Re: [CentOS] Server packet loss and becomes unresponsive

2009-11-02 Thread R-Elists
do you have remote console access i.e. DRAC or ILO ? did you mention if any recent OS or other software updates like 5.3 to 5.4 or otherwise? someone could be DOS'ing the server ??? do you run a firewall and drop bad traffic to the floor or is it wide open? you havent mentioned what the variou

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra help?

2009-11-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009, ML wrote: >Hi All, >Is anyone versed in Zimbra? I have most things working except some MTA >issue. I tried posting on the Zimbra forums after reading the docs, but my >post was labeled as SPAM and the moderators have not replied to my private >message to get my post reviewed.

Re: [CentOS] Server packet loss and becomes unresponsive

2009-11-02 Thread Timothy
From: nate What kind of NIC? 80ms is normal if your going a few thousand miles, how far apart is the system your pinging from? If it's a NIC like a Realtek or something don't think twice just get a good server grade NIC. Broadcom or Intel are common ones. --- It was just an onboard nic(whic

[CentOS] Zimbra help?

2009-11-02 Thread ML
Hi All, Is anyone versed in Zimbra? I have most things working except some MTA issue. I tried posting on the Zimbra forums after reading the docs, but my post was labeled as SPAM and the moderators have not replied to my private message to get my post reviewed. Who uses this type of method for

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Agile Aspect
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/11/2 ML : >> Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? > > Make SSH use PAM for authentication and use the pam_preprofile[1] > module to execute and appropriate script.  You should test with > public/privat

Re: [CentOS] Server packet loss and becomes unresponsive

2009-11-02 Thread nate
Timothy wrote: > Any ideas what could be causing this kind of behavior? What kind of NIC? 80ms is normal if your going a few thousand miles, how far apart is the system your pinging from? If it's a NIC like a Realtek or something don't think twice just get a good server grade NIC. Broadcom or In

[CentOS] Server packet loss and becomes unresponsive

2009-11-02 Thread Timothy
I am at a lost with this server of mine. I have replaced everything except just replacing the entire server. The server is running at a low load but every so often it starts to have high packet loss / latency(the average ms for me is 80 but it jumps to 4000 during this period) and eventually beco

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread nate
John R Pierce wrote: > Device: SEAGATE ST373207LC Version: 0003 > Serial number: 3 Please don't tell me you obscured the serial number intentionally? I find it funny that people go out of their way to obscure their MAC addresses, and even non routable IP address

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

2009-11-02 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:15 AM, "Flaherty, Patrick" wrote: > If you are a good little doobie, check with your san admin to see if > you > need to change your starting block alignment. If he looks at you > funny, > take everything the man says to you with a grain of salt for the > rest of > y

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread John R Pierce
Robert Heller wrote: > Use '/sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md' and note the drive name > (/dev/sd for SCSI or SATA, and /dev/hd for IDE). > > Then '/usr/sbin/smartctl -A ' > > /usr/sbin/smartctl will give you lots of information. Near the > beginning is the serial number. > > You *should* be running sm

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Jon Moore
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > It's unfortunately about the best we've got when device names are > assigned more or less randomly.  NICs are even worse - we need a command > to make the lights blink there too. Not to get too far off topic, but check out 'ethtool -p' I've h

Re: [CentOS] mock, extras vs epel

2009-11-02 Thread Mr. X
--- On Mon, 11/2/09, Todd Denniston wrote: > From: Todd Denniston > Subject: [CentOS] mock, extras vs epel > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:09 PM > I am looking to be a bit more > standard in the builds of my CentOS rpms, and so I was about > to > install mock

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:54:30 -0500 Robert Heller wrote: > > At Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > John R Pierce wrote: > > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to > > >> make them busy, one at a tim

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:47:23 -0800 (PST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > How can I tell wich HDD to swap, when the "cat /proc/mdstat" says one > HDD of the RAID1 array has died? Use '/sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md' and note the drive name (/dev/sd for SCSI or SATA, and /dev/hd for IDE). The

