Re: [CentOS] Centralised logging with Gui and alerts?

2009-08-13 Thread Gavin Henry
2009/8/14 Darrin Khan : > Hello Gavin, > > We have a large number of locations around the world with a number of > servers in each. We use rsyslog to handle this, as we are able to use > encrypted connections back to the central servers. > > Also each location has an aggregation host, so not all se

Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-13 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > >> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> >>> Looks like the chum did not have to lose any data. >>> >>> >> I cannot believe he actually tried to create a new filesystem on sda >> according to the .bash_history file after

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Meenoo Shivdasani
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:59 AM, madunix wrote: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? For a production server, I don't auto-update. There are too many variables involved that may nega

Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> Looks like the chum did not have to lose any data. >> > I cannot believe he actually tried to create a new filesystem on sda > according to the .bash_history file after the dd commands. I think I > need a titanium clueb

Re: [CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Lars Hecking wrote: >>> Reason is I was wanting to do this so a next yum update does not get all >>> confused... >> That should not be a problem. yum update will see that your installed >> version (3.) is greater than the version in the repository >> (2.) and will then skip updating openoffice. >

Re: [CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Lars Hecking wrote: > Marcelo Roccasalva writes: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 13:11, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 >>> is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave >>> them installed) >>> but just remove the RPM name from

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 8/13/09, madunix wrote: >> Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers >> recommended or not? >> need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? > > The NSA Guide to the Secure Configuration of RHEL 5 indicates this is > OK, but not with

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - php-5.2.10

2009-08-13 Thread onay
Hi Forall, I use this, and its pretty stable. :D http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/files/EL5/i386/ CMIW. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM, f...@ll wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking a "stable" repo when I find php-5.2.10 wich I can use on > my centos 5.3, previously I used a remi and epel repo but n

Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-13 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Looks like the chum did not have to lose any data. > I cannot believe he actually tried to create a new filesystem on sda according to the .bash_history file after the dd commands. I think I need a titanium clueby4. Anybody know where I can get one? ___

[CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

2009-08-13 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Looks like the chum did not have to lose any data. Wiping out the MBR and the next 63 blocks apparently only wiped out grub stage1, partition table, and part of the lvm config data. I get to try to do a lvm 'recovery' at his expense now but this is my first time...has anybody ever tried resto

Re: [CentOS] Centralised logging with Gui and alerts?

2009-08-13 Thread Darrin Khan
Hello Gavin, We have a large number of locations around the world with a number of servers in each. We use rsyslog to handle this, as we are able to use encrypted connections back to the central servers. Also each location has an aggregation host, so not all servers have to connect back to the ce

[CentOS] (solved) HP C4580 printer x86_64

2009-08-13 Thread Shawn Brown
Hi, I managed to get my C4580 (4500 series) connected to my router to work with 64 bit 5.3. That printer needs at least hplip 2.8.10 which I found at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/12086038/com/hplip-2.8.10-0.1.el5.test.x86_64.rpm.html It was just a matter of following the manual in

Re: [CentOS] /etc/init.d/gdm for centos5

2009-08-13 Thread grace rante
I found that /usr/sbin/gdm-restart will also do the trick. thanks, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 16:59 -0700, grace rante wrote: > > > > Does anybody know how to restart X in centos 5.3? /etc/init.d/gdm | > > xdm seems to be missing. > > > > Those

Re: [CentOS] /etc/init.d/gdm for centos5

2009-08-13 Thread Ron Loftin
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 16:59 -0700, grace rante wrote: > > Does anybody know how to restart X in centos 5.3? /etc/init.d/gdm | > xdm seems to be missing. > Those scripts never existed. GDM runs from an entry in /etc/inittab, not from an "rc" script. You should have these two lines in /etc/init

[CentOS] /etc/init.d/gdm for centos5

2009-08-13 Thread grace rante
Does anybody know how to restart X in centos 5.3? /etc/init.d/gdm | xdm seems to be missing. thanks, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] glibc update RHBA-2009:1202 release?

