[CentOS] location of sg.c on distro CDs

2008-01-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, I find I'm in need of sg.c and can't seem to locate the rpm for the generic scsi driver on my CentOS5 CD's. Might someone point me in the right place, please? Thanks in advance, ~Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] location of sg.c on distro CDs

2008-01-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Ray Leventhal wrote: I find I'm in need of sg.c and can't seem to locate the rpm for the generic scsi driver on my CentOS5 CD's. Might someone point me in the right place, please? Normally, I'd suggest running yum provides s

Re: [CentOS] location of sg.c on distro CDs

2008-01-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 11:45 AM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I find I'm in need of sg.c and can't seem to locate the rpm for the generic scsi driver on my CentOS5 CD's. Might someone point me in the right place, please? Thanks in adv

Re: [CentOS] location of sg.c on distro CDs

2008-01-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 12:24 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In deference to my newness to all this, how would one obtain the kernel source from the CDs as, in my case, the system is not connected to the internet? Kind regards, -Ray If all you need

[CentOS] Booting from Compact Flash

2008-01-21 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, Advance apologies if this is OT; if so, please mail me offlist. A client is considering using CentOS5.1 for an embedded project. They will be booting from Compact Flash. The CF in the device is being controlled by a VIA VT6421 SATA/RAID controller. Are there drivers available or mus

Re: [CentOS] Protection for removable hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread Ray Leventhal
Brian Mathis wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 4:54 PM, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My apologies if this is a bit off topic... I am going to start doing backups to removable hard drives and I will need to send these hard drives to an off-site storage facility. I am looking for some way to

Re: [CentOS] Kernel compiling troubles (ABI checking)

2008-02-08 Thread Ray Leventhal
ArcosCom Linux User wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem compiling the kernel as a normal user (don't know if not being root is the problem or not). What is ABI? I can compile with the flag --without kabichk, but I don't know if really is that the solution or not. Application Binary Interface...I'

[CentOS] smartest way to setup new system (DELL PE 4600)

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, One of our servers (very old) died last week and I'm setting up a new CentOS 5.1 box to replace it. Primarily used as a samba fileshare on a mostly windows-workstation network. This system will, ideally, have the OS on a 146 GB SCSI drive, with user data on a 300GB SCSI, both attach

[CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Total users on this system is < 20. Thanks in advance, -Ray ___ Cen

[CentOS] new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install. The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that way). At present, the home share and one for the company's public share are in place. I can

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
John R Pierce wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install. The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that way). At present, the home share and o

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-26-2008 6:55 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following: Hi all, I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install. The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that way).

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Les Mikesell wrote: Scott Silva wrote: I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install. Thanks in advance, -Ray If you are going to use smb passwords anyway, why set security to "share? You should set security to "user" and make sure you keep unix users and samba users synced. For

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
With user level security you can't connect to different shares as different users, so if you remove the 'public' from the home section (as you probably should) and let people connect as themselves, they will have to also connect as themselves to the public shares. And now that I"ve done

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
yet more from my samba saga. Making the change from security=share to security=user has resulted in my aforementioned login prompt box from Windows. I noted, while doing a 'service smb restart', that this turns up in /var/log/messages: Mar 26 14:28:29 backup nmbd[7989]: [2008/03/26 14:28:29

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Les Mikesell wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: Normally you have to add the users yourself with their passwords since the encryption is different than the linux passwd file uses and it can only be done when you still have the plaintext. smbpasswd -a login_name But didn't you say you

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Like John, I fought long and hard to get user share working. I read Eeverything I could, including buying Samba3 by Example. In the end I admitted defeat and went back to shares. Anne As the powers that be are sta

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-26-2008 11:31 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following: yet more from my samba saga. Making the change from security=share to security=user has resulted in my aforementioned login prompt box from Windows. I noted, while doing a 'service smb restart', that thi

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Anne Wilson wrote: This is becoming a real hijack, which I didn't intend. However, All users that are intended to be able to share have a user account on the samba server. All users have samba passwords matching their login passwords, whether in windows or linux. I couldn't even get their

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
On your Windows box, set up a user and password that match *exactly* what was entered for *samba* user/password. I can browse and connect to samba servers with security = user . Akemi Hi Akemi, I've done that with my own un/pw on my WinXP machine as well as the new CentOS/Samba server.

