Re: [CentOS] bsd mkfile command in centos - a wish

2009-10-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 05.10.2009, 20:22 +0200 schrieb Michel van Deventer: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:14 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Les, > > > > Yes, I do run dd to create Xen image files but was hoping to use a > > more elegant solution. > > > > Looks like I'll continue with dd but

Re: [CentOS] RAM errors after kernel-update

2009-10-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 15:28 +0200 schrieb Michael Schumacher: > Hi, > > I updated a server yesterday from > > "kernel 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen" to "kernel 2.6.18-164.el5xen" > > After rebooting, my message log is flooded every second or so with this error > messages: > > Oct 6 14:52:20 xense

Re: [CentOS] ifconfig showing same mac for 2 nics in same bond

2009-10-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 21:19 +0200 schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com: > Hi all, > > I just noticed that my two nics that are bonded via mode 0 are showing > the same mac addy in ifconfig. > > Is this normal because of the nature of my bond? Yes. financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz Mün

Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode

2009-10-07 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 20:28 +0200 schrieb ML: > Nate, > > > ifconfig ethX IP_ADDRESS netmask NETMASK > > route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY > > OK, so I was correct, > > I am doing > > ifconfig eth0 172.16.254.80 netmask 255.255.255.240 > route add default gw 172.16.254.1 > > I am getting Ne

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-13 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 13.10.2009, 02:06 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: > Hi, > Thanks for all your replies. I checked out spacewalk and cobbler, both > of which look like they require a network support infrastructure, at > least a tftp server. I want to use a CD or DVD. Kickstart sounds like > the way to g

Re: [CentOS] continuing issues with %post

2009-10-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 04:17 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: > Hello, > I'm trying to do an unattended CentOS 5.3 install. For the most part > it's working. As of right now i'm statically assigning the machine an > IP which i believe will allow %post to resolve names? I also like > knowing wher

Re: [CentOS] post install freezes

2009-10-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 19:37 +0200 schrieb David Mehler: > Hello, > I'm doing an unattended CentOS 5.3 install in a virtual machine > vmware. I'm redirecting output to a serial console because production > boxes won't have monitors. I'm getting to the point of doing the post > installation th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?

2009-10-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 22:02 +0200 schrieb Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho: > Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > > > I'm not sure that I understand. > > Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM > > specs used by CentOS? > > > > That would indeed be fascinating and useful to have

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2009, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Yves Bellefeuille: > > it will work when your mirror has 5.4 > > I have the same problem. Are many mirrors not updated yet? Was there an official CentOS 5.4 announcemnet already? financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: > I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so > far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugin

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Sergio Belkin: > 2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz : > > Sergio Belkin wrote: > >> 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan : > >> > >>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > >>> > Hi, > > Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statist

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

2009-10-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 18:42 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: > hi, > > 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. Chris

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-10-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 31.10.2009, 08:48 +0100 schrieb hadi motamedi: > Dear All > To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration > -> Security Level and Firewall" -> Other ports and then I can open > port-5901 as tcp protocol . Can you please do me favor and let me know > how it c

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 i

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk or Puppet?

2009-11-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 20:46 +0100 schrieb Les Mikesell: > nate wrote: > > > >> But will the tool do these changes for me? > > > > The tool will do anything you tell it to, it's a generic tool. > > OK, but if I have to write the script, why wouldn't I just write the > script my way and automa

Re: [CentOS] How Can I change CentOS CLI Screen Resolution to smaller text (without GUI)?

2009-11-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 15:00 +0100 schrieb Dhiraj Chatpar: > I am not able to install this which i used to in debian.. i am now > using centos. can you please tell me how to install apt-get install > libnet-server-perl on centos? > > PLEASE HELP > > man yum http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yu

Re: [CentOS] What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ?

