Re: [CentOS] problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied

2008-10-06 Thread Ned Slider
Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Ned, --On 5. Oktober 2008 11:07:54 +0100 Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're correct in your assumption that this is an SELinux issue. You need to write a custom policy to allow connection and writing to the socket. How to do this is covered in the SELinux Wiki

[CentOS] vsftpd

2008-10-06 Thread Mad Unix
Hi ALL I'm using vsftpd as FTP server, and I'd like to chroot my FTP users to their home dir. How can I do it? i.e. "jailing" them in their home dir... at the moment I have the following issues the user when they login to ftp server they go to the main directory /var/ftp/ /etc/passwd ... sdc:x:5

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

2008-10-06 Thread Ross Cavanagh
Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: Hi, I need to know is there a way to upgrade the current version of GNOME to the newest version ? -- Sadaruwan Samaraweera The gnome website has a fair bit of information about it. For the latest versions for your distro you can visit http://www.gnome.org/~davyd

[CentOS] How to upgrade GNOME in CentOS?

2008-10-06 Thread Sadaruwan Samaraweera
Hi, I need to know is there a way to upgrade the current version of GNOME to the newest version ? -- Sadaruwan Samaraweera ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied

2008-10-06 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Ned, --On 5. Oktober 2008 11:07:54 +0100 Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, I have installed postgrey from the rpmforge repo, but it does not work well with postfix from CentOS 5.2: I always get the error: warning: connect to postgrey/socket: Permission den

Re: [CentOS] Discussion: automount problem in 5.2

2008-10-06 Thread kapil singh
Hello, I am sending withconfiguration files and details. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Dougal Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Kapil, > > Are you seeing a segfault and also core dump of the automount process? > > Dougal Ballantyne > Axon ITC > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Marc

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 22:10, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I don't agree with you that using 3rd party repositories is not > advisable. Many 3rd party repositories have very high quality > standards and man

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse 3.2.1-19 package on Centos 5.2

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Tom [toms400] wrote: > Hi, I'm using Centos 5.2 and trying to use Eclipse's embedded browser > without success. Could this be due to any of the patches that were > commented out in 3.2.1-18? Broken by design: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452113 Cheers, Ralph pgpzegu90wsHs.pgp D

Re: [CentOS] Cebit and Centos

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: Maybe Centos want's to try to get a stand. >>> I would be willing to help man a booth at CeBit >> >> I absolutely *hate* CeBit (have you looked at the hotel prices in >> Hannover during CeBit?). Please take this to centos-promo and if enou

Re: [CentOS] Cebit and Centos

2008-10-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Maybe Centos want's to try to get a stand. I would be willing to help man a booth at CeBit I absolutely *hate* CeBit (have you looked at the hotel prices in Hannover during CeBit?). Please take this to centos-promo and if enough people are interested, we really might

Re: [CentOS] Cebit and Centos

2008-10-06 Thread Lance Davis
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: I absolutely *hate* CeBit (have you looked at the hotel prices in Hannover during CeBit?). Please take this to centos-promo and if enough people are interested, we really might try for a booth there. Last time I went we d

[CentOS] Eclipse 3.2.1-19 package on Centos 5.2

2008-10-06 Thread Tom [toms400]
Hi, I'm using Centos 5.2 and trying to use Eclipse's embedded browser without success. Could this be due to any of the patches that were commented out in 3.2.1-18? When trying to use the embedded browser, I get the error: No more handles (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-mozilla-gtk-3235 in

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: RIP settings for private netblocks

2008-10-06 Thread nate
James B. Byrne wrote: > 1. Physically segmenting my LAN > 2. Having to commission an additional host or reconfigure an existing host > to multi-homed. That's the beauty of bridging, *NO* changes are required to your lan. There are no IP addresses on the firewall's interfaces. Worst case you can

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: RIP settings for private netblocks

2008-10-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:03 PM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On : Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:50:37 +0200, "Mr Shunz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> > [snip] > >>> Presently the setting for rip is: >>> >>> router rip >>> version 2 >>> passive-interface [[FastEthernet]]0/0 >>> net

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core]

