[CentOS] Problems with deleting a reference in 389DS

2014-11-28 Thread Kevin Thorpe
ldap_delete: No such object (32) matched DN: dc=mycompany,dc=com any ideas? *Kevin Thorpe* ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] howto avoid Samba

2013-08-02 Thread Kevin Thorpe
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Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
This might be a little off-subject but look at xrdp. That sits on top of vnc and let's you use Windows' remote desktop client to log in as any local user. On Jan 22, 2013 9:53 PM, Bruce Ferrell bferr...@baywinds.org wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to

[CentOS] Does anyone know if I can reconfigure a PERC H700 without rebooting?

2011-08-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, I have a server which is really difficult to restart because of usage requirements and the fact that it's in a co-lo rack so miles away. I've added a couple of drives which I'd like to bring up and add to LVM but the config I know is in the PERC BIOS and requires a reboot. Can

[CentOS] [OT] would any of you recommend a ticketing system?

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, sorry for being OT but would any of you recommend a ticketing system? We'd like something pretty comprehensive to cover helpdesk and HR stuff as well as software bugs/requests. There seems to be a million variations out there. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] How do I Install and activate?

2011-06-27 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:45 AM, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: I have just installed CentOS 5.6 from disk and updated it. 1. I would like to use telnet on my local network. How do I activate it? I know you say local network but really get out of the habit of using

[CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
is in raw mode but I can't see where to change it. I vaguely remember foomatic and such from ages back. Can someone point me at the right part of the setup to fix this please? -- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT PI Benchmark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:44 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there? The CUPS printing guide is a horrendous maze of options. I've got nearly there but I've got one thing wrong and I don't know where to look. I set up our two printers

Re: [CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Benjamin Hackl b.ha...@focusmr.com wrote: Dear Kevin, On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:16:54 +0100 Kevin Thorpe kevin.tho...@pibenchmark.com wrote: Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there? you have to do the following: In CUPS https://localhost:631/ setup your

Re: [CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:16:54 +0100 Kevin Thorpe kevin.tho...@pibenchmark.com wrote: Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there? In CUPS https://localhost:631/ setup your printers and set the printer driver for each printer to local raw printer And you say that, using localhost:631, you

Re: [CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
think) -- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT PI Benchmark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there? Bah! I saw that lpr could print PS but smbclient coudn't so in desperation I restarted samba. Now it prints PS. Why is completely beyond me. That's why I couldn't work out what I'd done wrong - I hadn't. -- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT PI Benchmark

Re: [CentOS] CUPS not rendering documents via Samba

2011-06-22 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:41 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there? Bah! I saw that lpr could print PS but smbclient coudn't so in desperation I restarted samba. Now it prints PS. Why is completely beyond me. That's why I couldn't work

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-15 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 09:12:44 AM Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Damage to circuitry is not all instant-or-never; damaged junctions can take their own time (sometimes zero) to degenerate from

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-15 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Oh, that's ok: a friend of mine (who posts here occasionally) got to blow up at someone(s) in his wife's office, where he comes in as a consultant: someone had plugged a kettle? microwave? (I forget) into the orange box that was labelled computer equipment only (Hope you don't mind me telling

[CentOS] Dell openmanage srvadmin on 5.6

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
, or do I have to resort to compiling it? Surely I'm not the only one trying to do this. -- Kevin Thorpe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dell openmanage srvadmin on 5.6

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2011/6/14 Kevin Thorpe kevin.tho...@pibenchmark.com: Hi all,       I'm just trying to get Dell openmanage to run on my Centos 5.6 box. The monitoring stuff appears to have installed but the web server stuff

Re: [CentOS] Dell openmanage srvadmin on 5.6

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hmmm... I don't know how to do this but I know a man who can so it'll wait. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote on 06/14/2011 08:20 AM: ... That's exactly what I was trying to do. Error: Missing Dependency: openwsman

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: Hi guys, Sorry for the OT. For the last couple of weeks I notice that the static in my server room is worrisomely noticeable. I cannot see what may be causing it Care to share some of your experience what may be