2009-11-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 22.11.2009, 23:23 +0100 schrieb John R Pierce: > zeroironhack wrote: > > What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ? > > > > # yum install php > > That should get you php 5.2.9 on centos 5 > > if you're running CentOS 4 or older, then I recommend upgrading to CentOS 5. >

Re: [CentOS] Startup script woes

2009-12-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 02.12.2009, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Bielik: > Ok, I think I'm going nuts. I simply want to startup a Java Service like so: > > daemon --pidfile=$PIDFILE --user $USER "cd $WORKING_DIR && /usr/bin/java > $DAEMON_ARGS >/dev/null 2>&1 &" > > I can get it to startup alrite, but the

Re: [CentOS] Getting EXTERN.h, perl.h, etc

2009-12-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Charles E Campbell Jr: > Hello: > > I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like > to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at > home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So:

Re: [CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:51 +0100 schrieb Florin Andrei: > So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 > or so. > > What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? > The Rpmforge Repo, see http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge. We provide nagi

Re: [CentOS] NTP update?

2009-12-18 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 06:42 +0100 schrieb Gilbert Sebenste: > Excellent. We're all caught up on updates now, except... > > I didn't see the NTP update. That's a big one, with an easy denial of > sservice attack. Is that planning to be released? I know there was an > issue with it for awhile..

Re: [CentOS] fully automatic installation FAI?

2009-12-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 23.12.2009, 16:46 +0100 schrieb David Mehler: > Hello, > Is anyone running a software package called FAI for Fully Automatic > Installation on a CentOS server? I was wondering if there were any > issues to running it? > Thanks. > Dave. Afiak thats the debian way for automatic inst

Re: [CentOS] Recent Java OpenJDK RPMs

2009-12-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 26.12.2009, 14:48 +0100 schrieb Mathieu Baudier: > Hello, > > I have quite a few issues with the default OpenJdk package on CentOS > 5.4 x86_64 (e.g. crash of Eclipse [1], and now excessive permgen > memory requirement causing the JVM to freeze and requiring a kill -9). > > These is

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

2009-12-29 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 05:44 +0100 schrieb Noob Centos Admin: > since initially it seems like the high load may be due to I/O wait Maybe this will help you to identify the IO loading process: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/red-hat-backported-io-accounting-to-rhel5 Chris financial.com AG Mun

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

2009-12-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 31.12.2009, 12:34 +0100 schrieb Chan Chung Hang Christopher: > >> Look at the first two columns. What column have higher numbers? If r, > >> you're CPU-bound. If b, you're I/O bound. > > > > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- > > -cpu--

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: > Hi, > > On 01/03/2010 07:38 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can > > install from CD. > > Firstly, the sparc port isnt all done - or supported. But it would be > awesome to

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 14:28 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: > On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: > > Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to > > frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc > > architectur

Re: [CentOS] High l-avg with centos 4.8 on G2 only

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 16:51 +0100 schrieb fortin.pie...@bell.ca: > Hi > > > > We deployed centos 4.8 on HP DL380 G2, G3 and G4 servers (same number > of cpus). The same software is running on all servers. > > Only on G2 servers we see a low cpu utilization combined with high > load-average.

Re: [CentOS] High l-avg with centos 4.8 on G2 only

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:51 AM, wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > > > We deployed centos 4.8 on HP DL380 G2, G3 and G4 servers (same number of > > cpus). The same software is running on all servers. > > > > Only on G2 servers we see

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: > Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and > so on. > > Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. > Well that is really what the OP asked for NOT. There have been good answers

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 22:31 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: > You can also run Linux on Apple computers. He was advertising OSX not Apple hardware financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Fr

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 09.01.2010, 18:49 +0100 schrieb Les Mikesell: > Christoph Maser wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 22:31 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: > > > >> You can also run Linux on Apple computers. > > > > He was advertising OSX not Apple hardware >

Re: [CentOS] Cloned Centos Boxes - First Run to run again?

2010-01-10 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2010, 12:26 +0100 schrieb Mr Gabriel: > I need to build a bank of 12 centos boxes, for an experiment I'm doing. > I don't want to install centos 12 times, I'm using virtual box across > three machines, how can I get the first run scripts to run again to that > the box is recon

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate in CentOS 5.4 more brutal (to httpd at least) than in 5.3?

2010-01-15 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 13:08 +0100 schrieb Arturas Skauronas: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Christopher Thorjussen > wrote: > > I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a > > Apache Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new ".rpmnew" config files that > > are

Re: [CentOS] About GLOBAL vars

2010-01-18 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 18:02 +0100 schrieb Alberto García Gómez: > I install XAMPP in a server and know I want some binaries run as they were > part of the system (I reaaly don't know if this correct). So I need > that -pear- -pecl- and others run as: > > #pear install [PACKAGE] > > and not > >

Re: [CentOS] perl updates always break perl programs, how to fix?

