[CentOS] anyone tried firefox 3.5 under centos 5.4

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Janez Kosmrlj > wrote: > > Works fine for me using rpms (rebuilt from the src.rpms) on http://mharris.ca/ > > They're basically slightly altered fedora rpms. You have to read the > spec to see the build arguments required,

[CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, John R Pierce wrote: > Netscape? Try NCSA Mosaic... Where I lived, the best my modem would > do most of the time 19-21kbps... Gopher and/or UUCP was more useful. We regularly test web apps with lynx, elinks and w3m -- I opened a ticket on that just yesterday with one of m

[CentOS] Adverts in the mailing list; was: Infrastructure HELP!

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Also, when you move to a hosted solution, I would appreciate > your considering my company for it. > > Neil When stuff like this moves out of the sig and into the body of the message as a direct solicitation, and (as it seems to me) a person is

Re: [CentOS] Syslog do not work

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:34 -0500, tim_da...@cbca.com wrote: > Guys, attached is copy of both the i) /etc/sysconfig/syslog >ii) /etc/syslog.conf > I have a Centos ver5.3 > > The syslog is not working and also I installed Webmin, also it does not > w

Re: [CentOS] Syslog do not work

On Friday 30 October 2009 16:34, tim_da...@cbca.com wrote: > The syslog is not working Is it rumnning? check it with ps -ef | grep syslogd > and also I installed Webmin, also it does not > work, > this is what the error is " > > Info Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage " >

Re: [CentOS] RAID 10 on Install?

> How can I RAID 10 on install? Does anyone know if this approach: http://www.howtoforge.com/install-ubuntu-with-software-raid-10 Will work for CentOS? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64b

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Given with "VMware VM" you mean a virtual machine on an ESX(i) system > and that the admin just increased the disk size for the VM, you will see > the additional disk space using fdisk / cfdisk as unallocated space. > Either increase your LVM or creat

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

Tru Huynh wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 02:35:23PM -0600, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I literally figured that out yesterday - I'm rolling out the 5.3->5.4 >> upgrades. One thing though - on some servers that still had 5.2, yum >> crashed on sfpio I then did yum update yum, and it stopped >> dyin

Re: [CentOS] RAID 10 on Install?

Nate, >> How can I RAID 10 on install? (the names myRAID1 and myRAID2 are just >> for example purposes) > > 3rd time this question has been asked in the past few weeks, I believe > the answer is not using the normal installer. I believe if you make > a custom installer with the right modules you c

Re: [CentOS] RAID 10 on Install?

ML wrote: > Hi All, > > How can I RAID 10 on install? (the names myRAID1 and myRAID2 are just > for example purposes) 3rd time this question has been asked in the past few weeks, I believe the answer is not using the normal installer. I believe if you make a custom installer with the right modules

[CentOS] RAID 10 on Install?

Hi All, How can I RAID 10 on install? (the names myRAID1 and myRAID2 are just for example purposes) I select a custom layout /dev/sda, sdb, sdc, sdd are listed... I create a partition of Software RAID on each of sda, sdb, sdc, sdd Create a swap partition on sda? Click RAID and take sda

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

ken schrieb: > Hey, group, > > I've got a system installed on a VMware VM. The SAN administrator > allocated me more disk space from the (EMC) SAN and I need ultimately to > create another partition to mount on the filesystem. Two (initial) > questions about this: Given with "VMware VM" you mea

Re: [CentOS] iptables -d fqdn instead of IP

On Thursday 29 October 2009 19:57, Ryan Lynch wrote: > No offense, Robert, but I don't think yours is a very helpful > statement. I think it is about time you get off my back! > When someone asks about alternative web servers, do we just > tell them "Best bet is to stay with Apache"? That'

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

On 10/30/09, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: >> Prior to the release of CentOS 5.4 I believe two updated 5.4 kernels >> were released as part of 5.3 >> 2.6.18-164.el5 and 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 >> Now that 5.4 is released we have just the 2.6.18-164.

