A possible remote reboot can be setup from a on that server obscure web
page URL to a privileged script that is password protected
Inexpensive reset button
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If server is not compromised, just edit the smtp configs to deny acceptance
from that ip block
Why doesn't the server have an ILO port or something to that effect?
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>
> /dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it
> with hdparm.
> Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it
> impossible to smart monitor "thru" a RAID controller?
>
> Kai
>
Kai
Shouldn't there be another "layer" ?
Is this a real hardware
> > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ?
>
> Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt.
>
> Anne
Anne,
It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab
Eh?
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My searching hasn't found what I consider superior info, and we are
wondering from others experience on this list...
In the logwatch results we all see the info below on almost a daily basis
I have taken the liberty of combining logwatch results from centos 4 and 5
machines for ex
> >
> Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the point
> of
> being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I can't go back
> to
> before it.
>
> Anne
Anne
Sp3 doesn't kill performance if applied to a fresh install before any
"other" updates or apps are appl
>
> As of now (as that already happened last week), the maximum message size
> for this list is 50kB.
>
> So people: Trim your mails >:)
>
> Ralph
Ralph
Will the server notify us if we exceed that threshold ?
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After digging for a bit at arin
Near as I can tell, it appears the authoritative dns servers for that
specific block are a lil messed up for the moment.
Not delegating something properly.
Tough to say without admin access to those machines.
If you check your netblock at ARIN whois, it says thes
>
> I'm having some trouble getting reverse zones right on 5.2. The zone files
> worked fine on a CentOS 4.6 machine, and the forward zones moved to the
> new
> server seem OK. But for some reason I can't get anything but servfail's on
> remote queries to the machine. But for some reason they will
I was checking out Dag's ( not dagw ;-> ) new blog...
I don't know how much, if at all, this has been debated...
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/using-apt-in-an-rpm-world
if he is so adamant about apt over yum, why are we using yum still?
Laziness? ;-) ...or are we just tasty food centric?
Yum yum
I have an 8 gig dram server I am playing with Xen on in centos 5.1 on right
now.
Are you telling us that Xen on centos 5.1 only uses 4 Gig Dram?
Or will it allow all 8 Gig to be used if setup correctly between main dom
and virt doms
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>
> It is actually pretty simple. Only hardware requirement, your CPU
> needs to support the hadware virtualization extensions (recent Intel
> and AMD cpu's have that). If you have that you start the
> virtualization manager point it to a .iso image of a Windows install
> CD and you are ready. Th
I haven't setup a xen box yet
Will try tonight.
Was wondering, what does top look like on a dual processor xen box in a
virtual ?
Do you see more than one processor or is it configurable from the xen master
or?
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question:
Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as
a 'group' using yum ?
TIA
Igor
igor
try
yum grouplist
yum groupinfo "whatever group name"
for full info maybe try
man yum
or
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/
http
>
> Hi there,
>
> some of my users use putty to connect to my server via ssh protocol.
> After some time they get the above error message, and it could be that
> my CentOS-side configuration caused this. Do anybody has experience
> with this problem?
>
> - Gergely
Gergely,
Start putty.
Click
>
>
> I'd be looking at the application that triggered that error.
> Apparently, it tried to 'free()' a memory block that wasn't malloc()'d
> in the first place.
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So, since this box has been online for like
On a centos 4.6 box
rpm -qa | grep glib
glib-1.2.10-15
glibc-2.3.4-2.39
glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.39
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.39
dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.9
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.100.EL
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.39
glib2-2.4.7-1
I am getting this type of error at times on a mail server
*** glibc detected ***
Oops.
I made a mistake on that last link for a Compaq smartstart cd
I apologize
This is better, and please notice the wrap
http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodName
Id=344318&lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=345557&taskId=135
as an example, to get
Also
Here is an actual download link for smart start cd
http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lan
g=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-370430439b0e4f4dbaef91ce39
otherwise you will only find pay links
you will have to choose an old old opsys to get a 5.5 link, like windows
>
> hi all,
>
> i just inherit a server:
>
> Compaq ProLiant ML370 Generation 2 Server with Smart Array 5300
> Controller with 6x18.2GB hard drives.
