[CentOS] PPPoE client help

2008-05-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Please point me in the right direction My ISP is giving me an IPv6 prefix, but to get that I have to: The current Speedstream ADSL router will be configured as a bridge. I will have to set up a Linux (read Centos, I hope) router that will connect ethernet to the Speedstream but run PPPoE

[CentOS] Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6

2008-05-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
We have kernel support for IPv6 in Centos, but not stateful firewall support. That requires at least the 2.6.20 kernel, which means Fedora Core 6 or some other Linux distro. None of the various free Linux firewalls have IPv6 support. Supposedly FWBuilder can manage Netfilters for a Linux

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: Good morning, I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12 screen). The bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. Has anyone played with using Centos5 on systems with little memory? Ideally, I

Re: [CentOS] Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Matt Shields wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: The OP is not saying there is no ipv6 netfilter support. He said that there is no ipv6 state netfilter module or something like that. In which case either you

[CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2/ (name of flash drive). I am getting errors with changing the group owner. Huh? So I try to

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Matt Hyclak wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 04:37:58PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: I just got a 8Gb flash drive and went to copy a bunch of files onto it. I wanted to perserve everything, so I just took my archiving rsync command and altered it to go to localhost:/media/RALLY2

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I want to thank you all for your comments and the knowledge I gained thereby Kenneth Burgener wrote: On 5/31/2008 3:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: You can't expect it to maintain ext3 file permissions in a FAT32 partition :D Not necessarily. If the Linux files do

Re: [CentOS] USB Wireless device for CentOS?

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Terry Polzin wrote: On Sunday June 15 2008, MHR wrote: I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with

[CentOS] Centos on the OQO Mod 2

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I may be getting a couple of these for traveling servers (smaller than a PICO-ITX system!). Info is available for putting Ubuntu on it (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO), but what about Centos? Any help out there? ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] USB Ethernet dongles

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Speaking of USB devices (recent thread on wireless USB), I need at least 4 USB ethernet dongles, cheap. So on EBay I found: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-10-100-USB-to-Ethernet-Network-LAN-Adapter-NIC-RJ45_W0QQitemZ230262173544QQihZ013QQcategoryZ11182QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a few servers that I really have to build already. Got to buckle down and get it done; no more waiting for 5.2 as a 'reason' to put it off for another day. I will be building a local repository for 5.2 as soon as the ISOs are posted (well as soon as my 768Kb DSL link will allow), so

[CentOS] Recent problems printing to HP 7310 port 9100

2008-06-20 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been printing to this printer for years it seems. Recently, printing from Firefox would hang in the print que, but other prints would go behind the hung job. Deleting the hung print job would not seem to change the que until I rebooted. Now I have an OpenOffice job stuck as well. I

[CentOS] Upgrading my local repo to 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This will be the first version change with my local repo so I want to check the steps out. I have a /Centos/5.1 directory with all the contents of the ISO CDs. I have a /Centos/5 directory with a symbolic link to the 5.1 directory. I ASSUME that I will create a /Centos/5.2 directory and drop

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for a plug and play CA certificate manager?

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
James B. Byrne wrote: I have played with self-signed end-use PKI certificates for about a decade now and would really like to set up a proper, albeit private, PKI using some sort of OFS CA management software. I have looked at OpenCA and found a few packages on sourceforge but they all seem to

[CentOS] Changing the symbolic link for /Centos/5

2008-06-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I do not know the command line for symbolic links. I created the symbolic link of /Centos/5 to /Centos/5.1 in Nautilus which does not have a method of changing a symbolic link. Only deleting it and creating a new one. Is there a command line to change /Centos/5 to link to /Centos/5.2 ?

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 Install - lvcreate failed for ...

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
!st install of 5.2; system requires custom partitioning (Scalix mail server). Boot and Swap are hard partitions, rest of drive is LVM. In LVM, three ext3 partitions: /, /home, /var/opt/scalix lvcreate failed for the last (named Scalix_02). It was the last of the three partitions and used

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 Install - lvcreate failed for ...

