Re: [CentOS] Urgent: Need to change the location of a directory tree

2017-06-01 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 1/6/2017 9:52 μμ, Mauricio Tavares wrote: 1. Make sure both users are not logged in. 2. Create new mountpoints 3. Edit fstab to point to new mountpoints. 4. Edit /etc/passwd to refer to the new mountpoint for the two users 5. mount -a Would that do the trick for you? Thanks Mauricio, Actu

Re: [CentOS] Urgent: Need to change the location of a directory tree

2017-06-01 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 1/6/2017 6:06 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > >> ...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /scimount >> and finally rename /scimount2 to /scimount ? > > > Correction: > > ...then remove the mount from fstab and the initi

Re: [CentOS] Urgent: Need to change the location of a directory tree

2017-06-01 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 1/6/2017 6:06 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: ...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /scimount and finally rename /scimount2 to /scimount ? Correction: ...then remove the mount from fstab and the initial mount point /mynfsmount and finally rename /mynfsmount2 to /mynfs

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-22 Thread Siva Prasad Nath
I used yum remove/install for Kernel. On Monday, November 23, 2015, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Nov 22, 2015, at 6:34 AM, Siva Prasad Nath > wrote: > > I copy from other server. Grub is confusing. > > This is why you should have done as others had suggested. It > automatically sets up grub w

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 22, 2015, at 9:07 PM, Siva Prasad Nath wrote: > I was trying for grub. But it does not show me anything. Hence confused. > One of the guy posted that after deleting kernel and reinstalling solve the > issue. I tried to follow that method. > The grub does not show the folder which shows in

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-22 Thread Siva Prasad Nath
I was trying for grub. But it does not show me anything. Hence confused. One of the guy posted that after deleting kernel and reinstalling solve the issue. I tried to follow that method. The grub does not show the folder which shows in the sample. Grub prompt me about xps system. When I am installi

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-22 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Nov 22, 2015, at 6:34 AM, Siva Prasad Nath wrote: > I copy from other server. Grub is confusing. This is why you should have done as others had suggested. It automatically sets up grub with the new kernels. > I need another help. I want to > go for virtual concept. So that I can minimise d

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-22 Thread Siva Prasad Nath
I copy from other server. Grub is confusing. I need another help. I want to go for virtual concept. So that I can minimise down time. On Sunday, November 22, 2015, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Siva Prasad Nath > > wrote: > > I am from application back ground. I neve

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-22 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Siva Prasad Nath wrote: > I am from application back ground. I never worked on Linux. I follow some > steps which posted on internet. > I update Kernel from centos rescue cd option. But boot did not update.Is it > a bug in Centos? > How did you update the ker

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-21 Thread zep
On 11/21/2015 12:57 PM, Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > Boot from DVD/USB. Select rescue installed (on centos7 or vmlinuz > rescue on older), select configure network and mount installed, then > "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and yum install kernel... This should do... > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Si

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-21 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
Boot from DVD/USB. Select rescue installed (on centos7 or vmlinuz rescue on older), select configure network and mount installed, then "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and yum install kernel... This should do... On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Siva Prasad Nath wrote: > My boot folder has only rescue vm. H

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-21 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 21 November 2015 at 12:05, Siva Prasad Nath wrote: > My boot folder has only rescue vm. How to get actual vm? > > > > Shiva Prasad Nath > 92981134 > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Eero Volotinen > wrote: > > > Using rescue mode or some other rescuecd.. > > > > Eero > > 21.11.2015 6.41 ip

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-21 Thread Siva Prasad Nath
My boot folder has only rescue vm. How to get actual vm? Shiva Prasad Nath 92981134 On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Using rescue mode or some other rescuecd.. > > Eero > 21.11.2015 6.41 ip. "Siva Prasad Nath" > kirjoitti: > > > Hi, > > From yesterday my server was d

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
Using rescue mode or some other rescuecd.. Eero 21.11.2015 6.41 ip. "Siva Prasad Nath" kirjoitti: > Hi, > From yesterday my server was down. > It was showing only rescue menu. I copy grub.cfg to grub.cfg.old. Replace > grub.cfg from another server. > Now I cannot start server. How to revert back

