[CentOS] virt-manager windows guest on CentOS 7

2020-07-27 Thread Jerry Geis
My windows client is using "generic display adapter" and not QXL. So I mount the VirtIO iso, open windows Manager, right click on Generic display display driver and select Update Driver, Browse to my iso, click qxl and there are only three listed. 2k8R2 w7 xp There is Windows 10. I am using that

Re: [CentOS] virt-manager windows guest on CentOS 7

2020-07-28 Thread Jerry Geis
So come to find its not in the QXL directory its the QXLdod directory. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Using CentOS 7 to attempt recovery of failed disk

2020-09-26 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a disk that is flagging errors, attempting to rescue the data. I tried dd first - if gets about 117G of 320G disk and stops incrementing the save image any more. Now I'm trying ddrescue and it also stops about the same point Thoughts on how to continue past that point ? Thanks, Jerry ___

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 7 to attempt recovery of failed disk

2020-09-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Hello I did try the "dd conv=noerror …" The ddrescue - doesnt stop - it just doesnt "continue" past a certain point. Somewhere around the 117G mark - it just doesnt go past that . (same with dd, gets to 117G and just doesnt continue. I have let the dd run all night - did not go past the 117G. Tha

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 7 to attempt recovery of failed disk

2020-09-28 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I finally got a completion with this command: dd conv=noerror,sync iflag=direct bs=4096 if=/dev/sdb of=disk.img Copying it now to see if it worked. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.cento

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 7 to attempt recovery of failed disk

2020-09-28 Thread Jerry Geis
"It is alive"! Fantastic. So I got a new SSD (500G) to replace the OLD rotating disk (320G) and played with trying to copy off the data for days... Finally got that with everyones help. Today I copied the data to the new 500G disk and it BOOTED and running. Monday is way better than Friday was! T

[CentOS] ::1 in /var/log/httpd/access_log on CentOS 7

2020-10-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I see "MANY" of these ::1 - - [13/Oct/2020:10:46:08 -0500] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 (internal dummy connection)" in the log file. This is not me connecting as ::1 is localhost. What is this - how might I stop it ? Thanks Jerry _

[CentOS] CentOS 7 update to apache configs

2020-10-27 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a script available that will automatically update the apache configs from CentOS 7 to "pass" the latest "vulnerability scans" by removing the older cyphers like TLSv1.0 protocol: and others that get flagged by vulnerability scans ??? Thanks, Jerry

[CentOS] dnsmasq centos 7

2020-10-31 Thread Jerry Geis
HI I setup dnsmasq on my computer. I tested with an entry in /etc/hosts for laptop.w530 I tested with "host laptop.w530" and I get unresolved (expected). If I add "nameserver 192.168.1.8" (my computer) to top of /etc/resolv.conf and do "host laptop.w530" I get 192.168.1.105 - so seems to be workin

Re: [CentOS] dnsmasq centos 7

2020-10-31 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Niki, Thanks good article... I was close in what I did - but still not working. I made this config file in /etc/dnsmasq.d more lsi.conf domain-needed bogus-priv interface = eth0 expand-hosts local = / LayeredSolutionsInc.com / domain = LayeredSolutionsInc.com # The address 192.168.1.14 is

Re: [CentOS] dnsmasq centos 7

2020-11-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks All for the suggestions. I was still using iptables - not firewalld - I did miss the UDP port 53. That was my issue. Thanks Niki for the article and everyone. Thanks again. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/

[CentOS] Odd issue happening CentOS 7

2020-11-02 Thread Jerry Geis
So I have two CentOS 7 machines running. if I am on my server and I do "curl http://192.168.1.8"; I get data. If I do "host devgeis.LayeredSolutionsInc.com" I get the correct address 192.168.1.8 if I goto another machine with CentOS 7. I do "curl http://192.168.1.8"; I get data. I do "host devge

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue happening CentOS 7

2020-11-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - Your correct... There was a typo in the address - Can I plame that on a super small screen... Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] USB External video

2020-11-06 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - Has anyone tried using a USB 4K adapter ? Something like Startech USB32HD4K? Are these devices on option for linux ? Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 8 vncserver

