[CentOS] selenium rc server - run it on a specific display help!

Dear all, i'm trying to run multiple selenium rc server on a centos box (different ports) with developers connecting to it through VNC (different respective ports) to check their automated test result. i can easily do the above manually (when it comes to running RC server). though automating th

Re: [CentOS] selenium rc server - run it on a specific display help!

ble? Seems very unusual for a GUI program. On 5/02/2011, at 3:08 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote:Dear all, i'm trying to run multiple selenium rc server on a centos box (different ports) with developers connecting to it through VNC (different respective ports) to check their automated test resu

[CentOS] cronjob to intiiate checkdisk ?

Dear all, I'm trying to find a way to automate checkdisk every 1 month on a weekend. in other words i want checkdisk to run every saturday morning. i can of course change the default mount/count though that wont let me control WHEN it will happen. so i need your expert opinion with the followi

[CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

Hello, Today my server stopped responding. i went to the console and on the screen there were a continuous loop of the following info shown on the screen: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] and alot of other information. ii've took a screen shot of the info shown , you can fi

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

i couldn't connect to it to check through ssh. and when it comes to the console, i couldn't do anything either as a repetitive output as the screen shot attached keeps appearing. this is an internal testing server with apache and mysql installed. usually the load average is 8 % max. server's s

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

t; On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:42 +0200 > Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] > > > i tried googling with no luck for direct relevant info. > > The first google result for the above string takes me here: > > http://bugs.cen

[CentOS] Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser on session null

Hope this email finds you well. I need your advice with something if you can help out. I have an RC serer (selenium rc) which is running on a centos 5.2 and another on a 5.4 machine. if i run it through X server, in other words if i run the server while connected to VNC. it works fine. but if

[CentOS] /etc/bashrc help!

Dear all, i've appended the below to /etc/bashrc it works like a charm with ssh connections though SFTP sessions fail since the below is being sent to the intiator. any way of limiting the below to none sftp sessions? or any other idea for it to work? # If id command returns zero, you’ve r

[CentOS] Centos as Gateway ? (Router/transparent proxy)

Hi All, I'm lately suffering from Quota abuse at home. believe it or not my teenagers are eating through my allowed quota. Hence, i'm thinking of setting up a centos machine to work as such: HDSL modem(natted to an onboard dhcp service for lan users) -> Centos - > Switch - LAN users Hw s

[CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

Hi all, excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database entries.. i've backed up the following directories using rsync: workspace/ /etc/httpd/ /etc/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/ /usr/lib/mysql/ /var/lib/mysql

[CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction? all i want to do is to clone my entire server and

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

have to create them all over again ? > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:49:21 -0400 > From: geb...@mousecar.com > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another > box.. > > > On 10/22/2009 04:06 AM RoLaNd RoL

[CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)

Hello all, am considering setting up centos as a file storage/ backup destination for Mac's TimeMachine. all my users would get synced directly to specific folders on this machine.. needless to say space is of importance. where every user has an average 200 GB of data to b synced (entire system

[CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

Hello, I've just finished installing Atlassian's bamboo it comes with two ways to start it up one through a bash shell script bamboo.sh and another through java script (this one is better as it has the ability to start up the service if it got shutdown for any reason) so I'm wondering how can I

[CentOS] Cron job? or something else? help..

Hello, i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve. there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done that way? i know that cronjob works on specified time but how can i set it to run with

[CentOS] I/o Read/write BYTes ?

Hello, is there a way to detect the r/w i/o bytes on a hdd under centos? i know i can do it through task manager under windows though what about centos through cli ? any advice? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

[CentOS] PAM configuration?

Hello all, Can anyone please help out with configuring PAM? I've checked a couple of tutorials online.. though most of them are related to Login though I want to set PAM up for SSH logins... I've set the max erroneous logins to just THREE and even after trying to login with an error pass I still

[CentOS] how to send mail from console

Hi all, i'm trying to get a script to send me an email whenever a certain condition takes place.. i'm afraid i dont have experience with mail command nor anything else related to sending emails for that matter.. i googled a bit and tried using mutt and mail ... though i do not recieve any email

[CentOS] DNS issue.. help ?!

Hi All, i have DNS configured on my centos 5.2 server. it's all working fine, right now i want to change the main public dns from one IP to another to do some testing (the new public dns ip has records which the old one doesnt have and it's done as such for testing) so i got into /etc/resolv.c

[CentOS] how to mount a remote directory on linux

Hello, i'd like to mount a remote directory that exists on a CENTOS 5 machine to a similar but local machine. i've made a local cron job that executes a script on the data provided in that folder hence the request above. if any help could be provided i'd appreciate it.. ps: sshfs seems unsupp

[CentOS] bind dns help?

Hello, I've recently inherited a network with bind dns already set in it.. the thing is, the previous admin added our networks "domain" as our default company's website.. lets say "abcd.com" first of all, I'm a complete newbie with DNS under linux so I've sruggled my way and finally landed on w

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: bind dns help?

tead of forwarding requests to my ISP's dns to resolve public.abcd.com it simply search it's own records. -- From: Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:27 PM To: "CentOS mailing list" Cc: ; Subject: [CentOS] Antwort: bind dns

[CentOS] server is extremly slugish - unable to troubleshoot..

Dear all, I have a virtual machine with the following specs: Core 2 DUO 3.2 GHZ 4 GB RAM hdd: IDE 320 GB 32 bit OS: centos 5.2 I'm using it for local development with a number of Virtual hosts, and a big mysql database. the prob: At times, with no specific reason. system becomes extremly

[CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

Hello, I have a centos 5.2 core 2 duo 3.0 GHZ with 2 GB ram which is working as a Virtual machine. i've just upgraded the hosting physical server from 32 GB to 64 GB of ram. which in turn, would require me to upgrade the VM to 8 GB. this is a 32 bit centos installation, would the system recogni

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ? On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:44:28 +0300 Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a centos 5.2 core 2 duo 3.0 GHZ with 2 GB ram which is working as a > Virtual machine. > i've just upgraded the hosting physical server from 32 GB to 64 GB o

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

it just that VM tools do not support PAE kernel? thanks Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:58:15 +0200 From: l.wandreb...@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org CC: r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ? On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:45:50 +0300 Roland RoLaNd wrote:

[CentOS] securing centos 5.2 for public usage

Dear all, i Just finished setting up an apache service on a centos 5.2 VM machine. i need to secure this machine as i'm soon to be setting a public IP over it where i'd be opening up the following services: 1. http 2. https 3. ssh Things i've done so far: 1. stopped root ssh access in sshd

[CentOS] best filesystem for a webserver

Dear all, i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB i've did a bit research, read alot of articles.. mainly i came up with the understanding that: EXT3 is the set it and forget it kind of filesystem. an

[CentOS] sendmail substitute?

Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? any help would be greatly appreciated.. thank you

[CentOS] how to do repetetive command in shell

Dear all, i'm writing a certain script which does a specific task in a repetitive manner, i'm going to give a similar script with the same concept hope you could advise me to a better way: USER1="roland" USER2="dany" USER3="kevin" cp -r /opt/$USER1/test /backup/$USER1 cp -r /opt/$USER2/test

[CentOS] how to run a command on a specific vnc display

Hello, I'm using selenium rc for automated testing on a centos box. working on the box itself has no problem as long as i start the server through terminal. though if i wanted to run tests remotely i have a problem with firefox not knowing on which display to run. i have a vnc client runnin

[CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice?

Hello, I have a log file with the following input: X , ID , Date, Time, Y 01,01368,2010-12-02,09:07:00,Pass 01,01368,2010-12-02,10:54:00,Pass 01,01368,2010-12-02,13:07:04,Pass 01,01368,2010-12-02,18:54:01,Pass 01,01368,2010-12-03,09:02:00,Pass 01,01368,2010-12-03,13:53:00,Pass 01,01368,2010-12-03

Re: [CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice?

r k in array[j] { print j, array[j][k]; # prints out what exactly? } } } > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:58:33 -0500 > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advic

Re: [CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice?

tOS] Text Proccessing script - advice? > > John Lundin wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:30:43PM +0200, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > > > (chuckle) That's a bit more verbose than necessary. As a one-liner: > > > > awk -F, '($4>"09:00:00&

Re: [CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice?

smikes...@gmail.com > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Text Proccessing script - advice? > > On 12/21/2010 1:40 PM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > > > > > > > awk -F , '{if ($4> "09:10:00") print $2 " was late on", $3 " by coming at

[CentOS] centos as a firewall help

Hello all, first of all i'd like to wish you all happy holidays, and a merry belated christmas. Secondly, i'm trying to setup  a centos 5.4 to act as: 1. firewall # can you check my config below and tell me if i missed anything? 2. DHCP # already configured 3. transparent squid proxy #  alread

[CentOS] DHCPD troubleshooting..? help!

Hello, i've setup dhcp as such: yum install dhcp vim /etc/dhcpd.config # # DHCP Server Configuration file. #   see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample  #ddns-update-style interim; ddns-update-style interim; ddns-rev-domainname "in-addr.arpa"; ignore client-updates; subnet 192.168.75.0 netma

[CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

Dear all, I'm trying to setup a development server which hosts a number of virtual hosts.and i need your advice with the following: 1. What's the best Filesystem to be used with an apache server?Relevant info: i. Mysql DB size' 1 GBii. Code directory size' 8 GB (Max file size is 5 KB)2. What's

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

m is fixed. wouldn't that be enough? > Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:01:56 -0800 > From: jd...@yahoo.com > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning > > From: Roland RoLaNd > >1. Drive A (320 GB): OS > >2. Dr

[CentOS] /etc/bashrc causing probs..

Hello,i've appended the below to /etc/bashrc, which is causing an error once i try to rsync using ssh to this specific box.any idea how to prevent bashrc to execute the below to a no login shell ? or any other advice for that matter. if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ];then # you are rootecho "

[CentOS] block port forwarding?

Hello,  i have internet usage rules for all of my network. only 2 servers have full access to the internet.. lately i've noticed that lots of traffic being produced by the servers .. is there a way to know whose using port forwarding to my server so they access the internet ? or is there a way t

Re: [CentOS] block port forwarding?

 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 0 > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:39:41 +0200 > From: eero.voloti...@iki.fi > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] block port forwarding? > > 2010/2/25 Roland RoLaNd : >> >> Hello

[CentOS] Linux printing server?

hello all, is there any other way to setup some kind of service that converts user's printed jobs to pdf files other than ghostscript + samba? if theres none, can any1 help me set ghostscript + samba up? __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 475

[CentOS] Java 1.5

Hello, i'm trying to install jboss where it asks me for java 1.5 i have both 1.4 and 1.6 installed with JAVA_HOME pointing to 1.6 i downloaded jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin  and executed it.. though nothing changed.. when i execute : alternatives --config java i can only see 1.4 and 1.6 any advi

[CentOS] help!

hello, i've just wrote the following : more ./*.csv | grep -i XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut  -d, -f2` hours  Kindly note that the average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t m...@dom

[CentOS] System and Server Status help ?

dear all, i can't count the times that webmin came to my rescue. whenever i face a dead end in doing something through CLI i always turn to webmin.. though at the moment i wanna learn how to do things through cli instead of relying on webmin as i said.. especially "System and Server Status" the

[CentOS] file sharing?

Hi all, I've inherited from a previous It personnel a centos server which works as a fileserver and at the same time has one Vmware (windows xp) working on it. due to file server data load, the windows xp services get unreachable until the data transfer from the fileserver itself slows down.. th

[CentOS] SVN server update

Dear all, i have SVN server 1.4.x working on production. i want to go ahead and update to 1.6.x i'm hoping your experience would help me prevent possible downtime.. is there any issues that may arise from updating the SVN server from one version to another on a production server?

[CentOS] Debugging slow apache server?

hello, i'm using an apache server to host 8 virtual hosts. even though this server is local.. 7 out of these 8 virtual hosts open extremly slow.. it takes around 10 seconds to open a page.. though the 8th (which is a completely different site) it opens fairly fast in around 1 or 2 seconds top

[CentOS] Centos to use two ISP concurrently..?

Hi all, I'm currently getting my Centos working as a proxy (squid) on a 2 Mb bandwidth plan that's serving 20 users. it's all good though our need for speed is increasing by the day. soon enough i'll be serving up to 60 user, hence the need to get higher bandwidth though here where the pro

[CentOS] centos 5.2

Hello, where can i get centos 5.2 64 bit ? all i can find is 5.5 ... any help? _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 _

[CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

Dear all, I'm not used to handling software raid. I've inherited a server which has raid 10 set. one of our disks failed, and it's to be replaced today. My question is; any hint how to add this new disk to the existing raid array ? first thought is :- Create identical partitions as other disks in t