Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No dice. The entire /var dir is less than 120 megs, and there are no large > logs. Okay, lets back up a bit here, because nagios is definitely not the easiest of applications. Dag/RPMForge maintain rpm packages for nagios, which e

Re: [CentOS] Yum update fails

2007-11-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On Nov 15, 2007 2:43 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I updated my centos 4.5 server to centos last week and I am now getting > errors when I attempt to do a yum update > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 313, in This line right here looks very suspicious to me, as

Re: [CentOS] Remastering CentOS

2007-11-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Nov 20, 2007 7:19 AM, Mas'ud Ulum(R) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone can help me about remastering CentOS. i try to remaster it. but > i cannot get rpm so my ISO is only bootable disk. Why are you looking to re-master the centos install media? Is there something missing tha

Re: [CentOS] system-config-network on 5.1

2007-12-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 3, 2007 2:27 PM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like there are NO command line options on system-config-network. > > Like -d eth0 > or -d eth1 > > I used those alot when 2 network cards are in a box. > > Can netconfig be brought back to life? > Can I just install the one from

Re: [CentOS] Can't build CentOS 5.1 kernel from source

2007-12-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 3, 2007 9:18 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS: I know I could build that as a module, but that shouldn't make the > kernel build fail Are you using an otherwise clean build environment? Does rebuilding the src.rpm (without unpacking, just providing the target) work? -- During

Re: [CentOS] Help to restore mysql data on CentOS 5

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 4, 2007 6:11 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mysqldump -u root -p databasename > database.txt You might also want to use -Qc, so that you quote the data and do complete inserts. This depends mostly on the version of mysql that you're running, which I didn't see in you

Re: [CentOS] Download of updates

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 4, 2007 1:45 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have noticed that Fedora updates with "yum update" often runs into 500+MB > of downloads. > > I would like to know from the members of this list as to how much should a > CentOs update size would be if I do

Re: [CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 4, 2007 1:12 PM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a > question: > > Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other > words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to enable RPMForg

Re: [CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 4, 2007 2:51 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 11:01 AM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > EPEL has stated that playing nicely with other repos is not a goal of > > theirs. I would consider them a 'single source' r

Re: [CentOS] binary upgrade 5.0 to 5.1?

2007-12-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 5, 2007 8:48 AM, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've googled for this but haven't found an answer. I've got a 5.0 box > that i'd like to take to 5.1. I believe this is possible as i did an upgrade > from 4.x to 5.0 but can't remember what i did. Ideally i'd like to avoid any > downti

Re: [CentOS] A few questions about remastering

2007-12-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On Dec 6, 2007 9:46 AM, Mário Gamito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that Prof. Dan Bernstein has put his software in public domain, I'd > like to create a distro based on CentOS that installs a complete email > server. Centos comes with multiple fully functional and RFC/LSB compliant email ser

Re: [CentOS] anyone using a webcam on centos 4 /5

2007-06-13 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/13/07, Dave Augustus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use a Logitech 4000 on Centos 4. ditto here. Works quite well on centos 5 also. The only issue I've ever had was that this camera didn't like going through my usb hub. Other than that it runs flawlessly. -- During times of universal dece

Re: [CentOS] help me

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/14/07, qsm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi guys... somebody can tell me how to export data from access to mysql. Off hand I'd guess that the easiest way would be via comma separated export from access. then import that into mysql via a structure you created there to match the access junk.

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing improved here and wait for 3.0? (well I have not even had a chance to look at Thunderbird 2.0, that is new)? Actually, Fire

Re: [CentOS] installed centos date & time

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/15/07, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi list, is there a command to find out the date & time that centos installed? rpm -qa --last | tail -n 1 This will give you the first package installed and the time it was installed, which should be the date the system was stood up. -- Durin

Re: [CentOS] GUI Login Screen for CentOS 5

2007-06-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/18/07, Mark Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed CentOS using the option for a GUI Server with GRUB and GNOME. When it boots it stops at a text login screen, which is not desirable in our setup. I want it to start at the GUI login screen and not have to press 'Ctrl Alt F7' to bri

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)

2007-06-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/18/07, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:00 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote: > Anyone run into this? I was planning to upgrade the box to CentOS > 5 next month but I may do it sooner if it will fix this. I just did an upgrade on a CentOS 4 server, and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 Repo errors

2007-06-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/18/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kbs-CentOS-Misc http://centos.karan.org/el5/misc/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: --> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Doesn't exist. Extras is there. You'll note that http://centos.karan.org makes no mention at all of the Mi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 Repo errors

2007-06-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/18/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't exist. Extras is there. You'll note that > http://centos.karan.org makes no mention at all of the Misc repo. Just > because it was there for c4 doesn't mean it'll be there for c5. Well it says: " On CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 ( yum v

Re: [CentOS] Problem with yum after upgrading from 4.5 to 5.0

2007-06-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/20/07, Thomas Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Have pretty much figured out I can't use plugins since upgrading. If I use yum update --noplugins to get the updates for 5.0, I get: That's an UGLY upgrade because of python-elementree conflicts and a few other pieces. I really would

Re: [CentOS] Exe file size is chaning during runtime

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have observed the exe file size getting changed during run time of the system in CentOS. Yep. that's normal. We are not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. Prelink. Basically there's a cron job that r

Re: [CentOS] Exe file size is chaning during runtime

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/21/07, Peter Kjellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also related, rpm -V "sees past" prelink stuff and is able to verify files even with prelink enabled. (if I remember correctly...) Yep, that's correct. chkrootkit has issues doing this, but there's a patch which can be applied to make it s

Re: [CentOS] How to build clamav SRPM and RPM with calmav tarbal - CentOS 5

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/25/07, Indunil Jayasooriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed it fro Dag. But it gace erros. Then I desabled selinux. Then , It worked. But i do not want to leave selinux disabled. That's why. I am trying to build it. Rebuilding the code won't solve the problem. You'll have to modify

Re: [CentOS] rpmrebuild or rpmbuild question

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/23/07, centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have compiled php on a server, but want to upgrade and recompile it with new features. is rpmbuild or rpmrebuild capable of compiling or adding these new features ? Your terms are confusing. Did you install php the first time via rpm? If so, that

Re: [CentOS] How to build clamav SRPM and RPM with calmav tarbal - CentOS 5

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/25/07, Daniel de Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make your own policy modules for local policy (you could create a start with command (2)), but add and check rules and contexts manually. audit2allow is a nice tool to see what was denied, but its output should not be copied verbatim. Eh, ca

Re: [CentOS] rpmrebuild or rpmbuild question

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/25/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: php was compiled on server, by running ./configure but now I want to find an easy way to upgrade php, without compiling it again. like runing rpmrebuild and just add those options that i need. RPM won't help you with this. The only way you could u

Re: [CentOS] Vsftpd problem

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/26/07, Tony Molloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this a permissions problem or does vsftpd not allow separate filesystems to be seen. Have you looked in the log files for errors? Are you using selinux? If you're using selinux, you'll have to adjust the contexts so that vsftpd has access t

Re: [CentOS] empty /var/log/messages

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/26/07, beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. Is this an actual 4.0 system, or have you stayed current on updates? Run 'cat /etc/redhat-release' to verify

Re: [CentOS] upgrade aspell , glibc and glibc-common

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Is there any glibc-2.6 rpm available for centos 4.4. No. glibc is pretty core to the system, and upgrading it would likely require a massive rebuild of most other system packages. Upgrading glibc is a 'bad idea' How were you attempting to up

Re: [CentOS] upgrade aspell , glibc and glibc-common

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, the version of aspell that I need to upgrade to is only built for contos 5 and I think that is the reason I get that error. it seems that aspell-0.6 is not compiled for centos4 which was strange. You can't jump distributions like this. If you

Re: [CentOS] missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On CentOS, I am trying to "yum install nagios" (after adding the rpmforge repository), but every time I run it, I get this message, and am not sure quite what to do. What version of centos are you running? -- During times of universal deceit, telling t

Re: [CentOS] missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, O. T. Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of centos are you running? looks like version 5: ---> Package nagios.i386 0:2.9-1.el5.rf set to be updated Looks can be decieving. It's an el5 nagios package, however I suspect he's trying to install it on an el4 system. This i

Re: [CentOS] missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 4.5 Well there's yer problem! I'm wondering if I might have problems b/c I used rpmforge in addition to the other repositories... Actually your issue is a little more basic than that. You're attempting to install a nagios package which was built for

