Re: [CentOS] Agentless Inventory

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Anyone know of an OS/Software inventory tool that supports Linux and Windows that is agentless? If it is agentless how does it gain the information? You can manually enter items into GLPI (which works with

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-05-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server that is running web, e-mail, ssh, ftp, mysql, coldfusion and will be processing payments from www? NSA hardening guidelines would be

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-05-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jim Perrin jper...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, What tips does everyone have on hardening

Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

2009-04-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a recently upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel).

Re: [CentOS] coolkey

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: anyone familiar with coolkey, an interface for smartcards?  apparently its built into centos5, but I don't seem to see it for centos4, and i need to support both (actually, we have a lot more c4 systems in production

Re: [CentOS] coolkey

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: anyone familiar with coolkey, an interface for smartcards?  apparently its built into centos5, but I don't seem

Re: [CentOS] ext3 heavy file fragmentation with NFS write

2009-02-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Andrzej Szymański szym...@agh.edu.pl wrote: Hello, Does anybody know how to avoid the file fragmentation when a file is created over NFSv3? A file created locally is OK: dd bs=32k if=/dev/zero of=test count=32x1024 conv=fsync filefrag test test: 10

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

2009-02-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: Hi My problem is related to clientless authentication for printing. We are evaluating if it's worth the trouble on centos. Uppgrading cups is not a problem That i have already solved. Further research also states that

Re: [CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

2009-02-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: Hi My problem is related to clientless authentication for printing. We are evaluating if it's worth

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 1. Has anyone here gone though such a procedure and got good arguments against the need for anti-virus? There is no good argument against running malware detection on any

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:42 PM, David G. Miller d...@davenjudy.org wrote: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 released

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: To avoid this error, upgrade glibc first in a separate run: Nice! So all the systems that autoupdate won't have the logic :) Glad I don't do that... Well we didn't get bitten by the problem on our 50 servers

Re: [CentOS] CentOS4 pam_tally2 config

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jim Perrin jper...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, it's been a while since I've messed with EL4, and apparently I've gone stupid with respect to pam and properly enabling pam_tally2 in an appropriate fashion. My notes are for EL5, so if someone would be so kind as to

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an old 400mHz Dell with a 20G hard drive and 125M ram. Can I install and run CentOS on it? Thanks, You can install/run the CentOS-3 OS. CentOS-4 might run. I do not think CentOS-5 would be able to

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. I am moving/copying image files lately 8G file and it is slow. I am hoping that ext4 really speeds that up. I don't think it will speed things up

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Mariusz settl...@atp-czesci.pl wrote: Does anybody use tripwire on centos 5? Has anybody checked that: http://www.linickx.com/archives/281/tripwire-2411-rpm-for-centos-redhat-rhel-4 on centos5? I am a little off from using tripwire these days... when I last

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: snip Try running: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup and then stop and start firefox. That should fix your problem.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.4 and Adobe Flash (CentOS 5 (32bit))

2008-12-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: snip I hope you don't follow the latest trend and blame RPMforge ;-) No he has to first blame EPEL, then he can move onto RPMforge

Re: [CentOS] Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?

2008-11-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a different list: JRE from SUN is getting depracated: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html; Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm. What impact does this all have? Not much on CentOS directly. I

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Brett Serkez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Xen wont be in RHEL6 - KVM will What insight can be offered on this change? Is this a business or technical or both decision? The main issue

Re: [CentOS] Lost icons and background on 5.2 desktop

2008-11-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Dick Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Dick Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow I did something that caused my gnome desktop to evaporate. The only thing that hasn't vanished is the task bar I have set up

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to be

Re: [CentOS] RHEL6

2008-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Morten Torstensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Any sign of a beta? afaik, rhel6 beta is going to be Apr / May 2009 ...and if previous beta releases can be a yardstick, a beta might be released in december/january.

Re: [CentOS] Recommended Configuration Control Software?

2008-10-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers that are in use 24x7, we

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:55 AM, sbeam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I use Save As... or Browse... or anything else that brings up the Gnome file

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade GNOME in CentOS?

2008-10-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to know is there a way to upgrade the current version of GNOME to the newest version ? There are multiple ways, many of them will make your system unworkable.. all of them will break getting many

Re: [CentOS] ejabberd 2.0.2 vs SELinux vs CentOS 5

2008-10-04 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Damian S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer my question, I have found the allow_execmem boolean, and set it. So, should I file a bug with someone? Also, I'm thinking I might run into more problems with SELinux silently interfering with ejabberd later on, so

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Is OS install mode set to On in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb Yes.. that will limit the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.09.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux: Hi all, I just received a SunFire 880 machine and would like to install CentOS on it I think it is possible but should be very interested on advices and tips

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Peter Arremann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2008 06:23:54 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Well having spent a week on Solaris 10.. I can understand why. Most of the tools I am used to getting in a base install of CentOS are not there.. and I

Re: [CentOS] Re: slow Perl on CentOS 5

2008-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8-26-2008 2:08 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your Perl apps are unusually slow on CentOS 5, have a look at this

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Tom Lanyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a 5.0 DVD I think). The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm --checksig' test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a large

Re: [CentOS] Writable Centos LiveCD on Embeded Linux?

