Re: [CentOS] Centos 7, ATI card, 30" monitor

2015-11-03 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/3/2015 8:11 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 11/3/2015 7:33 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Well, I got my user back to being able to use his system, but I've >>> still got one issue: it's running on the VESA driver - there is >>> *no* Catalyst build for this monitor,

[CentOS] stale file handle issue

2015-11-03 Thread m . roth
I've run out of ideas on this A CentOS 6 box serving nfs: two directories separately: /this/partition/dir0 and /this/partition/dir1. Everything looks good on it. On the servers it's exporting to - two are CentOS 6, one's CentOS 7, they all automount /net/server/this/partition/dir0... but no

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: SOS

2015-10-30 Thread m . roth
Hugo Fernández wrote: > Greetings. > > Please help me. I have installed Centos 7 , but when I do, yum update > give me error next. > > > Complementos cargados:fastestmirror, langpacks > > > One of the configured repositories failed (Desconocido), > and yum doesn't have enough cached data to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: language mess with ssh

2015-10-30 Thread m . roth
Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote: > Thank you for you help. > > I tried your tips but the problem remains. Example: > > $ echo "SendEnv LANG LC_ALL" > ~/.ssh/config > $ LANG=C; export LANG; LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL > $ ssh aa@quercy > You are required to change your password immediately (root

Re: [CentOS] safest way to grow a LV under VMware ESXi5.5

2015-10-30 Thread m . roth
Boris Epstein wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:57 PM, wrote: > >> Boris Epstein wrote: > > >> > In your view, what is the most reliable and safe way to increase an LV >> > housing the root filesystem of a Centos 6 VM. I am thinking either >> > growing the virtual HD virtual

Re: [CentOS] safest way to grow a LV under VMware ESXi5.5

2015-10-30 Thread m . roth
Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > In your view, what is the most reliable and safe way to increase an LV > housing the root filesystem of a Centos 6 VM. I am thinking either growing > the virtual HD virtual device, or creating a new device and adding it as a > PV to the VM, or perhaps

[CentOS] Semi-OT: fail2ban issue

2015-10-29 Thread m . roth
On a CentOS 6.7 system that's been running fail2ban for a long time, we recently started seeing this: ct 28 19:00:59 fail2ban.action[17561]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j f2b-SSH#012iptables -w -F f2b-SSH#012iptables -w -X f2b-SSH -- stderr: "iptables v1.4.7: option `-w'

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: fail2ban issue

2015-10-29 Thread m . roth
Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <1446132814771.22...@slac.stanford.edu>, > Eriksson, Thomas wrote: >> This should probably be a bug report for the fail2ban EPEL maintainer, >> the problem was introduced in version 0.9.3 >> >> >From the file

[CentOS] semi-OT: HW

2015-10-26 Thread m . roth
Running CentOS 6.7, on an older HP DL580 G5. We've got a Dell 12-bay RAID box plugged into a PERC H800 (aka LSI Liberator) that we put in the HP, and that works fine. We've got a new RAID (a JetStor), and are trying to plug it in. The layout is that the Dell RAID is dual-pathed DAS. Each PERC has

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT: HW

2015-10-26 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/26/2015 08:23 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> We've got a new RAID (a JetStor), and are trying to >> plug it in. > > When you asked about this three weeks ago, you didn't answer questions > about the model of JetStor product, and the conversation died there. > Could

Re: [CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

2015-10-23 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Thu, October 22, 2015 17:25, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> . . . Still, disregarding the part some of us dislike personally >> (plus often reboots necessary to install some vital updates >> - which all Linuxes are prone to beginning somewhere around >> 2.6 kernel) . . . > >

Re: [CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

2015-10-23 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Oct 23, 2015, at 9:46 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> James B. Byrne wrote: >>> >>> I am glad to discover that I am not losing my mind. I too have been >>> rather dismayed at the perceived increase in frequency with which I >>> must reboot my servers. I wondered

[CentOS] Centos 7, ATI/AMD video, fonts

2015-10-22 Thread m . roth
A newly built CentOS 7.1 system, with an ATI/AMD video card. I installed the proprietary driver (this is a Dell, and they had their own rpm), and after I ran aticonfig --initial, init 3, then init 5, and we have a working video. Excerpt the fonts are atrocious. All the letters seem to be missing