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Thanks, but... Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: !st install of 5.2; system requires custom partitioning (Scalix mail server). Boot and Swap are hard partitions, rest of drive is LVM. In LVM, three ext3 partitions: /, /home, /var/opt/scalix

[CentOS] Lots of Centos 5.2 updates already

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just completed my first 5.2 install. For 'completeness' I 'tested out' yum update. Guess what? For this minimum install, there were 43Mb of updates to download. So I went over to my local repo server and setup a /centos/5.2/updates directory and started the rsync to get all the updates:

[CentOS] Can you install from local updates?

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I normally use http install to access my /centos/ver/os/i386 repo. Is there someway to get the install to include the updates in /centos/ver/updates? It seems such a waste to install rpms that you know are already fixed ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Lots of Centos 5.2 updates already

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
John R Pierce wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just completed my first 5.2 install. For 'completeness' I 'tested out' yum update. Guess what? For this minimum install, there were 43Mb of updates to download. So I went over to my local repo server and setup a /centos/5.2/updates directory

Re: [CentOS] Lots of Centos 5.2 updates already

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just completed my first 5.2 install. For 'completeness' I 'tested out' yum update. Guess what? For this minimum install, there were 43Mb of updates to download. So I went over to my local

[CentOS] Problems with some rpms in my local repo

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This is perplexing. on a Centos 5.1 box that I am trying to upgrade, I keep getting: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error unknown url type: media from my local repo. I did a blank system install via http from this server with no problem. For instance, if I limit myself to: yum upgrade yum I

Solved - Re: [CentOS] Problems with some rpms in my local repo

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
yum clean all Do this first. Robert Moskowitz wrote: This is perplexing. on a Centos 5.1 box that I am trying to upgrade, I keep getting: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error unknown url type: media from my local repo. I did a blank system install via http from this server with no problem

Re: [CentOS] Lots of Centos 5.2 updates already

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: John R Pierce wrote: I thought the 'updates' directory contained updates for everything from 5.0 forward ? No. updates/ gets emptied out on a new point release and then is rebased on the os/ tree for the new release. Right ... BUT, base +

Re: [CentOS] updating to 5.2 from local repo

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kai Schaetzl wrote: This is my first major version update after using a local repo. It seems that before I can yum update I have to fetch the complete new 5.2 base? Is this correct? You can build your base repo from the iso images via Nautilus. Right click on the iso image file and open

[CentOS] Kernel panic from install CD

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a bunch of DecTOPs. Use the AMD Geode chip. Yesterday I upgraded one of them, and got the dreaded Kernel panic. Something about powernowk8. I could boot up with the old kernel, though. I know I have to put in a bug report on this, will do shortly, but first wanted to try a fresh

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic from install CD

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a bunch of DecTOPs. Use the AMD Geode chip. Yesterday I upgraded one of them, and got the dreaded Kernel panic. Something about powernowk8. I could boot up with the old kernel, though. Read the Release Notes. Now I have

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic from install CD

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: After it loaded the kernel, it died with the same Kernel panic. This is bad. Very bad. If they fix the kernel (when, please?), I will need to make a new install CD (how?). you can run the 5.1 installer, with extra repo's for 5.2's base repo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 Install - lvcreate failed for ...

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Hansjörg Maurer wrote: Hi we have often seen this behaviour with lvm and RHEL5 too We try to use fixed sizes during installation and extend the lvm, when the system is running. I think, that the calculation of lvm size and PE size in the installer is not working well I redid it, and made

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic from install CD

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: you can run the 5.1 installer, with extra repo's for 5.2's base repo. This is interesting Where do I specify the 5.2 base repo http url? This is where I tell you to run the GUI installed, and add the url at the 'most appropriate place

Re: [CentOS] Re: Kernel panic from install CD

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 6-26-2008 7:16 AM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a bunch of DecTOPs. Use the AMD Geode chip. Yesterday I upgraded one of them, and got the dreaded Kernel panic. Something about powernowk8. I could boot