Re: [CentOS] Dell openmanage srvadmin on 5.6

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2011/6/14 Kevin Thorpe kevin.tho...@pibenchmark.com: Hmmm... I don't know how to do this but I know a man who can so it'll wait. just follow instructions at web page. step 1 (on root terminal): wget -q -O

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: Hi guys, Sorry for the OT. For the last couple of weeks I notice that the static in my server room is worrisomely noticeable. I cannot see what may be causing it Care to share some of your experience what

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I know that, you know that, but the powers that be insist on carpet on the raised floor tiles. Has anyone presented them with the problems with carpeting in the server room? Doesn't have to be confrontational, just we're having a problem with static discharges in the server room, and one of

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
carpet is usually banned from computer rooms because it encourages lint and dust, which clogs fans and chassis and air filters.    most data centers do NOT want the janitors in there doing weekly vacuuming and banging into the servers!! This was a mainframe shop and we were the fishes

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp /var/ partition

2011-05-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 05/20/2011 01:26 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so often. Just be aware that SSDs wear out. They have a

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Come to the CentOS PubCrawl and as long as you can fit into something from a size Small to a size XXL, I'll make sure you get a T-Shirt ( and the beer is sponsored too... ) http://centospubcrawl.eventbrite.com/ if

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM, admin lewis adminle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ? a simple smart ups 1000 could be enough ? It depends on how long you want it to run. Your choice is a

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: We lose power fairly frequently here, and need the UPSs to keep things going long enough to get generator backup started.  I have found that the APC UPSs really don't like cheap generators.  We had a week long power

[CentOS] (no subject)

2011-04-13 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, I've got a bit of an issue with reinstalling a server. I can get the installer to boot off a memory stick made with unetbootin, but I can't seem to find the installation files on the stick. I have hda, sda and sdb but none are acceptable install media. How do I mount the USB stick

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2011-04-13 Thread Kevin Thorpe
It's probably something simple I'm missing. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey I started from there and used unetbootin which has always worked for me before. The boot works but it can't find the RPMS which are definitely on the stick. bah!

Re: [CentOS] PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I don't know where you are but I have a surplus ICP vortex proper Raid card with 1GB of cache - PCI-X. It was nearly £1k when we bought it and it ran our main server for years. You're probably looking for a new one but someone can have this for beer money if it's of any use. I'm only going to have

Re: [CentOS] the mighty Karanbir Singh and centos team

2011-04-09 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Cheers Karanbeer (sic) and team, I think we all owe you several cold ones. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
The only PCI-X card I have is an old ICP Vortex RAID controller and the Dell hangs with that installed (BIOS is disabled). It's only for a tape drive so performance isn't really an issue. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 04/07/11 10:23 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: The only PCI-X card I have is an old ICP Vortex RAID controller and the Dell hangs with that installed (BIOS is disabled). It's only for a tape drive so performance isn't really

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Michel van Deventer mic...@van.deventer.cx wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:45 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 04/07/11 10:23 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: The only PCI-X card I have is an old ICP Vortex RAID controller and the Dell hangs with that installed (BIOS

Re: [CentOS] How to install wine ?

2011-04-04 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Personally I seem to get the best results by installing it orally [?] 330.gif___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin Thorpe
How to migrate a standalone system to *KVM*? This is probably way outside the scope of this discussion but I used to use VMWare because it could actually boot standard installed drives. Came in useful more than once to get a failed server back online in minutes.

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 24/03/2011 03:45, Todd Cary wrote: I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave and install Centos 5.5 on a new HD (master). Then comes the challenge of of moving all of my /home/user data to the new master. I have some preliminary questions: Is this a good strategy for installing

Re: [CentOS] Octet

2011-03-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 06/03/2011 13:44, Always Learning wrote: I also saw Honeywell upgrading a L66 machine so it would run faster. The engineer pulled-out a PCB and took it away. That 'upgrade' cost over 1 million NLG (Dutch guilders). Very annoying those big iron companies. We had two banks of ICL Eagle drives

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Simon Mattersimon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 systems to xen virtual stacks? I playes with VMware ages ago and it was the only

Re: [CentOS] opened OpenSSL port

2011-02-28 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 27/02/2011 09:50, erikmccaskey64 wrote: Main question: is it safe, to open a port for an openssl server? Don't rely on this, but put it on a non-standard port. If you have sshd on the default port 22 you will get a long list of login attempts on it. This suggestion is not security, it

Re: [CentOS] variable raid1 rebuild speed?