2008-08-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Oliver Schulze L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if it possible to have a Centos LiveCD installation boot from a Compact Flash in a embeded x86 (Wrap/Alix) platform *and* be able to save the changes made to the File System back to the Flash

Re: [CentOS] Writable Centos LiveCD on Embeded Linux?

2008-08-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Oliver Schulze L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stephen, I read about the overlay feature in Fedora9, but I don't know if when the changes to the FS are so big (like going from 5.1 to 5.2) the overlay will grow and grow over time. And the overlay solution will

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 NFS problems

2008-07-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an option at my university :-( Well you were planning to update the kernel.. you need to get the one from 5.2. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 NFS problems

2008-07-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:29 AM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mag Gam wrote: Not an option at my university :-( you mean, your university never installs security patches and updates?!? 5.1-5.2 is as simple as `yum update` Or they no longer have RHN access. At which point, it

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:37 AM, John Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: John Hinton wrote: OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer enough. how do you mean? opening

Re: [CentOS] Load Average ~0.40 when idle

2008-07-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM, listmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:56:45 -0700, John R Pierce wrote Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:48 PM, listmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running CentOS 5 on a dual-dual-core Intel machine, and I am seeing

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am running the 32 bit kernel on my Desktop and I do *NOT* have that problem. Of course not - nspluginwrapper is a 64-bit mozilla plugin that wraps

Re: [CentOS] Plone

2008-07-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, is someone using Plone on CentOs 5.2? What is the best way to install lastest version? Using their unified installer? Thanks in advance! I think the plone website prefers using the rpms for plone from Fedora...

Re: [CentOS] Plone

2008-07-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
2008/7/19 Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, David Hláčik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, is someone using Plone on CentOs 5.2? What is the best way to install lastest version? Using their unified installer? Thanks in advance! I think the plone

Re: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a ton of stuff

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM, fred smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Centos 4 box at work, where I noticed a pile of old kernels lying around and no longer needed. I did rpm -qa | grep -y kernel list then edited the list to remove from it the newer kernels, then yum remove `cat

Re: [CentOS] SERIOUSLY OT STREAM EDITING IMAGES

2008-07-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Chris Geldenhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have been Googling my head off but cannot find a method to stream edit all the images in a directory and to resize them. I have a large number of images of up to 3GB in size that I want to put in albums on a

Re: [CentOS] so many problem CENTOS 5.2 with DELL servers????

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, mcclnx mcc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been installed CENTOS 5.2 on several DELL servers and have following problems (even latest patches apply): 1. DELL 2650 can NOT boot under CENTOS 5.2 PAE mode Is the 2650 PAE compatible? Does the system have the

Re: [CentOS] pnm2ppa gone, in any repo?

2008-07-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Ted Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Miller wrote: I can't get my HP DeskJet 712C to print via cups. I believe the reason is that according to http://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-May/msg2.html the pnm2ppa filter got dropped between

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Question

2008-07-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the simplest way to increment the number up by one until some other 4 digit number while preserving leading zero's until the 1000's has a digit other than 0? Your homework done in a snap! for (i=0;

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

2008-07-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:33:24AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Client filtering is not recommended by some people ... but highly recommended by others :-D It's a good idea on important systems - but

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/8/08, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ross Cavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As for the SME documentation, you can select to view as one page [the option is at the bottom of

Re: [CentOS] rsh problems in CentOS 5.2 (was cvs command failure on 5.2)

2008-07-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:53 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I've narrowed the problem down quite a bit. As previously reported, in CentOS 5.2 I get this: Well whyis port 544 and 543 getting connection refused in the logs on the server? Are you using kerberos? Are the tickets you

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild of kernel 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL failure

2008-07-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sorin Srbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And who might this revered Jim Perrin be? Obviously he seems to be some kind of big cheese, but what does he do etc? He certainly is. Jim sweeps the

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

2008-06-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Bazy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is anyone using Spacewalk (http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/) on CentOS 5 or 4? What kind of hardware are you useing it on? Spacewalk can work on VM's and real hardware. If you are doing development or small deployment,

Re: [CentOS] /usr/bin/wc: cannot execute binary file

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I've just installed CentOS 5.1 X64 as a VM in a CentOS 5.1 XEN server, and when I try todo something, I get this error /usr/bin/wc: cannot execute binary file Has anyone seen this before? Google hasn't Where

Re: [CentOS] apt on Centos 5.1

2008-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum. However, I get : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install apt Loading installonlyn plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories

Re: [CentOS] apt on Centos 5.1

2008-06-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Benjamin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Mike wrote: Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum. Why would you want to do this? Some people like the apt interface more than the yum interface.