>
> i want to install centos 5 on it with hardware raid 1. any idea how? it
> also has a build-in and add-on ethernet cards. how do i know whic
it gives me this
Feb 20 22:19:14 sanshiro named[3877]: starting BIND 9.3.3rc2
Feb 20 22:19:14 sanshiro named[3877]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: loading configuration from
'/etc/named.conf'
Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: no IPv6 interfaces fo
Greetings,
Are these still valid modprobe.conf for centos 5 ?
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
Secondly, Are they still valid in centos 5 for the same reasons we put them
in the modprobe.conf for centos 4 ?
The centos wiki says yes.
It used to be a "speedup" issue in centos 4 among other thi
> >
> > - rh
> Sounds like a broken script in the package. Did you report it to Dag?
>
>
No, I didn't report to Dag
His package was doing what it was supposed to do after my yum remove of
clamav, and so it created a clamav user and group because it was a new
install... of course it didn't use
>
> find / \( -uid 46 -o -gid 46 \) -print0 | xargs -0 chown clamav:clamav
Garrick,
Thank you, that is pretty slick
I haven't checked the man page for find like forever...
Didn't recall ever seeing find via uid or gid
Thanks again!
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Hi there...
Foolish me all was going sooo well and then I got a wild hair and
updated to the latest clamav .92 today.
It is possible I should have just done an rpm update install yet there were
some changes in ClamAV lately and I didn't know how well that would go.
up till now I spec'd a
>
> i'm a blind user of linux
> can i install centos with braille?
Hi there Mattias
What is britty?
How do you operate the computers now ?
Do you do it with windowsxp plus a program and hardware that reads the
screen to you ?
Or some other way?
A friend of mine has the program that reads th
>
> I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both onboard
> SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one of each
> kind of drive into the bays to make an experimental
> machine with the xen kernel.
>
> After enabling both of drives, the BIOS recognizes
> each drive, but it fails to boot, giving me
> Subject: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED
>
> Hi
>
> Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have
> scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the
> relevant mail(s).
>
> Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at t
>
> OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all
> posts :-D
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their keyboards!!!
E ahem, I meant hands...
:-)
( like they both do not have enough to do already ;-> )
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Usually I am one of the first ones to do it
I have resisted this time...
It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like 2
years or whatever
Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing
Centos$ servers and done a
yum update
or a
yum -y u
Holiday Greetings!
Um scenario is centos 4.5 standard apache webserver
I have a client that is really struggling with website file upload concepts.
Ive been googling for some scripts or other programs that allow uploading of
files to proper directory(ies) after authentication
I am definitel
Hi, I want to build a spam gateway for my mail server using postfix. I
issued an rpm -e sendmail and got the following output:
# rpm -e sendmail
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/sbin/sendmail is needed by (installed)
redhat-lsb-3.1-12.2.EL.el5.centos.i386
smtpdaemon is nee
then why in Gaea's name .
gaea?
whoa nellie, I got first dibs on preaching Jesus here
;->
Get in line.
:-)
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> Garrick moaned:
>
> Please keep the preaching out of a secular maillist. Thanks.
Oh sorry Garrick my bad...
Did they ban Jesus or His Name at USC or other supposed institutions higher
education and learning?
Should I put it in a .signature instead? Is that protocol?
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> RH has shared already.
>
> Fedora is released on an ~6 month cycle [1].
> RHEL is released on an 18/24 month cycle [2].
>
> 18/6=3 and 24/6=4
>
> EL5 branched off from FC6 during the testing stage, so EL6 should
> presumably be derived from Fedora 9 or 10.
>
> For more info google:
>
>
>
> I think it's just too new and shiny. ccache is installed by default with
> Fedora 8.
>
Wow, fedora 8?
Where have I been?
Sheesh, most of us are still dealing with considering centos 5 migrations
from rock solid centos 4 "as necessary" eh?
Isn't this fedora thing getting a little bit "cat
ccache does not appear to be part of the centos base or core or whatever you
wanna call it
I see that karan and dag have it in their space
Is there any downside to installing ccache?
If so, in what terms?
How about on an internet facing box?
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Happy gobble gobble day!
Server is a mail and web box with latest centos 4 upgrades and has been
running and stable for probably over two years
Machine has perl 5.8.8 on it.
For a coupla days I have been trying to follow these basic instructions so
that I can run a test.
http://wiki.apache.org/
I always thought cucipop was considered the best in it's day wasn't it?
