[CentOS] Need Desktop Shots for the Newsletter

2010-04-08 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey As some of you might know the new Newsletter [1] has a section Desktop-Shots. Now I need YOU to send me your desktops so I can put them online. Please obfuscate personal details. Looking forward to seeing your funky workplaces. Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/1002 -- H

[CentOS] vsftpd saving uploads twice

2010-04-08 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
I have configured my vsftpd instances to use virtual users and map them to a system user. So all uploads should be written with owner and group of this system user (let's call it ftpsystemuser). But in the the last weeks/months it appears that uploads are written twice, on instance as it should

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-08 Thread Les Bell
"Joseph L. Casale" wrote: >> It really is as simple as I wrote out earlier, multiple servers ssh a background job at nearly the same time consisting of an rsync command. The destination host for this target gets overwhelmed with more than one at a time... << This isn't a complete answer, but a

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd saving uploads twice

2010-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:29:53 +0200: Can you please stop this? You are repeating your messages to the list with slightly changed subjects and content because you apprently don't get the answers you want. This is unfriendly, please stop this! And spare lame excuses. Did you

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-08 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 07:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> Are you looking for a real job scheduler? If so, it might be overkill, > >> but you might want to look into software like Sun Grid Engine, Torque, > >> or Condor (there are quite a few other schedulers out there

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
JohnS wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 07:33 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Joseph L. Casale wrote: Are you looking for a real job scheduler? If so, it might be overkill, but you might want to look into software like Sun Grid Engine, Torque, or Condor (there are quite a few other sched

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-08 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 07:34 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > A very long time ago I did some generic job queueing stuff by hooking scripts > into the unix lpr print spooler which had the advantage that they could be > submitted from windows boxes through samba by going through the motions of > pri

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd saving uploads twice

2010-04-08 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Kai, Am 08.04.10 12:31, schrieb Kai Schaetzl: > Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:29:53 +0200: > > Can you please stop this? You are repeating your messages to the list with > slightly changed subjects and content because you apprently don't get the > answers you want. This is unfriendly

[CentOS] tunctl

2010-04-08 Thread mattias
where to fidn the rpm package ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] tunctl

2010-04-08 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
epel repo afaik On 04/08/2010 04:42 PM, mattias wrote: > where to fidn the rpm package > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>This isn't a complete answer, but a possible approach: I'd use a named pipe >on the destination host. Here's a little experiment to demonstrate. > >[u...@dhost temp]$ mkfifo pipe >[u...@dhost temp]$ while true ; do ` < pipe` ; done > >Now, in another xterm: > >[u...@dhost temp]$ echo date > pipe >

[CentOS] Question about dhcpd.leases

2010-04-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm running a DHCP server on my local network. I've noticed something that puzzles me. Leases are written to /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases, but only - so it seems to me - if the address is not fixed in any way in dhcpd.conf. Here's a few stanzas of my dhcpd.conf : host babasse{

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Grep Patterns

2010-04-08 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi Les, >White space could be a tab. '[[:space:]]CP_' should work, but why not use sed >and be done with it. ah, worked!. I was thinking way to much into this. I thought that I had to ignore what I didn't want, but in thie case what I dont want does not have a space so it would not show up an

Re: [CentOS] Question about dhcpd.leases

2010-04-08 Thread nate
Niki Kovacs wrote: > How comes these machines never appear in dhcpd.leases ? Do the > respective leases only find their way into /var/log/messages ? I'd expect because the addresses are hard coded, there is no reason to keep track of them. the leases file from what I understand is used to determi

Re: [CentOS] Question about dhcpd.leases

2010-04-08 Thread John Doe
From: Niki Kovacs > I'm running a DHCP server on my local network. I've noticed something > that puzzles me. Leases are written to /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases, but > only - so it seems to me - if the address is not fixed in any way in > dhcpd.conf. > How comes these machines never appear in dhc

[CentOS] Bash Question

2010-04-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hey guys, messing around with a snippet from a mailing list post, #!/bin/bash mkfifo -m 666 /var/spool/my_fifo exec 42<> /var/spool/my_fifo while true do while read -t 5 data <&42 do echo "data is ($data)" done echo "read again" done What happe

Re: [CentOS] vtund error

2010-04-08 Thread Brendan Minish
I ran into this issue on a busy vtund server, it would eventually deadlock networking After some detective work it appears to be as a result of this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541224 The bug report has a patch, I applied it to the kernel source and rebuilt a new kernel RPM

Re: [CentOS] Consecutive Jobs

2010-04-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> This isn't a complete answer, but a possible approach: I'd use a named pipe >> on the destination host. Here's a little experiment to demonstrate. >> >> [u...@dhost temp]$ mkfifo pipe >> [u...@dhost temp]$ while true ; do ` < pipe` ; done >> >> Now, in another xterm: >> >

Re: [CentOS] Bash Question

2010-04-08 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:57 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hey guys, > messing around with a snippet from a mailing list post, > > > #!/bin/bash > > mkfifo -m 666 /var/spool/my_fifo > exec 42<> /var/spool/my_fifo > > while true > do > while read -t 5 data <&42 > do >

[CentOS] lokkit

2010-04-08 Thread Jerry Geis
I have used lokkit to setup iptables ( I have a big script that does this) basically just ports I want with "--port=https:tcp" etc... I wish to allow igmp and add igmp to the lokkit command line? How do I do that? I can add this to /etc/sysconfig/iptables: iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i et

