Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Karan. ... > So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in > the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use > tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. We are using Spacewalk to manage /etc/sysconfig/iptables files. Th

Re: [CentOS] iptables -d fqdn instead of IP

2009-11-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again. >>  and I have some examples from my own personal experience. So I don't >>  believe that you can say there is a "best" method, for all situations. > > Yes I can.  Host information can be spoofed.  So can IP Addresses.  Here is > the point you are missing, if he is going to connect to yo

[CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file after SAMBA update

2009-11-01 Thread José María Terry Jiménez
Hello all, This morning i updated my CentOS (5.4) and that included: samba-3.0.33-3.14.el5.i386.rpm samba-client-3.0.33-3.14.el5.i386.rpm samba-common-3.0.33-3.14.el5.i386.rpm samba-swat-3.0.33-3.14.el5.i386.rpm I have several mounts if fstab using a .credentials file that worked until i reboot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4: yum-priorities seems to be MIA

2009-11-01 Thread David McGuffey
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 16:56 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I just installed 5.4 on a machine here... All seems running fine, > >> except I decided to put on the extra

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rod Rook wrote on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:55:52 -0500: > The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused by > Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log. You may want to elaborate what your *problem* really is. And please trim your answers, thanks. Kai -- Kai Sc

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-11-01 Thread Samuel Contesse
Hi, I've the same problem on RHEL 5.4 after samba update. I almost tried everything but I had to switch to -username=...,-password=... to get CIFS mount point to work. I opened a case which has been closed because a second system also running on RHEL 5.4 works with this update. Hope they wi

[CentOS] Automatical resync of MD, why?

2009-11-01 Thread happymaster23
Hello, I have three MDs on two HDDs in RAID 1. In last days, thanks to my monitoring (which is installed longer time), I have recognized, that one of these MDs is automatically started resync. First was at 25th October and second resync of the same MD was today. It started in same daytime (about 4

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-11-01 Thread José María Terry Jiménez
Hello I've just solved this (because i remembered what happened last time) The problem is that the credentials file must be being parsed incorrectly and any char after the password is passed as part of password (don't know if you understand me because my poor english). What i did is editing th

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread mark
Marcus Moeller wrote: > Dear Karan. > ... >> So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in >> the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use >> tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. > > We are using Spacewalk to manage /

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert
Rod Rook wrote: > Hi, Lee, > The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused > by Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log. > Thanks to you anyway. Perhaps he meant the thread beginning at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/084836.html

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Rod Rook
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Robert wrote: > > > Rod Rook wrote: > > > > > Hi, Lee, > > The problem mentioned in the thread you referred to is usually caused > > by Network Manager, which has nothing to do with boot.log. > > Thanks to you anyway. > Perhaps he meant the thread beginning at >

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Samuel Contesse wrote: > Hi, > > I've the same problem on RHEL 5.4 after samba update. I almost tried > everything but I had to switch to -username=...,-password=... to get > CIFS mount point to work. I opened a case which has been closed > because a second system a

Re: [CentOS] relatime in plus kernel

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > A CentOS forum user (gulikoza) has a patch, tested it with the > 2.6.18-164.2.1 kernel, and offered it in this post: > > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php? > viewmode=flat&topic_id=22924&forum=37 > > I am going to give it a try

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-11-01 Thread José María Terry Jiménez
Akemi Yagi escribió: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Samuel Contesse > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've the same problem on RHEL 5.4 after samba update. I almost tried >> everything but I had to switch to -username=...,-password=... to get >> CIFS mount point to work. I opened a case which has been

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
2009/11/1 José María Terry Jiménez : > Akemi Yagi escribió: >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Samuel Contesse >> wrote: >> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3960 >> >> The upstream bugzilla entries: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532153  (RHEL5) >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert
Rod Rook wrote: > Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html > It is all there if you follow the thread. > Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. > As I said earlier, it is not a cri

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert
Robert wrote: > Rod Rook wrote: > > >> Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html >> It is all there if you follow the thread. >> Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. >> As I said

Re: [CentOS] Automatical resync of MD, why?

2009-11-01 Thread RedShift
happymaster23 wrote: > Hello, > > I have three MDs on two HDDs in RAID 1. In last days, thanks to my > monitoring (which is installed longer time), I have recognized, that > one of these MDs is automatically started resync. First was at 25th > October and second resync of the same MD was today. It

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Rod Rook
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Robert wrote: > > > Rod Rook wrote: > > > Robert, I responded to Lee's statement which referred to > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083346.html > > It is all there if you follow the thread. > > Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug

Re: [CentOS] Automatical resync of MD, why?

