[CentOS] clarifications

2008-03-15 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hello all, I've been trying to get spamassassin and clamav working, but got really confused when I realized there are various incarnations of the software. Originally, I started out with just spamassassin, but learned there is also an SA-milter. Can someone tell me which of the various s

[CentOS] couple of problems

2008-03-22 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hello all, I finally got spamass-milter and clamav-milter running, but have one error I've not been able to determine what is happening. From the log entry I see this line: SYSERR(sa-milt): hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied: 39 Time(s) any pointers here?

[CentOS] Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 38, Issue 23

2008-03-23 Thread Sam Drinkard
Ann, Actually I had to add read / execute permissions to the aliases.db to stop the error messages. I'd just like to know what clamav is doing to it or why it needs to read it. I installed the clamav with yum but for some reason it does not know it's in there. How to fix? Sam

[CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". # yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories kbs-CentOS-Extras 100%

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the c

Re: [CentOS] Frustration with yum

2008-03-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: I suppose it's more of a frustration with myself, but can some kind soul please help me with the procedure to tell yum a package is in fact installed? Here is the output from the command "yum update". # yum

[CentOS] Rejecting valid mail (including this mailing list)

2008-03-25 Thread Sam Drinkard
Recently, I added the below line to my sendmail.mc and rebuilt. Everything was working just fine until sometime today. In looking over the maillog, it seems if almost every piece of mail was rejected because of this configuration - mail that I know is OK, valid, and not a source of spam, like

[CentOS] ClamAV version(s)

2008-04-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
I had clamav-milter working as well as clamd, then for some reason clamd stopped and would not create the socket. After much hair pulling, I finally tracked the problem(s) down to /etc/clamd.conf. After commenting all the stuff out that was providing errors, it is now working again. I had so

[CentOS] Latest version of clamav-milter

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi folks, Can someone tell me the latest version of clamav-milter x84_64? I just yum installed it but it is version 0.88.2.el4kb, and the version on my server is 0.93. Is the difference between the two due to being different platforms? Thanks.. Sam _

[CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in p

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
linux connections and I have never noticed the problem you are describing. Greg Ennis On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote: Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my serve

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
linux connections and I have never noticed the problem you are describing. Greg Ennis On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote: Hi again, I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my serve

Re: [CentOS] Latest version of clamav-milter

2008-05-07 Thread Sam Drinkard
Karanbir Singh wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Can someone tell me the latest version of clamav-milter x84_64? I just yum installed it but it is version 0.88.2.el4kb, and the version on my server is 0.93. Is the difference between the two due to being different platforms? the ClamAV in

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-09 Thread Sam Drinkard
Dag, I thought I had the latest version, but alas, I found I did not. Grabbed the latest version and I must admit, those few tips you put in your blog really makes a huge difference. Putty always appeared to be a slow updated package, and while I don't use it much, I do have to have it f

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Sam Drinkard
Ryan Nichols wrote: To all.. I was using a Gigabyte motherboard, and the board seems like a bad choice. What do you guys recommend for a decent server board that would use a Dual Core processor and DDR2 ram. I dont want to replace the CPU and Mem i already have, just find a decent board

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Sam Drinkard
Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware market. cheers

[CentOS] Help!

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Drinkard
Folks, I have a bit of a problem and can't seem to figure out what is getting broken or why. I've been pulling my hair out trying to get clamav or clamav-milter to install and permit yum update to continue. What is happening is this: I yum install the clamav package, but when I try to do

Re: [CentOS] Help!

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Drinkard
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 10:33 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: Folks, I have a bit of a problem and can't seem to figure out what is getting broken or why. I've been pulling my hair out trying to get clamav or clamav-milter to install and permit yum update to contin

Re: [CentOS] Help!

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:33:39 -0400: Please, use subjects that make sense! And as a general hint, it's really not good style to lament about "missing dependencies" with telling more. The files are coming from sourceforge P

Re: [CentOS] Help!

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:23:05 -0400: Anyhow, it works well if I don't try to update the machine Your problem comes probably from mixing repos. As I said: read back on the list, has been discussed here already several times this spring/s

[CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Drinkard
Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to 1. Is there a good tu

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-10 Thread Sam Drinkard
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-11 Thread Sam Drinkard
Lanny Marcus wrote: On 6/10/08, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it re

[CentOS] What are these TCP errors telling me?

