Re: [CentOS] [Q} how can O.S. predicate a disk going to failure??

2009-08-04 Thread David . Mackintosh
is extremely highly valuable, do the swap now. But if you don't care about the data, and/or can tollerate some downtime, don't worry about it. Backups *are* good, right? :) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpIecNhEzKT6.pgp Description

[CentOS] md0 mounted rw on boot

2009-07-07 Thread David . Mackintosh
) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL ro root=/dev/md0 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img And there are several other kernels on the system, but I honestly don't know which ones have been run successfully. Does anyone know what I did wrong? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d

Re: [CentOS] Send syslog to a remote server

2009-05-24 Thread David . Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread David . Mackintosh
complicated than building a Saturn-V rocket out of 1960's era TV parts. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpK2e8wQ2RML.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread David . Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-29 Thread David . Mackintosh
the RTwiki: http://wiki.bestpractical.com/view/RPMInstall It describes how a CentOS-4 user can use a yum repository to deal with the dependancy hell. I heartilly endorce this approach, as I lost two days trying to satisfy the dependancy hell manually. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d

Re: [CentOS] looking for some advice to monitor network usage in office

2009-03-25 Thread David . Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-20 Thread David . Mackintosh
xdriver=vesa during install). I don't know. If FC6 could handle it, CentOS 5 can probably handle it. Always use the latest DVD/CD image to do your initial install from, that gives you the best chance of hardware compatibility. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge

2009-02-09 Thread David . Mackintosh
35% less bitter! -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpaj9h3lA6dd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] where is PD???

2009-02-05 Thread David . Mackintosh
. The CentOS 5 release seems to include a ksh rpm: $ rpm -qa | grep ksh ksh-20060214-1.7 $ which ksh /usr/bin/ksh Convincing your Oracle installer thing to accept this is something you'll have to take up with Oracle. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http

Re: [CentOS] Automounter issue

2009-02-03 Thread David . Mackintosh
-2.6.18-53.1.4 or higher. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpqPMKRmWaTC.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Automounter issue

2009-02-02 Thread David . Mackintosh
to be actually using it. Closer inspection reveals that the two systems which are having the problem the most are both v5u1. I'm starting to suspect that the root cause is an automounter issue in 5u1. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

[CentOS] Automounter issue

2009-02-01 Thread David . Mackintosh
some magic on the automounter configuration to change this behavior, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks for your time. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpMuLO35bnIm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts

2009-01-11 Thread David . Mackintosh
, it would have been MORE ironic if your rant had been in HTML, but I guess that's too much to hope for. Would you like the joke explained to you in more detail? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgp1yhfcFLAXs.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [CentOS] Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts

2009-01-10 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:14:22AM +, Vandaman wrote: Its not the time to be nannying people over how to behave on mailing list. /irony -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpuU4MWwR2B8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] OT - Please don't feed the Troll(s)

2008-10-30 Thread David Mackintosh
, and emotionally immature person that expects all projects You tripped the irony detector. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpAooRMhr8IO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?

2008-10-14 Thread David Mackintosh
on the support mechanisms for those individual parts, and the rest (ie anaconda and friends) probably belongs in the upstream vendor's forums? What does that leave? The color of the logo? (I like the blue.) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: [CentOS] enterprise backup solution (probably amanda?)

2008-08-01 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:46:39PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from different hosts to specific files? I use syslog-ng for that, I think from rpmforge. http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Sun/Syslog-ng -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh

[CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread David Mackintosh
resources I can use to learn from. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpJY2UMGn4HZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread David Mackintosh
change the first line of my script to be #!/bin/bash, it works as expected. Thanks for looking. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpEHEG9qGTg7.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-17 Thread David Mackintosh
/etc/mdadm.conf file. See the details at http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Linux/Software+Raid+compound+devices -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpwtlkQSuz5j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] screen command

2008-07-13 Thread David Mackintosh
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 01:46:20AM -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: Anyone know which rpm give you the screen command? Or tell me how to figure this out on my own :-) # yum install screen It will tell you what it wants to download and install before it does it. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh

Re: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

2008-06-30 Thread David Mackintosh
with software raid. I would then try the *BSD family, but only after Solaris because I have extensive Solaris experience. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgppfXMXeUUwf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

2008-06-30 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] Re: DMA mode

2008-06-05 Thread David Mackintosh
* are replaced with /dev/sd* in fstab etc. Hi Tom, I can also confirm that this works, thank you for the assistance. Can I ask what you used as your google query? I think I missed something obvious. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com

[CentOS] DMA mode

2008-06-02 Thread David Mackintosh
drivers, only SCSI/SAS drivers. So before I continue on, can I get a sanity check here -- am I barking up the right tree? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpZROvMMSUZy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] DMA mode

2008-06-02 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-15 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread David Mackintosh
are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen? Try this: in Putty, go to Window - Translation for Received data assumed to be in which character set: select UTF-8 -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David

Re: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-07 Thread David Mackintosh
[encijan ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/dirsplit genisoimage-1.1.6-6.fc8 Then use growisofs. I can send you dirsplit-0.3.1-1.bob.src.rpm if you wish. Yes please, that would be useful. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpNRUgefVh2F.pgp

[CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-02 Thread David Mackintosh
any ideas how I might go about doing this, before I roll my own solution? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpFizkyYNGtv.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-25 Thread David Mackintosh
to deal with this? This is what I do. http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Linux/Limited+SSH+Access -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpDF8dtEQcUQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-25 Thread David Mackintosh
. And then after that, you'd have to insist on some kind of security on the remote system to ensure that your passwords are not being captured. Etc, etc. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpheBd6M3mv6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread David Mackintosh
this. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpkaLlpmZKGz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] One approach to dealing with SSH brute force attacks.

