Re: [CentOS] Full server restore-point image

2007-08-03 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Thursday 02 August 2007 22:26:48 Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: > Hi, > > After some months of configuring and testing a small server, think > that would be nice to make a full server restore-point image in order > to recover it if something goes wrong in the future, just restoring > the image bac

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Thursday 02 August 2007 16:56:46 Ray Leventhal wrote: > As it will be a production server and this is my first foray into > CentOS/SELinux in a production environment I was hoping to get a > recommended list of what to include and, more specifically, what *not* > to include from the distro CDs

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Leventhal
> I'm coming in late to this thread. We too are a hosting provider > (small time), hosting approximately 1600 live domains. > > Not to say tinydns is a bad alternative, as it has it's strengths, but > we moved away from [outgrew] it 2 years ago. > > If you were already running Bind, CentOS 5 is a

[CentOS] where the problem

2007-08-03 Thread simon
Dear All I have jus migrated to centos 5 and jus wondering why n where this problem could be server A which is running for the past 2 years used as my primary dns and mail server redhat linux 8 sendmail ver-8.12.5-7 bind ver -9.2.1-9 since the server is old and is prone to all security

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Leventhal
Tomasz Napierała wrote: > Apart from installation, I would suggest using PowerDNS as a secondary DNS. > It's not only robust, fast and secure, but also has very interesting > capability of automated zones depolying (espacially usefull for secondary > NS). I'm using it on all my secondary namese

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Feizhou
Ray Leventhal wrote: Tomasz Napierała wrote: Apart from installation, I would suggest using PowerDNS as a secondary DNS. It's not only robust, fast and secure, but also has very interesting capability of automated zones depolying (espacially usefull for secondary NS). I'm using it on all my s

Re: [CentOS] kmod-drbd-smp (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) has unknown symbols (kmod-drbd not).

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:49 +0200, Martin Hamant wrote: > Le Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:16:54 +0200 > Martin Hamant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait: > > (snip) > > I don't know how it's possible to improve this, maybe a yum plugin > > which could detect any drbd modules and if it's matches with > > any inst

Re: [CentOS] kmod-drbd-smp (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) has unknown symbols (kmod-drbd not).

2007-08-03 Thread Martin Hamant
Le Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:16:54 +0200 Martin Hamant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait: (snip) > I don't know how it's possible to improve this, maybe a yum plugin > which could detect any drbd modules and if it's matches with > any installed kernels... what do you think ? > > Thanks to you :) > Hmm in

Re: [CentOS] command for dhcp client

2007-08-03 Thread Barry Brimer
Is there a command that says DONT use the ifcfg-eth0 setting(s) that basically have a static address and start the network in DHCP. I dont want to disturb the static settings in ifcfg-eth0 or re-enter them once my DHCP setting is done... I just want to temporarily run with DHCP (I'm on different

Re: [CentOS] where the problem

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel Bruno
Hi Simon, You can post your maillog of the CentOS? []s Daniel Bruno On 8/3/07, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All > > I have jus migrated to centos 5 and jus wondering why n where this problem > could be > server A which is running for the past 2 years used as my primary dns and >

[CentOS] tomcat error on x86_64 with 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen & jre 1.6.*

2007-08-03 Thread Johnn Tan
I get the same error as this person: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9349 Like the poster, I get the error with tomcat 6.0.13 on x86_64, kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen and both jre 1.6.0_01 and 1.6.0_02 When I revert to jre 5u12 on the same kernel, I don't get the prob

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Price
Well, if you are willing to look into BIND alternatives, please take a look also at tinydns which is part of the djbdns package. Dead simple format for dns configuration and on-the-fly zone updating are some of its features. ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Price
I'm coming in late to this thread. We too are a hosting provider (small time), hosting approximately 1600 live domains. Not to say tinydns is a bad alternative, as it has it's strengths, but we moved away from [outgrew] it 2 years ago. I used to work for a messaging service provider an

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Leventhal
Feizhou wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Tomasz Napierała wrote: >> >>> Apart from installation, I would suggest using PowerDNS as a >>> secondary DNS. It's not only robust, fast and secure, but also has >>> very interesting capability of automated zones depolying (espacially >>> usefull for secon