Re: [CentOS] Bash Question

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/08/2010 10:57 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hey guys, > messing around with a snippet from a mailing list post, > > > #!/bin/bash > > mkfifo -m 666 /var/spool/my_fifo > exec 42<> /var/spool/my_fifo > > while true > do > while read -t 5 data<&42 > do > echo

Re: [CentOS] Bash Question

2010-04-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Works fine for me. Define "short while" (to a geologist, that could be a >few millenia). What is the exit code when your script does terminate? Lol, yeah that was a little weak on my part... It ran for about a minute. I am not sure what caused the non 0 exit, I made a new condition based on a

Re: [CentOS] No ulimit for user

2010-04-08 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:02 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Stephen Nelson-Smith >> I'm trying to remove any limit on open files for a user; I've set >> username nofiles to unlimited in /etc/security/logins.conf, but now I >> get "could not open session" if I try to su to the user. >> singhh        

[CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-08 Thread David Lemcoe
Hello all. I'm in the process of making a small server farm based mostly on Windows Server 2003. For simplicity's sake, the only non-2003 server will be a CentOS 5.4 server running only vsftpd, httpd, and mysqld. My plan is to have this server in a 2003 Server's network receiving a DHCP address fro

Re: [CentOS] No ulimit for user

2010-04-08 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I just found this http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13144 Which says that you cannot use "unlimited" for nofile It says to do this *softnofile 63536 *hardnofile 63536 or "more realistically" to do this : *

Re: [CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2010 1:57 PM, David Lemcoe wrote: > Hello all. I'm in the process of making a small server farm based mostly > on Windows Server 2003. For simplicity's sake, the only non-2003 server > will be a CentOS 5.4 server running only vsftpd, httpd, and mysqld. My > plan is to have this server in a 2

Re: [CentOS] No ulimit for user

2010-04-08 Thread Alan McKay
Sorry for the frequent updates - but I also found this : http://gnufreakz.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/increase-ulimit-in-centos/ which talks about setting “fs.file-max = 65536″ in sysctl.conf Does it have to be set in both sysctl.conf and the /etc/security/limits.conf? If so, why? thanks, -Alan

Re: [CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-08 Thread m . roth
> On 4/8/2010 1:57 PM, David Lemcoe wrote: >> Hello all. I'm in the process of making a small server farm based mostly >> on Windows Server 2003. For simplicity's sake, the only non-2003 server >> will be a CentOS 5.4 server running only vsftpd, httpd, and mysqld. My >> plan is to have this server

Re: [CentOS] Question about dhcpd.leases

2010-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2010 9:59 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a DHCP server on my local network. I've noticed something > that puzzles me. Leases are written to /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases, but > only - so it seems to me - if the address is not fixed in any way in > dhcpd.conf. > > Here's a few sta

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Martin Jungowski
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:43:33 +0100 Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > Now comes my question, what do people think should belong in > such a kit. Do you think this is needed? Most peope are probably not even familiar with the concept of a press kit so you may want to consider to elaborate on that a b

Re: [CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-08 Thread David Lemcoe
Checked the firewall, and set the static IP. Anyone have an idea what the limitations put forth by 2003 would be? On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:12 PM, wrote: > > On 4/8/2010 1:57 PM, David Lemcoe wrote: > >> Hello all. I'm in the process of making a small server farm based mostly > >> on Windows Ser

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread m . roth
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:43:33 +0100 Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: >> Now comes my question, what do people think should belong in >> such a kit. Do you think this is needed? > > Most peope are probably not even familiar with the concept of a press kit > so you may want to consider to elaborate on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Martin Jungowski
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:26:54 -0400 m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: >> Me, I like the idea although I doubt it's really necessary. > > Actually, it's probably a good idea. That way, the next time someone > using CentOS at work has to deal with the press - and there are folks > who do - they c

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd saving uploads twice

2010-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:55:26 +0200: > Since the source is no way to go Try harder. I'm sure you'll get a response sooner or later. You could also bug it at both the CentOS and RHEL bugzilla. You will need to give clear reproduction instructions. Kai -- Get your web at Co

Re: [CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Greene
On 4/8/10 1:26 PM, "David Lemcoe" wrote: > Checked the firewall, and set the static IP. > > Anyone have an idea what the limitations put forth by 2003 would be? First, please stop top posting. This list has rules about that Second, can you ping _from the managed switch handling the NAT_ to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/8/2010 3:26 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:43:33 +0100 Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: >>> Now comes my question, what do people think should belong in >>> such a kit. Do you think this is needed? >> >> Most peope are probably not even familiar with the concept of a press

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
On 08/04/2010 21:40, Les Mikesell wrote: > But how can you describe it without mentioning the "Large North American > Linux vendor" that mostly makes it what it is? That is a problem I often encounter. For the Newsletter I asked someone working for the vendor if it would be Ok [1]. Nothing offici

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > Hey > > Looking at the Fedora ML there is some commotion about a Press Kit [1] > they are constructing. I am thinking about doing something like this > for CentOS. Now comes my question, what do people think should belong > in such a

Re: [CentOS] NAT/DHCP/DNS/etc Settings from a Windows 2003 Server

2010-04-08 Thread Joao Rodrigues
Please verify the network cable from centos or switch port(broken or vlan). João Rodrigues On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 4/8/10 1:26 PM, "David Lemcoe" wrote: > > Checked the firewall, and set the static IP. > > > > Anyone have an idea what the limitations put forth by

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
On 08/04/2010 22:54, Brian Mathis wrote: > The correct people to ask (or at least research) are the Press. It's > not a matter of what the CentOS project wants, it's a matter of what > the Press would want, and then it's up to the CentOS project to > answer/provide the content they feel represents