Re: [CentOS] Boot problem with CENTOS 5

2007-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
chuck wrote: Thanks. What is the best recovery disk out there? the appropriate CentOS DVD,/CD. `linux rescue` at grub. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] apche vhosts ldap

2007-09-11 Thread Indran D Govender
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 12:58 +1000, Sunet Sysadmin wrote: Hi all, i am building a web server on centos version 4 running httpd-2.0.52 mysql we have a ldap server on the network which has got all the vhost details. so i am trying to pull vhost details from the ldap server could not find

Re: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bart Schaefer napsal(a): We're having a spike right now. Doesn't look much different, though: # wc -l /proc/net/ip_conntrack 17141 /proc/net/ip_conntrack # fgrep -cv UNRE /proc/net/ip_conntrack 1310 What are the upstream link parameters (type, up, down, ...), what's the ping on gateway

[CentOS] Network Connection Card Problem?

2007-09-11 Thread Jun Salen
Hi List, My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to accept accept network connection. If I restart the network service, the service will again start to accept connection but after some time will again refuse connection. I use CentOS 4.5 with Squid, DansGuardian, Postfix. Please can

Re: [CentOS] Network Connection Card Problem?

2007-09-11 Thread Jun Salen
Hi List, My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to accept accept network connection. If I restart the network service, the service will again start to accept connection but after some time will again refuse connection. I use CentOS 4.5 with Squid, DansGuardian, Postfix. Please can

[CentOS] MD5 and NIS

2007-09-11 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Does anybody know whether it is possible to enable MD5 passwords for NIS and local passwords? Is it just a matter of running authconfig --enablemd5 and new passwords will use MD5 and old ones will still work? Of course using LDAP might be a better solution (if it was easy to install). I've

Re: [CentOS] Network Connection Card Problem?

2007-09-11 Thread Alain Spineux
On 9/11/07, Jun Salen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to accept accept network connection. If I restart the network service, the service will again start to accept connection but after some time will again refuse connection. I use CentOS

[CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Hi, I just tried the live CD for CentOS 5.0 on a desktop computer and decided to see if suspend worked. It seems it did, but I'm unable to start the machine again. It's a DIY system with an Asus K8V-X motherboard[1], an AMD Clawhammer 3200+ and 1 GB of Kingston ECC RAM. The system has been

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:54 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote: Hi, I just tried the live CD for CentOS 5.0 on a desktop computer and decided to see if suspend worked. It seems it did, but I'm unable to start the machine again. It's a DIY system with an Asus K8V-X motherboard[1], an AMD

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Alain Spineux
Try to power on the computer when the power cord is disconnected to discharge everything. Or be patient, sometime the problem disappear after 1 days. On 9/11/07, Mark Rosenstand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just tried the live CD for CentOS 5.0 on a desktop computer and decided to see if

[CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread James B. Byrne
Karanbir Singh wrote: there is a ruby-1.8.5 in the testing repo, it should be trivial moving that to 1.8.6. However, I must ask - why you are doing this ? Some time ago I built ruby-1.8.6 on my development machine and have been using it for a new project. I now wish to move that to a trial

Re: [CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
James B. Byrne wrote: I have discovered that the duplicate file names in the documents set prevent a build of the packages. No doubt there exists an override switch to force a build regardless of errors but I would like to uncover why these files are duplicated in the first instance and

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread gjgowey
I have one idea that may work. Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade floppy (it would say so in the owners manual). Now by bios upgrade floppy I don't mean the usual type that use an os. There are some that the bios will directly read from without an os being used. The concept is

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:04 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote: Try to power on the computer when the power cord is disconnected to discharge everything. Or be patient, sometime the problem disappear after 1 days. There's a LED on the motherboard which should indicate whether it's discharged, and it

Re: [CentOS] Boot problem with CENTOS 5

2007-09-11 Thread Barry Brimer
Thanks. What is the best recovery disk out there? For an all purpose recovery disk, I use Knoppix. To fix grub/booting problems, I use Super Grub Disk. Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] yum proxy username with @ character

2007-09-11 Thread David Toman
Hi, I am having problem with setting up the proxy for yum correctly. I have got no influence on proxy policy or authentication methods. The proxy username contains the '@' character. My question is if there is any way how to enter the username correctly into the yum.conf. I tried many ways but

Re: [CentOS] php 5.2 available?