2011-01-13 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 12/01/2011 18:38, Les Mikesell wrote: I have a 750Gb 3-member software raid1 where 2 partitions are always present and the third is regularly rotated and re-synced (SATA disks in hot-swap bays). The timing of the resync seems to be extremely variable recently, taking anywhere from 3 to 10

Re: [CentOS] variable raid1 rebuild speed?

2011-01-13 Thread Kevin Thorpe
U RAID is not a backup policy. Fine use hotswap and rsync or similar but you really shouldn't be relying on raid rebuilds for that. These are backups to begin with. It is the archive disk for backuppc which contains millions of hardlinked files for the de-duplication it uses. It

Re: [CentOS] Converting to maildir

2011-01-04 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Yup, Cyrus was rock solid for us for years with Thunderbird as the client. We were forced into an Exchange replacement (Scalix) and now Google mail because 'Thunderbird is clunky (read: follows all of the user interface guidelines) and Outlook is cool (read: actually forces overrides on

Re: [CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

2010-12-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 13/12/2010 19:03, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/12/13 Gé Weijersg...@weijers.org: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: RHEL is much better about that, although by now the production RHEL 5 is 4 years out of date, the leading edge RHEL 6 is now one year out of date after the lengthy

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 15/11/2010 17:35, Jeff Chambers wrote: This is off list topic, but I have seen weirdness in airport cards on macs especially when connecting to Apple's Airport. A cheap fix is to buy a 2nd wireless access point and make sure to use that in bridged mode so it is not acting as a router and

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 19/10/2010 17:48, Toby Bluhm wrote: On 10/19/2010 11:17 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 10/19/2010 9:34 AM, Todd Denniston wrote: I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database. Is there a better way?

[CentOS] Does anyone know where I can get an RPM of pyDB2?

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Sorry to be a pain but I'd really like PyDB2 (DB2 client for python). IBM only seem to offer the source which won't compile without a copy of DB2. I only need it to extract some info from a customer site so I don't really want to have to get DB2. any ideas? thanks

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone know where I can get an RPM of pyDB2?

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 12/10/2010 14:44, John Doe wrote: From: Kevin Thorpeke...@pibenchmark.com Sorry to be a pain but I'd really like PyDB2 (DB2 client for python). IBM only seem to offer the source which won't compile without a copy of DB2. I only need it to extract some info from a customer site so I don't

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 17/09/2010 22:52, Timothy Murphy wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: I was thinking of copying the old root partition with sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has much more features, for example, you can exclude

[CentOS] Can anyone suggest a decent backup system?

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, We have a bit of a problem with backups. We've been using bacula to tape and now trying to disk but it's a complete nightmare as regards tape management. The backup to file storage went ok for ages and now is stuck 'waiting for max storage jobs' which is odd as that's set to 20 and

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a decent backup system?

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 16/09/2010 10:35, Tom Yates wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Kevin Thorpe wrote: We have a bit of a problem with backups. We've been using bacula to tape and now trying to disk but it's a complete nightmare as regards tape management. i suspect it's quite annoying when people try to re

Re: [CentOS] https

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 16/09/2010 16:45, Jerry Geis wrote: hi all, I wish to just have secure browsing for my application. no credit cards or anything like that just secure browser usage is the goal. I can self sign a certificate (I already have) on my servers but for anyone accessing the server you see

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Strange. 64 bits is here for years, 64 runs 32 bits code perfectly. Not always. 32 bit support is good but we had a program here which I couldn't get to work any way up. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-28 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 27/08/2010 15:48, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010, Kevin Thorpe wrote: On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting, then dies, saying dban has finished with non-fatal errors. Check the log for more information

Re: [CentOS] Best location in filesystem to have a samba share

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 25/08/2010 03:03, David McGuffey wrote: Everyone in the family has a digital camera or cell phone and they seem to be leaving picture files all over their home folders, and laptops with no sense of year/month/day taken or what they are about. Looking to consolidate all the family pics in

Re: [CentOS] How best to allow users to change Samba passwords?

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I know this is a late reply, but I've only just got round to things. pgina works absolutely fine, thanks for that. It also allows fallback to local users for our laptop wielding brethren. All I need to do now is work out how to use the Centos/redhat/fedora directory server. On 01/07/2009

[CentOS] How best to allow users to change Samba passwords?

2009-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I was wondering if anyone could advise me on this. I've got two Samba servers, each using passdb.tdb for authentication. All works well, but I've now been asked to let users change their own passwords (a requirement of data secuity). What's the best way of arranging this, preferably updating

Re: [CentOS] How best to allow users to change Samba passwords?

2009-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 01/07/2009 14:29, Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: Kevin Thorpe Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:43 I was wondering if anyone could advise me on this. We allow users th change their passwords via ctrl-alt-del, and via the web using the password change tool

Re: [CentOS] good small registrar?

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 24/06/2009 01:22, Eugene Vilensky wrote: Greetings, What are some registrars that members of this list have had good experience with? I was stepping through the godaddy checkout process, and being opted-in to a dozen different upsell features just left a bad impression. But I have

[CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I've got a bit of a problem with Samba. I just can't work out how to change passwords or remove users. I've just got user security.. lines in smb.conf are: security = user passdb backend = tdbsam I've removed the user using pdbedit, I've removed the unix user, smbpasswd says

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 23/06/2009 10:25, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:08 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: I've got a bit of a problem with Samba. I just can't work out how to change passwords or remove users. I've just got user security.. lines in smb.conf are: security = user

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 23/06/2009 10:39, Brett Serkez wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Thorpeke...@pibenchmark.com wrote: Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin. strange As root try: # service smb reload Curiouser and curiouser. That worked, I can't connect now. Why should

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 23/06/2009 10:43, JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:25 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: [r...@database samba]# smbpasswd kevin New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Failed to find entry for user kevin. Failed to modify password entry for user kevin Yet I can still connect

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 23/06/2009 11:00, JohnS wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:46 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: On 23/06/2009 10:39, Brett Serkez wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Thorpeke...@pibenchmark.com wrote: Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin. strange

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Sorry, I've still got problems. I'm trying to set up a new Samba user. I've done useradd to put them in passwd, I've done smbpasswd to set a samba password. They're in the required group (spendtrak) for this share. I've even restarted samba. When I try and connect to the share with 'connect

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 23/06/2009 11:34, Kevin Thorpe wrote: Sorry, I've still got problems. I'm trying to set up a new Samba user. I've done useradd to put them in passwd, I've done smbpasswd to set a samba password. They're in the required group (spendtrak) for this share. I've even restarted samba. When I

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 23/06/2009 11:39, Kevin Thorpe wrote: On 23/06/2009 11:34, Kevin Thorpe wrote: Sorry, I've still got problems. I'm trying to set up a new Samba user. I've done useradd to put them in passwd, I've done smbpasswd to set a samba password. They're in the required group (spendtrak

[CentOS] Fonts missing in KDE/vnc

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, sorry if this question gets duplicated, I can't seem to get e-mails to the list. I've installed vnc-server and kde-desktop but there appear to be no fonts available. All the text is little boxes. What else do I need to install to get the fonts? thanks

Re: [CentOS] Completeley disabling SELinux?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Thorpe
jk...@kinz.org wrote: Hi Kevin, You are sending the list two copies of your email each time you post to the list. The second copy is in HTML (not allowed by list rules) Sorry, new pc. I've set centos.org to plain now (I think) ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Completeley disabling SELinux?

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, I've set SELinux to disabled using the security and firewall widget but I'm still getting a lot of messages in Logwatch NULL security context for user, but SELinux in permissive mode, continuing () So it looks like SELinux is still operating. Can anyone tell me how to

Re: [CentOS] Email/GroupWare Suite

2009-01-09 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Bo Lynch wrote: Just wanted to get some thoughts from the list. We are a public k-12 school and are looking to migrate to a groupware style system for out staff to collaborate better. Currently we are using Squirrelmail/postfix for email. Does anyone have any recommendations/opinions.