Re: [CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

2015-10-22 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Thu, October 22, 2015 10:40 am, Jim Perrin wrote: >> On 10/22/2015 10:31 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> >>> So, it seems that the current version of PHP in Centos 7 is PHP 5.4.16 >>> however this version of PHP stopped getting security support from the >>> PHP people one

[CentOS] centos 7, nm, wifi

2015-10-21 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, Haven't found the answer to this in googling: I want wifi never to be turned up. I mean, this is on a workstation that's hardwired, and doesn't have wifi Obviously, I want this persistent. mark ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

2015-10-21 Thread m . roth
Nick Bright wrote: > On 10/21/2015 1:55 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Personally I would go round to that particular vendors office with a >> pipe wrench and encourage them to do better however, unless this >> It seems the PCI-DSS describe a set of simple rules to get IT managers >> thinking but

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 - Serial Console and Flow Control

2015-10-16 Thread m . roth
Mike - st257 wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:50 PM, wrote: >> Mike - st257 wrote: >> > My servers have BMC with Serial over LAN support. In C5 and C6, I >> determined how to have BIOS/POST, kernel, and serial console access. I'm >> reading up on the method to accomplish the

[CentOS] Semi-OT: torque, pbs_mom, cpuset, loglevel

2015-10-16 Thread m . roth
We're running the current version of torque. On our small supercomputer (an SGI), no updates to torque since July, but just recently - someone may be trying something new - /var/log/messages is on-and-off being spammed with Oct 15 18:02:04 servername pbs_mom: LOG_INFO::create_job_cpuset, creating

Re: [CentOS] Debugging Kernel Problems

2015-10-16 Thread m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Tod wrote: >> Not sure if this is the correct subject line but my recently installed >> Centos build (Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.x86_64 #1 >> SMP >> Tue Sep 15 15:05:51 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 - Serial Console and Flow Control

2015-10-15 Thread m . roth
Mike - st257 wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm ironing out details to upgrade a few systems to CentOS7. > > My servers have BMC with Serial over LAN support. In C5 and C6, I determined how to have BIOS/POST, kernel, and serial console access. I'm reading up on the method to accomplish the pieces with

Re: [CentOS] Exists some problem with cronjobs under CentOS7

2015-10-13 Thread m . roth
zep wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:54 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: >> I haven't entries in conrtab's users file at this moment, but I have >> done a test: * * * * * ls -la, and it is not triggered. But like I say >> before, installed system cronjobs like logwatch task are not triggered > > I'd say that

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Flash Update = No Flash

2015-10-13 Thread m . roth
pro alias wrote: > None of my Centos 5 boxen can show flash since the update this morning. > Am I alone or do other people have this issue ?? > Centos 7 boxes work properly. I haven't looked at RHEL 6 boxes yet. > > Although I miss using flash on these boxes, it IS a great security > upgrade

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 SSHD chroot SELinux problem

2015-10-09 Thread m . roth
James, I don't have an answer, but you'll note that I replied to both the CentOS list, and the more appropriate selinux list. Folks like Dan Walsh are responders there. mark James B. Byrne wrote: > I run a sshd host solely to allow employees to tunnel secure > connections to our

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 11:47 AM, Jack Bailey wrote: >> On 10/07/15 11:13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Jack Bailey wrote: >>> > controller that expects to talk to individual SAS or SATA drives. you > can manage it with hpssacli from centos. I have the P822. It has no JBOD

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 Drives

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 3:14 PM, Matt wrote: >> I have 3 4TB WD drives I want to put in a RAID1 array. >> >> Two WD4000FYYZ >> >> and >> >> One WD4000F9YZ >> >> All enterprise class but two are WD Re and one is WD Se. I ordered >> the first two thinking 2 drives in the raid array

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 8:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Got an old HP box with a P800 Smart Array controller. The HP RAID >> box >> plugged into it's failing, and we got a new JetStor... > > I think the FIRST thing you need to determine, WHAT JetStor do you have, > and what is

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 2:15 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> It's an old box, a DL580 G5. And we didn't get the card with the RAID. I >> suppose I can single path each RAID from the PERC H800, until budgets >> open up. > > wait, you originally said HP SmartArrray P800. Now, its a Dell

