Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On 02/02/12 00:26, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Is anyone looking at salt instead of puppet yet? http://saltstack.org/ > I had such a bad experience with puppet, that I ran like a jilted teenage lover on a rebound into the arms of chef... unfortunately I may not have reviewed all the options (includ

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On 02/02/12 00:04, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > Next was auditing, which I think may apply to your question. > > For the configurations, we are experimenting with cfengine and puppet. They > allow you to track configuration changes, reset changes, etc.. I've also > used CVS to track configuration files di

[CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
Hi CentOS experts,* Short Version* I would like to produce a weekly report in HTML for each CentOS 5.x server we have indicating configuration compliance with some industry benchmark. I am looking for a tool or tools to implement this, I am happy to use 3rd party proprietary stuff if necessary

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:44 PM, John Hinton wrote: > On 9/1/2011 1:19 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter  wrote: >> >> from >> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.htm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> On 08/31/2011 08:51 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: >>> >>> In the past this was my partition scheme: >>> >>> Root filesystem (/) = 10240MB (10GB) >>> /boot = 200MB >>> swap =  1024MB (1GB) >>> /var = 20480MB (20GB) >>> /tmp = 10240MB (10GB) >>> /

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 & 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- > > iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP > > I got: > >        iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 > > uname -a =  2.6.35.4 #2  (don't know how this got ins

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-27 Thread Tom H
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31652 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:39 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > > no -- it was off topic noise, not a WAG > > -- speculation and randon attempts at entertainment do not > belong or matter here, any more than Roth's failure to google > and read the back archives of the proper mailing lists did > > If you nee

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/25/11 2:58 PM, Craig White wrote: >> some of us have moved to ubuntu/deb but I think the real reason is... >> >> http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2010-November/018282.html > > I saw that when I was perusing the mail list archi

Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?

2011-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote: > Lucian wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:25 PM,   wrote: >>> When did they change/lose their name? >>> >>> I was trying to go there here at work, and the site was blocked. I put >>> in >>> a ticket, and get a response that I may have been looking for re

Re: [CentOS] stupid question about kickstart file

2011-08-19 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >>Boot from the DVD/ISO, press "tab" at the first install screen, and >>point to your ks file with "ks=,,,". > > Right, but that doesn't answer his question. The op does not have > ip connectivity: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Re

Re: [CentOS] stupid question about kickstart file

2011-08-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > Is is possible to use kickstart file to install rhel from dvd drive? > Mainly idea is to clone one anaconda.ks file to about twenty > machines.? > examples? ftp/http/dhcp is not possible due to network limitations. I do this when creatin

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step > did a basic > install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate > the > installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.c

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with >> normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, >> ping, tracert, dig

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > I need to setup a real bare minimum CentOS Virtual Machine, but with > normal internet / network access. i.e. I need SSH, Mutt, Links, lynx, > ping, tracert, dig, iptables, etc. > > Does anyone know where (if?) I can get a list of applications

Re: [CentOS] offline root lvm resize

2011-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Sean Hart wrote: > > Finally figured it out, took me a good part of the day but.. > For some reason the device names of the raid arrays where changed md0 > became md126 and md1 became md127. this all must have happened while > in fedora 15 livecd. I have no idea wh

Re: [CentOS] centos6 xen

2011-07-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:44:18AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> That blaming CentOS for the switch to KVM and the deprecation of Xen >> doesn't make sense since it's simply re-rpm'ing RHEL. > > Ok

Re: [CentOS] centos6 xen

2011-07-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:41 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:27:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> 2. A so-called Enterprise Operating System like RHEL. > > And your gratuitous edit of this point serves what purpose exactly? That blaming CentOS for the

Re: [CentOS] centos6 xen

2011-07-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Peltonen > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:56 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:53:23AM +0200, Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: i think i am not the only one who wants

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? >> >> When I try to boot the "Live" ISO it starts to do the countd

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > > I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo.  This works > just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored.  I > have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet > zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/li

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

2011-07-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/23/11 12:09 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Even after this explanation I don't understand your objection to >> helping someone with a firewall and routing issue on a CentOS box. You >> might have a point if

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

2011-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/23/11 10:22 AM, Kristopher Kane wrote: >> >> > this sort of thing really belongs on an iproute2/netfilter mail list, >> > however, as its not at all centos specific. >> >> So John, exactly what is CentOS specific?  Should I only read th

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, July 22, 2011 02:10:22 PM Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use "sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 >> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --set --type=boolean true" >> because the "gdm" user contr

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: > >> Those options are no longer supported in GDM. I think that they were >> removed with GDM 2.24 (at the latest, probably 2.22) and C6 is running >> GDM 2.30. > > That is unfortunate... I suppose I will just have to i

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, July 22, 2011 12:22:31 PM Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> >> Using gdm is getting harder and harder but you can try: >> >> gconftool-2 --direct \ >>   --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ >>   --type bool --set /a

Re: [CentOS] kickstart ksdevice in centos6

2011-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > I have a line in my kickstart file (ksdevice) > > # Network information > network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on > # Default network to boot > ksdevice=eth0 > # Auto reboot (to being next install faze) > reboot > > However its sti

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, wrote: > fred smith wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, >> 5.4.4.4 wrote: >> >>> In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in >>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as >> >> In later Fedora releases, GDM has become le

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: > > In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf > such as > > [server-Standard] > name=Standard server > command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 > chooser=false > handled=true > flexible

Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > Fedora 12-15 for example need more space on boot partition (500MB is I > am not mistaken) and CentOS5/Fedora6 only needed <100MB. F12-F15 need a larger "/boot" for the "preupgrade" tool (to upgrade from one version to the next) to ru

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > There is no "GNOME Desktop Environment" group. Check with yum > grouplist and you will see. And even installing "KDE Desktop" won't > help, because it is not starting automatically. And then, we don't > have runlevels any more, this me

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 22:13 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> > Boris Epstein wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? >> >

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: >>> >>> Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? >>> >>> How are you mounting the export? If you're not trying it from within >>> Terminal, does it work from within it? >> >> The OS X firewall dos not appear to be a factor. Actuall

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> >> As Tom mentioned, you need the "insecure" exports option on the NFS server >> side, otherwise I don't do anything special on the client. I'm sourcing >> the automount maps through LDAP. Try mounting via IP address rather than >> NFS serv

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-06-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a > variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X > 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain > yet reads nothing over t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:47 PM, wrote: > > Or edit /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3, or just init 3 from the > command line (which you can reach via -f1) or I think you can > append 3 to the kernel line... That doesn't work on Debian/Ubuntu because runlevels 2-5 are the same.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Craig White wrote: > > those days will be over soon as even fedora has now switched to upstart > > CentOS 7 (based on upstream 7) will be a vastly different beast CentOS 7 will most probably have systemd not upstart. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Craig White wrote: >>> >>> Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use. >>> In fact, it's sort

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >>> >>> Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line. >> >> To boot into

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > Mint/Ubuntu don't have an easy way to boot into the command line. To boot into "everything but X", you can append "text" to the kernel (grub1) or linux (grub2) line in the grub configuration. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Craig White wrote: > > Like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu LTS is absolutely appropriate for server use. > In fact, it's sort of refreshing to set up a new server that isn't > overloaded with bloat from the very start. Setting up a new VMWare image > w/ Ubuntu Server takes at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> I wouldn't generalize based on your experience because Mint hasn't >> become a very popular distribution by being broken. Same goes for >> Ubuntu. >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM, wrote: > > Yeah, but some people appear to think (or at least that was what I got > from the post of the guy I was replying to) that fedora is good enough for > production. That was me. Using fedora isn't my choice but it's been running fine for the purposes of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM,   wrote: > >> Odd you should mention it - a friend on a techie mailing list just tried >> to set up dual-boot XP w/ ubuntu, and had all *kinds* of grief, dunno if >> she just restored XP. Wouldn't recognize he

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> >> heck it's still Linux and pretty much the same. >> >> Red Hat went far too long between releases and it is clear to me that I >> can't possibly rely on CentOS for timeliness. > > Timeliness, dunno. Ubuntu (or fedora) for productio

Re: [CentOS] Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!

2011-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM, RILINDO FOSTER wrote: > On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> I was asking about "Domain" in "idmapd.conf" because there might be a >> difference between CentOS 5 and SL 6. > > It is actually commented out

Re: [CentOS] Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!

