Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks Cornel. Thanks Jatin On 4/2/2010 11:22 AM, cornel panceac wrote: 2010/4/2 Jatin Davey mailto:jasho...@cisco.com>> Ok, i figured out the issue , Did some google on it and found this useful link on usage of proxy. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-proxy-environme

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread cornel panceac
2010/4/2 Jatin Davey > Ok, i figured out the issue , Did some google on it and found this > useful link on usage of proxy. > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-proxy-environment-variable/ > > or even better: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-yum-proxy-server.html -- Among

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Ok, i figured out the issue , Did some google on it and found this useful link on usage of proxy. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-proxy-environment-variable/ Thanks Kwan , Thanks kwan for questioning me on the proxy usage. Thanks Jatin On 4/2/2010 10:51 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: > Hi

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi Kwan I executed the following on the host that was having problem: [r...@localhost yum.repos.d]# wget http://www.google.com --22:14:25-- http://www.google.com/ Resolving www.google.com... 74.125.19.105, 74.125.19.99, 74.125.19.106, ... Connecting to www.google.com|74.125.19.105|:80... failed:

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to download and install the net-snmp package. Usually on my > other CentOS boxes i use the following command to do it: > > yum install net-snmp > > I was able to successfully install net-snmp on 4 of my CentOS boxes but > not on

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
These are my contents of the CentOS-Base.repo file: [r...@localhost yum.repos.d]# vi CentOS-Base.repo #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$rel

[CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I wanted to download and install the net-snmp package. Usually on my other CentOS boxes i use the following command to do it: yum install net-snmp I was able to successfully install net-snmp on 4 of my CentOS boxes but not on one of them. It reports me the following error message: [r...@lo

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > but I just don't like to do it. 30 systems? Yoik! Out of ~300 .. > As for moving from 4 to 5, that's not a trivial thing at all - and > it's not an "upgrade" per se unless you have LOTS of faith in the > process. I always reinstall across releases, and that's a royal pain > (thoug

Re: [CentOS] centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:25 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Will the below config allow me to push using slurp... to the d that is; > > primary ldap slapd.conf; > replica uri=ldap://ldap.dns.name:389 > binddn="cn=replicauser,dc=domain,dc=name" bindmethod=simple > credentials

Re: [CentOS] centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)

2010-04-01 Thread aurfalien
Hi Craig, Will the below config allow me to push using slurp... to the d that is; primary ldap slapd.conf; replica uri=ldap://ldap.dns.name:389 binddn="cn=replicauser,dc=domain,dc=name" bindmethod=simple credentials=passofreplicauser secondarie{s} ldap slapd.conf; updatedn cn=replicauser,dc=

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > CentOSPlus has the firewire drivers... > I asked about this a little while back, and I'm pretty sure the firewire drivers are ok in the non-plus CentOS. Or did I get that one wrong? mhr ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:44 AM, nate wrote: > > You might be surprised how many outages it takes to co-ordinate > such an upgrade in a medium-large environment(and nobody including > me likes to take *everything* down at once though we did have > such an outage a few weeks ago to move a storage a

Re: [CentOS] centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
slurpd is a push technology and yes, I have multiple 'slaves' on slurpd. Craig On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 11:50 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks Craig, > > Do you have multiple secondary LDAPs using slurpd? > > Its is pushing or pulling? > > I may just use that. > > - Brian > On Apr 1, 2

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 1:35 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that still seems like it was a good move even if most of the problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with >>

Re: [CentOS] centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)

2010-04-01 Thread aurfalien
Thanks Craig, Do you have multiple secondary LDAPs using slurpd? Its is pushing or pulling? I may just use that. - Brian On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:36 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> From what I gather, OpenLDAP on Centos 5.x pulls

Re: [CentOS] System and Server Status help ?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 8:06 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > dear all, > > i can't count the times that webmin came to my rescue. > whenever i face a dead end in doing something through CLI i always turn to > webmin.. > though at the moment i wanna learn how to do things through cli instead of > relying on webm

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:29:26 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 4/1/2010 12:08 PM, R-Elists wrote: > > > >> > >> I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off > >> upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that > >> still seems like it was a good move even if most of t

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 1:12 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Ryan Manikowski wrote: >> If you have your own account on each of the boxes the ssh key method is >> the best. >> >> 1) Create ssh keys for YOUR unprivileged user account. >> >> 2) Add YOUR account to /etc/sudoers by adding:

Re: [CentOS] centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)

2010-04-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:36 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > From what I gather, OpenLDAP on Centos 5.x pulls LDAP changes from > central LDAP server to a secondary LDAP server. > > So in other words, you can have your second LDAP server pull the db > based on either; > > type=re

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Ryan Manikowski wrote: > If you have your own account on each of the boxes the ssh key method is > the best. > > 1) Create ssh keys for YOUR unprivileged user account. > > 2) Add YOUR account to /etc/sudoers by adding:  user    ALL=NOPASSWD: > /bin/su - > > Then fr

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application that simplifies tracking installed packages.

