Re: [CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?

2009-07-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Rob Kampen wrote: > Toralf Lund wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under >> CentOS 5? [ ... ] >> Another slight issue is with the notification icons. I really want to >> display duplicates of these, so I can view them on both screens, but >> is seems

[CentOS] Cant install CentOS 5.0 to a HP Proliant ML350 G3

2009-07-21 Thread Kevin Kimani
Hi, I have been trying to install CentOS 5.1, 5.2,and 5.3 and the HP server but to no success. It starts loading well the on trying to load the cciss driver, the machine hangs there and refuses to move on. Any help will help quite alot. Thanks ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Cant install CentOS 5.0 to a HP Proliant ML350 G3

2009-07-21 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/21/2009 10:57 AM, Kevin Kimani wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to install CentOS 5.1, 5.2,and 5.3 and the HP > server but to no success. It starts loading well the on trying to load > the cciss driver, the machine hangs there and refuses to move on. I have a few ML370 G3's with CentOS 5,

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread John Doe
From: Sean Carolan > > First, install the perl module BSD::Resource > > > > yum install perl-BSD-Resource > > > > Then use it in your program like: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > use BSD::Resource; > > setrlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, 1_000_000, 1_000_000); > > > > # rest of the program that is

[CentOS] Centos 5 samba with AD integration and XFS with extended ACLs

2009-07-21 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Firstly, I have checked on google, and there are indeed howtos on this subject. Have any of you done this or something similar on CentOS? If so, could you send me the configs maybe? How can I find out if the centos version of samba supports extended ACLs? I ran a modinfo xfs, and XFS

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread Sean Carolan
> While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control the > memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an > "out of memory"...? How would you control the memory usage of the script if it's run by the root user? __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 samba with AD integration and XFS with extended ACLs

2009-07-21 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:10 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > Firstly, I have checked on google, and there are indeed howtos on this > subject. > > > Have any of you done this or something similar on CentOS? If so, could > you send me the configs maybe? > > How can I find out if

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread John Doe
From: Sean Carolan > > While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control > > the > > memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an > > "out > > of memory"...? > How would you control the memory usage of the script if it's run by > the root

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread John Doe
From: Carlos Santana > I know how to start ks installation. > Initially I was booting from a CD drive and then typed in 'linux > ks=http:///'. > But how do I get to boot prompt now? Lets say my DVD iso is located on > some remote machine. We point to this DVD in kickstart file. But, we > are not

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-21 Thread James Matthews
Would it be good to have a double login both the RSA key and a password. Remember a fedora box was rooted cause a hacker got the admin key. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > > > Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? > > > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/Securi

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 07/21/2009 04:22 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Sean Carolan >>> While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control >>> the >>> memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an >>> "out >>> of memory"...? >> How would you control the memory usag

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????

2009-07-21 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. 2009/7/20 David Hrbáč : > Karanbir Singh napsal(a): >> yup. We have already looked into the possibility of getting updates out >> during a point release cycle, and will prolly be moving to that process >> with the next point release ( 5.4 ). >> > Karanbir, > glad to hear this. We hav

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread Sean Carolan
> But what if the program's memory use is dependent on lots of factors > which are not easily predictable. > And you want to avoid bringing the whole system to it's knees while swapping > and killing arbritrary other programs while one program is consuming all > of ram and swap. > In that case it's

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-20-2009 5:16 PM Carlos Santana spake the following: > nate, > > could you please post your configuration? > > I am getting error - "Unable to read package metadata. This may be due > to missing repo directory. Please ensure that your install tree has > been correctly generated. ..." > > I t

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Silva wrote: > ISO installs only work over nfs. HTTP and FTP installs need the files > copied > off of the cd's to a folder under the or linked to the webroot. > or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-21-2009 12:06 PM John R Pierce spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> ISO installs only work over nfs. HTTP and FTP installs need the files >> copied >> off of the cd's to a folder under the or linked to the webroot. >> > > or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... You can loop

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > > > > or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... > > You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you could easily > loopback mount the cd images and get a proper directory structure. > You can merge directories quite easily wi

[CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to know what other people are usi

[CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Scott Silva wrote: > You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you > could easily loopback mount the cd images and get a proper > directory structure. A little massaging is needed and simple image loopback mounts seem 'touchy' in practice as outlined in the u

[CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Bruno
I can't access the share through a station with Windows XP, in the messages log show this error: Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: [2009/07/21 15:34:55, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562) Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: write_data: write failure in writing to client 192.168.1.74. Error Broken

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Andy Harrison wrote: > Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a > proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma > cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of > our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to k

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 16:12, Daniel Bruno wrote: > I can't access the share through a station with Windows XP, in the > messages log show this error: > Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]:   Error writing 272 bytes to client. > -1. (Broken pipe) > Any idea? Do you have any iptables rules in th

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Bruno
Hi Filipe, Don't have iptables rules or firewall between the windows machine and Linux Server and is on the same LAN. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 16:12, Daniel > Bruno wrote: >> I can't access the share through a station with Wind

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Since we don't have any pressing need for a high-precision time source, > we just sync our main server to the public ntp.org pool and then have > everything else in the building sync to the main server. > We do have a pressing need for high-pr

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread nate
Andy Harrison wrote: > Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a > proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma > cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of > our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to k

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, nate wrote: > > Not knowing what country your from but at a U.S. taxpayer I have > no reservations about using time.nist.gov myself, some people > think it's rude to directly query stratum 1 servers. My server already is a stratum 1 time server. I use other extern

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:15 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Scott Silva > wrote: > > > > or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... > > > You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you > could easi

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 16:50, Daniel Bruno wrote: > Don't have iptables rules or firewall between the windows machine and > Linux Server and is on the same LAN. Well, "broken pipe" in Samba indicates network problem... Do you have Windows Firewall enabled on the XP machine? Or maybe a third

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 16:12 -0400, Daniel Bruno wrote: > I can't access the share through a station with Windows XP, in the > messages log show this error: > > Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: [2009/07/21 15:34:55, 0] > lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562) > Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: write_

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-21-2009 12:29 PM Andy Harrison spake the following: > Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a > proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma > cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of > our Solaris servers and se

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >> > If there are other interfaces available, FreeBSD does well as a timeserver > with SOME GPS receivers. But if it is working OK, I would just leave it > running unless the hardware is going south. > It's not so much that the hardware is curren

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Loftin
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:36 -0400, Andy Harrison wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> > > If there are other interfaces available, FreeBSD does well as a timeserver > > with SOME GPS receivers. But if it is working OK, I would just leave it > > running unless the hardw

[CentOS] Routing issue - Revisited

2009-07-21 Thread Doug Coats
A number of weeks ago I had huge help from many of you configuring routing on a server with multiple Internet facing nics. Thanks for all of your help I am still having a routing issue that I am hoping someone can help me tweek. This server, besides acting as our gateway to the internet, is

[CentOS] Recent HPLIP: where's that doc?

2009-07-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The HPLIP package included in CentOS 5 is one of those packages that lags almost pathologically behind. Now I remember having seen some *official* (HP) documentation describing the procedure to follow to install the *latest* HPLIP on CentOS 5. As far as I can remember, there were even some

Re: [CentOS] Recent HPLIP: where's that doc?

2009-07-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > > But I can't seem to find that page anymore. Anyone remembers it? I'll answer that myself, since I just found it. You just have to jump through several burning loops on the website in order to access it: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/redha