2008-10-06 Thread John R Pierce
James B. Byrne wrote: There is no ia64/ CentOS-5.2 x86_64 The substantive question remains unanswered. Can I install the new disk drivers for SATA AHCI from the 64 bit CentOS-5.2 boot dvd without having to reinstall the entire OS or not? you probably just need to force them into t

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core]

2008-10-06 Thread James B. Byrne
> There is no ia64/ CentOS-5.2 x86_64 The substantive question remains unanswered. Can I install the new disk drivers for SATA AHCI from the 64 bit CentOS-5.2 boot dvd without having to reinstall the entire OS or not? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Jame

[CentOS] Re: OT: RIP settings for private netblocks

2008-10-06 Thread James B. Byrne
James B. Byrne wrote: > You can accomplish this much easier by simply using > a firewall. I like OpenBSD firewalls in layer 2 > bridging mode. Put the firewall in-line between the > router and the rest of the network, no other network > changes needed. The difficulty with this is that it requires

Re: [CentOS] Discussion: automount problem in 5.2

2008-10-06 Thread Dougal Ballantyne
Hi Kapil, Are you seeing a segfault and also core dump of the automount process? Dougal Ballantyne Axon ITC On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kapil singh wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> Automount is not working well with centos 5.2, but the same is wor

Re: [CentOS] Cebit and Centos

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Geldenhuis
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Didi wrote: I just read this http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/cebit_open_source_linux_magazine_and_linux_foundation_announce_call_for_projects Maybe Centos want's to try to get a stand. I would be willing to help man a

[CentOS] Re: OT: RIP settings for private netblocks

2008-10-06 Thread James B. Byrne
On : Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:50:37 +0200, "Mr Shunz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > [snip] >> Presently the setting for rip is: >> >> router rip >> version 2 >> passive-interface [[FastEthernet]]0/0 >> network aaa.bbb.ccc.0 >> no auto-summary > > is that aaa.bbb.ccc.0 a *public* IP class? Ye

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: RIP settings for private netblocks

2008-10-06 Thread nate
James B. Byrne wrote: > I will deal with NAT issues for these hosts at a later time. For now I am > concerned only with hosts that should not reach or be reached from the > public Internet in any case and therefore do not need a public IP or NAT. You can accomplish this much easier by simply usi

Thanks.. [CentOS] need ur kind advice

2008-10-06 Thread fabian dacunha
> Thanks guys really apprecite ur quick response regards Faban > On Mon, October 6, 2008 12:06 pm, fabian dacunha wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> apprecite ur kind help n advice >> >> I have a Centos 5 server running only squid for sometime and its workin >> great. >> i am concerned about security

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

2008-10-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:43, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> so maybe I should disable SELinux >> and be done with it. > > That's what I'd suggest too. SELinux isn't even installed on any > of the systems I manage(roughly 350). Not worth the trouble. That's a very bad advice. SELinux is

Re: [CentOS] find - text

2008-10-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Well, in your specific case you could replace it only in files that are *.c or *.h, you can easily use an additional parameter to "find" to accomplish that: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:34, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > find . -type f | > while read fil > do > sed -i 's/prog/n

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core]

2008-10-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
James B. Byrne wrote: By the time I received this message I had already installed the ia_64 version of CentOS-5.2 with the BIOS set to IDE emulation. If now I change the BIOS to use RAID then the system cannot see the SATA drive at all. There is no ia64/ CentOS-5.2 -- Karanbir Singh : http:/

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 22:10, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you should use a distribution that includes all of the > packages you need rather than trying to bolt a bunch of > 3rd party stuff on to CentOS. Agreed. > I install a bunch of 3rd party packages myself, though they > are all

[CentOS] find - text

2008-10-06 Thread tony . chamberlain
A while ago I sent mail about wanting to find all files that had a certain text string in it and changing it to something else. People mentioned that there is a system tool to do it (gnome has it too). I ran this, for example to find all files WITH "prog" in the name, and then I did a ps and I s

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-06 Thread MHR
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hu? > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd]$grep -ri virtu conf* | grep -v "#" > | conf.d/ssl.conf: > | conf.d/ssl.conf: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] httpd]$grep -rHi virtu conf* | grep -v "#" > | conf.d/ssl.conf: > | conf.d/ssl.conf: >

