[CentOS] Insert the second CD of an install

ey are familiar with the process of inserting disks.) Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanh...@wright.edu RSS: http://www.engineering.wrigh

Re: [CentOS] Insert the second CD of an install

On 2/15/11 4:09 PM, "John R Pierce" wrote: > On 02/15/11 1:03 PM, Mike VanHorn wrote: >> Using CentOS 5.5 x86_64. >> >> I am trying to install software that comes on two discs. I can start the >> install just fine, but when it comes to taking out the first d

[CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

still able to login. It appears that the access.conf is being ignored completely, so I'm thinking there's something I'm missing. How can I restrict access to a system based on NIS netgroups? Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and C

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

On 11/8/11 4:31 PM, "Stephen Harris" wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:41:22PM -0500, Mike VanHorn wrote: >How can I restrict access to a system based on NIS netgroups? > >Change nsswitch.conf so that it reads > passwd: compat > passwd_compat: nis > >An

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

orking. Fortunately, the solution provided on-list by Stephen Harris did work, but I'm puzzled as to why this isn't. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michae

[CentOS] iscsid still starting up after turning it off

scsid starts and the ones where iscsid doesn't start), which seems to indicate, I think, that it is listed as a service twice. How can I tell from whence iscsid is starting, even after it's been turned off? Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineeri

Re: [CentOS] smartd and smartctl

FWIW, on some of my workstations, when I have gotten the "sector pending" messages, I have been able to take the drive out and run the manufacturer's diagnostics on it (in my case, Seatools), and that fixed some things and I haven't had any issues since. --- Mike VanHorn Sen

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ > > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for > authentication? We use it for our mixed environment of Solaris and Linux (including CentOS) workstatio

[CentOS] updating 5.6 but not going to 6.0

I'm confused as to how to install updates for CentOS 5.6 without upgrading to 6.0. When I do a "yum check-updates", the new *-release packages for 6.0 are listed, so I don't think I want to do a simply "yum update". Is there a way to update 5.6 without going to

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 dmrc weirdness

and it's not logging any error about not being able to write to ~/.dmrc. However, I can't figure out why it needs to have a preexisting .dmrc file (which seems to go against the idea of the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file). Any insight or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! --- Mike VanHorn