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 02:35:23PM -0600, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > I literally figured that out yesterday - I'm rolling out the 5.3->5.4 > upgrades. One thing though - on some servers that still had 5.2, yum > crashed on sfpio I then did yum update yum, and it stopped > dying; though it still f

Re: [CentOS] crontab won't work

Dianne wrote: > On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Now here's what I have on the local backup server : >> >> [r...@grossebertha:~] # crontab -l >> 24 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/sauvegarde.sh > > You may have checked already, but make sure that crond is running, > i.e. /sbin/service cro

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

Dianne wrote: > On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Adriano Frare wrote: >> >> Today , I ran command yum update and I received follow error below. >> >> === BEGIN = >> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror >> Determining fastest mirrors >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "

[CentOS] Syslog do not work

Guys, attached is copy of both the i) /etc/sysconfig/syslog ii) /etc/syslog.conf I have a Centos ver5.3 The syslog is not working and also I installed Webmin, also it does not work, this is what the error is "

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

On 10/30/2009 03:43 PM, Adriano Frare wrote: >File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 416, in start > _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ()) > thread.error: can't start new thread > = END = > > > How I do solve it? > how much ram do you have ? how

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

At Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:14:54 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Cylinders are largely logical - even in magnetic disks you have no way > of knowing if the logical cylinder matches up with the physical > construct of a cylinder on the disk medium - in any modern(15 years ?) > disk they won'

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Adriano Frare wrote: Dear Friends, Today , I ran command yum update and I received follow error below. === BEGIN = Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 2

Re: [CentOS] crontab won't work

Niki Kovacs wrote: > Now I don't have the slightest clue why this doesn't work. What's the > magic word here ? You check the cron log? maybe it ran it just had an error so it didn't produce the results you expected. It's also good to send STDOUT/STDERR to a file for easier debugging of cron stuf

Re: [CentOS] crontab won't work

On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Now here's what I have on the local backup server : [r...@grossebertha:~] # crontab -l 24 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/sauvegarde.sh You may have checked already, but make sure that crond is running, i.e. /sbin/service crond status. I get crond (pid

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, ken wrote: > Hey, group, Hi. > What steps do I need to take prior to creating a new partition with > fdisk?  (The SAN space, BTW, is connected through VMware.) How's the storage being exported? -jonathan ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

On 10/30/09, John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > I modified my kickstart to do some custom partioning and formating in a > pre-install script. > I am trying to align the partitions on the RAID stripe (and format with a > correct stride). > But, sfdisk complains that it does not start/end on a cylinder bound

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

On 10/30/09, Rob Kampen wrote: > Please excuse a possibly dumb question. > Prior to the release of CentOS 5.4 I believe two updated 5.4 kernels > were released as part of 5.3 > 2.6.18-164.el5 and 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 > Now that 5.4 is released we have just the 2.6.18-164.el5 kernel. > Now the dumb q

[CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

Hey, group, I've got a system installed on a VMware VM. The SAN administrator allocated me more disk space from the (EMC) SAN and I need ultimately to create another partition to mount on the filesystem. Two (initial) questions about this: What steps do I need to take prior to creating a new pa

[CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

hi, Just wondering what people use / recommend to keep multiple machines in sync with their iptables policy. What I use at the moment: 1) Puppet, to setup and manage a fairly complex per service type ruleset that is then maintained on the remote machines by puppet ( in that it brings together

[CentOS] crontab won't work

Hi, I have a strange problem here. I have two servers, one dedicated webserver, and a local backup server. On the webserver I have this : [r...@12569hpv163154:~] # crontab -l 00 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/sauvegarde-pmbccps.sh This launches a backup script every day at 22:00, and it works as expe

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

Cylinders are largely logical - even in magnetic disks you have no way of knowing if the logical cylinder matches up with the physical construct of a cylinder on the disk medium - in any modern(15 years ?) disk they won't. Don't worry about cylinders, just align your fs to the stripe/sector. O

[CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

Dear Friends, Today , I ran command yum update and I received follow error below. === BEGIN = Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_cod

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: > Prior to the release of CentOS 5.4 I believe two updated 5.4 kernels > were released as part of 5.3 > 2.6.18-164.el5 and 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 > Now that 5.4 is released we have just the 2.6.18-164.el5 kernel. > Now the dumb question - wha

Re: [CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

> So, for my first partition (96MB): > begin=256 > size = ( ( 96 * 1024 * 2 ) / 8160 ) * 8160 = 195840 sectors > end = 195840 - 1 - 256 = 195583 Oops, I meant: begin = 256 size = 96 * 1024 * 2 = 196608 sectors end = ( ( begin + size ) / 8160 ) * 8160 - 1 = 195839 aligned_size = end

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/30/2009 02:52 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: If some kind soul would please enlighten me. rpm -qa --last 164.2.1 was never released in the 5.3/updates - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

On 10/30/2009 02:52 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > If some kind soul would please enlighten me. rpm -qa --last 164.2.1 was never released in the 5.3/updates - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

Please excuse a possibly dumb question. Prior to the release of CentOS 5.4 I believe two updated 5.4 kernels were released as part of 5.3 2.6.18-164.el5 and 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 Now that 5.4 is released we have just the 2.6.18-164.el5 kernel. Now the dumb question - what happened to the updated ke

[CentOS] Stripe vs Cylinder alignement...

