Re: [CentOS] Regd: SeLinux Configuration

2008-10-14 Thread Ian Blackwell
Balaji wrote: > Dear All, > I have executed the following command and i have changed the > "/etc/selinux/config" file > and reboot the PC also > setenforce 1 > i have getting the following message only > setenforce: SELinux is disabled > Please post your /etc/selinux/config file. Thanks,

[CentOS] Squid proxy High Availability

2008-10-14 Thread lingu
Hi all, I am running squid integrated with squidguard.dansguardian,clamav running on single standalone centos 5 server.Also running webmin for managing squid.This Squid is serving for 4000 clients. Since it is serving more users i don't want to take risk by running single server,if there is an

Re: [CentOS] Squid Number of hits

2008-10-14 Thread Mogens Kjaer
lingu wrote: > Dear all, > > I am running squid on centos 5.Is there is any tool to calculate > number of ip's hit the server for month wise. > Even any command to find out the number of hits is also ok. When I ran a squid cache I used the scripts on: http://www.squid-cache.org/Scripts/NLANR/

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:44:07 +0300: > Priority for CentOS Extras repo: 1 double-check that! For instance, if this repo is not enabled, the priority will not work! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Niki Kovacs schrieb: > Hi, > > [snip... mass installation/customizations...] > I'd be curious to read your suggestions about this. Use cobbler. https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler You will have some work scripting your customizations (or not, if it's already scripted) but then, you can install as

Re: [CentOS] Regd: SeLinux Configuration

2008-10-14 Thread Barry Brimer
Dear All, Find attached the selinux configuration file "/etc/selinux/config" # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead o

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Sean Carolan wrote: > We have an issue with some customers who refuse to accept ICMP traffic > to their mail servers. It seems that they have put Mordac, preventer > of information services in charge of their firewall policy > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_Dilbert#Morda

Re: [CentOS] Squid proxy High Availability

2008-10-14 Thread nate
lingu wrote: > Help me in designing the setup of high availability squid I think your better off using a load balancer instead of a cluster. For one, GFS requires shared storage(typically SAN), and two load balancing is much simpler than clustering. LVS is a free linux-based load balancer, so y

[CentOS] Squid Number of hits

2008-10-14 Thread lingu
Dear all, I am running squid on centos 5.Is there is any tool to calculate number of ip's hit the server for month wise. Even any command to find out the number of hits is also ok. Regards, Lingu ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:24:59 +0200: > Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which spans to 2014. Look at this not from the viewpoint

Re: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Jens Larsson
> > Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? > Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer > hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which > spans to 2014. Look at this not from the viewpoint of your mom, but from > the computershop that

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, October 14, 2008 09:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:13:34 -0500: > >> My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP >> traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: > > Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a rol

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-10-14 16:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sean Carolan wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:13:34 -0500: My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a role in mail delivery?

[CentOS] Samba Hosts Allow/Deny

2008-10-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am running CentOS 5.2 w/ Samba 3.0.28 and have a basic user level setup and am trying to use hosts allow and deny but it does not have an effect? I have specified them in the share level of the config. I have tried: hosts allow = 192.168.0.72/32 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 Also:

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Kai Schaetzl wrote: My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a role in mail delivery? It is required for any TCP conversation, unless as a matter of luck you h

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Mufit Eribol
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Priority for CentOS Extras repo: 1 double-check that! For instance, if this repo is not enabled, the priority will not work! Kai Checked that, already enabled. Here is an excerpt from CentOS-Base.repo: ... #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-

RE: [CentOS] Samba Hosts Allow/Deny

2008-10-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>man page suggests that you use this type of reference... > >hosts allow = 192.168.0.72/255.255.255.255 > >Craig Whoops, my bad! Thanks for the correction. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:44, Mufit Eribol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installed package: GeoIP.i386 1.4.4-1.el5.centos > Repo: CentOS Extras > Priority for CentOS Extras repo: 1 > > "yum update" wants to replace the above package with the following: > > Package: geoip.i386 1.4.5-1.el5.rf >

RE: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:31 PM: >> Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? > > Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer > hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which > spans to 2014. Look at this not f

[CentOS] Re: yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-14-2008 3:14 AM Mufit Eribol spake the following: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Strange, because it works here: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documentation]# yum -v update | grep -i geoip >> --> geoip-devel-1.4.0-1.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge excluded (priority) >> --> geoip-1.4.0-1.el5.rf.x86_64 f

Re: [CentOS] Re: yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Mufit Eribol
Scott Silva wrote: Just to be thorough, run this; rpm -qa | grep priorities [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep priorities yum-priorities-1.1.10-9.el5.centos [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

Re: [CentOS] Squid Number of hits

2008-10-14 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:54 +0530, lingu wrote: > Dear all, > > I am running squid on centos 5.Is there is any tool to calculate > number of ip's hit the server for month wise. > Even any command to find out the number of hits is also ok. > Calamaris can give you a summary: http://cord.de/t

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:24:08 +0200: > If you don't know the smallest MTU on the path to the mail server, you > might not be able to send packets over that path, especially if DF is > set. But if it's not set? Shouldn't most devices have it not set? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Ber

[CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Sean Carolan
We have an issue with some customers who refuse to accept ICMP traffic to their mail servers. It seems that they have put Mordac, preventer of information services in charge of their firewall policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_Dilbert#Mordac). My mail logs are showin

Re: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:26:51 +0200: > Did > you maybe have some special hardware in mind? No. I just wanted to point out that for such a task another distribution *might* be better suited, that's all. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Serv

[CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-14-2008 9:26 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: > Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:31 PM: > >>> Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? >> Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer >> hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime

RE: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
Niki Kovacs <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:44 PM: >How > would it *technically* be possible to replicate these installs as easily > as possible? G4u (Ghost for unix) is your solution. It's free. Have a ftp-and dhcp server available on your network. Install one machine with your pre

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:24:08 +0200: If you don't know the smallest MTU on the path to the mail server, you might not be able to send packets over that path, especially if DF is set. But if it's not set? Shouldn't most devices have it not set? Router

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread nate
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:13:34 -0500: > >> My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP >> traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: > > Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a role in mail delivery? It doesn't r

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, October 14, 2008 12:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:24:08 +0200: > >> If you don't know the smallest MTU on the path to the mail server, you >> might not be able to send packets over that path, especially if DF is >> set. > > But if it's not set? Shou

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Mufit Eribol
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, The package names are different, so probably "geoip" (from RPMforge) obsoletes "GeoIP" from CentOS. In that case, for priorities to work and exclude the one that obsoletes the other, you have to set this option in the [main] section of /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/prior

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Mufit Eribol wrote: > Installed package: GeoIP.i386 1.4.4-1.el5.centos > Repo: CentOS Extras > Priority for CentOS Extras repo: 1 > > "yum update" wants to replace the above package with the following: > > Package: geoip.i386 1.4.5-1.el5.rf > Repo: rpmforge > Priority for rpmforge: 15 > > Why does

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 13:47, Mufit Eribol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> check_obsoletes=1 > Yes Filipe, that's it! > This option works nice. > > Thank you for the hint. No problem! :-) By the way, in a previous thread ("rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you") it was su

Re: [CentOS] Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Scott Silva wrote: > on 10-14-2008 6:24 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following: > > > So you basically broke your internet connection because of stupid > > customers? No, there isn't anything you can do on your side - > > especially if you don't know how large their MTU is set (which you > > cannot

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:24:08 +0200: > > > If you don't know the smallest MTU on the path to the mail server, you > > might not be able to send packets over that path, especially if DF is > > set. > > But if it's not set? Shouldn't most devices have it n

Re: [CentOS] Re: tg3 ethernet card drops connection under heavy load

2008-10-14 Thread Sean Carolan
>> There was nothing out of the ordinary in /var/log/messages. The >> logging just stops after the network card drops offline. dmesg also >> shows nothing out of the ordinary when the driver is loaded. The >> network card works fine until it is under heavy load. > Since you are running CentOS 3

