Re: [CentOS] Is there a rpm command to find the package that created a particular user or particular group?

2013-07-17 Thread Ian Forde
Just saw this. Here's how to do it via brute force. I have the user ovirtagent on one of my boxes, and wanted to find out who provided it. So I did the following: rpm --qf %{NAME}\n -qa | while read rname ; do if rpm -q --scripts ${rname} | grep -q ovirtagent ; then echo $rname ; fi ; done

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-24 Thread Ian Forde
Yep - you'll want to do a 'ls -lZ' on both dirs and compare the differences... On Apr 24, 2013 8:32 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Johan Vermeulen jvermeu...@cawdekempen.be wrote: Dear All, I'm currently troubleshooting NetworkManger

Re: [CentOS] NFS mount auto remount in case of problems.

2013-02-24 Thread Ian Forde
Why not use DRBD in lieu of shared storage? On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote: Am 20.02.2013 um 11:29 schrieb Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: Hi All. I have a setup in which I have two servers serving nfs share. The nfs service is made

Re: [CentOS] ACL/permissions question

2013-02-01 Thread Ian Forde
You could always try 'chattr +i /home/joe' to make it immutable. Check out the man page for details... On Jan 31, 2013 11:44 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, If I have a regular, ACL-capable filesystem on Linux (say, ext4 or xfs) is there a way for me to

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Forde
FYI - HAProxy is in EPEL, so it's a fairly easy installation to test. Especially in virtual environments... ;) -I On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely. The solution seems really robust and the price is not bad. In my case, however, this is

Re: [CentOS] python26-memcached on centOS 5.5

2012-02-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Anand Jeyahar anand.jeya...@demandmedia.com wrote: Hi all,  thanks a lot. Turns out that rpm is just a place holder.. i figured out the rpm -qpil command and realized i had to build from  source. got it(memcached) running now.

Re: [CentOS] Network Situation

2011-12-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane todd.dennis...@navy.mil wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gene Poole Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 13:08 To: centos@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Getting guest to detect new drive without reboot

2011-09-20 Thread Ian Forde
Partprobe Sent from my iPad On Sep 19, 2011, at 21:51, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a CentOS 5.6 guest running on 6.0 host. Using virsh attach-disk, I attached a new raw file as vdc However, the guest does not detect this new disk. In the past, I've used the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Having trouble starting more than 8 Xen guests

2011-09-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:13, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: I did some google'ing and from what I cn tell that error arises due to the lack of loop back devices (there being 8 by default)... I've tried both using MAKEDEV (in my /etc/rc.local) to create a number of loop back devices

Re: [CentOS] how to enable Flow Control on CentOS?

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 22:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/9/11 12:18 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: Gigabit is different. No, the default of auto-negotiating works there too. In 1000BASE-T, autonegotiation is required, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#1000BASE-T

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 20:16 +0200, Kenni Lund wrote: 2011/4/21 Ian Forde ianfo...@gmail.com: Turns out that wasn't the only problem I faced in my migration. With 2 KVM servers, both sharing a volume mounted via NFS for VMs, I migrated all VMs to the second node, upgraded the first, them

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 03:47 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/09/2011 12:04 PM, compdoc wrote: A similar incident was reported during the QA. Look at the .xml file. If it says type='raw', change it to type='qcow2' and restart libvirtd. Would that fix the problem ? Akemi Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 22:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want the console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary. And I have Server 1.x setups that have run for

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:09 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: Are you talking about the SAQC? I run all CC transactions through one CentOS VPS webserver (actually I have two servers that I periodically wipe out and alternate between every year or two). So I don't have POS terminals or any Windows

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:51 -0500, John Hinton wrote: Very good information, Ed. And yes, you will almost certainly be fighting with the compliance company, as I have not yet seen any who recognized CentOS. RHEL, yes. CentOS however does not hold the same 'trusted standard' or clout as the

Re: [CentOS] Cron and Cluster

2010-03-30 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 00:33 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What kind of cluster? the term cluster can mean almost anything these days. Sorry, my bad. RHCS I can tell you how I did it for a 2-node heartbeat cluster. I enabled the cron jobs on both servers, and had the following snippet at