Re: [CentOS] VNC vs GNOME desktop

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
fred smith wrote: I'm trying to use VNC to connect my home Centos box (up to date centos 5) to my Centos 4 (also up to date) at work. I have no problem connecting. The problem occurs after logging in, for every applet in the bottom Gnome panel I get an error box from which I can choose to remove

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Grzesiek wrote: Hi, When I boot my dedicated server from netinstall cd, I see: http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3828/kernelpaniczm7.jpg And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test patched kernel,

[CentOS] New USB ethernet adapter

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I got a new USB ethernet adapter from ebay, the ad said RealTek chipset, so I thought I would chance it. Well, my 5.2 system does not recognize the USB device. At all. What do I need to do? I checked the driver CD and the XP driver directory's .inf file has the following: ; ASIX AX88172

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic CentOS 5.2

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is no way, currently, to do a clean install of 5.2. You have to have 5.1 on the system, do a 5.2 upgrade, install the test patched kernel, and then don't install any kernel patches

Re: [CentOS] New USB ethernet adapter

2008-06-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
John R Pierce wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: [AX88172.Ndi] AddReg = AX88172.Reg, AX88172.Con.Reg ;, AX88172.Params DeviceID = USB\VID_0B95PID_1720 VID_0B95 is... 0b95 ASIX Electronics Corp. 1720 10/100 Ethernet 1780 AX88178 7720 AX88772 so its likely thats built with an ASIC from ASIX

[CentOS] INIT 5 and system is gone

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I had been running a system on Centos 5.1 at INIT 3. I did the upgrade to Centos 5.2 with the aid of the powernowk8 patch. Previously I would VNC into the unit when I needed to do admin stuff with a GUI. Well I noticed that I was NOT getting GNOME via VNC since the upgrade (worked before

Re: [CentOS] INIT 5 and system is gone

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Michel van Deventer wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:33 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I had been running a system on Centos 5.1 at INIT 3. I did the upgrade to Centos 5.2 with the aid of the powernowk8 patch. Previously I would VNC into the unit when I needed to do admin stuff with a GUI

[CentOS] EPIA-M board for Centos

2008-07-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Is there any problems using this board? I have a dead board in a Book-PC (board size 10.5x6) so am looking for a new board. Actually I want 2 LAN ports. 'Router' boards with enough umph to run Centos are expensive. I can pick up a VIA epia-m with 512Mb memory for $70 including shipping,

Re: [CentOS] EPIA-M board for Centos

2008-07-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there any problems using this board? I have a dead board in a Book-PC (board size 10.5x6) so am looking for a new board. if you are going to use centos-5 make sure you get a cpu that works with it :D ( there is no i586 support in centos-5

Re: [CentOS] EPIA-M board for Centos

2008-07-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Michel van Deventer wrote: if you are going to use centos-5 make sure you get a cpu that works with it :D ( there is no i586 support in centos-5 ) My backupserver is an EPIA-M1, runs CentOS 5 perfectly. I thought all Via Epia's 1Ghz and up speak i686 :) But you might

Re: [CentOS] INIT 5 and system is gone

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: John wrote: Anyway, something is really wrong here! Help, please? --- Try changing your Loging Level to Debug or use the appropriate number 1-4 for it. Use your backup Xconfig file if you got one. You do have it backed up

[CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am attempting to build an IPv4/IPv6 router. I have put a 2nd ethernet card in a box. I have one Ethernet card attached to my network and the other to a switch with nothing else there just so the link comes up for testing. When I have the built-in Ethernet attached to my network, I get

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Any Idea where I should look to fix this? - What version of CentOS? 5.2 - What type of network card? Intel the first time, DLink (Realtek) currently. Both 10/100Mb - What driver is it using? How do I tell? - What type of device

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Warren Young wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I get pings around 60ms. Pings within the same LAN? If so, that's slow even for 100BaseT. It should be under 10 ms. Well, perhaps I did not test everything out with the good card. MIght have been doing only 2 hop tests. But with the bad one

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Intel the first time, DLink (Realtek) currently. Both 10/100Mb There's a lot of different Realtek chips out there, can you send the output of lspci -v (and capture the network card only since it spits out a lot of output). I've heard lots of bad

