[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Live USB NTFS Support

2008-03-24 Thread Mark Rose
First of all, I was able to use the 5.1 LiveCD to create a bootable USB (8G Lexar FireFly) - thanks to all for your assistance. Question - has anyone been able to add NTFS support to an USB install? It would be a nice to have the ability to access NTFS (and Vista for that matter) disks for troubl

Re: [CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Warren Young
Ray Leventhal wrote: Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Merge your RH8 copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow into the CentOS ones, preferring the new ver

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on PS3

2008-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
James A. Peltier wrote: Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3? I would like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if anyone had any experiences. I installed recently Yellow D

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on PS3

2008-03-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
James A. Peltier wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3? I would > like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for > it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if > anyone had any experiences. I have a 'somet

[CentOS] Strange Xen problem

2008-03-24 Thread Louis Lagendijk
I have a strange problem when using Centos: When using a Xen kernel (it does not matter whether a guest is started or not) networking fails is flakey. ssl connections fail, ping reports a wrong data byte #50 . I am using a Sun quad ethernet card, but when I tried the gigabit Ethernet on the m

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on PS3

2008-03-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3? I would like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if anyone had any experiences. ___

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > mouss wrote: > > Dan Bongert wrote: > >> Hello all: > >> > >> > Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail. The 'w' > command will fail too: > > thoth(118) /tmp> w >16:06:51 up 5:34, 1 user, load average: 0.9

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Peter l Jakobi
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: >> You can also try running ``strace /bin/ls'' to see what is going on. > Funnily enough, running strace will work just fine. Though, as I said, just > about any command will fail -- 'ls' was just for testing purposes. That's funny. Or

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. thoth(66) /tmp> uname -a Linux thoth.ssc.wisc.edu 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Mar

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
> So your first case is ALMOST right. resolv.conf should not point to the > loopback address, but to the static address of the host. But if you have > not configured NM for static addressing, well you get what you got. thanks much for replies ... so to be clear: qatest1 - 192.168.17.1 (DHCP se

Re: [CentOS] simple DNS question - reverse nslookup fails.

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
vincenzo romero wrote: where 192.168.17.db is the name of the zone file. A good reference for DNS is http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ thank you for the reference and response... I have also checked the above and reviewed it and attempted to follow the configuration file samples;

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread mouss
Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(52) /tmp> ls thoth(53) /tmp> ls thoth(54)

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
vincenzo romero wrote: Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? If you are using DHCP, then the content of resolv.conf SHOULD be at the mercy of your DHCLIEN

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread mouss
vincenzo romero wrote: Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? I do not seem to get a consistent result when I save resolv.conf configuration from GUI or by h

Re: [CentOS] simple DNS question - reverse nslookup fails.

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
> > where 192.168.17.db is the name of the zone file. > > A good reference for DNS is > http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ thank you for the reference and response... I have also checked the above and reviewed it and attempted to follow the configuration file samples; however I noticed in

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Dan Bongert wrote: >Hello all: > >I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange >command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of >system calls. > >Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: > >thoth(52) /tmp> ls > .

[CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? I do not seem to get a consistent result when I save resolv.conf configuration from GUI or by hand using vim /etc/resolv

[CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(52) /tmp> ls thoth(53) /tmp> ls thoth(54) /tmp> ls thoth(55)

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 March 2008 18:43:43 Sam Drinkard wrote: >     As Jim just pointed out to me, I was unaware of the mixing.. I'll > see what else I can muck up while trying to fix this :) I'm surprised that no-one mentioned the skip-broken plugin. You'd still have to sort out your clamav problem, but

Re: [CentOS] smartest way to setup new system (DELL PE 4600)

2008-03-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 March 2008 15:32:14 Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi all, > > One of our servers (very old) died last week and I'm setting up a new > CentOS 5.1 box to replace it. Primarily used as a samba fileshare on a > mostly windows-workstation network. > > This system will, ideally, have the OS on a 1

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Drinkard wrote: One is from the kbs repo, and one is from rpmforge. Mostly, you're mixing similar packages from different repositories. This is a bad thing, and the reason for the existence of priorities, and protectbase plugins, as well as include/exclude statements on a per repository ba

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". # yum update Setting

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum upda

RE: [CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Leventhal wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions > when moving > from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just > simpler to > recreate the users manually? > > Total users on this system is < 20. Check out the 'newusers' command.

[CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Total users on this system is < 20. Thanks in advance, -Ray ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: > I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul > please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact > installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". > > # yum update > Setting up Update Process >

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul > please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact > installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". > --> Process

[CentOS] smartest way to setup new system (DELL PE 4600)

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, One of our servers (very old) died last week and I'm setting up a new CentOS 5.1 box to replace it. Primarily used as a samba fileshare on a mostly windows-workstation network. This system will, ideally, have the OS on a 146 GB SCSI drive, with user data on a 300GB SCSI, both attach

[CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". # yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories kbs-CentOS-Extras 100%

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: ... >>I just started playing with VMware-server-1.0.5-80187 on a 64-bit >>CentOS 5 system system, and am having some issues with the hotkey >>switching. Running the vmware-server-console via