2008-06-30 Thread Sam Drinkard
Lately, the error messages below have been showing up in the log for the past 3 days. Is something broken, or someone trying to break in or what? I'm completely clueless about this. If you could, since I'm receiving the list in digest form, cc a copy directly to me? Many thanks... Sam **

[CentOS] End of support / life

2008-07-18 Thread Sam Drinkard
Since I'm not ready to upgrade to the CentOS 5 line anytime soon, Can someone tell me when support for the 4 line will come? Many thanks... Sam ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Yum strangeness

2008-07-18 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi all, I was about to do an update on my server, but looking at what the output was and here's the output from the beginning with other parts left off. I currently don't even have the clamav server installed, but am using the 0.93 version of clamav-milter. I've never seen yum throw in so

[CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-18 Thread Sam Drinkard
I've apparently gotten myself into somewhat of a bind. I've been trying to exclude various packages from the different repos, and while I *think* I've gotten a working configuration again, it it still pulling stuff in that I have excluded I think in the right repos, but things I have no use fo

[CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-18 Thread Sam Drinkard
I've apparently gotten myself into somewhat of a bind. I've been trying to exclude various packages from the different repos, and while I *think* I've gotten a working configuration again, it it still pulling stuff in that I have excluded I think in the right repos, but things I have no use fo

[CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-18 Thread Sam Drinkard
I've apparently gotten myself into somewhat of a bind. I've been trying to exclude various packages from the different repos, and while I *think* I've gotten a working configuration again, it it still pulling stuff in that I have excluded I think in the right repos, but things I have no use fo

Re: [CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-19 Thread Sam Drinkard
Well to start, I'm not that new to CentOS, but I've never used yum except to keep things up to date, but after reading a lot of articles, I started adding software I'd never used before, and unfortunately, the most up to date versions came from repositories which I thought were all the same. I

Re: [CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-20 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi Lanny, Well, for the most part, I have all the security issues taken care of w/r/t logins, ssh, no root logins, etc. My main problem is as I stated is the fact that the co-lo site is somewhat difficult to get access to, however if I call the office, someone will meet me at the place an

Re: [CentOS] Re: configuration request

2008-07-21 Thread Sam Drinkard
Unfortunately, the ISP is sort of an independent outfit, and while they are not small in any sense of the word, their equipment room is stacked full of servers from floor to ceiling. I'm not aware of any power related switches where one could ssh into a "box" and cycle the power for one server

[CentOS] NOOBE help

2009-06-03 Thread Sam Drinkard
I know, I should not have to ask this question, but it appears that ALL my previous yum.repos.d entries have been trashed, with the only ones left is base, CentOS Media then the mirrors.rpmforge.reo, rhel-mondo.repo, rpmforge.repo, and webmin.repo. I've been bitten by the mixing of repositories

[CentOS] Error messages? or what

2009-06-12 Thread Sam Drinkard
I've been seeing this kind of crap now for some time, and only in the past couple of weeks did I realize I was using the Plus Kernel instead of the normal stock kernel. Could this have something to do with it? Messages also appear mentioning something about a PowerNow K-8, which I thought was

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

2009-07-23 Thread Sam Drinkard
Bob Hoffman wrote: > Okay, I have a server connected to the net but have not added fail2ban or > anything on top of my firewall yet. > > Thought you guys might get a kick out of this one user, ip is from china, > who has got a heck of a knack for making assumptions on possible usernames. > > Enjoy

[CentOS] Dependency problems

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Below is output from yum update. Don't know when or what's caused the dependencies to go haywire with the apache or httpd stuff, but would appreciate pointers. The repos don't include rpmforge, only the standard CentOS repositories.# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, protec

[CentOS] A little more info

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
I forgot to mention this is an x86_64 machine. Sometime somewhere back several months ago, the centos plus kernel got installed, and I didn't notice it until just recently. It's not in use. I understand there are some i386 packages already installed, and at one point, I thought I had set yum

Re: [CentOS] Dependency problems

2009-07-24 Thread Sam Drinkard
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:07, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> ---> Package httpd.x86_64 0:2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2 set to be updated >> ---> Package httpd-devel.x86_64 0:2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2 set to be updated >> [...] >> E

[CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-26 Thread Sam Drinkard
Over the past year or so, I've collected several errors that some I have found the solution for, others, like the one below are quite befuddling. I get this one every week when /etc/cron.weekly runs. What the heck is the "S" or what it is looking for? Also, I've checked with cpan, and accord

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-26 Thread Sam Drinkard
Mr. X wrote: > > --- On Sun, 7/26/09, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > >> From: Sam Drinkard >> Subject: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems >> To: CentOS@centos.org >> Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 6:16 PM >> Over the past year or so, I've >> co

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Drinkard
Alan Sparks wrote: > Sam Drinkard wrote: > >>> NET::DNS is a core perl module. You don't want to get any version from CPAN. >>> >>> $locate DNS.pm >>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS.pm >>> >>>

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sam Drinkard wrote on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:32:54 -0400: > > >> I don't have a perl version installed at that location. I've >> only added a few modules from cpan. >> > > You have no Perl, but installed modules via CPAN? Dig

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Sam Drinkard
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 21:16, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> I get this one every week when /etc/cron.weekly runs. >> > > Which one? You never included the error message you actually have... > Please re-read your original

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-28 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kwan Lowe wrote: >> If I recall, but I'll look back, I quoted the exact message output from >> the run of cron.weekly, but here it is again:: >> >> # ./makewhatis.cron >> cat: /usr/share/man/man3/s: No such file or directory >> Read file error: /usr/share/man/man3/s No such file or directory >> cat