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 1:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> No. I'm the one who got the quote and set up the order for my managers, >> and I know what it's got: the ethernet connection is to the internal >> webserver to manage the RAID. the 712S I have is dual-path SAS for data. > >

[CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, Got an old HP box with a P800 Smart Array controller. The HP RAID box plugged into it's failing, and we got a new JetStor. Anyone know if we can just plug the JetStor in and set it to passthrough, or if we have to use the P800's firmware to set up the RAID, or other gotchas? I

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware issue: HP controller to 3rd party RAID

2015-10-07 Thread m . roth
Jack Bailey wrote: > On 10/07/15 10:06, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 10/7/2015 8:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Got an old HP box with a P800 Smart Array controller. The HP RAID box >>> plugged into it's failing, and we got a new JetStor. Anyone know if we >>> can just plug the JetStor in and

Re: [CentOS] ERROR Installing Cisco AnyConnect on Centos 6x

2015-09-30 Thread m . roth
CS DBA wrote: > Hi All; > > I've downloaded the Cisco AnyConnect tar.gz file for one of our clients, > when I untar it and then run the vpn_install script in the vpnclient > directory I get the below error. > > Thanks in advance for any help... > So, there's a bug in their makefiles. Cisco should

Re: [CentOS] Keepalived vrrp problem

2015-09-29 Thread m . roth
Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm trying to install keepalived 1.2.19 on a centos 6.5 machine. I did an > install from source. > > And when I start keepalived this is what I'm seeing in the logs. It's > reporting that the VRRP_Instance(VI_1) Now in FAULT state. Two stupid questions: 1. Why

Re: [CentOS] ISC DHCP failover

2015-09-23 Thread m . roth
Chris Adams wrote: > Anybody have any experience with setting up dhcpd in failover mode > between two servers? I set this up on a couple of servers, and it seems > to be working, but I don't think it is working "right". It appears both > servers are replying to all requests (which for renewals

Re: [CentOS] CentOS6 - Break in attempt? What is the Exploit?

2015-09-21 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> > In other words, the >> >hostkeys would be identical. > > I think what the error indicates is that a client tried to connect to > SSH, and the host key there did not match the fingerprint in the > client's "known_hosts" database. > >> >It seems to me that someone

[CentOS] edac-util, lables.db

2015-09-18 Thread m . roth
Does anyone know of a source of edac labels? The one that gets installed is tiny, and doesn't for example, have anything for Dell. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7, systemd, and nvidia drivers

2015-09-17 Thread m . roth
Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:52:57AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> You ran "systemctl start multi-user" when you meant to "systemctl >> isolate multi-user". >> The man page describes isolate: "This is similar to changing the >> runlevel in a traditional init system." > >

Re: [CentOS] (?) Mailman VERY slow with IPv6 (with work-around)

2015-09-17 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> While testing I tried an strace of list_lists and found that it >> >was timing out on a read operation to a socket to the Avahi daemon >> >(/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket) while trying to resolve the >> >link-local IPv6 address. > > Is avahi even installed by default on

Re: [CentOS] OOM and Swappiness

2015-09-16 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 09/16/2015 09:11 AM, Callum Scott wrote: >> It is running a little >> tight on memory and so there have been a couple of events where the >> OOM_killer has been invoked and killed off MySQL, which you would >> expect. > > One thing that should be noted is that regardless

Re: [CentOS] OOM and Swappiness

2015-09-16 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 13:36 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Excerpt on heavy-duty servers. We're certainly not going to allocate >> hundreds of gigs, or a terabyte or so, for swap. (Yes, we do have >> servers >> with that kind of RAM, and that's not counting the

[CentOS] Centos 7, systemd, and nvidia drivers

2015-09-16 Thread m . roth
Or, another rant against systemd. Moderators, put up with it - this is an issue. I tried systemctl start multi-user.target. I tried systemctl stop graphical.target. I finally had to set the multi-user.target as the default, and reboot, to get rid of the nouveau drivers. Note that I tried to

Re: [CentOS] Is ATRPMs dead?

