Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
eating a custom installation CD for CentOS 5.1 64bit, and would like to then include the re-compiled XEN components in my kickstart. The installation CD installs the bare minimum for CentOS to run as an OS, since we're using cPanel - which installs the rest Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO,

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
e if you wanted to / needed to host a Windows 2003 VM on a Linux / UNIX server? I don't / can't sacrifice a whole server for a few ASP.NET aps. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
extra RAM & CPU is cheaper than a whole new server + monthly colo space :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http

Re: [CentOS] smtp mailer or SMART_HOST in sendmail.mc

2008-02-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Unless he "chattr -i sendmail.cf" the file ? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za f

Re: [CentOS] smtp mailer or SMART_HOST in sendmail.mc

2008-02-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Karanbir Singh wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: The obvious downside here is that if you ever rebuild your sendmail.cf file from the mc file in the future, this change will be overwritten. Unless he "chattr -i sendmail.cf" the file ? Why would anyone want to do that ? perhaps you mean

[CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
audit(1204274218.949:2142): avc: denied { sys_resource } for pid=2445 comm="xenstored" capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xenstored_t:s0 tclass=capability What am I doing wrong? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tom Brown wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all This is the first time I try and get Xen working, and want to install a few CentOS 5.1 32bit and FreeBSD 6.1 VM's on my CentOS 5.1 x64 server. Trying to get the first one to install is rather trivial, and I keep on running into errors. At f

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
carlopmart wrote: Tom Brown wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all This is the first time I try and get Xen working, and want to install a few CentOS 5.1 32bit and FreeBSD 6.1 VM's on my CentOS 5.1 x64 server. Trying to get the first one to install is rather trivial, and I keep on running

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg __

[CentOS] how to create a boot up sound / chime for servers?

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi I see some distro's, like Ubuntu has a nice short chime / sound when a machine is fully booted. How / where can I setup, activate, or create such a boot up sound? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdu

Re: [CentOS] ACPI reboot-issue (CentOS 4)

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
issue for us now. Any suggestions? I think I understand that turning ACPI off basically turns APM on, and that APM reboot works. Is there a way to do reboot with APM instead of ACPI? Yours, -S What does "poweroff now -r" do? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http:

Re: [CentOS] ACPI reboot-issue (CentOS 4)

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Simen Thoresen wrote: Simen Thoresen wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Simen Thoresen wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to troubleshoot my way thru a ACPI-issue on several machines with the Asus P5N32-E SLI motherboard (S775, Nvidia 680i chipset) http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&am

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
work server, and I told it to reboot, just to see what happens What controls the boot loader that it's complaining about? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
29 04:46:42 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1 x64 Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all > > This is the first time I try and get Xen working, and want to install > a few CentOS 5.1 32bit and FreeBSD 6.1 VM's on my CentOS 5.1 x64 server

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Nah, RHEL 5.1+ supports 32-bit domU (PAE and non PAE) on 64-bit dom0. Actually RHEL Xen is 3.1 with the brain damaged 3.0 userland utilities. -Ross - Original Message - I've run into an interesting problem, which trying to inst

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
2316 kB NFS_Unstable:0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2453336 kB Committed_AS: 145988 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 2204 kB VmallocChunk: 34359735799 kB Even though Linux reports only 713MB RAM, the machine has 2GB RAM. How / where do I fix this? -- Kind Regard

Re: [CentOS] Re: how to create a boot up sound / chime for servers?

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Scott Silva wrote: on 2-29-2008 2:54 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi I see some distro's, like Ubuntu has a nice short chime / sound when a machine is fully booted. How / where can I setup, activate, or create such a boot up sound? Do you want something using the system speake

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Nah, RHEL 5.1+ supports 32-bit domU (PAE and non PAE) on 64-bit dom0. Actually RHEL Xen is 3.1 with the brain damaged 3.0 userland utilities. -Ross

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_Uinstance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-02-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
6) Also is this a workstation with Xen domU's for testing/development or a full blown Xen server for running production VMs? -Ross This will be a full blown Xen server for production purposes. It will run max 8 Xen guests with cPanel on each one. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers

Re: [CentOS] Re: how to create a boot up sound / chime for servers?

