Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

2011-10-07 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 10/8/11, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working. > > The anaconda installer makes large drive setups horridly tedious > (especially if reinstalling a lot). I usually try to speed reinstall up by using small / and not reformating /home. Not sure if it w

[CentOS] CentOS CVE "database"?

2011-10-07 Thread Nate Duehr
Was working on a project tonight to document CVE fixes applied to servers, and noted that RedHat has completely jacked up their website. In the past, I've usually just used their website for links to their CVE list, as well as links to their Errata to look up specifics for CentOS machines. It s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

2011-10-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
here is just a small sample of the errors in the messages log after initial boot... I think there is a bug with the video, something to do with grub according to peeps on the net. I want to get rid of abrtd but the computer will never start again if I do..which does not make sense. errors w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

2011-10-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
TE DUKES wrote -- Dd!! I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I initally installed CentOS 6.0 as a desktop and added from there. After that, I uninstalled the 'fluff'. - yea, that is the way I am going to have to go. However, I have done

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

2011-10-07 Thread TE Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bob Hoffman > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:14 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear > > Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working

[CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

2011-10-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working. The anaconda installer makes large drive setups horridly tedious (especially if reinstalling a lot). Package selection seems a bit off... I did a virtualization package, no custom..did not install qemu, libvirt, and all attempts to d

Re: [CentOS] multiple ifcfg-x locations on CentOS-6

2011-10-07 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
James B. Byrne wrote: > $ ll /sysconfig/networking/profiles/* > total 24 > -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 158 Oct 7 15:19 hosts > -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 116 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-br0 > -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 238 Oct 7 15:24 ifcfg-eth0 > -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 117 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-eth1 > -rw-r--r--. 2

Re: [CentOS] BIND and a second server resolving itself

2011-10-07 Thread Robert Spangler
On Friday 07 October 2011 06:25, the following was written: > In the named.conf, located on main.example.com, I am adding my entire 16 > IP block of addresses along with my localhost > options { > allow-recursion { localhost; xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx /29;}; > allow-query { localhost; xxx.xxx

[CentOS] multiple ifcfg-x locations on CentOS-6

2011-10-07 Thread James B. Byrne
CentOS-5 $ ll /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/* total 0 $ ll /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices total 0 CentOS-6 $ ll /sysconfig/networking/profiles total 4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 15:19 default $ ll /sysconfig/networking/profiles/* total 24 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 158 Oct 7 15:19 h

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 3

2011-10-07 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Chroot in CentOS 5.* ?

2011-10-07 Thread Brian Mathis
2011/10/7 Jorge Fábregas : > On 10/07/2011 05:42 AM, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: >> How about chrooted sftp in centos 5.* ? >> If I cannot - do I have to use centos 6.* ? > > The stock SSH package in the CentOS 5 series doesn't have the chroot > functionality.  The one in CentOS 6 does. > > HTH, >

[CentOS] CentOS 6.x cr repo

2011-10-07 Thread Janne TH. Nyman
Team CentOS, Just writing to thank you a lot for the CentOS 6.1 packages made available on the 26th of September. I haven't gone through what updates exactly you guys released in the cr repository but I am well impressed with the improvements. Great timing as my RHEL self-support contract was du

Re: [CentOS] Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?

2011-10-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:32 AM -0500 Jim Perrin wrote: > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/ > Migration_Planning_Guide/index.html > > 4.2 Service Initialization -> > > "In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, *init* from the sysvinit package has been > rep

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-07 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:19:20AM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > I recently stress tested one of our LDAP servers; it handled 100,000 > simultaneous collections and performed over 24,000 group "memberid" > searches per second. Correction; we had 100,000 simultaneous clients; 55,000 bound simultan

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-07 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:16:45PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 19:10 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > LDAP is slow. nscd, sssd, ldapcachemgr et al are all klduges to work > > around that fact. > OpenLDAP is highly optimized and very fast and can search a large DSA > much qui

Re: [CentOS] Chroot in CentOS 5.* ?

2011-10-07 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 10/07/2011 05:42 AM, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > How about chrooted sftp in centos 5.* ? > If I cannot - do I have to use centos 6.* ? The stock SSH package in the CentOS 5 series doesn't have the chroot functionality. The one in CentOS 6 does. HTH, Jorge ___

Re: [CentOS] BIND and a second server resolving itself

2011-10-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
Going to test tomorrow after install, but this is what I am thinking may work in my example.com, located on main.example.com, /named/db.example.com I am adding main2.example.com. IN A xx.xxx.xxx.xxx (this is the second server's ip address) in my example.com, located on main.example.com, /nam

Re: [CentOS] Chroot in CentOS 5.* ?

2011-10-07 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > can I use chroot users in their home directories under centos 5.* using > standard > packages ? How about chrooted sftp in centos 5.* ? for the latter have a look at rssh, it's in repoforge (may be ok depending on what you call "standard") __

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: > You're missing the point. If the query was sufficiently fast then you > don't _need_ to worry about caching, and thus cache coherency, speed of > propagation of changes, inconsistent results between machines etc etc. > > Caching is a _kludge_ to hide an

[CentOS] Chroot in CentOS 5.* ?

2011-10-07 Thread przemolicc
Hello, can I use chroot users in their home directories under centos 5.* using standard packages ? How about chrooted sftp in centos 5.* ? If I cannot - do I have to use centos 6.* ? Regards Przemek Dom pod miastem lub mieszkanie w

[CentOS] BIND and a second server resolving itself

2011-10-07 Thread Bob Hoffman
I am installing my second server in the datacenter but having problems getting to the net with it. I am going to use it as a KVMvirt host and do not want to run bind on its base OS. My thought was to just refer to it in the bind zones as an additional record (main.example.com is the working ser

Re: [CentOS] Mock - Problems building Centos5 package on Centos6 - where can I ask for advice ?

2011-10-07 Thread Morgan Cox
Hi Thank you for your extremely quick (and faster than support from any company..) reply. Sorry, can you give more detail ? >From the look of the error the 'mock centos5' is missing these files :- /usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4 /usr

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Craig White wrote: > I would agree with NSCD adding additional mode failures. I try not to > use it. I know nothing at all about other cache technologies for LDAP. We'd found the tradeoffs with using nscd with a large centralised institutional AD directory to be definitely wor

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote: > Well, somewhat. E.g. my NIS master doesn't need to publish a "passwd" > map in order to provide "auto.home" map or whatever, and I don't need > a "lookup" account to get at the required data in the case of NIS. You could have LDAP that only contained auto