Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] On the good side.. Vmware workstation and server seem to work

2006-09-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9/19/06, Jay Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, September 19, 2006 1:53 pm, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: It looks like vmware 5.5 and vmware server 1.0.1 work out of the box on an RHEL-5b1 system. I havent tried an ESX-3 load on it yet. With RHEL5b1 as host or guest or both? RHEL5b1

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Yum repository error

2006-09-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9/21/06, Lopez, Denise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have installed the server beta 5 and am trying to update my packages. I have the system subscribed to RHEL Server Virtualization and Server v.5 Beta software channels. I have completed a sudo yum update a couple of times

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] What is the minimum available package selection?

2006-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9/21/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl Latiss wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 19:26 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I browsed the comps file and decided @base does it. The 317 packages selection was jaw-dropping. Why are these in the base? tcpdump NIS stuff bluetooth stuff

[rhelv5-beta-list] And lo... rhn updates worked

2006-10-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
and the people saw it, and it was good. Looks like a fix got working last night. Congrats to the RHN and RHEL-5 team. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. The Merchant of

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Re: rhel5 latest kernel and ipw3945 DROPPED??

2006-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/11/06, Grant Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up until the 2.6.18-1.2739.el5 kernel ipw3945 was included in the redhat kernels. Redhat have removed it from the 2.6.18-1.2740.el5 kernel, I would really like to know why? I would like to know where you are getting these kernels? The

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Valhalla to Tikanga

2006-12-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/30/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain a RHL 7.3 system which I plan to try to upgrade to ... something. RHEL5 (or a clone) would be nice. I appreciate that there will be problems (such as the need to find a replacement for WU-imapd). I have a test system on

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Beta 2 issues

2006-12-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/30/06, Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, UmmmI've been told over and over again by usability folks at Red Hat and elsewhere how bad it is to have the desktop red. In fact rhgb has a red background which made me instantly think that there is something very wrong with my

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12/8/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: I have seen a slowdown with Fedora's anaconda as well when they switched to the yum backend instead of what they used before. fwiw my upgrade a while go of my laptop (Tosh Sat 1400, 256 Mb, 60 Gbyte fairly new drive)

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL 5 release in March?

2006-12-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12/17/06, MJang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Just wondering if there are comments on this ITJungle.com article http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb121206-story02.html which suggests that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be released in March of 2007. ...the Xen hypervisor will also be

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] vmware guest OS fails to start

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12/20/06, Dirk Gfroerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Phelps wrote: I know this is a little off topic, but I just installed the latest VMware Server rpm on my freshly installed RJEL5beta2 box. I set up a RHEL4 guestOS and clicked start. I just got a black console with bo text for a few

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inode0 wrote: On 3/11/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at my screen which looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -5 /usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java // Example for

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Is Red Hat allowed to distribute this?

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3/12/07, inode0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, if FSF asserts a copyright, I cannot distribute it under any terms, unless there is a further permission to do so. I don't think public domain is that further permission.

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] So - is anyone's user experience with RHEL 5 as lousey as mine?

2007-04-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 3/30/07, Vanco, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aside from this bug which remains unaddressed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228025 The server I just installed has no networking, and the config tools just exit without message. And that's just

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] nodev

2008-03-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Ed Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of the NSA guide, another recommendation (besides remove unnecessary software) is this: (from http://www.nsa.gov/snac/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf) ---

Re: [rhelv5-list] xen 3.1 community release on rhel5

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5/22/07, Rachid Zarouali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hy all, i was wondering if someone knows when RedHat will make the new xen-3.1 community release available ? this release seems to have very interesting new features :-) regards, Well Red Hat only releases items on a regular time

Re: [rhelv5-list] xorg.conf issues

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 5/23/07, Hugh Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: Hugh Brown wrote: All of the systems that I'll be putting RHEL 5 on have monitors capable of 1280x1024 (with a few that are widescreen). In my test environment (vmware), the display will only do 800x600. If I edit the

Re: [rhelv5-list] Xen Guest Kernel Modules

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 6/28/07, Clayton Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand this part. I am passing the pci card through to the paravirtualized instance. Shouldn't you be able to compile and use additional devices you pass through? Regards As far as I have run into.. and I am very certain I am

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHN proxy/satellite server compatibility with RHEL3, RHEL4, and RHEL5

2007-07-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/19/07, t35t0r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you know if the latest and greatest is backward compatible with RHEL3 and RHEL4? It should be compatible with 2.1 if you are so inclined... -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams!

Re: [rhelv5-list] Missing stuff in /usr/X11R6/

2007-07-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7/30/07, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed every available package from the red hat network hoping to get all the old stuff put into /usr/X11R6/. We have some old software that relies on old libraries like libXt.a, libdps.so, etc. These live under /usr/X11R6/lib in

Re: [rhelv5-list] automating re-subscriptions to rhn

2007-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8/24/07, Barry Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rhnreg_ks --activationkey=hexkey --force rhnreg_ks --username=username --password=password --activationkey=in-hex --force Error Message: Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements exhausted Error Class

Re: [rhelv5-list] dual head setup

2007-09-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9/2/07, Bryan Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I be correct in thinking that to install another graphic card after RHEL 5 installation it's best to boot into run level 3 then run system-config-display to get the other graphics card recognised for a dual head setup? It depends on

Re: [rhelv5-list] installing RHEL5.1 as a VMware ESX guest = tracebacks galore

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 13, 2007 1:15 PM, James Ralston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been attempting to load a virtual host (running on our VMware ESX cluster) with RHEL 5.1Server x86_64, using the spiffy new DVD install media. First make sure you have the latest updates from Vmware on ESX. This caused us

Re: [rhelv5-list] XFS with RHEL5?

2007-11-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 24, 2007 1:55 AM, Joe (Mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We're planning to setup a new backup server with an fibrechannel connected storage array. The initial size of the array will be about 15TB with an estimated grow to about 50TB within the next few years. The backup software

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL5 Ultra-40 network problem

2008-01-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 2, 2008 4:29 PM, Peter Ruprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried RHEL5 with a Sun Ultra-40 workstation? I just upgraded one from RHEL4 but now the onboard network interfaces aren't being seen. The U40 has an nvidia chipset and ethernet, and the forcedeth driver seemed

Re: [rhelv5-list] NIS and MD5

2008-01-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 9, 2008 4:37 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Sanders wrote: Hi - Does anyone know how to change an existing NIS server from using DES-style passwords to MD5 passwords? Is it possible to continue running with both types of passwords, asking users to upgrade as

Re: [rhelv5-list] difference between SATA and SAS

2008-01-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote: Really? I thought ata drives showed up as /dev/hdX, but I haven't done ata drives in a while... Kevin This changed a while ago with the new SCSI subsystem.. everything is now SCSI in 5 and above. -- -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHELV5 Kernel and SMP

2008-02-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Feb 13, 2008 5:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My environment is mixed RHEL4 and RHEL5. I note that on my RHEL4 boxes the installed kernel is SMP specific. On my RHEL5 boxes it seems that just the standard kernel is installed. I believe that at RHEL5 the standard kernel is SMP

Re: [rhelv5-list] certifiable

2008-02-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ed Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've asked RedHat to respond through our support channel, but I'd like to raise this issue here too, for discussion, and to see if others see a need for a response by RedHat. There are third-party 'benchmarks' or

Re: [rhelv5-list] certifiable

2008-02-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Steve Grubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29 February 2008 13:20:25 Edward F. Brown wrote: The problem is that these publications aren't just helpful 'guides', they are becoming authoritative reference standards for securely configuring RHEL5, a

Re: [rhelv5-list] Hardening RHEL5

2008-03-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:37 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kennie Cruz wrote: List, Are they any recommended strategy or cook book for hardening a RHEL5 Server box. I did the usual, limit access to tty's, eliminated unneeded services and applications and password

Re: [rhelv5-list] Hardening RHEL5

2008-03-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:43 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: For my scale of system, network bandwidth is a limiting factor, especially as I limit sensitive network connexions (for us it's only ssh) to five per hour from most of the world

Re: [rhelv5-list] Bash kill -0 behavior

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jos Vos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems that bash's built-in kill behaves different from /bin/kill, ksh's kill, and from what I would expect (this happens in all the versions of bash that I tested). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which kill /usr/bin/kill

Re: [rhelv5-list] kernel conflicts with jfsutils 1.1.7-2

2008-03-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Tim Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an upgrade install of RHEL5 (from RH4.6) recently. yum reports this error when I try to upgrade from kernel 2.6.18-53.el to the current release (2.6.18-53.1.14.el5). Similar error with kernel-PAE: [EMAIL

