Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Christopher Chan wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: >> Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> >>> start/stop' though from Intrepid onwards I believe. There is no root >>> account by default. >>> >> There is a root account, you just can't access it w/o setting it's password. >> > Oh you can. sudo

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Christopher Chan
> I don't have a problem with sudo, I just have a problem with sudo > configurations that make it cake to spawn a root shell. > Good luck guessing the password. (okay, most ubuntu users most probably don't have a good one) ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Two sets of Heartbeat HTTPD clusters on same subnet

2009-03-30 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi all, I am new to Hearbeat so please be kind :) I also posted this on Linux-HA lists with no responses so I posted it here. I have successfully configure two machines to use heartbeat to cluster httpd. The two nodes are called etk-1 and etk-2. I am trying to configure another two machines to ac

[CentOS] Building my own Help Contents categories in Gnome Help Application

2009-03-30 Thread Balaji
Dear All, Currently i have using RHEL4 Update 4 and CentOS 4.4 Linux PC and GNOME Version is gnome-session-2.8.0 and Scroll Keeper is scrollkeeper-0.3.14 I have implemented my own OMF with the help of Linux yelp command system scroll keeper OMF document . Currently my help will be a

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael A. Peters wrote: > >> start/stop' though from Intrepid onwards I believe. There is no root >> account by default. > > There is a root account, you just can't access it w/o setting it's password. sudo su - > And as soon as you do set it's password, I highly recommend you then > complet

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > >>> >> Functional deficiencies here we come: >> >> 1) No equivalent to kickstart: >> By that I mean, zero support for automated lvm on raid kind of disk >> partitioning in the debian-installer > > This is a huge issue with SLES. AutoYaST makes me very angry. :-)

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > > Errr, why is it easier to get an admin user's name and password than the > root password? Because typically you only allow root login via console or an existing login. You can brute force a user password (or sniff if the admin is lazy in how they connect - IE not usin

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
>> With sudo disabled, the cracker must also have a local exploit that gets >> past SELinux. Assuming Ubuntu supports SELinux (does it?) >> > > No, it comes with AppArmor instead. > > There are trappings of selinux in Intrepid if not Hardy. Package: libselinux1 escription: SELinux sha

Re: [CentOS] how to access encrypted EXT3 partition from Windows

2009-03-30 Thread Rudi Ahlers
2009/3/26 John R. Dennison : > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:19:30AM +, Ionut Vancea wrote: >> >> you can also check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE > >Very interesting. Thank you for the reference. > -- Thanx everyone, TrueCrypt works very well :) Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers _

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Michael A. Peters wrote: >> Errr, why is it easier to get an admin user's name and password than the >> root password? > > Because typically you only allow root login via console or an existing > login. I don't see how that relates to the question. > You can brute force a user password (or sn

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
>> Didn't Ubuntu switch to something like Solaris' SMF? I actually like >> SMF quite a bit and I imagine RHEL/Fedora will move in this direction >> eventually >> > > Speaking of Solaris - are any of projects like Nexenta usable yet > (distributions with the OpenSolaris kernel and the sa

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: > >>> Errr, why is it easier to get an admin user's name and password than the >>> root password? >> Because typically you only allow root login via console or an existing >> login. > > I don't see how that relates to the question. It relates beca

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:54:10PM +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > > >> Didn't Ubuntu switch to something like Solaris' SMF? I actually like > >> SMF quite a bit and I imagine RHEL/Fedora will move in this direction > >> eventually > >> > > > > Speaking of Solaris - are any o

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous > posters, is a VHF radio link. I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days where VHF (tropo)will travel 3500 miles and days where it would not get to my

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread RobertH
yes i would explore & consider moving the offices too, especially if you can do what you want with a dedicated conditioned business line from old office to new office and then send out on a reliable lower cost internet link. maybe good pots if you have to. like you said, it all depends on the co

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > > I don't know the state of Nexenta but I can live with Indiana. As a > desktop, it was nice to get Nvidia drivers bundled, a working > thunderbird + lightning plugin enabled, working sound (can I repeat > that?), pidgin, openoffice (needless to say), sunstu

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous >> posters, is a VHF radio link. > > > I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days where VHF > (tropo)will travel 3500 miles and days wh

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:23 AM, JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous >> posters, is a VHF radio link. > > I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days where VHF > (tropo)will trave

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > JohnS wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >>> The other thing, if it is Line of Sight, as suggested by previous >>> posters, is a VHF radio link. >> >> I would not bet my load on line of sight! I have seen days

[CentOS] Problem with Tomcat

2009-03-30 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, Tomcat was running well and suddenly stop of working. I am using tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.7.el5_2.1 on Centos 5.2 /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf looks like as follows: JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java" CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5" JASPER_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat5" CATALINA_TMPDIR="/usr/share/tomcat5

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-30 Thread Erick M.
Hi, i using [r...@se~]# yum search otrs Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Extras Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5

[CentOS] How to check server kernel support 32 Gb RAM (X86, CENTOS 4.7)??

2009-03-30 Thread mcclnx mcc
we have CENTOS 4.7 (X86) on DELL server, I already put 32 GB RAM on it. I can use "top" or "free" to check memory and it did show 32 GB. I check REDHAT site and found it say: The "SMP" kernel supports a maximum of 16GB of main memory. Systems with more than 16GB of main memory use the "Hugeme

[CentOS] liblber-2.3.so.0 and libldap-2.3.so.0 -needed for Php 5.2

2009-03-30 Thread Sean Waite
I am trying to upgrade Php 5.1 to 5.2, I have added a few repos for yum, but I end up getting two errors: Missing Dependency: libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by package php-ldap Missing Dependency: liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by package php-ldap I have openldap 2.4 installed, libldap-2.4.so.2.2.0 and

Re: [CentOS] How to check server kernel support 32 Gb RAM (X86, CENTOS 4.7)??

2009-03-30 Thread nate
mcclnx mcc wrote: > It did NOT show "Hugemem", does this server kernel support 32 GB or not? If > NOT how can I change kernel to "hugeme"? Download and install the hugemem kernel, it should be available from whatever source you installed CentOS from. Your better off using 64-bit for this if you

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Leventhal
Dhaval Thakar wrote: > Hi, > > I need to implement trouble tracking system, > we have 250 users in one premise & 3 desktop support technicians. > > I need to implement trouble ticket system, where user will enter their > application / other issues. Mail will be sent to technician available on > dut

Re: [CentOS] How to check server kernel support 32 Gb RAM (X86,

2009-03-30 Thread John R Pierce
> > > we have CENTOS 4.7 (X86) on DELL server, I already put 32 GB RAM on it. I > can use "top" or "free" to check memory and it did show 32 GB. > > I check REDHAT site and found it say: > > The "SMP" kernel supports a maximum of 16GB of main memory. Systems with more > than 16GB of main mem

Re: [CentOS] How to check server kernel support 32 Gb RAM (X86,

2009-03-30 Thread mcclnx mcc
The reason we did not use 64 bits O.S. due to we still have some problem run 64 bit ORACLE on X86_64. I have another question: since server we have is "SMP" how come it can show 32 GB RAM on application like "top" and "free"? Thanks. --- 09/3/30 (一),John R Pierce 寫道: > 寄件者: John R Pierce

Re: [CentOS] How to check server kernel support 32 Gb RAM (X86,

2009-03-30 Thread nate
mcclnx mcc wrote: > > The reason we did not use 64 bits O.S. due to we still have some problem run > 64 bit ORACLE on X86_64. Should be able to run 32-bit oracle on the 64-bit OS(assuming Oracle supports it they may not), just need the 32-bit libraries installed. nate __

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Now, what about a long element yagi? Good, but not dependable. What's wrong with me ??? :-P Akemi YAGI ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 11:54 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > Now, what about a long element yagi? Good, but not dependable. > > What's wrong with me ??? :-P > > Akemi YAGI - How ma

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-30-2009 11:54 AM Akemi Yagi spake the following: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:23 AM, JohnS > wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 08:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> Now, what about a long element yagi? Good, but not dependable. > > What's wrong with me ??? :-P > > Akemi YAGI Now your just b

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other > suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio > station but not an internet presence these days? > the original poster indicated the FM station was on an American Indian reservat

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Michel Daggelinckx
John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other >> suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio >> station but not an internet presence these days? >> >> > > the original poster indicated the FM

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Lindemann
Dhaval Thakar wrote: > Hi, > > I need to implement trouble tracking system, > we have 250 users in one premise & 3 desktop support technicians. > > I need to implement trouble ticket system, where user will enter their > application / other issues. Mail will be sent to technician available on > d

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:37:35PM -0600, Steve Lindemann wrote: > Dhaval Thakar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to implement trouble tracking system, > > we have 250 users in one premise & 3 desktop support technicians. > > > > I need to implement trouble ticket system, where user will enter their

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Peterson
Dhaval Thakar wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need to implement trouble tracking system, >>> we have 250 users in one premise & 3 desktop support technicians. >>> >>> I need to implement trouble ticket system, where user will enter their >>> application / other issues. Mail will be sent to technician avai

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:34 +0200, Michel Daggelinckx wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote: > > > > > It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other > > > suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio > > > station but not an interne

[CentOS] gdmgreeter and powersave

2009-03-30 Thread David Fitzgerald
I have a bunch of workstations running CentOS 5.2. When the gdmgreeter is displayed, the monitor never blanks or powers off even though I have DPMS enabled in xorg.conf. When a user is logged in it works as expected. I Googled around and saw some references to this happening, but have not fo

