Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
and if that means some downtime, then the users in general would not be put out, if their expectations had not been raised to expect no downtime. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: On Wed, October 29, 2014 6:32 pm, Cliff Pratt wrote: On Thu

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
the engineers and systems programmers wanted time with no users. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 10/29/2014 4:40 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Yes, indeed. Those are blasted Unix sysadmins (Hm, I flatter myself by thinking of being

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:21 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 10/30/2014 1:07 AM, Cliff Pratt wrote: I used to work with IBM mainframes back when the dinosaurs were hatchlings. At one place I worked the machine was powered off on Friday at 5pm and powered up at 7am on Monday

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
administrators have allowed themselves to be painted into. It's not a law of nature. Civilized organisations will always allow a maintenance Window. In the Windows world it is not an issue. Servers can be rebooted with much more freedom than in the Linux/Unix world. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

2014-10-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
than all of it in one go, and why it gets to run twice each time. Once bitten, twice shy. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

2014-10-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
of small files, it will indeed take a very long time. Over sshfs with a slowish link, it could be days. and it may end up failing silently or noisily anyway. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
distribution's standard build. useradd is not really needed. How bare bones do you want to get? Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Niki Kovacs i...@microlinux.fr wrote: Le 13/10/2014 13:36, Ron Loftin a écrit : Of course, if you are interested in something that will help you

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
house every 10 years? Trade in your wife and kids? Yep, of course. Doesn't everyone? Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 docs, tutorials, etc...

2014-10-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
has been) a target in Linux systems. It may be Linux's Code Red. There are definitely more exploits out there. Not all Linux admins are security aware, just as many are not backup aware. Many think that Linux systems are secure by default. Many will get around to security some time. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
The daemon only handles incoming mail, or in other words waits for incoming connections from other mail servers. Outgoing mail is sent on demand, or in other words a connection is made to a mail server or relay as and when required. Cheers, Cliff On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Always Learning

Re: [CentOS] xfce on CentOS 7: can't lock screen

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
CDE? Shudder!! In spite of the way that modern desktops have turned out I can't imagine anyone using CDE these days. I used to use and loath it on HP/UX back when the Internet was a puppy. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: On Sat, 27

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
to `exim4' Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
versions of Apache used to come with a test.sh file in the default cgi-bin directory, but those days are long gone, I suspect. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RPM install/upgrade problem

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
It may be that you have a bad bash RPM from somewhere. I believe that the cpio command works directly on the package so you could try with cpio on the command line to see if it will open the RPM. I suspect that it won't be able to. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Tony Molloy

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:28 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 Sep 2014 05:46, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the new one

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the new one. There may be other similar cases. So the best thing is to reboot. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:39 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: If I

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
through them, so I'd say that the best way to be sure is to reboot. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
That's not a fix. A fix is finding out where the logs are being written, not installing another package. Though, having said that, I realise that I am assuming that the minimal install contains *some* logging package, and that may possibly be incorrect. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
Fair enough I withdraw my comment as irrelevant. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: That's not a fix. A fix is finding out where the logs are being written, not installing another package. Though, having said that, I realise that I am

Re: [CentOS] don't use centos 7 as a developer workstation

2014-08-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
with packages and files like on windows.. Nooo! Developers are not and should never be sysadmins!!! I'd give a developer a ready built base system and what he/she installs on it then, I don't really care. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Convert bare partition to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
every so often. But it depends whether or not the OP's data is arranged so that he could do something like that. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:25 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.com Thanks for your feedback - it's advice I would have

Re: [CentOS] Convert bare partition to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
it would behave with your millions of files) 2. One big rsync 3. Bring it down and copy the few modified files reported by inotify. Or lsyncd? On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: rsync breaks silently or sometimes noisily on big directory

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

2014-06-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
I believe that the whole of the first track on a disk used to be reserved or rather used to contain the MBR only (and anything else needed by the boot loader) and the first filesystem on disk used to start at track 1. Of course, with the larger disks this got more complicated. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] find with exclude directory

2014-05-12 Thread Cliff Pratt
Why not copy the directory elsewhere, then delete the rest and move it back? You'd take a copy of it anyway, if it is important, right? Cheers, Cliff On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. But what if I want to turn that statement into one

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

2014-05-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
That file is 'sourced' by other network scripts so doesn't have to be executable, but the contents set environment variables for other scripts. Or so I believe. No doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-02 Thread Cliff Pratt
Mmm, top posting. I'd rather not do it but What I describe does not pollute the base install, and using a container seems over the top. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Daniel Condomitti dan...@condomitti.com wrote: Have you thought of doing this in a Linux container

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
the alternate version of Perl would have to reflect the location of the alternate version of Perl and you would have to source any prerequisite Perl modules from CPAN, which is another chamber of hell. But it does avoid issues like you are having. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Bennett

Re: [CentOS] has anybody gotten horde working?