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Yungwei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > > > As the number of hosts increases, it's getting harder to keep track of what > packages have been installed on each host using yum or rpm. > > So I am wondering if there's an existing application that helps you keep > track of what p

Re: [CentOS] Looking for an application that simplifies tracking installed packages.

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 12:32 PM, Yungwei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > As the number of hosts increases, it's getting harder to keep track of > what packages have been installed on each host using yum or rpm. > > So I am wondering if there's an existing application that helps you keep > track of what packages install

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, nate wrote: >> >> I *just* finished upgrading to CentOS 5.4 6 days ago. >> > > How many people got trampled in the rush? You might be surprised how many outages it takes to co-ordinate such an upgrade in a medium-large environment(and nobody including

[CentOS] centos + ldap + syncrepl (push vs pull)

2010-04-01 Thread aurfalien
Hi, From what I gather, OpenLDAP on Centos 5.x pulls LDAP changes from central LDAP server to a secondary LDAP server. So in other words, you can have your second LDAP server pull the db based on either; type=refreshOnly which mean the pull interval will happen when ever you specify or; t

[CentOS] Looking for an application that simplifies tracking installed packages.

2010-04-01 Thread Yungwei Chen
Hi, As the number of hosts increases, it's getting harder to keep track of what packages have been installed on each host using yum or rpm. So I am wondering if there's an existing application that helps you keep track of what packages installed on each host. Thanks. __

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 12:08 PM, R-Elists wrote: > >> >> I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off >> upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that >> still seems like it was a good move even if most of the >> problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with >> many years el

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread R-Elists
> > I thought 4 was too buggy compared to 3 and held off > upgrading most machines until 5 was out. In retrospect that > still seems like it was a good move even if most of the > problems in 4 were eventually fixed in updates. But with > many years elapsing between releases, skipping a vers

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread R-Elists
> > > > RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May > 31, 2009). > > > > RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010. > > > > RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012 > > Since the world will end in 2012, your version 5 installs > will be just fine!!! >LOL > Scott, hehe

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-1-2010 6:42 AM Benjamin Franz spake the following: > Mogens Kjaer wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: >> ... >> >>> Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. >>> Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about >>> to reduce the life cycle from 7

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread MHR
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM, nate wrote: > > I *just* finished upgrading to CentOS 5.4 6 days ago. > How many people got trampled in the rush? ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread nate
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable system was "too > conservative", given the somewhat outdated software. I told him not to > mind, since Debian is bleeding edge compared to my OS of choice. Maybe your friend needs another distro, of course everyone knows

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 9:11 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Mathieu Baudier a écrit : >>> Afaik it's based on Fedora 12. >> >> Recent activity on the EPEL repo mailing list [1] seems to indicate >> that they plan to branch EPEL-6 packages from Fedora 12. >> > > Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/1/2010 10:14 AM, R-Elists wrote: > > >> They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would >> get into contract liability if they did). >> >> RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009). >> >> RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010. >> >> RHEL4 will go o

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Ryan Manikowski
If you have your own account on each of the boxes the ssh key method is the best. 1) Create ssh keys for YOUR unprivileged user account. 2) Add YOUR account to /etc/sudoers by adding: userALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su - Then from there you can use clusterssh to connect to all the boxes simultaneous

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread R-Elists
> They won't change the cycle for existing releases (they would > get into contract liability if they did). > > RHEL2 is already out of support (it was end-of-lifed on May 31, 2009). > > RHEL3 will go out of support Oct 31, 2010. > > RHEL4 will go out of support Feb 29, 2012 > > RHEL5 will

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Bazy wrote: >> >> Short of finding some remotely exploitable vulnerability, you'll have >> to visit each server and login. Imagine if you *could* create IDs >> without root authority? :D >> >> Are the servers identically configured? >> >> If you can login remotely as r

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Mathieu Baudier a écrit : >> Afaik it's based on Fedora 12. > > Recent activity on the EPEL repo mailing list [1] seems to indicate > that they plan to branch EPEL-6 packages from Fedora 12. > Recently a friend of mine complained his Debian stable system was "too conservative", given the somewh

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Benjamin Franz
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: > ... > >> Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. >> Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about >> to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses >> the same EL major r

[CentOS] New Newsletter release public

2010-04-01 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey As you all might know the new Newsletter is now online [1]. I just want to thank all the people that have helped and contributed again. This is what makes the C in CentOS :) Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/Latest -- Hoffmann Geerd-Dietger http://contact.ribalba.de __

Re: [CentOS] System and Server Status help ?