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
It is possible, because I am doing it. I have share=user and have home directories viewable by the user and the admin (me). I have various departmental shares that each department can access and no one else (but the admin -- again me). Even shares that aren't browsable, so no one even knows

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Then try this: Open Windows Explorer -> Tools -> Map Network Drive -> Connect using a different user name. This will prompt you to enter both username and password. If you still cannot connect this way, the problem is somewhere else. Akemi Hi Akemi, I tried your suggestion with the same

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
DO the user credentials on the windows boxes match the credentials on the samba box? Did you turn off simple filesharing on the XP machines? in an effort to prove that at least my creds match, I dropped from root to my regular user status in shell and did smbpasswd this is what happened: Ol

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi John, Ok, Ray and Anne Post me your Samba Version "rpm -q samba". Akemi has helped me with my samba problems but I can't get nowhere when I put "mode=user". Believe this or not I have never had this kind of problem with samba. I want to be able to authenticate by the logged on client machine,

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-26 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ray Leventhal wrote: DO the user credentials on the windows boxes match the credentials on the samba box? Did you turn off simple filesharing on the XP machines? in an effort to prove that at least my creds match, I dropped from root to my regular user status in shell and did smbpasswd

Re: [CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

2008-03-27 Thread Ray Leventhal
John R Pierce wrote: ok, virgin CentOS 4.6 w/ updates, was a minimal install.From the top... # yum -y install samba samba-swat Anyways, assuming all of the above, from the windows station, start -> run -> \\linuxserver\username and voila, you should get your home directory in a window.

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-28 Thread Ray Leventhal
James A. Peltier wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to d

[CentOS] mysql-server installing...or not`

2008-03-28 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, I've got a clean CentOS 5.1 install and need php/mysql support. Seems mysql (client) is installed, but I need server, so I did yum install mysql-server and got the errors posted below. Have I missed something or is there a problem with this package? (actually I should ask do I nee

[CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-29 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially wel

[CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good how-to's especially wel

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Barry Brimer wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Have you looked at rsnapshot ?? Hi Barry, Thanks for t

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ned Slider wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. In a mixed Linux/Windows environment, I deployed a Li

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
Les Mikesell wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: > Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've cloned the OS drive already and it is safely locked away. We're an entirely off-internet system, so updates aren't even a problem. The issue is the user data and with what you and others

[CentOS] mysql data

2008-03-31 Thread Ray Leventhal
HI folks, Apologies if this is OT. If it is, please msg me offllist and I'll carry on my searching elsewhere. Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? Thanks in advance -Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] mysql data

2008-04-01 Thread Ray Leventhal
Barry L. Kline wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: | Where does mysql actually store databases and tables in the filesystem? If you're asking because you're concerned about backup/restore then you'll want to forget about the location of the data files and instead use the mysqldump comma

[CentOS] strange error in df -h

2008-04-01 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi All, I just saw this in output from df -h: # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 131G 4.6G 120G 4% / /dev/sdc1 271G 141G 117G 55% /home /dev/sdd1 271G 3.9G 253G 2% /home/admin /dev

Re: [CentOS] List of SCSI supported controlores

2008-04-01 Thread Ray Leventhal
Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, How can I get a list of all SCSI controllers supported by CentOS 5.1 ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito Hi Mario, I'd be willing to bet that Cent is compatible with upstream. This link may help https://hardware.redhat.com/ HTH, -Ray

Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

2008-04-01 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi All, I just saw this in output from df -h: I should have originally stated: CentOS5.1 32 bit running on a Dell PE 4600. -Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

2008-04-01 Thread Ray Leventhal
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just saw this in output from df -h: # df -h df: `status': No such file or directory df: `status': No such file or directory Any ideas why the 'status' mes

Re: [CentOS] Re: List of SCSI supported controlores

2008-04-01 Thread Ray Leventhal
Scott Silva wrote: on 4-1-2008 11:03 AM Ray Leventhal spake the following: Have you actually looked at the HCL in a while? RHEL5 lists exactly 16 components and 516 systems. I'm sure it runs on more than that. That list usually only lists "certified" equipment that RedHat or