2007-09-11 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:51:22 Laurentiu Coica wrote: On 9/8/07, Melinda Odom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Will php 5.2 be available for centos 5? The version in the mirror is php 5.1.6-12. Try http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/ We noticed php-devel is broken in that repo (you

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one idea that may work. Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade floppy (it would say so in the owners manual). Now by bios upgrade floppy I don't mean the usual type that use an os. There are some that the bios

RE: [CentOS] Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway

2007-09-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 9/10/07, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wireshark can process and display packet capture files from tcpdump -w capture a few megabytes of packets on the appropriate interface of the firewall, then transfer them to a workstation with Wireshark for

RE: [CentOS] Downgrade samba?

2007-09-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thoughts: Uninstall the current version using yum, grab the source tgz for the version for the version you want from samba, and compile it using --prefix=/usr/local/mysamba to put all of that ver in that directory. Then when you want to use the latest

[CentOS] request for hosting ( London, UK )

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Chaps, A couple of Sun Netra t105 have been donated to the CentOS Project. The machines are located in London and I was wondering if anyone in the area might be able to host these machines for us ? They come with 19 rack rails. We would need access to some - but not a whole lot of -

[CentOS] Centos Router

2007-09-11 Thread Graham Johnston
With the current discuss of Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway, I am curious how many people out there are using CentOS as a Router/Firewall in an enterprise or service provider environment. For myself I am not really concerned about NAT just a stateful firewall. The other half of my

RE: [CentOS] Centos Router

2007-09-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Graham Johnston wrote: With the current discuss of Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway, I am curious how many people out there are using CentOS as a Router/Firewall in an enterprise or service provider environment. For myself I am not really concerned about NAT just a stateful

RE: [CentOS] Centos Router

2007-09-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Graham Johnston wrote: With the current discuss of Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway, I am curious how many people out there are using CentOS as a Router/Firewall in an enterprise or service provider environment. For myself I am not really concerned

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:07:50PM -0700, mark pryor wrote: This is what you said in the OP quote The intent is to install the OS onto the 2-320GB drives on the motherboard controller (preferrably in a raid 1 configuration). The other disks are for our data requirements. /quote

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: Unfortunately I can't see my 3ware raid arrays now... I'm getting a bit frustrated. Are you using a 3ware-96xx card that you need a driver disk ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] request for hosting ( London, UK )

2007-09-11 Thread John Hinton
Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi Chaps, A couple of Sun Netra t105 have been donated to the CentOS Project. The machines are located in London and I was wondering if anyone in the area might be able to host these machines for us ? They come with 19 rack rails. We would need access to some - but not

Re: [CentOS] request for hosting ( London, UK )

2007-09-11 Thread John Hinton
Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi Chaps, A couple of Sun Netra t105 have been donated to the CentOS Project. The machines are located in London and I was wondering if anyone in the area might be able to host these machines for us ? They come with 19 rack rails. We would need access to some - but not

Re: [CentOS] request for hosting ( London, UK )

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
John Hinton wrote: A couple of Sun Netra t105 have been donated to the CentOS Project. The machines are located in London and I was wondering if anyone in the area might be able to host these machines for us ? Nevermind... I can't read... machines for us != machines in us Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: The system now boots, so I ran a yum update, which updated 156 packages. The kernel was updated too, so I set it up to boot the new xen kernel. Depending on the way your Driverdisk is setup - it would have only installed the drivers for the kernel you installed

Re: [CentOS] MD5 and NIS

2007-09-11 Thread James Pearson
Jeremy Sanders wrote: Does anybody know whether it is possible to enable MD5 passwords for NIS and local passwords? Is it just a matter of running authconfig --enablemd5 and new passwords will use MD5 and old ones will still work? Something I've never tried, but I don't think the NIS bit

[CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread James B. Byrne
Karanbir Singh wrote: To find out exactly what is going on, look at the bit which creates the .files that are then used in the %files section to workout what which files go into what rpm. There would be an overlap there. Given this snippet: %files -f ruby.files ... %files devel -f

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread B.J. McClure
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one idea that may work. Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade floppy (it would say so in the owners manual). Now by bios upgrade floppy I don't mean the usual type that use an os. There are some that the bios

RE: [CentOS] Centos Router

2007-09-11 Thread Ken Price
My best tip for tuning performance: Don't until performance becomes an issue otherwise you have no basis of determining whether performance has improved. Let me add a second tip: Don't tune a parameter unless you know what is does. While probably not popular, those are very good tips. I

RE: [CentOS] Centos Router

2007-09-11 Thread Graham Johnston
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:43 -0400, Ken Price wrote: My best tip for tuning performance: Don't until performance becomes an issue otherwise you have no basis of determining whether performance has improved. Let me add a second tip: Don't tune a parameter unless you know what is

Re: [CentOS] Problem with VSFTP

2007-09-11 Thread John Hinton
Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I have a vsftp server hosted on custom dyndns site. We have a 4mb ADSL connection. When I tried to download the files from the ftp server with wan IP address or the dyndns address it downloads some files and disconnects. Please find below an extract from the log file

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Robert
Mark Rosenstand wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one idea that may work. Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade floppy (it would say so in the owners manual). Now by bios upgrade floppy I don't mean the usual type that use an os. There

[CentOS] rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread James B. Byrne
I am now getting this: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile + --with-sitedir=/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby --with-default-kcode=none --with-bundled-sha1 --with-bundled-md5 --with-bundled-rmd160 --enable-shared --enable-ipv6 --enable-pthread --with-lookup-order-hack=INET

Re: [CentOS] Unable to POST after suspend

2007-09-11 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Rosenstand wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one idea that may work. Try seeing if your bios supports a bios upgrade floppy (it would say so in the owners manual). Now by bios upgrade floppy I don't

Re: [CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread Garrick Staples
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:58:13PM -0400, James B. Byrne alleged: Karanbir Singh wrote: To find out exactly what is going on, look at the bit which creates the .files that are then used in the %files section to workout what which files go into what rpm. There would be an overlap there.

Re: [CentOS] rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread Garrick Staples
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:56:07PM -0400, James B. Byrne alleged: I am now getting this: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile + --with-sitedir=/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby --with-default-kcode=none --with-bundled-sha1 --with-bundled-md5 --with-bundled-rmd160

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:19:07PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Chuck Campbell wrote: The system now boots, so I ran a yum update, which updated 156 packages. The kernel was updated too, so I set it up to boot the new xen kernel. Depending on the way your Driverdisk is setup - it would have

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: Bothe kernels see the card though (looking in /var/log/messages after boot. Can you post the output from 'dmesg; lsmod; lspci -n' booting the installtime kernel at http://pastebin.ca/ and post the url to that here.. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8714forum=45 I am looking to perform a large migration of about 500 workstations from various Suse and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
James A. Peltier wrote: Hi All, I am looking for information on when CentOS 5 will be available for IA64. I found this forum posting but no responses There will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. But

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Les Bell wrote: Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. Provide access to the hardware, and if someone is interested we can look at it. If hardware access is not a possibility, then machines

Re: [CentOS] Network Connection Card Problem?

