Re: [CentOS] hardware problem with 5.6

2011-01-14 Thread Rob Kampen
mahmoud mansy wrote: hey every one i got the centos 5.5 and the following problem occuered: 1- the video display doesnot probe my card right. 2- the wireless card doesnot installed . my laptop is dell studio1569: ( display card is intel hd arrandle , the wireless card is intel advanced centrin

Re: [CentOS] Bind won't start.

2011-01-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Lisandro Grullon wrote: Dear Group, In the process of configuring bind, I created a new configuration file under /etc/named.conf options { directory "/var/named"; this is the directory version "Nope."; }; zone "internal.micro.com" in { type master; file "int

Re: [CentOS] Centos, Samba , WIN7

2011-01-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Ryan Wagoner wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Timothy Kesten wrote: Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2011, 11:27:22 schrieb John Doe: Google for "samba windows.7" and click on first answer... I knew, that samba > 3.3 is necessary. I was more interessted in where can I get a suit

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Rob Kampen
Max Hetrick wrote: On 01/25/2011 03:04 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I need to call you on this one. "Windozie" (implying some kind of decent user interface) and "stability" are not mutually exclusive, as your comment suggests. In the old days you may have had to choose, but that's long past. W

[CentOS] mail problems after setting up lynx for https with c_rehash

2011-01-25 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi List, I am not sure it's related but after I ran c_rehash over my ssl certificate directory I am having email delay problems. 1. my thunderbird client now regularly times out and tells me the smtp server is not available - a retry always works - this never occurred before. I do use TLS for t

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.8 or centos 5.5 for server is great?

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Yang Yang wrote: hi,i am new guy for linux world i made a server (centos5.5 8g ram 300g*2 sas 15k harddisc ),but some my friend use linux feveral years advise me use centos 4.8,he said it is much good than centos 5.5 it is trouble me ,is it newest is good than older? please give me some

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread Rob Kampen
James Pearson wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: James Pearson wrote: I've been trying to work out how the various sound modules get loaded at boot time on CentOS 5 - but I can't find anything obvious under /etc/rc.d/ CentOS 4 did this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - but there is nothing equiva

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread Rob Kampen
James Pearson wrote: JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 19:43 +, James Pearson wrote: I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence is this done? See dmesg and check when

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI disk preperation

2011-02-07 Thread Rob Kampen
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 15:19 Mon 07 Feb, Ross Walker (rswwal...@gmail.com) wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: If a best practices doc could be handed to you right now, what would you like it to contain? I've got about 35 pages of that document sit

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:23 PM, David Brian Chait wrote: By doubling the hardware, you still do not overcome the potential corruption that could occur with non-ecc memory. If this is truly a mission critical application then it really does not serve much of a purpos

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Nico-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Pleae, name a single instance in the last 10 years where ECC demonstrably saved you work, especially if you made sure ti burn in the ssytem components on servers upon their first

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Timothy Murphy wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. As there is a direct security impact to users. Could you explain that more fully, please? I've actually been puzzled why the developers are bothering with 5.6, if 6.0 very

[CentOS] log time formats - where is this defined

2011-02-27 Thread Rob Kampen
One of my servers is using ISO datetime formats (2011-02-27T15:22:15.519857-05:00) in the logs the rest use the default redhat/CentOS format (Feb 27 15:10:21). After a couple of hours searching google I cannot find where this is defined. I know I changed it some months ago as an experiment but f

Re: [CentOS] log time formats - where is this defined

2011-02-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Albert McCann wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rob Kampen Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 3:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] log time formats - where is this defined One of my servers is using ISO

Re: [CentOS] log time formats - where is this defined

2011-02-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Spiro Harvey wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:33:57 -0500 Rob Kampen wrote: One of my servers is using ISO datetime formats (2011-02-27T15:22:15.519857-05:00) in the logs the rest use the default redhat/CentOS format (Feb 27 15:10:21). After a couple of hours searching google I cannot find

Re: [CentOS] Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed)