2010-04-01 Thread John Doe
From: Roland RoLaNd > i can't count the times that webmin came to my rescue. > whenever i face a dead end in doing something through CLI i always > turn to webmin.. > though at the moment i wanna learn how to do things through > cli instead of relying on webmin as i said.. > especially "System a

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Afaik it's based on Fedora 12. Recent activity on the EPEL repo mailing list [1] seems to indicate that they plan to branch EPEL-6 packages from Fedora 12. I guess that they are well informed, so this supports the idea that Fedora 12 will be the basis for RHEL 6. [1] https://www.redhat.com/arc

[CentOS] testing

2010-04-01 Thread William Warren
Having list issues..sorry. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 31.03.2010 18:47, schrieb MHR: > Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS > team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC > it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), > so I have to wonder. > > I didn't see anything j

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Bazy
> > Short of finding some remotely exploitable vulnerability, you'll have > to visit each server and login. Imagine if you *could* create IDs > without root authority? :D > > Are the servers identically configured? > > If you can login remotely as root you can automate some of them via > expect. Wh

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread William Warren
I'm not surprised at the "delay" for RHEL 6. Consider 2.x is still supported this means they are supporting 4 different RHEL versions right now. I would actually wait until at least 2.x dies..if not maybe 3.x before spitting out another version. On 4/1/2010 7:16 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 0

Re: [CentOS] Sending mail from CLI to another SMTP host

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Is it possible to send mail from CLI (bash, python) without any LOCAL > SMTP installed, using SMTP on another machine. > Care to give a glimpse of the code? > Thank you. Personally, I'd use the default Centos install of sendmail because it's there, it's easy, and

[CentOS] System and Server Status help ?

2010-04-01 Thread Roland RoLaNd
dear all, i can't count the times that webmin came to my rescue. whenever i face a dead end in doing something through CLI i always turn to webmin.. though at the moment i wanna learn how to do things through cli instead of relying on webmin as i said.. especially "System and Server Status" the

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Bazy wrote: > Hello folks, > > Unfortunately I have to add 2 users on 200 servers that do not have > centralized authentication or sudo or the same room password. I tried > doing this with expect and "su -" but the script fails or acts funny. > Please advise me or t

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Bazy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bazy wrote: >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> Unfortunately I have to add 2 users on 200 servers that do not >> have you checked man newusers? >> >> Regards, >> >> Rajagopal >

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/31/2010 11:43 PM, Milos Blazevic wrote: ... > Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. > Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about > to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses > the same EL major release for more than 5 years. I m

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/31/2010 09:19 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: ... > Yeah.. and with a fast internet connection it takes LONGER to build up > the new rpms from the deltarpms compared to just downloading the new rpms > as full packages :) I've noticed that too on my eee 901 with a slow flash disk. yum remove yum

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Bazy wrote: > > Thanks Raja. My problem is connecting to those 200 servers and su-ing > in, they all have different root passwords. If you have _that_ kind of infrastructure you are better off using a Directory server too. If you have telnet, you can t

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Bazy
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bazy wrote: >> Hello folks, >> >> Unfortunately I have to add 2 users on 200 servers that do not > > have you checked man newusers? > > Regards, > > Rajagopal Thanks Raja. My problem is

Re: [CentOS] CUPS and virtual interfaces

2010-04-01 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" >> Yes, the CUPS Manual says: >> "Multiple Listen directives can be provided to >> listen on multiple addresses" > Well, did that... and no joy, from another box, I can still > telnet to the server on one of the virtual IPs, port 631. > I can't really play around much,

Re: [CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bazy wrote: > Hello folks, > > Unfortunately I have to add 2 users on 200 servers that do not have you checked man newusers? Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

[CentOS] adding users on multiple servers

2010-04-01 Thread Bazy
Hello folks, Unfortunately I have to add 2 users on 200 servers that do not have centralized authentication or sudo or the same room password. I tried doing this with expect and "su -" but the script fails or acts funny. Please advise me or tell me where I need to look... Thanks and regards, Baz

Re: [CentOS] Sending mail from CLI to another SMTP host

2010-04-01 Thread James Bensley
http://www.rdpslides.com/webresources/FAQ00035.htm -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get software using Yum

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks John. Actually had to use "yum clean all" and then used yum to install the net-snmp package and it worked great. Good to go with my testing. Appreciate your help in this regard. Thanks Jatin On 4/1/2010 11:39 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote: > >> http://centos.corenetwo