Re: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Niki Kovacs wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:44:19 +0200: > How > would it *technically* be possible to replicate these installs as easily > as possible? Kickstart. I wouldn't be so sure that CentOS would be the best choice for a brand-new consumer desktop, though. You might want to use Fedora whi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Ralph Angenendt wrote: As said, they deliberately broke their internet connection, so there isn't much you can do except setting your MTU to an extremely low value and hope that there's nothing in between which has an even lower MTU. It doesn't have to be extremely low, it just has to be low

Re: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Niki Kovacs wrote: How would it *technically* be possible to replicate these installs as easily as possible? The hardware is always the same, so I wonder: I have a vague idea about disk images (to be more precise: I know disk images well as far as burning CDs on the commandline is concerned, o

Re: [CentOS] Squid proxy High Availability

2008-10-14 Thread Barry Brimer
So i am planned to go for one more Centos5 server with cluster.Can any one suggest me how to design it either i have to go for common storage for storing all global files or i need to synchronize both the server periodically by running instance on local disk of both the servers. You could als

Re: [CentOS] Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Sean Carolan
Thanks for the information. If I understand this correctly, the client would have to convince the owner of each and every router hop along the way to disable PMTU discovery if he insists on dropping all ICMP packets? And Scott hit the nail on the head with this comment: > Sometimes you can't be

Re: [CentOS] Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Les Mikesell wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> >> As said, they deliberately broke their internet connection, so there isn't >> much you can do except setting your MTU to an extremely low value and >> hope that there's nothing in between which has an even lower MTU. > > It doesn't have to be extr

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sean Carolan wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:13:34 -0500: > My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP > traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a role in mail delivery? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Ge

Re: [CentOS] Weird problem in PHP 5.1.6/possible bug

2008-10-14 Thread Patrick
Kai Schaetzl wrote: As you might have seen I actually found a workaround. Your findings on CentOS 4 suggest that it is a specific problem on the CentOS/RHEL 5 platform. The PHP 5 coming with CentOS 5 is set to a locale of C and doesn't match the locale of the system! I guess I file a bug now.

Re: [CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Mufit Eribol
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Strange, because it works here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Documentation]# yum -v update | grep -i geoip --> geoip-devel-1.4.0-1.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge excluded (priority) --> geoip-1.4.0-1.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge excluded (priority) --> geoip-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.x86_64 from

Re: [CentOS] [OT] What is the best network monitoring tool?

2008-10-14 Thread Tim Berger
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently I have a big question. > > What is the best OPEN SOURCE solution for monitoring multiple Host and > Services, for example for using in a WebHosting Provider with 50 hosts or > more. > I've had good luck w

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 10

2008-10-14 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reac

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread mouss
Sean Carolan a écrit : > We have an issue with some customers who refuse to accept ICMP traffic > to their mail servers. It seems that they have put Mordac, preventer > of information services in charge of their firewall policy > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_Dilbert#Mo

[CentOS] App Question.

2008-10-14 Thread bruce
Hi list!! Got a question, and I can't find a good answer for, so I figured i'd post here. I'm working on a project that involves a number of smaller apps to be developed, and run. In order to build this overall application, I'm trying to find a web based app that I can use to manage the entire pro

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:13:34 -0500: > > > My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP > > traffic have many "Connection Reset" entries in our logs: > > Could somebody explain why ICMP might play a role in mail delivery? If you d

RE: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:21 PM: > I wouldn't be so sure that CentOS would be the best choice for a > brand-new consumer desktop, though. Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? It works fine for my computer-ignorant 50+ mom. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread mouss
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:24:08 +0200: > >> If you don't know the smallest MTU on the path to the mail server, you >> might not be able to send packets over that path, especially if DF is >> set. > > But if it's not set? Shouldn't most devices have it n

Re: [CentOS] looking for good web based DNS script to check nameservers

2008-10-14 Thread Brent L. Bates
FYI. I tried the Web site Robert Spangler posted: http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheckdomainf.aspx We failed some of their tests because THEIR DNS isn't set up properly. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x20

