[CentOS] CentOS: Install Packages Via yum Command Using DVD / CD as Repo

2013-03-20 Thread Al Sparks
I'm confused about this.  Is this supposed to work without me mounting my CD/DVD?  If you are supposed to mount it, what path should you use to make this work?    http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-linux-install-packages-from-dvd-using-yum/  === Al

[CentOS] ntfs-3g

2013-03-14 Thread Al Sparks
I'm looking for ntfs-3g.  I'm getting lots of hits through google, but I'm suspicious of some of the sites. The one rpm I downloaded from rpmfind wouldn't install because of some missing library.  Where's a good place to get the tarball?     === Al

[CentOS] Manual Yum Updates -- No connectivity to Outside Yum Server

2013-03-11 Thread Al Sparks
I want to update a CentOS 6.x install.  But it's located behind a firewall with no connectivity to the external internet. What are my options?     === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-25 Thread Al Sparks
.  For some reason it didn't take.  Maybe I didn't click a save box when I should have.  I don't know.     === Al From: Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org To: centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2 On 04/24

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-24 Thread Al Sparks
I recently did a minimal 6.2 install recently, and it was annoying that it didn't include the network stack. What use is an install w/o the network?     === Al From: Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Al Sparks
a University account.  I also had access to BITNET mailing lists, and the name LISTSERV might have come from there. Since BITNET access was limited the discussions there were mostly tamer.    === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Using eth0 on desktops with single network interface

2012-04-19 Thread Al Sparks
are named eth*.     === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSD as system drive - partitioning question

2012-04-17 Thread Al Sparks
device (and lots of secondary partitions).  So, since you only want to place two partitions total on the SSD, simply create those two primary partitions and utilize them.     === Al From: Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday

[CentOS] centos security

2012-02-18 Thread Al
Any suggestions on what to run on a centos box to verify that the server isn't compromised or being sniffed? Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos security

2012-02-18 Thread Al
On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:07 PM, Donkey Hottie wrote: 19.2.2012 3:38, Al kirjoitti: Any suggestions on what to run on a centos box to verify that the server isn't compromised or being sniffed? Thanks! rkhunter comes to my mind. Thanks for the suggestion, any others

Re: [CentOS] centos security

2012-02-18 Thread Al
On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:34 PM, Les Bell wrote: Al mailingl...@theflux.net wrote: Any suggestions on what to run on a centos box to verify that the server isn't compromised or being sniffed? Thanks! For isn't compromised, you need a host integrity verification system like Tripwire

[CentOS] vsftpd Configuration

2011-12-17 Thread Al Sparks
Is there a way to configure vsftpd to limit where you can chdir to?     === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-25 Thread Al
: On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:43 -0400, Al wrote: Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? This are lots of docs. But DO NOT DO T. A Samba 3.x DC is very very *obsolete*. The Windows world has moved on to Active Directory. If you want to do that you need Samba

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-21 Thread Al
21, 2011 12:14, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 16:43 -0400, Al wrote: Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? This are lots of docs. But DO NOT DO IT. A Samba 3.x DC is very very *obsolete*. The Windows world has moved on to Active

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-21 Thread Al
providing me on this thread has helped me a lot. Thank you! On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:29 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/21/11 2:30 PM, Al wrote: We're a linux mostly enviroment, some of the users have windows. It sounds to me, maybe I should start over instead of trying to implement it in our

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-20 Thread Al
, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Al wrote: This isn't what I was talking about ... Let me be a little more specific ... I've got an openldap system configured, just need to setup Samba to use openldap to allow them to access there shells via Windows Explorer. They usually login via SSH, but want to have

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-19 Thread Al
Thanks for the information, I'll refer to it ... On Oct 18, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-19 Thread Al
This isn't what I was talking about ... Let me be a little more specific ... I've got an openldap system configured, just need to setup Samba to use openldap to allow them to access there shells via Windows Explorer. They usually login via SSH, but want to have the ability to copy things over

[CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-18 Thread Al
Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? Regards, Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
like a pretty big omission. Any thoughts?  Am I missing something?     === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

2011-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
and should be dropped. Of course this is my opinion and I stand by it. I wouldn't care.  I can go back to the old way of doing things.  But I have too many Windows admins that dabble in the Linux space  (CentOS really) and I really don't need the whining.     === Al

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: ethernet ifconfig up failure

2011-09-11 Thread Al
Have you tried; cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ ./ifup ifcfg-eth0 On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Robert Spangler wrote: On Sunday 11 September 2011 14:57, the following was written: So why is ifconfig eth0 up not connecting? Have you tried 'ifup eth0'? -- Regards Robert

Re: [CentOS] Patching openssl rpms

2010-10-01 Thread Al Sparks
Here's the full output in a text file. === Al - Original Message From: Al Sparks data...@yahoo.com To: Centos List centos@centos.org Sent: Thu, September 30, 2010 5:14:51 PM Subject: [CentOS] Patching openssl rpms Running CentOS release 5.5. I'm trying to update or patch an SRPMS

[CentOS] Patching openssl rpms

2010-09-30 Thread Al Sparks
0x1000L How do I go about troubleshooting this? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Recompiling CentOS's stock openssl

2010-09-21 Thread Al Sparks
I'm running CentOS release 4.8. For security reasons, I have to modify openssl's ssl.h in /usr/include/openssl/. That's easy. But for the new settings to take effect, I have to recompile openssl. I do have openssl-devel installed. How do I recompile? === Al

[CentOS] Installing additional software from CD

2010-03-13 Thread Al Sparks
I installed CentOS w/o Gnome, or X-Windows. I'd like to install that stuff from the CD. I don't want to try and install individual RPM's. What can I run off the CD that allows me to use the standard package manager (or whatever it's called)? === Al

Re: [CentOS] Installing additional software from CD

2010-03-13 Thread Al Sparks
Maybe the right direction. So does this assume that the DVD is mounted at /mnt/cdrom? What does c5-media mean? === Al - Original Message From: nate cen...@linuxpowered.net To: centos@centos.org Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 12:44:50 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing additional

Re: [CentOS-es] Respaldar uns servidor web con SSH y SCP

2010-02-09 Thread Elsa al
hola amigos No esta entre los temas que estan tratando, pero necsito ayuda tengo problemas con mi correo hay correos que me llegan otros no, ya me ha ocasionado varios problemas. Con que lineas de comnados puedo revisa que sucede mi Servidor de correos es Centos 5 att. Elsa

[CentOS] Tripwire Question

2009-11-04 Thread Al Sparks
to monitor it. I've been googling around, and have seen this error in all sorts of places, but with either no comment or, if a question is specifically asked about this, no answer to the question. Anyone out there know what the work around for this might be? === Al

Re: [CentOS] Tripwire Question

2009-11-04 Thread Al Sparks
)= 0 I looked at the lstat man page, and there is a blurb on how it treats symbolic links as individual files. But /ora isn't a symbolic link. === Al - Original Message From: Corey Chandler li...@sequestered.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent

Re: [CentOS] Tripwire Question

2009-11-04 Thread Al Sparks
Al Sparks wrote: Here's partial output. The command I ran with strace was: strace /usr/loca/bin/tripwire -m i My apologies if this sounds like I'm doubting you, but can you paste the contents of /etc/mtab for me? -- Corey / KB1JWQ /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3

[CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Sparks
I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. And it works. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. It might help to know what CentOS uses to install Apache when doing the ./configure. === Al ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Sparks
No source RPM found for httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.x86_64 No source RPM found for httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2.x86_64 Nothing to download === Al - Original Message From: Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:26:07 PM

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Sparks
--with-apr=PATH prefix for installed APR or the full path to apr-config --with-apr-util=PATHprefix for installed APU or the full path to I'll give it a try. === Al - Original Message From: Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing

[CentOS] Local Host Routing

2009-06-02 Thread Al Sparks
not a big deal. If it works don't fix it. But I'm still curious. Any ideas? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] iso creation with dd

2009-05-12 Thread Al Sparks
Al Sparks wrote: I placed a CD in a drive. I ran sudo dd sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=HMI_B_Image_File_4-23-09_disk_1.iso It completed. I then transferred the ISO file to an XP machine, use What happens when you load that file in an emulator like daemon tools, open

[CentOS] USB Thumb Drive Confusion

2009-04-07 Thread Al Sparks
, but I'm able to create a file on it, and list it? I did double-check and plugged that drive into my XP workstation and sure enough I was able to see all the files. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] USB Thumb Drive Confusion

2009-04-07 Thread Al Sparks
That worked. Thanks. === Al - Original Message From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 7:28:16 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] USB Thumb Drive Confusion On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:10 -0700, Al Sparks wrote

Re: [CentOS] External ext3 USB Hard drive and selinux

2008-11-14 Thread Al Freundorfer
directory name for the one that couldn't be copied( yet deleteable) to in centos was: /media/disk/home/dude The one that worked was : /media/disk/dude In this case everything works normal, sub-directories and all! al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] External ext3 USB Hard drive and selinux

2008-11-06 Thread Al Freundorfer
, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:23:28AM -0400, Al Freundorfer wrote: I was directed to post this on the mailing list. See the following forum post as a reference. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16710forum=42 I formatted my external ext3 372GB USB hard drive in ubuntu

[CentOS] Installing perl modules using yum?

2008-09-24 Thread Al Sparks
I'm trying to install swatch using rpmbuild. I'm getting dependency errors saying that I need perl(Date::Calc), perl(Date::Format), and perl(File::Tail). I've been beaten over the head in this group for using CPAN. So methodology do I use to I install those modules? === Al

Re: [CentOS] install of Pod::Simple through CPAN

2008-09-23 Thread Al Sparks
--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Josh Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Josh Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] install of Pod::Simple through CPAN To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 5:46 AM Al Sparks wrote: I'm running CentOS 4.4. CentOS

[CentOS] install of Pod::Simple through CPAN

2008-09-22 Thread Al Sparks
I'm running CentOS 4.4. I'm trying to install swatch (a log watcher) using CPAN. It's getting hung up on trying to install a dependency, Pod::Simple So before I get too wrapped up in this, I have the following questions: 1. Is there an alternative way to install swatch? I didn't get a hit

Re: [CentOS] install of Pod::Simple through CPAN

2008-09-22 Thread Al Sparks
logwatch comes with CentOS and is installed by default. Logwatch doesn't seem to do real-time monitoring of logs. It seems to just write up stats over a period of time you can specify. As for using CPAN, the warnings are noted. === Al ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] cron job not working

2008-09-18 Thread Al Sparks
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Al Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Al Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] cron job not working To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 9:26 AM Probably a permissions problem, as has been noted. What I can't

Re: [CentOS] cron job not working

2008-09-17 Thread Al Sparks
The crond itself is being run as root. I am running the cron job as another user that has permission to run cron jobs. Note that if I change the program to print output to STOUT and run through cron, I get an email in that account with that output. === Al - Original Message From

Re: [CentOS] cron job not working

2008-09-17 Thread Al Sparks
telling me it's a permissions problem. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] cron job not working

2008-09-16 Thread Al Sparks
in the script, cron does generate an email giving me the STDERR. What could it be? === Al #!/usr/bin/perl ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time); # Above functions, time and localtime, return weird $year and $month # Need to be converted to become human readable $year

RE: [CentOS] DJB's daemontools package

2008-09-06 Thread Al Sparks
of an outlier. It's probably time for me to find another job. It's hard, because I've been with them a long time. === Al --- On Fri, 9/5/08, RobertH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: RobertH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CentOS] DJB's daemontools package To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB

2008-09-02 Thread Al Sparks
--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 9:36 PM On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Al Sparks [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB

2008-09-01 Thread Al Sparks
grub.conf files, and tell us which one will be from what you want to be your secondary drive, and what you want to be your primary drive (in BIOS). === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] What fires logrotate

2008-08-21 Thread Al Sparks
, which ends up in root's inbox)? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dell Perc snmp

2008-08-21 Thread Al Sparks
Try this: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/hardware You can actually use yum to download Dell's rpm repositories. Also, they have their own mailing list that I've found very helpful for these types of issues. It's at [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Al - Original Message

Re: [CentOS] What fires logrotate

2008-08-21 Thread Al Sparks
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] What fires logrotate To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 10:13 AM On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:06:19AM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: I've

Re: [CentOS] ext2online / ext2resize

2008-08-11 Thread Al Sparks
--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext2online / ext2resize To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 5:42 PM On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 18:32 -0700, Al Sparks

[CentOS] ext2online / ext2resize

2008-08-07 Thread Al Sparks
, and compiling, ./configure and make fails. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] X-Windows Login

2008-07-30 Thread Al Sparks
Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Al Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: I have a server with all the x-windows stuff installed. But it's giving me a text based login prompt on the console. I can log onto the console, and run

[CentOS] X-Windows Login

2008-07-29 Thread Al Sparks
I have a server with all the x-windows stuff installed. But it's giving me a text based login prompt on the console. I can log onto the console, and run gnome-session and GNOME comes up fine. How do I turn it on so that I get a X-Window GUI login prompt? === Al

Re: [CentOS] RE: CUPS and system-config-printer question

2008-07-12 Thread Al Sparks
, and prefer to use xadmin to add, remove and configure printers. But you're right, the CUPS interface is actually more straightforward than the system-config-printer interface. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

[CentOS] CUPS and system-config-printer question

2008-07-11 Thread Al Sparks
not a big deal, but I have a colleague that will go nuts over this. He's attached to his interfaces, but there was no way I was going to manually enter those printers in that interface. Where do I look to make that interface see the CUPS-only printers? === Al

[CentOS] resizing partition

2008-05-24 Thread Al Sparks
. Manually move the other partitions, probably very risky 2. Simply make a second swap space that's next to the partition I shrink. Have I got the right idea? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

[CentOS] mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /blah busy

2008-04-22 Thread Al Sparks
out? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Two Instances of Apache; Primary IP / Secondary IP

2008-01-28 Thread Al Sparks
seemed like such a good one. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Two Instances of Apache; Primary IP / Secondary IP

2008-01-26 Thread Al Sparks
addresses. Can Apache? Is there something I can do with routing tables that can help? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Capturing Packets -- Ethereal

2008-01-16 Thread Al Sparks
reason I don't have X-Windows installed on that platform. My question is, can I monitor/write packets to a file on the more remote machine, and then analyze the packets on another machine using my ethereal SW? Can I sniff the packets on the remote w/o a full install of ethereal? === Al

Re: [CentOS] Capturing Packets -- Ethereal

2008-01-16 Thread Al Sparks
PROTECTED] wireshark Yours is the coolest answer, though the others were also helpful. Thanks to all. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] ata1 bootup errors

2007-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
=0x100) ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata1: reset failed, giving up Since I don't have SATA drives, I don't need this to be checked. How do I turn this off? Running CentOS 5.0 (just upgraded frm 4.x). === Al

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-20 Thread Al Sparks
Al Sparks wrote: A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al you're in luck cause you don't defrag

[CentOS] CPAN Question

2007-09-04 Thread Al Sparks
on how to force cpan to upgrade? I even tried the upgrade command, and that didn't work. === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Linux File System w/case-insensitivity

2007-07-31 Thread Al Sparks
. Also, I think that it would have to be writable. I haven't checked, but isn't NTFS mountable read-only by linux? === Al ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos