Re: [CentOS] problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Hughes wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: List, I have an 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen X86_64 machine that is failing to update perl. I did not see any bugs reported on the list and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem with a solution. Thanks, Greg Ennis Updating: perl

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 41, Issue 12

2008-07-27 Thread centos-announce-request
rently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-14.el4.centos.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available

[CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when starting up smartd: Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Configuration file /et

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on > several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when > starting up smartd: > /dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS

Re: [CentOS] problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

2008-07-27 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:45 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > List, > > > > I have an 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen X86_64 machine that is failing to update > > perl. I did not see any bugs reported on the list and was wondering if > > anyone else had the same problem with a soluti

Re: [CentOS] problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

2008-07-27 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 11:02 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > >> List, > >> > >> I have an 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen X86_64 machine that is failing to update > >> perl. I did not see any bugs reported on the list and was wondering if > >> anyone else had the

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.07.2008 um 14:51 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when starting up smartd: Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jul 27

[CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was done to the internal hard drive... Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloade

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-27 Thread nightduke
Visit offical site to grab latest OpenSSH 5.1 2008/7/23 Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Florin Andrei wrote: >> Bowie Bailey wrote: >> > >> > I know it's "security through obscurity" >> >> That's not necessarily a bad thing. >> >> It is bad if it's the _only_ protection. > > Right. I was just

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now > > I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not > TOUCH my corp drive. > > I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was > done to the internal hard dri

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was done to the inter

RE: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Robert - elists
> > /dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it > with hdparm. > Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it > impossible to smart monitor "thru" a RAID controller? > > Kai > Kai Shouldn't there be another "layer" ? Is this a real hardware

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothin

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ned Slider wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make

[CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
Could anyone tell me whats going wrong here? Matt = Package Arch Version RepositorySize = Installing: ke

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Perrin wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:07:19 -0400: > This depends on the raid controller. Ah, I see. I listed them in the reply to Rainer. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Duffner wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:39:34 +0200: > What controller would that be? It's Dell SAS 6iR and HP "8 Port HBA Host Controller" (as they call it). Both are LSI 1068-based, not sure if exactly the same chip. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Interne

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert - elists wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:24 -0700: > /dev/ida/c0d0 > /dev/cciss/c0d0 I looked around, but none of these :-( /dev/disk points to pci ids and then to /dev/sda etc. It's a PCI-based controller that HP calls "HP 8 Port HBA Controller" or so. In a DL140 G3. Kai -- Kai Schä

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Ned Slider wrote: You haven't lost any data thought, just your ability to boot. A trip to corporate IT may be in order. pssst. he said ENCRYPTED boot loader.this is probably involved with some sort of full disk encryption scheme. this could potentially be so bad as to mean he's lost

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
> If /boot is it's own partition does it have enough free space? > > Shawn I think you hit it on the head. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron.daily]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 478581664 38083104 416187984 9% /

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
nightduke wrote: > Visit offical site to grab latest OpenSSH 5.1 Great idea. Why not do that for all software on your system? And then track all security updates for yourself instead on relying on the distributor to do so? Ralph pgpnyGLWbjSiR.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Shawn Everett
Just a quick thought... If /boot is it's own partition does it have enough free space? Shawn On Sunday 27 July 2008, Matt wrote: > Could anyone tell me whats going wrong here? > > Matt > > >= Package Arc

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:06:48 -0500 Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, er, what now? Delete obsolete kernels that are still on your system. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
>> Um, er, what now? > > Delete obsolete kernels that are still on your system. I see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron.daily]# rpm -qa | grep kernel -i kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.EL kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.1.E

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:32:29 -0500 Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see this: That would be the problem. > Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones? Yes. > Which ones dont I remove? The one(s) that you're using. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com _

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
>> I see this: > > That would be the problem. > >> Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones? > > Yes. > >> Which ones dont I remove? > > The one(s) that you're using. How do I know 'for sure' what ones I am using? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
>>> I see this: >> >> That would be the problem. >> >>> Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones? >> >> Yes. >> >>> Which ones dont I remove? >> >> The one(s) that you're using. > > How do I know 'for sure' what ones I am using? > > Matt > Found out uname does this. Matt ___