2015-09-14 Thread m . roth
Earl A Ramirez wrote: > On 14 Sep 2015 14:12, "Cal Sawyer" wrote: >> >> Haven't been able to reach atrpms.net for over a week from London, UK, > when i last looked for it after a couple of intervening months. Did i miss > something? >> >> And if atrpms is truly defunct,

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT: help needed w/ bareos

2015-09-03 Thread m . roth
IP wrote: > W dniu 2015-09-03 o 13:56, mark pisze: >> On 09/02/15 21:27, Leon Fauster wrote: >>> Am 02.09.2015 um 22:18 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: I've got it installed on a 6.7 server, and can back up and restore for Linux. Now I'm trying to do it for some users' WinDoze boxes.

Re: [CentOS] Starting emacs gives "shmget failed: error 28" message

2015-09-03 Thread m . roth
Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 03:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see >>> a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No >>> space left on

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT: help needed w/ bareos

2015-09-03 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Thu, September 3, 2015 10:48 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> IP wrote: >>> W dniu 2015-09-03 o 13:56, mark pisze: On 09/02/15 21:27, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 02.09.2015 um 22:18 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> I've got it installed on a 6.7 server, and can back

[CentOS] semi-OT: help needed w/ bareos

2015-09-02 Thread m . roth
I've got it installed on a 6.7 server, and can back up and restore for Linux. Now I'm trying to do it for some users' WinDoze boxes. Trouble is, all I keep finding on the Web are "how to set it up on Linux", "how to install on Windoze", and how to restore First question: how do you *see* a

Re: [CentOS] List

2015-09-01 Thread m . roth
Nomii Pro wrote: > nomii...@gmail.com > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Having looked at the headers, I see that this is the new thing onlist - we're being spammed from gmail. Does this

Re: [CentOS] camgirl spam on the list

2015-08-28 Thread m . roth
Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, I just noticed this recently in my latest posts to the list. But I've noticed that every time I mail the list for some advice, I get hit with spam from a camgirl site like every other message. Kinda funny actually. But also annoying!! Anyone else experience this?

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-27 Thread m . roth
g wrote: On 08/27/15 07:11, Gary Stainburn wrote: Bad news Guys, they've just moved the emails to somewhere else and have started again: From: Caylian Curtis caylian@enjoylovef**k.com not true. she has been at that site for a while. i received 1st email from her and Julie Anna just

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-27 Thread m . roth
Gary Stainburn wrote: Bad news Guys, they've just moved the emails to somewhere else and have started again: snip A suggestion: there should be a way to filter using *domain* AND mailhost; that is, if emails come from a domain, and through one mailhost, then block the domain. If many domains,

[CentOS] C7, nfs issue on restart

2015-08-27 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, We're having an issue on a server reboot after update; nfs doesn't come up. systemctl tells us it's enabled, dead. We restart the service with systemctl, and there's no problem at all. I was just looking in the logfiles from the reboot (grep -i nfs /var/log/messages), and the

Re: [CentOS] please block user - OT, very

2015-08-27 Thread m . roth
g wrote: On 08/27/15 13:07, John R Pierce wrote: On 8/27/2015 10:56 AM, g wrote: we had a vary serious and meaningful intercourse that only someone of a high amount of education and intelligence would have been able to maintain. PLEASE tell me this whole post is tongue-in-cheek. that is

Re: [CentOS] persistent change of max_stack_depth

2015-08-14 Thread m . roth
Michael H wrote: Could anybody point me in the right direction for setting the kernel parameter, max_stack_depth, to 10240 for database tuning? I have currently set it by running 'ulimit -s 10240' but this does not survive a reboot. Thanks for the response, I've been nosing around that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6, SELInux, Ruby-on-Rails, Passenger and Kernel-2.6.32

2015-08-13 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: We run a project administration system web application call 'Redmine'. I have been trying for ages, without success, to get SELinux and Passenger -- essentially a fast-cgi replacement Apache module built specifically for Rails -- to run together. I have found that the

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop automount of Hitichi Lifestudio USB drive

2015-08-12 Thread m . roth
Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer, gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it. With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the

[CentOS] OT: bareos (F/OSS fork of bacula)