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-10-14 Thread Greg Lindahl
Now that we just had another mailing list question about running old versions of CentOS, I see that my suggested FAQ addition wasn't added. Did I make my suggestion in the wrong place? What should I do next? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > I read the thread before replying, and didn't see anyone mention that, if > one needs an open source stay-on-a-point-release setup, one should > investigate Scientific Linux, which does do this. Yes, you can stay on 5.4 > and get only the secu

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/29/2014 04:15 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: William Woods writes: 5.4 ? really???. 5.4 ? you have a lot of other issues to worry about. Repeating it three times doesn't make an arrogant statement more true. There are corporate environments that cannot upgrade for vario

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-29 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 Sep 2014 07:47, "John R Pierce" wrote: > > On 9/28/2014 11:39 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> >> https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7186 >> >> Looks like we may find one more bash patch at least yet then. > > > per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1306.htm the fix for 7187 a

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-29 Thread lhecking
William Woods writes: > 5.4 ? really???. 5.4 ? you have a lot of other issues to worry about. Repeating it three times doesn't make an arrogant statement more true. There are corporate environments that cannot upgrade for various reasons. Also, the history and performance of e.g autofs on RHE

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/29/2014 01:46 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/28/2014 11:39 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7186 >> >> Looks like we may find one more bash patch at least yet then. > > per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1306.htm the fix for 7187 > and 71

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/28/2014 11:39 PM, James Hogarth wrote: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-7186 Looks like we may find one more bash patch at least yet then. per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1306.htm the fix for 7187 and 7186 is already included in the updated fix that was releas

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 Sep 2014 07:37, "James Hogarth" wrote: > > > On 29 Sep 2014 05:37, "Frank Cox" wrote: > > > > Looks like the bash exploit tune may still be playing > > > > http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396256,further-flaws-render-shellshock-patch-ineffective.aspx > > > > Well 7169 is already patched, 7

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 Sep 2014 05:37, "Frank Cox" wrote: > > Looks like the bash exploit tune may still be playing > > http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396256,further-flaws-render-shellshock-patch-ineffective.aspx > Well 7169 is already patched, 7186 isn't in the RH database so it would appear they don't consid

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Frank Cox
Looks like the bash exploit tune may still be playing http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396256,further-flaws-render-shellshock-patch-ineffective.aspx -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Vojin Urosevic wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: >> >> >> > A third source is companies with homegrown code deployed on CentOS >> > servers and poor-quality test suites. They t

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Vojin Urosevic
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > >> > > A third source is companies with homegrown code deployed on CentOS > > servers and poor-quality test suites. They tend to be in the "omg > > never change anything unless forced a

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: >> > A third source is companies with homegrown code deployed on CentOS > servers and poor-quality test suites. They tend to be in the "omg > never change anything unless forced at gunpoint!" camp. It's an > unfortunate situation, and it can co

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Devin Reade
> On Sep 28, 2014, at 11:22, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > Not sure that this goes in the FAQ, though! No. If people have a good reason for doing it, they will generally know that reason. If the don't know one, they probably have no real need for staying at the earlier release. ___

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:32:38PM +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > It would be great to get some feedback what such cases > are, that let people stay on older releases? Upstream can change the kernel module API quite violently in minor releases, which means that hardware products that have associ

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-28 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 28.09.2014 um 02:22 schrieb Greg Lindahl : > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:12:27AM +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: >> Am 27.09.2014 um 23:53 schrieb Greg Lindahl : >>> If you really need to run an old minor version, you should consider >>> paying for the upstream Enterprise Linux. They keep all the old

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:12:27AM +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 27.09.2014 um 23:53 schrieb Greg Lindahl : > > If you really need to run an old minor version, you should consider > > paying for the upstream Enterprise Linux. They keep all the old minor > > versions up-to-date with regard to secu

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 27.09.2014 um 23:53 schrieb Greg Lindahl : > If you really need to run an old minor version, you should consider > paying for the upstream Enterprise Linux. They keep all the old minor > versions up-to-date with regard to security fixes. CentOS does not. https://access.redhat.com/support/policy

