Re: [CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > You need the i586 kernel for the AMD K6 machines. Bad news is CentOS 5 > does not support it.  Good news is CentOS 4 supports it. > > Visit http://i586.centos.org/centos/4/ and you will find what is > required to boot your system.  Once booted,

Re: [CentOS] Simple web server with Apache: web page permissions ?

2009-09-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > Q: what permissions should I define for these pages? I'd say, the most restrictive permissions possible, that still allow your web application to function. I'm a bit more security conscious/paranoid than most though. There are an array

Re: [CentOS] installing 5.3 with 512M ram really slow

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed. > Does the same apply for running? > 5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall. "Minimum requirements" and "Usable system speed" aren't necessarily

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd logging to dhcpd.log only

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dan Carl wrote: > I've added this to my dhcpd.conf > log-facility local6; > and > added this to my syslog.conf > local6.*       /var/log/dhcpd.log > > It's still writing to dhcpd info to both log files. > How do I stop this. Add local6.none to the /var/log/message

Re: [CentOS] FreeNx doesn't work?

2010-08-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, gaohu wrote: > I have installed freenx with this article > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX > > but when I use freenx-client on windows to connect to server, > I always get an "freenx Authentication failed." You appear to have missed a step or configured th

Re: [CentOS] too many open files

2010-08-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am getting an error about to many open files. > I tried to "echo 50 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" > The number is there now, but I continue to get the error. > > Is there something else to do? Yes, providing detail. Tell us *what* exactly is

Re: [CentOS] securing a remotely hosted machine

2010-08-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > A short list of things that I tend to always do is : Decent list. I might also consider disabling vaious unused or unnecessary hardware kernel modules like usb-storage or other things that might lend themselves to snooping by remote hands

Re: [CentOS] tools one could to use to troubleshoot for Apache

2010-08-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Agnello George wrote: > Have a question , Suppose i had a client tell me that  he can access the web > page but it takes long time to view  the pages Ooh, a hypothetical client, who hypothetically is paying you to test hypotheticals?   the website is a static > w

Re: [CentOS] Question on installing .run file

2010-09-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Is expect and send not part of CentOS? Using which to check only works if you have it installed. You might consider using yum's provides feature since you appear to not have it already. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 live cd

2010-11-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Kindly please..Is the live CD  installable. No. There is a net-install function built into the loader for the livecd, but unfortunately it's not directly installable to disk. This should be possible for the CentOS 6 live CD when it is rel

Re: [CentOS] OT: Java down

2010-11-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Needs any java application direct access to sun? Yes. Depending on the application you're using, there are reasons why it would try to get to java.sun.com. Foe example, in tomcat6 on rhel6 (probably the same for centos5 and rhel 5 as we

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM behaviour: does yum/RPM overwrite a file modified by a user during an update ?

2010-11-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:52 AM, giggzounet wrote: > %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/ofed/openib.conf This is what a config file looks like in a spec file. See how it has %config at the beginning of the line, with the option of noreplace. This file is a config and will not be replaced as far a

Re: [CentOS] yum/RPM behaviour: does yum/RPM overwrite a file modified by a user during an update ?

2010-11-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, ken wrote: > rpm -Vv $package 2>&1|grep -e ^"  c" Or the slightly easier (and per the rpm documentation) rpm -qc packagename HTH -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ___

Re: [CentOS] tomcat errors starting after upgrade from cent5.3 to 5.5 (/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find)

2010-12-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Frank Even wrote: > Anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong here or where I might > look to figure out what's up?  Thanks! It looks like you might possibly have two separate java instances installed. you have the openjdk java shipped by centos, but there a

Re: [CentOS] tomcat errors starting after upgrade from cent5.3 to 5.5 (/rebuild-jar-repository: error: Could not find)

2010-12-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Frank Even wrote: > The thing that currently has me stumped is that it all blows up when I > upgrade the Tomcat package.  None of the configs have changed.  I can > update the base OS and it still all works fine.  Install Tomcat > package, errors.  How many diffe