Re: [CentOS] need ur kind advice

2008-10-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Bo Lynch wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:24:59 -0400 (EDT): > Check out ClamAV. Its free and does the job. > www.clamav.net/ install via rpmforge. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] Boot disk order: h/w vs. grub

2008-10-06 Thread MHR
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a situation similar to yours. When I had a mix of PATA and > SATA, I just could not boot the thing. Played with the BIOS settings, > grub entries such as hd(0,0), etc etc. I finally gave up on it and > went for lilo

[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core]

2008-10-06 Thread James B. Byrne
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS-5.0 on HP-ComPaq DC7700 Dual Core From:"James B. Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Mon, October 6, 2008 12:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "John Newbigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are using GNU grep (well, you are using CentOS), > > > > grep -ri "foo" dir/to/search/in > > > > seems much shorter to me. > > > > Without the -H you don't get the file names Hu? | [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-06 Thread MHR
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you are using GNU grep (well, you are using CentOS), > > grep -ri "foo" dir/to/search/in > > seems much shorter to me. > Without the -H you don't get the file names mhr __

Re: [CentOS] need ur kind advice

2008-10-06 Thread Bo Lynch
On Mon, October 6, 2008 12:06 pm, fabian dacunha wrote: > Dear All, > > apprecite ur kind help n advice > > I have a Centos 5 server running only squid for sometime and its workin > great. > i am concerned about security so i have a shorewall firewall on the > machine runnign squid n works grt > >

[CentOS] need ur kind advice

2008-10-06 Thread fabian dacunha
Dear All, apprecite ur kind help n advice I have a Centos 5 server running only squid for sometime and its workin great. i am concerned about security so i have a shorewall firewall on the machine runnign squid n works grt now i would like to know the follwing 1) does anyone one know of any goo

Re: [CentOS] Boot disk order: h/w vs. grub

2008-10-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I'm wondering if there's some more permanent way around this > issue. Do I need to overwrite the MBR on hd0? Should I reconfigure > the system so the PATA drives are not connected to the m/b at all > (i.e., usb enclosures)

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: Dac Chartrand wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:37:27 -0400: > Haha, woops, typo. I meant "They (the provider) didn't give any > answer about threads." Ok, that makes it clear :-) I would think that putting some senseful limits on a VPS is a normal business procedure.

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dac Chartrand wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:48:36 -0400: > I didn't give any answer about > threads. I don't know what this means, but I hope you are now aware that the issue stems from a limit on threads/processes? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services

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

2008-10-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
Damian S wrote: Just one final thing (hope it helps someone in future), according to Dan Walsh, much better (more fine-grained) than setting the allow_execmem boolean is to do this: chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t /opt/ejabberd-2.0.2_2/bin/beam.smp And file this as something the rpm packager

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 6-Oct-08, at 9:34 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: As said: Your problem isn't with non-standard repositories, your problem lies in the way your hoster handles the VPS by limiting the number of threads on the guests. Ok, understood. Thank you for the help and clarification. --- http://www.tr

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 6-Oct-08, at 9:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Dac Chartrand wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:48:36 -0400: I didn't give any answer about threads. I don't know what this means, but I hope you are now aware that the issue stems from a limit on threads/processes? Haha, woops, typo. I meant "The

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Dac Chartrand wrote: > > On 6-Oct-08, at 1:52 AM, John wrote: > >> Could please you possibly do a list of all the installed RPMs on the >> system in question. Just for cause do a grep to list any packages like >> "rf" = rpmforge, "jason or "litka" "centos" > > There no longer any rpm packages with

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On 6-Oct-08, at 1:52 AM, John wrote: Could please you possibly do a list of all the installed RPMs on the system in question. Just for cause do a grep to list any packages like "rf" = rpmforge, "jason or "litka" "centos" There no longer any rpm packages with "jason" or "litka", there are a

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Try turning off yum-fastestmirror and look if yum works again. Yes. This solves the immediate problem. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Apart from that, as you have "inherited" a VPS. What is that? Do you rent > it from a hosting provider? If so, and keeping in mind that there's > obviously a problem with opening more threads (fastestmirror will open > simu