Re: [CentOS] missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I actually ran 'yum install update' and 'yum install upgrade' after adding that the CentOS 5 rpmforge (instead of the CentOS 5 rpmforge). really, you should only run 'yum update' or 'yum upgrade'. You're mixing yum commands when you tell it to install

Re: [CentOS] BIOS upgrade side effects

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, Ted Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any possible undesirable effects of a BIOS upgrade? The worst I can think of is something that would change my SATA drives from being mapped as SCSI to being mapped as IDE. Well, depending on the type of hardware, the worst-case scena

Re: [CentOS] BIOS upgrade side effects

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/27/07, Ted Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any possible undesirable effects of a BIOS upgrade? The worst I can think of is something that would change my SATA drives from being mapped as SCSI to being mapped as IDE. Also, you don't need windows or floppy disks for this anymore

Re: [CentOS] upgrade aspell , glibc and glibc-common

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/28/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: one more question, I couldn't find aspell srpm from centos , I have downloaded srpm from rpm.phone.net, Make sure you match your distribution when you do this. but I got following error: rpm -i aspell-0.60.3-7.1.src.rpm error: open of failed: No

Re: [CentOS] missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/28/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I then followed the CentOS 4 instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge but "yum install nagios" gives me the following error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# yum install nagios Loading "protectbase" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting

Re: [CentOS] missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/28/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where might I find good info on these repositories, particularly how well they've been tested and the reputations of their QA'ing process? Basically dag *is* the rpmforge repository, along with a few other packagers. If you're using rpmforge, you're a

Re: [CentOS] [yum] new problem with columns width output (parsing)

2007-06-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On 6/29/07, Martin Hamant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This time, this is really a problem with the width of the version string, take a look: (centos 3!) httpd.i386 2.0.52-32.2.ent.centos update httpd-suexec.i3862.0.52-32.2.ent.centos update k

Re: [CentOS] Is BIND In CentOS 5.0 Broken?

2007-07-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/1/07, Eduardo Dela Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, After the completing the installation, I wanted to configure my DNS server but it seemed that /etc/named.conf and other stuffs in /var/named/chroot/var/named directory are not there (i.e., *.zone, *.local, etc). This is not a 'bug

Re: [CentOS] Is BIND In CentOS 5.0 Broken?

2007-07-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/1/07, Eduardo Dela Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, Jim; much appreciated :) No problem. This one has been getting asked quite a bit as you can imagine. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ___

Re: [CentOS] custom SELinux?

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, I need to tell SELinux "hey, this stuff under /home/foobar/spool/cyrus is just like /var/spool/cyrus, don't relabel it to something else". How do I achieve that? Re-write the policies. keeping this stuff in /home is bad. leave it in /var

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 32-bit vs 64-bit question

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing, so far, is producing a custom banner prior to login. Is this an issue with CentOS 5, an issue with the 64-bit version, or something else I need to learn? Depends on where you want the banner. For display before anyone enters any inf

[CentOS] Pam Stuff (was: Centos 5 32-bit vs 64-bit question)

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, onto PAM - /etc/pam.d/blah.conf claims in the header comments that the file is autogenerated and any edits will be lost. So what is the proper way to make changes that WILL stick? What changes are you looking to make? Most times the pa

Re: [CentOS] PHP question on CentOS

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm installing NagiosQL, and it's not displaying the http://mybox.com/nagiosql/index.php page, so I suspect that PHP isn't working correctly. Okay. Let's start small then. 1. Do you have php installed? 2. Do you have php-mysql and the othe

Re: [CentOS] PHP question on CentOS

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Wed Jun 27 13:58:30 2007] [error] [client 10.200.200.54] File does not exist: /var/www/html/nagiosql [Wed Jun 27 14:04:51 2007] [error] [client 10.200.200.54] File does not exist: /var/www/html/nagiosql This is your problem right here. Si

Re: [CentOS] PHP question on CentOS

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the files/directories should be readable by the user that your apache > process is running as, but not owned or writable by it. Okay, that's reasonable. So, does that mean (something like) the following? chmod 600 /var/www/html/nagiosQ

Re: [CentOS] PHP question on CentOS

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/2/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # chown nagios.www /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd Replace www with apache, and the /usr/local/foo with path to nagios.cmd # chmod 660 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd I do a "locate nagios.cmd", and it turns up nothing. I wasn'

Re: [CentOS] best way to upgrade php4 -> php5 on CentOS?

2007-07-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/3/07, Rogelio Bastardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the best way to upgrade PHP4 to PHP5 on CentOS? I see from "rpm -qa" that I'm running PHP-4.3.9. php5 is not part of the base distribution for centos4. You can upgrade to centos5, which is more current in terms of software versioni

Re: [CentOS] alternate port for vsftp

2007-07-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/3/07, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't start the daemon. Running /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd status shows "vsftpd dead but subsys locked". This occurs each and every time unless I remove listen_port= from the conf file and let the daemon use port 21. Are you using selinux? I

Re: [CentOS] alternate port for vsftp

2007-07-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/3/07, Steve Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No need to create a local policy, use semanage. (The types that you will want are ftp_port_t and/or ftp_data_port_t.) Yep, he did say he was on c5 didn't he. Missed that part. Still stuck in c4 world -- During times of universal decei

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.4 hangs after yum update

2007-07-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/3/07, Neil Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any ideas what happened? It broke. If you were running 4.4, you got a fairly major upgrade to 4.5. You should have seen a couple dozen packages in the list. It's possible that something in the new 4.5 kernel didn't like your system. Do you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Booting halts when loading UHCI

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/5/07, Bisbal, Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using kernel 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5xen. I can't remember when I last ran 'yum update', but I know the system did boot at one time without any problems. Any ideas? Do you need the xen kernel for virtualization? You may get different results

Re: [CentOS] 4 or 5 for VMware server?

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/5/07, WipeOut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am soon going to be setting up a box to run VMware server but have to make the choice between Centos 4.x or 5.x.. I have tested both and VMware installs in both.. So are there any pros or cons to either version or does it make no difference at all?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Booting halts when loading UHCI

2007-07-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/5/07, Bisbal, Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The whole reason I installed CentOS 5 was so I could learn RHEL's virtualization, so yes - I do need the xen kernel Settles that one then :-P You may need to add a boot option to the kernel, such as noapci, noapic, or acpi=ht You can fin

Re: [CentOS] yum groupinstall everything

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/6/07, Robert - eLists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have seen people on the list say you can yum groupinstall everything yet when I tried their method, it didn't work This works in theory but not in practice, as not all packages belong to groups. Is there actually a way other than making

Re: [CentOS] Legacy PTY Support ?

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/6/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am looking at T38Modem. A relatively new version is ready for someone to build an rpm for (Mar '07). But the readme warns: Q. I try to use T38modem, but after run "t38modem -p ttyx0" I get a message "Could not open /dev/ptyx0: No such

Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On 7/6/07, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, you probably have two out of three now. 66% success is not bad in this life! :-) Maybe for public school folks... around here that's a low D, and I expect better from the CentOS community dammit! /sorry, couldn't resist... //I'm a

Re: [CentOS] Heads up: Bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 upcoming

2011-04-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi, > > Reading > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939&forum=37 I > noticed a warning about an upcoming bugged update > xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 Have you tested these updates to see if you h

Re: [CentOS] Teo En Ming's Learning Achievements on 14 August 2020 Friday

2020-08-15 Thread Jim Perrin
that the base license for Cisco ASA 5506-X Firewall >> only allows >> > > this has NOTHING to do with CentOS, and is way off topic here. > > I suggest you post things like this on a personal blog, or facebook, or > something ... and don't bother t

Re: [CentOS] how to run CentOS 8.2 under new WSL2?

2020-08-18 Thread Jim Perrin
has actually done this with CentOS 8.2 and WSL2 and has it > working swimingly, please reply, would love to get this up and running for > a higher level of productivity, scripting and automation on my Windows dev > box. > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentO

Re: [CentOS] How to Migrate Wordpress Website from 32-bit CentOS Linux 6.3 to 64-bit CentOS Linux 8.2 (2004)

2020-08-31 Thread Jim Perrin
rg/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. > 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Re: [CentOS] linux/magic.h

2009-10-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:58 AM, hce wrote: > I had following errors while I was compiling VLC 1.0.2 on CentOS 5.2: Why not use a repository like rpmforge which provides vlc in a nice shiny prebuilt rpm? Also, are you really still on 5.2? If so, you should very much consider updating via yum up

Re: [CentOS] anyone tried firefox 3.5 under centos 5.4

2009-10-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: Works fine for me using rpms (rebuilt from the src.rpms) on http://mharris.ca/ They're basically slightly altered fedora rpms. You have to read the spec to see the build arguments required, but they work fine. -- During times of universal d

Re: [CentOS] On-Boot Scripts

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > I'm a bit rusty. It's been a couple of years since I've run my own server, > and I don't know this OS. And as we all know, each OS is different. I'm > trying to install scripts I wrote years ago to do my MySQL backups. While this list exis

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of > course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a given > user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please advise. Pleas

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Jim Perrin
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Ok. It's "the law". Now, what is the __logic__ behind not top post

Re: [CentOS] On-Boot Scripts

2009-11-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Man, Scott, you've hit it on the head! Gotta be honest. My name isn't > "Victor Subervi". I've changed names on these lists so many times just to > escape all the *#*%)+_& people throw at me, and I'll be changing names again > after this po

Re: [CentOS] php config security concern for c5

2009-11-17 Thread Jim Perrin
> i have reported this upstream.  hopefully they will see it as a problem > and address it. For those of you who are interested, the upstream bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537535 Please comment as appropriate. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes

Re: [CentOS] format level 3 prompt

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Isn't Mike (the OP) asking about PS3 rather than PS1 ? I interpreted his question to be asking about PS1 at runlevel 3, but it was a bit hazy given the terminology used. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a r

Re: [CentOS] my local mirror stopped working

2009-11-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > rsync  -avSHP --delete --exclude "local*" --exclude "isos" > rsync://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/5.3/ > /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/ This is your issue. Your rsync command calls the minor version specifically, which can be a bad thing.

Re: [CentOS] crontab problem

2009-11-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Susan Day wrote: > Hi; > I have the following in crontab -eu root: > @daily /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup- > daily.sh > @weekly /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup-weekly.sh > @monthly /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup-monthly.sh > > [r...@13gems globalsolutionsgroup.vi]# ls /usr/

Re: [CentOS] What's wrong with yum-priorities?

2009-11-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > "The upstream maintainer of yum, Seth Vidal, had the following to say > about 'yum priorities' in September 2009: > > Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many things > about priorities that make me cringe all over. I

Re: [CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

2009-11-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/24/2009 10:19 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> http://www.seoexpertconsultants.com/index.php?linux&release=Scientific%205.1 >> >> So no way to decide from screenshots what they run... > > We can always ask :) atleast some of their admin peo

Re: [CentOS] Bnid Dynamic Update not returnnig latest update

2009-11-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have a zone that has several hosts update their ip with Dynamic DNS updates. > This morning a client had updated its ip, but bind wasn't returning the new ip > when queried until I restarted the daemon? > > Google hasn't yielded anything

Re: [CentOS] Repository for clean and safe installation of python2.6 (and other python-software)

2009-11-30 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > a) clean: in other words it should be a RPM > b) safe: it should not remove the system-python (in order not to break >   the system-scripts in subtle ways) but be accessible for >   instance as python2.6 (while python would still be py

Re: [CentOS] Repository for clean and safe installation of python2.6 (and other python-software)

2009-11-30 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > I understand. But if I GET a dog I can hold you resonsible? ;) If it's a great dane, then you can hold my dog responsible. I claim innocence at all times. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionar

Re: [CentOS] Change system-wide default configuration for FF and OO with /etc/skel

2009-11-30 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Now where does this catwalksonthekeyboard.default directory come from? > What is it possibly good for? And, more interestingly, how can I put my > user preferences under /etc/skel/.mozilla so Firefox actually finds them > without me having to

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: I would imaging it's rather similar to this -> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20097 -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _

Re: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

2009-12-08 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Lars Hecking > wrote: > > I would imaging it's rather similar to this -> > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20097 Gah, lowsy spel chekc not pikcing up wah

Re: [CentOS] Cent5 SELinux impacts on home exports when restoring from older systems are?

2009-12-09 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Todd Denniston wrote: > I am finding http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux and > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-selinux.html of > mild use. This one's also rather useful -> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/SelinuxBooleans --

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess and ?

2009-12-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write .htaccess Rewrite rules and it doesn't seem to > work for me: > > Match the string between the domain and the question mark: ? > > http://www.abc.com/blog:long-name-of-page?action=diff and I want to > redirect it to: http://www

Re: [CentOS] mod_security

2009-12-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote: > I installed mod_security yesterday.  Unbelievable the amount of crap it will > stop in 24 hrs. > > Picked up the rpm at http://rpm.pbone.net Please be careful when doing this. It's very common (using irc support as a basis for evaluation) to

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:yum?

2009-12-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:58 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you very much for your kind contineous support . At last , I have yum > on my client . Now please run a 'yum update' as you have several packages with known, published security vulnerabilities including your kernel, and udev. Doing t

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.4 :: linux-2.6.32.2 compile error (via nano l2...@1600)

2010-01-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! I try to compile an vanilla kernel 2.6.32.2 on centos 5.4 and i have > this error : Out of curiosity, why are you rebuilding the kernel? Is there a driver you need which isn't supplied by the elrepo repository folks? -- During times

Re: [CentOS] cron job schedule problem

2010-01-07 Thread Jim Perrin
This was just recently 2010/1/7 mcclnx mcc : > We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL server.  there has a cron job supposedly should > run on 1st and 3rd week on Saturday but it run everyday.  anyone know what > wrong? This was just covered recently in another mail thread with loads of examples and techni

Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I need to ftp all of the files & folders of CentOS 5 server through WS_FTP . > But it just lets for /home/www user login , but not root user . As I want to > see and have all of  files , can you please let me know how can I raise t

Re: [CentOS] Securing http authentication from brute force attacks

2010-01-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > We have several web applications deployed under Apache that require > a user id / password authentication.  Some of these use htdigest and > others use the application itself. > > Recently we have experienced several brute force attacks aga

Re: [CentOS] /var/www/html/stats/index.php?

2010-01-16 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:29 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have installed an application on my CentOS 5.0 server but when I want to > login to the gui I got the following error message : > "Warning: make sure zend_optimizer.license_path is properly configured in > php.ini! in /var/www/ht

Re: [CentOS] /var/www/html/stats/index.php?

2010-01-16 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:10 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you for your reply . I checked my /etc/php.ini but all of the > parameters regarding zend* point to valid and existing folders on my CentOS > server . So where this error comes from ? Can you please give me a hint on > this ? Sure. I'

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle > enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm > curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be > any differences that woul

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 mysql build

2010-01-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > I wanted to enable blackhole  and CSV engine in the mysql server > so downloaded the SRPM from Centos Site, setup the rpmbuild envronment > with mighty help from the our own Russ's Owlriver website and tried > building it

Re: [CentOS] Too much cpu wait on nfs server when we need to read data on it

2010-01-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:39 AM, fabien faye wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big server with 24 Disk on 2 3ware card. Define 'big'. You're not giving much in terms of memory or cpu specs. > When i write data on my nfs server everything is fine but when i want to read > data i have a lot of cpu wait.

Re: [CentOS] Apache bandwidth limiting?

2010-02-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437046 seems to indicate it may be > part of RHEL5. But I do not see it there either. The package listed there is mod_bw and it's in the EPEL repository. -- During times of universal deceit, tel

Re: [CentOS] stunnel

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:40 PM, CentOS List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I had notice that my logwatch has a heap of stunneling like the one below. > Is there a security breech? Well, just stunnel by itself doesn't mean there's a breach, unless you never configured anything to u

Re: [CentOS] Can't get .htaccess to work

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Pam Astor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK I tried that and it still would not work, I am not prompted for > a username or password on the site I want to protect. > > Do I also need to add a new entry in httpd.conf or load a new apache > module? Not by default, no.

Re: [CentOS] Can't get .htaccess to work

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Pam Astor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For my httpd.conf, I have one main configuration file in /etc/httpd/conf > and for each virtual domain, I have individual > >www.mydomain.com.conf files with associated virtual host tags inside, and > located in /etc/httpd/co

Re: [CentOS] Can't get .htaccess to work

2008-04-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:16:54 -0400: > > > > > Jim, you forget that he's using .htaccess, the above cannot work there. He > has to leave that out. I didn't really

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