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 21:46 +0100 schrieb James Chase: > I realize this is my fault because once upon a time I installed a > package using CPAN and probably other admins on the system have as > well but now whenever I update perl I have to jump through hoops to > get perl applications to wor

Re: [CentOS] perl-Mail-Box dependencies

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 21.01.2010, 17:25 +0100 schrieb Bowie Bailey: > Does anyone know why the CentOS 5 package perl-Mail-Box from both > rpmforge and epel is dependent on spamassassin? Looking at the source > from cpan, it appears to be an option rather than a dependency (and is > even commented out

Re: [CentOS] Bash script for backup

2010-01-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 25.01.2010, 19:48 +0100 schrieb Alan Hoffmeister: > Hello guyz! > > I'm new here, and this is my very first truble... > > I need a script that will backup & compress the folder /media/system in > the folder /media/backups > > But that's not the problem, I need that only the last 7 ba

Re: [CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 26.01.2010, 07:04 +0100 schrieb Alberto García Gómez: > Hi fellows, how can I unrar (.rar of course) from my console? What > package do I need? > > Saludos Fraternales Alberto please do not use "reply to" and then change the topic. Instead use "new mail" in you mail client to star

Re: [CentOS] yum update error

2010-01-31 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 30.01.2010, 13:32 +0100 schrieb Majian: > Hi ,all : > > Today I run the "yum update" command on my laptop, which is CentOS 5.4 > i386. > Then the screen displays the following message : > > r...@kuku ~ > yum update > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Loading mirror speeds from cached

Re: [CentOS] Is it possible to run serial console redirection without xen kernel

2010-02-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 03.02.2010, 07:30 +0100 schrieb premr...@digilink.in: > > Hi, > > I have customized my centos Installation and removed the vitalization, > Cluster and storage cluster support along > with GUI support.I have enabled only server related packages. > > Regarding serial console redirect

Re: [CentOS] Not able to redirect console msgs to serial port

2010-02-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 06:27 +0100 schrieb premr...@digilink.in: > > Hi, > > Iam using cento-5.3 on x86 machine and iam working to get the console > messages redirected to serial port. > - - - > > Still Iam not able to see any console messages redirection on serial > port.I have connected the

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010-02-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 01.02.2010, 14:14 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: > 2010/2/1 MOKRANI Rachid : > > Hi, > > > > I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). > > > > I need to obtain informations about : > > > > - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, > > > > Any ideas abo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 05:20 +0100 schrieb Dan Burkland: > Hey All, > > Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to > authenticate against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to > complete this particular setup however I have run into some difficulties

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 19:31 +0100 schrieb Alan McKay: > > It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines > > or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you > > might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least > > somet

Re: [CentOS] /etc/ldap.conf pam_filter

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 11:38 +0100 schrieb Nobody ist perfect: > Hi, > > we use an openldap server / samba as domain controller for our > windows/linux workstations. on a specific server, login should only > be allowed, if the certain user is member of a group (let's call this > group "login")

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 05.02.2010, 14:38 +0100 schrieb Dan Burkland: > > Wbinfo -u & wbinfo -g do indeed work for me however getent passwd or > getent group returns no AD users or groups. I have winbind entries in > nsswitch for both the passwd & group entries. Josepeh, I will try a > newer RPM from a

Re: [CentOS] /etc/ldap.conf pam_filter

2010-02-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 20:27 +0100 schrieb News Listener: > Hi Chris, > Thanks, > you mind, replace ldap auth with winbind auth ? > > my scene: > on one side 1 smb server pdc with ldap, > on the another side, 1 Xorg-Server with auth over ldap , the same from the > first one (smb). > i need

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, 01:10 +0100 schrieb Jay Leafey: > If you are using AD for JUST authentication and not user information, > you can use the PAM Kerberos stuff. We've been using it for a couple of > years from both CentOS/RHEL 4 and 5 systems with good results. It was > actually pretty

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
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Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:08 +0200 schrieb Neil Aggarwal: > > Rip-off is a harsh word. > > Maybe, but it seems to accurately describe the > situation as it is coming out. > > > "Don't cry over spit milk" > > The problem is this situation is erroding the trust > in this project. > > To me, the

Re: [CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley: > Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am > concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were > installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging > related except cyrus-sasl.

Re: [CentOS] things weirdly different in new installation

2009-08-01 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 01.08.2009, 04:47 +0200 schrieb fred smith: > I've just built a new system and installed latest Centos 5.3 on it. My old > box also has an up to date Centos 5 on it. > > Some things are just plain different between the two installations, and > it's stumping me why that would be. Exa

Re: [CentOS] Web

2009-08-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 02.08.2009, 18:23 +0200 schrieb madunix: > yesterday, I have checked my site in W3 validation and it has shown me > some 150 errors and 55 warnings. I want to know how these errors > affect my site, is there big impact on the system? how to read them, > And how to fix those errors?

Re: [CentOS] Split dns issues

2009-08-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 02.08.2009, 21:16 +0200 schrieb Jason Pyeron: > We have internal DNS servers that will override the A record for selected > hosts. > Example mail.pdinc.us will have a different internal ip than external. This > has > always been a fine way to handle it as the zone files are for th

Re: [CentOS] Perl Module Question

2009-08-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.08.2009, 21:59 +0200 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: > To safely make Perl modules from CPAN in Solaris, I used this procedure: > > mkdir /opt/cpan > chmod 777 /opt/cpan > chown joe:101 /opt/cpan > PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:/opt/cpan > export PERL5LIB > /usr/perl5/bin/perlgcc -MCPAN -e shell >

Re: [CentOS] Perl Module Question

2009-08-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.08.2009, 23:09 +0200 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: > >There is tons of perl module RPMs in rpmforge. We also take requests > >there. > > Not the few I need. As I said we take request. State your request on repmforge suggest mailinglist. financial.com AG Munich head office/Haupt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS village @ HAR

2009-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.08.2009, 13:59 +0200 schrieb Didi: > Hey > > I am just organizing the CentOS village at HAR and need a rough > estimate of people who will be attending. > > What do people want? you don't want an honest answer to that question, do you? ;) > Shall the CentOS people have their ow

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 14:43 +0200 schrieb Brett Serkez: > Ran into a strange issue with XEN on CentOS that I think is specific > to CentOS, which is why I'm starting by posting to this list first, > I'll post on the XEN list depending on responses. My sense is this > issue has something to

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 21:35 +0200 schrieb Alan Sparks: > Jerry Geis wrote: > > How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. > > If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? > > (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and exec

Re: [CentOS] differences in DNS between boxes

2009-08-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 05.08.2009, 00:55 +0200 schrieb Matty: > If you happen to have a > Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris host handy, you can use the DTrace ustack() > action to do just this. No need to muck around with interposing on the > glibc calls. > Whe have the same it's called systemtap financi

Re: [CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 10:21 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Hi, > > Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm), > and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated. > > Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that recently > made the

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

2009-08-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Sam Drinkard: > How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, > yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl > modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see > anything wron

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge.repo

2009-08-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Sam Drinkard: > Sorry I didn't quote the reply from Christoph Maser... was on another > machine. Anyhow, this is the complete yum output with rpmforge.repo active. Looks like rpmforge has the same or a higher prio (lower number

Re: [CentOS] Repo with bacula for centos 5.3

2009-08-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 11:06 +0200 schrieb f...@ll: > Hi, > > I was look a yum repository with I add to centos 5.3, where I find > bacula with version 2.4.4 or 2.4.4.1 > > f...@ll > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.cento

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Rainer Duffner: > Am 21.08.2009 um 23:24 schrieb R P Herrold: > > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > >> place. I looked like the hacker downloaded his paypal spoof files > >> into > >> a subdirectory of /var/www/phpmyadmin > >> > >>

Re: [CentOS] Samba "use sendfile" configuration option set do disabled as default - why?

2009-08-24 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 24.08.2009, 13:24 +0200 schrieb Per Qvindesland: > socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 > SO_SNDBUF=65536 These options are often found if you search for samba tuning. Did someone actaully benchmark the results? Shouldn't tuning buffers manuall be oboslete now

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6

2009-08-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 25.08.2009, 09:23 +0200 schrieb CentOS List: > Hi, > > Is there any yum repo which contains tomcat 6 and java 1.6? > > Thanks > > Regards > WL > CentOS 5.3 ships java-1.6.0-openjdk. financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München |

Re: [CentOS] Crontab Nobody

2009-08-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 11:09 +0200 schrieb Anne Wilson: > I have a crontab for Nobody. I tried to delete it in a root kcron, which I'm > sure is how I dealt with this in the past, but it seems impossible to delete. > Should I delete the file /var/spool/cron/nobody? It is owned root:root, p

Re: [CentOS] How to clone CentOS server ?

2009-08-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 14:59 +0200 schrieb mcclnx mcc: > anyone used this one and can say experience: > > http://clonezilla.org/ > I tried it 4 or 5 times. Always failed... financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt b

Re: [CentOS] how to install rrdtool, if it keeps failing?

2009-08-29 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 29.08.2009, 14:10 +0200 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install rrdtool on CentOS 5.3 x64, but it keeps failing > with dependency problems: You need ruby from centos base/updates. Works for me without problems. Also you don't need the * "yum install rrdtool" does w

Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

2009-09-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Gabriel - IP Guys: > Dear All, > > > > I am attempting to install cacti on CentOS 5.3 64 bit, and I checked > the wiki, only to find that the instructions are a bit out of date. > Have these instructions been updated somewhere, or does anyone have >

Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

2009-09-02 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2009, 14:36 +0200 schrieb Gabriel - IP Guys: > > Thank you for your response - I went through those instructions, and > again, I got the same error as below. > > FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please make sure > you have specified a valid MySQL databas

Re: [CentOS] Cacti Installation on CentOS 5

2009-09-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2009, 14:07 +0200 schrieb Gabriel - IP Guys: > It seems that there is a bug in cacti for centos x64 - version 0.8.7e > In case you use the rpmforge package, please report on the rpmforge Mailinglist. financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-S

Re: [CentOS] caching pipe?

2009-09-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 08:32 +0200 schrieb Florin Andrei: > Is it possible to add caching to a pipe? > > cat blah | in_RAM_cache_here -s SIZE | something else > The porgram "buffer" might be what you need. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 |

Re: [CentOS] Unable to complete virtual system

2009-09-06 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 09:43 +0200 schrieb micktaywri...@bigpond.com: > Invalid install location: Opening URL > http://www.topend.com/distro/i386/tree failed. Did you see that? Did you check it is reachable and a correct OS installation tree? Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Ha

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in centos 5.3

2009-09-11 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 17:45 +0200 schrieb Daniel Bruno: > Hi, > > Recently I build a filesystem in a device using mkfs.ext4 but when I > tried to mount the device show this error: > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' > > But when I build the same device with mkfs.ext4dev I can mont t

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:43 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote: > > The sound is bad, > > > > / Lance vanished from the project some time in 2008. Everybody needs > > time off from projects from time to time, so there was no real need to >

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 14:28 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes: > On 09/14/2009 05:01 AM, Christoph Maser wrote: > > Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Ralph Angenendt: > >> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 16:43 +0700, David Suhendrik wrote: > >>> The sound is bad

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 14.09.2009, 15:11 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes: > However, I am not sure WHY you want to know these things. We do not > require anyone to donate to the project to use the software. We do have > expenses (like DVDs to hand out, posters to print, rooms to pay for at > Linux conferenc

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 19:27 +0200 schrieb Johnny Hughes: > I STILL do not understand why anyone would care what CentOS does with > money donated by people who used the product and wanted to donate. > > If we were having wild beer parties every week ... as long as the > packages are built, c

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-20 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 11:36 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Hi, > > I successfully managed to use SSL on a local webserver for testing > purposes, following the section "Using SSL" in the Chapter "Using > Apache" of the "Definitive Guide to CentOS". Now I wonder: how can I use > SSL with virtual

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 16:27 +0200 schrieb Benjamin Franz: > > > Christoph Maser wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 11:36 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I successfully managed to use SSL on a local webserver for testing

Re: [CentOS] sed (or other) magic to get RPM base names ?