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:02:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > John R Pierce wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to > >> make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc). > >> > > > > hahaha, I've done that, only m

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-11-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532153  (RHEL5) >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532094  (RHEL4) > The bug has to be fixed upstream, thus the above links. Something that > was done in the latest update broke the

[CentOS] mock, extras vs epel

2009-11-02 Thread Todd Denniston
I am looking to be a bit more standard in the builds of my CentOS rpms, and so I was about to install mock but noticed that there is one provided in the centos/5/extras and another in epel. epel is obviously newer, but are there reasons/experiences in this group that would suggest sticking wi

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to >> make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc). >> > > hahaha, I've done that, only my version is... > > # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=512 > > but, same diffe

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? >/dev/null' to > make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc). > hahaha, I've done that, only my version is... # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=512 but, same difference __

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > How can I tell wich HDD to swap, when the "cat /proc/mdstat" says one > HDD of the RAID1 array has died? > > Does the HDD's has some serial numbers, that I can see in "reality", and > I can get that number from e.g.: a commands output? > > How could I know wich HDD t

[CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, ML wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? one assumes, without them being able to over-ride such notification, or even being aware of such ... inotify, watching that end user's directory for an atime change, comes to mind -- Russ herr

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Dan Carl
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > How can I tell wich HDD to swap, when the "cat /proc/mdstat" says one > HDD of the RAID1 array has died? > > Does the HDD's has some serial numbers, that I can see in "reality", > and I can get that number from e.g.: a commands output? > > How could I know wich HDD to

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Muller
On CentOS 5.x you still need to install zimbra with ./install.sh -- platform-override -- Neil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread John R Pierce
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > How can I tell wich HDD to swap, when the "cat /proc/mdstat" says one > HDD of the RAID1 array has died? > > Does the HDD's has some serial numbers, that I can see in "reality", > and I can get that number from e.g.: a commands output? > > How could I know wich HDD to

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread nate
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > Does the HDD's has some serial numbers, that I can see in "reality", and I > can get that number from e.g.: a commands output? You may be able to get serial#s from hdparm or something.. > How could I know wich HDD to swap in e.g.: a RAID1 array? When you set the arra

[CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-02 Thread Eugeneapolinary Ju
How can I tell wich HDD to swap, when the "cat /proc/mdstat" says one HDD of the RAID1 array has died? Does the HDD's has some serial numbers, that I can see in "reality", and I can get that number from e.g.: a commands output? How could I know wich HDD to swap in e.g.: a RAID1 array? th

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Norris
ML wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? > > -Jason If you don't mind making the jump to syslog-ng it's fairly simple to filter ssh login lines to an external script that sends out emails. With stock syslog you could log auth to a named pipe and slurp tha

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/2 ML : > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? Make SSH use PAM for authentication and use the pam_preprofile[1] module to execute and appropriate script. You should test with public/private key logins to ensure that it also works for those. Ben [1] http:/

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote: >On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:14:10PM -0800, ML wrote: >> Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? > >For security auditing purposes? > >You could probably do this by watching /var/log/secure, or even use >something like pam_exec

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:14:10PM -0800, ML wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? For security auditing purposes? You could probably do this by watching /var/log/secure, or even use something like pam_exec. Ray

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread nate
ML wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? > If you wanted a somewhat extensible way to do it, Splunk can, the free version allows up to 500MB of data to be indexed per day.. Otherwise a script that monitors the log. Another way(not sure how reliable) is to p

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:14:10 -0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? Probably in ~/.bash_login, ~/.login, or ~/.profile, after checking various environment variables, etc. > > -Jason > ___

[CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

2009-11-02 Thread ML
Does anyone have thoughts on how to kick off an e-mail on SSH login? -Jason ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Way to go, CentOS team. Here's a hearty "thank you"!

