Re: [CentOS] X forwarding

2013-02-02 Thread Brett Serkez
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:49 AM, skull skul...@gmx.ch wrote: How does one use X forwarding properly? ... Anything else there is to do? When i try to: ssh -X root@server virt-manager Just to be sure, you are in an xterm with DISPLAY set to the local X-Server before issuing the ssh? Try

Re: [CentOS] full image backup

2012-10-30 Thread Brett Serkez
The question is really about bare metal restore, yes? I would recommend clonezilla and that you create a bootable thumb drive or cd and be sure you can boot off of either and access the storage that you intent to contain your backup. Brett On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Hossein Lanjanian

Re: [CentOS] wins option in nsswitch.conf not working

2012-06-03 Thread Brett Serkez
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Peter Peltonen peter.pelto...@gmail.comwrote: If I add wins at the end of the hosts section in /etc/nsswitch.conf the resolver seems to get stuck as after ping it just hangs (there is no output, I have to quit it with CTRL+C) Works on my network, my

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox on CentOS 6.0?

2011-11-02 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Roy Trubshaw roy.trubs...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: - Here's a relatively complete description on turning VirtualBox into a service under Redhat/Centos/Fedora ( http://www.kernelhardware.org/virtualbox-auto-start-vm-centos-fedora-redhat/ ). Using VB 4.1.x under

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-18 Thread Brett Serkez
Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? - Not so much a Samba issue, make sure you have a known local username and password so you are not locked out if the LDAP server fails to start for whatever reason, especially if you disable network logins as root, as you

Re: [CentOS] OT: Java down

2010-11-19 Thread Brett Serkez
Sun was purchased by Oracle, the updated URL: http://java.oracle.com Brett On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.dewrote: Hallo, yesterday from 3 to 11 pm UTC our Java application was down. As far as I know, the server java.sun.com was not available.

Re: [CentOS] error rsyncing large file

2010-01-20 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: snip As it's a 20 gig file I am trying to send the diff of with a -c, I suspect over snip This might be too basic a question, what type of file system are you using on the CentOS system? For instance if it

Re: [CentOS] SSH slow

2010-01-18 Thread Brett Serkez
In /etc/ssh/sshd_config change: UseDNS yes to UseDNS no Brett On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:08 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, All of my systems are running 5.4 x64. The are all AMD x64 processors with at least 2gb of RAM in each. I am running SSH on a non standard port.

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: snip The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two folders on an older server that rolls over every other week. This worked fine for a while, but the rsync is cumulative and the users generate

Re: [CentOS] Confusion about scheduling tasks with crontab

2009-10-18 Thread Brett Serkez
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, ne... guhv...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 16:09, Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net wrote: I have to setup a scheduled task on a server, and I just read through some crontab docs. Now I'm confused. It's not so much the syntax of the cron job to

[CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Brett Serkez
Ran into a strange issue with XEN on CentOS that I think is specific to CentOS, which is why I'm starting by posting to this list first, I'll post on the XEN list depending on responses. My sense is this issue has something to do with how CentOS handles network setup on first boot of the XEN

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Christoph Maserc...@financial.com wrote: snip When Xen starts does some trickery with your interfaces. You should see FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF on device peth0 and the real MAC-address on device eth0. All Xen vif devices will show also MAC FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. That is

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Brett Serkez
Maybe because you are looking at the bridge's mac and not the ethernet's which would be peth0. No I am not. dmesg shows the kernel messages at boot and it is looking at the physical device, let's not get distracted, the issue is clear in this regard. As I previously stated, this happens even

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Thorpeke...@pibenchmark.com wrote: Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin. strange As root try: # service smb reload Brett ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Kevin Thorpeke...@pibenchmark.com wrote: On 23/06/2009 11:39, Kevin Thorpe wrote: Well I finally worked it out. Reboot Windows then it works. Bah! Stupid Microsoft. Wasted half my morning because Windows is broken. Windows helpfully remembers your username and

Re: [CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

2009-06-23 Thread Brett Serkez
I don't think you can connect to the same machine as 2 different users - and windows will cache connections even if they aren't mapped to a drive letter.   If it happens again, try 'NET USE' from a cmd window to see if you have lingering connections and delete them. If it were a Windows