2020-11-12 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get vncserver working on CentOS 8. Fully updated. On the console - logged in as a normal user I run: export DISPLAY=:0.0 xhost + /usr/bin/x0vncserver -display :0 -rfbport 5901 -passwordfile /home/silentm/.vnc/passwd I get this error: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key/usr/bin/x0vncserv

[CentOS] Help with VirtualBox on CentOS 7

2020-11-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Any Virtualbox on CentOS guru's out there? I only have 1 VM on my linux host. in the update process to virtualbox 6.1.16 my config was lost. When I run Virtualbox my VM does not show. So I desire to add it back. My structure is this. ls -l /home/silentm/vmware/CentOS\ 64-bit\ LSI/ -rw--- 1 si

Re: [CentOS] Help with VirtualBox on CentOS 7

2020-11-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Frank - Thanks. Gosh crazy of me. The Vmware icon was missing on the left hot menu. So I was mistakenly running Virtual Box (of which I never had added anything)... I re-added the vmware player - and my files are there like always. Long day. Thanks for the knock in the head. Jerry

[CentOS] Update from 7 to 8

2020-11-23 Thread Jerry Geis
I stumbled on this today. https://www.hostwinds.com/guide/upgrading-from-centos-7-to-8/ I understand the best is always a re-install But are these steps the next best thing to update from 7 to 8 ? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

[CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-02 Thread Jerry Geis
So ntpdate is no longer present past CentOS 7. Many times people want "internal" NTP servers - not opening firewalls to allow external pool.ntp.org kind of stuff. ntpdate was "nice" in that I could just run once a day as "ntpdate name" and all good. Is there a similar client for CentOS 8 ? I saw

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks everyone for the comments. So trying to use the new "chronyc/d" So trying a couple things with chronyc chronyc sources 210 Number of sources = 5 MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample ===

[CentOS] Question on nmcli CentOS 8

2020-12-11 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to modify the current eth0 with nmcli I ran this: nmcli con mod eth0 ipv4.addr 192.168.1.15/22 gw4 192.168.1.1 ipv4.dns 192.168.1.14 and now nmcli shows (two ipv4) addresses. inet4 192.168.1.15/22 inet4 192.168.2.212/22 I think the original connection was DHCP... the

[CentOS] How to do virtual IP on NetworkManager

2021-01-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, I use virtual IP from time to time on CentOS 7. just take something like eth0 and make eth0:1 put in there the IP and subnet and bring up the new IP and it works. How do I do that with NetworkManager on the command line (assuming all static IP information) I do something like this from nm

[CentOS] simple http server grab data posted and send to another server - slightly off topic

2021-01-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All, anyone know how to make a "simple" http server (python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000) type of stuff - but simply take the incoming data, (should be real small) and when received - send that to a different server . This is different than "redirect" as that is the issue. The device does not under

Re: [CentOS] simple http server grab data posted and send to another server - slightly off topic

2021-01-21 Thread Jerry Geis
I did finally find something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2506932/how-do-i-redirect-a-request-to-a-different-url-in-python Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] grub2-mkconfig with custom kernel

2021-02-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi - I am running CentOS 7 I tried to add a custom initrd and custom vmlinux when I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg the custom files are not listed . when I reboot my entry for /etc/grub.d/40_custom is not listed either. How do I get grub2-mkconfig to recognize my entries ? Is grub2-mk

Re: [CentOS] grub2-mkconfig with custom kernel

2021-02-02 Thread Jerry Geis
Sorry - it was an EFI system - so different path is needed. /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg Jerry On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 10:05 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi - I am running CentOS 7 > I tried to add a custom initrd and custom vmlinux > > when I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

[CentOS] letsencrypt error

2021-02-03 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all - So I just ran into the changes lately from letsencrpt. certbot-auto is no longer available. I added this to httpd.conf ServerName mydomain service httpd restart When I do "certbot -d mydomain" I get this : Domain: mydomain Type: unauthorized Detail: Invalid response from h

Re: [CentOS] letsencrypt error

2021-02-05 Thread Jerry Geis
*>>certbot-auto is no longer available. *>It still getting updates >https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/master/certbot-auto >>* Forbidden\n\nForbidden\nTry opening up your page in the browser to see what's going on. You might not setup your nginx/apache properly >http://mydomain/.well-known/a