2014-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
with RHEL. Or has that changed? As such any upgrade to a package that also in RHEL breaks that paradigm. Pragmatically that is going to happen in the hobbyist arena, but probably should not happen in the professional (for want of a better word) arena. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff Pratt wrote: That text format is simple. Too simple. If you have multiple similar sub-sections you have to use some ad-hoc construction. For example if you require sub entries with eg a default sub-section and a per-user sub-section then the simple example doesn't work, or at least

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 7 Dual boot with CentOS 5.x/6.x - default boot quick solution/howto

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
been around for decades, so nothing new there. (eg /etc/init.d). However I do find grub2's configuration a little confusing. Nothing new there. It'll sink in sometime, no doubt. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
*desperately* need to be xml? Because misguided fools believe XML is wundervol and they don't want simplicity of use. The advantages of XML are that it is a common, mature standard, it is easily parseable by humans and computers. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
*desperately* need to be xml? On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: Because misguided fools believe XML is wundervol and they don't want simplicity of use. On Sat, 2014-03-22 at 13:54 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote: The advantages of XML are that it is a common, mature

Re: [CentOS] weird apache issue

2014-03-07 Thread Cliff Pratt
/RHEL system to look at. I'm not even sure if my suggested scenario makes sense! Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Not really sure how to interpret that, unfortunately

Re: [CentOS] gnutls bug

2014-03-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
supplier will not support the OS if you upgrade the package to the latest release! Cheers, Cliff Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:12:49PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Michael Coffman

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message outdated version although yum list installed reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would be eg 0.98.1-3. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.auwrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:20:05PM -0600, Johnny Hughes (joh...@centos.org) wrote: On 02/19/2014 08:29 PM

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message outdated version although yum list installed reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
I should read right to the bottom, shouldn't I? Sigh! On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.comwrote: No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would be eg 0.98.1-3. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jobst

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Darr247 darr...@gmail.com wrote: On 07 February 2014 @06:45 zulu, Cliff Pratt wrote: Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason I can think of doing that is because it was there. Because I couldn't find a GUI

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
not work, and this is where download tools come into their own. But I think that for most people, browsers will work OK. The real advantage of the download tools is that a transfer is usually restartable and that is not always possible with a browser download. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6, 2014

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Yep, it works OK for me, but it may not work for the guy down the road. I don't have an issue with that. But for most people it just works fine. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty lmoha...@redhat.comwrote: On 02/06/2014 03:08 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: Rejy

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason I can think of doing that is because it was there. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Darr247 darr...@gmail.com wrote: Well that didn't take as long as I thought it would... HashCalc does run fine in WINE

Re: [CentOS] netcdf

2014-01-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
time! Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] default gw route has gone? SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Cliff Pratt
It will probably be the same elsewhere, because they are CHEAP. I've used a few NZ Telco supplied routers over the years and a couple of cheap bought ones. All had some issue or the other. Nowadays I put up with or workaround any issues. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rob Kampen

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
tool if you know what you are doing. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@rktmb.org wrote: Hello, Default MySQL installation on CentOS sets /bin/bash as shell. I'm on a user cleanup task where I want reduce unneeded privileges to users. What

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumably CentOS) and Ubuntu no longer implement the 'rot13' program. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: On 01/09/2014 05:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:55

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
Thanks! I got similar suggestions when I mentioned this at work. I was of course joking about rot13. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:41 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 1/9/2014 3:33 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
think so. If grub needed to know about the file systems other than the one it is using to boot, then it would have parameters to describe the other file systems. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote

Re: [CentOS] CentOS eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the latest release. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve zep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: My understanding was that CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Log rolling with a daemon

2013-12-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
John's suggestion is still pertinent. You'll need a SIGHUP handler in your script. Logrotate could send the SIGHUP in a postrotate 'script'. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM, John R Pierce pie

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
13.10 shows 3.11.0 so you have a fairly old Ubuntu version there. In general the Ubuntu kernel will be newer than the more conservative CentOS/RHEL. Cheers Cliff On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jayadevan Maymala jayadevan.technol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using CentOS 6.4. uname -r gives

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
Ah, right. I was assuming (maybe erroneously) that the OP knew what was on his/her system. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: 3.9.3 is the kernel number