2009-11-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > To the CentOS developers, beta testers, and all who were involved in a > small or major way in the release of CentOS 5.4...thank you. Ignoring the > peer pressure, even though it was out a little later than you (and many of > us) wanted,

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Andy Harrison
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup > system for CentOS? > Have a look at crashplan, too. You can actually do quite a lot for free. I also use dropbox for light-duty stuff, which also serves to sync files between

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Matt wrote: >> Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup >> system for CentOS? > > Just google for -- cheap vps centos -- and see what you find.  You can > SCP your compressed backups into an account quite easily.  We do this > for a mysql database backup.  

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with MS .msg files on Linix

2009-11-02 Thread Mike McCarty
James B. Byrne wrote: > On Mon, November 2, 2009 14:10, Alan Sparks wrote: >> Are they TNEF format? Could something like the following help you? >> Checked the SquirrelMail plugins repo? >> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=62 >> >> > > How can I tell the format from the raw message file

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Matt
> Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup > system for CentOS? Just google for -- cheap vps centos -- and see what you find. You can SCP your compressed backups into an account quite easily. We do this for a mysql database backup. You could also use a cheap web hosting account with FT

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread m . roth
> Dear Mark, > >>> ... So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. >>> >>> We are using Spacewalk to manage /etc/syscon

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.x

2009-11-02 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 20:57 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Craig White schrieb: > > I am trying to install GOsa and it seems to need PHP 5.2 > > Are there reliable repositories for PHP 5.2 for CentOS 5? > > > > Is there some way I can get this to build on CentOS 5? > > > > Craig > > Hi Cr

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.x

2009-11-02 Thread Vnpenguin
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 20:46, CentOS List wrote: >> Are there reliable repositories for PHP 5.2 for CentOS 5? > > Try epl. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL > > I don't think you can found PHP 5.2 at EPEL repo. However I can found PHP 5.2.10 & 5.3 at Remi repo (http://rpms.famillecollet.com/en

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.x

2009-11-02 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Craig White schrieb: > I am trying to install GOsa and it seems to need PHP 5.2 > > So I searched CentOS Plus but no luck > > So I downloaded the src RPM from Fedora 11 and tried to build but got > derailed early on in the process with these errors... > > + cat /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 \ >

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.x

2009-11-02 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 03:46 +0800, CentOS List wrote: > > Are there reliable repositories for PHP 5.2 for CentOS 5? > > Try epl. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL you mean like here ? (a mirror) http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/epel/5/i386/ no, not available Craig -- This message ha

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2.x

2009-11-02 Thread CentOS List
> Are there reliable repositories for PHP 5.2 for CentOS 5? Try epl. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] PHP 5.2.x

2009-11-02 Thread Craig White
I am trying to install GOsa and it seems to need PHP 5.2 So I searched CentOS Plus but no luck So I downloaded the src RPM from Fedora 11 and tried to build but got derailed early on in the process with these errors... + cat /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 \ /usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 \ /us

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with MS .msg files on Linix

2009-11-02 Thread Glenn
At 02:12 PM 11/2/2009, you wrote: >On Mon, November 2, 2009 2:06 pm, James B. Byrne wrote: > > I am a digest subscriber, so the favour of a direct copy of any > > replies is requested. > > > > > > Our firm uses SquirrelMail (SM) for email and we have a client who > > has begun sending us email docu

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with MS .msg files on Linix

2009-11-02 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 2, 2009 14:10, Alan Sparks wrote: > Are they TNEF format? Could something like the following help you? > Checked the SquirrelMail plugins repo? > http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=62 > > How can I tell the format from the raw message file? Other than the XML stuff at th

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with MS .msg files on Linix

2009-11-02 Thread Bo Lynch
On Mon, November 2, 2009 2:06 pm, James B. Byrne wrote: > I am a digest subscriber, so the favour of a direct copy of any > replies is requested. > > > Our firm uses SquirrelMail (SM) for email and we have a client who > has begun sending us email documents that SM cannot open. This is a > MicroSo