Re: [CentOS] Reinstall python without yum

2011-01-13 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:28 AM, mattias wrote: > Are it possible? Short answer, no. > I tryed with a downloaded rpm but not working What rpms? These packages exist in epel and IUS repos and work just fine. > Only conflicts Such as? More detail would really help us to help you. -- During t

Re: [CentOS] Yum

2008-08-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Chris Brentano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, it should be there no matter what, even if you deselect all the package > groups on install. Should be at /usr/bin/yum. You'd think that, however there seems to be a growing (or at least their users are complaining m

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just my luck, > None of my CentOS systems or my Fedora systems can #yum groupinstall > "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"? > Both are having dep issues? Is that a coincidence, or what's going on? > > The CentO

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>There are two times when this becomes an issue. One is on x86_64 >>systems where build deps can cross architectures, and the other is >>when using systems like openvz/virtuozzo where the glibc is often >>replaced or oth

Re: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Scott Beardsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What's the point on this for us, CentOS users ? > > I'd like to know if CentOS has been affected by RH's compromise. Can someone > please comment? AFAIK, CentOS builds from RHEL SRPMs right? So as Rui > mentioned the scr

Re: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Paul Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see an announcement for the packages on the announce list, but no more > informamtion anywhere from the CentOS team (Planet or ML). Are these > packages "just to be safe" or was there something actually found? There's a

Re: [CentOS] Lies wide open ...!

2008-08-23 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:00 PM, ABBAS KHAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being as a Windows geek tho, I consider Linux as a more powerful server > operating system than Windows. When I saw OS comparison at > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/linux/server-security.mspx I > was shocked!

Re: [CentOS] apache

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Mad Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i did the following, created a startup script > [EMAIL PROTECTED] script]$ cat start_apache.sh > #!/bin/bash > ORACLE_BASE=/u01/oracle > ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/10g > ORACLE_SID=king > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib > LD_LIBRA

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-08-26 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Romeo Ninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about kernel-headers Rather than guessing, why not look at the output from the rpm command he ran, which gives the name of the package he's missing? Filipe nailed this one a little earlier in the thread with unifdef.x86

Re: [CentOS] loading modules across reboots

2008-08-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Gopinath Achari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > add an entry of that module in /etc/rc.sysinit > > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.x.x/drivers/kernel/net/modulename.o > > and it automatically loads the module during the reboot This is very much the WRONG place for this type

Re: [CentOS] loading modules across reboots

2008-08-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>You can do this in /etc/modprobe.conf (or /etc/modprobe.d) OR you can >>create an /etc/rc.modules (for legacy support) OR you can add your >>bits to /etc/sysconfig/modules/foo.modules. > > Jim, > I did assume modprobe.c

Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: [CentOS] Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I guess we're both old enough to fill in for JP when the resident >> > curmudgeon is not on-list. ;-) *checks for other folks on list with initials of JP* *checks driver's license for age verification* >> You c

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-08-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:58 AM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you win ;) -- I don't want to be older, and in my head, I'm still in my > twenties. Face it. Your golden buckeye card has a registration number of 1. you cannot escape this fact, no matter how much single-malt confusion y

Re: [CentOS] mysql

2008-09-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Mad Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to replicate MySQL DB of mulltiple server on SiteA to my DR-Site > Site_B... all DB > are alocated on RHEL,SuSE,Centos,Debian, FreeBSD servers. > I need a script to take Multiple MySql DataBase Backup and then import to >

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Server doesn't like new CentOS installation?

2008-09-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not officially supported. > I think 4.4 is the last supported version. > Install Server 2.0 or try the new ESXi directly... ESXi is limited in the hardware that it supports, and acts a bit like a firmware setup. It's

Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne Wilson <> scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:44 AM: > >> Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great >> many newbies, which is a real shame. > > Well said! (That's what I was

Re: [CentOS] Nagios 3 RPMs

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Geoff Galitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is anyone working on Nagios 3.x RPMs? If not, perhaps I'll whip some up and > submit them to some appropriate repository. There are a couple working nagios3 spec files that were passed around on the rpmforge mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] open(/dev/pts/0): No such file or directory

2008-09-10 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting this error just recently. Is this something to be concerned > with?? Running CentOS 5.2. Kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 CentOS 5.2 came with 2.6.18-92-x, not -53.x. I would use the -92.x kernel and see if that makes a diffe

Re: [CentOS] Centos Website

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Perrin
Thanks. We're aware and are working on it. Others might post more information. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Dan Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't connect, appears to be down. > Thought I'd post in case whoevers in charge is listening here. > > Dan >

Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL

2008-09-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Josh Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Horne wrote: > >> For rkhunter, as far as I can remember, the Fedora 8/9 packages are upto >> date, so you could download one of those from a mirror and install it. >> Personally, I install rkhunter from source, but yo

Re: [CentOS] "Treason uncloaked!"

