Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread centos
On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:47:51 -0400 "Clonch, Christopher A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The main function of a switch is to keep irrelevant packets away from > > >> hosts, but packets to unknown (to the switch) hosts get sent > >> everywhere, just like a Hub would do. > >> > > > >yes - thanks

RE: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Clonch, Christopher A.
>> The main function of a switch is to keep irrelevant packets away from >> hosts, but packets to unknown (to the switch) hosts get sent >> everywhere, just like a Hub would do. >> > >yes - thanks all, it appears its a cross network 'issue' > >thanks If you're trying to get a MAC address across

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:19 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: > > You will need to make a list of all partitions. Not sure what the best way > to do this would be. Probably fdisk. Run fdisk, then type "p" (for > printing the partition table), th

RE: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-07 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of David Mackintosh > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:40 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD > > > [encijan ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/dirsplit > > genisoimage-1.1.6-6.fc8 > > T

[CentOS] Re: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-7-2008 3:19 PM Kai Schaetzl spake the following: Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 boxes, where things are working properly. Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen that

[CentOS] Re: Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop - SOLVED

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
I should probably add this big mea culpa: I just had my first experience working in Ubuntu, and, despite my previous experiences with Alpha Linux 1.x and SuSE 10.1, I am astounded by the depth of differences between different distros. So, to the person who pointed out that this was way more than

Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Tom Brown
Others have given you good answers, but I felt I could share some insight on the matter.. The MAC address of a NIC is used by switches to send packets out the right port - As soon as you add a routing element, all traffic to a routed IP appears to be destined for the router, if one goes by

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: > Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 > boxes, where things are working properly. Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen that says "booting centos in x seconds, press any key to

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
mail.gmail.com> X-Rcpt-To: Mhr wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 14:04:55 -0700: > Not being familiar with 'locate,' I found its man page rather > intimidating at first glance. I'll have to study it a little more > carefully, but I should also note that I ran locate to find my kernel > rpms and was unsu

Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Morten Nilsen
Tom Brown wrote: In CentOS 4 does anyone know the switches to get NMAP to reveal the MAC of the host being scanned ? Others have given you good answers, but I felt I could share some insight on the matter.. The MAC address of a NIC is used by switches to send packets out the right port - As

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. I woke up about 430 this morning and I realized that rpm can > locate the file by itself. :-)However, I want to learn how to > use find that Mark (mhr) mentioned! > Lanny (offlist): Thanks - I really did mean that in a

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would always use locate for that task, much faster, much easier. > Not being familiar with 'locate,' I found its man page rather intimidating at first glance. I'll have to study it a little more carefully, but I shoul

Re: [CentOS] R (statistics package) on CentOS-5 ?

2008-05-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 7 May 2008 at 9:57pm, Kay Diederichs wrote the statistics package R (www.r-project.org) was available for CentOS-4, but I need it for CentOS-5 (64bit). RPMforge has R-2.5.1 for CentOS-4, so I thought I'd try to install that on CentOS-5. However, yum complains about missing ggv, and th

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:38 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: > > > On > > compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, > > latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt > > grub: (a) the original ke

[CentOS] R (statistics package) on CentOS-5 ?

2008-05-07 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, the statistics package R (www.r-project.org) was available for CentOS-4, but I need it for CentOS-5 (64bit). RPMforge has R-2.5.1 for CentOS-4, so I thought I'd try to install that on CentOS-5. However, yum complains about missing ggv, and the specfile indeed says that R requires g

[CentOS] irc cloak

2008-05-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 7 May 2008, James Bunnell wrote: What are the requirements to get a Centos IRC cloak in freenode? Thanks in advance. As of the last discussion by the centos group of developers, IRC cloaks were not something that was going to be generally 'purchasable' by way of a donation, as if som

