[CentOS] Dependency error for perl-Digest-Perl-MD5

I enabled rpmforge on a fresh install as per the centos wiki with priorities and attempted to execute 'yum install perl-Digest-Perl-MD5' and received the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up Install

RE: [CentOS] Dependency error for perl-Digest-Perl-MD5

>I have good news for you. This is one time where its >OK to use CPAN!! We give you permission. > >-- >Mark Mark, Thanks for the advice. I noticed that Perl shows docs for Digest::MD5, would I be correct in assuming that this means its pre-installed? Thanks you, jlc _

[CentOS] Logging into Windows 2003 Active Directory

I have been searching the net for directions on rhel and centos 5(1) to log in to a windows domain and have found many examples, all different and none work for me. Is there a hint to some documentation anyone here knows of that actually works? Thanks! jlc ___

RE: [CentOS] Logging into Windows 2003 Active Directory

>I would use the official samba documentation... > >http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.html#ads-member > >Craig Thanks everyone, all of the reco's are enough to get me started! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

[CentOS] Console during Install of 5.1

Is it possible during install to open a console window and perform some simple tasks such as lspci and mount. If so what text file editor exists in this console? Thank you, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

[CentOS] Creating a local repo

I have created a local repo, set its priority highest, and populated it with xen-3.1.0-1.i386.rpm and kernel-xen-2.6.18-3.1.0.i386.rpm yet when I do a yum list *xen* I don't see those rpm's? Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks! jlc ___

RE: [CentOS] Creating a local repo

>How about this wiki article? > >http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalRepos So the ticket here is that the createrepo command has to be run each time files are added? That was my issue I suppose. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

[CentOS] Xen Networking Issue with CentOS 5.1

Hi, I tried this post on the Xen list first with no answer. I have 4 machines and 3 of which (all different) have no network access when booted into Xen. I tried using Fedora Core 8 and it produced the same results. Is it normal for the virbr0 interface to take an arbitrary IP? How does it decid

[CentOS] vnc server

I followed these instructions, http://egopoly.com/archives/2006/09/how_to_use_vnc.html to successfully connect to my centos 5.1 box. I assumed I could #chkconfig vncserver on to make this permananet but when I tried to #service vncserver start I got the message no desktop configured. Can anyone

[CentOS] xen dependencies

It appears that if I perform an install of CentOS 5.1 without changing *anything* in the options, then do a #yum groupinstall 'Virtualization' I can now get Xen to function in bridged mode (it has network connectivity). In lieu of this, can anyone shed some light on what dependency Xen has that

RE: [CentOS] Xen Networking Issue with CentOS 5.1

>I disabled the virbr0 using virsh and now all my domainU's use xenbr0. Bart, How do you do this, I ran the command and attempted a few tries without any success? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

RE: [CentOS] Xen Networking Issue with CentOS 5.1

>I think, but don't know for a fact, that if you don't specify a bridge >interface in your config, you'll get a 'nat' address in your domU. I posted >about it in my blog: >http://yablog->gary.blogspot.com/2007/12/xen-what-i-learned-today.html -- >maybe that will get you on the right track? > >

RE: [CentOS] xen dependencies

>Just install xen en kernel-xen. That should be sufficient. Possibly you >can add virsh,if it's not allready there. > >Groupinstall virtualization also installs the GUI-tools (and possibly >also a GUI). > >Cheers, > >Bart Yes, I follow this exact suggestion and can repeatedly produce the same resu

RE: [CentOS] Xen Networking Issue with CentOS 5.1

>No. I never experienced loss of networking in the Dom0. My guess is that your >bridge interface isn't configured correctly. There's a bunch of good >>documentation on how Xen uses the different network interfaces. >http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenNetworking helped me understand it better.

