[CentOS] Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm running CentOS 5 and running into a strange situation with symbolic links that I have never seen or noticed before. If I create the following symbolic link: [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ pwd /home/eric [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls Mail draft inbox queue sent trash [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ln -s

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 Xen installation trouble installing FUSE

2010-06-28 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got CentOS 5.3 installed as a Xen client installed. I've recently been trying to install TrueCrypt on the VM, but am having miserable troubles with the Fuse kernel module. To date, I've installed the following packages: yum install truecrypt yum install fuse However, to launch the

[CentOS] Resizing a PV that belongs within a Volume Group?

2010-02-18 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to extend (ie: grow) a PV that is part of a Volume Group? I currently have a partition on my HD that is being used as a PV for my Volume Group, but would like to make it larger. I have the space on my drive to extend my partition, but using standard tools

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote in message news:b7e478370912020407p35def217td1bcf579d7bb8...@mail.gmail.com... On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up, autofs never seems to retry

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote in message news:844129e80912011526o16aa6aen206a1cf7676a5...@mail.gmail.com... I'm using Autofs and LDAP for mounting my home directories via nfs. In general, everything seems to work fine. However, I have one small problem. If I reboot my server

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
Todd Denniston todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil wrote in message news:4b168426.9030...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil... Kwan Lowe wrote, On 12/02/2009 07:07 AM: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
Benjamin Donnachie benja...@py-soft.co.uk wrote in message news:732076a80912020835u4cc87abwb3633c40320e8...@mail.gmail.com... 2009/12/2 Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com: In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions what can do, would love to hear about it. Do you just have the one LDAP

[CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-11-27 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm using Autofs and LDAP for mounting my home directories via nfs. In general, everything seems to work fine. However, I have one small problem. If I reboot my server using autofs while my LDAP server is down, I get the following error message in my logs: automount[3358]:

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
Steve Huff sh...@vecna.org wrote in message news:3fa0bdab-b7d0-42b7-8615-5a7fd2f84...@vecna.org... On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: Any ideas where I might be able to find some help for it? I enabled full logging on my OpenLDAP server, and I see it failing

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote in message news:1250547989.4486.6.ca...@lin-workstation.azapple.com... On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 15:00 -0400, Eric B. wrote: Hi, Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user management? I know I can build an LDIF file

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote in message news:20090818153023.ga23...@ayn.mi.celestial.com... Any ideas where I might be able to find some help for it? I enabled full logging on my OpenLDAP server, and I see it failing with TLS negotiaiton for some reason, even when I don't want

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote in message news:e814db780908181007g454b680ar30aaaef7ab19...@mail.gmail.com... Hi, On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:50, Eric B.ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: Any suggetsions / ideas? I believe you have to copy the certificate to /etc/openldap/cacerts/

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Eric B.
Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote in message news:e814db780908171213h581bf267m10a95ab837be4...@mail.gmail.com... Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit of a

Re: [CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-12 Thread Eric B.
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote in message news:1247320412.22555.0.ca...@ranbir.thesandhufamily.local... On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:34 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: I have been building and using myself much newer versions of rsyslog. Let me look at getting these into a

Re: [CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-12 Thread Eric B.
Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote in message news:4a5886dc.9010...@karan.org... On 07/10/2009 09:00 PM, Eric B. wrote: I'm looking for a recent version of rsyslog. The yum repositories only show me a version that is 2.0.6. According to the www.rsyslog.com site, they are up

Re: [CentOS] LDAP/Autofs instructions are conflicting in Centos5.3

2009-07-10 Thread Eric B.
Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote in message news:b7e478370907092006x5340883n1ec1652fa27b5...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so if this belongs more on another list

[CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-10 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm looking for a recent version of rsyslog. The yum repositories only show me a version that is 2.0.6. According to the www.rsyslog.com site, they are up to version 5 (dev), which means that I would think/assume that there would at least be v3 or v4 available somewhere. Does anyone

[CentOS] LDAP/Autofs instructions are conflicting in Centos5.3

2009-07-09 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so if this belongs more on another list, please let me know. I am trying to get Autofs configured to use LDAP on CentOS5.3, but am running into an inconsitency. On CentOS5.3, the openldap server is installed with an extra

[CentOS] How to create static routes on startup with CentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm working with the iproute2/iptables toolset on my CentOS4 server to create custom routing rules. However, I'm a bit at a loss how to create these permanently so that they are automatically reloaded upon reboot of the server. I know that iptables has a config file in

[CentOS] Re: How to create static routes on startup with CentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
Filipe Brandenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that works similarly for the iproute2 ruleset? I can't seem to find anything in /etc/init.d/network except for references

[CentOS] Re: Re: How to create static routes on startup with CentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
Filipe Brandenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last question then is if there is a way to add ip rule rules to specify which routing table to use based on packet information. ex: ip

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: How to create static routes on startup withCentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
Filipe Brandenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I missing something obvious somewhere? Or do you have a different version of ifup-routes? I'm running CentOS4 with the latest patches

[CentOS] Is iptables -j CONNMARK not available in CentOS4??