2011-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:53 PM, RILINDO FOSTER wrote: > On May 30, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Are the values of "Domain" in "/etc/idmapd.conf" the same on the >> client and the server? >> >> FYI: For nfsv4, there's no need

Re: [CentOS] Unable to mount Centos 5.6 Server via nfs4 - Operation Not Permitted - MADNESS!

2011-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM, RILINDO FOSTER wrote: > > After getting a reasonably configured NFS4 setup working on my Scientific > Linux > server, I spent a majority of my evening trying to do the same with my Centos > 5 > box, with fruitless results. Most attempts to mount that server retur

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/18/11 5:05 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> >> Tom, you are way off the point I was making. RHEL, Fedora, Debian, >> Ubuntu, all other distro's are *developed* and can change at any time. That's why I said "he should've only chosen to c

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 05/15/2011 06:10 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> Where is Ubuntu telling people exactly where they stand on producing a >>> their new releases. >>> >>> What about Red Hat ... how about Fedora. >> >> I don't

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-13 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, May 14, 2011 01:30 AM, Craig White wrote: > >> CentOS has always been a take it or leave it proposition and thus nothing >> has really changed >> except that many businesses have become reliant upon it and I see my company >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-05-08 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:19 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:34:54PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> If CentOS had a communication policy, it could spare itself these >> types of articles... > > No.  These types of articles will continue t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:06 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:27:16PM +0100, Ian Murray wrote: >> >> Maybe having it said so publicly and be such a respected Linux community >> member may help certain people wake up and smell the coffee. > > Respected?  I can't recall a si

Re: [CentOS] KVM problem after update to 5.6

2011-04-11 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > > Hello, after updating to Cents 5.6 and so to kvm-83-224 > my KVM virtual machines qemu qcow2 based images do not start anymore. > Looking at VM console the error message is that VM media is not bootable. > > What's wrong with qemu images

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut  wrote: >>> >>> it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. >>> I thought upstream has ext4 ful

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > > it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. > I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? > I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6 From http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_E

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > STOP IT! Take a few deep breaths! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> It's the second time that I point out that the CentOS communication >> policy (if you there is one) is completely unprofessional. You can let >> off steam by saying "we

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: > >> This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project >> shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is >> another example) because it makes the developers look lik

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Good ... if you don't like CentOS, then we do not want you to use it. > > For people who do like it, we do want you to use it. > > What we do not want is for people to think that they have a Service > Level Agreement with CentOS to produce

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Hendrik wrote: > > Or is that the Indian mentality? I hope that you're banned for this racist comment. (And as an added bonus, we'll be rid of someone who's making a mess of message threading and the mail archive.) ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:46:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests >> when specifying ipv4 transport ("-4"). > > Umm, no.  The transport

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Russell Jones wrote: > > Thank you! > > If forcing it to stop system-wide is not possible, is there any way of > forcing IPv4 lookups to occur first then? You're welcome. In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when specifying ipv4 tran

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Russell Jones wrote: > > I am having a strange issue with CentOS 5.4 that I cannot seem to solve. > > Every DNS lookup results in records being requested first before A > records. As a result, this causes a large amount of unnecessary DNS > traffic on the netw

Re: [CentOS] Door not hitting me on my way out

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > For those saying that CentOS devs are slow, take notice that Scientific > Linux released SL 6.0, *but* SL 5.6 is still in it's *ALPHA* stage. If > too separate teams are close with results, then there is no room for > accusations or wo

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sam Trenholme wrote: > > As an open-source developer, I understand the frustration of working > hard and having a lot of freeloaders not appreciating my work. I feel > people posting here talking about how unprofessional CentOS is acting > are completely missing th

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc wrote: >>> >>> RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config >>> files >>> and slightly different locations for some config files. >>> >>> It's not like one is a drop in repl

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc wrote: > > RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files > and slightly different locations for some config files. > > It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make > sense to me that a business

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglieno wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: >> >> With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, >> and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't see >> anything. I think having some news once

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: >> >> It's a matter of personal taste, but I find more useful the -X (or >> - --exclude-from) option > > Yes, personal taste, but in crontab confusing not seeing the excludes > and besides that it has t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, wrote: > Peter Peltonen wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM,   wrote: >>> Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a "8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller". We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare as hw RA

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast as we > possibly can? > > What, exactly, is the problem here? > > You have my permission to use something else. Does that help? Good answer! :)

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > Let's face it most auditors these days are just accountants with Infosys Mgmt > text books. Or former sysadmins who didn't make it in the "management track" but still wanted to be able to lord it over others...