Re: [rhelv5-list] named/BIND data file syntax; moving from Solaris 9 to RHEL5

2008-03-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Tim Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been running Sun's Solaris 9 BIND (reported as version 8.3.3) for some years and are retiring the old hardware. However, we came across an apparent syntax issue in moving the RHEL's BIND. Here's a piece of the old

Re: [rhelv5-list] named/BIND data file syntax; moving from Solaris 9 to RHEL5

2008-03-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Evans wrote: mail is published as a CNAME in the outside world, since it is our main mail server. MX records must point to an A record. It usually works, but is against the RFCs. It probably isn't the cause

[rhelv5-list] Odd bash behaviour with 5.2 update

2008-05-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
I am not sure exactly what has caused the change but bash is acting differently after updating to 5.2 For a local user with local password (root, joeblow) the user is able to login without any problems or errors. For a user that gets authenticated via ldap I am now getting a series of 'errors'

Re: [rhelv5-list] Perl compatible with EL3?

2008-06-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Barry Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/#compatibility So, I'm thinking this is not the full story because I also found this, http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/rhel5_whatsnew.pdf I think there was a parsing part on

Re: [rhelv5-list] Rhel-5 on OptiPlex 755

2008-07-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Brian Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 13:10 +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote: PS: Why doesn't redhat have an HCL of components i.e. cards that work with rhel, instead of just complete systems that are rhel certified ! I'm fairly certain the

Re: [rhelv5-list] Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2008-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:23 AM, MJang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I'm wondering when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be released. There are a couple of bits I've found in this regard. First, the old mantra was that new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux would be released every 12 to

Re: [rhelv5-list] Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2008-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Andrew Bacchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of question always brings out a wide spectrum of replies. I absolutely hate upgrades. I'm just now getting around to upping from AS 3 to AS 4. 18 months is too short a time period between upgrades, I'd rather

Re: [rhelv5-list] Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2008-07-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jay Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:23 -0700, MJang wrote: [snip] It was also guessed that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 might not come out for some time and that it would definitely not be based on Fedora 9... but probably Fedora 11,

Re: [rhelv5-list] Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2008-07-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/10/2008 10:10:17 AM: Ed Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Sorry, but 'sensible security' sounds too much like politico or salesman speak for everything works out of the box! When the alternative is

Re: [rhelv5-list] Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2008-07-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: the opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of RHEL product management, etc Ed Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: The reason things like that are installed in the default minimal install is

Re: [rhelv5-list] Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

2008-07-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Steve Grubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is really not the forum to debate such advice. But the general theory is to basically decrease the attack surface for bad guys. Where would be a good place to have this conversation? Should we get a govt-security

Re: [rhelv5-list] memory limitations for dom0 kernels in 5.2?

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Tom Georgoulias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to get some clarification on RAM limitations in for virtualization in 5.2 because I'm not finding the info I need in the knowledge base or the latest 5.2 virtualization manual. In 5.1, a 32bit dom0 couldn't use

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL6 Wishlist -- Less Regressions, more QA

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! I thought I was the only one seeing such long times to resolve support issues. this is going to come across very negatively, but I have to honestly state that I can hardly remember an instance where a support issue was solved

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL6 Wishlist -- Less Regressions, more QA

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/17/2008 12:40:49 PM: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! I thought I was the only one seeing such long times to resolve support issues. this is going to come across

Re: [rhelv5-list] xemacs gone??

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Corey Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of my users came to me today asking where xemacs went after a RHEL5.2 install. I didn't have a good answer for them except that someone seems to have decided that in RHEL, xemacs is dead. I am curious who made that

Re: [rhelv5-list] xemacs gone??

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Corey Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of my users came to me today asking where xemacs went after a RHEL5.2 install. I didn't have a good answer for them except that someone

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL package usage statistics (was: xemacs gone??)

2008-07-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:03:46PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 1. xemacs in the far past had a small user base in comparison to emacs, vi or even joe (as seen by number of downloads and how many systems have

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL package usage statistics (was: xemacs gone??)

2008-07-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:03:46PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 1. xemacs in the far past had a small user base in comparison

Re: [rhelv5-list] xemacs gone??

2008-07-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Corey Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it seems that the xemacs I was looking for is actually called emacs-x in RHEL5. Oh I can see how that can cause some confusion: xemacs -- http://www.xemacs.org emacs-x -- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ Hope the

Re: [rhelv5-list] Accidentally clobbering system accounts using script to update /etc/passwd

2008-08-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Edgecombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have attached my perl script for reference. how can I safely update the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files? What is the best practice? I don't want to set up

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.2 install - hostname can't start with #?