Re: [CentOS] Archive-to-DVD

2008-05-07 Thread David Mackintosh
> [encijan ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/dirsplit > genisoimage-1.1.6-6.fc8 > Then use growisofs. > I can send you dirsplit-0.3.1-1.bob.src.rpm if you wish. Yes please, that would be useful. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com pgpNRUgefVh2F.pgp De

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: > On > compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, > latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt > grub: (a) the original kernel (b) other, which is Windows XP Ok, that explains it. I bet yo

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 09:53:23 -0700: > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have never found this > particular man page to be bad enough not to consult when needed, even > for the first time (like I did, lo these many eons ago, when it was > even harder to read than now) and the effort

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of clamav-milter

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Karanbir Singh wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Can someone tell me the latest version of clamav-milter x84_64? I just yum installed it but it is version 0.88.2.el4kb, and the version on my server is 0.93. Is the difference between the two due to being different platforms? the ClamAV in rpm

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Drinkard wrote: Looks like I shot myself in the foot after all. I just checked the bold foreground color, and sure enough, it was the same as the background color. Changed that to red, and it works as advertized now. Sorry for the unnecessary postings. Should have checked there first

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:55 -0400: > Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in > putty probably > or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen? works fine here. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread David Mackintosh
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:28:55PM -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > Hi again, > >I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or > perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any > man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Sam, Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms. We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our l

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Sam, Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms. We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our l

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > >I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or > perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man > page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like ke

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of clamav-milter

2008-05-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sam Drinkard wrote: Can someone tell me the latest version of clamav-milter x84_64? I just yum installed it but it is version 0.88.2.el4kb, and the version on my server is 0.93. Is the difference between the two due to being different platforms? the ClamAV in rpmforge obsolets the one in

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Sam, Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms. We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our linux connections and I have

[CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in p

[CentOS] Latest version of clamav-milter

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi folks, Can someone tell me the latest version of clamav-milter x84_64? I just yum installed it but it is version 0.88.2.el4kb, and the version on my server is 0.93. Is the difference between the two due to being different platforms? Thanks.. Sam _

Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Brown wrote: In CentOS 4 does anyone know the switches to get NMAP to reveal the MAC of the host being scanned ? I cant seem to find it and i am using nmap-4.20 - i am sure this was available somehow on older releases. MAC address is only available on the same network segment... And, I'v

Re: [CentOS] Re: Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread jleaver+centos
Well my question was rhetorical - ATrpms never replaced python packages. Furthermore there have never been amavisd-new and friends on ATrpms ever, so maybe you are confusing ATrpms and another repo? It's certainly possible, my mistake, apologies for having mis-spoke.

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:30 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf > > got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname > -a show now? Kai: Yes, I rebooted, very early this morning. I just tried it again. My wife had been using

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-07 Thread Alfred von Campe
On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. First, thanks for the detailed list, Ross. It was very helpful. I was able to rename both the VG and the LVs

[CentOS] irc cloak

2008-05-07 Thread James Bunnell
What are the requirements to get a Centos IRC cloak in freenode? Thanks in advance. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Dennis McLeod
Tom Brown wrote: In CentOS 4 does anyone know the switches to get NMAP to reveal the MAC of the host being scanned ? I cant seem to find it and i am using nmap-4.20 - i am sure this was available somehow on older releases. thanks ___ CentOS mailin

[CentOS] Re: Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:38:55AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:54:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best >>> practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things

Re: [CentOS] Re: Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread jleaver+centos
Axel Thimm wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:54:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.) When did

[CentOS] Re: Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread Axel Thimm
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:54:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best > practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from > happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.) When did ATrpms replace python a

[CentOS] cups causing segfault

2008-05-07 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have a new installation of Centos 5.1 that I am using on a gateway server that also has dhcp, named servers. I also have cups set up to function as a print server, and sendmail is being used as a relay to our mail server. yum-cron appears to be updating everything daily as desired.

