[CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

Hi, I've always been a bit puzzled by MySQL's initial setup. Right after installing MySQL, no password is set, so that's the first thing I care about. I know there's a way to do that with mysqldadmin, but hey, different ways lead to Saint-Bauzille-de-Montmel. # chkconfig mysqld on # service my

[CentOS] Drawing Management software

Greetings, A slightly OT question: Are there any opensource/free Drawing management software for Engineering offices that any of the member is aware of? This question after riding the web with our friend Google perhaps with wrong phrasology... TIA Regards, Rajagopal __

[CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

Hi, Pascal Robert schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20: > [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let it collect some data before even starting to care about it. Frank. _

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb frank.brodb...@klingel.de: > Hi, > > Pascal Robert schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20: > > > [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat > > I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of > iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let > it

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: > I have a usb hd that I use for backup. Occasionally it dies. > > scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device > scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device > scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device > scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead devic

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: > I have a usb hd that I use for backup. Occasionally it dies. > If i unmount it and try to remount it it says sdc1 does not exist. Not sure if related to your problem but I have many 'zombie' usb devices after mounting/unmounting a few times

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS host

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 23:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > hadi motamedi wrote: > > Dear All > > Can you please do me favor and let me know if there is an virtualizer > > software that allows installing Windows XP as guest on CentOS 5 as > > host ? Please be informed that my server has been instal

Re: [CentOS] Drawing Management software

>Are there any opensource/free Drawing management software for >Engineering offices that any of the member is aware of? What features specific to a drawing are you looking for, and what application? Would a simple doc manglement solution not work? I doubt you'll find anything with PLM'ish type in

[CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled. I tried restart the install a couple times at 512M. Same thing around 70% the slow down. I t

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS host

Thank you very much for your reply . I didn't get the point exactly . Can you please do me favor and provide me with more details on the method that you used in your case . Please let me to have it to resemble it on my server . Thank you in advance On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ulrich Leodol

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machine with > 512M ram. The install started off fine then REALLY SLOWED down > about 70% into install. I did have a swap space. after that it just crawled. > I tried restart the install a cou

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

Jerry Geis a écrit : > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? 512M for the full-blown installer, 128 MB for the NCurses version. I have some low-end machines with just that much RAM, running 5.3 on them. Works fine. Niki ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] Drawing Management software

Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > A slightly OT question: > > Are there any opensource/free Drawing management software for > Engineering offices that any of the member is aware of? > > This question after riding the web with our friend Google perhaps with > wrong phrasology... > Y

Re: [CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:09:15 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi, > > I've always been a bit puzzled by MySQL's initial setup. Right after > installing MySQL, no password is set, so that's the first thing I care > about. I know there's a way to do that with mysqldadmin, but hey, > diffe

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. "Minimum requirements" and "Usable system speed" aren't necessarily

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:Virtualizer software for Windows guest on CentOS host

VirtualBox on CentOS: I second that. I have run VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3; I am able to automate much using the command line options. I have run Linux and Windows guests using this great FREE program. It also has many built in tools for converting VMDK's to VDI, cloning VM, NAT'ing and more. Grea

Re: [CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

Robert Heller a écrit : > > They are there to provide initial access to MySQL. It is *expected* as > part of the post install process to do more or less what you just did. Thanks very much for the detailed explanation ! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Xnest unable to connect with firewall enabled

Sid Kapoor wrote: > Hi Nate, > > Thnx for the reply, but I want to connect through Xnest itself... Any > clues ? If it is possible for you to run freenx on the target server you might like the NX client from http://www.nomachine.com much better than xnest and it will run over an ssh connection

[CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

I've added this to my dhcpd.conf log-facility local6; and added this to my syslog.conf local6.* /var/log/dhcpd.log It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files. How do I stop this. I've googled but all suggested modifications I've made to the dhcpd.conf causes dhcpd to not start. Tha

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dan Carl wrote: > I've added this to my dhcpd.conf > log-facility local6; > and > added this to my syslog.conf > local6.*       /var/log/dhcpd.log > > It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files. > How do I stop this. Add local6.none to the /var/log/message

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8

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Re: [CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

Jim Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dan Carl wrote: > >> I've added this to my dhcpd.conf >> log-facility local6; >> and >> added this to my syslog.conf >> local6.* /var/log/dhcpd.log >> >> It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files. >> How do I stop this. >>

Re: [CentOS] Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > Gavin Carr wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote: > >> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen > >>> wrote: > Does anybody know where I c

Re: [CentOS] Xnest unable to connect with firewall enabled

Sid Kapoor wrote: > Hi Nate, > > Thnx for the reply, but I want to connect through Xnest itself... Any clues > ? Launch Xnest, connect an xterm to that Xserver, run ssh from there, that should cause the display from the remote system to come back to Xnest nate __

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Jerry Geis > Sent: 22 September 2009 13:19 > To: CentOS ML > Subject: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow > > I was installing centos 5.3 x86_64 on a sempron 2.7G machin

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > What do you consider to be really slow? One thing I've def. Learned with > installing Linux, windows, OSX, anything that has a click-click-click > install procedure, what ever the bar says, (70% complete or 20 mins > left, depending on whose OS), it'