2008-08-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Vanco Backup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting experience today. I was asked to install a number of servers with hostnames that started with numbers - but the installer would not proceed. I could, of course, change then after the install Legal

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.2 install - hostname can't start with #?

2008-08-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Vanco Backup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the comments all. I suspected it was an RFC issue, but it was a bit late to check the Interwebs. Should one not exist, I may open a Bugzilla ticket (and refer to the Fedora fix) just to see what opinion is on

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.2 install - hostname can't start with #?

2008-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:22 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vanco Backup wrote: Thanks for the comments all. I suspected it was an RFC issue, but it was a bit late to check the Interwebs. Should one not exist, I may open a Bugzilla ticket (and refer to the Fedora fix) just

Re: [rhelv5-list] yum is broken

2008-09-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM, D G Teed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is one feature of yum working: yum --version 3.2.8 rpm -q yum rpm rpm -V yum rpm rhn_check That might help debug this further Anything else results in errors. e.g. yum help yum help Loading rhnplugin plugin

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.3 beta - kernel-xen fails to boot

2008-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Zavodsky, Daniel (GE Money) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have decided to try out the new RHEL 5.3 beta... I upgraded one testing 5.2 system but I cannot boot into the Xen kernel. The system is a 64-bit SunFire x4200 with 2x dual-core CPU and 16 GB

Re: [rhelv5-list] Help installing syslog-ng in RHEL5

2008-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Phusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some assistance with installing syslog-ng in RHEL5 while keeping SELinux enabled and running. I can get it installed via compiling from source and then installing and also via RPM packages, but have problems related to

Re: [rhelv5-list] Help installing syslog-ng in RHEL5

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Phusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed an RPM package of syslog-ng-2.0.9 for i386. After installing and rebooting the following message comes up when Red Hat is starting services. Starting setroubleshootd: exception when creating syslog handler: (2, 'No

Re: [rhelv5-list] file types

2008-11-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:56 AM, solarflow99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a question thats been puzzling me, i've been trying to figure out how file types can be set. I have a regular text file that is being recognized as: ASCII Pascal program text and wondering how I can change that. Not

Re: [rhelv5-list] Login refused from remote machine (but allowed from nearby machine)

2008-12-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Mirko Vukovic mirko.vuko...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am having intermittent trouble logging into a remote linux machine depending on the machine from which I am trying to log from. I am logging in from windows XP machines with cygwin and cygwin's ssh. - If

Re: [rhelv5-list] Login refused from remote machine (but allowed from nearby machine)

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm I don't know of any rule.. or at least I have not been bitten by it I regularly use ssh for long distance laggy connections. The error doesn't sound like one RHEL-5 would send back so I am not sure what

Re: [rhelv5-list] ext3 compression

2008-12-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Mag Gam magaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Is there a plan to integrate e3compr for ext3 in the future release of 5.2? http://sourceforge.net/projects/e3compr/ Is it in the mainline kernel? If its not and hasn't been vetted by the kernel guys.. I doubt it.

Re: [rhelv5-list] 4 GB not recognized after PAE kernel upgrade

2008-12-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Adams adams_chri...@oslmac.osl.state.or.us wrote: I am running RedHat 5 on a 32 bit system with 2 GB RAM . I have verified that the hardware supports at least 4 GB RAM. I added an additional 2 GB ram. However, issuing the various command to show memory

Re: [rhelv5-list] 4 GB not recognized after PAE kernel upgrade

2008-12-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Chris Adams adams_chri...@oslmac.osl.state.or.us wrote: The servers were bought at the same time from the same vendor, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were some slight differences. uname -a results in the following: Linux webpac.osl.state.or.us

Re: [rhelv5-list] 4 GB not recognized after PAE kernel upgrade

2008-12-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Chris Adams adams_chri...@oslmac.osl.state.or.us wrote: So, I should have chosen this instead? I guess I can remove the other kernel and add this one and see what happens. CentOS 5 ftp.centos.org/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-PAE-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm

Re: [rhelv5-list] 4 GB not recognized after PAE kernel upgrade

2008-12-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Christopher Adams chris.a.ad...@state.or.us wrote: The working server with CentOS 5.2 is using this kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5PAE The RedHat server that doesn't show all 4 GB is using this kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.centos.plusPAE I will try just using the

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.3 and ISOs on RHN

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: I just went looking for RHEL 5.3 ISOs on RHN, and I don't see them; there is only a listing for RHEL 5 beta. Then I checked the older releases (RHEL 4, RHEL 3), and they too have no release ISOs listed, only beta.