Re: [CentOS] letsencrypt error

2021-02-05 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:44 AM Lamar Owen wrote: > On 2/5/21 7:49 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > *>>certbot-auto is no longer available. > > See https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html#id9 "We used to have a > shell script named certbot-auto to help people instal

Re: [CentOS] letsencrypt error

2021-02-05 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi Tony, Thanks for the suggestion https://github.com/srvrco/getssl was not aware of that. I got so close... It says it loaded the certificate the files are there - I edited /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf and set the two paths to the right file. restrated httpd - all seemed good - but when I goto my s

[CentOS] Using C7 as host to C5 guest

2021-02-17 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I am using C7 as a host to a C5 image. This used to boot. I tried today to boot up the C5 image and it get stuck now on the boot screen. Any thoughts on why ? It stuck on the screen that shows root (hd0,0) Filesystem type ext2fs partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.16.18-402.el5 T

[CentOS] Date question

2021-02-17 Thread Jerry Geis
SO from the man page on date I can do current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date` echo $current current=`TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date ` echo $current And I get correct data. LA is 3 hours earlier. But doing this: current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date +%s` echo $current current=`TZ=":America/

Re: [CentOS] Date question

2021-02-18 Thread Jerry Geis
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 1:57 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > SO from the man page on date I can do > > current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date` > echo $current > current=`TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date ` > echo $current > > And I get correct data. LA is 3 hou

[CentOS] e2fsck but says mounted and cannot

2021-02-24 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a system that needs to run e2fsck (C7). I boot into rescue mode, skip to shell (option 3). enter they PW and I type: e2fsck -y /dev/sda1 and it says is mounted. This is "/" What do I do so I can run e2fsck ? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing lis

[CentOS] Tar of files

2021-03-03 Thread Jerry Geis
When I "tar" up an archive the files have an owner bob, when I extract that to another machine bob is there also but user number is different. So when I extract bob is no longer the owner of the files but someone else. Is there a good way to account for this ? User ID on one box being different to

[CentOS] nmcli

2021-03-30 Thread Jerry Geis
under CentOS 7 - I use "alias" like eth1:0 for an alias network. Remove the file restart network - and back to normal. Now I am trying to us NetworkManager. I can 'add' the network fine. however - when I remove the network nmcli connection delete "Wired connection 2" ipv4.addr 192.168.1.58/22 it

Re: [CentOS] nmcli

2021-03-31 Thread Jerry Geis
Chris, On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 4:41 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > under CentOS 7 - I use "alias" like eth1:0 for an alias network. Remove > the file restart network - and back to normal. Now I am trying to us > NetworkManager. > > I can 'add' the network fine.

[CentOS] Migrating to nvme and expand

2021-03-31 Thread Jerry Geis
I have older SATA disks (2 of them size 2T) in a software raid config running CentOS 7. /dev/md127 is / and xfs /dev/sda2 is swap /dev/md126 is /home and xfs I desire to get a new (single) NVME 4T disk. What is the correct way to copy the software raid to a single "new" NVME disk ? then expand t

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to nvme and expand

2021-03-31 Thread Jerry Geis
> Are you using the MD devices as Physical Volumes ?If ues, then create a PV from that NVME and then pvmove. >Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov more /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md126 : active raid1 sdb3[2] sda3[0] 1866465280 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 4/14 pages [16KB], 6

[CentOS] getssl was working stopped

2021-05-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All - I am using getssl on CentOS 7. It have been working fine since Feb 17th and just stopped. My script: getssl -u -a -q getssl: for some reason could not reach http://MY_NAME/.well-known/acme-challenge/lL_ublhWh3fnmbXhhh3BR3bdnjHoMFAgTimTvZUTLQM - please check it manually So I did check i

Re: [CentOS] getssl was working stopped

2021-05-14 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:52 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi All - I am using getssl on CentOS 7. > It have been working fine since Feb 17th and just stopped. > > My script: > getssl -u -a -q > getssl: for some reason could not reach > http://MY_NAME/.well

Re: [CentOS] getssl was working stopped

2021-05-14 Thread Jerry Geis
CA="https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org"; This is what my file has also Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 7 getssl script