Re: [CentOS] FireFox

2008-05-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Robert Spangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if there are plans to update Firefox to the new 3.0 for Centos 4.5? Seems like only the 1.5 version has been placed in the repos and I think it should be time for an upgrade. If I'm looking in the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer: When it's ready. Suits me - I have a different question (and it's probably up somewhere I don't have time to look at the moment - I'll check when I

Re: [CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

2008-05-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel de Kok wrote: - What does our upstream think about this? - What do the OpenSSH developers think about this? Someone is going to need to ask those questions of the people... I don't think either Red Hat or

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only downside is that sometimes, it takes time to get them. It's like Tyan has problem producing enough for market demand. Actually from my understanding its sort of the 'opposite'. Market demand for white-box

Re: [CentOS] Re: Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?

2008-05-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:27 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:21 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:27 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008

Re: [CentOS] Re: Partly OT: Is there a DVD (or other) firmware flash download program for CentOS/Linux?

2008-05-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I can see with google is sfdnwin.exe for Window$ only Okay, I found dfutool - does anyone know if that is as generic as it sounds and can, in fact, update

Re: [CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import

[CentOS] Good news for virtual EL-4.x boxes

2008-04-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Currently, if you are running CentOS-4.x on a Vmware box you end up with time skew problems. The main fix has been using a set of recompiled kernel that has a HZ that is more fitting with what Vmware expects (eg 100 hz). The 4.7 kernels look like they will not need this:

Re: [CentOS] ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2008-04-18 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Masry Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to do what the article at http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.performance.html#conntrack_filling_tables suggested My iptables rules are #that's what the

Re: [CentOS] CONNECTING VIA SSH BETWEEN CENTOS 4 AND 5

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Chris Geldenhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up an automatic connection between CentOS 4 system (server) and a CentOS 5 DomU VM (client) via ssh to enable my to back up development files on the server to the client with a cron process.

Re: [CentOS] HTTP blocked?

2008-03-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed CentOS 5 and put ZoneMinder on it. Everything seems to be working fine, except I can't access the web pages from a remote computer, even if it's on the same LAN. If I lynx to the webpage from the

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = The rest is available for review

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: And in this case, the precedents of hundreds years of contractual law would have to be overturned. The GPL license covers source code access. The RHEL license covers binary access without

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Daniel de Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel de Kok wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RMS and the FSF has said

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: copyright law? Well ... the general consensus is that is not the case, and that the SPEC file is covered under the same license as the rest of the source code unless it is specifically

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:29:54PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: You can not redistribute the redhat-logos or redhat-artwork binary packages to others unless you are selling your media. You also

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-22 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 04:01:13PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: What we need is a case that's been taken to court and a verdict given. :) umm -- Istrongly disagree.

Re: [CentOS] Fedora user moving to CentOS

2008-03-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Tim Alberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I'm a Fedora user likely going to switch to CentOS in the next few days. I'm wondering if anyone has some heads up advice for me? I am very familiar with FC6 and before so I anticipate few problems I haven't

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a directory full of installation and configuration scripts that are updated on a fairly regular basis. I would like to implement some sort of version control for these files. I have used SVN and CVS in the

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run into a snag with my CVS installation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cvs co -P installfiles cvs checkout: Updating installfiles cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 1022462837 bytes Unfortunately

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails it KILLS my X11 session. If I am at my desktop it works fine. xpdf used to work

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checking in binary files into CVS or any repository control system is usually a broken thing. You want to either check in the stuff inside the tar ball seperately (if its going to change), or just copy it into

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: How to learn UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ugo Bellavance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be the best way to learn AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX, for someone who knows Linux very well? Books? Courses? Self-teaching in a home lab? I found that the best way for me was to

Re: [CentOS] ipw3945 wireless not working

2008-03-05 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Max Hetrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Where does NetworkManager keep its information? There was no /etc/sysconf/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file. I made one (but don't know how

Re: [CentOS] Huge mailq

2008-02-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where should we start on preventing this type of problem? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mqueue]# find | wc -l 185259 Short answer: We can't. Long answer: Need to know a lot more about the problem before one can even try to fix a

Re: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled. Windows XP with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can communicate with it via samba, ssh, and anything else.I also disabled the Windows Firewall. The C5 system does not have any firewall

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs?