Re: [CentOS] strange error in df -h

2008-04-02 Thread Ray Leventhal
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # mount ... st0 on status type unknown (rw) /dev/st0 on status type unknown (rw) Well, obviously these are the two that are causing the problem. st0 seems to be tape

[CentOS] rsync question

2008-04-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi folks, I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a bit, done my googling and archive searching but I still can't seem to 'get' it. Here goes: I've a spare drive in my CentOS5.1 box, which (for testing now) I mount manually under /mnt/backup I want to backup the /home tree to that

Re: [CentOS] rsync question

2008-04-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Alfred von Campe wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 13:07, Ray Leventhal wrote: I want to backup the /home tree to that box nightly via rsync (cronjob), so I tried this: rsync -avrogz /home/ /mnt/backup/ First, drop "rog" from the options, as they are implied with -a. Also, since y

Re: [CentOS] rsync question

2008-04-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Jeff Larsen wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rsync does not create archives. Are you sure that the archive does not exist in the source directory? Is it just being rsynced along with everything else? Perhaps it is left over from previous

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and CPU spikes?

2007-07-09 Thread Ray Leventhal
Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Is it just me, or does anyone else experience their CPU utilization > spiking to 100% for about 5 to 10 seconds when Firefox is about to > download a file, via http or ftp? Then, after the file starts to > download, the CPU usage drops back down to normal. > > I've got Fire

[CentOS] latest clamav update from rpmforge...no joy - CentOS5

2007-07-12 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi group, An easy question, I'm sure. I'm trying to update clamav to the new 0.91 version from rpmforge. I've v 90.3 installed (through yum). Executing: "yum update clamav" returns: Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Setting up Update Proces

Re: [CentOS] latest clamav update from rpmforge...no joy - CentOS5

2007-07-12 Thread Ray Leventhal
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: > >> Hi group, >> >> An easy question, I'm sure. >> >> I'm trying to update clamav to the new 0.91 version from rpmforge. I've >> v 90.3 installed (through yum). >> > > I g

Re: [CentOS] latest clamav update from rpmforge...no joy - CentOS5 - RESOLVED

2007-07-12 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ray Leventhal wrote: > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > >> Ray Leventhal wrote: >> >> >>> Hi group, >>> >>> An easy question, I'm sure. >>> >>> I'm trying to update clamav to the new 0.91 version from rpmforge. I'

Re: [CentOS] upgrade my open ssl

2007-07-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > I have centos 4.5 final and when i installed it there is a openssl version > openssl-0.9.7a-43.16 .. > > i need to upgrade it to openssl 0.9.8 .. > also when i try to uninstall it it gives me a failed dependency errror > > actually i did a nodeps and uninst

Re: [CentOS] upgrade my open ssl

2007-07-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Ray Leventhal schrieb: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I have centos 4.5 final and when i installed it there is a openssl version >>> openssl-0.9.7a-43.16 .. >>> >>> i

[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-02 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi folks, As a breather from the "thread-now-wider-than-my-headers-window-in-thunderbird" conversation re: mixing repos, I have a question regarding a machine I'm about to put online. :) I run a web hosting company and my secondary (primary to the world) DNS box died from a massive rootkit/hack l

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-02 Thread Ray Leventhal
Feizhou wrote: > >> As it will be a production server and this is my first foray into >> CentOS/SELinux in a production environment I was hoping to get a >> recommended list of what to include and, more specifically, what *not* >> to include from the distro CDs >> >> I will be doing a text based in

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-02 Thread Ray Leventhal
Jim Perrin wrote: > 2 recent pitfalls for bind on RHEL5. > 1st being that upstream has removed the default configs for bind. This > was apparently intentional. See > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234508 for more > information > > also, the last bind update modified some file

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-02 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi Jay, et al, > > > > CentOS 5 is a .0 release, you might be better served using CentOS 4.5 > > which has had much more tme to prove itself as a DNS Server. 4.5 also > > has a good bit of time left on updates to (till Feb 29th, 2012) so you > > shouldn't worry to much about it becoming obsolet

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Leventhal
> I'm coming in late to this thread. We too are a hosting provider > (small time), hosting approximately 1600 live domains. > > Not to say tinydns is a bad alternative, as it has it's strengths, but > we moved away from [outgrew] it 2 years ago. > > If you were already running Bind, CentOS 5 is a

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Leventhal
Tomasz Napierała wrote: > Apart from installation, I would suggest using PowerDNS as a secondary DNS. > It's not only robust, fast and secure, but also has very interesting > capability of automated zones depolying (espacially usefull for secondary > NS). I'm using it on all my secondary namese

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-03 Thread Ray Leventhal
Feizhou wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Tomasz Napierała wrote: >> >>> Apart from installation, I would suggest using PowerDNS as a >>> secondary DNS. It's not only robust, fast and secure, but also has >>> very interesting capability of automa

[CentOS] New CentOS DNS Server woes

2007-08-05 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi folks, I've put my new DNS server in place, told the primary that this IP would be pulling zones and restarted BIND on the primary. I configured my named.conf file to pull zones from the primary, started BIND on the new box. Here's where I get confused [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS DNS Server woes

2007-08-05 Thread Ray Leventhal
Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 18:07 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I've put my new DNS server in place, told the primary that this IP would >> be pulling zones and restarted BIND on the primary. >> >> >> >

Re: [CentOS] Will this work? server+centOS5+100users?

2007-08-08 Thread Ray Leventhal
> > You will need a backup solution too, don't forget have a backup strategy from > the > start! > > -Ross > > Amen to that, Ross. I've used a few, but have found that the paid solution from Arkeia[1] is pretty damned solid and easy to use. HTH, ~Ray [1] http://www.arkeia.com/ _

Re: [CentOS] dns propagation problem

2007-08-15 Thread Ray Leventhal
Mark Quitoriano wrote: > > > On 8/12/07, *James Gray* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > As others have said, you MUST increment the zone's serial. > Addtitionally, on the master you may want to add "notify yes;" to the > zone stubs. This will make sure bind

[CentOS] SELinux questions, upon restarting BIND

2007-08-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, On my newly up-and-running nameserver (CentOS 5), I noticed the following alerts in /var/log/messages after restarting BIND. (lines inserted to aid in reading). As I'm new to SELinux, I'm hoping for some pointers on 1) if this is an issue which simply *must* be addressed, or if it's somet

Re: [CentOS] SELinux questions, upon restarting BIND

2007-08-16 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi all, > > On my newly up-and-running nameserver (CentOS 5), I noticed the > following alerts in /var/log/messages after restarting BIND. (lines > inserted to aid in reading). > As I'm new to SELinux, I'm hoping for some pointers on 1) if thi

[CentOS] repost: SELinux questions, upon restarting BIND

2007-08-17 Thread Ray Leventhal
As this remains an issue for me, I'm reposting. Please forgive the redundancy, but I've been unable to find the answer and am hoping for some guidance. Thanks in advance, ~Ray ==Original Posts follow== (full output is in the original thread) Ray Leventhal wrote:

Re: [CentOS] repost: SELinux questions, upon restarting BIND

2007-08-17 Thread Ray Leventhal
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:16 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote: > >> As this remains an issue for me, I'm reposting. Please forgive the >> redundancy, but I've been unable to find the answer and am hoping for some >> guidance. >> >> Thanks in advance,

Re: [CentOS] repost: SELinux questions, upon restarting BIND

2007-08-17 Thread Ray Leventhal
Robert Spangler wrote: > On Fri August 17 2007 09:16, Ray Leventhal wrote: > > >> As this remains an issue for me, I'm reposting. Please forgive the >> redundancy, but I've been unable to find the answer and am hoping for some >> guidance. >> &g

Re: [CentOS] SATA vs. SAS

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Recovery from > the failures seems to be more a matter of the raid implementation than > the interface type. > My 'day job' is with a data recovery firm. I cannot agree more fervently with Bowie's comment above. ~Ray ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] quick FTP server with default vsftpd installation

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Simon Jolle wrote: > Hi list > > I just installed vsftpd and started it (CentOS 5). Then put some files > in /var/ftp/pub (for testing purposes with rights 777) and try to > connect with local user to download those files. > > $ lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Password: > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls > ls

Re: [CentOS] quick FTP server with default vsftpd installation

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Simon Jolle wrote: > Hi Ray > > 2007/8/22, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Is SELinux running? if so, what mode? >> > > SELinux is running in enforcing mode. > > >> I recall having to construct an setsebool statement to get vsft

[CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, My CentOS 5 nameserver is seemingly unable to be queried by anything but itself (localhost, 127.0.0.1). From any other machine, including the primary which *does* transfer zone files correctly to this machine (which is secondary), requests time out. I've put SELinux into permissive mode,

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > first, if you turn query logging on you'll likely get some more hints. > > do you have a: > >allow-query { > localhost; > ; > }; > > directive in the top options section? i think the server defaults to > "all" if you don't have one, but i

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > first, if you turn query logging on you'll likely get some more hints. > Rick, I did miss that comment before I posted. I'll do that and query...will report the log here this evening. Kind regards, ~Ray ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Ray Leventhal wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> first, if you turn query logging on you'll likely get some more hints. >> >> > Rick, I did miss that comment before I posted. I'll do that and > query...will report the log her

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
>> > Do a netstat -na|grep 53 > > Lets be really sure. > > Hi Robert, Thanks for the reply. as requested: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ray]# netstat -na|grep 53 tcp0 0 64.135.16.15:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:*

Re: [CentOS] quick FTP server with default vsftpd installation

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Leventhal
Simon Jolle wrote: > 2007/8/22, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Does the ftp daemon respond properly if you issue: >> >> /usr/sbin/setenforce 0 >> >> > > Hi Ray > > Yes by disabling SElinux everything works as expected.

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-23 Thread Ray Leventhal
Feizhou wrote: > Hello Ray, > >> Appears to be listening how I expected it to be, unless I'm not reading >> this right. > > Running 'dig www.swhi.net @64.135.16.15' > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> www.swhi.net @64.135.16.15 > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; connection timed out; no

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-23 Thread Ray Leventhal
> > not certain if you intend it to be, but your 64.135.16.15 machine is > not reachable from "outside". an attempt to telnet to port 53 (or 25) > gets me "no route to host" and a traceroute ends with: > > 8 ge2-0.cr1.bct.fl.host.net (64.135.1.9) 34.779ms 35.102ms 35.413ms > 9 ge6-1.er8.bct.fl

Re: [CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

2007-08-23 Thread Ray Leventhal
Michel van Deventer wrote: > >From what I see you have iptables 'in the way'. > Try to add the following rule to iptables and then try again :) > iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j ACCEPT -p udp --dport 53 > > If you like to have zone transfers or large queries done as well then you also > need

Re: [CentOS] download CD info

2007-08-27 Thread Ray Leventhal
ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > 1/ ls the Centos 5.0 equal to Redhat enterprise 5? > 2/ what is meaning live CD? CentOS-5.0-i386-LiveCD.iso > > ls it meaning rescure CD? > 3/ what is meaning of torrent? it is just 278K > > Thank you > > > > > > > > __

Re: [CentOS] need help on second Ethernet port (eth1) point to point connect

2007-08-29 Thread Ray Leventhal
John R Pierce wrote: > mcclnx mcc wrote: > >> I have two DELL servers with two Ethernet ports in it. >> Bith servers have CENTOS 4.5 installed. First >> Ethernet port connect to public Ethernet line and work >> correctly. Second Ethernet port I connect >> point-to-point as private Ethernet (c

Re: [CentOS] Seeds for Centos 4.5 (s390) bittorrent

2007-08-29 Thread Ray Leventhal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, I would like to download the DVD image for the s390x hardware – > could someone seed the torrent or point me to an image I can download? > > > > Thanks, > > Mike. > > > > _

Re: [CentOS] Re: Seeds for Centos 4.5 (s390) bittorrent

2007-08-30 Thread Ray Leventhal
Scott Silva wrote: > Ray Leventhal spake the following on 8/29/2007 11:53 AM: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hello, I would like to download the DVD image for the s390x hardware – >>> could someone seed the torrent or point me to an image I can download? >>> &

Re: [CentOS] Why CentOS as a webhosting platform

2007-09-06 Thread Ray Leventhal
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > CentOS seems to be doing really well in the hosting business these > days, and even for people who would normally have used Windows or OSX > on the hosting previously, are now looking at using CentOS. And I > thought it would be nice to have a section on the wiki abo

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
> Dear Ray, > > Please assure me that: > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > Is this the valid netmask " 255.255.255.0 " for > static IP address for this machine > you mentioned > > it will be "ifconfig eth0:0 x netm