2021-05-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using the getssl script to add a certificate to my server. The script is automatically adding a SANS www.myserver.com when I do not have a www.myserver.com - just simply the myserver.com How can I tell getssl to "not add that SANS" entry ? Thanks, Jerry __

[CentOS] how do I get an OLD Version like 6.3

2021-07-26 Thread Jerry Geis
I need to example a really old version like 6.3. Where can I get a download for that ? Thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how do I get an OLD Version like 6.3

2021-07-26 Thread Jerry Geis
Sorry - I got it - the readme on the mirror wasnt showing... http://vault.centos.org/ On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 3:34 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > I need to example a really old version like 6.3. > Where can I get a download for that ? > > Than

[CentOS] Old CentOS 6.3 grub.conf

2021-07-28 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to "add" an entry to grub.conf on CentOS 6.3 - and change the default=0 to default=1 # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and

[CentOS] vinagre from Ubuntu to CentOS 7.9

2021-08-04 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to use vinagre (vncviewer type program) from Ubuntu 20.04 going to CentOS 7.9. I get prompted for the password. I enter it - then it says Authentication failed. I can connect with this program to other windows and Ubuntu machines no problem. Just having issue with CentOS. I can use

[CentOS] virt-manager and windows quest

2021-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get a windows guest on CentOS 7.9 to have more than 800x600 display. I started the Windows client, I downloaded Virtio 0.1.196.iso, went to the Device Manager, Display, right clicked - updated the driver - installed the qxldod driver, Rebooted. The Device Manager shows RedHat QXL C

[CentOS] kernel command line

2021-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to install on a NUC7C with 32G of eMMC showing up as /dev/sdb Is there a way I can tell the kernel boot line or command line to MASK /dev/sdb ? Make it look like it does not exist ? It has windows pre-installed - I dont want to mistake it. Thanks Jerry ___

Re: [CentOS] kernel command line

2021-08-05 Thread Jerry Geis
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:40 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to install on a NUC7C with 32G of eMMC showing up as /dev/sdb > Is there a way I can tell the kernel boot line or command line to MASK > /dev/sdb ? > Make it look like it does not exist ? It has windows pre-installe

[CentOS] dcfldd

2021-09-03 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all I did a "yum install dcfldd" on Centos7. I plugged in my USB HUb, plugged in 3 disks I want to duplicate Verified each disk plugged in run the command dcfldd if=myimg.img of=/dev/sdd of=/dev/sde of=/dev/sdf No errors no nothing, Said "writing" the whole time - when done it said 8248Mb Wri

Re: [CentOS] dcfldd

2021-09-03 Thread Jerry Geis
> Were the disks mounted when you wrote to them? Did you eject and >re-insert them after writing to them I do not have automount enabled. so no they were not mounted. After writing to them - I did "fdisk -l /dev/sdd" and the partitioning was still the same as before doing the write. Thanks, Je

[CentOS] ifconfig not showing virtual IP when using NetworkManager

2021-10-26 Thread Jerry Geis
When using NetworkManager instead of the ifcfg-eth1/eth0 files - I make a nmcli connection and modify "Wired connection 1" +ipv4.addr IP/22 kind of command - it works - which is great. It "adds" the virtual IP. However - when doing ifconfig that "virtual" IP does not show up. When using NetworkMa

[CentOS] Firewall question

2021-11-09 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi - When updating my CentOS 7 - firewalld why does the virt-manager loose connections to all GUI's ? I just close the virt-manager main window - select the virt-manager from gnome side panel and re-run - and then they all come back after you click on them - but why is the connection to the GUI lo

[CentOS] virt-manager

2021-12-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have centos 7 host, and a centos 5 guest. (both x86_64). If I reboot the host and run C5 guest the first time it boots and all is good. If I run other guests - or some time later - I boot C5 it does not boot. I get all the way to the "kernel alive" and direct mapping tables on screen - b

[CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell after update and reboot running at HZ not Mhz

2021-12-22 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a Dell R320 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 45 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2403 0 @ 1.80GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x71a cpu MHz : 176.550 Running this: cpupower frequency-set -g performance cpu MHz : 180.834 ONly changed to this. What on earth is makin