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Feb 1, 2008 8:11 PM, Kenneth Wolcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs? RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs? Why not? RH-5 does not have Xemacs because a choice had to me made on using Emacs or Xemacs. Trying to support both was resource intensive and I think fewer people

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 28, 2008 9:19 PM, Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:36:03 -0500 Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And above all, because I know many admins slack on this, and I'm guilty of it as well if it's not forced... ROTATE your passwords

Re: [CentOS] Backup

2008-01-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 3, 2008 3:57 PM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a RHEL2 server that has had one of the drives in the raid array fail. I would like to do a full backup of the system before we replace the raided drive, in case the second drive decides to die during the procedure. What

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 21, 2007 12:35 PM, James B. Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # setserial -g /dev/ttyS* Cannot get serial info: Invalid argument /dev/ttyS1: No such device or address /dev/ttyS2: No such device or address /dev/ttyS3: No such device or address # # dmesg | grep tty Xen virtual console

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 21, 2007 1:38 PM, James B. Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking a suggestion from the discussion regarding the aforementioned bug I altered /boot/grub/grub.conf and added this entry: title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen-com1) root (hd0,0) kernel

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS-5 Need Help With Serial Ports

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 21, 2007 2:03 PM, James B. Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fixed the UART assignment for ttyS0 with # setserial /dev/ttyS0 UART 16550A and now my modem's TR signal is high as desired. My question, am I condemned to manually editing the grub.conf file after every kernel update or

Re: [CentOS] What is the REAL version of Xen in 5.1?

2007-12-17 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 17, 2007 7:49 AM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 5.1 system with Xen installed. The package says 3.0.3, but an 'xm info' shows 3.1. So what is it? Is it 3.0.3 patched to 3.1 or is it 3.1 packaged as 3.0.3? And if it's the former, does anybody have any idea why

Re: [CentOS] Strange GUI/GNOME Lockups

2007-12-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 7, 2007 11:32 PM, Jayson Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, a hello to all! I recently moved to CentOS from Fedora on my primary desktop due to a desire to have a highly reliable stable desktop that would be supported long term without constant upgrades. I'll keep my laptop Fedora to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 sysreport

2007-12-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 11, 2007 9:46 AM, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stumbled across this issue because I requested to install the sysreport package in my kickstart file. Anaconda complains that such a package doesn't exist. There is a bug report about this already

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 8:34 AM, R P Herrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: R P Herrold wrote: James 2:14-26 Rex Dieter replied: If you can identify particular cases where collaboration, as outlined in the above policy draft, was not followed, I will personally

Re: [CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 4, 2007 11:12 AM, Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a question: Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to enable RPMForge as

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 11:03 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morten Torstensen wrote: [snip away bible quotes] This is getting way off topic, please consider what you post. Having only one true repository whose name shall not be uttered in the package filenames doesn't remind you of

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 6, 2007 2:24 PM, Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to answer the subject: No, EPEL is incompatible to every other repo that existed before EPEL came up. That was not the original promise of EPEL (I know as I was a steering member before I gave up on this insanity course), but it

Re: [CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 3, 2007 6:03 PM, Chris Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I would say that those systems may not be good candidates for future EL versions. The memory requirements for the Enterprise editions are going up with moore's law as more things get added

Re: [CentOS] Scary memory requirements for 5.1 graphic install

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Dec 3, 2007 11:26 AM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is listed as a known issue, but I have a lot of 256Mb systems where I have used the graphic installer OUCH! And when this is fixed (I really hope), it will mean some new ISOs to download? I would say that those

Re: [CentOS] Re: Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?

2007-11-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 11, 2007 9:29 AM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry Brimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source equivalent of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've done some searching

Re: [CentOS] status of Centos 5.1?

2007-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 8, 2007 9:10 AM, James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 1:12 AM, Rainer Traut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, now that EL5.1 is out the big question is when will Centos 5.1 be out. I know the answer, when it's ready. According to KB, the

Re: [CentOS] status of Centos 5.1?

2007-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Nov 8, 2007 10:28 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Does this also mean that the CentOS 5 IA64 port will now be CentOS 5.1 IA64 instead? I am not sure what you mean by CentOS-5 IA64 port being 5.1 ??? All Arch releases follow the same update

Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5

2007-11-06 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 11/6/07, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the .rpm file from Google and am trying to install Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5. I get the below error. Is this because I'm using SELinux or because of something else? I found a small Picasa folder in /opt (24 items, 143.7 KB) but

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