2008-09-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:15 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > got a centos5.2 web/database server thats on a public coloc, its dmesg fills > up with > > > TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window > 354477433:354478918. Repaired. > TCP: Treason uncloaked! Pe

Re: [CentOS] "Treason uncloaked!"

2008-09-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, you can't. Those messages turn up in the kernel ring buffer (aka dmesg). I > don't find anything in the rsyslog (or rklogd) manual page on filtering or > redirecting those. > > I might be wrong, but ... It's entirel

Re: [CentOS] GUI FTP

2008-09-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Gopinath Achari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > upload and download to and from ftp server works fine when done done from > command prompt but not working from GUI ftp client Ex. Gftp. You might consider posting some logs from what you're doing so that we can see th

Re: [CentOS] GUI FTP

2008-09-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:29 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw, the log session you sent shows no signs of an 'upload', just a > directory listing. > ** It would appear that we may not have been specific enough when we asked for logs earlier. We probably should have specifed th

Re: [CentOS] Re: Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:25 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where, oh where, is Jim when we need him? Don't even think of trying to call me a voice of reason on this! While I am usually a fan of organization, and I do try on irc to keep things in their place, however in this case, I think a

Re: [CentOS] How can I free the disk space after compiling kernel

2008-10-16 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ian jonhson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have recompiled my kernel and updated it to kernel-2.6.27. > However, I found there are no more than 1G disk space left > for my jobs. Seriously? What size hard drive did you start out with, a 4G kit? > How can I

Re: [CentOS] Installer kernel config

2008-10-17 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ian Levesque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious where I can find the config for the kernel included with the > CentOS 5.2 x86_64 installer. I need to verify hardware compatibility > (especially ethernet and SATA) prior to making a purchase decision,

Re: [CentOS] replace

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Pintér Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perl -pi -e "s/foo/bar/" *.html You also have to give an extension to the command to get a backup. For this one it would basically be: perl -pi.old -e 's/foo/bar/' *.html... in addition to the no recursion thing --

Re: [CentOS] Question re RHEL 5.3

2008-10-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:01 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard now from more than one source about problems with CentOS > (and RH) at least up through 5.2 w.r.t. SATA drive handling, and I've > even reported on this myself in this list before. > > My question is, do we have any idea i

Re: [CentOS] OT: SA/Apache "Best Practice"?

2008-10-31 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Camron W. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What argument, if any, would you use to try and convince the customer > that this is a bad idea/bad practice? Well, it's entirely possible that on update, the permissions they set will be overridden since the httpd

Re: [CentOS] Yum loses memory when kernel is upgraded

2008-11-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Jussi Hirvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Centos 5.x > > Why could this be? After I loaded a xen kernel (by mistake), yum seemed to > lose its knowledge of my CentOS version. I had that fixed by "yum install > centos-release" (I had first to fix the repo addresses for

Re: [CentOS] Yum loses memory when kernel is upgraded

2008-11-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Jussi Hirvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jussi Hirvi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (4.11.2008 12:17): >> Hm, my CentOS 5 is pretty recent, I believe 5.2, but cannot find this >> stated... Hope this helps: > > Sorry, I just found that "5.2", as is apparent from my p

Re: [CentOS] Running the installer from working linux

2008-11-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Christopher Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Pyeron wrote: >> >> I have a box, with no CD rom or accessible ports and no PXE boot support. >> >> I do have root access. >> >> I would like to install a fresh copy of Centos 4. There are two decently good reads o

Re: [CentOS] updated Apache mod_expires?