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/27/2014 2:53 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: A. No. CentOS only updates the most recent of each of the major versions. For example, for CentOS 5, if the most recent minor version is 5.10, then that is the only version that is receiving security updates. CentOS 5.4 is frozen and never gets any updat

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 08:28:48AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/26/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > Do we have a FAQ we can point people to that explains this? It's not > > obvious, and we need to educate anyone who shows up here not knowing > > the insecure nature of point releases

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Fred Smith
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:10:54AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:28:48 -0500 > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > How is this: > > > > http://bit.ly/1rAbtoT > > Two typos: > > Para 5: $relesever s/b $releasever > > Para 9: componet s/b component (3x) > > Outside of the typos, it lo

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:28:48 -0500 Johnny Hughes wrote: > How is this: > > http://bit.ly/1rAbtoT Two typos: Para 5: $relesever s/b $releasever Para 9: componet s/b component (3x) Outside of the typos, it looks great to me! -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatr

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread William Woods
My mistake then, apologies. On Sep 27, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 09:31 -0500, William Woods wrote: > >> 5.4 ? really…. 5.4 ? you have a lot of other issues to worry about. > > Not me. I'm on 5.10 and 6.5. > > The lady who enquired was happily using C

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 09:31 -0500, William Woods wrote: > 5.4 ? really…. 5.4 ? you have a lot of other issues to worry about. Not me. I'm on 5.10 and 6.5. The lady who enquired was happily using C 5.4 -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread William Woods
5.4 ? REally 5.4…. You have lots of other issues to be concerned with. On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/26/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 01:29:44AM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> 2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : >> > Sca

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread William Woods
5.4 ? really…. 5.4 ? you have a lot of other issues to worry about. On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/26/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 01:29:44AM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> 2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : >> > Scary s

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread William Woods
5.4 ? really…. 5.4 ? you have a lot of other issues to worry about. On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 09/26/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 01:29:44AM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> 2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : >> > Scary s

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Always Learning
> >> 2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : > > > >>> Never mind the "scary screen" why are you deliberately using an insecure > >>> and out-of-date 5.4 version of Centos ? On 09/26/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > Do we have a FAQ we can point people to that explains this? It's not

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-27 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/26/2014 06:23 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 01:29:44AM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> 2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : > Scary screenie at: http://i.imgur.com/yR7sBjV.png >>> >>> Never mind the "scary screen" why are you deliberately using an insecure >>>

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread Peter
On 09/27/2014 10:29 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > uh. is this system even patched for heartbleed? EL5 was never vulnerable to heartbleed to begin with, that said, your point is still valid as to other vulnerabilities. Peter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread Greg Lindahl
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 01:29:44AM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : > > > Scary screenie at: http://i.imgur.com/yR7sBjV.png > > > > Never mind the "scary screen" why are you deliberately using an insecure > > and out-of-date 5.4 version of Centos ? Do we

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread Eero Volotinen
2014-09-27 0:42 GMT+03:00 Always Learning : > > On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 15:02 -0500, Jessica Blank wrote: > > > > Scary screenie at: http://i.imgur.com/yR7sBjV.png > > Never mind the "scary screen" why are you deliberately using an insecure > and out-of-date 5.4 version of Centos ? > > Common sense

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 15:02 -0500, Jessica Blank wrote: > Scary screenie at: http://i.imgur.com/yR7sBjV.png Never mind the "scary screen" why are you deliberately using an insecure and out-of-date 5.4 version of Centos ? Common sense says that if you are genuinely interested in security then y

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > Jessica Blank wrote: >> Good afternoon! >> >> After applying the latest bash RPM listed at >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020594.html >> : >> The fixed RPM (bash-3.2-33.el5_10.4.x86_64.rpm) DOES work just fine on >> Ce

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread m . roth
Jessica Blank wrote: > Good afternoon! > > After applying the latest bash RPM listed at > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020594.html > : > The fixed RPM (bash-3.2-33.el5_10.4.x86_64.rpm) DOES work just fine on > CentOS 5.10. However, it DOES NOT work on CentOS 5.4.