2008-04-11 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm running CentOS 4 with most of the latest updates, but am having trouble with iptables and the CONNMARK target. Is it available in the CentOS 4 kernel? Running on i386: kernel: 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp iptables: v1.2.11 # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j CONNMARK --set-mark 1 iptables:

[CentOS] Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Hi, Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be installed on CentOS4? I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to use required python 2.4 or greater. All the CentOS/RHEL4 python rpms that I find are all for python 2.3. I can't seem to find anything that works

[CentOS] Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be installed on CentOS4? I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to use required python 2.4 or greater. All the CentOS/RHEL4 python rpms that I

[CentOS] alternatives package?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Hi, In my struggle today to get python2.4 installed on my CentOS4 system, I saw that it installed a packaged called alternatives which is supposed to handle symbolic links to default commands in a nice clean, structured way. However, I am having trouble understanding how this thing works. I

[CentOS] Re: Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:01:52PM -0400, Eric B. wrote: Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be installed

[CentOS] Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:06:00PM +0100, Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:55:06PM -0400, Eric B. wrote: Hi, Has

[CentOS] Re: alternatives package?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:20 -0400, Eric B. wrote: In my struggle today to get python2.4 installed on my CentOS4 system, I saw that it installed a packaged called alternatives which is supposed to handle symbolic links to default commands in a nice clean, structured way. However, I

[CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02 --newer=2007-11-08 Don't ask how

[CentOS] Re: How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Eric B.
My problem is that I am trying to delete them, but can't figure out how to delete these files. Everything I try, I get the same msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ rm '-N=2007-11-08' rm: invalid option -- N Try `rm --help' for more information. I have tried single quotes, double quotes,

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolveDNSwithinachrootjail?

2008-01-15 Thread Eric B.
Can you post your complete hosts.allow and hosts.deny files? Not much to them actually: /chroot/tftpd/etc/hosts.allow: # # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided # by the

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What libs req'dto resolveDNSwithinachrootjail?

2008-01-15 Thread Eric B.
Again, I have concerns that I might be missing something in my chroot jail, but when I change my hosts.allow file to read the following, it works fine. in.tftpd: 192.168.3.103 : allow So I am utterly and totally confused. I keep thinking that there must be something DNS related that I need

[CentOS] Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within a chroot jail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
I've been working at getting a tftp server up an running in a chroot jail, and I have finally succeed getting almost everything working. The server itself works fine, however, it is implemented as a tcpwrapper application (ie: in.tftpd) and I am having trouble getting it to resolve DNS

[CentOS] Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within a chroot jail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
Eric B. wrote: I've been working at getting a tftp server up an running in a chroot jail, and I have finally succeed getting almost everything working. The server itself works fine, however, it is implemented as a tcpwrapper application (ie: in.tftpd) and I am having trouble getting

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within achroot jail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:53 -0500, Eric B. wrote: Eric B. wrote: snip Thanks for the feedback Rick. I didn't realize that security implication. However I'm already running this on a machine that is heavily

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS withinachrootjail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
Mike Kercher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the pointer. Indeed, I was missing the trailing . after my FQDN in my revers file. I have updated my reverse files, and nslookup is resolving better, but still not further ahead. My reverse file:

[CentOS] Re: Can TFTPD run in a chroot jail?

2008-01-13 Thread Eric B.
I've been struggling with this problem for the last couple of hours and am nowhere near solving the problem. I am trying to run a tftp server in a chroot jail. Now perhaps I am being paranoid, but I would like to have it launched from within its own jail even if it supposedly does a

[CentOS] What libs req'd to resolve DNS within a chroot jail?

2008-01-13 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've been working at getting a tftp server up an running in a chroot jail, and I have finally succeed getting almost everything working. The server itself works fine, however, it is implemented as a tcpwrapper application (ie: in.tftpd) and I am having trouble getting it to resolve DNS

[CentOS] Can TFTPD run in a chroot jail?

2008-01-12 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've been struggling with this problem for the last couple of hours and am nowhere near solving the problem. I am trying to run a tftp server in a chroot jail. Now perhaps I am being paranoid, but I would like to have it launched from within its own jail even if it supposedly does a

[CentOS] A good primer to User Administration?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've been running Linux as a workstation OS for years, and have been dealing with Windows networks and standalone Linux servers for a while now. However, the time has come for me to complete redo the server installation and am looking to move to a complete CentOS install base, with only

[CentOS] Re: A good primer to User Administration?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric B.
Shibu C Varughese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My question is the following. I've been searching online for a good reference to describe good practices when building a linux network, but haven't really been able to find much when it comes to best practices for

[CentOS] Re: Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?

2007-11-11 Thread Eric B.
Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source equivalent of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've done some searching around and find a bunch of them which seem to have stopped or

[CentOS] Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?

2007-11-10 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source equivalent of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've done some searching around and find a bunch of them which seem to have stopped or stalled development, but I am figuring that there has got to be a strong