2008-03-01 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Scott Silva wrote: on 2-29-2008 10:55 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 2-29-2008 2:54 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi I see some distro's, like Ubuntu has a nice short chime / sound when a machine is fully booted. How / where can I setup, activate, or c

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1x32 dum_Uinstance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-03-01 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: That shouldn't be, the list acts like any other CentOS list, maybe you entered your email address incorrectly, got spam filtered, or is just temporarily broken, but it should send you an email upon subscribi

Re: [CentOS] Re: how to create a boot up sound / chime for servers?

2008-03-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-1-2008 8:26 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 2-29-2008 10:55 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 2-29-2008 2:54 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi I see some distro's, like Ubuntu has a nice short chime /

[CentOS] question about network repositories

2008-03-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
for all of the distro's, so really only need a few packages now and then, and instead of getting them from the net everytime, get them from the LAN repository? Then, how would I do this? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, htt

Re: [CentOS] crypto, readline and zlib libraries - Postgres install

2008-03-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
evel, etc) that can also be installed. HTH -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg ___

Re: [CentOS] question about network repositories

2008-03-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I'm thinking about setting up a local / LAN respository for my CentOS, and probably other (Fedora Core) disto's, but have never done it before, so here's some questions: If

[CentOS] some help on mrepo please

2008-03-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
he CentOS repositories. Where do I copy the rpm's that I have already downloaded to? For example, all the rpm's in /var/cache/*/packages folders? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Li

[CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tru Huynh wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:21:04AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm looking for the linux source files for CentOS 5.1 2.6.18-53.el5. ... Please search a little on the wiki page before asking questions. http://wiki.centos.org/ There is a little Searc

Re: [CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Besides, VMWare & Virtualbox needs it to install properly on the system, what do you tell them? We won't support you, so your programs won't work on our system? VMware and Virtualbox both work fine with kernel-devel installe

Re: [CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Wojtek Pilorz wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tru Huynh wrote: [...] Caveat: if you make your own kernel, you keep the pieces if you break your system. Don't expect support here.

Re: [CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please search a little on the wiki page before asking questions. > http://wiki.centos.org/ > > There is a little Search box... > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowT

Re: [CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm looking for the linux source files for CentOS 5.1 2.6.18-53.el5. To [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ll /usr/src/kernels/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Mar 4 10:57 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5-x86_64 kernel-devel is OK but you hav

Re: [CentOS] Re: some help on mrepo please

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-3-2008 11:40 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: I have downloaded & installed mrepo on my SME 7.3 (CentOS 4.6) server, which is our main file & email server, and internet gateway. I have got CentOS 5.0 i386 & x86_64 DVD's, and CentOS 5.1 i386 & x

Re: [CentOS] some help on mrepo please

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I have got CentOS 5.0 i386 & x86_64 DVD's, and CentOS 5.1 i386 & x86_64 CD1, where do I copy these? I have setup /etc/mrepo.conf.d/centos5.conf with both i386 & x86_64 arch, but how will mrepo know that CentOS 5.0

[CentOS] VMWare error: Use of uninitialized value in string eq

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tue Feb 12 13:02:30 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hos

Re: [CentOS] VMWare error: Use of uninitialized value in string eq

2008-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vmware-mui-distrib]# vmware-cmd -l Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/VMware/VmPerl.pm line 114. *WHAT* is on line 114 of VmPerl.pm? #Force version

Re: [CentOS] Keeping machines online

2008-03-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
er), which can then send a WOL (Wake On Lan) signal to the PC's that have switched off. Some more expensive UPS's have a function to turn PC's on when they're on -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, htt

Re: [CentOS] Colors in vi for user root

2008-03-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
_ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos That's if vim enhanced is installed. Otherwise just install it with yum install vim -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.s

[CentOS] error mounting NFS client on NFS server

2008-03-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
venus mountd[10383]: authenticated mount request from 192.168.10.11:989 for /backup (/backup) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http

Re: [CentOS] error mounting NFS client on NFS server

2008-03-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Gopinath M wrote: this problem occurs when there is a problem is hard disk Rudi Ahlers wrote: My NFS server is on 192.168.10.10, with the following setup in /etc/exports: /backup 192.168.10.0/24(rw) Then, form a client (192.168.10.11), I run mount 192.168.10.10:/backup /bck, but get the

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit and software RAID 6?

