Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?
Dear Bob. > /etc/sysconfig/network > Hostname=server1.mydomain.com > (where the domain is one of my websites on the server, actually my name > server too) As mentioned before, I cannot see that this variable is used in any form. > Change /etc/hosts > First of all, leave all the original stuff and do not alter. > Underneath the original stuff, just add > server1.mydomain.com > > REBOOT If you have read the initial posting this is about setting up the hostname on machines without a network connection (but loopback). Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Local yum repository
saurabh wrote: i followed your instructions and edited the local repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d by adding disabled=1 in the last Really sorry, I mistyped. Right option is "enabled", not "disabled", so you need replace "disabled=1" by "enabled=0". Once again, sorry! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Installing nVidia driver on remote CentOS 4
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eon Strife Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:40 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Installing nVidia driver on remote CentOS 4 Hi, There's a linux cluster somewhere (using Rocks), and I use remote desktop (nxmachine) to do the work on the frontend of the cluster. The desktop is Gnome. And, I intend to install new nVidia driver, but it requires me to stop the X Server. I check around the internet, they say we can use the /etc/init.d/gdm stop, but I can't run it since the gdm file does not exist. Another alternative is by rebooting the Linux (of course, we change the inittab before). But I don't know how to reboot remotely. Moreover, I don't know if it is safe to reboot Linux remotely, because I can't physically access the linux workstation. Oh, the operating system of the Linux is CentOS 4. What should I do ? Thanks. -- JohnStanley Writes: Why are you even worried about installing the Nvidia driver on a Cluster? It should only be running in Run Level 3. Beside it's not going to make your NX Client session any much faster Also to it does not have to be in run level 5 to access it with NX. Hint: If that's what you really want then enter runlevel 3 (# init 3). Then start the driver install, but you may very well be asking for a Night Mare doing this to a Cluster. Be warned if the cluster OS runs off a san server as well as all the cluster nodes it could be trouble, (Diskless). ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Illegal opp code
2008/9/12 Dermot : > HP DL 385 G2. > CentOS 5.1 > Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 > > I have a newly installed server that was running x. It told me there > were updates to install. I accepted that all, except sysreport as I > always seem to have problems installing. I rebooted, having set the > default run level to 3. I then got a red screen with an "illegal > OpCode" error message. > > I have used my CD to boot into rescue more. My old system is mounted under > /mnt. > > I would also like to get my system back up and running. I have put a > fair bit of time into loading libraries and software. > > I have tried editing the grub.conf and commenting out the > 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 kernel so it used a previous kernel but I can not > get past this error. There is no message from grub. The system comes > straight from the BIOS messages into this red screen. > > Is there any other ways to determine what the problem is? The error > messages says nothing more that a few lines of hex which don't look > useful to me. This turned out to be an grub issue. The illegal OpCode message seems to come the HP hardware/BIOS. I resolved it by booting using an CentOS cd, doing linux rescue at boot. >chroot /mnt/sysimage >grub grub> device (hd0) /dev/csiss/c0d0 grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) It took a couple of attempts, my knowledge of grub is limited. During the process I also booted from a DOS floppy and did a fdisk /mbr. That removed the Illegal OpCode which confirmed I was on the right route. Hopefully this post might help some other poor HP harware user. Dp. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] HP Hardware
2008/9/14 nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mag Gam wrote: >> At my university we use HP hardware exclusively. When we build CentOS >> our Unix SA is running several HP utilities. I am wondering what some >> of these utilities are, such as cmaidad. Is it possible to to use >> these HP utilities to monitor for disk crashes (similar to smartd)? Is >> anyone using native HP utilities for this purpose? > I just did a round of HP patches to my DL series servers. In doing so I went to the HP site and installed the Support Pack RPMs. This provide a load of tool including the Compaq RAID utility (cqpacuex). However these tools run as daemons so if you want a small footprint, this might not be the way for you. The tools do provide a web-based dignostics utility which also allows you to configure the host array or in my case, the fibre attached storage arrays. In the past I have had to change the name in the /etc/*release file to RedHat to install HP stuff. I can't remember if I had to do that this time! Dp. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Local yum repository