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> >> I don't know the state of Nexenta but I can live with Indiana. As a >> desktop, it was nice to get Nvidia drivers bundled, a working >> thunderbird + lightning plugin enabled, working sound (can I repea

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Scott Silva
on 3-30-2009 1:14 PM John R Pierce spake the following: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other >> suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio >> station but not an internet presence these days? >> > > the original p

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 31.03.2009 um 01:12 schrieb Ross Walker: > > I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. > What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in Linux, BTW? Maybe except for all the horrible cat some_arcane_value > /proc/foo or /sys/baz to coax the ke

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:42:48AM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 31.03.2009 um 01:12 schrieb Ross Walker: > > > > > I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. > > > > > What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in > Linux, BTW? > Maybe exce

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Christopher Chan
> I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things > about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with > JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than > Sun's package -> patchid + 8000 different patch management tools. pca > is the clos

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things > > about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with > > JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than > > Sun's pa

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:21:43PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > > > I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things > > > about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with > > > JumpSt

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Christopher Chan
>> the new IPS package manager is okay. Doing image-updates has reasonably >> worked well too. >> > > Haven't tried this at all... if it's "free"[1] I will. If it's a large > extra cost, I'll stick with PCA :-) > > Also, do to the nature of many of the Solaris patches (which require > reboo

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. >> > > > What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in > Linux, BTW? A package manager that can grab many thousands of packages with their dependencies and keep them up to date

Re: [CentOS] Creating a CentOS Print Server for Windows Clients

2009-03-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The windows driver directory PRINT$ can take a little work to get >setup properly, but after it's setup right you install drivers there >from a Windows client as if it were any other print server. Ross, Took the long ugly way around this and used the nix commands to import and assign drivers

[CentOS] Installing Cent OS from a usb flash drive

2009-03-30 Thread Jimmy Bradley
I recently acquired a Fujitsu Lifebook 1610. Unfortunately, the machine was missing a lot of the stuff that would've come with it brand new, mainly the usb cdrom drive. Currently, I'm running Fedora on it, and I installed it using a usb flash drive with the help of a program called unet

[CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-03-30 Thread Joshua Gimer
LinkedIn Joshua Gimer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Romeo, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Joshua View invitation from Joshua Gimer http://www.linkedin.com/e/c640Z0zoY42Hba6yQ6iWhZknxFvA/b

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:34 +0200, Michel Daggelinckx wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >>> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> It sounds like this location is just begging for wimax or some other suitable internet service. What kind of place can support a radio station but no

Re: [CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-03-30 Thread Joshua Gimer
I apologize for this in advance, I thought that I got all of the lists out of this request when I sent it. :0 2009/3/30 Joshua Gimer : > LinkedIn > > Joshua Gimer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: > > > > Romeo, > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > -

Re: [CentOS] Installing Cent OS from a usb flash drive

2009-03-30 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > I recently acquired a Fujitsu Lifebook 1610. Unfortunately, the > machine was missing a lot of the stuff that would've come with it brand > new, mainly the usb cdrom drive. > Currently, I'm running Fedora on it, and I installed it u

[CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009-03-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi folk, I am trying to get iptables working on a samba server but find it is blocking something that prevents the windoze clients from being able to access the share. here are the bits from iptables: # nmb provided netbios-ns -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp -s 192.168.230.100/24 -i eth1

Re: [CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009-03-30 Thread Tom
What is the subnet mask of the outside interface? What is the subnet mask of the inside interface? I'm not real good with iptables but you might need to check your source address. Ex. 192.168.230.100/24. /24 is a full class C. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:

Re: [CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009-03-30 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 00:19 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi folk, > I am trying to get iptables working on a samba server but find it is > blocking something that prevents the windoze clients from being able to > access the share. > here are the bits from iptables: > > # nmb provided netbios-ns > >

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > There are some satellite internet providers that might work too, but the > consumer-priced versions like Starband and Wildblue have usage caps on > their normal plans so you'd have to work something out. > > and they ALL have very slow uplink speeds until you get into ve

Re: [CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009-03-30 Thread Spook ZA
Hi. 2009/3/31 Rob Kampen : > Hi folk, > I am trying to get iptables working on a samba server but find it is > blocking something that prevents the windoze clients from being able to > access the share. > here are the bits from iptables: >> >> # nmb provided netbios-ns >> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p

Re: [CentOS] live audio feed via telephone link

2009-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> There are some satellite internet providers that might work too, but the >> consumer-priced versions like Starband and Wildblue have usage caps on >> their normal plans so you'd have to work something out. >> >> > > and they ALL have very slow upl