2015-08-12 Thread m . roth
I'm trying to get this up and running, and have run into something that isn't clear in the docs: volumes are part of pools, I get, but I see that the limit to the number of volumes is 100. Is this a drop-dead can't-go-beyond? If I have 100 clients to back up, do they all go to one volume, or to

Re: [CentOS] Odd problem with updates to the recent CR

2015-08-12 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:59:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, since I haven't yet found where /var/log/httpd is created, what would a default package make the ownership of the directory? Does it expect it to be apache:root? Just a data point: $ rpm -qp

Re: [CentOS] C6.7 evolution to cyrus imap(s) fails

2015-08-11 Thread m . roth
Dr J Austin wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 11.08.2015 um 21:47 schrieb Dr J Austin: What does cyrus-imapd log? snip There do seem to be some warnings/errors - they don't look relavant?? snip Aug 11 21:17:43 maui lmtpunix[10038]: IOERROR: fstating sieve script

[CentOS] Odd problem with updates to the recent CR

2015-08-11 Thread m . roth
We started updating via CR over a week ago, before 6.7 was official, and just today identified an issue For (alleged) security, the agency I work as a contractor for runs SiteMinder, from CA. #insert rant_against_CA.h Anyway, starting late last week, we found issues - as in, its process,

Re: [CentOS] Odd problem with updates to the recent CR

2015-08-11 Thread m . roth
Richard wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us snip Anyway, starting late last week, we found issues - as in, its process, which runs under, and is started by, apache, was suddenly pegging a CPU or so. Trying to stop httpd, that worked... but this idiot process never did (and it's ugly to clean up

Re: [CentOS] Odd problem with updates to the recent CR

2015-08-11 Thread m . roth
Richard wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us Richard wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us snip Anyway, starting late last week, we found issues - as in, its process, which runs under, and is started by, apache, was suddenly pegging a CPU or so. Trying to stop httpd, that worked... but this idiot process

[CentOS] semi-OT: rkhunter, fix broken links

2015-08-07 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, rkhunter is reporting a broken link on one of our servers. This is quite reasonable, since it's on a drive whose controller card I have declared dead the other day. I've been googling, searching in the manpage, and I've done an rkhunter --propupd, but it still finds the broken link.

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT: rkhunter, fix broken links

2015-08-07 Thread m . roth
John Horne wrote: On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:45 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi, folks, rkhunter is reporting a broken link on one of our servers. This is quite reasonable, since it's on a drive whose controller card I have declared dead the other day. I've been googling, searching in the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint raid card which is used

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/5/2015 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is. mark ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

2015-08-05 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/5/2015 3:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there, you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is. Good

[CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-04 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks, CentOS 6.6 (well, just updated with CR). I have some xfs filesystems on a RAID. They've been mounted with the option of defaults. Will it break the whole thing if I now change that to inode64, or was that something I needed to do when the fs was created, or is there some conversion

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-04 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 8/4/2015 7:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: CentOS 6.6 (well, just updated with CR). I have some xfs filesystems on a RAID. They've been mounted with the option of defaults. Will it break the whole thing if I now change that to inode64, or was that something I needed

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-04 Thread m . roth
James A. Peltier wrote: - Original Message - | John R Pierce wrote: | On 8/4/2015 7:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: | | CentOS 6.6 (well, just updated with CR). I have some xfs filesystems | on a RAID. They've been mounted with the option of defaults. Will it break | the whole

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-07-31 Thread m . roth
Ken Smith wrote: Hi All, Slightly OT as this is on a Centos 6 system Not at all OT. We started using parted when we started using 3TB drives a few years ago, since fdisk can't handle 2TB. I'm getting the fdisk message partition does not start on a physical sector boundary on a 4096 sector

Re: [CentOS] Fedora change that will probably affect RHEL [META]

2015-07-30 Thread m . roth
Tom Bishop wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Jul 29, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: Security is *always* opposed to convenience. False.