2008-11-08 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jed Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that the apache rpm httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3.src.rpm > has a bug in mod_expires. > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39774 > > Please forgive a dumb question: how risky would using a Fedora ht

Re: [CentOS] How to Upgrade GNOME

2008-11-13 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can any one tell me how to upgrade from the current GNOME version to > a new version with out upgrading my distribution. Short answer: There is no supported way for doing this. Longer Answer: The unsupported m

Re: [CentOS] syslog remote computers

2008-11-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog.conf to direct > remote logging from a wireless access point to log to a separate file > instead of the main syslog and can't figure out how that could be done > from man sy

Re: [CentOS] Syslog question

2008-11-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Marc G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more local > facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng has the same > problem) ? > -- m As Ignacio has already said, it's pretty much not poss

Re: [CentOS] syslog remote computers

2008-11-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Ricardo Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mmm I'm not sure if I understood, but when you want to register any > log to remote host you must to do as follow: > > mail.* @10.0.1.1 > > The example above is for reg

Re: [CentOS] MSSQL on linux

2008-11-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:45 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm running CentOS 5.1. Is there any way to run MSDE or MSSQL on Linux? You can talk to them from a linux box, but you can't really RUN them from a linux box without virtualizing a windows OS. -- During times of univers

Re: [CentOS] glibc

2008-12-17 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Mad Unix wrote: > Am having the following error: Run 'grep -ri exclude /etc/yum*' Usually when I see this error, it's because folks have excluded the i386/i686 packages, but still have 1 or 2 installed. It's either that or a stale mirror as another already pointe

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Mariusz wrote: > Does anybody use tripwire on centos 5? Has anybody checked that: > http://www.linickx.com/archives/281/tripwire-2411-rpm-for-centos-redhat-rhel-4 > on > centos5? I usually hate giving advice for B when folks ask for A, however aide provides much

Re: [CentOS] aide and changes in system

2008-12-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Mariusz wrote: > I've checked my system by aide and i've received information: > > changed: /bin > changed: /bin/tar > changed: /bin/mv > changed: /bin/cp > changed: /bin/ls > changed: /bin/vi > > i don't remember that I changed those commands, what does it mean? S

Re: [CentOS] Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts

2009-01-11 Thread Jim Perrin
*Whut do U mean? I don't get it lol.* On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:57 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:14:22AM +, Vandaman wrote: > >> Its not the time to be nannying people >> over how to behave on mailing list. > > > > -- > /\oo/\ > / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | > d...@xdroop.

Re: [CentOS] Bugs in yum update

2009-01-12 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > This is a continuation of the thread: > "yum update fails: CentOS 5.2". > > I installed a fresh Centos 5.2 and ran yum update. > > It ran correctly, except for these issues: Okay, a few things to get out of the way first What's th

Re: [CentOS] stack overflow

2009-01-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Peter Doherty wrote: > 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 20 09:34:18 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 > GNU/Linux Have you tried this with the current kernel for centos5? -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat Monitoring

2009-01-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: > What do you use for monitoring your Apache Tomcat servers? I have used > jconsole to manually connect and look at the statistics. I'm wondering if > there are any standard tools for watching the health of the java process. > ___

Re: [CentOS] Compile Problem

2009-01-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I am trying to follow a solution that states "edit apache's libtool and > change the following option to "yes": build_libtool_libs=no" which begs > the question, how? :) Anyone care to show me the light? If you'd tell us what it is that y

[CentOS] CentOS4 pam_tally2 config

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Perrin
Okay, it's been a while since I've messed with EL4, and apparently I've gone stupid with respect to pam and properly enabling pam_tally2 in an appropriate fashion. My notes are for EL5, so if someone would be so kind as to smack me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. -- During times of uni

Re: [CentOS] CentOS4 pam_tally2 config

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> Okay, it's been a while since I've messed with EL4, and apparently >> I've gone stupid with respect to pam and properly enabling pam_tally2 >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS4 pam_tally2 config

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > The format is slightly different, and apparently I've caught a nasty > case of the stupid. So far the things I'm trying aren't working, so I > was hoping someone had a cut/paste example handy. Oversight on my part.

