Re: [CentOS] ls returns file doesn't exist, find finds it??

2011-02-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 24/02/11 15:54, neubyr wrote: > Howdy, > > I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is > able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I > was trying find and ls together as: > # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls > > Similar behavior is seen

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-24 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
>> Make sure here to copy with preserving hardlinks, use tar or rsync -aH for >> this. And, you can exclude some content like /dev/* (but not the directory >> /dev itself!). > > Use "star". This will preserve SELinux configurations, which neither > tar nor rsync do. The SELinux file contexts are

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/04/11 05:34, Les Mikesell wrote: >>Is the only reasonable solution to schedule a "human cron" once a week to >> look >> at needed updates? Ouch. > > A middle-of-the-road approach is to have a machine or VM where you can > test things, perhaps the one you use as your own desktop or for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 x64 - Changing /var folder to raid 1 disk after install

2011-11-21 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 21/11/11 22:50, Adil BOYUN wrote: > I have fresh install CentOS 6 x64 running on my server. I have a raid > 1 drive 3 tb ready to be mounted. I want to mount this as var folder, > could achive this but after reboot, server didn't start, maybe i had > problem with command cp -rf. > > Is this poss

Re: [CentOS] Applications on different deskops at startup

2011-11-24 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 24/11/11 22:27, Tony Molloy wrote: > I have several desktops with applications running on them, mainly > terminals. At login all the terminals start on desktop 1. How do I get > them to start on the desktop they were running on at logoff. That's how > it worked on Fedora 13/14 so it must be p

Re: [CentOS] One of my servers wont boot today

2012-01-30 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 15:43 -0800, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > It says: > > /dev/VolGroup00/. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a > correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an > ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then t

[CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hello, Having a problem with software RAID that is driving me crazy. Here's the details: 1. CentOS 6.2 x86_64 install from the minimal iso (via pxeboot). 2. Reasonably good PC hardware (i.e. not budget, but not server grade either) with a pair of 1TB Western Digital SATA3 Drives. 3. Drives are p

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Scott, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:48 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > First thing... Are they green drives? Green drives power down randomly and > can > cause these types of errors... These are 'Black' drives. > Also, maybe the 6GB sata isn't fully supported > by linux and that board... Try the

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Keith, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:43 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > One thing you can try is to download WD's drive tester and throw it at > your drives. It seems unlikely to find anything, but you never know. > The tester is available on the UBCD bootable CD image (which has lots of > other handy

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 20:30 -0500, Luke S. Crawford wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:27:53AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > > Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console. Run 'mdadm -D > > /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Ellen, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 18:59 -0700, Ellen Shull wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Kahlil Hodgson > wrote: > > Now I start to get I/O errors on printed on the console. Run 'mdadm -D > > /dev/md1' and see the array is degraded and /dev/sdb2 has been

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Emmett, On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 18:18 -0800, Emmett Culley wrote: > I just had a very similar problem with a raid 10 array with four new > 1TB drives. It turned out to be the SATA cable. ... > All has been well for a week now. > > I should have tired replacing the cable first :-) Ah yes. G

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 14:21 +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > > I had a problem like this once. In a heterogeneous array of 80 GB > > PATA drives (it was a while ago), the one WD drive kept dropping out > > like this. WD's diagnostic tool showed a problem, so I RMA'

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-03-06 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 17:43 +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > Sadly still getting the same errors. Will have another go at this > tomorrow. Three more things to try > 1. UBCD and Western Digital diagnostics. > 2. Bring the RAID array up via the live cd and see if it resyncs. At >

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 04/08/10 00:24, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Fascinating. Could this be an AI, or a sort of Eliza? Perhaps its an alien > probe gathering data on our network infrastructure by methodically > generating questions to our lists. No human being would simultaneously need > to accomplish the above on three

Re: [CentOS] Updates offered annoyance

2010-08-25 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 26/08/10 00:03, Todd Denniston wrote: > And if you are maintaining more than one machine at home, you need to realize > that you don't need to > waste the time twice to update the same thing on two machines. Assuming your > home machines are > networked together. Good Point. I run a 'fat' s