Resolved - Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: nate wrote: One thing to try, shut down the network interfaces (/etc/init.d/network stop), I noticed this which seems to be kinda-sorta-maybe related to what you are experiencing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-network/+bug/35683 The suggestion is to

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: That covers speed, but doesn't say anything about the duplex setting. You should see this mentioned near the Ethernet driver load lines in dmesg, too. Do you see anything in the lines I pasted above? Those are the only ones from dmesg

Followup - Re: [CentOS] Ethernet poor performance

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
NiftyClusters Mitch wrote: Good list: Also add multiple runs of traceroute and also try ping, ping -f , ping -A and ping -R. See also ping6 If routes are dynamic we have one answer to the problem, I would expect traceroute to have 'one' answer on a simple net. If packets are falling on the

[CentOS] PPPoE setup

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
My provider is getting ready to switch my DSL router to bridging mode and I supply the router (so I can get no only IPv4 addresses but also IPv6 addresses!). Here are his 'instructions' to me: Basically you start pppoe, I give you the username and password for it, and then I set the router to

Re: [CentOS] PPPoE setup

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ramon Nieto wrote: --- El *mié 2-jul-08, Robert Moskowitz /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* escribió: De:: Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [CentOS] PPPoE setup A: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Fecha: miércoles, 2 julio, 2008, 4:09 pm My provider is getting ready

Re: [CentOS] laptop wireless--orinoco_cs, can it do WPA?

2008-07-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm messing about with an old Toshiba Tecra laptop. i've got wireless working well using NetworkManager and WEP. But I'm interested in finding out if it is possible to get WPA/TKIP or other WPA variants to work with that driver. Some where I might still have beta XP

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
My first notebook upgrade: I repaired my old HP nc4010 (bought a new hinge on ebay) and realized this was the perfect way to test out the upgrade to 5.2 before doing it on my production notebook. First I updated to 'current' 5.1 (by current I mean I have not synced my 5.1 local repo since

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:46:12 -0400: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error unknown url type: media Searching the local folder of this list reveals two older postings from you about this (one from December, one a few days ago). It seems

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:46:12 -0400: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error unknown url type: media Searching the local folder of this list reveals two older postings from you about this (one from December, one a few days ago

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:14 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: snip Just some guesses here . . . Maybe something's buggered in /etc/yum.repos.d. Try comparing the broken with the working. If the broken still looks right, try making a backup of the broken copy in

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:49:47 -0400: I should also mention that right now, I have a fresh install foranother system running off this repo. Then, as Toby says, there might be something wrong with your local yum/repo config. If I recall right

[CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am building three identical systems. Well they will have different host names, and with time the software setups will drift. But at install time they are identical. Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy? All three drives are Hitachi DK23DA-40F (40Gb).

[CentOS] Anyone running a Bluetooth PAN?

2008-07-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Has anyone got a Bluetooth PAN up and running? PAN::= Personal Area Network - TCP/IP over bluetooth. If so how did you configure it? Like getting a ifcfg-pan0 or some such configured. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up thedrives?

2008-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up thedrives? On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: snip Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy? I've seen many posts on this list

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: snip Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy? I've seen many posts on this list that recommend Clonezilla for this sort of thing. You run off CD and it is said

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am building three identical systems. Well they will have different host names, and with time the software setups will drift. But at install time they are identical. ..snip... I would hope this is faster than 2 more installs. its not do

[CentOS] Back to my Xwindows kernel panic

2008-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way the upgrade from 5.1 drive did (not too supprising there). In 5.1 X worked. I could startx from init 3 and get into GNOME. Also VNC into the box and have a

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am building the Clonezilla live CD now Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: It will be many times faster than doing DD images of entire drives. eg. in my case here, i can provision a new machine in 2 min and 43 seconds for a base+core minimal centos-5 install. installing over

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:41 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: snip Yes, dd is actually pretty slow in wall clock time. Where it wins is in human time since you just type a short command line and go away, and it duplicates any setup work you've done in addition

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up the drives?