Hi, I modified my kickstart to do some custom partioning and formating in a pre-install script. I am trying to align the partitions on the RAID stripe (and format with a correct stride). But, sfdisk complains that it does not start/end on a cylinder boundary (used -L option to limit complaining

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 :: partitionable RAID1

> Hi! Did anyone tried this on 5.4? having a look on > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 > is would seem that that mkinitrd patch is no longer required. > Can someone ack this? i just looked at the mkinitrd on my stock 5.4 system and it does not seem to have patches in

Re: [CentOS] Default ACL question (EXECUTE BIT)

On Oct 30, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2009 10:32:30 pm nate wrote: >> It's been eons since I played with acls, but I thought you can >> only view acls via getfacl(or other similar commands) ls -l doesn't >> do anything to show acls, only unix-style permissi

Re: [CentOS] RAM errors after kernel-update

Hi, to finish that story: The error was actually produced by a faulty motherboard. Tyan replaced it without much trouble. Be advised that MEMTEST86+ couldn't find the problem. > thanks for your immediate response. I will replace the board, but I am > wondering what the error message actually mea

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

ken wrote: > On 10/29/2009 04:03 PM Dave wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Meenoo Shivdasani > > wrote: >> >> >> BOOTPROTO=bootp is triggering it. >> >> >> I'm confused. I just rebooted another machine with 'BOOTPROTO=bootp' in >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

On 10/29/2009 04:03 PM Dave wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Meenoo Shivdasani > wrote: > > > BOOTPROTO=bootp is triggering it. > > > I'm confused. I just rebooted another machine with 'BOOTPROTO=bootp' in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth, it did

Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

Hi, Per Qvindesland wrote: > > What is the model number? A 1300 something, but I solved it - the "hard reset". mark > > Regards > Per Qvindesland > > At Thursday, 29-10-2009 on 20:27 "Robert" wrote: > > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than

Re: [CentOS] Default ACL question (EXECUTE BIT)

On Thursday 29 October 2009 10:32:30 pm nate wrote: > It's been eons since I played with acls, but I thought you can > only view acls via getfacl(or other similar commands) ls -l doesn't > do anything to show acls, only unix-style permissions. Hello nate, Yes, I use getfacl to see the ACLs but in

Re: [CentOS] printers... (HP)

Hi What is the model number? Regards Per Qvindesland At Thursday, 29-10-2009 on 20:27 "Robert" wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I can't remember if I asked here - I've got more than one printer, HP, > laser, builtin JetDirect. When I go there in a browser, I see the basic > thing, but I can't

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

On 10/30/2009 10:49 AM, ML wrote: >> Also, lets keep the soliciting for business off this list please. > > Didn't you just contradict yourself? > > How can we support companies that contribute and help the project if > we don't know what each others companies do and specialize in? No, not really.

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

Karan, >> Also, when you move to a hosted solution, I would appreciate >> your considering my company for it. > > I would highly recommend people consider companies that contribute and > help with the project rather than those that dont. > > Also, lets keep the soliciting for business off this lis

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 :: partitionable RAID1

Hi! Did anyone tried this on 5.4? having a look on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 is would seem that that mkinitrd patch is no longer required. Can someone ack this? Thanks, Adrian smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature __

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

On 10/29/2009 06:11 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Also, when you move to a hosted solution, I would appreciate > your considering my company for it. I would highly recommend people consider companies that contribute and help with the project rather than those that dont. Also, lets keep the soliciti

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

On 10/29/2009 05:59 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > If you want speed, use RAID 10. > Neil, you have been on the list long enough to know howto use it and work with the other people on the list, so keeping that in mind - dont top post. most of the stuff coming from you just breaks the thread. - K

Re: [CentOS] Benefits of VMWare 2.0 over 1.x?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > MHR wrote: >> I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on >> 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it. >> >> I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any >> significant benefit to moving to the 2