Re: [CentOS] URGENT! Shellshock fix DOES NOT fix the bug on CentOS 5.4

2014-09-26 Thread Jessica Blank
Never mind; false alarm. Apparently, we both had a previous 'echo' file sitting around from before. Best, Jessica On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Jessica Blank wrote: Good afternoon! After applying the latest bash RPM listed at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-September/020594.ht

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/12, John R Pierce wrote: > if you had any database servers like postgresql or mysql, and their data > files were in the default locations under /var, your databases are > undoubtably corrupted, unless you stopped the DB server(s) before doing > this copy. I think the fortunate thing is tha

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/12, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:24:46 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root >> partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a >> separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > ...

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/12, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/03/2012 11:52 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> I'll probably have to slowly hunt down the relevant selinux context >> one by one when nobody's screaming about the server being down. > > Would restorecon not help get this bootrapped ? and then with selinux i

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, August 03, 2012 12:03:01 PM Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/03/2012 04:25 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > rpm -qa | while read line; do echo $line && rpm --setugids $line; done > > should handle ownerships. Then, reenable selinux in permissive mode, and > > set it to relabel on the ne

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 08/03/2012 04:25 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > rpm -qa | while read line; do echo $line && rpm --setugids $line; done > should handle ownerships. Then, reenable selinux in permissive mode, and set > it to relabel on the next boot. maybe add --setperms as well -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-09993

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/03/12 3:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > > To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in h

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:24:46 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var ... This sort of things pops up from tim

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/03/2012 11:52 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I'll probably have to slowly hunt down the relevant selinux context > one by one when nobody's screaming about the server being down. Would restorecon not help get this bootrapped ? and then with selinux in permissive mode, watch the audit log li

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Emmanuel, On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 18:52 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > Turning off selinux allowed me get the system running. > However, after running fixfiles to restore the context for /var, I > still cannot boot to init 5, with the choke point now NFS statd. If you copied a live /var o

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/12, Darod Zyree wrote: > > Did you rewrite the selinux policy on /var or have you tried disabling > selinux if you haven't do so already? Thank you so much! Turning off selinux allowed me get the system running. However, after running fixfiles to restore the context for /var, I still cann

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Darod Zyree
2012/8/3 Emmanuel Noobadmin : > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > > To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in hindsight should >

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 12.4.2012 04:21, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:48 PM, John R Pierce >> wrote: > ... >>> well, first, does your motherboard *HAVE* an IPMI management module, and >>> if so, does it use a  dedicated ethernet port, or is it

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-12 Thread Markus Falb
On 12.4.2012 04:21, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:48 PM, John R Pierce > wrote: ... >> well, first, does your motherboard *HAVE* an IPMI management module, and >> if so, does it use a dedicated ethernet port, or is it 'piggybacked' on >> eth0 ? the behavior shown could be the

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:48 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/11/12 9:36 AM, sri wrote: >> 4) Have you checked if your motherboard IPMI is not pulling an address >> during boot? >> -- Frankly, not sure how to check motherboard IPMI messages. Verified >> dmesg output. Following is the dmesg output.

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/11/12 9:36 AM, sri wrote: > 4) Have you checked if your motherboard IPMI is not pulling an address > during boot? > -- Frankly, not sure how to check motherboard IPMI messages. Verified > dmesg output. Following is the dmesg output. > Please share any way to check motherboard IPMI is pulling

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread sri
Thanks for the responses. Please see my answers to your questions: 1) What I want is to locate exactly where the psuedo IF and get rid of it. Is there a way to prohibit the pseduo IF not to get DHCP answer? 2) Output of Ifconfig -a: ## eth0 Link encap:Et

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread yonatan pingle
Have you checked if your motherboard IPMI is not pulling an address during boot? On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 11.4.2012 12:35, sri wrote: > ... >> My linux box, running with Centos-5.5, is showing up (??) a pseudo >> network interface for Eth0. >> On Switch where my E

