Re: [CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

2010-06-15 Thread Cliff
Iptraf is a great utility Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:45 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > > > transfer a file, time it, divide file size in megabytes / seconds to > get > MB/sec speeds. multiply by 8 or 10 to get approximate backbone > speed in > megabit/sec. (10 approximates proto

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread Cliff
If it's giving him a file system error on the remote host it's NOT a fw issue Sent from my iPhone On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, earlarami...@gmail.com wrote: > Looks like you need to allow nfs through your firewall so that it > can be accessed > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device avail

Re: [CentOS] HOWTO - Install HP PSP On CentOS 5

2010-06-24 Thread Cliff
Why would u install psp with out a proliant?? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 24, 2010, at 9:47 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 23:45 -0400, Brandon Wood wrote: > >> If you have feedback or questions please let me know, > --- > 3) Build the kernel config > > [r...@server ~]# cd /usr/src

Re: [CentOS] DNS or firewall problem

2010-07-05 Thread Cliff
Do u have ipv4 forwarding on in your /etc/syscttl Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2010, at 7:00 PM, "Thomas Dukes" wrote: > Been working this for over a month now and I'm stumped. > > Everything was working until the 'crash'. Backup was no good so I > did a > fresh install of centos 5.5. Trying

RE: [CentOS] Re: OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys

2008-05-12 Thread Cliff Nadler
calinstall.conf and change the gpgcheck flag to 0, then use "yum -c /etc/yum.localinstall.conf localinstall package" to install any unsigned packages. I've only used it with packages from a know good source (mostly locally built). Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] add on sata card relabeling drives, installation

2011-09-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
993-4c9a7a25b6b1 and check it with prompt> blkid Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] add on sata card relabeling drives, installation

2011-10-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Saturday, October 01, 2011 12:56:46 AM Cliff Pratt wrote: >> prompt> tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -U c491d94e-7004-4b08-9993-4c9a7a25b6b1 > > As the saying goes, try typing that fast ten times and see how many > times the U

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 i386 DVD

2011-10-17 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:47 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Frustration does funny things to logic. > Ha! Nice one. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
nothing leaps out at you to say it's because xauth > isn't installed.  It'd be quite nice if default ssh emitted a warning message > about this at a non-debug level. > It's not an ssh issue so why would ssh emit the message? Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
You can put a crontab file in there. Just don't alter any of the others. Crond automatically runs everything in /etc/cron.d, in /etc/crontab, and in user crontabs. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Who takes care of cronjob in

Re: [CentOS] /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> You can put a crontab file in there. Just don't alter any of the >> others. Crond automatically runs everything in /etc/cron.d, in >> /etc/crontab, and in us

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
d. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Rushton Martin wrote: > >From man 8 cron > >       Cron  searches  /var/spool/cron  for  crontab  files which are > named >       after accounts ...  Cron  also >       searches  for /etc/crontab and the files in the directory, whi

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: >> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> >>> Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >>>> It's a good idea NOT to pu

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >> It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change >> the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change >> root's cron

Re: [CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

2011-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 09.12.2011 00:53, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: >>>> On Thu, Dec 8,

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
Can you fpaste your firewall rules? I would omit the actual public IP's for security sake. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using system-config-firewall (C6 x86_64, fully up to date) to > configure a gateway/firewall box. 2 nics, eth0 (configured as bridge0

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
nt is your forwarding rules that you have in prerouting should be in INPUT chain. You're trying to come in from an outside net to your FW and be forwarded to what you have NAT'd behind it right? On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:44:11 -0

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
sorry that's watch -n 1 'iptables -t nat -L -n -v' On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:04 AM, cliff here wrote: > actually if you could cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables, i find it easier to > read. also try this to troubleshoot > > watch n 1 'iptables -t nat -L -n -v' &

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
My best guess would be to move your forwarding rules to the INPUT chain instead of being in the PREROUTING. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:07:41 -0500 > cliff here wrote: > > > sorry that's watch -n 1 '

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:05 AM, cliff here wrote: > Here's a really good overview of how the iptables process works > > http://fedoraunity.org/Members/kanarip/iptables-howto > > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > >> Laurent Wandrebeck wr