Re: [CentOS] Top posting or not/ no snipping : was rsyslog.conf

2015-07-30 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: On 07/30/2015 10:24 AM, Wes James wrote: What’s even more irritating to me than top posting is when someone replies to a message that takes two page scrolls to get to the bottom then there’s only a few words that are unrelated to the actual message! What’s worse, top

[CentOS] Semi-OT: configuring mongodb for sharding

2015-07-29 Thread m . roth
Anyone know about this? Googling, all I can find is mongodb's 3.x manual, nothing for the 2.4 we get from epel. What I need to do, CentOS 6.6, is start it as a service, not a user, and have it do sharding. I see examples of how to start it as a user... but I can't find if there's a syntax for

Re: [CentOS] SATA adapter recommendation

2015-07-27 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: I have an old computer running CentOS 5. I need to add an SATA drive to it, but it doesn't have any ports, so I need an add-on card. The board only has a 32-bit PCI slot. Any recommendations on cards/brands that work well with CentOS? I don't need any raid capabilities,

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-24 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 09:16:26AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: We are giving RHEL-7 a pass on this iteration. For what it's worth, the problem described at the beginning of this thread doesn't happen in RHEL7. Yet. Supposedly systemd is being rebased in 7.2 so

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-23 Thread m . roth
Jonathan Billings wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 01:19:44PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I really am going crazy, trying to deal with the hourly logs from the loghost. We've got 170+ servers and workstations... but a *very* large percentage of what's showing up is from his bloody new fedora

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-23 Thread m . roth
Windsor Dave (AdP/TEF7) wrote: Behalf Of Leon Fauster Am 22.07.2015 um 17:41 schrieb Windsor Dave (AdP/TEF7) dave.wind...@us.bosch.com: Sorry for the top post, Outlook defaults strike again. Outlook forces you to write above ? :-) Perhaps I should say instead that it strongly encourages

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-23 Thread m . roth
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 23.07.2015 um 18:06 schrieb Valeri Galtsev galt...@kicp.uchicago.edu: On Thu, July 23, 2015 10:45 am, Johnny Hughes wrote: The main reason actually is chronological order. But not just for the reply .. but for IN-LINE posting. In a discussion where you need to make

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-23 Thread m . roth
Physically dragging the thread back on topic... I really am going crazy, trying to deal with the hourly logs from the loghost. We've got 170+ servers and workstations... but a *very* large percentage of what's showing up is from his bloody new fedora 22, with its idiot systemd logging of *ever*

[CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-22 Thread m . roth
I was looking at the manpage for rsyslog.conf, primarily because I need to filter my manager's new fedora 22 logs coming to our loghost, because of the bug that I forwarded (if it gets through). At any rate, I am surprised: under selectors, I see that The keywords error, warn and panic are

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf

2015-07-22 Thread m . roth
Windsor Dave (AdP/TEF7) wrote: Looking at the same manpage, it seems that these selectors are not really being removed, just renamed. The old names are being deprecated. Instead ofUse ===== warn warning err error panic

[CentOS] was, Backups solution from WinDoze to linux, is, looking at bareos

2015-07-16 Thread m . roth
I see that bareos is, actually, the descendent of bacula. I've been looking at some of the documentation, and searching, but one thing I'd like to find out, before I try to implement it, and that I haven't found yet: am I going to have to play games, to get it to back up to online storage, as

Re: [CentOS] was, Backups solution from WinDoze to linux, is, looking at bareos [SOLVED]

2015-07-16 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I see that bareos is, actually, the descendent of bacula. I've been looking at some of the documentation, and searching, but one thing I'd like to find out, before I try to implement it, and that I haven't found yet: am I going to have to play games, to get it to back

[CentOS] Still considering backup utilities

2015-07-15 Thread m . roth
I hear that backuppc does *not* have a native *Doze client. On the other hand, I know amanda's been around a long time, and it does. Opinions on amanda, folks? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Still considering backup utilities

2015-07-15 Thread m . roth
Please don't top post. J Martin Rushton wrote: On 15/07/15 21:29, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I hear that backuppc does *not* have a native *Doze client. On the other hand, I know amanda's been around a long time, and it does. Opinions on amanda, folks? It works for me. I have three USB disks

[CentOS] Backups solution from WinDoze to linux

2015-07-14 Thread m . roth
My manager just tasked me at looking at this, for one team we're supporting. Now, he'd been thinking of bacula, but I see their Windows binaries are now not-free, so I'm looking around. IIRC, Les thinks highly of backuppc; comments on that, or other packaged solutions? mark