[CentOS] Xen 3.1 install and xen-libs

It appears that xen-libs-i386-3.0.3-41.el5.rpm is only compatible with xen 3.0.3. If I want to install 3.1, where do I find a compatible xen-libs rpm. What exactly is this for, there is no mention on the xen website of this requirement? Thanks! jlc __

[CentOS] cron clarification

What is the ramifications to simply placing scripts in the /etc/cron.hourly directory as opposed to actually adding jobs via the crontab -e method? Is there any significance to using one method versus the other? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

RE: [CentOS] cron clarification

>Traditional crontab entries do still work, if you really want to deal >with that, but it's harder to automate install/uninstalls. > >-- > >rgds >Stephen Thanks Stephen and Jim! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

[CentOS] System drops off network after a few minutes

I have an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with a Yukon Marvel (82541GB controller) NIC in it. After installing CentOS 5.1 it functions fine for some minutes then looses network connectivity. By coincidence, I was using the system to clean some HD's for another and had booted off Knoppix and noticed

RE: [CentOS] System drops off network after a few minutes

>Hi Joseph, >When the network drops, how do you wake it up again? >That might lead us somewhere. >-- >Fajar Priyanto Given my limited Linux experience, I just reboot :) I know, not very helpful, sorry... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

RE: [CentOS] System drops off network after a few minutes

>if it literally drops in a few minutes, run wireshark and leave it >capturing all traffic on the LAN interface until it craps. then stop the >capture, and look at the last set of packets. John, I am sure I can stoke this up, but how do I analyze the traffic after? Its sitting idle when this happ

RE: [CentOS] System drops off network after a few minutes

>is this using DHCP or static IP ? DHCP >are there any events related to networking at the end of the `dmesg` >output right after it bonks ? Darn, never looked there (my bad). I will get it up again this weekend and attempt the wireshark dump and make sure I save the dmesg log. Thanks! jlc ___

RE: [CentOS] xen dependencies

>In your "broken" setup, do you have libvirt and/or bridge-utils? > > >--Tim Tim, Yes it does. I think I am seeing the issue reported in a previous errata regarding Bugzilla Bug 237667 in RHEL for a now released fix in the current Xen rpm available. I have this exact behavior, and after many di

RE: [CentOS] System drops off network after a few minutes

The system turned out to have a flaky motherboard. It's not worth fixing so I think I am just going to punt it:) Thanks for all the info, it was insightful and will help me in the future! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

RE: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?

>Does anyone know what controls this or if it is just a hardware or >firmware version difference? I have seen this before with different controllers. I believe it to be as you think, differences in controllers and how they access the hardware. jlc ___

[CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as 'messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... Tha

[CentOS] Intel SRCS16 Controllers

I have a centos box with a few of these in it. Its shipped monitoring/alerting software needs X, and this server only has a console installed. Does anyone have any experience with or a suggestion on how I could monitor these cards with something 3rd party based that doesn't need a gui, or Java a

RE: [CentOS] Problem with CentOS 5.1/xen/RTL8110

>Chris, > >I got the impression that the network setup is as this example: > >Your laptop (192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0) > >Router (192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0) > >Xen (192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0) > >Well, you can't route from one physical network to another over a route

[CentOS] RE: CentOS 5 & sendmail configuration

> which I can't seem to find with yum. # yum list *sendmail* Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Setting up repositories rpmforge 100% |=| 1.1 kB00:00 base 100% |=| 1.1 kB00:00 upda

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 and HP DL145 G2 SATA server configured with Raid

I have a task to set this up, but don't have access to it until I finally I am needed to do it. If anyone is familiar with this server, do you know if the motherboard based raid is software based (I can't find any real pointer at hp's site)? If so, I suppose it would be better to install CentOS

[CentOS] HP Autoloader

Hi, I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* backups each time so using Amanda doesn't make sense. Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the autoloader, I would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge here is very weak. I am moving this unit from

RE: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

>Actually, you would use "dumpcycle 0" to get amanda to do full backups every >run. tapecycle should still be set to however >many tapes you have >-- anything other than that and you lose amanda's ability to track the tapes >for you. > >-- >Joshua Baker-LePain >QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin >UCSF

[CentOS] Auth/Security tool at first boot

What is the name of this tool that appears when you reboot from install and allows you to setup your selinux, iptables and auth configuration? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

>I have never understood this. Exactly why you should be more proactive, if it matters in your environment. >If I have a good, strong password that nobody >knows Do you know this? CMIIW, But an example from the windows world would be *if* someone sniffed the hash of an admin login, then took it