[CentOS] centos 7 sendmail on AWS

2022-06-01 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to get email out of AWS image to google on port 587. When I use telnet it connects - so 587 is a valid path... telnet smtp-relay.gmail.com 587 Trying 142.250.112.28... Connected to smtp-relay.gmail.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 smtp-relay.gmail.com ESMTP l15-20020a17090a150f00b00

[CentOS] Centos 7 guest on virt-manager

2022-06-03 Thread Jerry Geis
Hello - I am running Centos 7 virt-manager which I have used for years. Trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 as a guest. I have set up the CDRom - even disconnected and reset it - but it never boots the CDROM ??? Why ? It just defaults back to the OS that is already loaded. I'm confused. Why don't it

[CentOS] nodejs 18 on centos 7

2022-06-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I am currently running V14.19.3 of nodejs on Centos 7 I found this article: https://computingforgeeks.com/install-node-js-on-centos-rhel-rocky-linux/ to update to 18 I import the repo just fine. when I do : yum -y install nodejs I get : Package 2:nodejs-14.19.3-1nodesource.x86_64 already install

Re: [CentOS] nodejs 18 on centos 7

2022-06-17 Thread Jerry Geis
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 1:48 PM Jerry Geis wrote: > I am currently running V14.19.3 of nodejs on Centos 7 > > I found this article: > https://computingforgeeks.com/install-node-js-on-centos-rhel-rocky-linux/ > to update to 18 > > I import the repo just fine. > when I do :

[CentOS] Make copy of CentOS 7

2022-08-20 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a software raid 1 (2 disks) of CentOS 7 I want to make a working "copy" of this setup to another disk of the same size to another SSD and have it be bootable etc... Then edit something to turn off the RAID part as its only 1 disk. Or Run with the 1 disk and it will just think the second dis

[CentOS] Microsoft deprecation of basic authentication centos 7

2022-10-14 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi All I have a server out there running centos 7. I installed fetchmail to monitor an email inbox - has worked for years. Microsoft deprecated basic authentication so fetchmail is not working any more. Anyone else run into this ? fetchmail 6 does not support oauth. Any thoughts on how to update

Re: [CentOS] Microsoft deprecation of basic authentication centos 7

2022-10-17 Thread Jerry Geis
> Consider looking at a generic proxy like https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy this is very interesting... I did the following: yum install python3 downloaded teh above yum install python3-pip pip-3 install --upgrade pip ran the requirements - it install crypto and stuff. change the con

[CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Jerry Geis
Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have a local user account call "panel" on a machine. When I use the mail command to manually send email to the panel account it over 1 minute until that mail actually deposited in the mail account. What setting is that reduces this time? I changed /etc/sysconfig/sendmail the QUEUE=10s

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
> > My guess would be a resolving problem also. > Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. > Check your /etc/hosts file > Dan > My /etc/hosts file is only has the "nameserver x.x.x.x" entry. the /var/log/maillog shows the entry right away when "mail" on the command line is done. Again, t

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
> > Jerry Geis wrote: > >>/ My guess would be a resolving problem also. > />>/ Its usually what causes sendmail to slow down. > />>/ Check your /etc/hosts file > />>/ Dan > />>/ > />/ My /etc/hosts file is only has the "names

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
> > >/ > />>/ That's a few DNS timeouts. > />>/ > />>>/ / I have 127.0.0.1 localhost in the /etc/hosts file. > />>/ />/ > />>/ />/ Very odd, any thoughts? > />>/ / > />>/ Are you mailing to localhost? > />>/ > />/ I tried: > />/ mail panel > />/ mail panel at localhost

Re: [CentOS] sendmail question

2009-10-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Brent L. Bates wrote: > It is not odd. You just refuse to listen to those trying to help. How > many times do they have to say `Check your DNS'? > > Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it has a line like this: > > hosts:files dns > > `files' comes FIRST and `dns'

[CentOS] /etc/aliases file wildcard

2009-10-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have been trying to find out if the /etc/aliases file can accept wildcards in the user name I was hoping that a line like or similiar: machine*: myaccount would take any name matching machine* and forward onto the myaccount mailbox. man aliases didnt really help me nor did I find anything el

[CentOS] ata errors from dmesg

2009-10-29 Thread Jerry Geis
dmesg is reporting ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/10 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/14/00 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound } My HD disk is on /dev/sda1 so I presume this is errors from the CDROM. Is there a command I can use to not do anything