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 09-11-02 à 13:47, ML a écrit : > Guys, > >> I would suggest starting out with one of the RHEL versions found on >> the download >> page here . > > Got it, yes, I should have choose the RHEL 5 version. > > Can anyone explain CentOS vs RHEL5 vs F

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Mark, >> ... >>> So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in >>> the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use >>> tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. >> >> We are using Spacewalk to manage /etc/sysconfig/iptab

[CentOS] Dealing with MS .msg files on Linix

2009-11-02 Thread James B. Byrne
I am a digest subscriber, so the favour of a direct copy of any replies is requested. Our firm uses SquirrelMail (SM) for email and we have a client who has begun sending us email documents that SM cannot open. This is a MicroSoft Outlook artifact and I suspect it is tied to the XML used in the

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Kampen
ken wrote: On 11/02/2009 09:36 AM Rob Kampen wrote: ken wrote: On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> Security Level an

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread Fitrah Elly Firdaus
ML wrote: > Guys, > > >> I would suggest starting out with one of the RHEL versions found on the >> download >> page here . >> > > Got it, yes, I should have choose the RHEL 5 version. > > Can anyone explain CentOS vs RHEL5 vs Fedora as I don

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread Bo Lynch
On Mon, November 2, 2009 1:47 pm, ML wrote: > Guys, > >> I would suggest starting out with one of the RHEL versions found on the >> download >> page here . > > Got it, yes, I should have choose the RHEL 5 version. > > Can anyone explain CentOS vs RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread ML
Guys, > I would suggest starting out with one of the RHEL versions found on the > download > page here . Got it, yes, I should have choose the RHEL 5 version. Can anyone explain CentOS vs RHEL5 vs Fedora as I dont really know the differences and

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Take a look @ www.bqbackup.net - they offer very good remote backup > space with SSH access. Amazon S3? A friend uses them and it costs him very little per month. He's been pleased so far. I have no personal experience with them to convey. If it were m

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread cornel panceac
2009/11/2 ML > I am playing around with Zimbra. > > For the install, I selected the Fedora 11 version for x64. > > I am running: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > When I install I get an error: > > This platform is CentOS5_64 > Packages f

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Use Redhat 5 one. CentOS 5.x is binary compatible with RHEL 5.x. Laurent. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread Jon Moore
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM, ML wrote: > For the install, I selected the Fedora 11 version for x64. ---8<--- I would suggest starting out with one of the RHEL versions found on the download page here . I think you'll have better luck with that

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Take a look @ www.bqbackup.net - they offer very good remote backup space with SSH access. On 11/2/09, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Neil Aggarwal > wrote: >> Hello: >> >> Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup >> system for CentOS? > > I assume you mean somet

[CentOS] Zimbra Help

2009-11-02 Thread ML
I am playing around with Zimbra. For the install, I selected the Fedora 11 version for x64. I am running: Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When I install I get an error: This platform is CentOS5_64 Packages found: F11_64 This may or may no

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: > mark wrote: >> *I* would *never* put something that was under 1.0 (actually, 1.0.1) into >> production. > > Keep in mind that version numbers are often fairly arbitrary (esp. on > open source projects). True. Anyone remember this one? 0.99pl92 That's a

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread m . roth
> mark wrote: >> *I* would *never* put something that was under 1.0 (actually, 1.0.1) >> into production. > > Keep in mind that version numbers are often fairly arbitrary (esp. on > open source projects). For example, the Courier mail server, which I've > had in production for the past several yea

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
mark wrote: > *I* would *never* put something that was under 1.0 (actually, 1.0.1) into > production. Keep in mind that version numbers are often fairly arbitrary (esp. on open source projects). For example, the Courier mail server, which I've had in production for the past several years, is cur