Re: [CentOS] Backups solution from WinDoze to linux

2015-07-14 Thread m . roth
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 14.07.2015 um 16:17 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: My manager just tasked me at looking at this, for one team we're supporting. Now, he'd been thinking of bacula, but I see their Windows binaries are now not-free, so I'm looking around. IIRC, Les thinks highly of backuppc;

Re: [CentOS] OT, hardware: HP smart array drive issue

2015-07-10 Thread m . roth
Jason Warr wrote: On July 10, 2015 11:47:09 AM CDT, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi. Anyone working with these things? I've got a drive in predictive failure on in a RAID5. Now here's the thing: there was an issue yesterday when I got in, and I wound up power cycling the RAID; first boot of

[CentOS] OT, hardware: HP smart array drive issue

2015-07-10 Thread m . roth
Hi. Anyone working with these things? I've got a drive in predictive failure on in a RAID5. Now here's the thing: there was an issue yesterday when I got in, and I wound up power cycling the RAID; first boot of attached server had issues, and said the controller had a failure, and a drive had

Re: [CentOS] Prompt for chrooted users

2015-07-07 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, July 6, 2015 15:47, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: James B. Byrne wrote: We have a requirement to allow ssh access to a server in order to provide a secure link to one of our legacy systems. I would like to chroot these accounts. I have this working except for one

Re: [CentOS] Prompt for chrooted users

2015-07-06 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: We have a requirement to allow ssh access to a server in order to provide a secure link to one of our legacy systems. I would like to chroot these accounts. I have this working except for one small detail, the user's prompt in the ssh session. Each user has their

[CentOS] An mdadm question

2015-07-02 Thread m . roth
CentOS 7. I have a server with four drives. 1 is /, and the other three are in RAID5. I need to pull a drive, so I can test whether the server can read 2TB drives. I've been googling, but don't want to screw the server up I think I'd like to 1. stop the RAID 2. pull a drive 3. put in

Re: [CentOS] nfs problems lately ?

2015-07-01 Thread m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Adrian Sevcenco adrian.sevce...@cern.ch wrote: On 07/01/2015 11:51 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:36:36AM +0300, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! Did anyone encountered problems with nfs after the latest updates? I started to

Re: [CentOS] user 'not listed' on login screen

2015-06-30 Thread m . roth
CS DBA wrote: All; I installed centOS 7 (KDE), I also created a user 'postgres' the postgres user does not show up as a user on the login screen. How can I make this user show up on the login screen? I've googled it with no luck I would think that under no circumstances *should* it show

Re: [CentOS] gssproxy items...

2015-06-30 Thread m . roth
Erik Laxdal wrote: Hi, I've been working on some systems trying to get kerberized nfsv4 and kerberized web services going on 7. Kerberized nfsv4 was working with 7.0, but with the 7.1 release it stopped working, the key difference between the two setups is that gssproxy wasn't being used

Re: [CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home server

2015-06-29 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, June 29, 2015 02:14, Sorin Srbu wrote: OS 6? Please note: I'm not criticizing, just curious about the argument behind using a regular OS to do firewall-stuff. Maintenance. A consistent set of expectations does wonders for debugging odd-ball occurrences. Why

Re: [CentOS] Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home server

2015-06-29 Thread m . roth
david wrote: At 07:43 AM 6/29/2015, you wrote: James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, June 29, 2015 02:14, Sorin Srbu wrote: OS 6? Please note: I'm not criticizing, just curious about the argument behind using a regular OS to do firewall-stuff. Maintenance. A consistent set of

Re: [CentOS] Tar CentOS installation and transfer it to new server

2015-06-29 Thread m . roth
Mike wrote: Current Installation: CentOS 7.1503 with SerNet Samba 4 ver. 4.1.17 configured as Active Directory Domain Controller. Current Installation: HP Workstation with dual Xeon quadcore cpu's and 4 x SATA hard drives NOT configured in RAID array. New Installation: CentOS 7.1503 minimal

[CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-25 Thread m . roth
I've got a headless server running CentOS 7. I've got a user who wants to run some graphical software on it, and view using x forwarding. What I don't have clear is how to set this up. I've just installed xorg-x11-server-[Xorg, common]. I assume I need to run X, but I don't see running this in

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