Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Eero Volotinen > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 8:39 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5? > > any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 insta

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
>> any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 >> certified laptop? > > Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible. Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 >>> >>certified laptop? >> > >> >Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible. > Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project. your project uses a laptop a

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
> your project uses a laptop as the target ? yes, its best solution for mobility. > > why would any new project require an OS thats approaching end of service > life ? project is new, but software is old, so it only supports rhel 5/centos 5 without code modifications. -- Eero __

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/2/22 Eero Volotinen : >> your project uses a laptop as the target ? > > yes, its best solution for mobility. > >> >> why would any new project require an OS thats approaching end of service >> life ? > > project is new, but software is old, so it only supports rhel 5/centos > 5 without code mo

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.4 == FC?

2013-02-22 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 21 February 2013 22:31, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have pretty much gotten use to Gnome 3 on my F17 notebooks. With the > right extensions it actually kind of works. That can be said for Windows as well. Why use something that's broken to start with? -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi

[CentOS] Strange errors with NFS under CentOS 6.3

2013-02-22 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, This morning, my centos NFS server returns these error messages: RPC: fragment too large: 0x00800103 RPC: multiple fragments per record not supported RPC: fragment too large: 0x00800103 RPC: multiple fragments per record not supported RPC: fragment too large: 0x00800103 RPC: multiple fra

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Ned Slider
On 22/02/13 08:26, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 >> certified laptop? Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible. >> Yes, but Centos 5 is needed

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 22.02.2013 um 13:01 schrieb Ned Slider : > On 22/02/13 08:26, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project. >> >> your project uses a laptop as the target ? >> >> why would any new project require an OS thats approaching e

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.4 == FC?

2013-02-22 Thread Digimer
On 02/22/2013 04:23 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 21 February 2013 22:31, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I have pretty much gotten use to Gnome 3 on my F17 notebooks. With the >> right extensions it actually kind of works. > That can be said for Windows as well. Why use something that's broken > to

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread Ned Slider
On 22/02/13 12:51, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 22.02.2013 um 13:01 schrieb Ned Slider : >> On 22/02/13 08:26, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project. >>> >>> your project uses a laptop as the target ? >>> >>> why would any

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.4 == FC?

2013-02-22 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/21/2013 09:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 02/21/2013 03:30 PM, Digimer wrote: >> On 02/21/2013 03:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I have read that v 6.3 is about Fedora 12. Now that v 6.4 has shipped >>> (no I won't be dumb enough to ask when C6.4 we ship), what version of >>> Fed

Re: [CentOS] IPV6 auto configuration cannot be disabled from if script.

2013-02-22 Thread Deyan Stoykov
On 17.02.2013 г. 17:59 ч., Florian La Roche wrote: >> I could have written a script to remove IPV6 link local address but >> there should be a basic option for that. > > You can set: echo "options ipv6 disable=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/noipv6.conf > > But more and more apps then log problems or get conf

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/21/2013 3:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> :Hardware name: HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor >>> ... > Should I worry? >>> yes. >>> >>> You should update bios . > hmmm, thats a 2007 vintage economy business desktop ? > > looks to be a Dece

Re: [CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

2013-02-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/22/2013 12:32 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > other solution might be installing centos 6 and virtualizing centos 5 on it. thats what I likely would do, assuming this app really doesn't work on C6 with a bit of tweaking (installing the -compat libraries etc). that and start looking immediately

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 > returns all ones! I googled "Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones!" and got some related results. this bug report (on FC12) says... "yes

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 01:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 >> returns all ones! > I googled "Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 > returns all ones!" and got some relat

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 02/22/2013 01:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address >>> fed9 >>> returns all ones! >> I googled "Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 >> r

Re: [CentOS] SSHD rootkit in the wild/compromise for CentOS 5/6?

2013-02-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > This issue is not CentOS specific ... here is another discussion: > > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 > > The issue seems to be that someone with local access elevates their > privileges in some manner, and after they

Re: [CentOS] SSHD rootkit in the wild/compromise for CentOS 5/6?

2013-02-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
> But don't forget that what the kernel people call 'local' access > really means any bug in any network application that lets you execute > an arbitrary command even if it is non-root - and those have > historically been pretty common. sounds like local install of famous php scripting language...

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 02:32 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 22.02.2013 20:28, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >>> on a similar/identical bug with Fedora FC17, someone suggested booting >>> with iommu=off to work around this. >> Where do I add this? > like every other kernel param in /boot/grub/grub.conf at > th

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> Kernel param. I really should have caught that. >> >> So I was all ready to edit grub.conf and then slapped my hand. >> You TEST it out first, adding the command at boot time. ARGH! > one option >

Re: [CentOS] SSHD rootkit in the wild/compromise for CentOS 5/6?

2013-02-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/22/2013 01:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> This issue is not CentOS specific ... here is another discussion: >> >> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 >> >> The issue seems to be that someone with local access elevates

Re: [CentOS] SSHD rootkit in the wild/compromise for CentOS 5/6?

2013-02-22 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 22.02.2013 um 21:11 schrieb Johnny Hughes : > On 02/22/2013 01:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> This issue is not CentOS specific ... here is another discussion: >>> >>> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 >>> >>> The i

[CentOS] problem building partitionable RAID-1 on Centos-6

2013-02-22 Thread Fred
Trying to install Centos6 on my system (it's been running C5 for years). I've got a pair of drives, so I'm trying to use RAID-1. Previously I used a procedure where each partition was part of a separate RAID device, but this time I'm trying the HOWTO from the Centos WIKI on making a partitionable

Re: [CentOS] SSHD rootkit in the wild/compromise for CentOS 5/6?

2013-02-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/22/2013 09:35 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: > i use following script to scan top level > directories for files that are not packaged: > If you trust your rpm-db, then something like my syscleanup script might also come in handy : https://www.gitorious.org/syscleanup/syscleanup/trees/master I

Re: [CentOS] problem building partitionable RAID-1 on Centos-6

2013-02-22 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Fred wrote: > Previously I used a procedure where each partition was part of a separate > RAID device, but this time I'm trying the HOWTO from the Centos WIKI on > making a partitionable RAID pair. Although the instructions work, there are pitfalls when one of t