Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread John Doe
From: Nicolas Kovacs > What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary > NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo > and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the > nvidia > packages look a bit like a

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote: > I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While > I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it > work. Maybe I will retry kmod later... I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod

Re: [CentOS] can't find ldapseaerch

2010-11-15 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:09 -0500, bluethundr wrote: > hello list > > I'm having a very strange problem with my centos 5.5 system. For some > strange reason, this machine cannot find ldapsearch: > > [r...@virtcent13 ~]# ldapsearch > ldapsearch: Command not found. > > > [r...@virtcent13 ~]# wher

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On 11/14/10 5:38 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > Ok I try that, but the thing is: > > > > * motherboards not that old > > * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time > > > sounds like a conflict between time zones.a PC hardware clock could > be set to UTC or local

Re: [CentOS] Does "yum update tzdata" update /etc/localtime?

2010-11-15 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 15 November 2010 00:13:53 Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Does "yum update tzdata" update /etc/localtime or does this need > to be done manually? No, it doesn't. It is created by Anaconda during install. > [this is part of the hwclock problem, a guy from sage-au has given me a > hint]

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-15 Thread Gabriel Tabares
> I tought of that, and I will be needing something like this, since I have > some services that need to be restarted in the event of them dying or being > killed. > > But I'm not that much confortable scripting a modification of the initab to > activate / deactivate services on a server-by-serve

Re: [CentOS] RPM/YUM on CentOS 5.4 issue - multiple versions of the same package installed

2010-11-15 Thread Gabriel Tabares
On 11/11/2010 13:47, Gabriel Tabares wrote: > Hi all, > > We currently have an issue with multiple versions of a custom package > being installed. The RPM contains a liquibase script (a Java-based DB > change management tool) and a %post script to run liquibase. > > We are installing with scripts t

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/11/2010 06:41 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi. > > I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines > >30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc > > All of those machines in question take their time via NTP > from the same local server, and that server gets its time > from a ntp pool.

Re: [CentOS] updating to gtk+ >= 2.0

2010-11-15 Thread Gabriel Tabares
>> In that case: >> >> yum install gtk2 gtk2-devel > > Funny thing is those are already installed. > > However I require a later version of gtk+. > > I'm attempting to compile from source. > CentOS comes with an old version of GTK 2. Most application these days require a later version of the libr

Re: [CentOS] RPM/YUM on CentOS 5.4 issue - multiple versions of the same package installed

2010-11-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Gabriel Tabares wrote, On 11/15/2010 08:05 AM: > On 11/11/2010 13:47, Gabriel Tabares wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We currently have an issue with multiple versions of a custom package >> being installed. The RPM contains a liquibase script (a Java-based DB >> change management tool) and a %post script

[CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread James B. Byrne
After a long, and quite disheartening, series of hardware problems with my HP laptop I decided to try out a Mac (late 2009 Intel based 19.5 inch). In the months since January past I have discovered this to be no significant improvement and I have grown tired of the persistent wireless connectivity

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/2010 10:18 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > After a long, and quite disheartening, series of hardware problems > with my HP laptop I decided to try out a Mac (late 2009 Intel based > 19.5 inch). In the months since January past I have discovered this > to be no significant improvement and I hav

[CentOS] Auto-Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 70, Issue 15

2010-11-15 Thread 韦加宁
信已收到,谢谢! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Chambers
Being a mac system admin and support specialist and CentOS guy. I can say you can always try using an external hard drive to boot the Mac off of and install CentOS on that drive to play around and test out all the drivers for video card, wireless, etc... I don't boot into CentOS but have it run

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, November 15, 2010 11:44, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Can't help directly with the hardware questions, but (a) if you are > still within your Applecare coverage, take the thing in and get > anything that doesn't work fixed before touching the OS, and (b) > you might try Virtualbox with Centos

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Chambers
This is off list topic, but I have seen weirdness in airport cards on macs especially when connecting to Apple's Airport. A cheap fix is to buy a 2nd wireless access point and make sure to use that in bridged mode so it is not acting as a router and wire that to your airport base station. I lik

[CentOS] ipvs and destination hashing...

2010-11-15 Thread John Doe
Hi, just in case some ipvs knowledgable people read this... I tried to find some info on ipvs destination hashing on the net but did not find anything... Right now we have a basic direct routing round-robin keepalived configuration: abc.example.com (a.b.c.d) => LVS ( round-robin ) => server_[1.

Re: [CentOS] can't find ldapseaerch

2010-11-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
>> >> [r...@virtcent13 ~]# ldapsearch >> ldapsearch: Command not found. >> [r...@virtcent13 ~]# whereis ldapsearch >> ldapsearch: /usr/bin/ldapsearch /usr/share/man/man1/ldapsearch.1.gz $ file /usr/bin/ldapsearch $ ldd /usr/bin/ldapsearch ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] MacBook Pro and CentOS-5

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/2010 11:29 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> Can't help directly with the hardware questions, but (a) if you are >> still within your Applecare coverage, take the thing in and get >> anything that doesn't work fixed before touching the OS, and (b) >> you might try Virtualbox with Centos as a

