Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-20 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 20.4.2012 21:57, Gustavo Lacoste napsal(a): > Dear CentOS Community > > Is totally clear there's no support to Centos 4 platform today, but I need > to install some packages -ideally- from repositories, so I'll be glad if > someone can provide me still working ones, (obviously non-official). >

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > On 04/20/2012 05:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> You mean when the internet consisted of defense contractors and the >>> universities in that business?  I prefer 'open to the public', even >>> with the baggage it brings. > > Nope, I mean the

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On 04/20/2012 05:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> You mean when the internet consisted of defense contractors and the >> universities in that business? I prefer 'open to the public', even >> with the baggage it brings. Nope, I mean the early nineties, when the Internet was still young and largely sp

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 04/20/2012 11:08 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevicwrote: > >> On 04/13/2012 06:55 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn< >>> denni...@conversis.de> wrote: >>> On 04/12/2012 03:14 PM, Boris Epstein

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-Base.repo file for CentOS-4.9 in Vault

2012-04-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/20/2012 04:22 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > All, > > There have been many people asking for how to do installs now that > CentOS-4 has moved past End Of Life. > > First, I want to tell you that it is VERY dangerous to use CentOS-4 > now. There is at least 1 critical (ie, remotely exploitable ro

[CentOS] CentOS-Base.repo file for CentOS-4.9 in Vault

2012-04-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
All, There have been many people asking for how to do installs now that CentOS-4 has moved past End Of Life. First, I want to tell you that it is VERY dangerous to use CentOS-4 now. There is at least 1 critical (ie, remotely exploitable root) issue on CentOS 4 already: https://access.redhat.com

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 04/13/2012 06:55 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn< > > denni...@conversis.de> wrote: > > > >> On 04/12/2012 03:14 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >>> Hello listmates, > >>> > >>> Here's

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 20, 2012 02:07:39 PM Al Sparks wrote: > > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > > Usenet is, of course, still alive, though a lot of folks know it as google > > groups > My first usenet browser was "rn." Anybody know if 'trn' and C-News are in any CentOS 6 repos? I want to re-live

Re: [CentOS] Building Dovecot CentOS 5 RPMs with custom LDAP packages

2012-04-20 Thread fakessh
Le 2012-04-20 21:45, Nikolaos Milas a écrit : > Hi, > > We are (still) mainly using CentOS 5 (5.8 x86_64). As CentOS / EL 5 > standard OpenLDAP packages are rather old (2.3.x), we've been using > LTB > OpenLDAP packages ( http://ltb-project.org/wiki/download#openldap), > which get installed in non

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/20/2012 3:57 PM, Gustavo Lacoste wrote: > Dear CentOS Community > > Is totally clear there's no support to Centos 4 platform today, but I need > to install some packages -ideally- from repositories, so I'll be glad if > someone can provide me still working ones, (obviously non-official). > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-20 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 03:57:22PM -0400, Gustavo Lacoste wrote: > Dear CentOS Community > > Is totally clear there's no support to Centos 4 platform today, but I need > to install some packages -ideally- from repositories, so I'll be glad if > someone can provide me still working ones, (obviousl

[CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-20 Thread Gustavo Lacoste
Dear CentOS Community Is totally clear there's no support to Centos 4 platform today, but I need to install some packages -ideally- from repositories, so I'll be glad if someone can provide me still working ones, (obviously non-official). If isn't possible I'll move on CentOS5, but (initially) k

[CentOS] Building Dovecot CentOS 5 RPMs with custom LDAP packages

2012-04-20 Thread Nikolaos Milas
Hi, We are (still) mainly using CentOS 5 (5.8 x86_64). As CentOS / EL 5 standard OpenLDAP packages are rather old (2.3.x), we've been using LTB OpenLDAP packages ( http://ltb-project.org/wiki/download#openldap), which get installed in non-standard file system locations. I am not much experienc

Re: [CentOS] defer (not skip) boot fsck?