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 01:51 +0530, saurabh wrote: > Hi All, > > i have a local repository configured for 'yum',which have files copied > over from the RHEL DVD,It was configured initially,as i was facing some > issues with my NIC which was not supported on 2.6.18 so had to upgrade > to 2.6.26. > Now as all is working fine and i'm on net i want to disable that > repository and just use the rpmforge repository configured on my system > following directions from > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge?action=show&redirect=Repositories%2FRPMForge > > Please help me out > - Disabling the local Repo > or by > - Any method to keep it up to date ,[syncing it with some online > repository] I suggest "man -k yum" as a starting point before asking such basic questions. If this returns nothing, as root user do "makewhatis" and try it again. Then read some of what is returned by doing "man ", omitting the quotes and replacing the "" with the name of the man page. > -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Installing libpng
Hi, On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 18:23, Joe Tseng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to install perl-Tk and I learned v804.028 uses libpng > > 1.2.20; Are you sure? Where are you installing perl-Tk from? I just tried to yum install perl-Tk version 804.028-2.el5.rf from the rpmforge repository, and it didn't say anything about having to upgrade libpng. I have libpng version 1.2.10-7.1.el5_0.1 installed. This is an updated CentOS 5.2 machine. Can you give more details on where are you getting this perl-Tk from? HTH, Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] HP Hardware
Looks like thats what I did. But what is the exact purpose of 'cmaidad'. Is it a replacement for SMART? I think it is...But just want to confirm On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Dermot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/14 nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Mag Gam wrote: >>> At my university we use HP hardware exclusively. When we build CentOS >>> our Unix SA is running several HP utilities. I am wondering what some >>> of these utilities are, such as cmaidad. Is it possible to to use >>> these HP utilities to monitor for disk crashes (similar to smartd)? Is >>> anyone using native HP utilities for this purpose? >> > > I just did a round of HP patches to my DL series servers. In doing so > I went to the HP site and installed the Support Pack RPMs. This > provide a load of tool including the Compaq RAID utility (cqpacuex). > However these tools run as daemons so if you want a small footprint, > this might not be the way for you. The tools do provide a web-based > dignostics utility which also allows you to configure the host array > or in my case, the fibre attached storage arrays. > > In the past I have had to change the name in the /etc/*release file to > RedHat to install HP stuff. I can't remember if I had to do that this > time! > Dp. > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd
Bob Hoffman wrote: > The default setting is every hour. Checking for an update at least once a > day is not bad as a bug fix can come in at anytime. I would think that is > very important for the server. Is CentOS your first introduction to Linux? You may need to cut your teeth upstream on Fedora (a cutting edge product) as it changes frequently and has tons of updates. With an Enterprise distro the aim is stability to run mission critical servers. With the latest and greatest distro (Fedora), the aim is to roll out tons of updates and have you test them out. Thanks, Josh. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing 4.7 kernel update SRPMs ?
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:18 PM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Shad L. Lords wrote: > >> James Pearson wrote: >>> >>> I can't find the kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.src.rpm and >>> kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.plus.c4.src.rpm on the download sites - the binary >>> i386/x86_64 RPMS are there, but not the matching SRPMs >> >> There are actually quite a few missing sources: > > Please file bugs -- these are easy to address, but might lost in a mailing > list context. Filed at bugs.centos.org: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3132 Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] SeaMonkey RPM for CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) is in which Yum Repository?
I'm curious about SeaMonkey (especially the HTML Composer). Which Yum Repository has the RPM for CentOS 5.2 (32 bit). TIA! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install seamonkey Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * google: dl.google.com * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * extras: mirror.cs.vt.edu * updates: mirror.newnanutilities.org * base: mirror.cs.vt.edu * addons: styx.biochem.wfubmc.edu * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com 294 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package seamonkey available. Nothing to do [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Slackware's 'explodepkg' equivalent for rpm?