2008-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
er as RAID 0), as it will give you better performance and will be much more reliable -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Forums: http://Forum.SoftDux.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Intstalling a SUNIX SATA2100 PCI SATA Card on CentOS4.6?

2008-03-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
or Fedora Core 6, and the drivers on the CD supplied is for Redhat 9.0. So, how do I install get this card working on CentOS 4.6, with 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL Kernel?> -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Li

Re: [CentOS] test

2008-03-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
/listinfo/centos got it :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
from your IP, if it's static. Or signup for a DynDNS account, and then only allow SSH access from your DynDNS domain -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
nyone who finds that web page is given access? ___ Why? What is on that site which is very specific to the setup? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Lin

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-25 Thread Rudi Ahlers
John R Pierce wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: ... sounds great for getting around a remote dynamic IP address, but some more authentication/security on that web page is necessary, otherwise, anyone who finds that web page is given access

[CentOS] how do I create a custom CD from an existing CD?

2008-03-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
#x27;m not 100% sure what the commands should look like Can someone please give me a sample of the whole command needed for such an operation? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other techn

Re: [CentOS] Re: how do I create a custom CD from an existing CD?

2008-03-26 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-26-2008 3:49 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now, so I can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 5.1 x64 CD, and re-create the ISO to write to CD again and ins

Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
ibraries to function properly. I know Xen also installs 1 or 2 Gnome libs along the way. It might be worthwhile to check with rpm which Gnome stuff got installed, and which packages requires them :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my

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

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
d. So are you saying that one should disable simple file sharing in Windows? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for We

Re: [CentOS] how do I create a custom CD from an existing CD?

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Rodney Mercer wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 00:49 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now, so I can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 5.1 x64 CD, and re-create the ISO to write to CD again and

Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
n this. If release 5 is always the latest release, does that mean when 5.6 comes out, it will still be v5? And how does the transition for major releases (from 4 to 5, 5 to 6) work? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://bl

Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Scott Silva wrote: on 3-27-2008 10:50 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Robert Nichols wrote: The upgrade to 5.1 is seamless. Your actual version (the replacement for "$releasever" in the URL in the yum config file) is "5", not "5.0", which will always tra

Re: [CentOS] Re: how do I create a custom CD from an existing CD?

2008-03-27 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Johnny Hughes wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Scott Silva wrote: on 3-26-2008 3:49 PM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Hi all This may sound funny, but I can't get onto any websites right now, so I can't even google. I want to customize the contents of my CentOS 5.1 x64 CD, and re-crea

[CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.

Re: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS 6 probably. Upstream really can't change the Xen hypervisor too much within a release as that goes against the distribution's philos

Re: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS 6 probably. Upstream really can't change the Xen hypervisor too much w

Re: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
/centos oops, thank you for pointing it out to me :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg

Re: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Ray Leventhal wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-28 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Fri Mar 28, 2008 07:47PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: 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

[CentOS] how do I run something on a newly installed server, on it's 1st boot only?

2008-03-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all I'm busy with a kickstart file to automate server installations, and I need to run a bash script right after the server has been installed for the first time. But the script only needs to run once, and it needs to run automatically. How do I do that? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahler

Re: [CentOS] how do I run something on a newly installed server, on it's 1st boot only?

2008-03-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
fully. And of course copy the script to the server using the %post part of kickstart ;) Regards, Michel On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 09:11 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm busy with a kickstart file to automate server installations, and I need to run a bash script right

Re: [CentOS] sofware caused connection abort

2008-03-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
other times it resets often -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff __

Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)

2008-03-29 Thread Rudi Ahlers
an old 14" CRT, so by rebooting in safe mode, it drops everything to a safe working mode -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.c

[CentOS] Xen 3.2 x64 rpms?

2008-03-30 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all Does anyone know where I can get Xen 3.2 x64 rpm's? I see there are Xen 3.2 rpm's on the Xen downloads page for CentOS 5, but they're 32bit -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
g, but one is allowed to use other programs not supplied by CentOS. And surely if the user feels that xyz-1.2.3.rpm is giving him problems, and he wants to use xyz-1.2.0.rpm instead that's his choice? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
something like rpm -ivh http://rmpforge-website/rpms/package-1.2.3.54-234.rpm - or something -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
hould yield the same results -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
then exclude it (and probably all related rpms) from yum updating. There may be better ways. Kai Well, yes that could work. use "yum erase package name" to remove it. But, can one install a specific version of a package from the yum command? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftD

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
/tmp/.test2: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# test -f /tmp/.test2 ; echo $? 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# test -e /tmp/.test2 ; echo $? 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Li

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Don't use HTML, complain to user :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za fo

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?