[CentOS] SSH keys question

2010-11-15 Thread John Kennedy
All, I have 3 servers. All 3 are CentOS 5.5. All 3 have identical /etc/ssh/sshd_config files. I used ssh-keygen (with no arguments) to generate keys with no password. I then added all 3 id_rsa.pub keys to the authorized_keys file. With this set up, I should be able to ssh between all 3 boxes withou

Re: [CentOS] SSH keys question

2010-11-15 Thread cliff here
You should check the perms on the dirs, ssh will not allow it use the keys if they are too permissive. So I would check starting at /home On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:29 PM, John Kennedy wrote: > All, > I have 3 servers. All 3 are CentOS 5.5. All 3 have identical > /etc/ssh/sshd_config files. I use

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-15 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/10/10 6:58 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I just got one of these today: >> >> Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = >> 0x0800 >> Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Me

Re: [CentOS] SSH keys question

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, cliff here wrote: > You should check the perms on the dirs, ssh will not allow it use > the keys if they are too permissive. So I would check starting at > /home This is the most likely cause; I'd check there too. If not, 1. Ensure the file hash is the same (e.g., no ex

[CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Kill Script
I am looking for a beginner guide to shell scripting simple tasks on CentOS (e.g. ssh'ing into a server / router / switch, checking for certain things, then exiting and going to the next IP). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look? (I'm relatively new to bash) _

Re: [CentOS] SSH keys question

2010-11-15 Thread cliff here
I do believe the perms need to be at 700 for the ./ssh dir and 640 for the actual key files contained. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, cliff here wrote: > > > You should check the perms on the dirs, ssh will not allow it use > > the keys if they are t

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Max Hetrick
On 11/15/2010 01:47 PM, Kill Script wrote: > I am looking for a beginner guide to shell scripting simple tasks on > CentOS (e.g. ssh'ing into a server / router / switch, checking for > certain things, then exiting and going to the next IP). > > Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look? (I

Re: [CentOS] SSH keys question [RESOLVED]

2010-11-15 Thread John Kennedy
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 13:45, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, cliff here wrote: > > > You should check the perms on the dirs, ssh will not allow it use > > the keys if they are too permissive. So I would check starting at > > /home > > This is the most likely cause; I'd check there t

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread John Kennedy
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 13:54, Max Hetrick wrote: > On 11/15/2010 01:47 PM, Kill Script wrote: > > I am looking for a beginner guide to shell scripting simple tasks on > > CentOS (e.g. ssh'ing into a server / router / switch, checking for > > certain things, then exiting and going to the next IP)

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:47:02PM -0200, Kill Script wrote: > I am looking for a beginner guide to shell scripting simple tasks on CentOS > (e.g. ssh'ing into a server / router / switch, checking for certain things, > then exiting and going to the next IP). > > Does anyone have any suggestions on

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread Ned Slider
On 15/11/10 10:21, John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote: > >> I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While >> I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it >> work. Maybe I will retry kmod later... > > I'd previousl

Re: [CentOS] Auto-Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 70, Issue 14

2010-11-15 Thread Sven Aluoor
2010/11/14 韦加宁 : > 信已收到,谢谢! This means something like "Letter has been received, thank you!". I don't know why somebody needs such an auto-replay for mailing lists? cheers Sven ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: > The book Learning the bash Shell helped me out a lot. > > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565923478 Classic online learning guide is "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ (I use it as reference, downloaded a PDF versio

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote, On 11/11/2010 07:41 PM: > Hi. > > I run peridocally (from cron) on all of my machines > > 30 * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --systohc > Why? AFAIK a kernel that is running ntpd and ntpd thinks has reasonably synced to the NTP server will, every _eleven_ minutes write th

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread m . roth
John Hodrien wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote: > >> I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... >> While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make >> it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later... > > I'd previously had an identical e

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, wrote: > John Hodrien wrote: >> I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, but >> when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch.  dkms-nvidia from > rpmforge >> is just too far out of date now really. > > Unless, of course, you ha

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Spiro Harvey
> Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look? (I'm relatively > new to bash) http://www.google.com/search?q=bash+tutorial has quite a few. I wrote a simple one a few years back: http://www.happyhacker.org/gtmhh/basha.shtml -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Lt

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread m . roth
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, wrote: >> John Hodrien wrote: > >>> I'd previously had an identical experience to yours with kmod-nvidia, >>> but when I recently tried it all worked without a hitch.  dkms-nvidia from >>> rpmforge is just too far out of date now really. >> >>

[CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Dave -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost certainly want to stick with centos-5 on the do

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Karanbir Singh : > On 11/16/2010 12:36 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: >> I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 >> (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > the Base CentOS-6 will have no Xen dom0 support, so you will almost > certainly wan

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Digimer
On 11/15/2010 07:36 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? > > Dave I know that there is discussion on getting dom0 support into Fedora 15, with maybe 50/50 chance that it wi

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-15 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
2010/11/16 Dave Stevens : > I am curious what is the best way to upgrade my dom0 and domUs to V.6 > (currently 5) when it releases. Any experience or docs on this? Hi, take a look at here: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-v2v-mi

Re: [CentOS] good shell script examples?

2010-11-15 Thread Kill Script
I wrote a simple one a few years back: > http://www.happyhacker.org/gtmhh/basha.shtml This is great! Thanks for sharing. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos