Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution

2009-04-22 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote: We also need to keep in mind through this conversation that the content on the wiki is licensed under very liberal terms, lets not try and make efforts to wall in edit rights or to contradict the license terms themselves. Attribution-Share-Alike pretty much says that

Re: [CentOS-docs] Authorship and Attribution

2009-04-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
Marcus Moeller wrote: In gerneral I take a look at the original author first, ask him to accept my contribution or to allow me to edit and if he/she is unavailable I am going to contact the one who last edited the page. Works in most cases. That sounds like a reasonable workflow, do we then

Re: [CentOS-docs] new page? - Virtualization/Install MS Windows XP as a CentOS5/Xen guest

2009-04-22 Thread Ed Heron
From: Manuel Wolfshant, Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:36 PM No GUI is needed on the server. One only needs to make sure that virt-viewer can be used (which happens if your remote workstation has an X server + you install xorg-x11-xauth on the the server running Xen. ssh X forwarding takes care of

Re: [CentOS-docs] new page? - Virtualization/Install MS Windows XP as a CentOS5/Xen guest

2009-04-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: From: Manuel Wolfshant, Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:36 PM No GUI is needed on the server. One only needs to make sure that virt-viewer can be used (which happens if your remote workstation has an X server + you install

Re: [CentOS-docs] Cluster Suite Documentation

2009-04-22 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 13:41:03 Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Mrugesh Karnik mrugeshkar...@gmail.com wrote: Is there room on the wiki for Cluster Suite documentation. Specifically, non- GUI based configuration and administration. If yes, I'd like to contribute

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0437 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update

2009-04-22 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0437 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0437 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update

2009-04-22 Thread Pasi Pirhonen
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0437 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen virtual machines management

2009-04-22 Thread Dmitri Moudraninets
oVirt? It works under fedora, but i don't know how about CentOS. And look at this - http://www.enomaly.com/ On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Mindaugas Riauba m...@kilimas.com wrote:  Hello,  What do you use to manage virtual Xen machines? Nothing complex though preferably. :)  I've already

Re: [CentOS-virt] CentOS 5.3 in VMWare Fusion

2009-04-22 Thread Phil Schaffner
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I am trying to run CentOS 5.3-x86_64 in a Vmware Fusion virtual machine on my Mac Pri (10.5.6) My install starts OK, checks media and then I get a message saying The CentOS CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I'm experimenting with using WinXP Xen guests as an alternative to upgrading workstations. The administrative advantages seem overwhelming. Using the beta opensource parvirt drivers? Performance would be unacceptable otherwise. On that note, my environment would not permit the unstable nature

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Julian Price
Ed Heron wrote: I'm experimenting with using WinXP Xen guests as an alternative to upgrading workstations. The administrative advantages seem overwhelming. Please share thoughts about using VNC vs RDP for remote desktop connections. Please share any anecdotal information

[CentOS-virt] virsh can not connect, but virt-manager does

2009-04-22 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Hi, i am having problems with virsh utility. I have installed 3 KVM virtual OS-es on top of CentOS 5.3 i386 (with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus from 5.2, necessary on AMD/ATI MB I have). I have compiled KVM modules from lfarkash-es sorce rpm's and libvirt and managers are recompiled

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 04/22/2009 10:35 PM, Ed Heron wrote: I'm experimenting with using WinXP Xen guests as an alternative to upgrading workstations. The administrative advantages seem overwhelming. Please share thoughts about using VNC vs RDP for remote desktop connections. I had to create 6 windows

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Ed Heron
From: Joseph L. Casale, Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:23 PM I'm experimenting with using WinXP Xen guests as an alternative to upgrading workstations. The administrative advantages seem overwhelming. Using the beta opensource parvirt drivers? Performance would be unacceptable otherwise. On

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: Please share thoughts about using VNC vs RDP for remote desktop Since the console is being redirected in the host, rather than the guest, it seems to demand less processing power. Also, turning off remote access in the guest loads less

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: I am interested in the multiple connections allowed with VNC for support type console sharing. When connected with RDP, the console of the VM has a login screen, so you can't use VNC to the console at the same time as a RDP connection... You

Re: [CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

2009-04-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am interested in the multiple connections allowed with VNC for support type console sharing. When connected with RDP, the console of the VM has a login screen, so you can't use VNC to the console at the same time as a RDP connection... Remote Assistance parallels the behavior you're after