2008-07-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:38 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: snip Now actually, I would have perfered renaming the LVM partition and its internal ext3 partitions. I even had a naming convention laid out if I had do this via Install instead. If it's

Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting upthedrives?

2008-07-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 6:35 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting upthedrives? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about installing one, and using the anaconda-ks that is generated

Re: [CentOS] Back to my Xwindows kernel panic

2008-07-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way the upgrade from 5.1 drive did (not too supprising there). In 5.1 X worked. I could startx from init 3 and get

[CentOS] PPPoE and IPv6

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am not getting my IPv6 address and prefix delegation for my ppp interface on my new gateway. ppp is working right. It is getting authenticated and getting the its IPv4 address. Shorewall is doing the forwarding and the static routes on the internal interface for IPv4 are working. But no

Re: [CentOS] Back to my Xwindows kernel panic

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Nope... Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way the upgrade from 5.1 drive did (not too supprising

[CentOS] Best Java code for Centos 5.2s Firefox 3

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
OK. I just upgraded a test system from 5.1 to 5.2 and there went all of my efforts to get Java working. All those alternative commands that I lost track of what really worked So I need the JDK. I have that installed on my main system with some alternatives commands that I do not

Re: [CentOS] Back to my Xwindows kernel panic

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Have some important (I hope) data points Johnny, Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a newly built drive with 5.2 fresh install (that I will be cloning shortly) in my DECtop and it is failing with X the same way the upgrade from

[CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5 drive that shuts off really quickly, it seems. So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I have looked trying to find what might be being updated. Swap drive usage is 0 bytes. No activity in /var/log. What might it be and

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Thanks, but explain... nate wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5 drive that shuts off really quickly, it seems. So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I have looked trying to find what might be being updated. Swap drive

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
nate wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5 drive that shuts off really quickly, it seems. So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I have looked trying to find what might be being updated. Swap drive usage is 0 bytes

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:35 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a Centos installed on a Hitachi 2.5 drive that shuts off really quickly, it seems. So every 30 sec, the drive makes the sound of an access activity. I have looked trying to find what might be being

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade Firefox Migrating Bookmarks

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
OK. Now that I have already upgraded, how do I migrate my bookmarks. :( Should have exported them before the upgrade, I suspect ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Need basic PPPoE startup help

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I need basic PPPoE startup help. adsl-start DID bring up my PPPoE link (ppp0) to my ISP over eth0 via the DSL modem/bridge. My IPv4 CIDR block is routing and Shorewall is doing the firewalling. But shorewall has to be started after ppp0 is up and working. For now this means running

[CentOS] IPv6 static routing

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I do not want to run radvd on my public subnet (between the gateway and firewall). I am trying to set up the firewall's public interface. For now in ifcfg-eth0 I have the lines: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static HWADDR=00:40:F4:05:A8:F1 IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=no

[CentOS] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support?

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
How did I get this? I am current on my 5.2 upgrades on this system. Running kernel: 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 I did a service network restart and got: Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] FATAL:

Re: [CentOS] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support?

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Sean Carolan wrote: CRITICAL : [ipv6_test] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support [ OK ] FATAL: Module off not found. CRITICAL : [ipv6_test] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support Try looking inside /etc/modprobe.conf for

Re: [CentOS] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support?

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Sean Carolan wrote: Yep. They are there. So what is the 'proper' method to get them out (other than using VI and deleteing the lines?)? I would comment them out and add another comment like this: # Un-comment these to disable ipv6 #alias net-pf-10 off #alias ipv6 off You will need to

Re: [CentOS] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support?

2008-07-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Since I was SSHed into the boxes, I could not test ifconfig (down then up!). Just so you know, you can do this type of thing even with SSH. (I don't know what would of helped that situation, but for future ref...) #echo ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 | at now Oh,

Re: [CentOS] command line configuration of DSL access

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Gergely Buday wrote: Michel van Deventer wrote: how can I configure a DSL access using the command line? The Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide does not describe this and I could not find any description on the internet. Maybe you can provide us with some more information,

[CentOS] Finding a python module

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
A colleague supplied me with a set of rpms he built on his Fedora box and when I tried to install them with yum localinstall I got a missing dependency: Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package hipl-doc.i386 0:1.0.4-1 set to be updated --- Package hipl-tools.i386

Re: [CentOS] Finding a python module

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-lib Centos 5.2 provides python 2.5.1. Are you sure? On an up to date system: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Finding a python module

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Oh, wow, is my system hosed now Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.5 is needed by package hipl-lib Centos 5.2 provides python 2.5.1. Are you sure? On an up to date

[CentOS] Is there a FC8 update repo out there?