Re: [CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/28/2010 01:40 AM, didi wrote: > Hey > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a >> while...? >> It mainly happens over the week-end. >> I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remot

Re: [CentOS] LARTC and CentOS question

2010-09-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/09/10 19:26, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Could someone point me in the right direction, where I can find > CentOS/Redhat specific documentation on the whole > /etc/sysconfig/network* setup? Might want to have a look at /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.30/sysconfig.txt Kal

Re: [CentOS] exclude mirror

2010-09-21 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 22/09/10 15:56, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> how can i exclude certain mirrors from yum in centos 5? > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=yum+exclude+mirrors&l=1 +1 Kal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] "Open Source Development + Tools" - Book/Resource?

2010-09-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 09/28/2010 07:26 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:56 -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: >> Greetings all- >> >> My apologies for the slightly OT post. My primary production platform >> *IS* CentOS 5.x with a minor scattering of 4.x machines behind >> firewalls here and there... >>

Re: [CentOS] Software bridge setup in RHEL 5/CentOS 5 questions, possible bug.

2010-10-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
> My question: Which is wrong? The documentation for setting up a > software bridge? OR /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth? I've a number of functioning software bridges, none of which are in promiscuous mode. Looking at /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.30/sysconfig.txt, there used to be PR

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-20 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10/19/2010 09:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: ... > I haven't had much luck with > perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32 > version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway). Is the current CPAN > version better? ... > Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats,

Re: [CentOS] "Semi-Authoritative" DNS?

2010-11-06 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 11/06/2010 02:54 AM, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings All- > > I have an odd need for a 'semi-authoritative' DNS server. Let's say I have a > zone for 'domain.com' with public DNS servers. However, I wanted to run an > internal DNS server for internal things. Public resolution of > 'www.domain.

Re: [CentOS] How to strip out the title bar from xterm windows on CentOS 5 GNOME?

2010-12-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 18/12/10 13:37, Bart Schaefer wrote: > The presence and appearance of title bars (except for the text > content) are controlled by the window manager, not by the application > framed in the window. In the case of the standard Gnome desktop, that > application is "metacity". So you need to look

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-13 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 11/06/11 19:03, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Ok, that helped me along. For some reason the motions (like 1G0 for > beginning of file, or G$ for last char in file) work, when the script is > called from command-line with -s flag (vim -s myscript myfile). But they > don't work when the script is called

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - VM network bridge issue

2011-07-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/19/2011 07:52 PM, Khusro Jaleel wrote: > A bit of a long shot but does turning on STP on the br* interfaces help? > I vaguely remember I had to do the following on one of my machines that > uses bonding + bridges: > > # brctl stp br0 on > > I have put this in the machines' /etc/rc.local s

Re: [CentOS] PKA help

2011-08-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/04/2011 04:28 AM, Todd wrote: > ah ha, I can cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for each user account > on the server You might want to have a look at /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine It takes care of directory/file creation, permissions, selin

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 15/09/11 16:22, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > [root@picard yum.repos.d]# yum clean dbcache > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities > 0 sqlite files removed > [root@picard yum.repos.d]# yum update > > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities > Loading mirror speeds

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 16/09/11 08:22, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Based on what I'm seeing, I do not think that yum is downloading a > corrupt sqlite database, rather than it is creating a corrupt database > all by itself. I have however no definite confirmation of this and I > would like to have one before filing a

Re: [CentOS] sendmail sending out on port 587

2010-03-21 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 22/03/10 10:01, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I had been doing what you suggested above. This resulted in being able > to read all e-mail, but I could not send any e-mail in that port 25 was > being blocked by the hotel. I use thunderbird and have configured it to use multiple outgoing SMTP server

Re: [CentOS] httpd stopped working under SELinux so I had to turn SELinux off. libxml2.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied

2010-03-24 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/25/2010 01:49 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > CentOS 5.4 64-bit with SELinux, happily running for over a year, suddenly > httpd fails to start up, getting an error message like: > ... > I turned off SELinux and was able to start httpd. > > But what went wrong? And how to fix it and turn SE

Re: [CentOS] awk global replacement only after keyword

2010-03-25 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/26/2010 02:02 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> I think there is a way to do it in sed using the holding space, but it's so >> much >> easier in perl that I never bothered to learn the hard parts. What's the >> problem with using perl anyway? > > No problem, just thought there was a sexier