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:05:41PM -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, compdoc wrote: >> >> >> In Ubuntu and Fedora, UUID's the default replacement of "/dev/sdXY" >> de

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, compdoc wrote: >> >> However, we're not set up for UUIDs, the fstab >>just shows /dev/md0, etc. > > I mentioned it because I recently installed and set up servers with ubuntu > 10.04 and fedora 14, while I was waiting for C6. Using the UUID is the > default now. I

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, February 12, 2011 09:02 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> >> Anyway, neither in windows nor in unix/linux you want to specify >> permissions on a per user level. Always groups. If the user leaves the >> company and the permissions ar

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Rafa Grimán wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2011 20:42 Robert Heller wrote >> At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> > Hi :) >> > >> > On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote >> > >> > > On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wr

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: >> >> As you know, $HOME is generally located at "/home/$username" by default. >> >> I would like to re-locate all users' $HOME directories to something like >> "/export/home/$username" w

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >>> The key to *keeping* it off in RHEL 6, and I assume in CentOS 6, is >>> the setting NM_C

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> >>> NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair >>> bonding and bridges. It may be helpful for wire

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > > And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security > incident. > It beggars my belief > You now publicly declare that your company not just advocates the sharing of > passwords, but certainly encourages it, if no

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You clearly work in an insecure environment. > > By who's definition? The fact that you're PC is connected to the > internet place you in the same enviro

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of >> working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if >> it's been improved or not. >

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: > >> Yes but someone's posted a global gconftool-2 recipe. > > Run gconf-editor as root and you can edit the global mandatory rules too. Very true, as long as you ca

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with > something right now. And I'm not talking about administrative access. > Sure, I can access any PC via root login, and frankly for that matter > I can also reset any user'

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >>Behalf Of Tom H >>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [C

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people > actually work for money and need to address client issues then I'm > sure your colleagues won't be please if you make them loose all their > work just to be an arrogant

Re: [CentOS] nic bonding

2011-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, John Horne wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:05 +1300, Smithies, Russell wrote: >> >> I've just setup nic bonding on our server (DL585-G7 running Centos 5.5 >> x86_64) as detailed on the wiki: >> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces and all seems

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Philix T A wrote: > 2) Dont create RAID for swap and / root partition (Not Advisable) Any rationale for this bad advice? > 3) Swap Size size should be 2X the size of the Physical memory For a desktop, maybe. > 6) My experience had always shown if your apps

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 12/10/2010 10:40 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Clark wrote: >>> >>> I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have >>> sudo.i386

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > > I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have > sudo.i386    1.7.2p1-9.el5_5 > installed > > I am using the same sudoers file, but the one on box A keeps trying to do > DNS lookups while the on

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/8/2010 4:04 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> iptables is a de-facto standard on all Linux distributions nowadays.  It >> is not ratified by ISO, IETF or similar ... but how does that make the >> real life scenario any different?  That's

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:16 +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>> >>> I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly. >> >>  Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off multipart >

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H >> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:34 AM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly de

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:32:32 am Tom H wrote: >> Is 172.16.10.72 a private address of yours or of your ISP? > > More to the point; do you have a route to his address? I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming th

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > Trim your quotes. LOL I was in a hurry... I think that this applies to all in this thread so I hope that you've email everyone else... Also, please keep your commands on-list; I only caught your email because it was at the top of my

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 addres

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> >     b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? >> > This is no science fiction. > Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that > can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC address of your > si

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
15:29, Todd Rinaldo wrote: >>>>>> On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: >>>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift wrote: >>>>>>&g

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell wrote: > Ryan Wagoner wrote: >> >> IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time >> until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 >> address, which complicates a number of protocols like FTP and SIP. The >> on

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