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 on Centos4

2009-01-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, John Clement wrote: > Bit of an emergency as I'm told this laptop has to leave here in 15 minutes, > I've gone ahead and configured, made, installed PHP 5.2 but an httpd restart > still only sees the old PHP 5.0.4, I think there's a fairly simple way to > get it t

Re: [CentOS] can't install rrdtool, problems with dependancies

2009-01-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Yes, I know I need to install perl-rrdtool but get the same error when > doing so. A wee bit more detail might help things out also. What version/arch of CentOS are you using? Do you have any control panel software like plesk or cpanel insta

Re: [CentOS] can't install rrdtool, problems with dependancies

2009-01-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:47:43 -0500: > >> or packaging >> oversite in rpmforge > > no, I know it works. Yes. I know it works as well. Since others had taken to smacking the OP around immediat

[CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Perrin
I'm looking to do a bit more monitoring of my 3ware 9550 with smartd, and wanted to see what others were doing with smart for monitoring 3ware hardware. Do you have the smartd.conf configured to test, or simply monitor health status? Are you monitoring the drive as centos sees it (/dev/sdX) or are

Re: [CentOS] Problems with mysql multi-master after update.

2009-02-10 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Alessandro Ren wrote: e incremental.01 on > the master and this causes the problem. > In 5.0.22 this would not happen, this does not happen as I have > servers running this version and after the reboot, it starts syncing on > the right incremental. > Any

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

2009-02-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Have you thought about tying tw_cli into nagios? That's one of my > round-tuit projects. I'm sure there are already plugins for it, and it > seems like you may get better info. I actually did think about doing this, but this is for

Re: [CentOS] Social Security Changes

2009-02-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > Good! How stupid can people be that think something like this is valid anyway? How many names were on that list again? It's not scientifically accurate by any stretch, but for the purposes of this demonstration, it'll do quite nicely. --

Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages?

2009-02-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I accidentally typed ss instead of ls and was surprised when it did > something...  I can use rpm's --whatprovides to see where it came from, > but how are you supposed to find out want a program does when it doesn't > have a man page? New w

Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages?

2009-02-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I accidentally typed ss instead of ls and was surprised when it did > something...  I can use rpm's --whatprovides to see where it came from, > but how are you supposed to find out want a program does when it doesn't > have a man page? On a

Re: [CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-27 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:33 AM, John Doe wrote: > > From: Kai Schaetzl >> What is a google? > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google&l=1 Oh goodie. You just googled for google? What's next, dividing by zero? Maybe a trip down to the local gas station to play with matches? Don't you know that googling f

Re: [CentOS] liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed ) ............ on cent os 5.2

2009-03-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to upgrde  out openldap ver 2.3  to the lastest version > 2.4, howevre there is no rpm avaibale for 2.4 so i decide to create my > own for centOS flavour 5.2 It's probably worth mentioning that the openldap version shippe

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

2009-03-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Just my noob opinion, that if there's no practical and definitive > benefit from enabling SELinux, for the time being until it is matured, > the best thing to do is just set it to off. Otherwise, it just > generally causes trouble and run

Re: [CentOS] php 5.2

2009-03-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Melinda Odom wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any news about CentOS 5.2 updating to php 5.2? There have been packages for php 5.2 in the Centos Testing repository for a while now. They work fine (for me at least), it's just that very few folks are reporting the function

Re: [CentOS] Installing php 5.2

2009-03-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > In reading the help file for yum, I am confused on how to find out if my > php 4.3 can be updated to php 5.2 using yum. If you have php 4.3, then you have centos4 most likely. There are php5 rpms available to you in the centosplus repository, h

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and ext4

2009-03-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? Define 'safe' > I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? No. You've read reports about applications that had relied on a feature/bug of ext3 eating data when using ext4. > Has this already been

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5U2 waiting too long when ssh login to other linux servers

2009-03-31 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Ryan J M wrote: > The waiting time is about 50s on my CentOS box now. "yum remove > openssh* "and "yum  install openssh*" can't make it right. "mv > ~/.ssh{,.bak}" not works either. > Here comes my tcpdump log, I am not an expert on SSH, Can anyone here > get me ou