Re: [CentOS] Network tuning for working with very old Solaris

2010-03-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/28/2010 05:04 AM, Wade Hampton wrote: >> me, I'd get on the console (most Sparc's newer than about 10 years old >> have a ALOM or RSC or whatever remote console module you can telnet or >> ssh to, older ones were almost all serial console, which is typically >> connected to a cyclades type co

Re: [CentOS] remove openssl

2010-03-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/29/2010 05:38 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/3/29 cahit Eyigünlü : >> i am trying to install plesk but my cent os has a newer version of open ssl >> that is why my setup is interrupting, how could i remove open ssl ? >> i tryed yum remove openssl but it encounter lots of errors i want to re

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-30 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/30/2010 06:34 PM, ken wrote: > I've done a 'yum clean' and then run 'yum update' and get the same > result as above. My hunch is that the problem is particular to these > two packages (gmime and gmime-sharp)... because I've had repeated > problems with just them. Updating thirty-some other

Re: [CentOS] bogus error message from yum update for gmime and gmime-sharp

2010-03-30 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/31/2010 08:13 AM, ken wrote: > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: gmime = 2.2.10-5.el5.centos for package: > gmime-sharp > ---> Package gmime.i386 0:2.2.25-1.el5 set to be updated > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > gmime-sharp-2.2.10-5.el5.centos.i386 from installe

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 04/15/2010 12:58 AM, gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > I've got a machine running CentOS 5.3 and this machine has got 2 - > built-in 1 Gig NICs and a expansion card with 4 - 100 Meg NICs. For > whatever reason at install time, it made the expansion card eth0 through > eth3 and the internal ports et

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: > I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far > to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image. I've had graphical apps give me coasters on

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 04/17/2010 12:21 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > Now my only problem seems to be that cpan does not allow me to specify > "yes" to this question when it asks. e.g. like the "-y" option to > "yum" > > Unsatisfied dependencies detected during > [A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.9402.tar.gz] - > Test::Harne

Re: [CentOS] Help with NFSV4 server

2010-04-21 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Clint I've got NFS4 running on F11 and your configuration looks fine to me. > {The Client} > > [r...@silver ~]# cat /etc/idmapd.conf > [General] > ... > [Mapping] > > Nobody-User = nfsnobody > Nobody-Group = nfsnobody You may want to check that nfsnobody is defined on your system and rpc.id

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to resive /var online?

2010-05-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/03/2010 05:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Is it possible, safely, to resize /var while a server is running? I > urgently need to resize a full 2GB /var on a running server which is > located at a remote location where no one can get to it for 2 days? I've done it before on a quiet system and it

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/08/2010 12:26 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 7.5.2010 16.40, Benjamin Franz wrote: >> Post the results for 'route -n', 'ifconfig', and >> 'arping -D 62.236.221.71' on the machine. >> > > The values in the previous message and below are from the xen host > (62.236.221.67/62.220.237.104), which

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/08/2010 05:38 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > How can I turn stp on? In my /etc/xen/scripts/xen-network-common.sh > there is a section: > > # Don't create the bridge if it already exists. > if [ ! -e "/sys/class/net/${bridge}/bridge" ]; then > brctl addbr ${bridge} > brctl

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/08/2010 11:28 PM, JohnS wrote: > If I were you I would start from scratch and go step by step and set > it up. > > John I'm in agreement with John here. Your set up looks complex and may be starting from scratch is the way to go. Looking back though the thread, your set up might also be u

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/10/2010 05:34 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > This box is already in production, but I think the most useful approach > here is to reconsider my setup. > > I have two public networks here, 62.220.237.x and 62.236.221.x. I want > to build a xen system, where some guests connect to one network, som

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/10/2010 08:09 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Hm, NAT might be difficult, because there are common ports to the guest > systems. Yeah, but they're going to have different IP addresses and we could do NAT around that. My personal preference is to put a router between external interfaces (with non