[CentOS] Bonding two network cards

I am searching the net for instructions on how to do this in CentOS 5.1 but am not 100% sure I am finding a reliable doc. I am doing this remotely and don't have much room for error:) Can anyone point me along here? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Bonding two network cards

>Try the wiki: > >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces Sorry guys, changed my Google search and went straight to it! It's fairly elaborate, exactly what I was looking for! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

RE: [CentOS] Bonding two network cards

>Try the wiki: > >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces Is it ok to leave the hwaddress in the eth(n) files to make sure they are used explicitely as intended in the event other cards are added? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

[CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

Hi, Is there something OS related (CentOS 5.1) I would need to do for a CLI created array to become visible to the OS after the array is created and initialized? I don't want to reboot... Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

RE: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

>Not knowing how megaraid exports a virtual disk I'm not sure what >LUN it might assign, or maybe it presents it as a new ID number >instead of a new LUN. > >nate Thanks for all that info! In this situation, I could unload and reload the driver but in future I won't be able to. Looking at that fi

[CentOS] Connect to local console from SSH session

I need to see what is happening on the local console to see the status of something I left running, is there a way to do this? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Connect to local console from SSH session

>cat /dev/vcs1 Marcelo, No way to actually interact though, without using 'screen' as mentioned beforehand if for instance I needed to answer a question? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

RE: [CentOS] Connect to local console from SSH session

>By 'console' do you mean a text-mode console or the GUI desktop running >a local session? There are ways to connect to the latter remotely via vnc. Sorry, I mean the text based console. I am familiar with the VNC method. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

RE: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

>Create a swap lv in the vg you created out of /dev/md1, assuming /dev/md0 is >/boot. > >-Ross Oh, I thought it wasn’t good to run swap inside software raid? If I was wrong, I assume this is beneficial since if one of the HD’s tanks while its running, it will survive the failure and not need to

[CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

I am mirroring two drives during install, what's the best practice here for the swap partition? Maybe two separate lv's from independent vg's *not* mirrored for swap and the let the OS manage it? Boot and the / vg will be mirrored. Thanks! jlc ___ Cen

RE: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

>That's old information, kernel swapper can handle all types of dev mapper >setups these days (well all types on fixed media). Ross and Les, Thank you! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Removing a disc from a software mirror

If I needed to remove a disc from a software mirror for a quick backup before a test, how can I remove it cleanly so that it has a good copy of the OS on it? If I use mdadm to fail then remove it, this would be done while CentOS is running (It's a mirror of the system disc) and I suspect the dat

RE: [CentOS] Removing a disc from a software mirror

>I things "md" choose the disk with the last time stamp as the "master" >to replicate on the second one. Ah, that's the other question I had :) So if I force the bios to boot off the current drive, and the old "backup" disc is now online, it will not sync the wrong way? Thanks! jlc

RE: [CentOS] Removing a disc from a software mirror

>I'm not sure if this is a timestamp or a count of clean shutdowns. Does >anyone know? Well, the setup wasn't mission critical or I would have imaged it out safely so I proceeded to shutdown the machine and unplug the secondary drive. I then booted and saw the array obviously had a missing comp

[CentOS] system smtp server question

If I have a production mailserver and a series of Linux servers that all develop mail from logging etc, it seems slightly redundant to have so many smtp servers installed on each of those boxes simply forwarding mail as I choose to not have local delivery. Is there a mechanism possible in CentOS

RE: [CentOS] system smtp server question

>Same here, I don't like having mail daemons running on 30+ virtual >machines, but I do it anyway, with postfix similar to Nate. I'm >obsessive-compulsive when it comes to minimizing the footprint of a >virtual machine, but I've given up on this one. An advantage to having >outbound mail handled by

[CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's

Apparently there is only an Itanium client for RHEL according to APC? I need to setup a few boxes to shut down safely and don't know if the PCNS 2.2.3 Linux version will do it? Anyone know why it needs Java as well? (Blegh) Assuming APC is fairly popular, how do you guys shutdown your CentOS box

