all the version info to give just the RPM base names. And of course I forgot to note it :-/ And have not been able to replicate it

Re: [CentOS] network not starting and maybe other services in a virtual machine

2009-09-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 19:04 +0200 schrieb Jerry Geis: I am installing centos 5.3 i386 in a virtual machine. I am using kvm-87 (which I use for other images just fine). The box installed fine, it boots up I can login but NONE of the services are starting . When watching the boot up

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-20 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 11:36 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Hi, I successfully managed to use SSL on a local webserver for testing purposes, following the section Using SSL in the Chapter Using Apache of the Definitive Guide to CentOS. Now I wonder: how can I use SSL with virtual hosts?

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 20:45 +0200 schrieb Scott Robbins: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:27:42PM -0400, Max Hetrick wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Btw. i really consider the current nagios article on the wiki bad. Its totally outdated and covers way to much info how to configure nagios

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-17 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Scott Robbins: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:50:41PM +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Done. I hope you incorporate The things Christoph Maser has mentioned and don't just add the one line from your first mail (which will break, when the box

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 15:19 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Martin Boel, Silverbullet b...@silverbullet.dk wrote: Hi username: MartinBoel Please grant me access. Done. I hope you incorporate The things Christoph Maser has mentioned and don't

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Mathew S. McCarrell: It might be simpler to just have a tutorial that uses the package that is available from rpmforge. I have already written such a tutorial and it receives several hundred hits each month. Its also the second result in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 20:05 +0200 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 09/16/2009 06:44 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: I've not read your guide, but perhaps both could be united to make one that's current and suitable for everyone's needs. Just a thought too. :) How about splitting it up into 'Install

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:27 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes: I STILL do not understand why anyone would care what CentOS does with money donated by people who used the product and wanted to donate. If we were having wild beer parties every week ... as long as the packages are built,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 09:21 +0200 schrieb Martin Boel, Silverbullet: Hi Thanks for you reply. I guess this should be fixed i the next nagios package or next centos version, but for now the public should be told about a workaround, that works with the current versions. There is quite

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 09:21 +0200 schrieb Martin Boel, Silverbullet: Hi Thanks for you reply. I guess this should be fixed i the next nagios package or next centos version, but for now the public should be told about a workaround, that works with the current versions. There is quite

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: Hi I would like to contribute to the wiki.centos.org: username: boel Hmmm. We really do prefer FirstnameLastname. subject: nagios incompatibility with

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contribution to wiki: nagios incompatibility with centos 5.2

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:24 +0200, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 16:15 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:11 +0200, Martin Boel, Silverbullet wrote: workaround is to execute

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:43 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote: The sound is bad, / Lance vanished from the project some time in 2008. Everybody needs time off from projects from time to time, so there was no real need to worry

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 14:28 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 09/14/2009 05:01 AM, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:43 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote: The sound is bad, / Lance vanished from the project some

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 15:11 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes: However, I am not sure WHY you want to know these things. We do not require anyone to donate to the project to use the software. We do have expenses (like DVDs to hand out, posters to print, rooms to pay for at Linux conferences,

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in centos 5.3

2009-09-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 17:45 +0200 schrieb Daniel Bruno: Hi, Recently I build a filesystem in a device using mkfs.ext4 but when I tried to mount the device show this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' But when I build the same device with mkfs.ext4dev I can mont the

Re: [CentOS] Unable to complete virtual system

2009-09-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 09:43 +0200 schrieb micktaywri...@bigpond.com: Invalid install location: Opening URL http://www.topend.com/distro/i386/tree failed. Did you see that? Did you check it is reachable and a correct OS installation tree? Chris financial.com AG Munich head

Re: [CentOS] caching pipe?

2009-09-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 08:32 +0200 schrieb Florin Andrei: Is it possible to add caching to a pipe? cat blah | in_RAM_cache_here -s SIZE | something else The porgram buffer might be what you need. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939

Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

2009-09-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2009, 14:07 +0200 schrieb Gabriel - IP Guys: It seems that there is a bug in cacti for centos x64 - version 0.8.7e In case you use the rpmforge package, please report on the rpmforge Mailinglist. financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München:

Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

2009-09-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Gabriel - IP Guys: Dear All, I am attempting to install cacti on CentOS 5.3 64 bit, and I checked the wiki, only to find that the instructions are a bit out of date. Have these instructions been updated somewhere, or does anyone have updated

Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

2009-09-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 14:36 +0200 schrieb Gabriel - IP Guys: Thank you for your response - I went through those instructions, and again, I got the same error as below. FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please make sure you have specified a valid MySQL database

Re: [CentOS] Crontab Nobody

2009-08-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Anne Wilson: I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. Should I delete the file /var/spool/cron/nobody? It is owned root:root,

Re: [CentOS] How to clone CentOS server ?

2009-08-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 14:59 +0200 schrieb mcclnx mcc: anyone used this one and can say experience: http://clonezilla.org/ I tried it 4 or 5 times. Always failed... financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6

2009-08-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 25.08.2009, 09:23 +0200 schrieb CentOS List: Hi, Is there any yum repo which contains tomcat 6 and java 1.6? Thanks Regards WL CentOS 5.3 ships java-1.6.0-openjdk. financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany

Re: [CentOS] Samba use sendfile configuration option set do disabled as default - why?

2009-08-24 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 24.08.2009, 13:24 +0200 schrieb Per Qvindesland: socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536 These options are often found if you search for samba tuning. Did someone actaully benchmark the results? Shouldn't tuning buffers manuall be oboslete

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 21:41 +0200 schrieb Ed Heron: I use named virtual hosts on my web servers, as I'm sure many others do. I'm used to the method of using a vhost directory for the container files. I didn't find documentation for it in the CentOS docs or the Apache docs. I'm not

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 23.08.2009, 09:34 +0200 schrieb Christoph Maser: But what i really expect from a TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhost is to explain how to make sure which vhost will be the default vhost when using includes. Chris Oh you have that also i found it on the wiki changelog. http

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Rainer Duffner: Am 21.08.2009 um 23:24 schrieb R P Herrold: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: place. I looked like the hacker downloaded his paypal spoof files into a subdirectory of /var/www/phpmyadmin I am running 5.3

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 10:21 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Hi, Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently made the switch

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

2009-08-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Sam Drinkard: How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see anything wrong

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