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
Here's a really good overview of how the iptables process works http://fedoraunity.org/Members/kanarip/iptables-howto On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:23:45 -0500 > > cliff here wrote: > > > >

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
@John, yea good catch thanks =) On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:59 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, cliff here wrote: > > > Also to note, if you edit your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file manually > there > > is a line in /etc/init.d./iptables at line number

Re: [CentOS] Group permission problems

2011-12-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
and I am confused.  Can anybody guide me to > where I need to go? Thanks,Michael > Use the id command to check what groups you are in. Stop nscd if it is running and run id again. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
You can use the yum download-only plugin, or you can enable a keep cache variable in your /etc/yum.repos.d/yourfile.repo. Don't remember the syntax off the top of my head. However a quick google search should turn them both up. Other option if you want to sync a repo you can check out an applicati

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
Oh but keep in mind if you enable keep cache in your repo file it will still install them, just it will keep a copy as well. Keep that in mind. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, cliff here wrote: > You can use the yum download-only plugin, or you can enable a keep cache > variable in you

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > Is there any way to fake a "yum update" just to get yum to force a > download > > of all the

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
19, 2011 at 12:02 PM, cliff here wrote: > > > Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. > > > > I actually just installed cobbler a few weeks ago and will look into it for > this to see if it has a way to grab a repository without rsync > >

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
I would highly advise against trying to time a CTRL-C in a specific amount of time. Not sure why you would even try and do that when, that's the exact purpose of the yum-download only which is easier to install and run then wait for a whole update to complete and try and manually kill the job. Sor

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
e, I > had a page of them! Our group's, the corporate test systems, the corporate > *production* systems, and *each* had their own, along with their own > password aging (there was *no* single sign-on), the contracting co's > We use PasswordSafe to solve that one. There are other similar products. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Cliff Pratt
end) can never be completely safe. A book like this is probably what you are looking for: http://www.wilyhacker.com/ Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine Manager error

2012-01-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> >> Install libvirt and run the libvirtd service. > . > > Complete! > [root@centos Desktop]# service libvert status > libvert: unrecognized service > He said libvirt

Re: [CentOS] logwatch not mailing

2009-08-20 Thread Cliff Nadler
/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl > What are the permissions on /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl? Check to see if any updates were applied to logwatch recently (yum info or rpm -qi logwatch) and check your logwatch config files to see if anything changed there. Hope this helps, Cliff _

Re: [CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

2010-08-31 Thread cliff here
Yep, same answer here, I had RHEL4.8 on a 2.6 TB MSA, and you just leave it going over the weekend. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:14:23AM -0500, Sean Carolan wrote: > > I have a large (1.5TB) partition with millions of files on it. e2fsck >

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] 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 > > th

Re: [CentOS] squid timeout error

2009-02-03 Thread Cliff Nadler
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:45 AM, John Doe wrote: > > While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.wisegeek.com/ > > * Connection to 174.132.22.20 Failed > > First, maybe you should post to the squid mailing list... > Did you check your timeout values? > > JD > > > > > _

[CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
he install never really gets going, no logs. I've checked the mailing list archive back a few months, but I've not seen anything related. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] SOLVED Re: Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: > >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? >> >> When I try to boot the

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
virtual machine on > i386 OS Ubuntu. > > Cheers, > Njegos > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:16 AM, John Hodrien > wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> >>> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >>> Ubuntu. Has anyo

Re: [CentOS] Booting CentOS 6 in VirtualBox on Ubuntu

2011-07-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26:15 Cliff Pratt wrote: >> I trying to try out CentOS 6 in an Oracle VirtualBox running on >> Ubuntu. Has anyone been able to get this configuration working? > > I did it under Fedora ra

Re: [CentOS] Adding the [SOLVED] Tag to break threads -- multiple factors

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
f worms. I initially thought that the person who contacted me off-line was being prissy. I can now see that strong opinions are held on both sides of the debate, but it is definitely off-topic, I believe (subject to correction by the owners of the list, of course). Please can we drop it? Cheers, C

Re: [CentOS] www.mydomain.org and mydomain.org should resolve to the same IP

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
Name astronomy.santa-cruz.ca.us >    CustomLog /data/logs/acc.astronomy combined >    ErrorLog  /data/logs/err.astronomy >    DirectoryIndex main.php >    HostnameLookups Off > > Or use ServerAlias (not tested). Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] www.mydomain.org and mydomain.org should resolve to the same IP

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
//logs/access_log common I *think* the first example works, but I'd have to check the configs to be sure and I don't have access from here. However, if it works for you, it works, and all else is quibbles. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
the file is created: > Tim, the program is run by cron in a different environment to the standard online environment. Is /bin/alldb a script? If so, *any* program in the script should have a full path, or the PATH enviroment variable should be specified in the cron. (see 'man c

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:19:01PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> >> Tim, the program is run by cron in a different environment to the >> standard online environment. Is /bin/alldb a script? If so, *any* >> progra

Re: [CentOS] Cursor disappear when entering WINE application

2011-08-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
ly via JDBC but I'm not sure). Access is good for nothing and is a computational dinosaur. It's far simpler to use Excell than Access for creating Forms and Apps. The rule of thumb is if the app needs more than Excell can provide move to using MSSQL. I've used OpenOffice f

Re: [CentOS] Two Samba Servers and Rsync

2011-08-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
break down the rsync into several 'chunks', and check the number of files on source and target servers at the end. Some people run rsync and then immediately run it again! rsync, in spite of its idiosyncrasies is still the best tool. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] Two Samba Servers and Rsync

2011-08-10 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/9/11 7:37 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Les Mikesell  wrote: >>> On 8/9/2011 2:50 PM, Railic Njegos wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> I plan to implement two file servers o

Re: [CentOS] please help

2011-09-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
Why? Any platform can be used for web development. If you want to learn more about CentOS, visit the web site. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Liang Arsalan wrote: > i am a user of windows and use little bit ubuntu > my friend told me to use centos for web development &g

Re: [CentOS] please help

2011-09-02 Thread Cliff Pratt
http://www.centos.org However, if you couldn't find that I'd say your career as a web designer would be short. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Liang Arsalan wrote: > i can't fine features of CentOs on web > __

Re: [CentOS] Mirror hosting ideas

2011-09-02 Thread Cliff Pratt
vance for your help! :) > http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22 Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Can't install Centos with DVD on KVM.

2010-06-28 Thread cliff here
Subject line explains most of it I'm trying to install Centos from a dvd iso, that has been verified on KVM (Fedora 13) box. Virtual machine boots, and will launch anaconda and will test the media, but on the next step after that it says it can't find CD media. ___

Re: [CentOS] Can't install Centos with DVD on KVM.

2010-06-28 Thread cliff here
still stumped. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:51 AM, cliff here wrote: > Subject line explains most of it > > I'm trying to install Centos from a dvd iso, that has been verified on KVM > (Fedora 13) box. > > Virtual machine boots, and will launch anaconda and will test

Re: [CentOS] DNS or firewall problem

2010-07-05 Thread cliff here
yea that needs to be a 1 On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Cliff > > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 8:05 PM > > To:

Re: [CentOS] DNS or firewall problem

2010-07-06 Thread cliff here
Well if you want the kernel to route IPV4 traffic, then yes it has to be 1 On 7/6/10, Timothy Murphy wrote: > cliff here wrote: > >>> net.ipv4.conf.ip_forward = 0 ?? >>> >>> change to = 1 ?? > >> yea that needs to be a 1 > > That cannot be mand

[CentOS] JBD: failed to read block at offset

2010-08-02 Thread cliff here
Im getting errors like JBD: failed to read block at offset 4360 on a raid 5 parition , have run several fcsk on it are these Journal errors recoverable? I've done a physical scan of the hard disks with HP insight manager as well -- -

Re: [CentOS] Installing Java 7 on a system with Java 6

2012-11-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
You can install version 7 alongside version 6, but you will most likely have to get the package directly from the Java site. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:30 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > My system is 5.6, with upgrades. I installed Java 6 from the Centos > repository. It doesn

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-11 Thread Cliff Pratt
it for script generated scripts too. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
#x27; at the command prompt it will show the location of 'curl'. Probably it will be '/usr/bin/curl'. I would suggest that you modify the crontab to have the full path. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > i did this from the consol

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
s > either not my system to change, or I have a serious problem indeed. > That's fine unless you have 100s of machines to administer. If you have 100 machines do you a) set all the root passwords to the same, or b) maintain a manual file of logins. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
rd is almost always recoverable or resettable so I've stopped worrying about making my passwords 100% safe from destruction or loss. However they should be as close to 100% secure from being stolen as possible. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] The moving of VNC port from 580n to 590n

2013-02-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
ort 590n. I've seen it claimed that a) port 580n is not used and can be blocked, b) 580n is used for the Java VNC client, c) 580n is used for browser requests for VNC (probably via the Java VNC client, I'd guess). I don't know when the change occurred and it may be that it happened

Re: [CentOS] LDAP users/groups not showing up with nis, pam, & ldap

2013-02-20 Thread Cliff Pratt
Do you have nscd running? If so, try stopping and starting that. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Wes Modes wrote: > I am trying to configure NIS, PAM, & LDAP on a CentOS 6.2 host. I've > previously installed a similar configuration on RHEL4, but CentOS now >

Re: [CentOS] LDAP users/groups not showing up with nis, pam, & ldap

2013-02-20 Thread Cliff Pratt
Or just stopping it. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Do you have nscd running? If so, try stopping and starting that. > > Cheers, > > Cliff > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Wes Modes wrote: >> I am trying to configure NIS, PAM, & L

Re: [CentOS] Using LAMP stacks

2013-03-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
LAMP stack. One option is to find an appliance ISO and use that rather than try to install a LAMP stack on top of an existing system. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using LAMP stacks

2013-03-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
tart. > Thanks, > I suggest that solving the issues that you get would be ultimately more useful than looking for a solution that works out of the box. I suggest that you look at the documentation for Apache virtual hosts. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ctrl-Alt-F? bindings broken under xen 3.0.3-142.el5_9.1 / 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5xen?

2013-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
The graphics chip is probably relevant. FWIW I can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn to any Virtual Console (I just get a black screen, no login prompt). I have a nVidia graphics chip. There are many reports on the Internet of trouble with VC and nVidia and some other graphics chips. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, M

Re: [CentOS] nscd

2013-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
o do the actual lookups. Am I correct? In which case, the MS DNS server should be caching the DNS lookups anyway, so you probably don't derive a lot of benefit from the nscd unless you do a lot of repeated DNS lookups. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nscd

2013-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On Tuesday, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:26 AM, wrote: >>> Has anyone had problems accessing random websites since going up to 6.4? >>> >>> Since about the day after I got

Re: [CentOS] iptables settings for X11 forwarding in CentOS 6.2

2013-03-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
l > > machine when you run ssh - -X user@clusterhost (I wouldn't send it > > all to the list, cuz it'll be a ton of nonsense, but the last page or > > of output lines have helped me find issues in the past) > > > > ... or am I completely off in left field and you're saying you're > > unable to ssh into your machines? > > -- > Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Supermicro & Boot Failures with DVD Centos 6.2

2013-04-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
he point of testing > the memory. > > Thanks for your advice about F4 I will not be able to try > this until I can get to the machine, prob 24 hrs. I'll let you know > what happens. > > Greg, can you scare up a spare disk and attach it to test your theory? Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [centos-6.3-desktop] Unable to login

2013-04-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Mayur Patil wrote: > Hello, > > I have trapped in weird problem. My Setup is CentOS 6.3 Desktop edition > x86_64 arch. > > My login screen is blinking so frequently that I am unable to see and > login into it. > > And also I

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
re point 3, do you have 'telnetd' installed. You should probably use ssh unless you have a good reason not to. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Adekoya Adekunle < adekunleadek...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >1) Check the versi

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get "Have to be root" if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:20:31AM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Please try not to top post. > > Sorry, I blame GMail, which hides the previous quoted posts under an ellipsis.