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Feizhou
I'm coming in late to this thread. We too are a hosting provider (small time), hosting approximately 1600 live domains. Not to say tinydns is a bad alternative, as it has it's strengths, but we moved away from [outgrew] it 2 years ago. I used to work for a messaging service provider and th

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Tomasz Napierała
On Friday 03 August 2007 15:46:49 Ken Price wrote: > I've personally used PowerDNS, TinyDNS, MyDNS, nsd, Bind 8/9, and MS > DNS. PowerDNS is phenomenal. Look into the proprietary > "supermaster/superslave" functionality. To manage the 1600+ domains, > we have our primary server setup using a My

Re: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 22:30 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: > On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > >>As far as root not being able to, do you have selinux running? > >> > >> No, I don't have. > > > > Then I dunno why root didn't, as with selinux disabled root also > > has implicit

[CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I know). Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are some updated packages that might be good for VMware? _

Re: Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5

2007-08-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 02 August 2007, "Indunil Jayasooriya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, Why should I remove ProtectBase ? Whithout removing ProtectBase, > Is it NOT proper to install Priorities? I believe it is one or the other. If you decide to change to Priorities, which is recommended on the Wiki, remove P

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I > know). > > Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm > relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are >

[CentOS] command for dhcp client

2007-08-03 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a command that says DONT use the ifcfg-eth0 setting(s) that basically have a static address and start the network in DHCP. I dont want to disturb the static settings in ifcfg-eth0 or re-enter them once my DHCP setting is done... I just want to temporarily run with DHCP (I'm on different

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 8/2/07, fredex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I missed earlier postings in this thread, so please allow me to ask: > Areyou trying to print with (e.g.) Acroread, or are you trying to print > using "lpr foo.pdf"? Does either (or neither) work? > I would be amazed if the lpr command worked - neve

Re: Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd.conf on centos 5

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 02 August 2007, "Indunil Jayasooriya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, Why should I remove ProtectBase ? Whithout removing ProtectBase, > > Is it NOT proper to install Priorities? > > I believe it is one or the other. If you decide

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
> VMware works fine under either 4 or 5, and both 4 and 5 run under VMware > on a Linux host, but is your question about CentOS as a host or guest > OS? Mostly as the host OS, but I will be running some guest CentOS sessions as well. ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:27 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I > > know). > > > > Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm > > rel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:24 -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > For stability reasons, I'm running CentOS 4 for VMware (it's the devil I > know). > > Are there any compelling reasons to upgrade to CentOS 5 for it? I'm > relatively new to the whole virtualisation scene and perhaps there are > some u

RE: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-03 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 00:15 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Not in reader, but down at the CUPS setup when you setup your printer > originally you probably chose a model from the foomatic database that > was close-enough, go back and change that model to HP Deskjet which > should provide the low

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> Also, there is a special kernel that helps out on running VMWare that > changes the default speed of the system timer, reducing the LA on the > host system especially if your guests are mostly idle. The kernel is > available for both 4 and 5. Please look at > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 vs 5 for VMware?

2007-08-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On 8/3/07, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, there is a special kernel that helps out on running VMWare that > > changes the default speed of the system timer, reducing the LA on the > > host system especially if your guests are mostly idle. The kernel is > > available for both 4

Re: [CentOS] command for dhcp client

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Barry Brimer wrote: Is there a command that says DONT use the ifcfg-eth0 setting(s) that basically have a static address and start the network in DHCP. I dont want to disturb the static settings in ifcfg-eth0 or re-enter them once my DHCP setting is done... I just want to temporarily run with

[CentOS] centos 5 as p2p client

2007-08-03 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm running centos5. I'm wanting this machine only, none of my other ones, to participate in p2p file sharing, bittorrent, edonkey, maybe other networks. Does anyone have a howto or step by step guide for this? I've installed bittorrent and mldonkey clients, but neither is working, i'

[CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show up early next week. SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the harddrive spinning. I can jsut do pings on the lan card for it to stay

Re: [CentOS] proxy arp on CentOS 5?

