Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Paul Johnson wrote: > I do want up-to-date applications that people here actually use, like > LaTeX, Emacs, R, Gnumeric, and the other ones I can provide. If I > can't get those from EPEL or rpmforge or wherever, I'm willing to > build those packages. EPEL (and CentOS, to a certain point) are a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mark Walker wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:37 -0700: > When I get the list of packages to be updated, there are things that I > don't recognize having installed. Nevertheless, they probably *are* installed. There's a lot been installed during setup and because of dependencies. rpm -q packagena

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Duffner wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:46:58 +0200: > It's know for consuming some CPU. A-h-a. > But taking a quick look on the support site (HP.com -> Support/Drivers- > >Servers->Proliant->DL>140>G3), tried that, I just reach the same "arena" "Download drivers and software - HP ProLian

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

2008-07-29 Thread kapil singh
Hello, what about your postgresql settings ? are you creating a role for connecting to postgres ? if not creat role: # /etc/init.d/postgresql restart #su - postgres (try to connecting here using your command psql -h, if it connects) now, (run command for creating role and setting up priviledges f

[CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Hywel Richards wrote: No matter how I try, I can't seem to get a library profile from sprof on CentOS5. Does anyone know if sprof actually works on CentOS5? I'd be very interested to hear if anyone is using it successfully. At the moment I'm trying something like this to get the dump: LD

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-29 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Kai Schaetzl wrote: ... Unfortunately, that didn't change anything. hpasmd is running, but hpasmcli just hangs when I try it out. I run CentOS 5 on our old ML 370 G3 machines. BigBrother is watching the machines, using /sbin/hplog from hpasm to query the state of the fans, powersupplies and te

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:49:14AM +0100, Hywel Richards wrote: > Given that I can get this to work well on a CentOS4 machine, and I have ... where did you generate your libmy.so? On a C3/4/5 box? What gives (on c4 and c5): ldd libmy.so You may miss some compat libs. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors

[CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hi folks, is it possible to restrict the rights of a user to only do few, defined actions, e.g. only look up cpu and memory usage, but not walk around in the file system, not see any other hardware details, run any binaries/scripts? I know several different techniques to achieve parts of this

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:05 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > is it possible to restrict the rights of a user to only do few, defined > actions, e.g. only look up cpu and memory usage, but not walk around in the > file system, not see any other hardware details, run any binaries/scripts? > I know s

Re: [CentOS] rebuilding firefox-2.0.0.16 from fc8

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Mark Pryor wrote: hello, I started with ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/firefox-2.0.0.16-1.fc8.src.rpm with the hope of rebuilding it for el5/centos. All of the dependencies were available (mostly from rpmforge) except one: something called system-bookmarks.

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

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Scott Silva wrote: I choose CentOS because I believe it is the most stable OS in commodity machines. But I don't know how to do when facing the trouble. The difference lies in that I patched a PF_RING patch in original kernel and recompiled the kernel to run my machines. I wonder whether the

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot from DVD on an Intel Svr to install CentOS 5.2

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally after days of trial an error I got the origin of the problem and how to solve it. I'm working from a Vista computer, so what I say here is related to this environment. 1. You have to download images (iso files) using FireFox web browser. Internet Explorer does

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Hywel Richards wrote: Hywel Richards wrote: No matter how I try, I can't seem to get a library profile from sprof on CentOS5. Does anyone know if sprof actually works on CentOS5? I'd be very interested to hear if anyone is using it successfully. At the moment I'm trying something like this

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Mark Walker wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:37 -0700: When I get the list of packages to be updated, there are things that I don't recognize having installed. Nevertheless, they probably *are* installed. There's a lot been installed during setup and because of dependencie

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Mark Walker wrote: Here's what I'm doing. In the gui environment, gnome, there's a box in the upper right corner that reports about updates available every once in a while. I click on it and I get something called "Package Updater" that lists the packages that can be updated according to the

[CentOS] 3ware 9650SE drivers for CentOS 5.0-EL kernel 2.6.18-8

2008-07-29 Thread Gert Vandenreyt
The reason I'm using kernel 2.6.18 is that it is the only long term support version available in the LTSP project. I think after an update I will get kernel 2.6.19. The drivers available at the 3ware don't work, but I managed booting by compiling the driver myself in a vmware image. Grz, Gert

[CentOS] vendors that can supply CentOS pre-installed

2008-07-29 Thread Kevin C. Abbey
Hi, I am looking for a vendor that can supply CentOS pre-installed on hardware as follows. _ Phenom AMD X4 processor 8 Gb of memory 250Gb HD or better dual-layer DVD writer reasonably good graphics card _ Please reply with a link to

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:05 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > Hi folks, > > is it possible to restrict the rights of a user to only do few, defined > actions, e.g. only look up cpu and memory usage, but not walk around in the > file system, not see any other hardware details, run any binaries/scri

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread Sean Carolan
> > IMO, this is easier to setup than selinux, *may* meet all your needs and > will not be affected by upgrades. I would agree with this. Try just creating a user with "rbash" as his login shell and then "sudo /bin/su - username". Poke around and see what you are able to do, and you'll find out

Re: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-29 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The machine BIOS correctly describes the RAID volume at start. Doesn't It >> smell like fake RAID? >> Should I declare sdb invalid to the firmware program so as to force >> resync? >> Thanks again >> -- >> > It sure looks as

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:14:16 +0200: > BigBrother is watching the machines, using /sbin/hplog from hpasm > to query the state of the fans, powersupplies and temperatures. Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, that hangs like hpasmcli is hanging. I may be missing something (kernel

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

2008-07-29 Thread nate
Johnny Hughes wrote: > We don't have too many servers (about 20 in 5 locations) or workstations > (about 150 in 5 locations) but I have had no problem with Dell machines > or their service ... maybe I am just lucky. The company I'm at has about 380 dell servers and probably 100 desktops. For the

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Tru Huynh wrote: where did you generate your libmy.so? On a C3/4/5 box? What gives (on c4 and c5): ldd libmy.so You may miss some compat libs. Tru For the c4 test, I built it on c4, and for the c5 test I built it on c5. Here are the outputs from ldd on the c4 and c5 boxes respectively:

[CentOS] restore

2008-07-29 Thread Mad Unix
K_1: reading from backup piece /u01/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/dbs/c-2142365377-20080729-01 ORA-19870: error reading backup piece /u01/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/dbs/c-2142365377-20080729-01 ORA-19505: failed to identify file "/u01/oracle/product/10.2.0/db/dbs/c-2142365377-20080729-01" ORA-270

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Johnny Hughes wrote: http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg10980.html This looks like it might well be the same problem. I guess the fact that this is in an OpenSUSE list suggests that it is a problem originating in glibc. It's a little bit discouraging that the bug was entered s

[CentOS] Xdefaults file.

2008-07-29 Thread James B. Byrne
I am trying to get my xterm window under gnome to open with large fonts, with light green foreground and dark green background. I have the following .Xdefaults file contents: $ cat .Xdefaults ! This is a comment ;-) #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif !! Let's cast a wide net, for any a

Re: [CentOS] restore

2008-07-29 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Mad Unix wrote: > - The control files has been transfered from AIX5.3 to a Linux Machine !! This is an Oracle issue and not a CentOS issue. Please note that, typically, Oracle binary files are not portable between hardware and OS platforms. When I used t

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

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 4:44 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I choose CentOS because I believe it is the most stable OS in commodity machines. But I don't know how to do when facing the trouble. The difference lies in that I patched a PF_RING patch in original kernel and recomp

RE: [CentOS] restore

2008-07-29 Thread Marc-Andre Levesque
>> - The control files has been transfered from AIX5.3 to a Linux Machine !! > >This is an Oracle issue and not a CentOS issue. > >Please note that, typically, Oracle binary files are not portable between >hardware and OS platforms. When I used to DBA Oracle (Oracle 8; that >long ago) we were told

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Tru Huynh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:29:19PM +0100, Hywel Richards wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg10980.html >> > > This looks like it might well be the same problem. yes http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-09/msg00477.html https://bugzilla.nove

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Thanks to all who helped - rbash seems to be a good starting point since selinux is quite complex and takes some time to get into. Dirk --On 29. Juli 2008 09:40:31 -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:05 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, is i

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-29 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Kuang-Chun Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check apache's configuration. Change "DocumentRoot" from /var/www/html > to new location you want. > > Or simply, move /var/www/html to new disk ... and make a symbolic link > /var/www/html @-> your_new_path > I don'

Re: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> The machine BIOS correctly describes the RAID volume at start. Doesn't It >>> smell like fake RAID? >>> Should I declare sdb invalid to th