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I need python 2.5.1, and all of its dependecies. And 2.5.1 is at least in FC8. So this leads to wanting to try to do the update right via yum, thus needing a repo. Does such a thing exist? I find a directory out there, but no repodata directory with it:

Re: [CentOS] Is there a FC8 update repo out there?

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:02:18AM -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So I need python 2.5.1, and all of its dependecies. And 2.5.1 is at least in FC8. So this leads to wanting to try to do the update right via yum, thus needing a repo. Does such a thing exist? I find

Re: [CentOS] Is there a FC8 update repo out there?

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ray Van Dolson wrote: How do I find out if Python 2.4.3 contains abi? I'm not sure what you're asking. Python's ABI version would be 2.4.3, but if you're referring to a module 'abi', I don't think one exists? You can always fire up python and type 'import modulename' to see if that

Re: [CentOS] Is there a FC8 update repo out there?

2008-07-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Johnny Hughes wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: How do I find out if Python 2.4.3 contains abi? I'm not sure what you're asking. Python's ABI version would be 2.4.3, but if you're referring to a module 'abi', I don't think one exists? You can always fire up python

Re: [CentOS] Is there a FC8 update repo out there?

2008-07-12 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: yum localinstall hip* Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading priorities plugin Setting up Local Package Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * base: medon.htt-consult.com * updates: medon.htt-consult.com

[CentOS] More current version of bluez

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Centos continues to fall behind in with the state of bluetooth development. Nothing new from 5.1 to 5.2. Has anyone got a more recent version working and have compile and rpm build instructions? Here are the rpms that I have: bluez-gnome-0.5-5.fc6.i386.rpm bluez-hcidump-1.32-1.i386.rpm

Re: [CentOS] Re: More current version of bluez

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 7-14-2008 12:04 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Centos continues to fall behind in with the state of bluetooth development. Nothing new from 5.1 to 5.2. Has anyone got a more recent version working and have compile and rpm build instructions? Here

[CentOS] Miredo relay port question

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am bringing up a Miredo server and relay on my new iPv6 network. I have been reading the RFC and the man pages. One of the many vague points is the udp port used by the Miredo client in relay mode. Is it 'random' or is it 3545? How do I find out what it is? Plus how do I set up my server

Updated bluez - Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 41, Issue 7

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9. CESA-2008:0581 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 bluez-utils Update (Johnny Hughes) How do I find out what was changed? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] vncviewer via gateway option question

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I set up this environment variable on my notebook. Would I modify my .bash_profile file, and is the format of the added line:\ VNC_VIA_CMD=/usr/bin/ssh -p 7722 -f -L $L:$H:$R $G sleep 20

Re: [CentOS] Help with iptables rule for blocking UDP port 53

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Sean Carolan wrote: I would like to block all DNS queries that come from one particular ip address. I used TCPdump to verify that the queries were in fact, coming from this IP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ sudo tcpdump -n udp port 53 and src 10.100.1.1 tcpdump: listening on eth0 11:12:17.162100

[CentOS] Stopping a server not controled by service

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Miredo is run as a server from the command line: /usr/sbin/miredo The man page says the signal SIGTERM stops the server. How do I send SIGTERM to the server? Or SIGHUP, as I want to make a change to the config file. And once I get this as I want it, how do I run it at system boot?

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stopping a server not controled by service

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Scott Silva wrote: on 7-15-2008 12:33 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following: Miredo is run as a server from the command line: /usr/sbin/miredo The man page says the signal SIGTERM stops the server. How do I send SIGTERM to the server? Or SIGHUP, as I want to make a change to the config

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