Re: [CentOS] centos Installation on Multiple machines

2010-03-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:26 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, premr...@digilink.in wrote: Hi, I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do that ? Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS and installing it on

Re: [CentOS] upgrade

2010-03-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 15:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Mattias wrote on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:48:34 -: Ok but how to to do all that I use the repo on vault.centos.org Why? This contains old software. You had to specifically change the repo files for that. Just remove/go back to what

Re: [CentOS] Looking for Newsletter Stuff

2010-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Benjamin Donnachie benja...@py- soft.co.uk wrote: On 5 March 2010 17:07, Garry.Dale garry.d...@gmail.com wrote: I like this idea, too. However, I feel compelled to point out a violation within your Data Center [5]. [5]

Re: [CentOS] Clustering apache

2010-02-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:27 -0600, Dan Burkland wrote: I’m a greenhorn when it comes to clustering in RHEL/CentOS and recently setup an active/standby clustering using Apache Heartbeat. It seems to be a good entry step into clustering however after testing it I was disappointed in that the

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org wrote: John R Pierce wrote: I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss problems and day long FSCK sessions after

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 22:47 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote: I am about to install a new server running CentOS 5.4. The server will contain pretty critical data that we can't afford to corrupt. I would like to benefit

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Ian Forde
On Nov 29, 2009, at 3:52 PM, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:31 +, John Horne wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:57 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load following the Center for Internet

Re: [CentOS] PHP updates

2009-11-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 08:34 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: Michael Kress wrote: Craig White wrote: and if enough people actually convinced the developers that 5.2.9-2.el5.centos were feasible, then they would probably move it into the 'Extras' repository. ... here's one trying to

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Forde
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On the contrary, having the ability to extend through external software gives you unlimited options. Note that postfix eventually got around to copying this feature. Also with mimedefang you

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Forde
On Nov 23, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: You probably really want ldap for that sort of thing. You probably really want to reconsider using ldap for anything that gets loads of changes daily. In the case of a mail

Re: [CentOS] Install libnet-server-perl on Centos

2009-11-09 Thread Ian Forde
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:25 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dhiraj Chatpar wrote: Please help me as i am not able to find any way to install Libnet Perl Server I used to install this on debian using apt-get install libnet-server-perl Command I just cannot figure out

[CentOS] Bug in freeradius 1.1.3-1.5.el5_4 rpm

2009-11-01 Thread Ian Forde
I upgraded one of my servers to CentOS 5.4 today. The freeradius service (radiusd) didn't start up due to permissions errors. I tracked it to the permissions on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory being set to 640 rather than 750, so the radius user couldn't enter the directory. In the spec file

Re: [CentOS] guestbook for centos 4 or 5 ???

2009-09-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:57 PM, R-Elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: May I ask what purpose the guestbook should serve? You could just install wordpress and moderate every comment before it's posted. Guestbooks only accumulate spams. Who writes into guestbooks nowadays? I've got a blog

Re: [CentOS] what is the best way to delete so many queue files?

2009-08-31 Thread Ian Forde
Heh - I always preferred the indirect approach. Move the dir out of the way, recreate it, and delete in your own time... # service sendmail stop # cd /var/spool # mv clientmqueue clientmqueue-todelete # mkdir clientmqueue # chown --reference=clientmqueue-todelete clientmqueue # chmod

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:09 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. That'll pretty much break the apache rpm installation... And it works. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. If you stick with the rpm-based Apache

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:06 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: Perhaps I can use that to determine what ./configure options to use when compiling, but really, I don't see any differences in the two except some directory paths, and APR version (the CentOS version uses APR 1.3.0 and my version uses APR

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 28.07.2009 um 03:23 schrieb Robert Heller: Right. The other option, if there is some specific thing you need changed is to grab the source RPM and tweek the .spec file and include your own patch(es). Keep

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:16 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: The highest speed I can get through that link with drbd is 11 MB/sec (megabytes) Not good... But if I copy a 1 gig file over that link I get 110 MB/sec. That tells me that the network connection is fine. The issue is at a higher