2008-03-31 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Tim Alberts wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: (BTW, putting * around lines you type is REALLY bad quoting style) Copied from HTML into email program. then sent as plain text. complain to thunderbird

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
o/centos Probably because "rpm -e {package name}" and "yum remove {package name}" does different things. I'd suggest run yum remove openoffice.org-core && yum clean all -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my techn

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Johnny Hughes wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Probably because "rpm -e {package name}" and "yum remove {package name}" does different things. I'd suggest run yum remove openoffice.org-core && yum clean all They don't really do different things to the rpm

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem

2008-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Jim Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, I thought yum had a different cache / database of what is installed? Yum keeps a cache and database of what's in the repositories, so it can search more easily when you're lo

[CentOS] iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 - no network connectivity from Xen VPS

2008-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
.18-8.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:56:43 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux As such, I cannot ping the VPS from the main server, nor the main server from the VPS (I use xm console vm01 to enter the VPS). Any idea how I can fix this? It's on a production hosting server -- Kind Regards R

[CentOS] CentOS 5 repo down?

2008-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=updates error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error -- Kind Regards Rudi A

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 repo down?

2008-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Lance Davis wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi I'm getting a 500 error when I try to install anything with yum, is this normal? No - the mirrorlist htpd daemon had problems - should be ok now. Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum install libxenguest Loading "in

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos What about Zimbra or Scallix? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Simon Jolle wrote: 2008/4/7, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is the closest open source mail server I can replace exchange with that provides the nearest equivalent in user experience? What about Zimbra or Scallix? Both not Open

Re: [CentOS] Re: MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
fo/centos maybe or maybe they will start suing everyone with a Zimbra server, since it's now their property and doesn't comply with their licenses ? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for

Re: [CentOS] Building a 64bit rpm

2008-04-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
build mine as root ( a normal user account gave me some erorrs), and all seems well? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web

[CentOS] can't start iscsi - and can't find answer on google

2011-01-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
one seen this before? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code? > > 3) Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use? > > 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent? > > What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\ > > Thanks! > > Maybe cause it&#x

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-19 Thread Rudi Ahlers
+ALT+DEL? I don't think the OP wanted a plaster, he wants a solution :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
d a lot of invoices and statements already processed then she may need to redo it. Now, how do you explain to your boss that you just cost him another day with an expensive accountant because you're too ignorant to properly address the issue? -- Kind Regards

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
ust to prove a point. P.S. And I don't know the answer either. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
care if you feel the PC is your's, as long as it's a company PC, with company data and company property, we will take a look at the data on it. I'm not talking about your home / private PC, that's an altogether different story. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Sof

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 01/20/2011 02:55 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> I don't agree with that, sorry. >> >> A few years ago one of our staff members decided his salary isn't good >> enough so he started a side-line busi

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 20/01/2011 17:11, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> The message I'm trying to bring across is that users in the company >> shouldn't have passwords which admin doesn't know, or can't access. >> The

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Rudi Ahlers
hand I worked at a financial institution or something like that then the security would have been more strict. I don't see the need for it in our office. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell:

[CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
cally signal a bad one (reg light, light constant on , etc) but I can't figure out how todo this from Linux. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 08

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm >> building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID a

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm >> building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID a

Re: [CentOS] putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
different lists and will have different view points / experience to share? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:56 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/23/11 12:55 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Mark  wrote: >>> >>> Can you tell us why you cross posted this to the Ubuntu mailing list? >>> Are you just fishing for answe

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>> >>> This page might help: >>> http://pikawarp.org/?p=139 >>> >>> >>> Talks about setting entries in /sys/class/leds. >>

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
SuperMicro, IBM, Dell & HP all have decent storage chassis so now it's just a matter of getting the software to work nicely :) I have looked at OpenFiler (very outdated), FreeNAS (a bit limited, 0.8 looks promising), Nexenta (very nice, but also very limited) and just plain'ol CentOS fo

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