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erm. "man find" is one of the most hideous manual pages on a linux > system (man tar comes close) - so a bit help from your side would have > been nice. > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have never found thi

Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Semcheski
Sorry I don't have the answer off hand, but it might be as simple as increasing the level of verbosity. Another option is the 'arp' command, at least if the host is on the same network. Mike On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In CentOS 4 does anyone know the

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 08:53:01 -0500: > -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname -a show now? > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.14.

[CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Tom Brown
In CentOS 4 does anyone know the switches to get NMAP to reveal the MAC of the host being scanned ? I cant seem to find it and i am using nmap-4.20 - i am sure this was available somehow on older releases. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread jleaver+centos
Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:54:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.) I'm

Re: [CentOS] Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:54:11AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us: > I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best > practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from > happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.) > > I'm wondering if th

[CentOS] Yum + priorities plugin question

2008-05-07 Thread jleaver+centos
Hello all! I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best practices. It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.) I'm wondering if there's a simple and elegant way to allow package-name-based exclusions. F

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 05:27:25 -0500: > > I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that > > correct or not? > > As you removed it earlier, yes. There doesn't seem to be any dependancy > for it. AFAIK it's not necessary fo

Re: [CentOS] Re: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/7/08, Robert Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Simpson wrote: > > > do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? > > > > you might find that the default kernel is still the original one in > > which case there would be a line like > > default=1 in grub.conf > > chang

[CentOS] VSFTPD with LDAP

2008-05-07 Thread Jake
It appears as I have VSFTPD allowing access authenticating to my LDAP server correctly. I did this by configuring my server to authenticate to my LDAP server from the GUI using System -> Administration -> Authentication. However now when I look at /var/log/secure it says authentication failure.

[CentOS] Re: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
Michael Simpson wrote: do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? you might find that the default kernel is still the original one in which case there would be a line like default=1 in grub.conf changing this to default=0 might bring up the new kernel on reboot i have an old d

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Simpson wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 12:15:35 +0100: > do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? Note, this is only a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf ! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 05:27:25 -0500: > I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that > correct or not? As you removed it earlier, yes. There doesn't seem to be any dependancy for it. AFAIK it's not necessary for operation, anyway, it's only necessary if something has t

Re: [CentOS] centOS xen domU kernel

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David Hláèik wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 11:07:10 +0200: > Hi, how can i make actual xen kernel to work under my domU virtual machines? There is nothing special. Just install CentOS host with virtualization support and then install your first DomU with virt-install or virt-manager. There's a CentO

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT > 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather > than on the new kernel. > > I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.1

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and > > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them > > and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her box. > > How do I locate

[CentOS] centOS xen domU kernel

2008-05-07 Thread David Hláčik
Hi, how can i make actual xen kernel to work under my domU virtual machines? When i will provide as kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen as ramdisk /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen.img , it will not work becouse of error that root device does not exists. And when it is booting it is showin

Re: [CentOS] File Permissions or Partition Write/Read for everyone

2008-05-07 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 14:03:42 Victor Padro wrote: > Hello all, > > I am kinda new to Linux, FreeBSD...most Windows user, anyway. > I got a little problem here maybe you can help me solve it. > > I just bought a new 500Gb HDD which i formated using ext3 under Centos 5, > my plan was to use it un

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: > > > > > > > As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use > > > 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: > > Mark: Syntax fo

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* > > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > > > How can I correct this, so the box > > will boot the latest kernel? TIA! L

Re: [CentOS] Re: Subject: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Lanny Marcus wrote: > Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them > and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her box. > How do I locate them? Why locate them? rpm -e takes the pac

[CentOS] File Permissions or Partition Write/Read for everyone

2008-05-07 Thread Victor Padro
Hello all, I am kinda new to Linux, FreeBSD...most Windows user, anyway. I got a little problem here maybe you can help me solve it. I just bought a new 500Gb HDD which i formated using ext3 under Centos 5, my plan was to use it under FreeNAS as another Backup File Disk(It has already like 400gb