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:07 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: Hi, Did the update overwrite your snmpd.conf file? The 'view' on the default one may not permit access to the things mrtg needs to see. Try changing it to .1 to expose everything. It might have done so. To be honest I

Re: [CentOS] Unexplained reboots in DRBD82 + OCFS2 setup

2009-06-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 07:22 -0700, nate wrote: Kris Buytaert wrote: We're trying to setup a dual-primary DRBD environment, with a shared disk with either OCFS2 or GFS. The environment is a Centos 5.3 with DRBD82 (but also tried with DRBD83 from testing) . Both OCFS2 and GFS are

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

2009-06-13 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:54 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Jerry Geis schrieb: Hi all, I have a kickstart file that works for /dev/sda. I now need to detect an HP server and use /dev/cciss instead of hard coded /dev/sda. How can I detect what the name of the device is and use

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 01:57 -0400, JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:46 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:30:10AM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: It would be prudent to review his web code to see if he did something in an insecure way. If his code is open

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:13 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: Dear ML We upgraded a Dell Poweredge PE 1950 Server the 8th of May. Since then the server rebooted 3 times without external cause (it is located in a server farm with redundant power supply etc.). Looking at the servers

Re: [CentOS] Certificate system

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:22 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Hi all, Can anybody inform me wether the RedHat Certificate System or actually a CentOS equivalent is available for CentOS. Just skimmed on a download site through the RPM's for 5.3 and I couldn't find it. According to their

Re: [CentOS] Controlling log file sizes

2009-04-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 22:25 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: My fetchmail and procmail log files are getting rather large, and there's really no reason to keep entries for ever. How do others handle this? I know I could manually delete the older stuff then re-save the file, but it doesn't seem

Re: [CentOS] rpmnew puzzles

2009-04-09 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:30 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2009 15:01:37 George Negoita wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm puzzled by such statements as diff /var/clamav/daily.cvd /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: I asked on Saturday and I didn't get reply. I'm trying again. I'm porting one project to centos where we use gnet and gio libraries. Will be these libraries part of centos in future? I'm not sure what relationship is between these

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:21 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? Hope it's not dummy question. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 See the section entitled: CentOS : Community ENTerprise Operating System so if RH

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 18:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Yes, but raid1 in software has none of those problems, since as far as the boot loader is concerned, you are booting from a single drive. And there is a trade-off in complexity, since sw raid works the same on Linux across different

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 08:40 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Ian Forde wrote: I'd have to say no on the processing power for RAID 5. Moore's law has grown CPU capabilities over the last 15 or so years. HW RAID controllers haven't gotten that much faster because they haven't

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 17:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Ian Forde wrote: Might not be a bad idea to see how they're able to use mdadm to detect and autosync drives. I don't *ever* want to go through something like: http://kev.coolcavemen.com/2008/07/heroic-journey-to-raid-5-data

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:52 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Bollocks. The only area in which hardware raid has a significant performance advantage over software raid is raid5/6 given sufficient cache memory and processing power. I'd have to say no on the processing power for RAID

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-02-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 18:46 -0600, ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Hi, I have two servers in the same subnet, one has this arrangement: BOX A [3 ips, one real two vips] BOX B [1 ip] I need to redirect input from one of the vips (192.168.0.1:8080) on BOX A to BOX B

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 08:13 -0800, dnk wrote: On 18-Feb-09, at 2:01 AM, John Doe wrote: For controller, what is the interface on your drives?? SCSI, SAS?? Dell 2950, SAS 6 Host Bus Controller. Integrated SAS 6/i(base): 4 port SAS controller (does support RAID 0/1) But I don't

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. That's what I'd suggest too, but be warned that performance on that

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:57 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: on 2-18-2009 1:45 PM Scott Silva spake the following: on 2-18-2009 1:36 PM Ian Forde spake the following: On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would

Re: [CentOS] MySql server on Centos 5

2009-02-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:22 +, Tom Brown wrote: I have a question about Mysql. I use mysql 5.0.68 on Centos 4 from Centos plus repository. The old hardware steers me to Centos 5, however there is mysql 5.0.45. Some program solutions which we are using on the old server (production

Re: [CentOS] MySql server on Centos 5

2009-02-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:54 -0700, Warren Young wrote: Ian Forde wrote: You can always use the MySQL community RPMs. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads Second that. I'm not normally a big fan of replacing stock system packages with third-party ones, but I've

Re: [CentOS] Suggestion for Server Room monitoring

2009-02-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:59 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I have a situation like this: Our little server room is always on. It has an air conditioning unit, but barely enough. So sometimes during weekend, the temperature could reach unhealthy level, like 29 degree Celsius.