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/10/2010 11:03 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 10.5.2010 15.48, Les Mikesell wrote: >> How do you handle the default route on the 'connect to both' guests? >> Normally >> you only want one default gateway and it should be the same one where the >> connections are coming in. Otherwise you have t

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 11/05/10 10:40, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/10/2010 06:20 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> This gives me a very clean and clear separation between inside my >> network and outside, and no one outside my network is going to see my >> RFC1918 address space. > > I we

Re: [CentOS] Created a custom/minimal CentOS 5.x install ISO

2010-05-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/20/2010 11:40 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/19/2010 02:37 PM, Digimer wrote: >> >> I've been googling for ways to do this, figuring it must be somewhat >> straight forward, but my google-fu is weak it seems. Can someone point >> me to a how-to or doc on rolling your own CentOS derivat

Re: [CentOS] Created a custom/minimal CentOS 5.x install ISO

2010-05-20 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/21/2010 12:55 AM, Digimer wrote: > So let me see if I've got this straight (sorry, I'm coming from a > Debian background)... You are forgiven :-) > 1. I need to create my own local repo which revisor will draw from. Only necessary if the packages you want to include can't be found in any

Re: [CentOS] tricky perl question - ascending order

2010-05-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/24/2010 06:39 AM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > The solution [from the FreeBSD mailing list]: > > perl -00 -e 'print map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [$_, > tr/\n//], <>' < before.txt > after.txt > > Thank you!! FYI a lovely piece of magic from 1994:-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf being overwritten

2010-05-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/21/2010 11:24 PM, ken wrote: >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:02:06PM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: >>> I am trying to add 127.0.0.1 to my resolv.conf. I added it through the >>> system-config-network but if I reboot, its gone. I do not have the caching >>> nameserver package installed. My ISP's na

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

2010-06-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 03/06/10 13:21, sync wrote: > Hi ,all : > > I recently switched to using Thunderbird for my email and installed the > Lightning calendar add-on. Now all I need is a remote calendar server. > I just need a simple server to support a few personal calendars and a > shared calendar. Any recommen

Re: [CentOS] Disable sendmail and configure mailx to use an external Postfix server?

2010-06-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 15/06/10 12:50, Dan Burkland wrote: > Is there anyway I can disable sendmail on my various machines and > configure mailx on them to utilize my Postfix SMTP server? ssmtp may do what you want Kal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 06/16/2010 06:10 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and > x86_64 perl. The latter won't update, because the idiotic *man pages* are > dups. Is there *any* way, short of using rpm directly with a --force, to > get yum to ignore the

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 16/06/10 08:47, Gary Greene wrote: > On 6/15/10 3:26 PM, "Kahlil Hodgson" wrote: >> Yes, this is frustrating. I've encountered it a number of times while >> packaging perl modules that override those in the core (e.g. >> Test::More). Sorry, but I've

Re: [CentOS] qemu

2010-07-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 05/07/10 06:05, mattias jonsson wrote: > Thanks for all info > But how to start agust not created with virt-install > E.g a downloaded image Just to confirm what you are asking for. 1. You have a host with a bridge already setup? 2. That bridge is attached to a network that has a DNCP server on

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 06/07/10 22:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> Christopher Chan wrote: >>> And now the thing is working again... >> >> It's not working again. >> >> Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network >> working again but as soon as I stop tcpdump.

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/07/10 14:58, Christopher Chan wrote: >> If you have two machines on the same network with the same IP address >> you get behaviour like this. Had this happen once when an engineer >> reset a UPSs and it took on the IP address of a main switch. >> arpwatch is your friend. >> > Unfortunately a

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/07/10 15:41, Christopher Chan wrote: > No new boxes. Not possible for any other box to be assigned the same > ip internally via dhcp and definitely not the same Internet ip. Exactly. DHCP server would check for a conflict before assigning an address and is definitely not the source of the p

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/08/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? > > Why mode 4 of course. Ouch. Never used that mode. mode=4 (802.3ad) IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation. Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex settings. Utilizes all slaves

Re: [CentOS] Setting apache's maxclients higher than 256 in CentOS

2010-07-12 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 13/07/10 13:14, robert mena wrote: > I could not find any reference if the version of apache compiled for centos > 5.x has support for more than 256 clients in apache's maxclients. I think 256 is the _default_ not the maximum. >From the Apache httpd 2.2 docs For non-threaded servers (i.e., p

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-16 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/17/2010 12:39 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > The domU got it's ip from the corporate DHCP server, which is what I > intended (that's why I'm running bridged, I'm using virtual servers to > separate functions while conserving physical boxes, so I want them to > present as separate systems to u

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-18 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 18/07/10 12:04, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> An alternative, if you have some control over the DHCP server, might be >> to enforce a mapping of MAC addresses to IPs. You can pretty much set >> you guest MAC addresses to whatever you want so long as they don't >> conflict with anything else. > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6 Displays "return: Command not found" in Terminal

2014-11-26 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Brian, Likely culprits are in ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile /etc/profile /etc/profiled.d/* Try 'source' on each one at a time to see if any triggers the message. Kal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Possibly your system was installed or cloned using PartedMagic, and that left an entry in /etc/ethers mapping your default nic to the name 'PartedMagic'? K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Apologies for the previous top post :-( Forgot to trim the (...) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] print something on console after boot

2014-12-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Looks like you are seeing the codes defined for mingetty rather than agetty. This is what you would expect for a virtual console on CentOS 6 which uses the former. K ​al​ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
rsync -h ... -i, --itemize-changes output a change-summary for all updates ... K -- ​ ​ Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
When you use --itemize-changes, does it indicate that the timestamps of the directories have changed? K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-16 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Niamh Holding wrote: > > KH> When you use --itemize-changes, does it indicate that the timestamps > of the > KH> directories have changed? > > Not uless the sequence of dots and letters before the folder name > indicates that > > -- > Best regards, > Niamh

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
For those who don't know, as of version 21, Fedora has split into 3 streams: workstation, server, and cloud. This addresses many of the concerns raised in this thread. See https://getfedora.org/ for details. I gather we'll see the impact of this change with CentOS-8. Kal _

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-13 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
For those who want to track what is going on in Fedora, http:// fedoramagazine.org/ highlights of discussions on the "multitudinous" mailing lists, forums, meetings, etc. For those interested in Fedora Server, its goals, and the people working on it, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server seems a go

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-13 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Just to note: Fedora has been upstream for RHEL for many years. New features are tested in Fedora for a long time before they hit RHEL. For example, systemd was first introduced in Fedora 15 (we are currently at 21). Ample time has been given to discuss, critique, provide feedback and to help sh

Re: [CentOS] How To Record Sound Being Played

2015-01-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I've used Audacity in the past to do similar. Their website has a howto section covering the details. Kal Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd Suite 1416 401 Docklands Drive Docklands VIC 3008

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 10:31, Always Learning wrote: > If testing then a one character password is very acceptable to me. Why > should some arrogant nutter impose an arduous ultra secure password when > a simple one character password will suffice ? Who knows the machine, > the deploying environme

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 12:09, Always Learning wrote: > As for security, the cess pit is weak security not on Linux, BSDs and > others etc. but on M$. It seems to be incredibly easy for one malicious > person to launch attacks from machines they control all over the world - > and those machines just

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 12:58, Always Learning wrote: >> If you really want to do this, I'd suggest running your >> test system in some kind of DMZ to prevent any exploit cascading into >> the rest of your network. > > Not really sure what a (USA military) DMZ looks like. Security has > always bee

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 13:34, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your > craft that we can use likewise? So many places it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. Google and Wikipedia will keep you busy for a long while. Off the top of my

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 4 February 2015 at 02:17, James B. Byrne wrote: > I think it well to recall that the change which instigated this > tempest was not to the network operations of a RHEL based system but > to the 'INSTALLER' process, Anaconda. Now, I might be off base on > this but really, ask yourself: Who exac

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 4 February 2015 at 14:36, Always Learning wrote: >> Thinking about you systems from a penetration testing perspective can >> be helpful. For example, "Always Learning" has just told us that he >> uses single character root passwords on his testing machines, that he >> is testing 7 days a week

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I just had a peek at the anaconda source for Fedora 21. Apparently you can waive the password strength tests (and the non-ASCII tests) by simply clicking "Done" twice. def _checkPasswordASCII(self, inputcheck): """Set an error message if the password contains non-ASCII characters.

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 5 February 2015 at 10:53, Always Learning wrote: > On C6, the default is:- > > -- 1 root root 854 Mar 13 2014 shadow Even better if you have SElinux enabled --. root root system_u:object_r:shadow_t:s0/etc/shadow __

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 5 February 2015 at 10:36, Warren Young wrote: > When the hashes are properly salted, the only option is brute force. All > having /etc/shadow does for you is let you make billions of guesses per > second instead of 5 guesses per minute, as you get with proper throttling on > remote login av

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
While this discussion has been very interesting, I would like to encourage participants to be very careful about disclosing the specifics their own security efforts. While is good to discuss the pros and cons of strategies, disclosing the details of the exact strategies that you use, no matter how

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 5 February 2015 at 12:09, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:56:30AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >> I just had a peek at the anaconda source for Fedora 21. Apparently >> you can waive the password strength tests (and the non-ASCII tests) by >> simply

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 February 2015 at 10:23, Always Learning wrote: > Logically ? > > 1. to change the permissions on shadow from -rw-x-- or from > -- to -rw-r--r-- requires root permissions ? > > 2. if so, then what is the advantage of changing those permissions when > the entity possessing root auth

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 09:53, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > I'd like to know how a member of > the CentOS project submits improvements to something in the RedHat > documentation. Can you provide guidance in that regard? I think you can simply submit a bug report under fedora documentation. Note, the

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 10:08, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > I think you can simply submit a bug report under fedora documentation. Via bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Documentation ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 10:15, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > Please allow me to make sure I am perceiving this correctly, > reports of errors found in RedHat documentation are to be reported > against the Fedora Documentation product type in the RedHat bugzilla? > and > reports of errors found in Fedora

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 16:39, Pete Travis wrote: > Officially, no, the "Fedora Documentation" bz product isn't there for > Red Hat guides. If you want to file a bug against a RHEL guide, choose > your version of RHEL then look for the guide's component - these days, > they all start with "doc-",

Re: [CentOS] Do I need these?

2015-02-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Probably OK to remove. The netcf-libs package is a dependency of, among other things, libvirtd. Perhaps you installed and removed some visualization related packages? If you are keen to remove unwanted packages, have a look at the 'package-cleanup' command and the '--leaves' option. Hope this h

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so let us know if this is the case for you. K ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?

2015-02-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 20 February 2015 at 05:25, Chris Murphy wrote: >> I'd say your mom is an admin in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. > > It's a confusing analogy. Chickens don't fly. Horses do swim. I have a couple of chickens, and yes, the buggers do fly if you don't clip their flight feathers. :-)

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-03-01 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 28 February 2015 at 05:49, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: > I'm tasked with reconstructing the CentOS version of the GlibC library for > testing with > gethostbyname(). My mission is to show that we are not affected by the > latest exploit for > the product we are shipping targeted for RHEL and CentOS.

Re: [CentOS] grsync for centos 7

2015-03-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 March 2015 at 04:44, Francis Gerund wrote: > But, Grsync does not seem to be in the centos 7 or EPEL 7 repositories > (although it may have been around as late as centos 6). Is it now in any > "reputable" repositories? > ​Just to note, it does seem to be in the base for Fedora-21, so maybe

Re: [CentOS] grsync for centos 7

2015-03-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 March 2015 at 04:44, Francis Gerund wrote: > But, Grsync does not seem to be in the centos 7 or EPEL 7 repositories > (although it may have been around as late as centos 6). Is it now in any > "reputable" repositories? > ​Just to note, it does seem to be in the base for Fedora-21, so maybe

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-03-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Andy, mock is part of EPEL and is almost certainly what you want to use. Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty LtdGitHub: @tartansandal Suite 1416 401 Docklands Drive

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-03-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
apologies for last top post :-( ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 7-Zip for CentOS X86-64

2015-03-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 12 March 2015 at 10:39, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Okay then, next question. How do you get it to work? I can't figure > out the command to run it so I can't use man to get a clue. > > I tried p7zip, 7zip, etc... no luck. > ​rpm -ql p7zip​ ​will list all the files associated with the package,

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