2007-09-11 Thread Jun Salen
On 9/11/07, Jun Salen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, My Mail/Proxy server has from time to time refuse to accept accept network connection. If I restart the network service, the service will again start to accept connection but after some time will again refuse connection. I use CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: Les Bell wrote: Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. Provide access to the hardware, and if someone is interested we can look at it.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Lamar Owen wrote: If hardware access is not a possibility, then machines fast enough to run the emulators might be an option too. What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? Well, if we

[CentOS] RE: php 5.2

2007-09-11 Thread Melinda Odom
Hi, seems to have a lot of security fixes: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.0 Version 5.2.0 was orginally released 02-Nov-2006. What is the process and time frame for released software to be available in an operating system? I am not familiar with this. Sincerely, Melinda Odom Design

Re: [CentOS] RE: php 5.2

2007-09-11 Thread John Hinton
Melinda Odom wrote: Hi, seems to have a lot of security fixes: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.0 Version 5.2.0 was orginally released 02-Nov-2006. What is the process and time frame for released software to be available in an operating system? I am not familiar with this. Sincerely,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
Lamar Owen wrote: What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? now, I haven't dealt personally with s390 since it was s370 and punchcards and mag tape were still de rigeur, so the

Re: [CentOS] Centos Router

2007-09-11 Thread Feizhou
Graham Johnston wrote: With the current discuss of Performance of CentOS as a NAT gateway, I am curious how many people out there are using CentOS as a Router/Firewall in an enterprise or service provider environment. For myself I am not really concerned about NAT just a stateful firewall.

[CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Lamar Owen wrote: What is the minimum for actual hardware? I have a small s390 here that I've been looking for a reason to power up. What sort of access is needed? Goodness ... the Stuff you have in your closet at PARI. Best as I had roughed out plans for a builder

[CentOS] Accidentally removed glibc glibc-devel :: Help

2007-09-11 Thread geekylucas
Hi, I attempted to ugprade glibc glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot* What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume I'm going to have to boot from a rescue CD of some kind. If

Re: [CentOS] Accidentally removed glibc glibc-devel :: Help

2007-09-11 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:53 +1000, geekylucas wrote: Hi, I attempted to ugprade glibc glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot* What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I presume

Re: [CentOS] php 5.2 available?

2007-09-11 Thread umair shakil
Dear, Thanks for the link. appreciated man much appreciated Link can be quite handy for me... Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/11/07, Tomasz Napierała [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:51:22 Laurentiu Coica wrote: On 9/8/07, Melinda Odom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] Accidentally removed glibc glibc-devel :: Help

2007-09-11 Thread umair shakil
Dear, Please tell me is ur operating system working or not? I mean can u able to insert the CD and install the glibc through the CD? Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/12/07, geekylucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I attempted to ugprade glibc glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely

Re: [CentOS] Accidentally removed glibc glibc-devel :: Help

2007-09-11 Thread Garrick Staples
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:53:08PM +1000, geekylucas alleged: Hi, I attempted to ugprade glibc glibc-devel and ended up removing them entirely by accident. *idiot* What are the steps needed to get glibc back onto my system. Absolutely nothing is working at the moment, rpm, yum, etc. I

Re: [CentOS] yum proxy username with @ character

2007-09-11 Thread umair shakil
Dear David, Why dont u bypass this sytem from proxy, or use some transparent proxy. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/11/07, David Toman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with setting up the proxy for yum correctly. I have got no influence on proxy policy or authentication

[CentOS] Automatic FTP problem in cron

2007-09-11 Thread umair shakil
Dear Concerns, I have backup script which TAR the data, makes one copy on local hardisk and then FTP to another machine. Last few days i m facing problem with it. The cron job only makes the copy automatically on local disk but doesnot automatically FTP to another machine. I ran the script

Re: [CentOS] Automatic FTP problem in cron

2007-09-11 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Quoting umair shakil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron Entry is : */5 * * * * /opt/bin/ftp.sh 2 /tmp/error_log /opt/bin/ftp.sh: line 3: ftp: command not found Your shell script doesn't know where 'ftp' lives. Best to put the full path into place, '/usr/bin/ftp' -- R | I haven't lost my mind;

Re: [CentOS] Automatic FTP problem in cron

2007-09-11 Thread Clint Dilks
umair shakil wrote: Dear Concerns, I have backup script which TAR the data, makes one copy on local hardisk and then FTP to another machine. Last few days i m facing problem with it. The cron job only makes the copy automatically on local disk but doesnot automatically FTP to another