Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread John Broome
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:01, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, > if any, are

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:28, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. > > I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have > version 4.3.29. > > Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3?  Or that this is > the latest versio

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:37, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/30/2011 10:31 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote: >> On 11/30/2011 04:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. >>> >>> I am currently running 5.3 and "yum info db4" tells me that they have >

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:44, Alan McKay wrote: > Normally I would have a VM for this sort of thing but I still do not > have a machine available for that and I'm hesitant to put VMWare > Server on one of my production machines.   I'm new here and have > already flagged that I need a box for VMs

Re: [CentOS] Can't open port 53 for Bind (DNS)

2011-12-03 Thread John Broome
On Dec 3, 2011, at 18:46, Weplica wrote: > Hello, > > I have CentOS 6 on a dedicated server. I haver bind 9.7 but I can't > reach port 53 for DNS. > > > netstat -na | grep LISTEN > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LIST

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread John Broome
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:36, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking from where the word 'centos' came and what it means? > How they choose this word? You might also be interested in the etymology of the word 'FAQ'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faq _

Re: [CentOS] Question on httpd

2011-12-19 Thread John Broome
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 13:54, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have been requested to ensure the httpd on a server is version 2.2.21 > or later. > > How do I verify that? > > On CentOS 5.7 x86_64 it says its version 2.2.3-53. > > is that equivalent to 2.2.21 in RedHat land with the way they do versions? A

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

2011-12-19 Thread John Broome
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 14:11, Alan McKay wrote: >> >> I've got automirror working on my CentOS 5.x machines.  I can't say >> I'm a real expert with it, but if you post your symptoms maybe I can >> help you troubleshoot it. >> >> > Thanks but I've already been chatting with the author who is stump

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.X compatible to ORACLE DB verssion????

2011-12-29 Thread John Broome
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 13:57, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/29/11 4:30 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: >> Does anyone know CENTOS/Redhat 6.X compatible to ORACLE software (X86 and >> X86_64) version like 9.X, 10GR2, 11G and 11GR2. > > 11.2.0.3(I think is latest?) seems to work fine on CentOS 6.1, however >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.X compatible to ORACLE DB verssion????

2011-12-29 Thread John Broome
On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:30, mcclnx mcc wrote: > Does anyone know CENTOS/Redhat 6.X compatible to ORACLE software (X86 and > X86_64) version like 9.X, 10GR2, 11G and 11GR2. > > Any official document say that? OEL6 is rebuilt RHEL6. CentOS 6 is rebuilt RHEL6. I think it'll be ok. _

Re: [CentOS] RHEV guest tools

2011-12-29 Thread John Broome
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 04:07, Johan Kooijman wrote: > My bad, indeed, the guest OS works perfect. What I'm looking for is > the extra data RHEVM can provide that it get's from the guest tools, > like IP, memory use etc. See > http://bastion.jkit.nl/~jkooijman/rhev.png. The bottom one is a > Wind

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: phpmyadmin issue

2012-01-03 Thread John Broome
On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:12, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Andreas Reschke > wrote: >> centos-boun...@centos.org schrieb am 03.01.2012 10:55:43: >> >>> Rajagopal Swaminathan >>> Gesendet von: centos-boun...@centos.org >>> >>> 03.01.2012 10:55 >>> >>> B

Re: [CentOS] Cannot use kickstart file to install CentOS 6.2 into a blank harddisk

2012-01-04 Thread John Broome
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 07:25, lee_yiu_ch...@yahoo.com wrote: > Below is the kickstart file I used (between dash lines) > > --- > url --url="http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/CentOS/6.2/os/i386/"; > interactive > timezone  Asia/Hong_Kong > firstboot --enable > --- clearpart --all --initlabel ___