2008-01-30 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: [CentOS] Anyone using sendmail?

2007-12-05 Thread David Mackintosh
that sendmail doesn't deliver to mailboxes, but depends on a local mailer (the mail delivery agent, or MDA, and typically procmail) to perform that function. Strictly speaking you are correct, in the Cyrus case it is lmptd doing the actual delivery. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using sendmail?

2007-12-04 Thread David Mackintosh
. What do you want to do? If you have a mailbox system that does not depend on unix users existing (the Cyrus IMAPd is such a critter, complex though it is) then Sendmail can deliver to those mailboxes. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com

Re: [CentOS] Bugzilla Install problems - need last mile help

2007-11-23 Thread David Mackintosh
creating a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead just creating a user bugs -- to mysql, they are different. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpHWTYOGSu36.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Large scale Postfix/Cyrus email system for 100, 000+ users

2007-10-24 Thread David Mackintosh
-imapd could not provide reliable service when the datastore was on NFS. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpjRNEwkeH7o.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] fetchmail log messages I don't understand

2007-10-24 Thread David Mackintosh
to it. In practice this is probably nothing to worry unduly about unless you are paying extra for verified TLS-secured mail transmission. The expired, mismatched-name cert will be used to encrypt the mail transmission just as well as a proper cert will. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh

Re: [CentOS] Asus P5B-VM DO board?

2007-10-12 Thread David Mackintosh
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:38:51PM +0200, Frank Büttner wrote: David Mackintosh schrieb: Anyone had any success with or hints for a system based on the Asus P5B-VM DO board, or the Intel Q965 (with its associated Intel GMA 3000 VGA chip) in general? Have you try it with CentOS 5

[CentOS] Asus P5B-VM DO board?

2007-10-12 Thread David Mackintosh
]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-55.0.9.EL-smp-x86_64' make: *** [modules] Error 2 -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpFE5ujcPudS.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] PHP5/CentosPlus big mess.

2007-10-02 Thread David Mackintosh
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:15:44AM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: Ok, so if you tuned in last time, I couldn't make the installation/upgrade of PHP5 from the Centos4 CentOS Plus repository work. Not one to be easilly dissuaded, I shapened my shovel and dug myself a hole. [...] Now, my users

[CentOS] PHP5/CentosPlus big mess.

2007-09-28 Thread David Mackintosh
don't know anything about how to get php to show these errors, since the simple phpinfo.php file works (but admittedly it doesn't really do anything). Can anyone point me in the right direction, or perhaps offer me other directions in which to dig? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh

Re: [CentOS] PHP5/CentosPlus big mess.

2007-09-28 Thread David Mackintosh
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:39:25AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On 9/28/07, David Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me in the right direction, or perhaps offer me other directions in which to dig? Would this wiki help? http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/CentOSPlus

Re: [CentOS] PHP5/CentosPlus big mess.

2007-09-28 Thread David Mackintosh
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:48:23PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:24 -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: Ahh, I didn't know you could ldd modules. But I still cannot see a problem: Did you run it on a system exhibiting the problem? Yes, I did. -- /\oo

Re: [CentOS] PHP5/CentosPlus big mess.

2007-09-28 Thread David Mackintosh
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:18:11PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:47 -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:29:34AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: ldd is your friend. My apologies, as this must be obvious, but I am asking ldd

Re: [CentOS] mdadm problem.

2007-09-26 Thread David Mackintosh
of writing --one-file-system. :) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgphMk9cDMnL5.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] remote tar via ssh

2007-09-26 Thread David Mackintosh
network mounted filesystems or otherwise recursing. Note that $WHERE-MACHINE-B-FILES-WILL-LIVE on machineA cannot be / since it will likely interfere with the currently running OS. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpfFRodY1cna.pgp

[CentOS] mdadm problem.

2007-09-25 Thread David Mackintosh
/sda1 instead of /dev/md1) shows that /dev/md1 doesn't get assembled, therefore it doesn't get mounted. Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong? -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpJPbmSHZizV.pgp Description: PGP signature

[CentOS] CentOS Plus PHP5 upgrade.

2007-09-24 Thread David Mackintosh
be forced (Heh.) So I can't be the first person to go down this road. Can anyone provide a hint as to how to get out of the hole I've dug for myself? Thanks for your time. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpbuB07G0ghG.pgp Description

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Plus PHP5 upgrade.

2007-09-24 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:25:21PM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: I have some users who have a 64-bit CentOS 4.x install (current), which was installed with @Everything and then some annoying packages strategically removed (mrtg, pegasus*, mailman...) and they have decided they have a need

Re: [CentOS] Diskless client from system-config-netboot doesn't boot.

2007-08-21 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:14:51AM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Sophana wrote: David Mackintosh a écrit : I've followed a set of instructions I found on http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_enterprise_linux_sysadmin_guide/ch-diskless.htmli

Re: [CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-21 Thread David Mackintosh
than you will want to spend. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpL1nypIXZ1P.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Re: Justin Morgan is out of the office.

2007-06-19 Thread David Mackintosh
. Justin Morgan is probably going to be killed from the list also! How about people who respond to out-of-office-mails? vbeg ..or people who prolong these off topic threads by saying please don't prolong these off topic threads by replying to them? Oh wait, that was me. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David