2012-04-20 Thread Michael Coffman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 04/20/2012 05:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I have some large filesystems that are only used for rarely used > > archived data. Is there any way to specify in fstab or elsewhere that > > if these have passed their 'time to run fsc

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Al Sparks
> From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:49 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project > > Bob Hoffman wrote: >> On 4/20/2012 11:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >>> Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >>>    

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-04-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 03/19/2012 11:28 AM, Philippe Naudin wrote: > I am also using a meta-package to ease installation of "official" > *Office. It is far from perfect, because it don't work if I just do > yum update openoffice, I have to uninstall openoffice* ooobasis* and > then install again openoffice (or libreof

Re: [CentOS] local repo question

2012-04-20 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> You should post entire error text. Are you sure that that dbus package >> is not corrupted? Try downloading it fo local directory and install from >> there. >> Or just delete dbus rpm and run rsync again (or whatever) and then >> createrepo.

Re: [CentOS] local repo question

2012-04-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > my repo line in my kickstart file is: > repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/6/updates/x86_64/ > > Test your repo with yum, try `yum info` on the packages, etc. Take kickstart out of the picture first. -- Giovanni

Re: [CentOS] local repo question

2012-04-20 Thread Jerry Geis
> > You should post entire error text. Are you sure that that dbus package > is not corrupted? Try downloading it fo local directory and install from > there. > Or just delete dbus rpm and run rsync again (or whatever) and then > createrepo. > The rest of the message had no additional information s

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt > wrote:         mark "why, yes, I *do* remember Kantor & Siegal, and the aftermath to them" >> >> Don't get me started. Ah, the good old pre-spam days! > > You mean when the internet consisted of defense contractors

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/20/2012 05:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > You mean when the internet consisted of defense contractors and the > universities in that business? I prefer 'open to the public', even > with the baggage it brings. lets not get carried away, and try to atleast keep conversations CentOS centric. I a

Re: [CentOS] defer (not skip) boot fsck?

2012-04-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 04/20/2012 05:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I have some large filesystems that are only used for rarely used > archived data. Is there any way to specify in fstab or elsewhere that > if these have passed their 'time to run fsck' that it could be put in > the background and the system could go ah

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >>>         mark "why, yes, I *do* remember Kantor & Siegal, and the aftermath >>> to them" > > Don't get me started. Ah, the good old pre-spam days! > You mean when the internet consisted of defense contractors and the universities in that

Re: [CentOS] local repo question

2012-04-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 04/20/2012 06:08 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I tried the two suggestions: > > I am now using "createrepo ." > and chown -R and chmod -R to make sure they are readable by apache. > > I also change my repo line from using 6.2 to just use 6. > repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/

Re: [CentOS] local repo question

2012-04-20 Thread Jerry Geis
I tried the two suggestions: I am now using "createrepo ." and chown -R and chmod -R to make sure they are readable by apache. I also change my repo line from using 6.2 to just use 6. repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/6/updates/x86_64/ I have a symbolic link from 6 to 6

Re: [CentOS] boot-time NFS mount failures

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 19.04.2012 19:30, schrieb Veli-Pekka Kestilä: > You could set in fstab ipaddress instead of the server name, so there is > no need for name lookup or you can put the ip and name in /etc/hosts Tried that now and it didn't help. When the backup server is down, the message is "no route to host"

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Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread m . roth
Bob Hoffman wrote: > On 4/20/2012 11:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> >>> mark "why, yes, I *do* remember Kantor& Siegal, and the >>> aftermath to them" >> Don't get me started. Ah, the good old pre-spam days! > I was not working for a comp

Re: [CentOS] modprobe blacklist

2012-04-20 Thread Markus Falb
On 20.4.2012 16:06, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Markus Falb wrote: >> Hi, >> I am referring to the last kernel update for CentOS 5 >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-April/018578.html >> >> Upstream details tell me that if I dont want to reboot into the new >> kernel I could bl

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/20/2012 11:12 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > >> mark "why, yes, I *do* remember Kantor& Siegal, and the aftermath >> to them" > Don't get me started. Ah, the good old pre-spam days! I was not working for a computer company, but I finally