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. 5.2 is quite slow on low memory during installation as well, I run many VMs with 64 or 96MB of memory

Re: [CentOS] Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

Andrew Allen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 20:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: >> Gavin Carr wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:12:43PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:16 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Allen > wrote: >> Does

[CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

I have installed cento 5.3. I enabled the ssh deamon. I have found that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect. Has anyone else had similar problems with the following options in sshd_config: - Port - if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using ssh -p n

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

Hi, On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:01 -0700, Karl Kobata wrote: > I have installed cento 5.3. I enabled the ssh deamon. I have found > that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect. Has > anyone else had similar problems with the following options in > sshd_config: > > - Port – if

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobata wrote: > - Port – if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using > ssh –p n...@servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep the default, > then ssh n...@servername allows me to login. You need to change the port in iptables as

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

Hi Michel, > Hi, > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:01 -0700, Karl Kobata wrote: > > I have installed cento 5.3. I enabled the ssh deamon. I have found > > that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect. Has > > anyone else had similar problems with the following options in > > sshd_con

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

Hi Larry, > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobata http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> > wrote: > > - Port - if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using > > ssh -p name at servername , does not work. Y

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

Le 09-09-22 à 04:48, Christoph Maser a écrit : > Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb > frank.brodb...@klingel.de: >> Hi, >> >> Pascal Robert schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20: >> >>> [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat >> >> I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of >> iostat

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

Hi, > > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:01 -0700, Karl Kobata wrote: > > > I have installed cento 5.3. I enabled the ssh deamon. I have found > > > that 2 options that I normally use does respond as I expect. Has > > > anyone else had similar problems with the following options in > > > sshd_config: >

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

On 09/22/2009 08:48 PM, Karl Kobata wrote: Hi Larry, > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobatahttp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > >/ - Port -- if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using/ > >/ ssh --pname at servername

Re: [CentOS] Driver for Logitech QuickCam E2500 series webcam

> That's a known issue with older kernels - don't worry about those warnings. > > > Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I > > click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please? > > > > Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver? That's a go

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

Hi, On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 14:01, Karl Kobata wrote: > - PasswordAuthentication no – if I set this option to “no” (default is > “yes”), and my ssh key is either missing or in error, I will be prompted for > user system login password.  If this is set to “no”, it should not allow me > to login if

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. I've installed CentOS 5.3 on a Pentium III (500 mhz) with 384 Meg o

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: >> I have a usb hd that I use for backup. Occasionally it dies. >> >> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device >> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device >> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device >> scsi 6:0:

Re: [CentOS] MySQL setup: initial user weirdness

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:06:29 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller a écrit : > > > > They are there to provide initial access to MySQL. It is *expected* as > > part of the post install process to do more or less what you just did. > > Thanks very much for the detailed explanat

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > It may not be the USB drive. I have one that daoe the same, usually only > > after long periods oh high (in)activity. > > > > On another node, no problems ever using that same drive. > > > > On the syste

[CentOS] Video capture under CentOS

I recently purchased a Diamond VC500 video capture device that runs on the USB. It has some interesting issues under Windoze, but I was wondering: I did a google for video catpreu and linux and most of what I found either said it can't be done or the software that did/does it is obsolete. Can an

Re: [CentOS] Video capture under CentOS

MHR wrote: > I recently purchased a Diamond VC500 video capture device that runs on > the USB. It has some interesting issues under Windoze, but I was > wondering: > > I did a google for video catpreu and linux and most of what I found > either said it can't be done or the software that did/does i

Re: [CentOS] Video capture under CentOS

At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:08 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I recently purchased a Diamond VC500 video capture device that runs on > the USB. It has some interesting issues under Windoze, but I was > wondering: > > I did a google for video catpreu and linux and most of what I found > ei

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:59, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: > > What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the > > disk? > > On 5.3 # sdparm -a /dev/sdc > -bash: sdparm: command not found He meant "hdparm", I think.

[CentOS] about ntpq result..

Hello, all. I want to ask some about ntpd. I set 'server' directive like below at ntp.conf server 0.centos.pool.ntp.org For example, I can see the ntpq result like below. remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ===

[CentOS] RPMforge.net down

Hi All: It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm and possibly advise when it might be expected back? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

[CentOS] Promlem with broken yum/rpm

Hi all, I have lost/corrupted the libraries related to the expat package. This has caused rpm and yum to stop working effectively stopping my ability to manage my server. Recently a bug was reported by cmisare on the CentOS site that had exactly the same symptoms http://bugs.centos.org/vie

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > Hi All: > > It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm > and possibly advise when it might be expected back? > > TIA > > Regards, Hugh > > -- > Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com >

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > Hi All: > > It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm > and possibly advise when it might be expected back? I can't get to RPMforge.net either, but Dag Wieer's site is still up. I thought these were the same? h

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

Ron Blizzard a écrit : >> >> It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm >> and possibly advise when it might be expected back? > > I can't get to RPMforge.net either, but Dag Wieer's site is still up. > I thought these were the same? > Let's see : # yum check-update Lo