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.3 and ISOs on RHN

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Joshua Daniel Franklin jdf.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I basically put the couple of days after a release to be 'dead' space and if its important enough for my 'customers' not to have that problem I

Re: [rhelv5-list] rsyslog v3 for RHEL 5?

2009-02-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Kenneth Holter kenneho@gmail.com wrote: Hello all. Does anyone know when rsyslog v3 is due for the RHN RHEL 5 repository? No idea. Normally updates to services like that would happen in the next RHEL. If you are wanting to get it in a 5.x release you would

Re: [rhelv5-list] Thincrust for

2009-02-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Joshua Daniel Franklin jdf.li...@gmail.com wrote: In the recent why avahi thread, I mentioned that it would be nice to have tools for a useful minimal install. Well, I just ran across the fact that it's already in Fedora 10:

Re: [rhelv5-list] Additional Red Hat community resources

2009-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Eugene Vilensky evilen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sam, I would like to see more enterprise oriented forums (lists?).  VMware and NetApp communities come to mind most immediately.  I think they use the same back-end. Web Forums and Wikis require a lot of man-power

Re: [rhelv5-list] does v5 have a uniprocessor kernel

2009-03-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Blackburn, Marvin mblackb...@glenraven.com wrote: I just loaded rhel 5 on a uniprocessor system (vm). In previous versions, a UP kernel was always included. Is there a UP kernel in 5, and if so, how do I get it. No the kernel is built with a SMP only system

Re: [rhelv5-list] Do the main 3rd party yum repos conflict?

2009-05-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009, Robin Price II wrote: For RHEL, I would highly suggest using both EPEL and RPMFUSION together. They do not play nice with the Dag repo installed along side them.  I spoke with Dag a while back regarding

Re: [rhelv5-list] pwconv

2009-07-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Eugene Vilenskyevilen...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings again, How long should pwconv take to convert 1800 accounts?  I ran authconfig --useshadow, it has run so far for approximately 48 hours so far, taking ~100% cpu usage. My /etc/passwd hashes are crypt and

Re: [rhelv5-list] High I/O Wait on RHEL 5 Server Running MySQL

2009-07-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Mohd Irwan Jamaluddinm...@irwan.name wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Eugene Vilensky evilen...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Do I have any justification to relate the slowness of MySQL database and high I/O Wait? 2) How I could trace the root cause of high

Re: [rhelv5-list] Status of Firefox 3.5

2009-07-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savagedsav...@peaknet.net wrote: What's the status of Firefox v3.5 for RHEL5? Will it be distributed, or do we have to wait for RHEL6 to get it? No idea Man of Bronze. My guess would be that if it is included in RHEL-5 it will be after they have

Re: [rhelv5-list] Status of Firefox 3.5

2009-07-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savagedsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 15:08 +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote: Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: When will we get Firefox 3.5 in RHEL? Looking back at history, RHEL 5.0 released with FF 1.5 (even though 2.0 was

Re: [rhelv5-list] MII monitoring (miimon) with the forcedeth module

2009-09-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Tim Edwards tedwa...@it.dcs.ch wrote: Has anyone here had problems enabling miimon when using NICs that use the forcedeth kernel module? For us, on several machines, it doesn't seem to work: mii-tool eth0 SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported

Re: [rhelv5-list] MII monitoring (miimon) with the forcedeth module

2009-09-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Tim Edwards tedwa...@it.dcs.ch wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Tim Edwards tedwa...@it.dcs.ch wrote: Has anyone here had problems enabling miimon when using NICs that use the forcedeth kernel module? For us, on several

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHN performance

2009-11-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Ben bd...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Eugene Vilensky wrote: Was today a normal day for RHN responsiveness?  around 3pm Central time, my updates were downloading somewhere in the 10s of KB/sec range, and I kept getting signed-out of the administration

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHN performance

2009-11-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:53 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Ben bd...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Eugene Vilensky wrote: Was today a normal day for RHN responsiveness

Re: [rhelv5-list] Itanium support ...

2010-01-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2010/1/15 Zoran Popović shoom...@gmail.com: I feel deceived :( ... Itanium is not going to be supported after March 2014 and in RHEL 6 ?!!?!?!! I know this probably is a bit late reaction, I have also a SR open with this question and a business case officially  documented in my company (I can

Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Tom Sightler tt...@tuxyturvy.com said: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:47 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Tru64 also supported in-place version upgrades, unlike RHEL, so if you were running 5.0A and really needed

Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:43:07AM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:47 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com said: There's always Fedora then---RH EL is not for

Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Eugene Vilensky evilen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Tom Sightler tt...@tuxyturvy.com said: On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 22:47 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: Tru64 also supported in-place

[rhelv5-list] RPM Differences between RHEL-5.4 and RHEL-5.5beta

2010-02-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Downloaded client and server x86_64 DVD's for 5.4 and 5.5beta. Got a list of package names and made a difference list. I am downloading the src dvd's to do a better 'blocking' list but at the moment here is a list of changes between 5.4 and 5.5beta Items removed from 5.5beta that were in 5.4:

Re: [rhelv5-list] OT: Carolina BBQ

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Christopher chris...@pricegrabber.com wrote: Hello...  I'm guessing there are more than a few residents of the Carolinas on this list :)   I have a friend visiting Charleston South Carolina. 1:  Who has the best Carolina BBQ in that area? (or any Carolina

Re: [rhelv5-list] absolute minimum package list (was RHEL 5.5 and creeping dependencies)

2010-03-31 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Susan Baur su...@cdl.edu wrote: This thread leads me to ask, is there any guidance by RedHat or others on what the absolute minimum package set is for a RHEL 5.4 server. It seems as if the @base

Re: [rhelv5-list] Max ext4 Filesystem Size

2010-04-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: Sorry if this is a dupe, I accidentally sent this the first time from my work email which isn't a list member so it won't go through unless a moderator approves it so I thought it best to send it again. I can find the

Re: [rhelv5-list] Max ext4 Filesystem Size

2010-04-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Tom Sightler tt...@tuxyturvy.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 16:38 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Any information or hints out there?  If ext4 still has a 16TB limit then what are my options for a 16TB filesystem that's supported with RHEL5? Can I use

Re: [rhelv5-list] iptables question

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:28, Brian Wheeler bdwhe...@indiana.edu wrote: I could figure this out eventually, but if someone has done this before maybe they could save me the trouble. I have not done this exactly before but I remember when trying soemthing similar I needed to do both rewrite

Re: [rhelv5-list] CVE-2010-3081

2010-09-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:08, Gary Gatling gsgat...@eos.ncsu.edu wrote: Will a new kernel be coming out soon to address CVE-2010-3081? I do not believe RHEL-5 is suceptible to this bug. I could not get my RHEL-5 x86_64 to 'root' but that does not mean I was doing it right. Thanks, Gary

Re: [rhelv5-list] CVE-2010-3081

2010-09-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:47, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:08, Gary Gatling gsgat...@eos.ncsu.edu wrote: Will a new kernel be coming out soon to address CVE-2010-3081? I do not believe RHEL-5 is suceptible to this bug. I could not get my RHEL-5

Re: [rhelv5-list] CVE-2010-3081

2010-09-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 13:06, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 09:08 -0400, Gary Gatling wrote: Will a new kernel be coming out soon to address CVE-2010-3081? Thanks, Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems Gary, I was concerned about this until I read

Re: [rhelv5-list] Can one update from 32bit to 64 bit RHEL5

2010-10-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 16:24, Alois Treindl al...@astro.ch wrote: Is it possible to update a 32bit RHEL5 installation to the 64bit version? If yes, how? Is it possible.. yes. You may only have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of getting it done correctly but it is possible. How? It really depends on

Re: [rhelv5-list] IPTables Getting Packets Wrong

2010-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:12, Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu wrote: Folks, I've recently upgraded our kerberos servers to RHEL 5.  The four new servers live in two data centers.  Each pair behind a cisco firewall context.  Of course, I used IPTables to model what rules I needed in the hardware

Re: [rhelv5-list] Red Hat like Ubuntu

2010-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:06, Domenico Viggiani dviggi...@tiscali.it wrote: Marti, Robert wrote: I wonder why you think Ubuntu does that for security? ... While your plan should work, is there a reason behind it? (besides the noted fsck problem) Yes, and it is not for security, in strict

Re: [rhelv5-list] CentOS-plus install borks NFS

2010-11-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 17:57, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 16:44 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: That may have been it. At least most of it. I did have selinux set to

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