Re: [CentOS] Make sshd log IP addresses, not hostnames

2009-06-22 Thread Brett Serkez
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Scott Mosemanscmose...@gmail.com wrote: Can I adjust the ssh daemon to log IP addresses instead of hostnames? In sshd_config set UseDNS to no: UseDNS no Brett ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for a rsync equivalent for Windows platforms

2009-06-06 Thread Brett Serkez
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Rudi Ahlersrudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a good free rsync type program for Windows platforms? Like most of us, I need to work on both Windows Linux environments, and would like to sync some data (music, videos, photos, documents,

[CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting

2009-04-03 Thread Brett Serkez
I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was viewing. Yum updates are

Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

2009-01-29 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote: It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage engine, requires Windows to host multiuser access, etc. However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on Samba shares at a handful of locations with

Re: [CentOS] Single Session VNC

2009-01-24 Thread Brett Serkez
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:19 AM, karl balsmeier karlski2...@gmail.com wrote: Currently most machines I connect to use a display, but I want to run vncserver such that the display is always 0. Is this possible. Can you be more specific about your question? If you are asking about the :#

Re: [CentOS] Old Small Box

2009-01-22 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:06 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? Depends on what you want to use it for. I have successfully run CentOS on PIIIs with as little as 256MB of

Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

2008-12-11 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Steve Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my CentOS v5.2 server (dual Pentium4) the OpenSSH daemon stands out as being the most CPU-intensive of the applications running, It's used 176 minutes of CPU time in the last 2 days alone. Can you tell us more about how

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-28 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Jason Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett: Thank you for your help. It has been a few days since I was able to give this a try. However I installed Cygwin on my Windows desktop and SSH'd to the headless machine. I then ran virt-install without the graphics

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

2008-11-25 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Vandaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do people have wet underwear for nothing over XEN? See http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/ As far as CentOS is concerned saying Xen is deprecated is jumping the gun. CentOS ships with Xen and as long as upstream supports

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

2008-11-25 Thread Brett Serkez
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? libvirt handles both so fundamentally it makes no difference as to what the virtualization

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-18 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Taylor wrote: When you connect to the Centos server from your remote console you said before that you're using ssh. Is this from another Linux system? You need to ensure that you have access to your local

Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

2008-11-16 Thread Brett Serkez
One thing: you want to use the Xen 3.2 rpms provided by xen.org for serious production work on CentOS and not the one coming with CentOS. Suggest you read the archives of the list for all tips and caveats. I've been using the stock Xen (2.6.18) that comes with the latest CentOS 5.2 in

Re: [CentOS] Rebooting CentOS 5.2 XEN Guest

2008-10-16 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Serkez wrote on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:23:16 -0400: At one time when I issued an 'init 6' in one of the XEN guests it rebooted I've narrowed the issue to the xend and xendomains daemons. On one of my systems I was able

Re: [CentOS] Re: help required

2008-10-16 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:51 PM, John Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Silva wrote: If you do wish to have two equally accessible mailservers, users will need to be replicated. I was thinking LDAP would be better than raw passwd files. LDAP can be configured on the secondary mail server

[CentOS] Rebooting CentOS 5.2 XEN Guest

2008-10-09 Thread Brett Serkez
All, I have CentOS 5.2 XEN guests running on a CentOS 5.2 host. At one time when I issued an 'init 6' in one of the XEN guests it rebooted Now it seems to halt but virt-manager shows it as still running and the only way to get the guest to boot is to destroy the virtual machine and start it

Re: [CentOS] Multiple Linux instances on the same box - dual/triple/etc boot ?

2008-09-20 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this seems like a case where virtualisation is a good solution. I've only just started learning to run Xen myself, but the advantages of virtualisation over dual/triple booting etc are pretty clear. As well as the ones you

Re: [CentOS] shutdown and boot on Xen

2008-09-12 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sergio Belkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using xen-3.0.3-41.el5 on Centos 5 with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen kernel. I'd like to: 1) When Dom0 shutdown, DomU's do the same. This is a given. 2) When Dom0 boots. DomU's do the same. Create a soft-link in

Re: [CentOS] What is the minimum ISO to build a server?