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>
> I have been using Qmail. http://www.qmailrocks.org/ This site has
> everything
> you will need.
>
Maybe a little too general and/or enthusiastic
;->
Qmailrocks has not been maintained for about 1 to 2 years
If you use qmailrocks.org, you must also consult http://qmail.jms1.net and
severa
Expensive yet stable
www.realnetworks.com
free basic trial server and 30 day large server software trials
after playing with the free trial client, we paid the $199.95 plus tax for
the client to get linux and "other" feature support with it.
Haven't played with the linux side of the client muc
>
> We have a single 3GHz P4 box w/2GB RAM running CentOS 3.8, acting as a
> gateway, which serves multiple IP address, having one virtual
> interface for each IP, e.g., eth0:1, eth0:2, etc. These
> interfaces/IPs are on the public internet. Each of these IP addresses
> is the NAT address for a
>
> Anyone know off the top of their head the "right" way to hard set a
> link automatically to 100Mbps Full Duplex, etc using the ifup or ifcfg
> files?
>
> Don't see options in the scripts that might cover this, but maybe
> there's a more elegant way to do it than to do something in rc.local or
>
> rsync -a knows as much or more about permissions, etc. as tar and zip
> do. And it is vastly more efficient when you repeat it to the same
> destination.
>
> --
>Les Mikesell
I understand, I was merely trying to supply a possible temporary workaround
if the rsync syntax they were using
>
>
> I was trying to do "rsync -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/somedirectory ."
>
> There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files.
>
> also tried "scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/somedirectory ." with the same result of
> too many files.
>
> Jerry
>
>
First, back up the files to somewhe
Recently I posted about linux and agp cards and some simple video stuff
This is for a school on a budget
An 8mb built in adapter does cut it real well.
Would those in the know please go to
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=low+pr
ofile+agp+video
and give adv
Im using centos 4.5 and bind 9.2.4-27.0.1.el4, im having a problem
propagating updates on domains. when i update the main NS the secondary and
tertiary doesn't update automatically. i need to delete the .zone
file in the secondary and tertiary to get update from the main NS. I don't
where's t
>
> For streaming, I wouldn't waste any time at all on Helix server.
> Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is a much better choice. It is free and
> offers most of the functionality of Quicktime Streaming Server. It runs
> just fine on CentOS 4/5. For encoding, ffmpeg works well. For cutting
> up
In CentOS and Linux land, what reliable alternatives do we have to
realnetworks real producer plus and helix server for streaming audio and
video ???
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> Wow, that list of things you want to run on it sound like it could be
> pretty intensive at times. Your budget for this will definitely affect
> what you can stuff into this new box, but I will go from the stand point
> of being reasonable yet you have sufficient funds to acquire anything
> y
We are testing some simple low bandwidth video and audio broadcasting using
real server and client softwares.
So, for quick check and simplicity, we were plunking along TESTING on an
3.2GHz XP box and I noticed frames were getting dropped on the broadcast
just for resizing a window on the screen d
>
> Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack
> mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc?
> We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and
> Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather
> than
> Feizhou wrote:
> If you are using Bind as your caching name server, please take note.
>
> http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=5366
>
> I use DJB's dnscache so I could care less.
Feizhou,
You could care less? Huh?
Come on now Feiz you old salty dog.
Your love shows, you posted to th
Hm sounds like possible duplex issue
I try to add this to my
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file at the bottom
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"
So that it always boots as we desire.
You can modify as you need or run ethtool as desired
man ethtool
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Did anyone suggest replacing the possibly bad NIC (or shut it down) with a
known linux supported and properly functioning NIC unit?
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On centos 5, if I ssh in as a regular non-superuser account and go to the
sbin dir to issue a reboot command, it wont do it as says you must be
superuser
If you are on the console logged in as a non-superuser account and do the
same thing, it will reboot.
Is this a feature, or a bug?
I have seen people on the list say you can yum groupinstall everything yet
when I tried their method, it didn't work
Is there actually a way other than making a script with all the info in it?
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Anyone get CentOS up and installed in a virt on their iPhone yet?
:-)
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Greetings
Part of this may be OT
Anyone running CentOS 4 or 5 with the newer Dell 2950 servers?
Mainly thinking in terms of basic Internet facing applications
Anything special to report good or challenging?
Any hardware or drivers issues?
Anything not to order as an option or not do?
Should
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