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64 & hylafax+ 5.5.3

2013-08-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
Greg, I haven't sent a fax in ages, so my suggestion would be to take a step back and see if you still need to use fax. You may still have a need for it, but I'm just suggesting that you think about it! Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On

Re: [CentOS] Difficulty building custom Install CD

2013-09-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
Then get disk 1 of the CentOS distribution and copy it from there.. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:37 PM, zGreenfelder > wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 14, 201

Re: [CentOS] Network Problem on New Install of 6.4

2013-10-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
or similar? Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I have a new install of CentOS 6.4 on an HP Pavilion 500-27c with one > mother board nic card. > > results of lspci : > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gi

Re: [CentOS] file managementttttttttttt

2013-11-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
> > Well, I dislike gnome anyway - at work, we've got a lot of folks on kde. > At home, I use IceWM. But what is this "open a directory"? Is that like > rxvt, click into the xterm, ls ...dir/subdir/subsubdir? > > mark > Very similar, but less archaic! 8-)

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > Does anyone know wh

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
unlikely.. not ...likely... Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that > era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the > availability of drivers. &

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Looks like you have more than one path to the devices. I would expect to see *4* devices. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I do have an iscsi storage with two raidsets. I

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
*Something* is causing it to appear that there are two paths. I can't think how else the two apparently different disks have the *same* file system. But I've not used iSCSI much. Perhaps if you post the type of the device someone might have any idea? Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 201

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
He's not running the Poisson distro, he's using CentOS! 8-) On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Devin Reade wrote: > Quoting Glenn Eychaner : > > > This is brand-new Kingston 1600MHz ECC memory on a workstation/server > > running at high altitude [snip] > > Cosmic rays? Do you have a Poisson dis

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
postfix? > > 3) I take it that in the last stage postfix passes the email to dovecot, > which stores it in ~/Maildir/cur/ (in my case). > > It is picked up from there by KMail on my laptop, > but that is another story. > > Why do you insist on calling it the "sendma

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
buntu 13.10 shows 3.11.0 so you have a fairly old Ubuntu version there. In general the Ubuntu kernel will be newer than the more conservative CentOS/RHEL. Cheers Cliff On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jayadevan Maymala < jayadevan.technol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using CentO

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
Ah, right. I was assuming (maybe erroneously) that the OP knew what was on his/her system. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Cliff Pratt >wrote: > > > 3.9.3 is the kernel number. All Linux distribution

Re: [CentOS] Log rolling with a daemon

2013-12-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
John's suggestion is still pertinent. You'll need a SIGHUP handler in your script. Logrotate could send the SIGHUP in a postrotate 'script'. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM, John R Pierce > wrote:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the latest release. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve wrote: > > John R Pierce wrote: > > On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: > > > My understanding was that CentOS was general

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
don't think so. If grub needed to know about the file systems other than the one it is using to boot, then it would have parameters to describe the other file systems. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Lists wrote: > On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: > >

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
a powerful tool if you know what you are doing. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hello, > > Default MySQL installation on CentOS sets /bin/bash as shell. > I'm on a user cleanup task where I want reduce unneeded privileges to >

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumably CentOS) and Ubuntu no longer implement the 'rot13' program. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/09/2014 05:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
Thanks! I got similar suggestions when I mentioned this at work. I was of course joking about rot13. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:41 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/9/2014 3:33 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumab

Re: [CentOS] default gw route has gone? SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Cliff Pratt
It will probably be the same elsewhere, because they are CHEAP. I've used a few NZ Telco supplied routers over the years and a couple of cheap bought ones. All had some issue or the other. Nowadays I put up with or workaround any issues. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rob K

Re: [CentOS] netcdf

2014-01-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
mably on his own machine (which makes sense). Les directed him to vmware or virtualbox. Sounds like a beginner and there might be a language barrier. We've all been there at one time! Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
t may not work, and this is where download tools come into their own. But I think that for most people, browsers will work OK. The real advantage of the download tools is that a transfer is usually restartable and that is not always possible with a browser download. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6,

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Yep, it works OK for me, but it may not work for the guy down the road. I don't have an issue with that. But for most people it just works fine. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote: > On 02/06/2014 03:08 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Rejy, for th

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason I can think of doing that is "because it was there". Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Darr247 wrote: > Well that didn't take as long as I thought it would... > HashCalc does

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
unny. Mea culpa. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Darr247 wrote: > On 07 February 2014 @06:45 zulu, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason > I > > can think of doing that is "because it was there". &

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message "outdated version" although "yum list installed" reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would be eg 0.98.1-3. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:20:05PM -0600, Johnny Hughes (joh...@centos.org) > wrote: > > On 02/19/2014 08:

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