[CentOS] securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I want to secure some remote rsyncs over ssh by using the command= option in .authorized_keys. As I understand I can use only the full command there, as it is not a list of "allowed commands" but the command that will be executed when logging in with this key. Now, I'm running several rsync comm

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Salvador Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to CentOS 5.2 and I want to know how can I change the /var/www/html > directory to another disk. That disk is not even partitioned. I've googled > and even searched in centos.org forums and documentation, and fou

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

2008-07-29 Thread Ian jonhson
> PF_RING seems to be used for the newest version of ntop for faster packet > capture and analysis. Is that what you are trying to accomplish? Yes. this is the reason why we turn back on PF_RING to patch the kernel. Generally, the libpcap can not meet our need to capture the network packets. > Or

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-29 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Kuang-Chun Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check apache's configuration. Change "DocumentRoot" from /var/www/html to new location you want. Or simply, move /var/www/html to new disk ... and make a symbolic link /var/www/html @-> your_new_path

[CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-28-2008 6:26 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Scott Silva wrote: MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message menti

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

2008-07-29 Thread Ian jonhson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian > from the trace below I don't see an error related to PF_RING but a > soft-lockup (see below). > > I have tested PF_RING on 2.6.24 and .26 and have not experienced the problem > you reported. hmm... I have restarted the

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

2008-07-29 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well ... my $work has been using dell exclusively for servers and > workstations for 5 years. > > I have had no real issues with either the poweredge servers or the desktops > and Dell has always sent parts in a timely ma

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 7-28-2008 6:26 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: Mark: Try that! On my Desktop, it gives me the SN for the HD (hda), but the space for SN is blank, for hdc (DVD reader) and hdd (CD-RW). . If you ar

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

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 9:48 AM Ian jonhson spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian from the trace below I don't see an error related to PF_RING but a soft-lockup (see below). I have tested PF_RING on 2.6.24 and .26 and have not experienced the proble

[CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 9:59 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 7-28-2008 6:26 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: Mark: Try that! On my Desktop, it gives me the SN for the HD (hda), but the space for SN is blank, for hdc (DVD reader) and hdd (

Re: [CentOS] Xdefaults file.

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, James B. Byrne wrote: >I am trying to get my xterm window under gnome to open with large fonts, >with light green foreground and dark green background. I have the >following .Xdefaults file contents: Rather than use the Xdefaults file, create a ~/XTerm file which every xterm

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I would have tried also, because now the system needs to come apart twice >>> unless you just buy a new one and let the replacement be a spare. >> >> Mark: Scott has the right plan for you. Buy a new drive and install >>

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MHR wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Kuang-Chun Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Check apache's configuration. Change "DocumentRoot" from /var/www/html >>> to new location you want. >>> >>> Or s

[CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 10:48 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Scott Silva wrote: I would have tried also, because now the system needs to come apart twice unless you just buy a new one and let the replacement be a spare. Mark: Scott has the right plan for you. Buy

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, kapil singh wrote: > > Hello, > what about your postgresql settings ? There were no problems with the postgresql settings, only that when trying to connect to ``localhost'' it could not resolve that to 127.0.0.1. ``psql -h 127.0.0.1 ...'' worked. After updating the /etc

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 7-29-2008 10:48 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: >>> You must have forgotten to wave the chicken over your head 3 times and >>> said >>> the magic words. You don't want to wave the chicken more than 3 times, as >>> h

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You must have forgotten to wave the chicken over your head 3 times and said > the magic words. You don't want to wave the chicken more than 3 times, as he > will be angry enough after the 3. ;-P > Did you remember to thaw

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark: Scott has the right plan for you. Buy a new drive and install > it, when you take out the defective one. > Send the defective drive in on an RMA and they will probably replace > it with a remanufactured drive and you

[CentOS] Samba, SELinux and system created directories

2008-07-29 Thread Mike
Does anybody know what 'setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw on' is actually supposed to do? I'm trying to share /tmp via samba and am seeing the same results with samba_export_all_rw set to on or off. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what this is intended to do but from windows I cannot see files in /

[CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread James Pifer
I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so they are easier to keep an eye on. I've been googling for howto's etc, but I didn't think syslog would be that difficult. Do I need to use syslog-ng or can I use

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Bart Baars
Syslog (or rsyslog) will do.. Have a look at /etc/sysconfig/(r)syslog Cheers, Bart - Original Message - From: "James Pifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CentOS" Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:32:19 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] sysl

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: | I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a | syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so they are | easier to keep an eye on. | On your CentOS box, edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog. The

[CentOS] nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread David Halik
Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the Centos repo: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0611.html Obviously, it just came out yesterday, so I'm not expecting it to suddenly appear. ;) Just curious what the turn around time usually is for RHEL bug fixes t

[CentOS] Migrating RHEL 3 to Centos 5.2 - has Adaptec 2400a RAID

2008-07-29 Thread Ed Westphal
Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know many of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a machine with RHEL WS 3 - Taroon; plus dual boot to Win 2000 Pro. The RAID card is Adaptec's 2400A w/128 megs cache, running RAID 10 on 4 WD's. I want to migrate to

[CentOS] Re: securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Mike
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: I want to secure some remote rsyncs over ssh by using the command= option in .authorized_keys. As I understand I can use only the full command there, as it is not a list of "allowed commands" but the command that will be executed when logging in with this

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:32:19PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > Any suggestions or guidance? By default, your syslog does not accept syslog entries from remote systems. Edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog, and add a '-r' parameter to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS option, and restart syslog. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread James Pifer
> James Pifer wrote: > | I have a 64bit centos 5.2 system. My router supports sending logs to a > | syslog server, so I was hoping to send them to my centos box so > they are > | easier to keep an eye on. > | > > On your CentOS box, edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog. The comments in the > file should be

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: | Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from | different hosts to specific files? You need rsyslog for that. I believe that FC9 has an rpm for it. There are other places to find one as well. KB may have one in

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:46:39PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from > different hosts to specific files? I use syslog-ng for that, I think from rpmforge. http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Sun/Syslog-ng -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh |

Re: [CentOS] Migrating RHEL 3 to Centos 5.2 - has Adaptec 2400a RAID

2008-07-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Ed Westphal wrote: Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know many of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a machine with RHEL WS 3 - Taroon; plus dual boot to Win 2000 Pro. The RAID card is Adaptec's 2400A w/128 megs cache, running RAID 10 on 4 WD's. I

[CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 11:26 AM MHR spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Silva wrote: You must have forgotten to wave the chicken over your head 3 times and said the magic words. You don't want to wave the chicken more than 3 times, as he will be angry enough after the 3. ;-P Di

[CentOS] Re: Migrating RHEL 3 to Centos 5.2 - has Adaptec 2400a RAID

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 11:42 AM Ed Westphal spake the following: Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know many of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a machine with RHEL WS 3 - Taroon; plus dual boot to Win 2000 Pro. The RAID card is Adaptec's 2400A w/128 megs

Re: [CentOS] Migrating RHEL 3 to Centos 5.2 - has Adaptec 2400a RAID

2008-07-29 Thread Ed Westphal
Many thanks Les. I was hoping I'd hear exactly what you've said. I'll have to post once I've accomplished. Take care. Les Mikesell wrote: Ed Westphal wrote: Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know many of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a machi

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Tru Huynh wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:29:19PM +0100, Hywel Richards wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg10980.html This looks like it might well be the same problem. yes http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-09/msg004

Re: [CentOS] Re: securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Glenn
At 02:43 PM 7/29/2008, you wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: I want to secure some remote rsyncs over ssh by using the command= option in .authorized_keys. As I understand I can use only the full command there, as it is not a list of "allowed commands" but the command that will be

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, David Mackintosh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:46:39PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from > > different hosts to specific files? > > I use syslog-ng for that, I think from rpmforge. > > http://wiki.xdroop.com/

[CentOS] Re: nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 11:41 AM David Halik spake the following: Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the Centos repo: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0611.html Obviously, it just came out yesterday, so I'm not expecting it to suddenly appear. ;) Just curious wh

Re: [CentOS] Migrating RHEL 3 to Centos 5.2 - has Adaptec 2400a RAID

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Ed Westphal wrote: > Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know many > of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a machine with > RHEL WS 3 - Taroon; plus dual boot to Win 2000 Pro. The RAID card is > Adaptec's 2400A w/128 megs cache,

Re: [CentOS] Re: nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread David Halik
Scott Silva wrote: on 7-29-2008 11:41 AM David Halik spake the following: Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the Centos repo: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0611.html Obviously, it just came out yesterday, so I'm not expecting it to suddenly appear

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Kjellstrom wrote: | | Worth noting, rsyslog-2.0.0-11.el5 is in base since CentOS-5.2. | ooh... that's definately worth noting. - -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Toby Bluhm
Scott Silva wrote: on 7-29-2008 11:26 AM MHR spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Silva wrote: You must have forgotten to wave the chicken over your head 3 times and said the magic words. You don't want to wave the chicken more than 3 times, as he will be angry enough