[CentOS] loading a program in memory for faster startup

2009-10-31 Thread Jerry Geis
After searching for a way to load a program in memory for fast start time I found preload.sourceforge.net I then kept looking and found CentOS 5 has readahead_early and readahead_later. I have (2) questions. 1) the /etc/readahead.d/default.later file has firefox 1.5 preloads mentioned. That se

Re: [CentOS] loading a program in memory for faster startup

2009-11-01 Thread Jerry Geis
> more /etc/readahead.d/impress.later > /usr/bin/soffice > /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin I created the above file /etc/readahead.d/impress.later Put in it the two lines above. The /etc/init.d/readahead_later script takes any file name *.later so I made a new file instead of editing /e

[CentOS] kernel panic on 4.8 i686

2009-11-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I am getting the following kernel panic: 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL #1 Tue Nov 3 17:15:02 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This system has ran fine for 2 years+. Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Call Trace: Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [] wake_up_page+0x9/0x29 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [] do_no_page+0x37d/0x3f4 Nov

[CentOS] where is tunctl

2009-11-25 Thread Jerry Geis
I am following directions in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM#head-c02a0b33e7949b0bc3b151ac6e0bdfb91b6bbd1c it says do yum install bridge-utils - works fine, they yum install tunctl does not find anything. yum provides "*/tunctl" does not find anything I am using 5.4 x86_64. Is this howto out o

[CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, Is it possible to take the 686 CentOS 5, install that in virtual machine, install a custom kernel that is the 486 flavor, take that image and put it on a 8G CF card - insert that into a small form factor 486 class machine and have that work? I am hoping the extra instructions in a 686 (M

Re: [CentOS] 486 custom kernel

2009-12-08 Thread Jerry Geis
> > It may be one way to do it, but that is not how xen or kvm are > ordinarily set up under CentOS -- qemu has (had) the hooks to > simulate the missing opcodes of some arch's, but at a > performance penalty > if there is a way to "simulate" missing opcodes in the kernel - that would be grea

[CentOS] donations

2009-12-23 Thread Jerry Geis
The donation page does not seem up to date: *Monetary* CentOS is currently reviewing our cash donation program. If you are looking to make a cash dontation to the CentOS Project, please check back here after August 15th, 2009. I sent an email to the webmaster but did not get a reply. I thoug

[CentOS] trying to get lm_sensorts to work

2009-12-31 Thread Jerry Geis
hi all, I am trying to get lm_sensors to work. did the yum install lm_sensors service lm_sensors start sensor -s and it says no sensors found. did lsmod | grep it87 and it87 57061 0 hwmon_vid 35905 1 it87 hwmon 36553 1 it87 i2c_isa

[CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more servers messes things up

2010-01-01 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I had one server running centos 4.7 i686 everything was fine with incoming mail. I now added two more servers centos 5.4 x86_64 and gave them machine names all part of the same domain as machine 1. I noticed that incoming emails are being round robined to all three machines. At this

Re: [CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more servers messes things up

2010-01-01 Thread Jerry Geis
the message. > > - Rick > > Original Message > >> Date: Friday, January 01, 2010 02:27:12 PM -0500 >> From: Jerry Geis >> To: CentOS ML >> Subject: [CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more >> > servers

Re: [CentOS] one server handled sendmail added two more servers messes things up

2010-01-01 Thread Jerry Geis
MAIL_HUB does the trick - thanks that was what I was looking for. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] 5.2 to 5.4

2010-01-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to update x86_64 from 5.2 to 5.4 I am trying to update glibc first (before yum -y upgrade) with the command yum update glibc glib-devel glibc-headers gives me the following: package glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.5-24.el5._2.2 this, is not available package glibc-devel needs gl

[CentOS] question on virtual desktops

2010-01-28 Thread Jerry Geis
centos has the 4 virtual desktops by default. if I have a terminal window open in desktop 1 is there a command I can execute (type in) to switch to desktop 2? The mouse will not be attached at this point and I want to switch views using a command line. How do I do that? Thanks, Jerry ___