2007-08-03 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Anybody implemented a working proxy ARP with CentOS 5? I am trying to implement DNAT on a dual-homed firewall (servers behind firewall are on private IPs) and that requires proxy ARP. I've tried several different methods but nothing seems to work. I figured it out. I act

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:01:53PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz enlightened us: > I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure > the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show > up early next week. > > SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and ke

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:01 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure > the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show > up early next week. > > SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the harddr

[CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

2007-08-03 Thread Michael St. Laurent
I'm having speed problems with the SCSI card we're using to do tape backup. It seems to be functioning in 16 bit mode and the current thinking is that perhaps it's using a legacy driver instead of the correct one. The Adaptec site has a 'driver' for RHEL5 which I've downloaded and tried to instal

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:01 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show up early next week. SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, a

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On 8/3/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure > the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show > up early next week > SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the harddrive > sp

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread gjgowey
APC has a selector tools on their website that takes the parameters of your system and tells you what model you need. Not sure how accurate it is, but it's probably fairly close considering how many things you need to enter. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Mess

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:01 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure > the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show > up early next week. > > SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the hardd

Re: [CentOS] D-Link DFE-580TX

2007-08-03 Thread Bernd Bartmann
On 8/3/07, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, > model DFE-580TX ? > > The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from > what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok. > > This is the only quad-port N

[CentOS] D-Link DFE-580TX

2007-08-03 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, model DFE-580TX ? The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok. This is the only quad-port

Re: [CentOS] Power burn test

2007-08-03 Thread John R Pierce
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I need a program that will just run everything at max so I can measure the max power used on some systems. My 'Kill a Watt' meter should show up early next week. SO run that CPU at max, using all memory, and keeping the harddrive spinning. I can jsut do pings on the

[CentOS] Re: centos 5 as p2p client

2007-08-03 Thread Scott Silva
Dave spake the following on 8/3/2007 11:49 AM: > Hello, >I'm running centos5. I'm wanting this machine only, none of my other > ones, to participate in p2p file sharing, bittorrent, edonkey, maybe > other networks. Does anyone have a howto or step by step guide for this? > I've installed bittor

[CentOS] Intel P35 / quad-core support for HPC applications

2007-08-03 Thread Henry Shiu
Hello all, Does anyone have experience with CentOS and the Intel P35 or G33 chipset? I've googled about and poked in the CentOS forums, but I've generally found questions without responses. I'm part of a university research group doing CFD (computational fluid dynamics). We're incrementall

Re: [CentOS] KStars on CentOS 4.4?

2007-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Is there an RPM for this? I think it's in the kdeedu package on the FC6 > DVD. My wife is an amateur astronomer and she uses this excellent > program. If upstream isn't including it, can I get it and not break my > CentOS 4.4 system? (Also, I'd like t

[CentOS] Strange kernel error message: EDAC GART TLB blahblah..

2007-08-03 Thread Robinson Tiemuqinke
What does the following EDAC problem means? The machine is a AMD 64bit box running Centos 5. It looks like some problems aroung AMD DRAM Memory controller. But what does it really mean b/c most of my AMD boxes has these messages in /var/log/messages. Please help. ... Aug 1 23:29:40 ccn128 kern

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Feizhou
Ken Price wrote: I'm coming in late to this thread. We too are a hosting provider (small time), hosting approximately 1600 live domains. Not to say tinydns is a bad alternative, as it has it's strengths, but we moved away from [outgrew] it 2 years ago. I used to work for a messaging ser

[CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

2007-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
Ok, got a quickie. I have an eSATA drive, a 750GB Seagate in an eSATA external enclosure, and a Silicon Image sil3132 ExpressCard controller for my laptop. The disk and controller work great in CentOS 5 (or F7, for that matter), if I specifically mount it. This is not how I want to have to us

Re: [CentOS] D-Link DFE-580TX

2007-08-03 Thread Andreas Rogge
As of CentOS 4, the sundance driver is in the centosplus kernel. I've seen strange behaviour with kudzu when using sundance with that D-Link adapter (i.e. on every bootup kudzu tells you the NICs were removed and that four new NICs were installed). That might be the issue why RH decided to disable