Re: [CentOS] Thin client

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Thorpe
lingu wrote: Dear all, I am very much new to Linux Thin Client Concept. But know i am very much interested to create Centos 5 based thin client of 512MB on flash rom. Can any one guide me to how to start and if you provide any suitable links that will be very much great full.

[CentOS] Best way to migrate a server?

2008-08-20 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I was just wondering what recommendations you have on migrating a CentOS 5 install between servers? I've done similar in the past by setting up a minimal install in the new server, use tar to copy over the old install and reboot. I was thinking of rsync this time. Is that an acceptable

Re: [CentOS] Best way to migrate a server?

2008-08-20 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Rainer Duffner wrote: Kevin Thorpe schrieb: I was just wondering what recommendations you have on migrating a CentOS 5 install between servers? I've done similar in the past by setting up a minimal install in the new server, use tar to copy over the old install and reboot. I was thinking

Re: [CentOS] Best way to migrate a server?

2008-08-20 Thread Kevin Thorpe
backup to file, cd, network, disk etc... I made numerous backups and restores with this very good (free) tool... On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:23:00 +0100 Kevin Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kevin From: Kevin Thorpe I was just wondering what recommendations you have on migrating a CentOS 5 install

[CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set files group writable, however when I create a file from the

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Ned Slider wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set files group writable

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:26 -0400, Brett Serkez wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Kevin Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share

[CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's only 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Kevin Thorpe wrote: I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's only 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? If this partition is on a LARGER drive, you may need to use parted

RE: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On Friday 04 July 2008, Kevin Thorpe wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's only 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? If this partition

RE: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Kevin Thorpe wrote: I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's only 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? parted claims it's 879GB so the partition appears to be ok. Have I

Re: [CentOS] Yum repository for bacula for CentOS 5?

2008-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Bent Terp wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Kevin Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me at a yum repository containing a CentOS 5 version of bacula? Check out the EPEL repository. Please

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
It appears that our firewall is not allowing connection to outside MX hosts. I think I need to configure sendmail to forward emails to our local smtp host, but I am not sure how to do that. Best to do that anyway. Some e-mail providers will only accept e-mail from known mail servers

Re: [CentOS] Configuring sendmail in a corporate environment

2008-07-01 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Alfred von Campe wrote: Thanks for all the quick responses. Enabling SMART_HOST as well as masquerading did the trick. I also had to install the sendmail-cf RPM, but everything appears to be working now. You CAN manage without sendmail-cf RPM by editing the config file by hand. I wouldn't

[CentOS] Yum repository for bacula for CentOS 5?

2008-06-30 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Can anyone point me at a yum repository containing a CentOS 5 version of bacula? thanks -- Kevin Thorpe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] control outgoing IP address?

2008-06-18 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Don't take this as a definitive answer, but I have multi-aliased CentOS boxen. I find that outgoing connections always come from the main IP address, not the aliases. In particular these boxen are web servers hosting multiple sites, hence the multi-IP and connections to the database all

Re: [CentOS] Tape operation

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin Thorpe
I found Amanda rather complex for what we wanted to do (simple backup of a single server to a single tape drive). We eventually decided on BRU (www.tolisgroup.com). It's not free, but the simple 'workstation' version isn't very expensive. Their support staff are really helpful as well. Free

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
js wrote: Shawn Everett wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is the closest open source mail server I can replace exchange with that provides the nearest equivalent in user experience? We're running the Community edition of Scalix. Easy to setup, easy to

Re: [CentOS] Where are my VIM colors?

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Thorpe
you syntax colours? -- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

2007-12-03 Thread Kevin Thorpe
either, 8GB RAM, terrabyte HD, two quad core processors and I've only got 10 mail users on it. -- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT Purchasing Index Ltd ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5?

2007-11-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was being clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%, sadly the bit that didn't was the tape device which rather spoiled things. thanks, Kevin Thorpe

Re: [CentOS] Pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5?

2007-11-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Rainer Traut wrote: Kevin Thorpe schrieb: Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was being clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%, sadly the bit that didn't was the tape device which