Re: [CentOS] ext4 on 5.3

2009-04-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > grabbed my DVD and did an install. When partitioning the disk I did not see > a selection for ext4. > > Is this enabled after the fact some how? Yes. Since it's a preview release, it's not available as an install target. -- During times of u

Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3

2009-04-03 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Olaf Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded > from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. > > Any hints? DId you use cpan to update or install any perl modules? Have you built a newer versi

Re: [CentOS] Update

2009-04-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:40 AM, jarmo wrote: > I found reason, why update wont go. I have installed much newer > glibc, than what comes with 5.3. I needed that, because of couple > radioamateur progs. > Now have to think, how do I downgrade glibc. If I try remove, there's > over 600 pagages, which

Re: [CentOS] can't "make"

2009-04-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Hello. > I just fresh-installed 5.3 onto my laptop, and I have a problem trying > to get wifi working. Be aware that I have 5.2 on it, and did the same > process, and it worked great! > > I'm using http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wir

Re: [CentOS] can't "make" - SOLVED

2009-04-05 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > I asked about 'make' as $ (I recall someone stating on a maillist that $ > could 'make', but # had to 'make install'). Seems that's wrong; I had to > be root to make. It's slightly more complicated than that. The 'make' process is basica

Re: [CentOS] installing updates in post kickstart

2009-04-10 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now > actually). > > However, I want to save network time at installations. > If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS > and place them in a directory local

Re: [CentOS] re-install package

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile > errors. Installing via rpm is separate from compiling. Which are you doing? Are you having trouble building rpms, or installing them? > I need to re-install alsa-lib

Re: [CentOS] rt3 3.8.2 latest version as rpm for C5?

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > I know, epel has rt3 in version 3.6.x. > And - sadly - for version 3.8.x the perl module dependencies are way > ahead of what I can find in epel or rpmforge. > But we really need some of the 3.8.x series features. > > So has anybody ma

Re: [CentOS] re-install package

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, David G. Miller wrote: >> Finally ! 10 years after apt  :) > I saw a t-shirt advertised recently that said "apt-get girlfriend".  I'm > guessing yum still can't do that ;-). I haven't seen it work all that well in apt either. I'm guessing it requires additional

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dan Roberts wrote: > Hey there - > > This morning I ran the yum updater through Webmin as I do every month > or so - after about two hours I realized that I still had the same > updating screen going - and no response.   Seemed strange. So you probably missed the

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-05-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server that is >> running web, e-mail, ssh, ftp, mysql, coldfusion and will be >> processing payment

Re: [CentOS] list of packages with dual licenses

2009-05-01 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > There are many packages in centos. > Does there exist a "listing" of packages that have the dual licensing? > By dual license I mean packages not just GPL licensing in a commercial > setting. Some are dual licensed, though none are d

Re: [CentOS] Dev Tools

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > I need to compile ProFTPD, etc, etc. I tried yum install gcc, what else? I'm going to trot out the soap box here for a moment. Why do you need to compile Proftpd? There are rpms for it which work flawlessly in centos. When you st

Re: [CentOS] OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total > 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there > for the concerts I attended. I have Picasa, gThumb (not really an > Editor but I believe it can reduce

Re: [CentOS] OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total >> 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there >> for the concerts I at

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-16 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:32 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > I have a CentOS virtual private server from 1and1.com If I checkout or > pull something from a repository, it will contain an autogen.sh file > Running this and then configure seems to work. However, when I run make > I get a lot of error me

Re: [CentOS] ServerRaid Driver compatibility with Centos

2011-05-18 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Reshiv Nayar wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone know that what driver verisons of the IBM ServeRaid family are > supported by the different verisons of Centos? The same ones supported by the equivalent versions of RHEL. IBM has a chart buried in their support site for

Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-06 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Deivison Moraes wrote: > Hello, some of you are familiar with the revisor, and can help me with it? > I wonder if the revisor > is how to pick, with the CentOS installed only in text mode alsoworks, > and also I'm having some problems with package dependencies are m

Re: [CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?

2011-08-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > My question is why? Why are there two ftp clients provided in a > single distribution and why is the kerberos version effectively made > the default whereas one might reasonably assume that anything in > /usr/bin/ is the standard ( and by

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