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > There's no real process of getting your packages into CentOS at the > moment, rpmrepo is still "finding itself", so my advice would be to > offer those packages (and maintenance) to rpmforge, which

Re: [CentOS] Re: nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:25 PM, David Halik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: >> >> on 7-29-2008 11:41 AM David Halik spake the following: >>> >>> Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the >>> Centos repo: >>> >>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008

Re: [CentOS] nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
David Halik wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the Centos repo: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0611.html Obviously, it just came out yesterday, so I'm not expecting it to suddenly appear. ;) Just curious what the turn around time usually is

Re: [CentOS] nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread David Halik
Great, I didn't realize it was going to be so fast. Thanks for the info. Johnny Hughes wrote: David Halik wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the Centos repo: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0611.html Obviously, it just came out yesterday, s

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: > >> There's no real process of getting your packages into CentOS at the >> moment, rpmrepo is still "finding itself", so my

Re: [CentOS] nss_ldap 5.2 update question

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
David Halik wrote: Great, I didn't realize it was going to be so fast. Thanks for the info. Johnny Hughes wrote: David Halik wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering when this update will trickle down into the Centos repo: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0611.html Obviously, it just c

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: >> >> on 7-29-2008 11:26 AM MHR spake the following: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Silva >>> wrote: You must have forgotten to wave the chicken over your head 3 times and sa

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scott Silva wrote: >>> >>> on 7-29-2008 11:26 AM MHR spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Silva wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Huff
On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: People keep sending me to RPMforge, but apparently you don't go there yourselves to see you are sending me nowhere. Follow your advice: https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/ Paul, i'm sorry that you're experiencing confusion; the websites for RPM

[CentOS] Re: You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-29-2008 12:29 PM Paul Johnson spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: There's no real process of getting your packages into CentOS at the moment, rpmrepo is still "finding itself", so my advice would be to offer

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Toby Bluhm
MHR wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott Silva wrote: on 7-29-2008 11:26 AM MHR spake the following: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Scott Silva wrote: You must have fo

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MHR wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: Scott Silva wrote: > > on 7-29-

Re: [CentOS] securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mike wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:09 -0700 (MST): > By 'secure some remote rsyncs' do you mean only allow rsync but not > interactive login? If so perhaps this will meet your needs: > http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html This looks good. It uses a script on the remote side that checks the

Re: [CentOS] securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Glenn wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:17:08 -0400: > I wanted to reply with a solution, but I did not > quite understand the problem. The problem is that if you use a "forced command" in authorized_keys that is the only command that runs with this key. If you want to use a few more, even if they

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: Paul Johnson wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:29:13 -0500: > People keep sending me to RPMforge, but apparently you don't go there > yourselves to see you are sending me nowhere. Nobody could be aware that you do not know about rpmforge and know your way yourself. ->

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread James Pifer
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:52 -0600, Milton Calnek wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Pifer wrote: > | Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from > | different hosts to specific files? > > You need rsyslog for that. > I believe that FC9 has an rp

[CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Michael Kress
Hello, I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2 live cd? Later on I'm planning to install a new system with xen, 3ware 9550SX

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2 live cd? Well, try "yum install" with the "xfs" string and var

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Michael Kress wrote: Hello, I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2 live cd? I do not know if the standard xfs modules in

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:54 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was born and raised in California, where Scott and Mark are, but > > this waving the chicken over my head, when working on a PC, is new to > > me. :-) Having l

[CentOS] Extended characters not working on CentOS

2008-07-29 Thread MHR
A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the page. Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to get the characters to display properly (they showed up as

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: > Michael Kress wrote: >> >> I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file >> systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. >> So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is >> included in the 5.2 live c

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2

Re: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-29 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Eduardo: To give you something else to consider, as an alternative: I > believe there was a long thread here, awhile back, about using > Software RAID, instead of fake RAID controllers. Software RAID works > very well, as I

Re: [CentOS] Extended characters not working on CentOS

2008-07-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:49 -0700, MHR wrote: > A friend of mine here at work pointed me at this web page > www.fhlcell.org where there are a lot of Chinese characters on the > page. > > Interestingly enough, on my CentOS 5.2 system, with both Seamoneky > 1.1.11 and Firefox 3.0, we were unable to

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: >>> Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and tr

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