RE: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's

>I use apcupsd from epel > >-Ross Reading about that now, it sounds a lot cleaner then that silly java based one from APC. Can you elaborate on how you add it as a device into the UPS and share a config in this scenario? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing

RE: [CentOS] Re: system smtp server question

>It is even pretty simple to switch off the sendmail daemon and only run >the queueing submission agent: > >1) edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and set >"DAEMON=no" >2) edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and set >FEATURE(`msp', `[IP.of.relayhost]')dnl > >Given the sendmail-cf RPM is already installed a "

RE: [CentOS] Set hardware clock manually

>man hwclock > >-- >Matt Hyclak Matt, I saw this, but maybe I misunderstood this: I thought it adjusts it in Linux only, but reading now shows it does! I did see a note that changes now won't take place until the next boot? Anyway to get around that? Thanks! jlc ___

[CentOS] Set hardware clock manually

I can't reboot a server to set the hardware clock to UTC time, but CentOS was installed with the assumption that the PC was running UTC. Is it possible to update the hardware clock to the right time and therefore allow CentOS to maintain the right time without rebooting? I am hoping to use this

RE: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

>If you have a Win2k3 server license you could setup a Xen guest to >act as a RIS server too which would allow you to host Windows and >Linux distributions. Ross, I would love to know how you did this, I assume it wasn't trivial to install Linux guests with RIS? Thanks, jlc __

RE: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

>Start with a working RIS setup, enable support for legacy RIS images. Wow, thorough detail :) I see you have kept sp2 off the RIS box to prevent RIS from becoming WDS. I assume this is because there is no way to do this in WDS? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS

RE: [CentOS] change the GUI manager

>It seems KDE is not installed yet, how can I install the KDE? > >-- Tanu -- Yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>But I really have a hunch that it is just a lot of I/O wait time due to >either metadata maintenance and checkpointing and/or I/O failures, which >have very long timeouts before failure is recognized and *then* >alternate block assignment and mapping is done. One of the original arrays just needs

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>You could "nice" it. "man nice". Since there is likely to be a lot of >I/O happening, it may not help much. Ok, here's a noob question :) - What process would I nice? >If the drives are on the same channel, or other devices on the channel >are also flooding the channel, that would be expected. D

[CentOS] pvmove speed

Are there any ways to improve/manage the speed of pvmove? Man doesn't show any documented switches for priority scheduling. Iostat shows the system way underutilized even though the lv whose pe's are being migrated is continuously being written (slowly) to. Thanks! jlc __

RE: [CentOS] change the GUI manager

>Which CD should I entered? Ouch, you used CD's? Heh... I haven't ever used a cd but I would assume if the media repo is enabled and you run the command I would hope it's smart enough to provide some direction. Actually, I also presume you would do this from inside gnome? If so, I think it wil

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>Running iostat like this will give you utilisation statistics since boot, >which will not be inidicative of what's happening now. If you give it a >reporting interval, say 10 seconds (iostat -m -x >10), I am guessing you will >see very different data (likely high r/s, w/s, await, and derived va

RE: [CentOS] Re: pvmove speed

>I know it is too late for this one, but I usually run long running remote >commands in a screen session just in case I lose the session. What provides 'screen' in CentOS? Also, is there a resource for finding out what yum packages provide when searching for a util? Thanks! jlc ___

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>I don't believe pvmove actually does any of the lifting. Pvmove >merely creates a mirrored pv area in dev-mapper and then hangs >around monitoring it's progress until the mirror is sync'd up >then it throws a couple of barriers and removes the original >pv from the mirror leaving the new pv as the

RE: [CentOS] Re: pvmove speed

>Funny, your choice of language. /me wiping frantic look off face Hilarious... But you had me going for a moment, I thought I slipped and spoke like I would if asking a buddy for a moment. I can't tell you how many times I needed that, I always searched the net until I came up with someone else

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>What are you pvmoving again? > >-Ross Ok, here is what happened: I have a box running iet exporting an LV that started out as two 750 gig HD's mirrored off an 8 channel LSI SAS controller. I needed more space, and added 3 400 gig HD's in a r5 vd to this VG. Yes, I now need even more space, but