[CentOS] rpmforge.repo

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Drinkard
How come rpmforge.repo wants to install a whole slew of perl modules, yet if I leave rpmforge.repo out of the update process, none of the perl modules shows up? Here's the rpmforge.repo file.. do any of yall see anything wrong with anything in there? Sam # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Re

[CentOS] rpmforge.repo

2009-08-06 Thread Sam Drinkard
Sorry I didn't quote the reply from Christoph Maser... was on another machine. Anyhow, this is the complete yum output with rpmforge.repo active. # yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, protectbase Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de

[CentOS] New installation woes

2008-11-18 Thread Sam Drinkard
I've just installed CentOS 5.2 for the x86_64 on a SuperMicro X6DA8-G board with two 250g SATA drives configured in the bios as a raid 1 array. After getting the base installed, I've tried to yum update the system and I wind up with these errors --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missi

Re: [CentOS] New installation woes

2008-11-19 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:27:24 +0100: You seem to have the rpmforge repository installed, because the package in the base repositories is called perl-DBD-MySQL (note the mixed case MySQL). and got replaced because the default install of yum-pr

[CentOS] Maybe a dumb question, but....

2008-11-20 Thread Sam Drinkard
Folks, I am totally ignorant about xen, and while I've been doing a little reading, I've not yet figured out if xen is running under CentOS or if CentOS is running under xen on this 5.2 version of CentOS. I do know that the whole system from the user standpoint is way slower than it was under

[CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-21 Thread Sam Drinkard
Subject pretty much says it all. I want the 5.2 without the xen kernel. I've grabbed bits from 2 different mirrors and they all appear to have xen on them. It would be very nice if someone could throw some text into the mirrors file to differentiate the two "versions".. Oh yeah, I need the x

Re: [CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-21 Thread Sam Drinkard
Fabian Arrotin wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Subject pretty much says it all. I want the 5.2 without the xen kernel. I've grabbed bits from 2 different mirrors and they all appear to have xen on them. It would be very nice if someone could throw some text into the mirrors fi

Re: [CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-22 Thread Sam Drinkard
Vandaman wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Do not install "Virtualization" and you won't have xen. There are no different ISOs for "with xen" and "without xen". This means that the OP did not even bother checking the responses to his question. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/cento

Re: [CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-22 Thread Sam Drinkard
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sam, please don't abandon threads you initiated yourself about the same topic, this is noob behavior. You should know better by now. You waste other people's time as they cannot know all content of all threads. Kai Kai, I'm not abandoning the threads.. I have bee

Re: [CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-22 Thread Sam Drinkard
MHR wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fabian Arrotin wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Subject pretty much says it all. I want the 5.2 without the xen kernel. I've grabbed bits from 2 different mirrors and they all appear

Re: [CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-22 Thread Sam Drinkard
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: unexpected, I have to ask questions. I'm amazed that I missed the virtualization when I did the install.. I'm going to blow it all away and start fresh, mainly because I didn&#x

[CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-12 Thread Sam Drinkard
List, After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a "back" function on any pages or tabs. Also, I get some kind of strange message "Assertion Failed ASSERT:***Search:_installLocation: engine has no file! Stack Tr

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-13 Thread Sam Drinkard
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:55 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> List, >> >> After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started >> seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a "back" function on any >

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-13 Thread Sam Drinkard
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:55 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> List, >> >> After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I started >> seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a "back" function on any >

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Sam Drinkard
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >>After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I >started >> seeing some problems, wherein I no longer have a >"back" function on any >> pages or tabs. >&g

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Sam Drinkard
Robert wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: >> >> >>>After I think the last or next to last update to firefox, I >started >>> seeing some problems, wherein I no longer hav

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Sam Drinkard
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:07 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: >>> >>> >>>>After I think the last or next to las

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox (Solved)

2009-01-14 Thread Sam Drinkard
Problem solved! Apparently, something got trashed in the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory(s). After deleting the .mozilla dir, restarted FF and all works as advertized now. Thanks for the help and suggestions guys... Sam ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] (Semi-OT) Problems with Firefox (Solved)

2009-01-14 Thread Sam Drinkard
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:09 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> Problem solved! Apparently, something got trashed in the >> ~/.mozilla/firefox directory(s). After deleting the .mozilla dir, >> restarted FF and all works as advertized now.

[CentOS] ISPConfig & local administration

2009-03-25 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi list, I recently installed a package for Centos5.2 called ISPConfig. This was recommended by a buddy of mine who hosts a number of websites for various clients. Although I don't host any websites except my own, there were some features in the package that I did like the looks of. Wel

[CentOS] Possible bug?

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Drinkard
I had some problems with apache, and there were so many, (caused by removing ispconfig) I decided to just remove and re-install. This is what happened when I tried to do so, both from remote and via console. I tried the DVD as well as yum, and got essentially the same thing. My webserver is

Re: [CentOS] Possible bug?

2009-04-13 Thread Sam Drinkard
nate wrote: > Sam Drinkard wrote: > >> I had some problems with apache, and there were so many, (caused by >> removing ispconfig) I decided to just remove and re-install. This is >> what happened when I tried to do so, both from remote and via console. >> I tri