Re: [CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

2007-08-03 Thread Feizhou
Lamar Owen wrote: Ok, got a quickie. I have an eSATA drive, a 750GB Seagate in an eSATA external enclosure, and a Silicon Image sil3132 ExpressCard controller for my laptop. The disk and controller work great in CentOS 5 (or F7, for that matter), if I specifically mount it. This is not how

Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

2007-08-03 Thread fredex
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:32:30AM -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > On 8/2/07, fredex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I missed earlier postings in this thread, so please allow me to ask: > > Areyou trying to print with (e.g.) Acroread, or are you trying to print > > using "lpr foo.pdf"? Does ei

Re: [CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

2007-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 03 August 2007, Feizhou wrote: > Lamar Owen wrote: > > I have an eSATA drive, a 750GB Seagate in an eSATA external enclosure, > > and a Silicon Image sil3132 ExpressCard controller for my laptop. The > > disk and controller work great in CentOS 5 (or F7, for that matter), if I > > specif

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 as p2p client

2007-08-03 Thread Yiorgos Stamoulis
Dave wrote: Hello,    I'm running centos5. I'm wanting this machine only, none of my other ones, to participate in p2p file sharing, bittorrent, edonkey, maybe other networks. Does anyone have a howto or step by step guide for this? I've installed bittorrent and mldonkey clients, but neither

Re: [CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

2007-08-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On 8/3/07, Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 August 2007, Feizhou wrote: > > Lamar Owen wrote: > Hotplug should just be hotplug, regardless of interface technology. SATA, and > specifically eSATA, is designed for hotplug; the drive handles it, the > controller handles it, and i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS things to mod for VMware server

2007-08-03 Thread Yiorgos Stamoulis
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server. Anything I should consider before doing so? (e.g. stuff to disable, kernel tweaks, etc) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Diskless client from system-config-netboot doesn't boot.

2007-08-03 Thread David Mackintosh
Hi folks, I've followed a set of instructions I found on http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_enterprise_linux_sysadmin_guide/ch-diskless.htmli which describes using system-config-netboot to set up PXE booting. I used a CentOS-4.3 install (custom, all options de-sel

[CentOS] Asterisk

2007-08-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
Is an RPM for Asterisk (the PBX system) available for CentOS 5? It looks like RPMforge is supposed to have one, as I can see dependent packages like asterisk-sounds, but the base package seems to be absent from the repository. ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] new CentOS 5 install, 'Network is unreachable'

2007-08-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I've a new CentOS 5 minimalist install; this will be the name server from my prior thread. I have configured eth0 during setup with the static IP the unit will have when in production. During this setup phase, selinux is set to permissive. Setting up on a different network, I did t

[CentOS] Re: new CentOS 5 install, 'Network is unreachable'

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Nichols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a new CentOS 5 minimalist install; this will be the name server from my prior thread. I have configured eth0 during setup with the static IP the unit will have when in production. During this setup phase, selinux is set to permissive. Setting up on a different

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS 5 install, 'Network is unreachable'

2007-08-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Nichols wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a new CentOS 5 minimalist install; this will be the name server from my prior thread. I have configured eth0 during setup with the static IP the unit will have when in production. During this setup phase, selinux is set to permissive. Set

[CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm using CentOS 5 on all my computers here (work + home) and I'm very satisfied with it. Some time ago I purchased a 300 GB external hard drive to store films, music, pictures and documents. Since there's no Windows machine around here (small South French village, town hall and public l

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-03 Thread Steven Haigh
Quoting Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: *snip* Is there any way to repair this obviously corrupt data? fsck.ext2 /dev/sda1 Obviously replacing sda1 with your partition and drive for your external device. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel de Kok
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 07:09 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/disk/Films] $ ls -l > total 692996 > -rw-r- 1 678756852 34537972 148381783526817280 avr 28 01:01 Cinema > drwxr-xr-x 3 kikinovak kikinovak 4096 mai 9 10:07 Anime > drwxrwxrwx 4 kikinovak kikinovak