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Ron Loftin wrote: > ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type "mount" > with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is > mounted read-write. However, when I try to create a file on that > filesystem as root, I get a "Permission denied" er

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 1

2009-11-02 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread Negative
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM, ken wrote: > On 11/02/2009 09:36 AM Rob Kampen wrote: > > ken wrote: > >> On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: > >> > >>> On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: > >>> > Dear All > To open a port , I know that I need to go to "Syst

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

2009-11-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, ken wrote: [snip] > The OS is already residing on a logical volume.  Is there any compelling > reason to bringing the new partition into lvm (aside from the ease of > resizing it... something I don't anticipate us doing)?  Or should I > simply create an ext3 partit

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup > system for CentOS? I assume you mean something other than the ADrive or Rapidshare type sites? A Google search came up with this one... http://www.rsync.net/ ...but I have no i

Re: [CentOS] nm-applet with wlan0 in CentOS 5.4

2009-11-02 Thread Bernard Lheureux
Fabian Arrotin wrote: Hi Fabian ;-) The log says NOTHING... of course ,I tried to find somethin in it but NOTHING is told avbout this error... But the network works without problem, only an error sign is shown on the nm-applet icon and I cannot see network traffic though it... It's like if nm-apple

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

2009-11-02 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
If you are a good little doobie, check with your san admin to see if you need to change your starting block alignment. If he looks at you funny, take everything the man says to you with a grain of salt for the rest of your life. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf Patrick > -

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread ken
On 11/02/2009 09:36 AM Rob Kampen wrote: > ken wrote: >> On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: >>> Dear All To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> Security Level and Fir

Re: [CentOS] nm-applet with wlan0 in CentOS 5.4

2009-11-02 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Bernard Lheureux wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to find a soluce fo a very annoying problem I have since > I've installed CentOS 5 on my Lenovo R60 Laptop... > Everything works correctly excepted a small thing, the nm-applet of > NetworkManager-gnome always report my wlan0 in error status, e

Re: [CentOS] Real world report for the Newsletter

2009-11-02 Thread Garry.Dale
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > The last "Newsletter survey" found that many people are interested in > how CentOS is used and what people do with it, I would like to invite > anyone who has some spare time or has something to share to write a > little article about

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Kampen
ken wrote: On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> Security Level and Firewall" -> Other ports and then I can open port-5901 as tcp protocol . C

Re: [CentOS] connection refused resolving - after 5.4 upgrade

2009-11-02 Thread Jens Ahlin
Hi, We see the same thing. Massive amounts of entries in Logwatch report. Is logging lame servers to /dev/null the answer here ? Jens > Hi all, > prior to 5.4 upgrade, my two DNS servers would only get > 'connection refused resolving .' > on rare infrequent occasions (once or twic

Re: [CentOS] Bug in freeradius 1.1.3-1.5.el5_4 rpm

2009-11-02 Thread lhecking
Ian Forde writes: > I upgraded one of my servers to CentOS 5.4 today. The freeradius > service (radiusd) didn't start up due to permissions errors. I tracked > it to the permissions on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory being set to > 640 rather than 750, so the radius user couldn't enter the direct

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread ken
On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: > On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: >> Dear All >> To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> >> Security Level and Firewall" -> Other ports and then I can open port-5901 >> as tcp protocol . Can you pl

[CentOS] nm-applet with wlan0 in CentOS 5.4

2009-11-02 Thread Bernard Lheureux
Hello all, I would like to find a soluce fo a very annoying problem I have since I've installed CentOS 5 on my Lenovo R60 Laptop... Everything works correctly excepted a small thing, the nm-applet of NetworkManager-gnome always report my wlan0 in error status, even when my wifi network is connecte

[CentOS] Real world report for the Newsletter

2009-11-02 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey The last "Newsletter survey" found that many people are interested in how CentOS is used and what people do with it, I would like to invite anyone who has some spare time or has something to share to write a little article about how they are using CentOS. I suppose interesting stuff would be