[CentOS-es] consulta de iptables

2009-04-22 Thread Freddy Angulo
hola listeros tengo necesito de su ayuda, tengo un firewall con iptables en centos 5. he creado interfaces virtuales para los servicios que manejamos dentro de la empresa.   eth0 wan_lan eth0:1  mail eth0:2  wan_lan2   cuando pongo a toda la red por solo un interface salen a internet

[CentOS-es] hola a todos

2009-04-22 Thread Pedro Peña
tengo un problema, necesito salvar periodicamente las trazas del correo y de momento lo estoy haciendo a mano, pero realmente sería mucho mejor hacerlo de forma automática, digamos con el cron, que me enviara el fichero maillog luego de hacer la rotación semanal, pero no tengo idea de como

Re: [CentOS-es] hola a todos

2009-04-22 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
2009/4/22 Pedro Peña ped...@cmatriz.fintur.tur.cu: tengo un problema, necesito salvar periodicamente las trazas del correo y de momento lo estoy haciendo a mano, pero realmente sería mucho mejor hacerlo de forma automática, digamos con el cron, que me enviara el fichero maillog luego de hacer

[CentOS-es] CUPS alta de impresora hp deskjet d1360

2009-04-22 Thread darias
Hola a todos, estoy teniendo problemas para poder imprimir en una impresora hp deskjet d1360 desde cups, alguien podria darme una mano? la impresora en windows funciona bien, tiene los drivers descargados desde hp para la impresora D1300, cdo mando a imprimir desde linux el carro de la impresora

Re: [CentOS-es] hola a todos

2009-04-22 Thread Hardy Beltran Monasterios
El mié, 22-04-2009 a las 14:11 -0400, Pedro Peña escribió: tengo un problema, necesito salvar periodicamente las trazas del correo y de momento lo estoy haciendo a mano, pero realmente sería mucho mejor hacerlo de forma automática, digamos con el cron, que me enviara el fichero maillog luego

[CentOS-es] Intranet

2009-04-22 Thread Raul Arboleda
Hola amigos yo se que muchos de ustedes ya de pronto han hecho esto una de las empresas que asesoro me pidió el favor de montar una intranet, en el momento cuentan con un servidor centos 4, yo no he tenido ninguna experiencia con esto asi que si alguien me puede dar una mano o me dice donde

Re: [CentOS-es] Intranet

2009-04-22 Thread Victor Padro
2009/4/23 Raul Arboleda raularbol...@une.net.co Hola amigos yo se que muchos de ustedes ya de pronto han hecho esto una de las empresas que asesoro me pidió el favor de montar una intranet, en el momento cuentan con un servidor centos 4, yo no he tenido ninguna experiencia con esto asi que

Re: [CentOS-es] Intranet

2009-04-22 Thread Raul Arboleda
No solo la propuesta fue la siguiente que tenemos que hacer para montar una intranet, yo nunca lo he hecho y no se que le pedo sugerir. Gracias Raúl Eduardo Arboleda Zapata Ingeniero de Sistemas Unnica Celulares: 312 288 90 86 - 300 620 66 13 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia De:

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-22 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed It's either Aopen or Asus. Can't tell just yet,

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-22 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:25 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of JohnS Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009-04-22 Thread Mangesh S. Umbarje
The machine has a static IP. If I try to change speed or autoneg or both the network completely stops. It starts working only after I issue service network restart. Regards, Mangesh On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Tuesday 21 April 2009, Mangesh S.

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009-04-22 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/22 Mangesh S. Umbarje mang...@gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in The machine has a static IP. If I try to change speed or autoneg or both the network completely stops. It starts working only after I issue service network restart. You can't have a gigabit connection with autoneg off and

[CentOS] Cannot set user quotas

2009-04-22 Thread Xn Nooby
Hello, I am having some trouble getting quota's to work. When I try to set the quota for a user, it does not show up when I run repquota. I am doing this on a Redhat (RHEL5) machine (I assume it is the same on Centos). I think I am missing a step, but this is what I am doing: (1) I add usrquota

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set user quotas

2009-04-22 Thread Xn Nooby
edquota show's the quota, but the quota command does not: [r...@mail ~]# setquota -u 12345 1 11000 0 0 -a /dev/hda3 [r...@mail ~]# edquota -u 12345 Disk quotas for user 12345 (uid 12345): Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard /dev/hda3