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
according to the SMTP protocols. There's nothing special about sendmail except that it was one of the first and most widespread of mail servers. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
He's not running the Poisson distro, he's using CentOS! 8-) On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: Quoting Glenn Eychaner geycha...@mac.com: This is brand-new Kingston 1600MHz ECC memory on a workstation/server running at high altitude [snip] Cosmic rays? Do

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
*Something* is causing it to appear that there are two paths. I can't think how else the two apparently different disks have the *same* file system. But I've not used iSCSI much. Perhaps if you post the type of the device someone might have any idea? Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:30

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Looks like you have more than one path to the devices. I would expect to see *4* devices. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de wrote: Hi, I do have an iscsi storage with two raidsets. I'm logged in to the target

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Hey Y'all, Does anyone know

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
unlikely.. not ...likely... Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.comwrote: Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability

Re: [CentOS] file managementttttttttttt

2013-11-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
rxvt, click into the xterm, ls ...dir/subdir/subsubdir? mark Very similar, but less archaic! 8-) Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Network Problem on New Install of 6.4

2013-10-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: I have a new install of CentOS 6.4 on an HP Pavilion 500-27c with one mother board nic card. results of lspci : 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 04

Re: [CentOS] Difficulty building custom Install CD

2013-09-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
Then get disk 1 of the CentOS distribution and copy it from there.. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:37 PM, zGreenfelder zgreenfel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:16 AM

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64 hylafax+ 5.5.3

2013-08-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
Greg, I haven't sent a fax in ages, so my suggestion would be to take a step back and see if you still need to use fax. You may still have a need for it, but I'm just suggesting that you think about it! Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get Have to be root if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Joseph Spenner joseph85

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:20:31AM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: Please try not to top post. Sorry, I blame GMail, which hides the previous quoted posts under an ellipsis. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
re point 3, do you have 'telnetd' installed. You should probably use ssh unless you have a good reason not to. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Adekoya Adekunle adekunleadek...@gmail.com wrote: I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can 1) Check the version

Re: [CentOS] [centos-6.3-desktop] Unable to login

2013-04-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Mayur Patil ram.nath241...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have trapped in weird problem. My Setup is CentOS 6.3 Desktop edition x86_64 arch. My login screen is blinking so frequently that I am unable to see and login into it. And also I am unable

Re: [CentOS] Supermicro Boot Failures with DVD Centos 6.2

2013-04-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
at the point of testing the memory. Thanks for your advice about ctrlaltF4 I will not be able to try this until I can get to the machine, prob 24 hrs. I'll let you know what happens. Greg, can you scare up a spare disk and attach it to test your theory? Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] iptables settings for X11 forwarding in CentOS 6.2

2013-03-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
in left field and you're saying you're unable to ssh into your machines? -- Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nscd

2013-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
should be caching the DNS lookups anyway, so you probably don't derive a lot of benefit from the nscd unless you do a lot of repeated DNS lookups. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nscd

2013-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Gary Greene ggre...@minervanetworks.com wrote: On Tuesday, Cliff Pratt wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:26 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Has anyone had problems accessing random websites since going up to 6.4? Since about the day after I got partly upgraded

Re: [CentOS] Ctrl-Alt-F? bindings broken under xen 3.0.3-142.el5_9.1 / 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5xen?

2013-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
The graphics chip is probably relevant. FWIW I can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn to any Virtual Console (I just get a black screen, no login prompt). I have a nVidia graphics chip. There are many reports on the Internet of trouble with VC and nVidia and some other graphics chips. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Mar 22

Re: [CentOS] Using LAMP stacks

2013-03-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
for a solution that works out of the box. I suggest that you look at the documentation for Apache virtual hosts. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using LAMP stacks

2013-03-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
that rather than try to install a LAMP stack on top of an existing system. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LDAP users/groups not showing up with nis, pam, ldap

2013-02-20 Thread Cliff Pratt
Do you have nscd running? If so, try stopping and starting that. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Wes Modes wmo...@ucsc.edu wrote: I am trying to configure NIS, PAM, LDAP on a CentOS 6.2 host. I've previously installed a similar configuration on RHEL4, but CentOS now uses

Re: [CentOS] LDAP users/groups not showing up with nis, pam, ldap

2013-02-20 Thread Cliff Pratt
Or just stopping it. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have nscd running? If so, try stopping and starting that. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Wes Modes wmo...@ucsc.edu wrote: I am trying to configure NIS, PAM, LDAP

Re: [CentOS] The moving of VNC port from 580n to 590n

2013-02-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
recoverable or resettable so I've stopped worrying about making my passwords 100% safe from destruction or loss. However they should be as close to 100% secure from being stolen as possible. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
, then it is either not my system to change, or I have a serious problem indeed. That's fine unless you have 100s of machines to administer. If you have 100 machines do you a) set all the root passwords to the same, or b) maintain a manual file of logins. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
it will show the location of 'curl'. Probably it will be '/usr/bin/curl'. I would suggest that you modify the crontab to have the full path. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle adekunleadek...@gmail.com wrote: i did this from the console crontab -e then i inserted