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread Markus Falb
On 11.4.2012 12:35, sri wrote: > Group, > > My linux box, running with Centos-5.5, is showing up (??) a pseudo > network interface for Eth0. > On Switch where my Eth0 is connected, observed 2 MAC-Addresses. > If a DHCP server present in LAN, the second pseudo interface is > picking up a DHCP IP Ad

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread Markus Falb
On 11.4.2012 12:35, sri wrote: ... > My linux box, running with Centos-5.5, is showing up (??) a pseudo > network interface for Eth0. > On Switch where my Eth0 is connected, observed 2 MAC-Addresses. > If a DHCP server present in LAN, the second pseudo interface is > picking up a DHCP IP Address to

Re: [CentOS] URGENT -- pseudo network interface creating problem with dhcp-- centos 5.5

2012-04-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/11/2012 01:35 PM, sri wrote: > Is there anything that I have to check to nail down the issue. > Any pointers are highly appreciated. I did not understand your issue: - Do you want to get rid of the peudo interface? - Do you want the pseudo interface not to get a DHCP answer? - Do you want th

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:49:30PM +0800, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > Hi, > > First, I would like to apologize for the out-of-topic post. I will keep > this as short as I possibly could. unsubscribed Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread James Bensley
On 27 May 2010 11:35, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > Dear James, > > I apologize but I am really not spamming. I am really sending a genuine > medical plea. But this isn't a genuine medical forum, someone has lied to you, the same goes for all the other lists you have been writing to. Yo

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) writes: > > Dear James, > > > > I apologize but I am really not spamming. I am really sending a genuine > > medical plea. > > You also sent to openbsd-misc and who knows where, so by definition, you > are a spammer. Go aw

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread lhecking
Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) writes: > Dear James, > > I apologize but I am really not spamming. I am really sending a genuine > medical plea. You also sent to openbsd-misc and who knows where, so by definition, you are a spammer. Go away.

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear James, I apologize but I am really not spamming. I am really sending a genuine medical plea. On 05/27/2010 06:24 PM, James Bensley wrote: > "Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law > School Research Fellow" > > Maybe you should start by contacting Harvard? This i

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread James Bensley
"Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow" Maybe you should start by contacting Harvard? This is a list for CentOS users, have you ever seen this fellow on here before? Maybe you should search the archives first? I noticed you also posted this mess

Re: [CentOS] [URGENT] Assistance Requested in Looking for Dr Francis T. Seow, Harvard Law School Research Fellow

2010-05-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Christopher, I have sent countless emails to many governmental, non-governmental and international organizations in the world with the subject "Plea for Medical Help/Assistance". But surprisingly I get very few replies. Maybe the replies have been deleted or the emails I sent have been del

Re: [CentOS] URGENT

2010-04-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/26/2010 9:04 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > 2010/4/24 cahit Eyigünlü: >> It had solved , the error encounters from thousands of a bad sectors :( i do >> not know how it happened but recovery system has repaired after then > Throw that disk away and get a new one ASAP. > Do not trust and use that

Re: [CentOS] URGENT

2010-04-26 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
2010/4/24 cahit Eyigünlü : > It had solved , the error encounters from thousands of a bad sectors :( i do > not know how it happened but recovery system has repaired after then Throw that disk away and get a new one ASAP. Do not trust and use that disk. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.or

Re: [CentOS] URGENT

2010-04-26 Thread m . roth
> It had solved , the error encounters from thousands of a bad sectors :( i > do > not know how it happened but recovery system has repaired after then > mount /dev/sda /mnt ext3 > grub-install /dev/sda > > has worked thanks "Thousands of bad sectors"? Today, order/walk in and buy a replacement d

Re: [CentOS] URGENT

2010-04-24 Thread cahit Eyigünlü
It had solved , the error encounters from thousands of a bad sectors :( i do not know how it happened but recovery system has repaired after then mount /dev/sda /mnt ext3 grub-install /dev/sda has worked thanks 2010/4/24 Wahyu Darmawan > Hi, > Have you try this : > r...@rescuecd64 ~ # grub-in