2009-11-01 Thread happymaster23
Thank you very much, this is new feature of 5.4? 2009/11/1 RedShift : > happymaster23 wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have three MDs on two HDDs in RAID 1. In last days, thanks to my >> monitoring (which is installed longer time), I have recognized, that >> one of these MDs is automatically started resy

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/1 Rod Rook : > Anyway, you agree with me that there is a bug or bugs in CentOS 5.4. As I > said earlier, it is not a critical matter, but it does not instill > confidence in me about CentOS distro. What other bugs are there? The > interesting thing, at least to me, is that there seems to be

[CentOS] Disk error (kicking from MD) during smartctl -t short

2009-11-01 Thread happymaster23
Hello, I started smartctl -t short of disk in RAID1, but during this operation this disk was kicked from RAID (only from one MD of three). /var/log/messages: Nov  1 16:45:45 server kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov  1 16:45:45 server kernel: ata1.00: cmd ea/00:

Re: [CentOS] No entry in /var/log/boot.log

2009-11-01 Thread Robert Nichols
Rod Rook wrote: > Having used Fedora 8 and 10 for a long time and Fedora 11 for a few > months and never experienced this in these distros, I can say this bug > occurs only in old versions of Red Had distros like CentOS. Now that I > know this is a bug, I will move on hoping that others will so

[CentOS] DoveCot and Postfix Setup? or Zimbra?

2009-11-01 Thread ML
Hi All, I have not really setup e-mail serving on Linux before by myself. I have a setup now where it was setup for me running Dovecot and postfix. The setup works. I want to set this up again on my own system. Does anyone have a good tutorial? Zimbra...does it replace dovecot and postfx setup

Re: [CentOS] DoveCot and Postfix Setup? or Zimbra?

2009-11-01 Thread Bazy
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I have not really setup e-mail serving on Linux before by myself. I have a > setup now where it was setup for me running Dovecot and postfix. The setup > works. I want to set this up again on my own system. > > Does anyone have a good tutor

Re: [CentOS] DoveCot and Postfix Setup? or Zimbra?

2009-11-01 Thread John R Pierce
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I have not really setup e-mail serving on Linux before by myself. I have a > setup now where it was setup for me running Dovecot and postfix. The setup > works. I want to set this up again on my own system. > > Does anyone have a good tutorial? > > Zimbra...does it replace

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/01/2009 07:51 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote: >> So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in >> the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use >> tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. > > We are using Spacewalk to manag

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/31/2009 10:01 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: >> Just wondering what people use / recommend to keep multiple machines in >> sync with their iptables policy. >> > I did use fwbuilder it can create and deploy rules. For a small number > of machines it worked well for me. > how do you achieve the ac

Re: [CentOS] Automatical resync of MD, why?

2009-11-01 Thread Jancio Wodnik
Hi. My question is the same, why so many times my RAID 1 is resynced, when i upgrade to CentOS 5.4 ? Any idea ? With may RAID1 is no all OK ? It is to worry about it ? Jancio Wodnik ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

Re: [CentOS] loading a program in memory for faster startup

2009-11-01 Thread Jerry Geis
> more /etc/readahead.d/impress.later > /usr/bin/soffice > /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin I created the above file /etc/readahead.d/impress.later Put in it the two lines above. The /etc/init.d/readahead_later script takes any file name *.later so I made a new file instead of editing /e

Re: [CentOS] Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines

2009-11-01 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 01.11.2009, 21:07 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: > On 10/31/2009 10:01 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: > >> Just wondering what people use / recommend to keep multiple machines in > >> sync with their iptables policy. > >> > > I did use fwbuilder it can create and deploy rules. For a smal

Re: [CentOS] DoveCot and Postfix Setup? or Zimbra?

2009-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I have not really setup e-mail serving on Linux before by myself. I have a > setup now where it was setup for me running Dovecot and postfix. The setup > works. I want to set this up again on my own system. > > Does anyone have a good tutorial? > Yes, on the CentOS Wik

Re: [CentOS] DoveCot and Postfix Setup? or Zimbra?

2009-11-01 Thread Jon Moore
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM, ML wrote: ---8< > Zimbra...does it replace dovecot and postfx setup? Yes, it does. I *think* it's possible to change the ports that Zimbra listens on, but by default it will install it's on mta, pop, and imap servers, and installs them into it's own directory.

[CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread James Bensley
Hey List, Firstly I am sorry for the length of this email and that you are all having too receive it but the point is that this email will now go into the archive and be indexed by Google (hopefully) and thusly, people will be able to find these links through Google. My goal is to mirror CentOS on

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: >> > I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older >> > version of that "other OS" that I'm using to check out the ELrepo >> > version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the >> > ELrepo site, I can moun

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/01/2009 10:15 PM, James Bensley wrote: > for premium account holders RapidShare can deliver up > 100Mbps download speeds. Just want to point out that there are centos mirrors that deliver > 700mbps fairly regularly, and there are ( specially if you are on I2 ) mirrors that do a gigabit as

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread Victor Padro
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM, James Bensley wrote: > Hey List, > > Firstly I am sorry for the length of this email and that you are all > having too receive it but the point is that this email will now go > into the archive and be indexed by Google (hopefully) and thusly, > people will be able t

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > >> > I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older > >> > version of that "other OS" that I'm using to check out the ELrepo > >> > version of kmod-ntfs. After inst

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Could you show us the output returned by: >> >> uname -mr >> ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko` >> ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko` > uname -mr > 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 i686 > >

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > >> Could you show us the output returned by: > >> > >> uname -mr > >> ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko` > >> ls -l `find

[CentOS] connection refused resolving - after 5.4 upgrade

2009-11-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi all, prior to 5.4 upgrade, my two DNS servers would only get 'connection refused resolving .' on rare infrequent occasions (once or twice a month) after upgrade to 5.4 I get 500+ per day. Google has suggestions for |logging category lame-servers null; ; ; |however this strikes me as seve

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Something is wrong here.  You are missing >> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are >> pointing to.  Are those symlinks red-blinking? > > It's there.  I must

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 16:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > >> Something is wrong here. You are missing > >> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are > >> po

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread Bazy
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Victor Padro wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM, James Bensley wrote: >> Hey List, >> >> Firstly I am sorry for the length of this email and that you are all >> having too receive it but the point is that this email will now go >> into the archive and be index

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:15:36AM +0200, Bazy wrote: > > This is spam, since CentOS has mirrors in most of the world's countries. The 174 lines of noise you didn't bother to trim out of your reply can be construed as "spam" too. Folks, can you please trim replies to mail

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread Bazy
> >        The 174 lines of noise you didn't bother to trim out of your >        reply can be construed as "spam" too. > >        Folks, can you please trim replies to mailing list posts in >        the future?  Please?  It's every bit as annoying as top-posting. > >        Thanks :) > > > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrored On RapidShare [Links Here]

2009-11-01 Thread Victor Padro
My apologies, it won't happen again. Cheers. -- Linux User #452368 http://twitter.com/vpadro "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: >> If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from >> kmod-ntfs works, too. > > That's what I thought.  However, when I mount a partition created with > Windoze 2000, I can read files and directories, but not create or modify >

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > >> If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from > >> kmod-ntfs works, too. > > > > That's what I thought. However, when I mount a partition created with > > Windoze

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should >> move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now >> all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of

[CentOS] Bug in freeradius 1.1.3-1.5.el5_4 rpm

2009-11-01 Thread Ian Forde
I upgraded one of my servers to CentOS 5.4 today. The freeradius service (radiusd) didn't start up due to permissions errors. I tracked it to the permissions on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory being set to 640 rather than 750, so the radius user couldn't enter the directory. In the spec file from

[CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup system for CentOS? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB dedicated RAM, 40GB RAID storage, 500GB/mo premium BW, Zer

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread John R Pierce
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup > system for CentOS? > tar(1) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Aggarwal
John: > tar(1) I can use that on the server, but what is the other side to store the files? I want the storage to be remote. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB dedicat

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:21:15 -0600 Neil Aggarwal wrote: > I can use that on the server, but what is the other side > to store the files? I want the storage to be remote. I use rsync to do backups, which automatically works over a ssh connection. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > John: > >> tar(1) > > I can use that on the server, but what is the other side > to store the files? I want the storage to be remote. > Did you mean you want to run something yourself remotely to collect and store backups or do you want a service? For the former case,

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> Did you mean you want to run something yourself remotely to > collect and store > backups or do you want a service? I want a service. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB d

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread John R Pierce
Neil Aggarwal wrote: >> Did you mean you want to run something yourself remotely to >> collect and store >> backups or do you want a service? >> > > I want a service. > and what exactly do you want this 'service' to do? ___ CentOS mailing lis

[CentOS] OFFTOPIC MAILSERVER PROBLEM WITH JAMMCONSULTING.COM Re: Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-01 Thread Frank Cox
I have made several attempts to send you this privately so as not to embarrass you here, but there appears to be no other way to get an email to you. On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:46:19 -0600 Neil Aggarwal wrote: > I want a service. You haven't got much of a service going on there now. I have sent an

Re: [CentOS] Automatical resync of MD, why?

2009-11-01 Thread Oliver Ransom
When you cat /proc/mdstat does it actually say "syncing" or does it say "checking"? I believe a newer version of mdadm creates a weekly cron job to check the arrays. I first mistakenly assumed it was resyncing and started worrying since it was doing all 8 of my RAID1 arrays at once, but aft