Re: [CentOS] Red Hat commercial support for CentOS/Fedora

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:10:02 -0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > Someone told me that if you have a CentOS or Fedora server, you can pay a > Red Hat yearly fee and get them to support it (because the environments are > so similar). > > Can anyone here substantiate this claim? If you A)

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:27 -0800: > would it be a bad idea (or a complete waste) > to use a firewall, like ZoneAlarm, on my Windows guest OS? Yes, using ZA is a bad idea. XP has its own firewall which is enabled by default if you are patched up-to-date. Keep that on. Kai -- Kai Sc

[CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dukes
I use to have a line of code in /etc/init.d/syslog (I think this was the file) to delete the contents of my /tmp directory on shutdown. It originally came from fedora. I have searched for it but can't find it again. Anyone happen to have it? TIA ___ C

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-12 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Mhr wrote on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:27 -0800: > > Yes, using ZA is a bad idea. XP has its own firewall which is enabled by > default if you are patched up-to-date. Keep that on. > Now you've sparked my curiosity - how is the XP firewall any b

[CentOS] yum quit working in CentOS 5.4 x86_64

2009-12-12 Thread David McGuffey
Have been running 5.4 x86_64 for a couple of months now. Every once in a while, I would get a notice that updates were available. It appears that about 3 weeks ago, yum stopped notifying me of updates. Over that time, I've manually done a 'yum update' from a command line, with an output that ther

[CentOS] How do I link to custom libs without affecting system libs (LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Morley
Hi, i am getting an issue with rtorrent that is related to my curl libaries. In summary it requires a later curl libary than CentOS 5.4 uses for its system files (CentOS uses curl libs version 7.15.5, rtorrent requires 7.19.2 or greater). To get around this I would like to download the lates

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Keith Keller
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:33:33PM -0500, Thomas Dukes wrote: > I use to have a line of code in /etc/init.d/syslog (I think this was the > file) to delete the contents of my /tmp directory on shutdown. In /etc/init.d/syslog? That seems like a bad place to put it, even if it does check (as I assum

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Keller > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:50 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:33:33

Re: [CentOS] How do I link to custom libs without affecting system libs (LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

2009-12-12 Thread John R Pierce
Chris Morley wrote: > Hi, i am getting an issue with rtorrent that is related to my curl libaries. > > In summary it requires a later curl libary than CentOS 5.4 uses for its > system files (CentOS uses curl libs version 7.15.5, rtorrent requires 7.19.2 > or greater). > > To get around this I

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Keller >> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:50 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting conte

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:22 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 a

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 - Problem with Enumeration of NICs

2009-12-12 Thread Miguel Medalha
I just made a new CentOS 5.4 installation. The machine has an Intel 10/100 and an Intel GB on board, and a Broadcom GB card on a PCI-X (64 bit) slot. After the install finished, I noticed that the order and naming of the Ethernet interfaces is totally screwed up. Under Network Manager, the Inte

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Dukes wrote: >> >> I have the /tmp in memory, which effectively deletes >> everything on reboot. Maybe another solution? >> >> Cheers Didi > > Hi Didi, > > I read that was an option also. How would I move my /tmp to RAM? > > TIA > > _

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Larry Brower > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:47 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE---

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 - Problem with Enumeration of NICs

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon McLellan
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > I want to manually assign a ID to the cards and let them keep it forever. > Will the manual entry of the HWADDR=/ /parameter in the ifcfg-eth > files fix this for good or will it be overrided by some other component > of the OS? Miguel, I

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Keith Keller
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:35:51PM -0500, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > Thanks for the link. It's a little over my head though. No it isn't. The main thing you need is mount -t tmpfs -o size=100M,mode=0755 tmpfs /var/www/www.example.com/cache You would adjust size to be the size of the vmdisk you

[CentOS] moving from live partitions to raid1 on an eserver

2009-12-12 Thread David Milholen
I have a qtp (qmail toaster plus) machine on an ibm 326 eserver that has 2 sata 250GB drives. The problem I have is that when the Os was installed I thought I had hardware raid on but to my avail the Os assumed to drives an installed accordingly. Here is what df has for the partitions. # df Fil

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 - Problem with Enumeration of NICs

2009-12-12 Thread Miguel Medalha
> As I recall my solution was to comment out the modprobe alias created > for the network cards (/etc/modprobe.conf) and then in > network-scripts, use the HWADDR in each config script. Make sure the > device=ethX matches the name of the file, if nothing else, for your > own sanity - since the OS

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Keith Keller > Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:19 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:35:51

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Thomas Dukes wrote: >> > Today, I found upd.pl in my tmp directory.  The date was oct 09.  I >> > also found my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow had been changed >> with a user >> > of 0Profile added.  I deleted the old files and restored those from >> > backup.  I ran

Re: [CentOS] Deleting contents of /tmp on shutdown

2009-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:17:37AM +, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > > I would make it a little bigger as 100M depending on how much memory > you have. And the mode should be the same as /tmp would normally be => > mode=777 :) /tmp is 1777 by default.

[CentOS] Home LAN server - dnsmasq

2009-12-12 Thread M. Milanuk
Hello all, I'm testing a home LAN server inside Virtualbox - figured it'd be easier to build (and fix) things inside a virtual sandbox first, and then migrate over to a physical install once I have most of the kinks worked out. The host OS is Windows Vista; the guest OS will be various Linux