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>Don't know? Where are you pvmoving everything now? Where do I begin... Scenario is "No cash to do it right" so the interim step involves migration to a non fault tolerant setup temporarily. Server is a 1u HP and I don't have another controller that matches the remaining interface in that small

[CentOS] Backport uncertainty

I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it. How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info? T

RE: [CentOS] Re: Backport uncertainty

>Instead of downloading the srpm why not just run rpm -q --changelog postfix | >less and read that? Nice, it looks like it's not backported. I looked at an rpm I _know_ is backported (xen 303) and it's easy to grep for the possibility as they call it out! I guess I don't have Postfix 2.4x :(

RE: [CentOS] Backport uncertainty

>The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's >changelog. Didn’t think of that! >Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell you. I tried searching errata for postfix and turned up only old results. I will rip that srpm down shortly! Thanks for the tip!

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>Ah, well you are using SAS drives, so there is some cash there... My bad, SAS controller with SATA II drives :( >What industry do you work in? All sorts, odd company: We do everything from automotive accessories to home building! >That's not true! I'm unimpressed now ;-) > >-Ross Love your h

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

>Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present. That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>Since your moving the data over to a new server/array combo have >you thought about using LTO tapes to back it up and restore it >on the new server? > >I know it isn't as sexy as LVM pv duplication and such, but it >works... We have an HP Autoloader, I thought of doing that actually, and I think

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

>I am facing the same issue with a migration of our VM machines >to a new iSCSI setup this year, around 1TB of VMs need to be >fork lifted over and I thought about exotic ways to move it >over, but I think in the end it will be by good ole backup exec >and tape. You're not running esx are you? Heh

[CentOS] RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] Performance Question

>Yes, jumbo frames, no irq coalescence, blockio and see if >you can get Backup Exec to use large io request sizes when >reading and writing the data. The larger the better. Ok, Jumbo's enabled on the switch and media server. For the sake of our sanity jumping back and forth, I am trying to enable

[CentOS] RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] Performance Question

Lol, sorry guys :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Raid controller issue under CentOS 5.1

I have an LSI ELP with an external enclosure and two arrays in it. I needed some quick storage so I put two drives in some open slots and created a span. One drive failed, but I have seen multiple failures on this port so I suspected either a bad controller port/cable/backplane. I offlined t

[CentOS] Logwatch showing entries for non existent services

I had removed Exim and installed Postfix yet Logwatch still shows an empty Exim section? Why is that still in the output? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Logwatch showing entries for non existent services

> Probably because the package removal does not remove log files. Try > manually deleting the logs. I missed that obvious point, heh. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Logwatch showing entries for non existent services

> Also remove exim from the list of services in logwatch.conf Hi, Maybe I don't understand Logwatch correctly. Doesn't it look for all possible services defined by the existence of the many service definitions, and if it finds a log, it reports it? This is the default behavior from what I gath

RE: [CentOS] Pointer to simple mail server setup?

> Can someone point me to a tutorial on setting up a mail server on > CentOS 5? Howtoforge has many. I have used their stuff successfully in the past... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] proliant ml370

> hi all, > > i just inherit a server: > > Compaq ProLiant ML370 Generation 2 Server with Smart Array 5300 > Controller with 6x18.2GB hard drives. > > i want to install centos 5 on it with hardware raid 1. any idea how? > it > also has a build-in and add-on ethernet cards. how do i know which one

RE: [CentOS] Networking problems with fresh install

> I just did a fresh install of centos 5.0 from cd, followed by yum > update > which installed 399 packages. No failures or errors that I can see. > > I have three nics in the box, but am only setting up one at the moment. > > The box can ping others in my network, but if I try ssh, telnet, ftp, >

[CentOS] Cron in logwatch

When I enable logging = 5 (medium) in logwatch, I get my cron log updates but hourly as well which is to frequent? How can I get cron log updates in the once-daily logwatch I am used to when logging is set to low? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