2009-08-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/13/2009 01:11 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3775 > (originally asked in the CentOS forums) thanks, the glibc package needs a bit more attention. Will attempt to get this done tonight -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Rob Kampen
James B. Byrne wrote: REPLY-TO: <183c528b0908121238k33c407ah18e4762c48652...@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:38:00 -0400 Brian Mathis It also helps to understand how people read instructions. When they look at a page, they see {big blob of useless introduction text}, then they see

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread James B. Byrne
REPLY-TO: <183c528b0908121238k33c407ah18e4762c48652...@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:38:00 -0400 Brian Mathis > > It also helps to understand how people read instructions. When > they look at a page, they see {big blob of useless introduction > text}, then they see "Step 1, do this".

Re: [CentOS] OT: Firefox SSL error on Linux, Firefox OK on Windows - same web site

2009-08-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 8/12/09, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Filipe > Brandenburger wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:24, Lanny Marcus wrote: > analytics.linksynergy.com uses an invalid security certificate. > The certificate is only valid for *.opendns.com It lo

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Curt Mills wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > >> This is certainly not a complete procedure on how to configure things >> so that upgrades don't break your cluster, but I believe the ideas >> outlined above could lead you there if you set up a test environment >> and exper

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread madunix
Thanks. -mu On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Curt Mills wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > >> This is certainly not a complete procedure on how to configure things >> so that upgrades don't break your cluster, but I believe the ideas >> outlined above could lead you there

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Curt Mills
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > This is certainly not a complete procedure on how to configure things > so that upgrades don't break your cluster, but I believe the ideas > outlined above could lead you there if you set up a test environment > and experiment a little bit with it

Re: [CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Lars Hecking
> > Reason is I was wanting to do this so a next yum update does not get all > > confused... > > That should not be a problem. yum update will see that your installed > version (3.) is greater than the version in the repository > (2.) and will then skip updating openoffice. That is not what

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:32, Curt Mills wrote: > You mean like every time new Apache2 updates come along they > _shouldn't_ break my failover cluster??? If you are using a cluster, and configuration files in a shared directory, I believe you should configure your daemon not to use the confi

Re: [CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:11:49 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 > is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave > them installed) > but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so centos now things >

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Curt Mills
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: > Geoff Galitz wrote: >> >> ...so I >> know for a fact updates can break a running system. > > On CentOS? Fedora does that all the time but _not_ having behavior-changing > updates in the long life of a major release is most of the point of > 'enterprise'

Re: [CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Lars Hecking
Marcelo Roccasalva writes: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 13:11, Jerry Geis wrote: > > When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 > > is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave > > them installed) > > but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so cen

Re: [CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 13:11, Jerry Geis wrote: > When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 > is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave > them installed) > but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so centos now things > the packages are not

[CentOS] rpm question

2009-08-13 Thread Jerry Geis
When I install some RPMS like openoffice 3 on centos x85_64 is there some command that will leave all the actual files alone (leave them installed) but just remove the RPM name from the RPM database so centos now things the packages are not installed? Reason is I was wanting to do this so a next

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 8/13/09, madunix wrote: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? The NSA Guide to the Secure Configuration of RHEL 5 indicates this is OK, but not with updatesd which they believe is

Re: [CentOS] cups / cli stopped print jobs problem

2009-08-13 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
Thanks for the help. There is a way to get the information, but its ugly. Was hoping for a more straight forward method. If a printer is down, I can us lpstat -l printer name to determine if a job is stopped, but I could not figure out a way to easily determine the status of jobs in the queue, su

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Max Hetrick wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > > >> 1) The Title of the article says "How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5" >> 2) My successor is a real HK bred and born person so his command of the >> English language is like most such persons; that is to say, very poor. >> 3) R

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Ron Loftin
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 08:53 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Geoff Galitz wrote: > >>> Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > >>> recommended or not? > >>> need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? > >>> > > > > > > I've worked on projects where backend

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Geoff Galitz wrote: >>> Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers >>> recommended or not? >>> need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? >>> > > > I've worked on projects where backend configuration files changed in syntax > or architecture between release

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
madunix ha scritto: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? > > -mu I'm a very lazy sysadmin, and, although I know that is better to have full control over updates... I let yum-cron do

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Bassu
Again, Max, well said ;) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Max Hetrick wrote: > Max Hetrick wrote: > > > Someone added a very bright disclaimer, so all should be good in the > > future. I do agree with others that using /dev/sdX would probably be > > wise as well in documentation, but that doe

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
> > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > > recommended or not? > > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? > > I've worked on projects where backend configuration files changed in syntax or architecture between releases, which were released as u

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Les Mikesell
madunix wrote: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? > I don't, but I watch the centos-announce list to see when important updates are released. Our operations dept schedules all ch

Re: [CentOS] glibc update RHBA-2009:1202 release?