2009-09-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: > Hey folks, > > Once upon a time I saw some sed magic to take the output of "rpm -qa" > and strip away all the version info to give just the RPM base names. > > And of course I forgot to note it :-/ And have not been able to > replicate

Re: [CentOS] network not starting and maybe other services in a virtual machine

2009-09-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 19:04 +0200 schrieb Jerry Geis: > I am installing centos 5.3 i386 in a virtual machine. I am using kvm-87 > (which I use for other images > just fine). > > The box installed fine, it boots up I can login but NONE of the services > are starting . > > When watching the boot

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Question about iostat output

2009-09-22 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 10:42 +0200 schrieb frank.brodb...@klingel.de: > Hi, > > Pascal Robert schrieb am 21.09.2009 20:01:20: > > > [r...@golgoth ~]# iostat > > I've learned that you must always ignore the first output of > iostat but do something along the line of ``iostat 5'' and let > it

Re: [CentOS] mounting images created using dd that contain two partitions

2009-09-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 05:16 +0200 schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com: > Ok, this is what I did in the exact same situation (solution below > gotten from the xen list). > > I use it religiously. > > Lucky I'm on both forums. > > > ** > > First make sure you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Karanbir Singh: > On 24/09/09 21:32, Paul Heinlein wrote: > > I really wish RH would hop on the /srv bus. The broad distinction is > > fairly easy to grasp: /var for variable data of general interest to > > the machine, /srv for stuff related to a spe

Re: [CentOS] Introduction and request for help with virtualization

2010-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 04.08.2010, 11:30 -0400 schrieb Kevin Chang: > I found a script via google: > > > #!/bin/sh > > virt-install \ > -n calcnode01 \ > -r 1024 \ > -f /dev/vmstorage_vg/calcnode01 \ > --cdrom=/software/iso/CentOS-5.5_x86_64-boot.iso \ > --accelerate \ > --vnc \ > -x "ks=ftp://192.168

Re: [CentOS] CentOS magic to Active Directory login?

2010-02-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 19.02.2010, 04:07 +0100 schrieb Tom Bishop: > I just set up a centos 5.4 server with this a couple of weeks agao, > really straight forward, here is the best guide that I > found, http://www.linuxmail.info/active-directory-integration-samba-centos-5/ > > The very same without clicki

Re: [CentOS] CentOS server running java - won't let go of swap

2010-03-07 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 08:24 +0100 schrieb Mathieu Baudier: > > I'm monitoring some CentOS 5 servers running Sun Java. We have set things > > Out of curiosity, which version of Sun Java do you use precisely? > > I had memory issues with the the Java OpenJDK 1.6 (b09) provided by > stock CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Convert DHCP to static during kickstart

2010-03-08 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 08.03.2010, 09:14 +0100 schrieb Marcus Moeller: > Hi all. > > is there an easy way to kickstart a system using DHCP, but then use > the obtained settings to define static network configurations on the > installed system? > > Best Regards > Marcus A simple %post script comes to mind

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-14 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 17:58 +0200 schrieb JohnS: > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:12 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >The eth? names are assigned in more or less random order at bootup > > > > Not exactly "random" but not always as expected:) > > http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 15.04.2010, 22:23 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: > Hey folks, > > Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? > If so, maybe someone can point me to it. > > Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of > CPAN modules, and the first basic p

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 16.04.2010, 15:00 +0200 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x vers

Re: [CentOS] wher cam i get the kickstart's rpm or gz?

2010-04-19 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2010, 13:09 +0200 schrieb hqm8512: > HI erveryone, >I want to install some machines with the kickstart,but i can't > find the kickstart's rpm or gz,anyone know it? my server is suse > 10.3,thank you! > > There ist no "kickstart software". Kickstart is a mix of pxe, t

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-21 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2010, 18:16 +0200 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: > >I'm leaning pretty heavily in this directly actually, just given how > >little progress I'm making with CPAN itself. Next step I guess is to > >see if all my packages are available in RPMs. > > rpmforge has a lot, the only pain

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached, that the x86_64 > 1.4.5-1.el5 needs an update, I go to do that, and it complains that it's > missing a dependency of libevent-1.4.so.2 (this is all 64 bit, CentOS > 5.4). > > Clues

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:20 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Chris wrote: > > Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > >> Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached, that the x86_64 > >> 1.4.5-1.el5 needs an update, I go to do that, and it complains that it's

Re: [CentOS] Broken upgrade to memcached

2010-05-03 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 20:38 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Chris wrote: > > Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:20 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > >> Chris wrote: > >> > Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 16:07 +0200 schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > >> >> Yum checkupdate tells me I should update memcached,

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