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
umair shakil wrote: > Dear Ray, > > If you analyze, both the commands: > > ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it > is valid > /sbin/ip didnot see such situation may in future. > > Regards, > > Umair Shakil > Askai Bank Limited > Pakistan Thanks for that, I will d

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine >> will answer. >> >> I did this: >> >> /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > you m

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
>> if you'd explain, I'd be grateful. >> > > You will need to add the routes for the other subnet in your routing > table as such. > > route add -net XX.XX.XX.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > I believe there is a place to add static routes in one of the startup > scripts (besides rc.local), b

[CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine will answer. I did this: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 xx.xx.xx.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 xx.xx.xx.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:3 xx

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> I'm getting an error on adding the route. The machine's base IP is in >> the xx.xx.16.x /24. The additional IPs are in another /24. Base is >> physical, the others are virtual hosts. > > What Ross said, will

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Sounds like the issue is at hand. xx.xx.16.xx is the inital /24, base >> for the unit and default address on eth0 >> >> The additional, alias addresses are in the xx.xx.106.xx /24. They >> gateway on 16.1 and 106.

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

2007-09-07 Thread Ray Leventhal
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine >> will answer. > > for f in 10 11 30 31 13 15 20 21 22 ; do ip addr add dev eth0 > xx.xx.xx.${f}/24 ; done; ip addr ls; ip route

Re: [CentOS] imap webmail client needed

2007-09-08 Thread Ray Leventhal
Sokol wrote: > Hi list, > > I´m searching a webmail imap client including a calendar and a todo list > (last is not necessary) for 2 or 3 users. I have tried zimbra but it´s too > oversized for my claim. > Do someone have a hint? > Thanks. > > Kamill > >

[CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Ray Leventhal
When using ifcfg-eth0:x files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, should each file (where x increments appropriately) point to DEVICE=eth0:x or DEVICE=eth0:0? I apparently have my alias files all ifcfg-eth0:0 - ifcfg-eth0:7 show DEVICE=eth0:0. Is this right? It seems odd to me and while it does

Re: [CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Ray Leventhal
Jim Perrin wrote: > On 9/14/07, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/RangeOfIpsOnEthx > > Hi Jim, Thank you for the link...it's definitely good to know one can assign a range of IPs with ease using that type of dir

Re: [CentOS] question on alias IPs using ifcfg-eth0:x

2007-09-14 Thread Ray Leventhal
Barry Brimer wrote: > I apparently have my alias files all ifcfg-eth0:0 - ifcfg-eth0:7 show > >> DEVICE=eth0:0. Is this right? It seems odd to me and while it does >> seem odd, the alias IPs are being appropriately responded to, answering >> pings and nameserver requests. >> > > /etc/sysc

[CentOS] dual boot w/WinXP

2007-09-18 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi folks, I've been asked advice in an area that I'm not well versed and am hoping for some help. Having read a recent thread where booting to anaconda's kickstart wiped a partition table unexpectedly (to the user...it did what it was configured to do), I'm following the 'measure twice, cut once'

Re: [CentOS] Re: dual boot w/WinXP

2007-09-18 Thread Ray Leventhal
>> >> >> I have a working WinXP SP2 workstation with an unused partition on the >> primary HDD. I'd like for the unused area to be used for dual booting >> CentOS5 but am not sure what needs to be done (if anything) to the >> config file for kickstart prior to booting with CD1 in the drive. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] webmin

2007-09-20 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hiep Nguyen wrote: > hi there, i just insalled centos 4.5 minimal, but want to use yum to > install webmin? anybody know how?? > > i try: yum install webmin but not found. > > thanks, > T. Hiep > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http:/

[CentOS] iptables question

2007-09-20 Thread Ray Leventhal
Hi all, With SELinux in permissive mode and iptables running, I'm unable to retrieve directory listings with ftp. stop iptables, and all appears again. This seems to be unrelated to passive/port modes for ftp client. If this is off topic, please let me know offlist and I'll take my question els

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2007-09-20 Thread Ray Leventhal
Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:55 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> With SELinux in permissive mode and iptables running, I'm unable to >> retrieve directory listings with ftp. >> >> stop iptables, and all appears a

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