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-11 Thread Cliff Pratt
it for script generated scripts too. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installing Java 7 on a system with Java 6

2012-11-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
You can install version 7 alongside version 6, but you will most likely have to get the package directly from the Java site. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:30 PM, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: My system is 5.6, with upgrades. I installed Java 6 from the Centos

Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-16 Thread Cliff Pratt
or network traffic) the OP should check the maillog. It for sure will the the truth about what is going on. Alexander +1 The OP did say a few messages above that there was nothing in the logs. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Killing a Service

2012-10-15 Thread Cliff Nadler
:::* LISTEN tcp0 0 ::1:953 :::* LISTEN and this: # /usr/sbin/lsof -i|grep 143 returns *nothing*. How do I figure out which program is using tcp to listen on port 143? TIA, John Try lsof -i tcp:143 or netstat -antp | grep 143 Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Simple routing question

2012-09-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
to 255.255.255.0. Then route traffic between the LANs via either the firewall or another routing device on the shared network. I've done similar in the past to migrate from one IP range to another. Having both networks connect to the firewall router is risky in case of a misconfiguration. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Using two subnets to change network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
to desk phones. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
to their Linux subscription hardly a major player still. But like I said, the more competition wrt pricing the better. Be difficult to beat CentOS on price, surely? RedHat and Oracle both provide value-add services. THAT is what you pay for. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] wins option in nsswitch.conf not working

2012-06-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
' and the resolv.conf contents. Finally, a 'hang' usually indicates a lookup issue. What are the details for the wins server? Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
they can bust them for Big Headlines. My mother told me that abuse rarely helps. Talking nicely often does. LOL. (Joking, of course). Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] build postfix rpm with mysql

2012-03-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
SPECS]# rpmbuild -ba postfix.spec error: Failed build dependencies:        MySQL-shared is needed by postfix-2.9.1-1.rhel5.x86_64        MySQL-devel is needed by postfix-2.9.1-1.rhel5.x86_64 Why don't you just install the packages? Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] testing a udp socket with netcat

2012-03-15 Thread Cliff Pratt
Regards, for testing purpose i have flushed all rules in iptables -t filter $iptables -t filter --flush but still if try putting data by nc: $nc -uvv localhost 7160 outputs : write error: connection refused. Is the UDP daemon listening on 127.0.0.1 (localhost)? Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine Manager error

2012-01-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Install libvirt and run the libvirtd service. . Complete! [root@centos Desktop]# service libvert status libvert: unrecognized service He said libvirtd not libvirt. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Cliff Pratt
are looking for: http://www.wilyhacker.com/ Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
*production* systems, and *each* had their own, along with their own password aging (there was *no* single sign-on), the contracting co's We use PasswordSafe to solve that one. There are other similar products. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
You can use the yum download-only plugin, or you can enable a keep cache variable in your /etc/yum.repos.d/yourfile.repo. Don't remember the syntax off the top of my head. However a quick google search should turn them both up. Other option if you want to sync a repo you can check out an

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
Oh but keep in mind if you enable keep cache in your repo file it will still install them, just it will keep a copy as well. Keep that in mind. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: You can use the yum download-only plugin, or you can enable a keep cache

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ryan Wagoner rswago...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, Is there any way to fake a yum update just to get yum to

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02 PM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. I actually just installed cobbler a few weeks ago and will look into it for this to see if it has a way to grab a repository without rsync

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
I would highly advise against trying to time a CTRL-C in a specific amount of time. Not sure why you would even try and do that when, that's the exact purpose of the yum-download only which is easier to install and run then wait for a whole update to complete and try and manually kill the job.

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
Can you fpaste your firewall rules? I would omit the actual public IP's for security sake. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm using system-config-firewall (C6 x86_64, fully up to date) to configure a gateway/firewall box. 2 nics, eth0

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
forwarding rules that you have in prerouting should be in INPUT chain. You're trying to come in from an outside net to your FW and be forwarded to what you have NAT'd behind it right? On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:44:11 -0500 cliff

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
sorry that's watch -n 1 'iptables -t nat -L -n -v' On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:04 AM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: actually if you could cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables, i find it easier to read. also try this to troubleshoot watch n 1 'iptables -t nat -L -n -v' it will show you

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
My best guess would be to move your forwarding rules to the INPUT chain instead of being in the PREROUTING. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:07:41 -0500 cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: sorry that's watch -n 1

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