2011-03-02 Thread Rob Kampen
Chris Ross wrote: Hi Y'All, Yum update on CentOS 5 has for the last week or so started giving me the following errors root@neodymium 16:03:46 ~ # nice yum upgrade Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * base: mirror.s

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Jason Brown wrote: On 03/04/2011 08:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: robert mena wrote: Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no plans to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this as personal project etc) the best way to simply forget a

Re: [CentOS] install specific version using yum

2011-03-15 Thread Rob Kampen
Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list! I have been instructed to install very specific version numbers of httpd and php on the company web servers. Here's what I've tried so far [root@ec2-50-17-114-126 ~]# yum install php-5.2.17-1.w5.i386 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Александр Кириллов wrote: CentOS has no clients to whom a contractual duty of support is owed. If SLAs, sales engineers, 800 numbers, and such are wanted or needed, PLEASE buy a contract from someone TANSTAAFL And yes I started looking elsewhere and with reasonably priced offer from

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Kampen
admin lewis wrote: Hi, this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there something I miss ? Have you configured any raid disk controllers in the bios first? This is a very common question - servers with RAID

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Kampen
Sam Trenholme wrote: * As mentioned before, Scientific Linux 6.0 is out. What hasn't been mentioned here is that while SL 5.6 hasn't come out, 5.6 security updates are being backported to SL 5.5. Ditto with SL 4 (no 4.9 but security patches look current) And we try very hard not to rel

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

2011-03-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7.1) wrote: Hello Everyone, I recently installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64 on a brand new ProLiant DL380 G7. I have identical OS software running reock-solid on two other DL380 ProLiant servers, but they are G6 models, not G7. On the G7, the installation went perfectly and th

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

2011-03-27 Thread Rob Kampen
David Brian Chait wrote: I understand that vmware has much stronger marketing machine, however that does not mean that their technology is somehow better. Their offer is a reasonable choice for many scenarios in IT, mass web hosting is unfortunately not one of them. As any competent admin will te

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-03 Thread Rob Kampen
ken wrote: For a long time now I've wanted to be able to watch videos. I've done the "try this!" and "try that!" method and it hasn't worked well. So I'm wondering if anyone running CentOS 5.5 has Shockwave on Firefox working. Currently it works for me with short videos-- up to two or three mi

Re: [CentOS] interview request for ppl who have Shockwave/.Firefox working

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:39:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: Robert Heller wrote: At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:39:04 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: And yes, the 64-bit flash 'preview' plugin and yes, it plays flash videos just fine there. [*I* have n

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Kampen
Tom Bishop wrote: This is excellent information Akemi, provides opportunities for folks to dig in and specific information that is needed and where to go to learn more...Thanks! :) On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Akemi Yagi > wrote: Changing the subject line for

Re: [CentOS] new kernel = no working sound

2011-04-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On Apr 10, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Iulian L Dragomir wrote: > After updating my laptop ( compaq 6820s) to Centos 5.6 the sound is gone. > > The sound card is still detected but there is no sound from speaker > > Vendor: Intel Corporation > Model: 82810H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller > Module:

Re: [CentOS] new kernel = no working sound

2011-04-10 Thread Rob Kampen
Iulian L Dragomir wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: Check the order of driver loading. This affected me a few kernels ago. Found that one needs to force the order of driver loading in modprobe.conf HTH The modprobe.conf is looking like this

Re: [CentOS] CentOs 5.6 and Time Sync

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Mailing List wrote: On 4/13/2011 7:35 AM, Mailing List wrote: Hi, I have upgraded my Dell C151 to the latest 5.6. I have always used ntp to sync this machine and then the rest of the machines in the network would sync from it. Since the update I cannot keep the right time on the machine. T

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-18 Thread Rob Kampen
Florin Andrei wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:22:05 +1000 Bob Hepple wrote: A hearty vote for sylpheed from me - http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ ... I'm using it now on Linux, briefly tested it on Windows. Thumbs-down: scanning all the folders initially takes longer than Thunderbird. E

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 x86_64 hosting unreachable Virtualbox 4.0.6 bridged guests

2011-04-26 Thread Rob Kampen
Philippe wrote: Hi, On a box running CentOS 5.6 x86_64 and Virtualbox 4.0.6, I have configured 2 guests (WinXP x86 + CentOS 5.6 x86_64) in bridged mode. The hosting box and the two guests are dhcp enabled. The hosting box get its address normally, but the 2 hosted systems fail to get theirs. T

Re: [CentOS] HP vs. Brother Printers: Use with Centos/Fedora

2020-06-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/06/20 9:44 am, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:33:39 -0400 Jay Hart wrote: If you had to rate which printer brand works better with Linux (Fedora and Centos), what would it be? Any Brother printer that I've ever had the misfortune to have to deal with either didn't work at all o

Re: [CentOS] Mail server troubles

2020-10-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On 9/10/20 11:08 am, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 17:50, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, This is probably a bit OT, but here goes. I've been running our local school's mail server since 2013, with mail addresses for school staff and some teachers. The server is running CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Password manager for the command line ?

2020-11-23 Thread Rob Kampen
On 23/11/20 10:52 pm, Sebastien Féminier via CentOS wrote: Hi Niki , I use "pass" to manage my password , it's based on gnuPG , you can find more info on the web site => https://www.passwordstore.org/ . For sync you can use Git . Seb. +1 -works well and can be used via ssh link as well if se

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

2021-03-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/03/21 9:25 am, Lamar Owen wrote: On 3/15/21 8:51 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Exactly that. Upstream Fedora and RHEL went to require dual density around Fedora 18, RHEL-7 because the amount of data was too much. Well, what's odd is that the actual upstream RHEL 7.9 DVD WILL fit on a s

Re: [CentOS] Samba config question

2021-03-16 Thread Rob Kampen
On 16/03/21 4:24 pm, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: After setting up /etc/samba/smb.conf and running "testparm" in CentOS 7.9.2011, I have noticed that the list of parameters echoed back for the [global] section do not match those in the smb.conf file. Is this normal? [global] in /etc/

Re: [CentOS] Cloning bridged VMs : VirtualBox vs. KVM

2021-03-24 Thread Rob Kampen
On 25/03/21 5:51 am, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, (tl;dr : how can I clone a KVM-based bridged virtual machine and force a duplicate MAC address ?) Up until recently I've been using VirtualBox on my workstation to test various local setups. Usually I would setup a basic CentOS installation, and wh

[CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

2021-08-27 Thread Rob Kampen
After three days of effort I have failed to find a way of shifting a server from legacy boot to UEFI boot. I have made my way through the 400+ pages of RH installation manual for EL7, plus their similarly large system administrators manual. Dozens of pages searched via google and yet none of t

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

2021-08-27 Thread Rob Kampen
On 27/08/21 10:51 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: Unfortunately the server is remote and the CentOS7 USB device I left plugged into the machine refuses to boot from UEFI mode. Thus a rescue mode boot has not been possible. So i made a trip and replaced the USB stick with another one - CentOS7 I am

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI

2021-08-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 28/08/21 8:24 pm, Simon Matter wrote: On 27/08/21 10:51 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: Unfortunately the server is remote and the CentOS7 USB device I left plugged into the machine refuses to boot from UEFI mode. Thus a rescue mode boot has not been possible. So i made a trip and replaced the USB

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading (?) from legacy boot to UEFI [SOLVED]

2021-08-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 29/08/21 1:03 am, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Aug 28, 2021, at 05:58, Rob Kampen wrote: Yeah, it is astounding to me that RH does not define their implementation of the grub2 grub.cfg file with particular focus on the things that are different between legacy boot and UEFI. Also what (if

[CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.

2021-10-06 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi, not sure this is the best place to go for my problem, but hoping someone can point me to the correct or better place. I have two currently working CentOS 7 based email servers that host a number of virtual domains and users and delivers mail just fine - for correctly addressed vmail inboxe

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.[SOLVED - kinda]

2021-10-08 Thread Rob Kampen
On 7/10/21 6:18 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi, not sure this is the best place to go for my problem, but hoping someone can point me to the correct or better place. I have two currently working CentOS 7 based email servers that host a number of virtual domains and users and delivers mail just fine

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.[SOLVED - kinda]

2021-10-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On 9/10/21 9:55 pm, Peter wrote: On 9/10/21 12:26 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: So, after many dozens of hours and sending test emails I have found a solution (work around) that appears to work okay. It is now different to the original two MX servers I cloned from, in that the maillog shows a

Re: [CentOS] Postfix and virtual mail boxes.[SOLVED - kinda]

2021-10-10 Thread Rob Kampen
On 11/10/21 12:53 am, Peter wrote: On 10/10/21 11:28 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: smtp   inet  n   -   n -   -   smtpd -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions= -o content_filter=spamassassin I assume based on what you've said before that this is after you added the workaroun

[CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
This issue has been around for some months, but other things keep crowding out a fix. uname give me 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 yet I have 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.81.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 loade

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
it to GRUB_DEFAULT=0 (I encountered the same issue week ago with a workstation booted for three month with an older kernel because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143438 , and solved it this way) Regards, Petko On 3/14/23 10:51, Rob Kampen wrote: Can I edit /etc/default/grub and c

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
4-advanced-7276336b-d2f2-4b94-b491-ad8c5662acb3' and this entry just seems wrong firstly the kernel version doesn't match - it has been set to ... 81.1 ... rather than 88.1 secondly the last part of the line is the same for every menuentry, namely -advanced-7276336b-d2f2-4b94-b491-ad8c

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-17 Thread Rob Kampen
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions. The main fix for the topic fault was fixing a soft link to /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grubenv - this is the one location used by UEFI It turns out that the update process for this file, when a new kernel is installed, uses /boot/grub2/grubenv. In my c

Re: [CentOS] How will fragmentation help Red Hat

2023-07-25 Thread Rob Kampen
+1 I now have only two servers left on CentOS - both on 7, as 8 and 9 and the whole stream thing just never passed my confidence tests. All my new machines since stream was enabled have been on Ubuntu LTS. It has been a learning curve, a little more work to deal with certain updates and the 5

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Don't bother with that, go straight to the source! http://packages.asterisk.org/ These get updated rather quickly. jlc +1 for this suggestion. Starting out it may be easier to pull packages from a repo if you're not familiar with building from source. BUT, in th

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-10-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: "Not connected to the Internet", and "not connected to a LAN" are very different things. I doubt VOIP would work if the server was not connected to a LAN. There could be quite a few things on the LAN, depending on it

Re: [CentOS] DNS Serving - Why my own?

2009-10-05 Thread Rob Kampen
ML wrote: HI All, Can anyone explain why I might want to run my own DNS Server in-house? I have a comcast business circuit and use their DNS servers and when I need entries, I use GoDaddy where I buy my domains. Best, -ML ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-22 Thread Rob Kampen
Jonathan Moore wrote: Good afternoon folks. Earlier today, I started upgrading a few of our servers to 5.4 based on input from the list. So far, all has gone well. I have about 6 servers (not very many, but still) that need to be upgraded. Instead of taking precious bits from the mirrors for

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Rob Kampen
mark wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox cra

[CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

2009-10-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Please excuse a possibly dumb question. Prior to the release of CentOS 5.4 I believe two updated 5.4 kernels were released as part of 5.3 2.6.18-164.el5 and 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 Now that 5.4 is released we have just the 2.6.18-164.el5 kernel. Now the dumb question - what happened to the updated ke

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 kernel versions?

2009-10-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/30/2009 02:52 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: If some kind soul would please enlighten me. rpm -qa --last 164.2.1 was never released in the 5.3/updates - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] connection refused resolving - after 5.4 upgrade

2009-11-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi all, prior to 5.4 upgrade, my two DNS servers would only get 'connection refused resolving .' on rare infrequent occasions (once or twice a month) after upgrade to 5.4 I get 500+ per day. Google has suggestions for |logging category lame-servers null; ; ; |however this strikes me as seve

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Kampen
ken wrote: On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> Security Level and Firewall" -> Other ports and then I can open port-5901 as tcp protocol . C

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:iptables ?

2009-11-02 Thread Rob Kampen
ken wrote: On 11/02/2009 09:36 AM Rob Kampen wrote: ken wrote: On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> Sec

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Rob Kampen
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP I'll dig in and come back with questions as required Don't believe it. The fall of '06, my manager and the other admin and I were discussing what to use for single sign-on. NIS has way too many hol

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:26 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: OK, google comes up with what looks like some easy HOWTOs for LDAP I'll dig in and come back with questions as required Don't believe it. The fall of '06,

Re: [CentOS] connection refused resolving - after 5.4 upgrade

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi all, prior to 5.4 upgrade, my two DNS servers would only get 'connection refused resolving .' on rare infrequent occasions (once or twice a month) after upgrade to 5.4 I get 500+ per day. Google has suggestions for |logging category lame-servers null; ; ;

Re: [CentOS] Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

2009-11-09 Thread Rob Kampen
Mathieu Baudier wrote: Hi, I have installed OpenOffice 3.1 downloaded from the openoffice.org website on CentOS 5.4 x86_64. The downloaded file is actually an archive containing RPMs. I did not use their setup tool but installed directly the RPMs I was interested in via 'yum localinstall' (my

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Spiro Harvey wrote: I would backup ALL your file systems off that disk, perhaps using a This is a fresh install, so that's not an issue. Linux rescue CD, then configure the controller in the BIOS for JBOD, use a rescue disk to build mdraid partitions, and restore your files from the b

Re: [CentOS] smtp+pop3+imap+tls+webmail+anti spam+anti virus

2009-11-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: hi! does anyone has a good howto, docs how to set up an smtp, pop3, imap server, with webmail, and has anti virus solution, and even spam filtering? :D [plus secure connection for the clients :D ] wich softwares are the best for this? [e.g.: "vsftpd is the most sec

Re: [CentOS] format level 3 prompt

2009-11-18 Thread Rob Kampen
Mike - email ignored wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:25:48 -0700, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: [...] Ah! Permission/ownership problem? mark Good suggestion. I found that for myUser .bashrc had the wrong permissions and .bash_profile was missing! I am sure that this happe

Re: [CentOS] stupid Centos-DS questions

2009-11-19 Thread Rob Kampen
Alan McKay wrote: This is the sort of thing that leaves me baffled : http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/admin/Creating_Directory_Entries.html It tells me the following, but does not really provide a context for me as to why I'd want to do this or how this would relate to the real

[CentOS] dnsmasq - where to use? where not?

2009-11-22 Thread Rob Kampen
Hi list, On updating my server today, I noted that dnsmasq was updated, I do not recall installing this onto my server as it is running bind/named and dhcpd, thus why does it need dnsmasq? So I did a $> sudo yum remove dnsmasq to find out what rpm / yum thinks about it - I get a list of Network

Re: [CentOS] Yum and upgrading PHP

2009-11-25 Thread Rob Kampen
ML wrote: Hi Mark, I tried a yum upgrade php so that I could get to either 5.2 or 5.3 (currently 5.1.2) and It says nothing marked for upgrade. How does one upgrade individual packages versus doing a plain system upgrade (like just yum upgrade) I'm a little confused: why did you do

Re: [CentOS] PHP updates

2009-11-27 Thread Rob Kampen
Michael Kress wrote: Craig White wrote: and if enough people actually convinced the developers that 5.2.9-2.el5.centos were feasible, then they would probably move it into the 'Extras' repository. ... here's one trying to 'convince'! ;-) I'm using that package from c5-testing since a m

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Rob Kampen
David McGuffey wrote: Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. I installed AIDE and did a quick test of AIDE and after initializing

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager constantly overwriting /etc/resolve.conf - how to disable?

2009-11-29 Thread Rob Kampen
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I have a CentOS 5.4 server-only installation, i.e. no X installed, and for some odd reason /etc/resolve.conf gets overwritten by NetworkManager on a constant basis. I haven't been able to track down how often, but I think it's on the hour, or something. This is the co

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

2009-11-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Billy Huddleston wrote: It's listed as a MegaRAID controller. I've tried the following drivers suggested by Supermicro with no success. megasr-13.10.0708.2009-1-rhel50-ga-all.img megasr-13.10.0708.2009-1-rhel50-u1-all.img megasr-13.10.0708.2009-1-rhel50-u2-all.img megasr-13.10.0708.2009-1-rhel5

Re: [CentOS] /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check

2009-11-30 Thread Rob Kampen
Farkas Levente wrote: hi, it's been a few weeks since rhel/centos 5.4 released and there were many discussion about this new "feature" the weekly raid partition check. we've got a lot's of server with raid1 system and i already try to configure them not to send these messages, but i'm not able ie

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.4, firefox and adobereader plugin, disabled input fields

2009-12-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Waldemar Gorus wrote: Hello, we are using firefox-3.0.15 from the CentOS-Repository and the adobereader plugin from the adobe-repository. We have a curious problem with adobereader-plugin in firefox. When a pdf document is displayed via the plugin, i.e. within a tab in firefox, all input fields

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Rob Kampen
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Mathieu Baudier wrote: LVM like md raid and drbd is a layered block device and If you turn the wire caches off on the HDs then there is no problem, but HDs aren't designed to perform to spec with the write cache disabled they expect important data is written

Re: [CentOS] Auditd fails to start : Connection refused

2009-12-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Tom Laramee wrote: Greetings: i have an x86_64 Centos5.3 box and i'm trying to run auditd. it fails on startup and this is the O/P at the end: config_manager init complete Error setting audit daemon pid (Connection refused) type=DAEMON_ABORT msg=audit(1260554376.697:567

Re: [CentOS] Device enumeration during kickstart

2009-12-14 Thread Rob Kampen
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: By default, a kickstart installation will spread the configured partitions over all disks that are found, and the only way around that is to use --ondisk or ignoredisk. But I was wondering how reliable this method is. E.g. if there are four SATA ports on

Re: [CentOS] PHP-5.3 in Centos 5.4

2009-12-17 Thread Rob Kampen
f...@ll wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a repository of PHP-5.3 compatible with the requirements of Zend http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html requirements.extensions, repos are being upgraded, that repo is exist or any way is a compilation of php from source? This shows the nee

[CentOS] latest kernel (-164.9.1) not seen by yum

2009-12-17 Thread Rob Kampen
I have updated my local repo and see that centos.plus has the new kernel available. yum update does not get it yum clean all and another try and still it does not find it what am I missing?? only recent change to yum.repos was the addition of failovermethod=priority anyone else having probs? flum

Re: [CentOS] latest kernel (-164.9.1) not seen by yum

2009-12-18 Thread Rob Kampen
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: I have updated my local repo and see that centos.plus has the new kernel available. yum update does not get it yum clean all and another try and still it does not find it what am I missing?? Check to see if the

Re: [CentOS] Security advice, please

2009-12-18 Thread Rob Kampen
Anne Wilson wrote: I run chkrootkit daily. For the first time I've got reports of a problem - Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 1008) The page http://fatpenguinblog.com/scott-rippee/checking-bindshell-infected- ports-1008/ suggests that this might be a false positive, so I ran 'netstat

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and Fedora Core

2009-12-23 Thread Rob Kampen
Matt wrote: If memory serves me correctly I was told CentOS 4.x was based on Fedora Core 3. So when finding a rpm I always looked for one for Fedora Core 3 and then it seemed to install ok on CentOS 4. Is CentOS 5 the same way and if so what Core is it based on? Matt __

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:yum? - hijack

2009-12-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Barry Brimer wrote: I tried for the other engaged rpm packages one-by-one . But at last , only the following one remained as unresolved : [r...@mss-1 tmp]# rpm -Uvh yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm warning: yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-13.el5.centos.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signatur

Re: [CentOS] Weird update problem

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Kampen
Anne Wilson wrote: For some time now updates on my CentOS box had skipped exiv2. Yesterday I decided to do something about it, so I removed it - together with gwenview, digikam and, IIRC, libexiv2. That sounded reasonable, so I accepted the removal, then re-installed gwenview and digikam, whi

Re: [CentOS] Can't Compile Driver due to Missing version.h

2010-01-09 Thread Rob Kampen
Mufit Eribol wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/08/2010 12:24 PM, Mufit Eribol wrote: I use a raid card on my Centos 5.4 server. Whenever I updated the kernel, I used to compile drivers of the card for the new kernel. I have done this many times in the past without any problem.