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:55:13 -0500 Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I know 'for sure' what ones I am using? uname -a -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Matt wrote: ... Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones? Which ones dont I remove? I see something like this in grub.conf: default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.20.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL ro root=/dev

[CentOS] Floppy boot disc w/ lspci

2008-07-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know where I can get this? I need to deduce what type of nic is a proprietary CNC machine that I don't want to dismantle so I can make a gpxe floppy for so I can run some diags of my tftp server. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] Floppy boot disc w/ lspci

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Anyone know where I can get this? I need to deduce what type of nic is a proprietary CNC machine that I don't want to dismantle so I can make a gpxe floppy for so I can run some diags of my tftp server. you can't boot a CD? any distribution of centos, disk 1,

RE: [CentOS] Floppy boot disc w/ lspci

2008-07-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>you can't boot a CD? any distribution of centos, disk 1, boot it >and specify `linux single` at the grub prompt and get a shell prompt... No cd/dvd on it, I would have to disassemble it to get one on :( Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] Re: Gnumeric rpm

2008-07-27 Thread MHR
Would you please trim your replies? Thank you. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-27 Thread MHR
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server? No, why would I do that? I uninstalled nspluginwrapper and mplayerplug-in reinstalled the 64-bit Seamonkey, then reinstalled all the plugins. Everything is ins

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.07.2008 um 20:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Robert - elists wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:24 -0700: /dev/ida/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0 I looked around, but none of these :-( /dev/disk points to pci ids and then to /dev/sda etc. It's a PCI-based controller that HP calls "HP 8 Port HBA Co

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.07.2008 um 16:36 schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was done to the internal hard drive... Well I mi

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!

2008-07-27 Thread Ian jonhson
google said that is a bug of kernel in network driver. And, someone seems to present a patch to fix the bug, however I would like to know whether it can work from others' works becuause reinstalling a new kernel may let us cost a lot. On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread D Steward
> Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the > hard drive. If the purpose of the encrypted bootloader was to load an encrypted filesystem/s, then there must be a spare MBR on your drive somewhere. Its not standard to have more than one MBR, but my spidey sense is ting

[CentOS] Cyrus + Ldap...

2008-07-27 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I have a server running with Centos 5.1 and: Cyrus: Lan POP and IMAP server both with SSL and plain and login mechanisms LDAP with SSL + SASL User passwords in LDAP are encrypted. Everything works fine. But I'd want to reduce overhead due SSL and change to Cyrus with md5 mechanism (or an

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!

2008-07-27 Thread Ian jonhson
BTW, the patched kernel by PF_RING is version 2.6.25.3. On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian jonhson wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> I selected CentOS5 in my works and installed them in two DELL >> PowerEdge1950. >> However, a trouble blocked me during the

[CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread Ian jonhson
Hi all, The PF_RING seems not to work smoothly in CentOS 5. Several day before, I patched the kernel 2.6.25.3 and installed the PF_RING-patched kernel in my CentOS5. Based on the PF_RING, I developed my program to capture the network packages. I wished it can work until the machine power is off. U

Re: [CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Ian jonhson wrote: Hi all, The PF_RING seems not to work smoothly in CentOS 5. Several day before, I patched the kernel 2.6.25.3 CentOS 5 uses kernel 2.6.18-xx ... If this PF_RING thing requires a different kernel, I think a more accurate statement would be, PF_RING is not suppor

Re: [CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
Ian jonhson wrote: I googled the internet and found similar bug occurred in Ubuntu on the same hardware platform: Dell poweredge. ... PowerEdge is Dell's brand name for ALL their Server products. That Ubuntu bug was specific to the i450NX chipset, which was new in 1999 and obsoleted circa

Re: [CentOS] PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-27 Thread Ian jonhson
> CentOS 5 uses kernel 2.6.18-xx ... If this PF_RING thing requires a > different kernel, I think a more accurate statement would be, . > PF_RING is not supported on CentOS. Indeed. I wonder whether there exists some difference between CentOS kernel and genral kernel from www.kernel.org? If

[CentOS] script

2008-07-27 Thread Mad Unix
Hi ALL #!/bin/sh # Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space # It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free avilable) percentage # of space is >= 90% # - # Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project

Re: [CentOS] script

2008-07-27 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Mad Unix wrote: ... df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 }' | Try changing "df -H" into "df -H -P" Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: [EMAIL