Re: [CentOS] network driver at installation time

2009-02-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:34 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos 5.2 x86_64. Yep - it's definitely in the kickstart docs - don't remember where though... Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot? See above...

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:08 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: That sounds like the kiss of death for any critical service. Can't it figure out ahead of time that this is going to happen and let the service keep running unchanged with a warning message about needing the update instead? You're

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:34 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: With one very large caveat. Be aware that updating bind via yum can result in your existing bind configuration files being renamed to something.rmpsave and your name server left in a dysfunctional state. I suggest that you consider

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 15:33 -0600, Sam wrote: The software raid in linux with mdadm is very powerful. Alot of people stay away from software raid because they think that a hardware solution would be easier to work with. But with a hardware solution, how do you monitor the status of your

Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network

2009-02-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:17 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Isaac Hailperin wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:42 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Isaac Hailperin wrote on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:45:44 +0100: append initrd=distro/centos5.2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7494

Re: [CentOS] Linux HA or Heartbeat IP address question

2009-02-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:58 +1100, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am following the guide on HowToForge to get Heartbeat going for two Apache web servers (http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_heartbeat_centos), a quick question for anyone who might have a similar setup. Do I

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:46 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 at 6:43pm, Jake wrote I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one of those in what is supposed to be a quick

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script - Compare packages. rpm.

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:26 -0200, Tiago Dias wrote: Hi, I need a script which makes the package compação rpm's through two text files ... Since a file is the output of the command rpm-qa pkg.out And the second file is a list of several packages rpm's,

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:19 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi All, Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why we don't need to install an

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 21:06 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why we don't need to install an

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:11 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote: Hello, Has anyone managed to redirect output of kickstart install to ILO serial console? I have to test and deploy the remote install with kickstart but have trouble debugging it because I can't see the output. For kickstart using the

Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 14:34 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: Ultimately, you're better off to use video chipsets with good open source drivers. Currently, that means Intel and (recently) ATI. That depends upon one's purpose. If, for example, one wants to use mythtv, I would use an NVidia card with the

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail problem

2008-12-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 07:27 +0100, swilting wrote: I wish to add options to sendmail INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock, F=T, T=C:5m;S:4m;R:4m;E:5m')dnl dnl MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`greylist',

Re: [CentOS] drbd 8.3.0 is out

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:20 +0100, Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, is this the right place to ask for updated -extras- packages? this seems to be the successor of the 8.2.x branch and contains various bugfixes. Uhhh... this was *just* released... that's a little quick to be asking, isn't it? ;)

Re: [CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:02 +0530, Dhaval Thakar wrote: I prefer non-encryption vpn. Uhh... without encryption, you take the p out of vpn... -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/ If

Re: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:21 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: I use xfs, i dont use jfs. but only on x86_64 Ditto. xfs in CentOS is more widely used than jfs is in centos ( impression I get from looking at logs on and off - generated at mirror.centos.org ). (much snippage) - over on the mythtv

Re: [CentOS] Oracle start up script issue with RHEL3 Cluster

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 09:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:53 AM, lingu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank a lot for your valuale information also we are getting lot of mails in this mailing list about debian,ubuntu,knopix and even the microsoft and the people are

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:08 -0700, Warren Young wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: Is there a way to freeze a list of installed packages and exact versions, then tell yum (or any other tool/script) to install exactly these verions either on the same or another systme? There isn't a need for an

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:52 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Hi, I'm currently using nis/nfs3/autofs in a small network (20 boxes), and planning on using a more secure/elegant method. The thing is, which solution to adopt ? The network is mainly composed of Centos boxes, and a couple MS/Win