Re: [CentOS] Horde - epel vs. extras?

2010-01-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: When updating a centos 5.x box with the horde package, should the extras or epel version win? Les, I have extras in priority over epel and horde 4.3.4 seems to work fine HTH <>___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Kampen
Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks nate and Paul.. Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you mentioned? - CS. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I have changed directory ownership permissions recur

Re: [CentOS] iptables default configuration

2010-01-18 Thread Rob Kampen
Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I would like to get some inputs on how to configure iptables. I have referred to CentOS wiki http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables and it has been very helpful. I have configured iptables with the help of this tutorial, but I haven't understood few things about

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

2010-01-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/28/2010 11:14 AM, Ned Slider wrote: This is all documented on the Wiki for anyone who cares to search: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox [rhetorical] Why does this mailing list insist on reinventing the wheel rather than perform a simple se

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

2010-01-28 Thread Rob Kampen
Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/28/2010 12:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox [rhetorical] Why does this mailing list insist on reinventing the wheel rather than perform a simple search of existing documentation first? You sort-of expec

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread Rob Kampen
MHR wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MHR wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ryan Pugatch wrote: I use evince for reading PDFs.. just a suggestion. Let me elaborate a little. Evince does not have a whole lot of features, which is fine until I need to do things lik

Re: [CentOS] atime, relatime query

2010-02-03 Thread Rob Kampen
nate wrote: Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: But in a production db server, which is backed up by HP DP, is it advisable to mount with noatime? noatime typically helps when dealing with lots of files, most DB servers have a small number of files that are large in size, so noatime is likel

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-03 Thread Rob Kampen
Max Hetrick wrote: a arias wrote: Over the last year I have worked with Xen, KVM, VMware ESX and Sun VirtualBox. VirtualBox is my recommendation, hands down. I think this is too vague of a opinion on virtualization use. I think it depends on what you're doing with it. VirtualBox is

Re: [CentOS] Call for Firefox 3.6.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 testers

2010-02-11 Thread Rob Kampen
David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, I have made complete rebuild and backport of Firefox 3.6.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 to CentOS 5. Packages come with language packs, debuginfo packages, xulrunner etc. I'm looking for QA testers. Upgrade from distro versions works pretty fine. Thanks, David Hrbáč __

Re: [CentOS] pam_mount

2010-02-16 Thread Rob Kampen
Marcus Moeller wrote: Hi all, I am a bit confused about the usage of pam_mount. Here is my /etc/pam.d/system-auth: authrequired pam_env.so authrequired pam_mount.so add use_first_pass to this?? authsufficientpam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass auth

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

2011-11-01 Thread Rob Kampen
Tony Mountifield wrote: In article , Brian Mathis wrote: When Redhat announced the changes they made it very clear they were trying to prevent other companies (like Oracle and Novell) who were providing support to RHEL customers at reduced rates. They have never said they were concerned wit

Re: [CentOS] Linux hosts file /etc/hosts

2011-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.11.2011 18:53, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka: Reindl, To my knowledge, all that needs to be configured is A records, MX records, and SPF records (along with correlating PTR's). This is a whole other subject and I feel I will have this correctly configured. My fear is

Re: [CentOS] After Latest Update...

2011-11-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, Using the following to ssh into my home to get mail, I suddenly get this: ssh -o TCPKeepAlive=yes -o ServerAliveInterval=240 -L 110:192.168.100.108:110 phil@FQDN phil@FQDN's password: bind: Cannot assign requested address < Last login: Sun Nov 13 23:45:29 2011 fr

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