[CentOS] Backup Question

We are migrating an LTO2 library off Veritas and NTBackup on a Windows Server to a Linux Server with either Bacula or Amanda. Originally, the Windows server used scripts to sync changes from various other Windows servers using Robocopy to a locally attached set of volumes, then ran the backup ni

RE: [CentOS] Backup Question

> Rsync directly from the target would be more efficient. I've never been > able to make this work using cygwin sshd on the windows side to accept > the connection and run rsync, but that could be a bug that is fixed now. > It will work using rsync in daemon mode on the windows side, or > initiat

[CentOS] Bind Problem

I have a DNS server which is not returning mx queries for some reason? The zone file is as follows: $TTL 1H @ IN SOA example.com.root.example.com. ( 1 ; serial# 3H ; refre

RE: [CentOS] Bind Problem

> You should probably be using a FQDN for the MX record. > > Here's an example of a DNS record that works for me: > ; Zone File for hosix.com > $TTL 14400 > @ 14440 IN SOA ns1.hosix.com. root.alder.hosix.com. ( > 2005043003 > 14400 >

RE: [CentOS] Bind Problem

> I enabled logging and set it to > debug and it shows nothing. I was doings this remotely from a windows box and > using nslookup on the windows box, funny thing is using nslookup and set q=mx > works on the local CentOS Bind server but from the windows client it doesn't? > > Thanks! > jlc Sigh.

RE: [CentOS] Bind Problem

> So from the CentOS box you can type something like: > host -t mx domain.com > > and that works? > > How about this from the Windows box: > c:\>nslookup > > server YourCentOSName or IP > > set type=mx > > yourdomain.com > > That should work > > If that also works, then check the DNS server your wi

RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 installation problems -- couldn't find devices

>It seemed both attempts failed due to the installation program couldn't find >either the SATA DVD drive or the SATA hard disk. However, it's hard to >believe Centos 5.1 installation couldn't recognize >these two SATA devices. > >I'm now stuck. Any suggestion or advice is much appreciated. Ce

[CentOS] remote command execution

I need to launch a job remotely from a Windows machine on a CentOS box, the caveat is that I can't maintain a connection once I have initiated the job. Anyone got an idea how I can accomplish this? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

>I'm wrong! Uh! Take that mister know-it-all. > >Check out: > >http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-2.html > >(God I've got some issues) > >-Ross Heh, I see the example for sh and I am note to sure exactly what it's doing but I will give it a try! That looks most promising as Win2k

RE: [CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

>So now - more of a "yum" question - what can I put in some file to prevent yum >from trying to upgrade drbd8 to drbd82 for now? Edit your /etc/yum.conf and add the following: exclude=drbd* kmod-drbd* jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> Rsh uses only the source IP for authentication - which might be OK on > well firewalled internal networks but it generally is not used these > days. The same concept will work from ssh too, where you can use keys > for passwordless access. Just > ssh host 'nohup command &' > > On the other hand

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> nohup will allow you to run a command that is not connected to the shell: > > nohup command >> nohup.log & Devin, What is the correct way to encapsulate the command if its rather long. Just as a test, I am trying to run `dd if=/dev/random of=~/test bs=1024 count=5` so that I can disconnect

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> put everything in a shell script, and run the script. Yea, I tried that but neglected to see how it behaved from inside an ssh session. It works there but with plink :( Back to the drawing board... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> > put everything in a shell script, and run the script. > > Yea, I tried that but neglected to see how it behaved from inside an ssh > session. It works there but with plink :( > Back to the drawing board... > jlc For those that followed, a working solution came from a helpful soul in an ssh li

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> I just tried: > > % cat /tmp/test.sh > nohup /usr/bin/tail -f /tmp/test.in > /tmp/test.out 2>&1 & > > (note that all output is redirected) > > C:\> plink [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/test.sh > ... > C:\> > > on the remote host > % echo "10" >> /tmp/test.in > % cat /tmp/test.out > ... > 10 > % ps ax|gre

RE: [CentOS] remote command execution

> Can you give an actual example of something that fails? > > -- >Les Mikesell Les, it's not that it fails it is just that plink sends the command and waits for it to complete execution. Even if the shell script uses your nohup syntax, if I put in a long dd as a test command then have plink

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