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 07:36 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Thanks very much everybody for your numerous comments. I guess I got much more than I expected. One more suggestion... try SystemImager... -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] creating a user from an RPM package

2008-10-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:22 +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: What wizardry do you guys use in the SPEC file when creating/deleting a user from an RPM package? I was going to create a macro like: %define user(login,uid,gid,name,homedir,shell) \ echo $1:x:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6 /etc/passwd;

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:40 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: rpmforge has just released a new perl-DBD-mysql for el4 that has an obsoletes against perl-DBD-MySQL and the protectbase yum plugin doesn't grok obsoletes. the priorities plugin does. so if you are having issues with this, install the

RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm split... This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd try

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with you guys if there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:35 +0700, Lunix1618 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 02:51 +0700, Lunix1618 wrote: Ian Forde wrote: there underneath the OS. You also may be able to do it using omconfig after installing omsa. This question really belongs on the Dell Linux list though... I can say that I've expanded a RAID5 volume underneath Windows

Re: [CentOS] Changing swap resume signature location

2008-09-01 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:25 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: 1. Format the swap partition again: sudo mkswap /dev/XXX 2. Activate swap partition sudo swapon /dev/XXX 3. Replace UUID=XXX in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume by resume=/dev/XXX 4. Regenerate the initrd: sudo mkinitramfs -o

Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB

2008-08-31 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 09:47 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: Hello, And the problem that I'm having is with my two Linux distros. Ive installed CentOS Windows in my SATA HDD and I've used my complete 40GB PATA HDD for Ubuntu. Well all OS's work fine with out any problems but when I

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:00 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: Hi, Yes I know what your saying ok! I didn't ask him any descent question but I gave a solution based on my experience. So why hell r u guy's coming after me and as you said in the world of IT there are lot of perhaps OK

RE: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:54 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: So there are new packages anyway in spite of the other bits. Hi all, have I missed something or is there a CentOS update for 5x but none for 4x ? I've made sure my mirror is synced and looked around at a few others but can't seem

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:39 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: Hi, I think you need to get the proper device drivers not the generic ones that comes with the CentOS. Try updating your drivers or sometimes when you install a vendor driver or any other driver after a kernel update or a full

Re: [CentOS] apache

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:42 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Mad Unix wrote: Am running Oracle10g on the server, I do OCI connection from php/apache to my DB 10g so how would you insert the values to apache... To quote John (reading helps!): | you would put those variable assignments in

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:21 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Jussi Hirvi wrote: Ralph Angenendt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 11:24): dr-xr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 Aug 11 14:42 /etc/mail/certs ^^^ Even allowing group to read there and enter there might be too much.

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:38 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Ralph Angenendt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 12:21): Thanks for quick reply. That didn't help yet. The error message in maillog is still the same: sendmail.pem unsafe: Permission denied. The directory perms are now:

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 02:42 -0700, Ian Forde wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:38 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Ralph Angenendt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 12:21): Thanks for quick reply. That didn't help yet. The error message in maillog is still the same: sendmail.pem

Re: [CentOS] Re: SIGPIPE in assorted apps after yum update

2008-07-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 07:07 -0600, John Hanks wrote: Paul Bijnens pointed out that Ian Forde had similar issues with dhcpd minutes before I posted my message. I missed that one as I scanned the archives, then joined the list to ask my question. My problem is also solved by removing ldap from

[CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
I've got a USB to serial adapter that I picked up from Radio Shack earlier this year. The updated pl2303 driver is already in the mainstream kernel as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429652 but I'm not getting much traction from Red Hat as far as them updating the kernel. So

[CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the command-line with the -d flag and it serves up leases. But without the -d flag, it just silently dies... 2. Syslog contains this little snippet:

Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned, you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer... probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around forever ignored. :) Heh

Re: [CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:12 -0400, Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the command-line with the -d flag and it serves up

Re: [CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:34 -0400, Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the command-line with the -d flag and it serves up

Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 00:54 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Ian Forde wrote: I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to solve... open a request at http://bugs.centos.org/ - thats the *only* way to get stuff into centos_plus, and if there is a patch or a proposed

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