Re: [CentOS] URGENT

2010-04-24 Thread Wahyu Darmawan
Hi, Have you try this : r...@rescuecd64 ~ # grub-install /dev/sda (or some device that installed CentOS) 2010/4/24 cahit Eyigünlü : > I had a geub loader error  2 on starting centos > and i am able to connect rescue system > this is the result how could i get system work > r...@rescuecd64 ~ # g

Re: [CentOS] Urgent: filesystem corruption on 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

2009-04-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
RedShift wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> In an attempt to confirm this bug, I set up a system under KVM and >> started three loops to generate filesystem activity. I ran bonnie++ as >> two different users in separate directories under /var/tmp, and an >> additional loop copying /usr to a dire

Re: [CentOS] Urgent: filesystem corruption on 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

2009-04-14 Thread RedShift
Gordon Messmer wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> I opened bug 494927 with Red Hat after seeing this kernel error on two >> different hosts, just a few days after updating or installing CentOS 5.3: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494927 > > In an attempt to confirm this bug, I set u

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:02 AM, MHR wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote: >>> I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few >>> subdirectories under it. Once I had created them all, I could run >>> rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything. >>> >>> Thanks to all

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:14:24 -0800: > I found it please, urgent or not, solved or not, please keep it in the thread next time. Thanks. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:02 -0800, MHR wrote: > > > Thanks I needed that! You know that one "Aw Shit" wipes out 1000 "'Atta > > Boys". Now I have one in the bank - 999 to go! ;-) > > > > So, like an idiot, after I had everything back up and running, I tried > it again. It _couldn't_ happen tw

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-12 Thread MHR
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote: >> I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few >> subdirectories under it. Once I had created them all, I could run >> rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything. >> >> Tha

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var [SOLVED]

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:14 -0800, MHR wrote: > I found it - there has to be a /var/lib/nfs directory with a few > subdirectories under it. Once I had created them all, I could run > rpc.statd, and that unfroze everything. > > Thanks to all, esp. Bill for mentioning rpc - that was the clue for m

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > > /etc/hosts permissions OK? I ask because it should be worl-readable > and you sudo'd it. > It is - I was overdoing it > IIRC (it's been a long time), the RPC stuff needs to be running for nfs > locks, status, etc. Are they? I can't

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:46 -0800, MHR wrote: > > [mrich...@swordfish ~]$ sudo cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost >

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Toby Bluhm wrote: > MHR wrote: > > Gnome at one time (RH9 days I think) was painfully slow to start after a > hostname change, until it udpated itself in all places - or whatever it > was doing. Is your hostname & /etc/hosts still intact? If it's been up > for a wh

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > > WOW... We have to actually "work" on our workstations! > There is a DVD player in the breakroom if we need it. ;-P > It WAS work related. Honest! You do believe me, don't you? )-; mhr ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-11-2008 1:01 PM Rob Townley spake the following: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Lanny Marcus > wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR >> wrote: >> > unpacking a tar archive into the root directory. >>> Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum >did, either

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Toby Bluhm
MHR wrote: . . . > > It doesn't. It seems, though, that it is GNOME that is painfully slow > to start any thing up, and when it is doing so, it hampers everything > else to some extent. Slow as in it takes minutes to load programs > instead of milliseconds > Gnome at one time (RH9 days I t

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, MHR wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM, MHR wrote: >> I managed to get a partial solution running. I rebooted from my >> installation DVD and started to run an upgrade, but when it got to the >> reboot part, I booted back to the DVD and ran 'linux rescue'.

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR wrote: > unpacking a tar archive into the root directory. >> Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum >did, either, > > Since you got it from rpmforge, I assume it was an rpm and not

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM, MHR wrote: > I managed to get a partial solution running. I rebooted from my > installation DVD and started to run an upgrade, but when it got to the > reboot part, I booted back to the DVD and ran 'linux rescue'. I'm not > entirely sure what it did besides mang

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread MHR
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Rob Townley wrote: > > Was SELINUX in enforcing mode? Rebuilding directories and files that > previously had mandatory labels seems like it would cause problems > until labels were reapplied. I have SELinux turned off. mhr __

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM, MHR wrote: > I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit > machine (at work). > > I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this > morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs. > > So, I installed libdvdcss fr

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