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Daniel Bird wrote: Take a look at Netdisco. I seem to remember it's a little tricky to set up on CentOS but I wouldn't live without it now. A little tricky? Last time I looked at it, I described the installation process as only slightly less

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
Last time I looked at it, I described the installation process as only slightly less complicated than building a Saturn-V rocket out of 1960's era TV parts. You were not kidding - I some how managed to get netdisco installed using the CentOS installer script but there were several points where

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Daniel Bird wrote: Take a look at Netdisco. I seem to remember it's a little tricky to set up on CentOS but I wouldn't live without it now. A little tricky? Last time I looked at it, I described the

[CentOS] Centos 5.3 NetworkManager success story

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
In the past I have not been able to use NetworkManager. It failed to provide a connection to my WPA-PSK AP (hey don't argue WPA-PSK security with me, I helped right the spec on it, and wrote the paper on the attack on it! It works here, as I use it.). So I have continued to use my set of

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
I'll repeat my recommendation for OpenNMS.  Getting started is as easy as 'yum install' (almost...).  And it can do about anything you'd want in a monitoring system - including matching up those switch ports with the connected devices. Les, at first I didn't heed your advice because I figured

Re: [CentOS] QuickBooks Enterprise DB Server

2009-04-22 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph L. Casale wrote: Anyone running this POS on CentOS and can spare some info? Support is useless, and it's just not working:)I am not getting a qbdir.dat file created, and the error log is, well, empty! We threw in the towel on this POS and

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Sean Carolan wrote: I'll repeat my recommendation for OpenNMS. Getting started is as easy as 'yum install' (almost...). And it can do about anything you'd want in a monitoring system - including matching up those switch ports with the connected devices. Les, at first I didn't heed your

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
Back to my first email message when I thought you were already using OpenNMS...  You have to uncomment the Linkd service in etc/service-configuration.xml, then restart opennms and give it some time to probe.  Then it should show from the 'View Node Link Detailed Info' at the top left of a

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the ability to get in and work with it. I will resubscribe and get back into a better habit - I had been checking every day a year ago, and then life got

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Kampen
Dan Roberts wrote: thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the ability to get in and work with it. I will resubscribe and get back into a better habit - I had been checking every day a year

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Hmmm - # rpm -uv glibc* -uv: unknown option Ok - so I go with -Uv instead # rpm -Uv glibc* error: File not found by glob: glibc* But this is strange because I know that glib-2.0 is there - fairly easy to confirm - is something missing? # locate glibc /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim Perrin wrote: So you probably missed the notes and announcements about the 5.3 release, as well as the release notes about upgrade hiccups. You guys just have to screw up more often to keep everyone on their toes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Richard Foltyn
Dan Roberts wrote: thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the ability to get in and work with it. I think most people on this list would recommend using ssh + screen for remote administration, not

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 13:28 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: So you probably missed the notes and announcements about the 5.3 release, as well as the release notes about upgrade hiccups. You guys just have to screw up more often to keep everyone on their toes. that

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Holmes
2009/4/22 Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com: thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the ability to get in and work with it. I will resubscribe and get back into a better habit - I had been checking every

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Given the mess that I have already got, would you care to provide a clear list of the steps to do that - I certainly don't want to blow a hole in something else by mistake. On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Michael Holmes wrote: 2009/4/22 Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com: thanks for the details -

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: thanks for the details - As the server lives in a closet without a monitor on it or even easy access I opted for Webmin so as to have the ability to get in and work with it. There are other ways you can get into a headless

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 13:28 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: So you probably missed the notes and announcements about the 5.3 release, as well as the release notes about upgrade hiccups. You guys just have to screw up more often to keep everyone on their toes.