2008-09-03 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Paul Rushing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 refers to being able to do a minimal install with only the 1st cd. I've done this, works fine. The root file system is usually about 800 MB, after manually adding a few packages, I

Re: [CentOS] General Linux query

2008-08-21 Thread Brett Serkez
I can only comment from my experience, which is primarily ext2 and ext3. 1) How file systeem get corrupted on linux? I've almost never seen corruption in a Linux file system, the primary reason is usually a hardware issue, the secondary reason (by far) is buggy code. 2) why,when and how fsck

Re: [CentOS] centos on intel D945GCLF board

2008-08-19 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Janez Košmrlj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that disabling the LAN in BIOS works. The problem is that I need the on-board card, since I am trying to build a home router and I need 2 LAN cards for that. And the board has only one PCI slot. I had a similar

Re: [CentOS] Boot CentOS 5 to command line

2008-08-18 Thread Brett Serkez
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, ABBAS KHAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellows, Pretty new to CentOS. I was trying to find a way to boot CentOS into command prompt instead of GUI (or without loading any services). Tried using 'Crl+Alt+F1' at the boot process, but, that holds the screen at

[CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Brett Serkez
All, For a production environment, I'd like to setup CentOS XEN guests as lightweight as possible. I'd like the XEN guests to be able to send nightly email as all CentOS servers do, but there is no reason to run a mail server as the CentOS Dom0 already has an email server running that can act as

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Brett Serkez
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Kevin Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the

Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

2008-07-01 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Brett Serkez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.bz_pre53 and samba is working for me. There was an rpmnew question during the update. Could that be the problem? I

Re: [CentOS] 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen hangs Samba daemon

2008-06-27 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.bz_pre53 and samba is working for me. There was an rpmnew question during the update. Could that be the problem? I run into the problem with: 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen, the xen version of the

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-12 Thread Brett Serkez
There is an openldap in the CentOS Testing repo for centos-4 that will work with centos-5. It has a compat-openldap-c4_version for the things that are compiled against the c4 version ... and i am using it in production and syncing c5 and c4. This works great! Thanks for the tip, this is

[CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Brett Serkez
All, After many hours of research I have found there is a incompatibility between OpenLDAP V2.3.x and V2.2.x, or atleast between V2.3.27 the current version on CentOS V5 and V2.2.13 the current version on CentOS V4. The syncrepl feature of OpenLDAP, to keep multiple slapd servers sync'd, was

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I don't recall syncrepl ever working in 2.2.x and have used slurpd for replicating with 2.2 but if the OP says he thinks he had it running, well, I'm not gonna argue with him. syncrepl 2.2.x works fine between

Re: [CentOS] rsync - set owner and group?

2008-05-09 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to force rsync to set a specific owner and group on destination files? I have managed to get the permissions set up the way I want, but the owner and group are still defaulting to a numeric id instead of the

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? You'll need to break out your hard drive into multiple partitions, as there are certain portions of the file system that need to

Re: [CentOS] read only root file system

2008-05-02 Thread Brett Serkez
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Serkez wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at having a read only box, it will not use a swap partition. Any recommendations? You'll need to break

Re: [CentOS] Total novice

2007-11-25 Thread Brett Serkez
Edit ./etc/fstab and comment out the mount entry for that drive with a '#' in the first position of the line. Brett On Nov 25, 2007 11:07 AM, Manuel Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I want to remove one of three hard drives. But if I just remove the disk, Linux signals errors and

Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread Brett Serkez
Todd, On 10/1/07, Todd Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My www directory is owned by apache and the group is todd and the permissions are 775. My Windows computers use Samba and they log into Linux with todd. Under the www directory there are various directories which may have a group

Re: [CentOS] Multiple IP Address

2007-09-15 Thread Brett Serkez
I have only assumed it is the address that matches it's host name, which is why I always configure that in the /etc/hosts file. Right, one would think so, but this doesn't seem to effect this behavior either. Shutting down and start up OpenVPN immediately effects the behavior, indicating this

Re: [CentOS] Multiple IP Address

2007-09-15 Thread Brett Serkez
I have only assumed it is the address that matches it's host name, which is why I always configure that in the /etc/hosts file. Right, one would think so, but this doesn't seem to effect this behavior either. Shutting down and start up OpenVPN immediately effects the behavior,

[CentOS] Multiple IP Address

2007-09-14 Thread Brett Serkez
I'm hoping that someone on this list can shed some light on how Linux/CentOS decides which IP address to report when a Windows desktop attempts to access it via SAMBA/WINS. The CentOS system in question is running a single NIC and OpenVPN which adds two additional virtual NICs. This is a backup