Re: [CentOS] boot-time NFS mount failures

2012-04-20 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
On 20.4.2012 17:27, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 19.04.2012 19:30, schrieb Veli-Pekka Kestilä: >> On 19.4.2012 20:12, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >>> backup:/home/backup/Oracle /backup_nfs nfs >>> >>> The last time this happened, I found a message on the console: >>> >>> mount: can't get address f

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 20.04.2012 16:02, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey: >>> Oh, that fateful day when AOL joined usenet, and usenet died. >> >> IIRC that wasn't the same day. > > Usenet did not die that way. [...] That's what I was trying to say. >

Re: [CentOS] boot-time NFS mount failures

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 19.04.2012 23:10, schrieb Vahan Yerkanian: >> backup:/home/backup/Oracle /backup_nfs nfs >> hard,intr,noexec,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 > > Just add _netdev to the mount options. > >>From man: > > _netdev > The filesystem resides on a device that requires network access (used to > pre

[CentOS] defer (not skip) boot fsck?

2012-04-20 Thread Les Mikesell
I have some large filesystems that are only used for rarely used archived data. Is there any way to specify in fstab or elsewhere that if these have passed their 'time to run fsck' that it could be put in the background and the system could go ahead and boot, mounting them whenever the operation f

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 20, 2012 10:54:51 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > The CPU has to do the work of the transfer over usb - which is why it > is cheap. Real disk controllers use DMA without a lot of CPU > involvement. And this includes USB 3.0, incidentally. I have found that on my Fedora 14 (soon to be

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Lists wrote: > Problem as follows: > > 1) Plug in an external USB drive. > > 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. > > 3) Copy a few GB of data to the drive from a non-USB disk. > > 4) Watch the load average "climb" to 5.x, sometimes 10.x or more. Why? > This

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2; mount 6TB OSX formatted FW

2012-04-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 19, 2012 02:49:41 PM aurfalien wrote: > Trying to mount an FW800 6TB volumes. > The logs say; > cannot find hfs+ superblock Aurf, (it's Friday: and now I'm channelling Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf pronouncing that name... sorry). My first question is: which HFS+ filesystem mo

Re: [CentOS] boot-time NFS mount failures

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 19.04.2012 19:30, schrieb Veli-Pekka Kestilä: > On 19.4.2012 20:12, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> >> backup:/home/backup/Oracle /backup_nfs nfs >> >> The last time this happened, I found a message on the console: >> >> mount: can't get address for backup >> >> So it seems that the failure wa

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban attempt, anyone want to add anything?

2012-04-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/20/2012 9:25 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > I prefer action = iptables-allports on all of these, so that a source > address attempting a bruteforce attack on one service is immediately > banned from all services. I can't imagine a scenario where a machine > that got blocked, for example, for a

Re: [CentOS] modprobe blacklist

2012-04-20 Thread m . roth
Markus Falb wrote: > Hi, > I am referring to the last kernel update for CentOS 5 > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-April/018578.html > > Upstream details tell me that if I dont want to reboot into the new > kernel I could blacklist the xfrm6_tunnel module. > > How do I test t

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread m . roth
Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey: >> On 19/04/2012 01:28, Larry Martell wrote: >>> >>> 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. >>> You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you. >>> >> Oh, that fateful day when AOL jo

Re: [CentOS] Using eth0 on desktops with single network interface

2012-04-20 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 19, 2012, at 14:14, Scott Robbins wrote: > What I do is this for an existing one. > > I change /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-whatever to ifcfg-eth0 (or > whatever it might be, e.g., eth0 and eth1). I ended up writing a script to automate this on my CentOS 6 systems which looks

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban attempt, anyone want to add anything?

2012-04-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 4/20/2012 9:25 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 20.04.2012 08:02, schrieb Bob Hoffman: > ction = iptables-multiport[name=ApacheAuth, port=80,443, protocol=tcp] > I prefer action = iptables-allports on all of these, so that a > source address attempting a bruteforce attack on one service is > imm

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban attempt, anyone want to add anything?

