[CentOS] ISCSI help

2008-01-31 Thread Plant, Dean
I am fairly new to ISCSI and SAN technology but having recently invested in the technology I am trying to find out exactly what can and can not be manipulated, filesystem wise, without requiring a reboot. I am using the inbuilt software ISCSI initiator and multipathing in CentOS 5.1. My steps so f

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on Dell R200 with 6iR?

2008-02-04 Thread Plant, Dean
Hello list, Can anyone confirm if CentOS 5.1 works happily on a Dell R200 with a SAS 6iR RAID controller. Thanks Dean ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

2007-08-07 Thread Plant, Dean
Simple fix, Adaptec & CentOS = :-( LSI & CentOS = :-) We spent a few days trying to get Adaptec cards working with LTO-3 drives. It was suggested to me from this list to try an LSI, we bought one, it worked, problem solved. Dean David Groep wrote: > [sorry for breaking the threading, only joine

RE: [CentOS] Adaptec 39320A woes

2007-08-08 Thread Plant, Dean
David Groep wrote: > Hi, > > Plant, Dean wrote: >> Simple fix, >> >> Adaptec & CentOS = :-( >> LSI & CentOS = :-) > > Which is why after a few hours of testing I decided to indeed buy a > couple of LSI cards to test with -- far better than a lot

RE: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

2007-09-07 Thread Plant, Dean
Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The > system was initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled > later by me. Are you aware of the commands getenforce & setenforce? Dean ___ CentOS mailin

RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 distro: How to upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 with yum??

2007-11-29 Thread Plant, Dean
Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > --- Jancio Wodnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Robinson Tiemuqinke pisze: >>> >>> Currently I download the Centos 5.0 upgrade packages from mirror >>> sites on Internet (.../centos/5/updates/{SRPMS,i386,x86_64}/...), >>> with the arrival of Centos 5.1, are the exi

[CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem

2008-04-22 Thread Plant, Dean
I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this? Thanks Dean __

RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem

2008-04-22 Thread Plant, Dean
James Pearson wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, >> they default to

RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem

2008-04-22 Thread Plant, Dean
James Pearson wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> James Pearson wrote: >> >>> Plant, Dean wrote: >>> >>>> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >>>> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings make

RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem

2008-04-22 Thread Plant, Dean
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not

RE: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem -SOLVED

2008-04-24 Thread Plant, Dean
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and >> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes >> the installer prompt for disk settings but not

RE: [CentOS] Re: Kickstart network settings problem -SOLVED

2008-04-24 Thread Plant, Dean
Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Plant, Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix >> installations issues, below shows what is required. >> >> c

RE: [CentOS] centos 5.1 i386 on a 1GIG flash

2008-05-29 Thread Plant, Dean
Jerry Geis wrote: > I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos > for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting > centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing > packages after install to attain the small size. > > however, I am getting blo

RE: [CentOS] Hardened ver of CentOS?

2008-06-02 Thread Plant, Dean
Rogelio wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> CentOS /is/ a distro, there is only one centos 'distribution'. >> centos configured with selinux enabled, appropriate firewall rules, >> and the minimum number of services required for your application >> should be fairly 'hardened' as-is. > > Understood.

RE: [CentOS] dm-multipath use

2008-06-26 Thread Plant, Dean
Geoff Galitz wrote: > Are folks in the Centos community succesfully using > device-mapper-multipath? I am looking to deploy it for error handling > on our iSCSI setup but there seems to be little traffic about this > package on the Centos forums, as far as I can tell, and there seems > to be a numb

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Plant, Dean
Harry Sukumar wrote: > Hi James, > > Yes I tried to do this on another machine unfortunately this didn't > work for me, good you raised this topic > > On the other machine I edited the visudo > > User_Alias PROJECT = emma, paddy, sb > PROJECT ALL = !/usr/su, !/bin/su, !/usr/bin/passwd > I s

RE: [CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!

2008-06-27 Thread Plant, Dean
Ian Blackwell wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> I see your trying to protect your users from becoming root. You do >> realise that with that sudo configuration a user can still run "sudo >> /bin/bash" or any of the other shells to gain root access. >> > Hi

[CentOS] Whole disk encryption

2008-08-04 Thread Plant, Dean
Has there been any updates to support encrypting the whole disk in 5.2? If not, Is anyone doing this and can point me to some good documentation? Thanks Dean ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Whole disk encryption - SOLVED

2008-08-07 Thread Plant, Dean
Timothy Selivanow wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:51 +0100, Plant, Dean wrote: >> Has there been any updates to support encrypting the whole disk in >> 5.2? > > There hasn't been any built-in support until Fedora 9, so perhaps at > the earliest it would be 5.3

[CentOS] Command line partition manipulation

2008-08-08 Thread Plant, Dean
I want to write a script to automatically modify the partition table I am starting with 3 partitions like this # parted /dev/sda print Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 10.7GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End SizeTy

RE: [CentOS] Command line partition manipulation

2008-08-08 Thread Plant, Dean
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Plant, Dean wrote: >> Is there a way to use a non-interactive command to create the new 2nd >> partition in the free space? > > parted works well for such situations, and if python is your thing, > pyparted is already included in the distro. >

RE: [CentOS] ks

2008-08-13 Thread Plant, Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I made a file partition-ks.cfg and put it in our machine 192.168.5.17 > under /var/www/html. When I install a new machine I just do a > > linux ks=http://192.168.5.17/partition-ks.cfg > > I have a couple questions though: > > 1) I have the following in it: > >

RE: [CentOS] [rsync -avz] total size/disk usage difference betweensource and destination

2008-11-03 Thread Plant, Dean
Sven wrote: > Hi folks > > We migrated storage from local disk to SAN with: > > # rsync -avz /mnt/lvol00045/* /lvol00045 > > Why there is a difference in size? How to explain this? Do we have > inconsistency? What we did wrong? > > [...] > /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol00045_old >

[CentOS] Postfix header check help

2009-01-13 Thread Plant, Dean
Hi list, I have a requirement for a mail server that only allows email to pass with a particular word in the subject line. Reading the header checks docs for Postfix I thought I may be able to add this rule: !/^Subject: .*dingdong/ REJECT Need to add dingdong to subject line to send Which shoul

Re: [CentOS] Postfix header check help - SOLVED

2009-01-14 Thread Plant, Dean
mouss wrote: > Plant, Dean a écrit : >> Hi list, >> >> I have a requirement for a mail server that only allows email to pass >> with a particular word in the subject line. >> >> Reading the header checks docs for Postfix I thought I may be able >> to

Re: [CentOS] squid stops working several times a day

2009-02-04 Thread Plant, Dean
Alexander Farber wrote: > Does anybody know of good Squid rpm's? I have sourced our 2.6 packages from http://people.redhat.com/mnagy/squid/ for the last few years without problems. Dean ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/