Re: [CentOS] /var/amavis

2008-10-14 Thread Jussi Hirvi
> Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> My /etc/group is not quite in order (a long story), and now I need to >> correct privileges right here and there. >> >> I would ask someone who has amavisd-new to show me the corresponding >> listing as this: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] amavis]# ls -l /var/am

[CentOS] Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-14-2008 6:24 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following: > Sean Carolan wrote: >> We have an issue with some customers who refuse to accept ICMP traffic >> to their mail servers. It seems that they have put Mordac, preventer >> of information services in charge of their firewall policy >> (http:

[CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm running a small Linux consulting business here in a group of small villages in the South of France (http://www.microlinux.fr). I'm using CentOS for everything, servers as well as desktops. The desktop installs are usually highly customized. My approach is to list the client's needs, f

[CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?

2008-10-14 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell the following thing: "parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem." What do you think about it? Greets! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogsp

RE: [CentOS] Squid Number of hits

2008-10-14 Thread Sorin Srbu
lingu <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:24 PM: > I am running squid on centos 5.Is there is any tool to calculate > number of ip's hit the server for month wise. > Even any command to find out the number of hits is also ok. http://www.google.se/linux?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=squid+repo

Re: [CentOS] Samba Hosts Allow/Deny

2008-10-14 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:08 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I am running CentOS 5.2 w/ Samba 3.0.28 and have a basic user level > setup and > > am trying to use hosts allow and deny but it does not have an effect? > I have > > specified them in the share level of the config. > > > > I have t

Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?

2008-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly) in a nutshell the following thing: "parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem." Sounds like a question for the parted list, not here. Plenty of stuff in CentOS uses parted

Re: [CentOS] App Question.

2008-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
bruce wrote: Got a question, and I can't find a good answer for, so I figured i'd post here. I'm working on a project that involves a number of smaller apps to be developed, and run. In order to build this overall application, I'm trying to find a web based app that I can use to manage the entire

[CentOS] yum priorities question

2008-10-14 Thread Mufit Eribol
Hello, I have a question about working principles of yum. Here are the details: Installed package: GeoIP.i386 1.4.4-1.el5.centos Repo: CentOS Extras Priority for CentOS Extras repo: 1 "yum update" wants to replace the above package with the following: Package: geoip.i386 1.4.5-1.el5.rf Repo:

RE: [CentOS] App Question.

2008-10-14 Thread bruce
Karanbir in this case, i disagree. we're looking for a tool, that may very well exist with the very admins/engineers who use centos/rhel/etc... the whole purpose of the email lists is to share information that's directly related to the "topic" as well as to information that's 2-3 degrees tangental

Re: [CentOS] Yum and case-sensitivity

2008-10-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On one of our servers (CentOS 4 32 bit), we have the dag repo enabled. > Yesterday morning during a yum update, yum replaced the CentOS package > "perl-DBD-MySQL" with one from dag, "perl-DBD-mysql". If you are not using the Priori

Re: [CentOS] Re: Sendmail and pmtu discovery

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Boyd
On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: If you've ever dealt with with one of these paranoid Mordac-type security managers you know exactly what I'm talking about. In our case the path of least resistance was to disable pmtu discovery, and tell the customer that we've done all we poss

[CentOS] Centos 5x ipv6 sendmail smtps

2008-10-14 Thread Tony Wicks
Hi all, I'm working my way through v6ing our network. I have a mail server with the default dovecot/sendmail configuration working happily for pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps, smtp, and smtps on v4. I have managed to get all but smtps working on v6. Following is the relevant sendmail.mc - DAEMON_OPTI

Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?

2008-10-14 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:13:18PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > And Just to remind everyone that no, this is still not a general > conversation about stuff list. How off-topic is it to ask precisely what is on-topic for this list if questions and discussions of the included components belong

[CentOS] Extract text from Microsoft PowerPoint files

2008-10-14 Thread Yanagisawa, Koji
Hello CentOS people, I'm wondering if there are command tools like antiword and docx2txt for Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt and .pptx). The idea is to extract text from PowerPoint files. Sorry this isn't exactly about CentOS, but I'd really like it if Yum has something. I tried xlhtml, bu