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 15:15 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any 'explodepkg' equivalent for the rpm command? What I want is > simply uncompress an RPM package to get the files directly, but I didn't > find anything in rpm's manpage. If you just want to peruse the rpm from the inside, use 'mc' (Midnight Commander) and it works like a charm. I don't know if it will uncompress them to the directory, as I've never had a need to do that, but check it out. Use F3 to look inside files you see listed. F3 again to back out. F10 quits. I like it. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ https://nuoar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Tmp directory and sticky
I noticed after my install that the tmp directory was A- not a sticky B- still executable I went and changed etc/fstab to add loop,noexec,nosuid,rw, which I hope is the right thing to do. I rebooted and it looks like it worked. When doing an ls -l on the main directory, the tmp folder lit up all green in putty (cool, I hope) But the chmods I did with winscp will not take effect (they do on other directories) so I manually ran chmod 1777 on the tmp folder. Since centos seems to be pretty good at pre configuration, I am concerned that maybe I should not do this, but every security book says to do it. I am imagining I will be okay, and I hope if it is right, that others on the list that do not know about this, make the change. Especially if running a webserver. Right or wrong? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Computer and network devices management tool
Lunix1618 wrote: Hello, I have to deploy a monitoring system that need to keep watch on every device/host on my LAN. Can anyone recommend me a tool that in CentOS packages stock ? I know some tool like GLPI but no available CentOS package so I want to looking for something else that already that tested on CentOS. I am running CentOS 5.2 Ocsinventory-ng (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php?page=English) has agents that will report the hardware/software/network config from all of the computers. Glpi will take this and let you manually add other equipment and information. There are Centos-compatible rpms for both in this repository: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en - you also need to configure the EPEL repo for some perl/php modules. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Slackware's 'explodepkg' equivalent for rpm?
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:11:39 -0400 Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you just want to peruse the rpm from the inside, use 'mc' (Midnight > Commander) and it works like a charm. I don't know if it will uncompress > them to the directory, as I've never had a need to do that, File Roller will do all of that (extract to where-ever you please, etc.) Just click on the rpm file with Nautilis file browser and the rest happens by magic. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Computer and network devices management tool
Hello, I have to deploy a monitoring system that need to keep watch on every device/host on my LAN. Can anyone recommend me a tool that in CentOS packages stock ? I know some tool like GLPI but no available CentOS package so I want to looking for something else that already that tested on CentOS. I am running CentOS 5.2 Thanks in advance. Regards, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Slackware's 'explodepkg' equivalent for rpm?
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: Is there any 'explodepkg' equivalent for the rpm command? What I want is simply uncompress an RPM package to get the files directly, but I didn't find anything in rpm's manpage. Since I hate the cpio tool, I always use mc (midnight commander) and go inside of the RPM files to copy something out. If you just want to see what is inside the RPMs, adding a -v to the query shows you the output as if it was a directory-listing: rpm -qplv Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SeaMonkey RPM for CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) is in which Yum Repository?
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm curious about SeaMonkey (especially the HTML Composer). Which Yum >> Repository >> has the RPM for CentOS 5.2 (32 bit). TIA! > As far as I know you have to get it from mozilla.org, and it's not an rpm If I install it, where should I install it?. (I think there were SeaMonkey RPMs, but for CentOS 3 and CentOS4). > I should also point out that I've had a lot of trouble with the last > two versions of Seamonkey. It has a tendency to crash whenever a > local file is supposed to be accessed, usually when attempting to save > or download a file or web page. Not good. Is that on 64 bit CentOS or 32 bit? (Probably, it doesn't make a difference). > (Funny thing is, I haven't had that problem with the 64-bit > pre-release version of 2.0pre1a, although I can't get the pdf and swf > plugins to work with that) I'm interested in the Composer part of SeaMonkey. Thank you, for your input! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SeaMonkey RPM for CentOS 5.2 (32 bit) is in which Yum Repository?
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious about SeaMonkey (especially the HTML Composer). Which Yum > Repository > has the RPM for CentOS 5.2 (32 bit). TIA! > As far as I know you have to get it from mozilla.org, and it's not an rpm. I should also point out that I've had a lot of trouble with the last two versions of Seamonkey. It has a tendency to crash whenever a local file is supposed to be accessed, usually when attempting to save or download a file or web page. (Funny thing is, I haven't had that problem with the 64-bit pre-release version of 2.0pre1a, although I can't get the pdf and swf plugins to work with that) YMMV mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