[CentOS] perl question

2010-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to run a perl script that said it needs Net::SMPP I ran this: your_host]# *perl -MCPAN -e shell* cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76) ReadLine support enabled cpan> *install Net::SNMP seemed to work. no errors reported. however when I run perl I still get th

Re: [CentOS] perl question

2010-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
> > Ouch dude, you just broke your server. Try to yum update anything perl > related in the future:) > > >/What else do I need? > / > First, install SMPP, not SNMP? > > Second, use a repo, use span2rpm... Then force the rpm in I guess to bring > the rpm db > into a blissfully ignorant, but happy s

[CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry Geis
I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From: SIZE=56 auth=r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the 60 second delay. Neither email server is busy. Nothing is waiting. the DNS on

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Jerry Geis
> > >>/ date | mail -v -v -v -v geisj at pagestation.com > >> > />/ geisj at pagestation.com... > > />>/ Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay... 220 devcentos5x64.msgnet.com > />>/ ESMTP Sendmail 8.

[CentOS] logging items to the console using centos 5.1

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I need to (occasionally) automatically drop out of X11 mode, recompile something, and then reboot. I can drop out of X11 with "init 3", works fine. I use "chvt 1" to ensure I am on virtual terminal 1 My recompile and reboot also work. The piece that doesnt work is: make | tee $LOGFILE I was e

[CentOS] yum update did not complete

2008-04-14 Thread Jerry Geis
I was doing a yum update today. It downloaded all the packages. was doing the next part and my remote connection was lost. so ssh session was killed. When I logged back in I am not sure if the update is done or not. I presume not. I presume it died with my remote session. I do a yum update now

[CentOS] howto use kvm-amd on centos 5.1

2008-04-18 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there a way to use kvm-amd on centos 5.1? I dont want to mess with XEN. I want the hardware virtualization that is on my AMD chip. I played with putting 2.6.24 and centos 5.1 on my AMD laptop, got kvm-amd and that works. However I want to put this on my desktop that is running 2.6.18-53.1.

[CentOS] xinetd question

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using centos 5.1 x86_64 I am wanting to restart xinetd when I do "service xinetd restart" it says xinetd unrecognized service when I do "/etc/init.d/xinetd restart" I get no such file or directory. How does one restart xinetd? THanks, Jerry _

[CentOS] Re: xinetd question

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: I am using centos 5.1 x86_64 I am wanting to restart xinetd when I do "service xinetd restart" it says xinetd unrecognized service when I do "/etc/init.d/xinetd restart" I get no such file or directory. How does one restart xinetd? THanks, Jerry

[CentOS] alias for network on centos 4

2008-04-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I was playing with network alias on centos 4 - i386. When I activated the alias ifconfig showed the correct eth1:0 information However I was not able to ping the address Tried service network stop and start still not able to ping the address. After rebooting everything seems to be normal

[CentOS] kickstart question

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry Geis
I have a couple lines like: part / --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary part /home --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=1 --asprimary --grow in my kickstart file. Is there a way to have 1 kickstart file that work

[CentOS] Re: kickstart question

2008-04-30 Thread Jerry Geis
/ I have a couple lines like: />/ />/ part / --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=2 --asprimary />/ part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary />/ part /home --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=1 --asprimary --grow />/ />/ in my kickstart file. />/ />/ Is there a way to

[CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

2008-05-02 Thread Jerry Geis
I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 rpm -Uvh --nodeps

[CentOS] has something happened to grep

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, when I do a "grep JERRY *.h" nothing is returned which is what I expect. This is in my source directory... when I do a "grep JERRY *" every file is returned an a line printed even though there is no JERRY on the line. Then if I do a "grep JERRY *.c" just the 4 lines that have JERRY are

[CentOS] Re: has something happened to grep

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: >/ Hi all, />/ />/ when I do a "grep JERRY *.h" nothing is returned which is what I expect. />/ This is in my source directory... />/ when I do a "grep JERRY *" every file is returned an a line printed even />/ though there is no JERRY

[CentOS] Re: has something happened to grep

2008-05-16 Thread Jerry Geis
>/ I tried rm *f and it is not removing it. No what? /rm -- -f THanks that removed the file and grep now has the correct behavior. Somehow the VIM start screen is in the -f file... Not sure how that happened but glad its gone. Have a great day all! Jerry _

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