2009-08-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > It is a new RHBA. I'm guessing it is in the pipeline and should appear soon. > > Regards, > Tim > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: >> Hi, >> >> will this update be released by centos? >> Or because it's no security update

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
madunix wrote: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? I guess that depends on your situation. For me, if it's a package that I know isn't going to mess with users being logged on, or s

Re: [CentOS] glibc update RHBA-2009:1202 release?

2009-08-13 Thread Tim Verhoeven
It is a new RHBA. I'm guessing it is in the pipeline and should appear soon. Regards, Tim On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > will this update be released by centos? > Or because it's no security update it gets a lower priority in the queue? > > Thx > Rainer > _

[CentOS] glibc update RHBA-2009:1202 release?

2009-08-13 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, will this update be released by centos? Or because it's no security update it gets a lower priority in the queue? Thx Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread madunix
Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers recommended or not? need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? -mu ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Max Hetrick wrote: > Someone added a very bright disclaimer, so all should be good in the > future. I do agree with others that using /dev/sdX would probably be > wise as well in documentation, but that doesn't fix the true root of the > problem. People really should watch cutting and pasting,

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Max Hetrick
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > 1) The Title of the article says "How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5" > 2) My successor is a real HK bred and born person so his command of the > English language is like most such persons; that is to say, very poor. > 3) Regarding not letting him within

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Terry Polzin
On Thursday August 13 2009, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > >> The second options is to use the serial port on the machine itself > >> (you will need a null-modem cable for this). Then using things like > >> minicom or hyperterminal you can access the

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > >> The second options is to use the serial port on the machine itself >> (you will need a null-modem cable for this). Then using things like >> minicom or hyperterminal you can access the console. > > > On the off-chance you are using a Vista l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 20:34:55 lostson wrote: > We need to stand up and ask - How may > I help ? What do you need to get this done. Ask yourself what talents do > you have that you can offer the project. There are many ways to do this > and you can find them here > > http://wiki.centos.org/C

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
> The second options is to use the serial port on the machine itself > (you will need a null-modem cable for this). Then using things like > minicom or hyperterminal you can access the console. On the off-chance you are using a Vista laptop to connect via the serial port, you can use putty (usua

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread John R Pierce
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi guys, > Sorry for the OT. I've posted it in some IBM related forums but no reply yet. > We've got an IBM pSeries p9115-505 machine from warehouse. > I notice that it doesn't have any port for the monitor. > Where do we plug the monitor? > >From Google it says something ab

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > Sorry for the OT. I've posted it in some IBM related forums but no reply yet. > We've got an IBM pSeries p9115-505 machine from warehouse. > I notice that it doesn't have any port for the monitor. > Where do we plug the monitor? > >From Goo

Re: [CentOS] c5-testing

2009-08-13 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote: > is there a list more sutiable for c5-testing discussions? I'd like to > install the php-5.2.9 on there, but I'm getting a dependency problem > > # yum update --enablerepo=c5-testing php > ... > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > php-5.2.9-2.el5.centos.i386 from c5-testing

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi guys, > Sorry for the OT. I've posted it in some IBM related forums but no reply yet. > We've got an IBM pSeries p9115-505 machine from warehouse. > I notice that it doesn't have any port for the monitor. > Where do we plug the monitor? >

[CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi guys, Sorry for the OT. I've posted it in some IBM related forums but no reply yet. We've got an IBM pSeries p9115-505 machine from warehouse. I notice that it doesn't have any port for the monitor. Where do we plug the monitor? >From Google it says something about HMC (Hardware Management Cente

[CentOS] Centralised logging with Gui and alerts?

2009-08-13 Thread Gavin Henry
Hi all, If logging all logs via syslog to a central syslog server that are all Centos based, what GUIs are out there to browse them etc. ? I know about splunk but don't want to go down that route. Also, some servers are hosted and would be best not sending their logs across the net to a central s