[CentOS-docs] Welcome GSoC students, getting started

2015-05-07 Thread Karsten Wade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to welcome the two Summer of Code students who will be building different parts of the new CentOS documentation toolchain. * Kunal Jain * Lei Yang Students -- welcome again, and thank you for your work this far in helping define the

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 07.05.2015 um 08:35 schrieb Michael Schumacher michael.schumac...@pamas.de: Everybody has its favorite backup program, but why rely on only one system? I have to backup 8 servers and use three backup systems in parallel. -- BackupPC. Easy to use, nice user interface with graphical

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/05/2015 11:24, Marcin Trendota ha scritto: W dniu 06.05.2015 o 21:21, Alessandro Baggi pisze: What do you mean about Backup PC? Any experiences? What solution do you use? BackupPC is good, howewer it's a pity you can't search for a file in GUI. But it works well, i'm backing up 32

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Jussi Hirvi
I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). One downside is that rdiff-backup causes a lot of network traffic. For that reason I

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/05/2015 00:47, John R Pierce ha scritto: On 5/6/2015 1:34 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: My assistant liked backuppc. It is OK and will do decent job for really small number of machines (thinking 3-4 IMHO). I run bacula which has close to a hundred of clients; all is stored in files on RAID

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hello Alessandro, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 9:21:10 PM, you wrote: I'm new with backup ops and I'm searching a good system to accomplish this work. Everybody has its favorite backup program, but why rely on only one system? I have to backup 8 servers and use three backup systems in parallel.

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Marcin Trendota
W dniu 06.05.2015 o 21:21, Alessandro Baggi pisze: What do you mean about Backup PC? Any experiences? What solution do you use? BackupPC is good, howewer it's a pity you can't search for a file in GUI. But it works well, i'm backing up 32 hosts (servers, desktops). Can somebody tell me why

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Marcin Trendota
W dniu 07.05.2015 o 11:46, Alessandro Baggi pisze: I don't know why and don't know if in previous CentOS releases was included. It is in EPEL. BackupPC is available for C7 from nux repo, but this is an external repo. Good enough, thanks for info. -- Over And Out MoonWolf

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-07 Thread lhecking
Thanks, Akemi, that's really useful, and I'd never heard of it. I suppose that as it gets updated, it'll tell me the most current legacy to use (in my case, the 310.40 worked, but the 340.58 did not... and that was trial and error. It's all in the README that comes with the driver ... once

[CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread John
Hi all, Freshly installed apache 2.2 with httpd-itk (from epel). When I try to access apache's document root from a browser on local network, it always serve me the Apache welcome page, even if I have a index.html and a phpinfo.php file in the /var/www/html folder. If point the browser

Re: [CentOS] ldap host attribute is ignored

2015-05-07 Thread Ulrich Hiller
Thanks a lot for looking over the config. I am at the topic user data is available id username and getent passwd and ldapsearch -x -b ou=XXX,o=YYY uid=username give the correct results ldapsearch gives also the correct host attribute i have set in the ldap server. Regarding the manpage of

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread Eric Lehmann
Have you checked the file rights under your document root ? Your apache group need reading right. Am 07.05.2015 21:42 schrieb John tux...@gmail.com: Hi all, Freshly installed apache 2.2 with httpd-itk (from epel). When I try to access apache's document root from a browser on local network, it

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread John
I forgot to mention it. All the files under /var/html are owned by apache:apache On 15-05-07 04:07 PM, Eric Lehmann wrote: Have you checked the file rights under your document root ? Your apache group need reading right. Am 07.05.2015 21:42 schrieb John tux...@gmail.com: Hi all, Freshly

[CentOS] Best way to integrate CentOS in Windows AD environment

2015-05-07 Thread Alfred von Campe
We currently use a combination of Kerberos and NIS to manage users on our CentOS 6 systems in a Windows AD environment. NIS is provided by Windows Services for UNIX (or something named similarly), which has some issues, and is also not going to be supported by Microsoft in the future. NIS

Re: [CentOS] ldap host attribute is ignored

2015-05-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/07/2015 12:07 PM, Ulrich Hiller wrote: login with the wrong password gives a denied login. login with the correct password always works. This is my sitution since the begin of my thread. Got it. I misread part of your last message, and thought that logins were /not/ working when sssd

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2015 2:21 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread Richard
What is showing in the apache error log? Original Message Date: Thursday, May 07, 2015 04:28:16 PM -0400 From: John tux...@gmail.com Directories permissions: 755 Files permissions: 644 On 15-05-07 04:21 PM, John wrote: I forgot to mention it. All the files

Re: [CentOS] [OT] eventlog-to-syslog

2015-05-07 Thread Devin Reade
On May 6, 2015, at 15:17, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: That's a good one, Mark! You made my day. Didn't you know that Windows programmers the only ones who count 1,2,3,4,5,... [all normal programmers count 0,1,2,3,4,5,... AFAIK]. I wonder how at all they got 0 in their

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On May 7, 2015 6:05 AM, Jussi Hirvi greens...@greenspot.fi wrote: I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). One downside is that

[CentOS-es] Tarjeta de red

2015-05-07 Thread Hugo Fernández
Hol@s Favor de ayuda He instalado centos7 64bits (instalación mínima) pero no me reconoce la tarjeta de red que es nVidia gForce ¿cómo lo instalo mediante la consola? gracias Hugo ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/07/2015 05:04 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). I use rdiff-backup, but I hesitate to

[CentOS-docs] Self Introduction [GSoC]

2015-05-07 Thread kunaal jain
Hi guys, I am Kunal Jain from India doing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG). I and Lei will be creating a new toolchain that will lower the barrier for contributing new content under the mentor-ship of Karsten this summer. I look

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate odd behavior

2015-05-07 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article cabr8-b7vsi_hgtz66k_xp5kpzskda-vajjjdyeyc9lgvkdn...@mail.gmail.com, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I noticed this morning that my ntp time was not correct on machines. So I manually ran ntpdate time.apple.com on my clients, I got 7 May 08:46:43 ntpdate[10550]: no server

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate odd behavior

2015-05-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry, try ntpdate -u time.apple.com and have a look at the -u option in the ntpdate man page. When you use -d, it implicitly sets -u, which your non--d invocation didn't. That's probably the reason for the difference. Cheers Tony Tony - your correct. That did work. the odd thing also is

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread John
Directories permissions: 755 Files permissions: 644 On 15-05-07 04:21 PM, John wrote: I forgot to mention it. All the files under /var/html are owned by apache:apache On 15-05-07 04:07 PM, Eric Lehmann wrote: Have you checked the file rights under your document root ? Your apache group need

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2015 1:21 PM, John wrote: I forgot to mention it. All the files under /var/html are owned by apache:apache thats actually a bad practice, as you do NOT want the web server to have write access to the main content... if someone hacks your web scripts, having write access means they can

Re: [CentOS] Apache 2.2 itk - 404 not found

2015-05-07 Thread John
I understand that an I agree. I will correct it after my access problem is solved. On 15-05-07 04:32 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 5/7/2015 1:21 PM, John wrote: I forgot to mention it. All the files under /var/html are owned by apache:apache thats actually a bad practice, as you do NOT want

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
John R Pierce wrote: On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 7.5.2015 14.24, Mauricio Tavares wrote: I admit one think it does miss is having a convenient way to look for a file, specially if you physically rotate drives. If rdiff-backup will tell when was the last time a file has been backed up/touched even if drive with said file is not mounted, I

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, May 07, 2015 06:41:03 PM +0300 Jussi Hirvi greens...@greenspot.fi wrote: But why rotate drives? Big drives are not very expensive nowadays. 1. Redundant copies. 2. Sometimes your filesystems are larger than the largest drives. For example, I'm currently seting up backups

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2015-05-06, Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote: This sounds like Apple borrowed your idea for their time machine (I bet you are doing it for much-much linger than Apple time machine exists)! rsnapshot has been using rsync with hard links for ages. http://rsnapshot.org/ --keith

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 07/05/2015 11:55, Marcin Trendota ha scritto: W dniu 07.05.2015 o 11:46, Alessandro Baggi pisze: I don't know why and don't know if in previous CentOS releases was included. It is in EPEL. BackupPC is available for C7 from nux repo, but this is an external repo. Good enough, thanks

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message Unable to read 4 bytes, which comes up if anything is wrong. Possibly the worst error message anywhere? thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging connection/authentication issues

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2015 11:23 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: when disk is filled, on bacula we can recycle disk volumes. What's for BackupPC? There is automatic backup deletion over retention time? my year of monthlies and month of dailies of 25 servers has been more or less constant size for a year or two

Re: [CentOS-docs] Welcome GSoC students, getting started

2015-05-07 Thread Lei Yang
Thanks Karsten and nice to meet you :) I am looking forward to working with Kunal, Karsten and the community to build a new, easy-to-use docs toolchain for CentOS! I am Lei Yang from China, now studying at School of EECS, Peking University, China. In my original proposal, I think we may build

Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution

2015-05-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
Geenhuizen wrote: I’ve been using BackupPC for several years for my 10 hosts, and works extremely well, however it can take a lot of disk space, so I’d recommend a dedicated drive for the backups. I've been running BackupPC on two home servers (in different places) running CentOS for many

[CentOS] ntpdate odd behavior

2015-05-07 Thread Jerry Geis
I noticed this morning that my ntp time was not correct on machines. So I manually ran ntpdate time.apple.com on my clients, I got 7 May 08:46:43 ntpdate[10550]: no server suitable for synchronization found then I ran ntpdate -d time.apple.com and it worked . filter offset: -163.446 -163.446