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Thanks - I will start reading again and striving to improve things. I have previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the impression that it was so. that aside - I can't run the command you suggest because any yum operation results in the same error message. # yum clean

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Holmes
2009/4/22 Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com: Given the mess that I have already got, would you care to provide a clear list of the steps to do that - I certainly don't want to blow a hole in something else by mistake. Can you tell me what version Python is? A simple python -v (without quotes of

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: I will start reading again and striving to improve things.  I have previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the impression that it was so. I hope so. If not, you have a tiger by the tail. that aside - I

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Holmes
2009/4/22 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: I will start reading again and striving to improve things.  I have previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the impression that it was so. I hope so. If not,

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 4/22/09, Michael Holmes holmesm...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/22 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: I will start reading again and striving to improve things. I have previously taken steps to secure the server, and

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Dan Roberts wrote: that aside - I can't run the command you suggest because any yum operation results in the same error message. # yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/yum, line 28, in ? import yummain File

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 4/22/09, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: I will start reading again and striving to improve things. I have previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the impression that it was so. If you were only updating every month or so, impossible for the server to have been secure

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael Holmes wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: I will start reading again and striving to improve things. I have previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the impression that it was so. I hope so. If not, you have a tiger by the

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
My current version of python appears to be python 2.4.3 python - v (without quotes returned a slue of lines, but near the bottom it said Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:10:13) [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2 As to the question below - I have that directory, but not that

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 4/22/09, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: snip that aside - I can't run the command you suggest because any yum operation results in the same error message. # yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 4/22/09, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Holmes wrote: snip I have always wondered about the sanity of using python for system administration tools, but this should be a yum file in /usr/share/yum-cli/. I found i18n on my CentOS 5.3 Desktop. It's in /etc/sysconfig/

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Toby Bluhm
Les Mikesell wrote: Dan Roberts wrote: that aside - I can't run the command you suggest because any yum operation results in the same error message. # yum clean all yum update glibc\* yum update Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/yum, line 28, in ? import

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Dan Roberts wrote: My current version of python appears to be python 2.4.3 python - v (without quotes returned a slue of lines, but near the bottom it said Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:10:13) [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)] on linux2 As to the question below - I have that

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Yes - I have it in that location too - but clearly it is not getting found by yum On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 4/22/09, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Holmes wrote: snip I have always wondered about the sanity of using python for system

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: Hey there - This morning I ran the yum updater through Webmin as I do every month or so - after about two hours I realized that I still had the same updating screen going - and no response.   Seemed strange. Simple

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:17, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: As to the question below - I have that directory, but not that file. yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 (from CentOS 5.2) has /usr/share/yum-cli/i18n.py yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos (from CentOS 5.3) no longer has that file. Probably

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:23, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I have always wondered about the sanity of using python for system administration tools, but this should be a yum file in /usr/share/yum-cli/. I found i18n on my CentOS 5.3 Desktop. It's in /etc/sysconfig/ The

Re: [CentOS] QuickBooks Enterprise DB Server

2009-04-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
We threw in the towel on this POS and just purchased a full XP license to run under VMWare to host it. I am getting there, trust me:) I can't believe support! Just useless. Their forums are filled with equally upset people, but one of the list members has contacted me and hopefully I can see what

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Hi Filipe - Clearly I have indeed got things broken - # rpm -q yum package yum is not installed So I downloaded the rpm for a reinstall as you suggested - but clearly I have more to get and install - I downloaded to my home directory and ran the rpm -Uvh from there # rpm -Uvh --force

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:40, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: # rpm -Uvh --force yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies:        rpm = 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch        rpm-python is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch        

[CentOS] udev libvolume packages not updating

2009-04-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, CentOS 5.2, not yet updated to 5.3. Based on the alert on udev, I attempted to update udev and libvolume packages with the following result. A check of what's currently on the system reveals udev-095-14.19.el5 which I believe to be the affected version. Is it just that it hasn't

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 13:40 -0600, Dan Roberts wrote: Hi Filipe - Clearly I have indeed got things broken - # rpm -q yum package yum is not installed So I downloaded the rpm for a reinstall as you suggested - but clearly I have more to get and install - I downloaded to my home

Re: [CentOS] udev libvolume packages not updating

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, Before you think about updating this single package: CentOS 5.2, not yet updated to 5.3. Does not make much sense. You should update and move on to 5.3, if not for other reasons, to keep your machine secure. Updating individual packages might not work, it might even end up breaking your

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:40, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: # rpm -Uvh --force yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: rpm = 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch rpm-python is needed by

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:00, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I wouldn't recommend that you use '--force' for any rpm commands unless you know what you're doing. I suggested the --force just in case the RPM database already had the yum package registered, but the package was

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Dan Roberts
Ok - something truly bad appears to have happened.Yes, I will concede that cycling the system was a bad thing - but after two hours it should have returned from the update, still I was bad. There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site to get them, but then things

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:06 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:00, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I wouldn't recommend that you use '--force' for any rpm commands unless you know what you're doing. I suggested the --force just in case the RPM

Re: [CentOS] udev libvolume packages not updating

2009-04-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Does not make much sense. You should update and move on to 5.3, if not for other reasons, to keep your machine secure. Updating individual packages might not work, it might even end up breaking your machine. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:54, Ray Leventhal cen...@swhi.net wrote: [r...@wh01

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the update process kicked me off and died with a bunch of duplicate

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:06 -0600, Dan Roberts wrote: snip I know very little about this, but maybe Felipe et al can fill in the holes. I recall times that folks on the list indicated an rpm rebuild db be done. Is that possibly needed here? Did the glibc get updated? If so/not what should be

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:06, Dan Roberts d...@jlazyh.com wrote: There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site to get them, but then things continue to show up as missing. # rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies:        

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the update process kicked me off and died with

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:37 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Once yum is basically working you might be able to yum install yum-utils and yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on

[CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

2009-04-22 Thread James Matthews
Hi, How do you get bzip2 to compress directories? Thanks James -- http://www.astorandblack.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

2009-04-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:23:35 +0300 James Matthews wrote: How do you get bzip2 to compress directories? use tar. tar cvjf mydirectory.tar.bz2 mydirectory That will tar and bzip2 the directory called mydirectory and leave you with a file named mydirectory.tar.bz2 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~

Re: [CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

2009-04-22 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 17:23, James Matthews nytrok...@gmail.com wrote: How do you get bzip2 to compress directories? You use tar to create a tar with the directory contents, and then bzip2 to compress that tarfile. You can use the -j option of tar to bzip2 on the fly. This is probably

Re: [CentOS] QuickBooks Enterprise DB Server

2009-04-22 Thread Barry L. Kline
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I am getting there, trust me:) I can't believe support! Just useless. Their forums are filled with equally upset people, but one of the list members has contacted me and hopefully I can see what he did right! Its working for him. If you find out please tell us what

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-22-2009 11:18 AM Dan Roberts spake the following: Hmmm - # rpm -uv glibc* -uv: unknown option Ok - so I go with -Uv instead # rpm -Uv glibc* error: File not found by glob: glibc* But this is strange because I know that glib-2.0 is there - fairly easy to confirm - is something

[CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Marko Vojinovic
My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). The problem is that he wants to be able to remotely configure which of these two OSes is to be the default on next

Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Marko Vojinovic wrote: My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). The problem is that he wants to be able to remotely configure which of these two OSes

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Sean Carolan wrote: It was somewhat difficult to install on Centos (mostly just getting a Sun JVM installed sanely) until they added the yum repository. It is still somewhat complicated to deal with all of the things it can do so I'd

Re: [CentOS] QuickBooks Enterprise DB Server

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Nelson
- Barry L. Kline blkl...@attglobal.net wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I am getting there, trust me:) I can't believe support! Just useless. Their forums are filled with equally upset people, but one of the list members has contacted me and hopefully I can see what he did right!

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: OK, I've been tracking this conversation, installed/configured/started OpenNMS and have discovered everything and in fact, edited service-configuration.xml as recommended. I'm sort of comparing this to Zenoss which I had to stop (snmp conflicts) to run OpenNMS. I can

Re: [CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:30:51 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 17:23, James Matthews nytrok...@gmail.com wrote: How do you get bzip2 to compress directories? You use tar to create a tar with the directory contents, and then bzip2 to

Re: [CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

2009-04-22 Thread nate
Robert Heller wrote: Note that is also possible to use dump or cpio as well. Unlike the MS-Windows zip/unzip, which combines compressing and archiving in a single program, the 'UNIX' way is to separate these functions. bzip2 only compresses. Other programs (tar, dump, cpio) create archives

Re: [CentOS] Weird performance problem

2009-04-22 Thread Mike Fedyk
Can you find the first time this problem occoured? How about trying older kernel versions? You are either dealing with misbehaving hardware/driver or you need to tweak the settings on your clock source. Believe it or not but good sources of info to fix this affect vmware also so read those

Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). The problem is that he wants to be

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: Thus far (and admittedly this is premature), I find Zenoss a lot beefier but I spent a ton of time setting it up the first time until I figured things out whereas I spent comparatively no time setting OpenNMS up. But I have learned things along the way, especially getting