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Dac Chartrand
> > > I don't recall accusing you of that, you mention above you > inherited that system, it's possible that whoever had it before > you screwed it up before you got it. Sorry, the statement of feeling 'accused' falls under reply-to-all. I didn't mean that you accused me. I just felt that thread

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:50:39 +0200: > That is not true. Well, my point was that he's not using a standard setup, that includes not only repo's. I already pointed out in my first reply that he may hit some limit, but he didn't follow up on that. In case there are no limits o

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 4

2008-10-06 Thread centos-announce-request
MS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-16.el4.centos.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Siz

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
nate wrote: > I didn't mean don't use yum, I meant if you want a really > stable system don't use 3rd party repos. Stick to what > is in base, or use a distribution that has the apps/versions > that are closer to what your needs are. That doesn't have anything to do with this problem. Ralph pgp

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > RobertH wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:39:26 -0700: > > > Why does disabling something that the centos website says is "highly > > recommended" (multiple times) fix this issue? > > Because he has a non-standard setup. In case you didn't recognize: > stopping mysqld also fixes

Re: [CentOS] Re: mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Vandaman wrote: > > Dac Chartrand wrote: > > > >> Yum is broken. > > > > Please check your version of python and mysql as I can not imagine that > mysql itself is effecting yum, at least not the way CentOS builds it. It probably is. As already mailed: I suspect a VPS with

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Dac Chartrand wrote: > Greetings. After doing: > > $ yum install mysql-server > $ /etc/init.d/mysqld start > > Yum is broken. Example: > > $ yum list php > Loading "fastestmirror" plugin > Loading "priorities" plugin > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * utterramblings: www.jasonlitka.c

Re: [CentOS] Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Vandaman wrote: > It will be interesting if things went like so :- > > - a CentOS Ivory Tower List for those on top of Ivory Towers. > - a CentOS OT list full of 419 scammers, salesmen/affiliates posts > - a CentOS n00b list for n00bs Nobody ever proposed that. Ralph pgpZbLkvL6kBM.pgp Descript

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Akemi Yagi wrote: >> find . -type f -exec grep -il !* {} \; -exec grep -i !* {} \; -exec echo \; >> >> alias it to, say, findword and run: findword > > Sorry, I missed the "!" in the above paste: > > find . -type f -exec grep -il \!* {} \; -exec grep -i \!* {} \; -exec echo \; If you are usi

Re: [CentOS] Cebit and Centos

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Chris Geldenhuis wrote: > Didi wrote: >> I just read this >> http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/cebit_open_source_linux_magazine_and_linux_foundation_announce_call_for_projects >> >> Maybe Centos want's to try to get a stand. >> > I would be willing to help man a booth at CeBit I absolut

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Bob Hoffman wrote: > You would think the program they use to present the information would > obscure that mail address. Really no reason to show it forever is it? So you haven't looked. pipermail *does* obscure the addresses. Ralph pgpNIp9In8xlb.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: [CentOS] mysqld breaks yum, help?

2008-10-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dac Chartrand wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:44:10 -0400: > Well, here's where I disagree You already admitted that you have a non-standard setup. Besides of that it's a "VPS" of unknown origin and type. Do you consider this standard? Nobody here can know which parts are non-standard. But it's obv

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:58:40 -0500: > > > No, the updates aren't nicely separated into ones that will break the > > services you happen to need and ones that won't. > > Nice picture. I imagine them sitting around the table and rolling some > dice to dete

Re: [CentOS] Discussion: automount problem in 5.2

2008-10-06 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
kapil singh wrote: Hello all, Automount is not working well with centos 5.2, but the same is working nicely with centos 5 . -- Thanks and Regards, Kapil Singh Kushwah Linux System/Network Administrator Hotwax Media Inc. Indore,(M.P) INDIA

Re: [CentOS] Discussion: automount problem in 5.2

2008-10-06 Thread partha chowdhury
kapil singh wrote: Hello all, Automount is not working well with centos 5.2, but the same is working nicely with centos 5 . ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li