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 20.04.2012 08:02, schrieb Bob Hoffman: > /etc.fail2ban/jail.conf > In all sections I commented out the mailto section [...] I don't use mailto either. It's just not manageable if you have more than a very small number of machines. > line 16, added a space then my server ip address 123.123.12

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Dmitry Cherkasov
Hi, KVM if used as it is will show very poor performance on CentOS5. To achieve better results you need to update kernel to at least 2.6.32 and compile newer versions of libvirt and qemu. On CentOS6 all is fine with KVM right out of the box. Never used XEN so cannot compare. Dmitry Cherkasov

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Arif Hossain
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > I think this classic from 1996 (author unknown) needs to be resurrected. > > Welcome to the Internet. > > No one here likes you. This is not 1996. Internet is more than a thousands times more accessible to people. Back then people who built

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Rafał Radecki
Why? 2012/4/20 Jonathan Vomacka > On 4/20/2012 8:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and > > CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. > > KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read al

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 4/20/2012 8:59 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi all. > > I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and > CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. > KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for > example PV guest mac

[CentOS] modprobe blacklist

2012-04-20 Thread Markus Falb
Hi, I am referring to the last kernel update for CentOS 5 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2012-April/018578.html Upstream details tell me that if I dont want to reboot into the new kernel I could blacklist the xfrm6_tunnel module. How do I test that the blacklist of a module wor

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/20/2012 04:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. > You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you. Oh, that fateful day when AOL joined usenet, and usenet died. >>> IIRC that wasn't the same day. >> Was

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Arif Hossain
>> Dear Johnny, > > Your past history clearly shows this is a case of the pot calling the > kettle black. > > You have unceremoniously told numerous users to take a flying leap if they > didn't like it your way. > > Please reveal to the "Centos Community" who penned this piece for you to > post. >

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/20/2012 01:59 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: > I am currently building a small test cloud base.. ... > Could you share your experience in these areas? try the centos-virt list ? Lots of people there ( including people who write a lot of the code behind some of these things! ) -- Karanbir Singh +

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 20/04/2012 12:35, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> >> Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey: >>> >>> On 19/04/2012 01:28, Larry Martell wrote: 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. You're already a fu

[CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi all. I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for example PV guest machines, isolation between Dom0 and DomU) about XEN. Ke

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Giles Coochey
On 20/04/2012 12:35, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey: On 19/04/2012 01:28, Larry Martell wrote: 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you. Oh, that fateful day when AOL

Re: [CentOS] local repo question

2012-04-20 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis > If I uncomment the line I get some error about dbus package is incorrect. > for VERSION in "6.2" > do >     mkdir -p /var/www/html/centos/$VERSION/updates/x86_64/Packages Did you check your apache logs for 404s? Try with VERSION = '6'... JD __

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-20 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Apr 20, 2012 2:42 AM, "Lists" wrote: > > Problem as follows: > > 1) Plug in an external USB drive. > > 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. > > 3) Copy a few GB of data to the drive from a non-USB disk. > > 4) Watch the load average "climb" to 5.x, sometimes 10.x or more. Why? > This on an

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 19.04.2012 23:42, schrieb Giles Coochey: > On 19/04/2012 01:28, Larry Martell wrote: >> >> 18) If you're on AOL, don't worry about anything I've said here. >> You're already a fucking laughing stock, and there's no hope for you. >> > Oh, that fateful day when AOL joined usenet, and usenet died.

[CentOS] Cluster with VM and global resources

2012-04-20 Thread Baptiste AGASSE
Hi all, I've a little problem with software cluster provided by CentOS 6.2 (cman, rgmanager & cie), VM cluster services and global cluster resources. Here is my system arch: --- -- |clusternode1 |--+---| GFS2:vmimages1 | --- | ||

Re: [CentOS] Using eth0 on desktops with single network interface

2012-04-20 Thread Lars Hecking
> I think it is still only for certain Dell models and it probably only > works with new 6.2 installs, but it is a badly needed capability to be > able to predictably map the device/config names to the matching > physical NICs. I was wondering about this because the T3500 I'm setting up with fre