Re: [CentOS] Extract text from Microsoft PowerPoint files

2008-10-14 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:13:55PM -0400, Yanagisawa, Koji wrote: > Hello CentOS people, > > I'm wondering if there are command tools like antiword and docx2txt for > Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt and .pptx). The idea is to extract > text from PowerPoint files. Sorry this isn't exactly abou

Re: [CentOS] USB external HDD error messages

2008-10-14 Thread Guest
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:38 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guest wrote: > >> Sorry to double up on your answer like this, but is there any chance that >> the i/o errors are due to a bad usb cable, or usb card in the main >> computer? I didn't mention before that the external hdd that the s

[CentOS] formatting large volume

2008-10-14 Thread Craig White
I just got a new server with a Dell MD-1000 SAS unit and 6-750 gigabyte drives which are now initializing in RAID 10 which will give me just about 2 terabytes. I vaguely recall reading that fdisk wasn't suitable for partitioning and wonder if I shouldn't be using partd instead. I am also wondering

RE: [CentOS] formatting large volume

2008-10-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I vaguely recall reading that fdisk wasn't suitable for partitioning and >wonder if I shouldn't be using partd instead. I am also wondering if I >should use lvm or just mkfs to create the filesystem. Anyone have >suggestions before I blunder in? fdisk can't do GPT which is what you need for parti

[CentOS] creating a user from an RPM package

2008-10-14 Thread Spiro Harvey
What wizardry do you guys use in the SPEC file when creating/deleting a user from an RPM package? I was going to create a macro like: %define user(login,uid,gid,name,homedir,shell) \ echo "$1:x:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6" >>/etc/passwd; \ echo "$1:!!:12005:0:9:7:::" >>/etc/shadow; \

Re: [CentOS] creating a user from an RPM package

2008-10-14 Thread nate
Spiro Harvey wrote: > Alternatively, if you could point me to a package or a spec file that > does this, I'd be much obliged. >From the postifx srpm.. %define postfix_uid89 %define postfix_user postfix %define postfix_gid89 %define postfix_group postfix %define postdrop_group postdrop

Re: [CentOS] creating a user from an RPM package

2008-10-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:22 +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: > What wizardry do you guys use in the SPEC file when creating/deleting a > user from an RPM package? > > I was going to create a macro like: > > %define user(login,uid,gid,name,homedir,shell) \ > echo "$1:x:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6" >>/et

[CentOS] Sendmail rbl - Need to bypass rbl for one local address

2008-10-14 Thread Linux Guru
Hi, Hope any one can help me. I am running centos 5.2 with sendmail and rbl feature.  I need to recieve all emails come to my sales account regardless of rbl . I looked on web and gave up. All I found was if I added To:sales@ ok in my sendmail.mc , sales account will bypass rbl and get all the

Re: [CentOS] creating a user from an RPM package

2008-10-14 Thread Spiro Harvey
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From the postifx srpm.. thanks. and to you Ian; looks like useradd is the standard way. :) clamav uses it too. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923www.knossos.net.nz

Re: [CentOS] Extract text from Microsoft PowerPoint files

2008-10-14 Thread nate
Yanagisawa, Koji wrote: > Hello CentOS people, > > I'm wondering if there are command tools like antiword and docx2txt for > Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt and .pptx). The idea is to extract > text from PowerPoint files. Sorry this isn't exactly about CentOS, but > I'd really like it if Yum has

Re: [CentOS] OT: is parted reliable?

2008-10-14 Thread John Newbigin
Until CentOS 4.7, parted would create DOS partitions > 2Tb. DOS partitions can not be > 2Tb. This could "...corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem". The latest version from CentOS 4.7 fixes this (and other) bugs. John. Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-14 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thanks very much everybody for your numerous comments. I guess I got much more than I expected. Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Regd: SeLinux Configuration

2008-10-14 Thread Balaji
Dear All, Find attached the grub boot loader configuration file "/boot/grub/grub.conf" Regards -S.Balaji Barry Brimer wrote: Please post /boot/grub/grub.conf as well. There may be an "selinux" or "enforcing" parameter on the kernel line that is producing unexpected results. # grub.conf