[CentOS] Help with UML editor?

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
A colleague, using CentOS 5 64-bit, installed by me, asked me for the following assistance: "The site I was trying to get to was http://www.eclipsedownload.com/. I downloaded the EclipseUML free version, but it's obviously not giving me the information I need. I have Java packages in Eclipse

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Get some canned air and blow the dirt off of the sensor in the drive. No change. The drive is the coffee mug t

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 Get some canned air and blow the di

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-25 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37:32 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sen

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-26 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:37

Re: [CentOS] Natulius CD burner does not accept my 700Mb CD-R disks

2007-12-26 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:11 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: Almost forgot. IIRC, usb devices are always scsi. My usb flash drives all appear as scsi. So we can be certain that you need a scsi stack of loadable modules similar to the ones on my sy

Re: [CentOS] Failed to enable keyboard

2007-12-27 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a set of systems that I have to build that cannot be booted from CD. So I put the drive in another system, do the install, move the drive, and fix the video with system-config-display. But seems perhaps there is another (small) problem. The

Re: [CentOS] Failed to enable keyboard

2007-12-27 Thread Scott Ehrlich
What is the make/model of this system? I have yet to touch a system (PC-based) that does not allow access to BIOS. Scott On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a set of systems that I have to build that cannot

Re: [CentOS] MOre on buring ISOs

2007-12-27 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Correction. I cannot read a CD in this Storix drive. I thought I had recently, but not. I used this drive all the time on this system when it had Centos 4.x installed. Probably the only 4.x system left around here is a Trixbox 2.2.10 install. I

[CentOS] Help with dump/restore

2007-12-28 Thread Scott Ehrlich
So I recently installed an Overland Arcvault 12 tape library on a server to back up /var/log/ and /home. The server is an out-of-box RHEL 5 install, with all packages selected, in an isolated lan, with no package updates. Also, this is a live server that cannot be brought down for backups, and

Re: [CentOS] Help with dump/restore

2007-12-28 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Jeffrey Ross wrote: Jon Stanley wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 10:16 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: drive. Dump tends to be unhappy if the filesystem changes during the run, so you might be better off using tar. Also, some tape drives are Note what Linus has to

Re: [CentOS] display resolution

2007-12-30 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, dny wrote: On Dec 30, 2007 11:09 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, there's your problem :-) OK, I am just kidding. Do what ralph said and run system-config-display from the command line. that's not installed with kde. so i installed it with yumex. run

[CentOS] Help with full and incremental dumps

2007-12-30 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have an Overland Arcvault 12 library with a full LTO3 magazine of 400/800 GB tapes. It is connected directly to the fileserver via a SCSI card/cable. The two main directories I want to back up are /var/log, which is on one filesystem, and /home, which is on another. There are _currently_ n

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:21:34 -0500 Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 09:33 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Peter Farrell

[CentOS] Dump levels?

2008-01-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I created a cron job to invoke a dump script according to Tower Of Hanoi. I am dumping a subdirectory and a filesystem. The backup script, with some other lines removed: /path/to/dump -0 -fv /dev/nst0 /var/log /path/to-dump -3 -fv /dev/nst0 /home When viewing the dump logs, it looks like it is

[CentOS] NFS/NIS and firewalls

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a few C5 machines on an isolated LAN that connect to a RHEL5 server via NFS and NIS for authentication. I discovered that one of the C5 workstations worked fine for NFS exporting, but refused to collaborate with the EL5 server for NIS user authentication. I had successfully connected

Re: [CentOS] Howto for LDAP authentication with replication

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:40 -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: Can anyone point me to a how to or beginners guide to setting up LDAP authentication on CentOS5 with replication? well, if you want something that's comprehensive, I probably can't offer much.

[CentOS] md5 passwords?

2008-01-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On a C4.4 system, I want to add md5 passwords for the grub boot menu to prevent users from making selections other than the default boot options. I also want to add md5 passwords when attempting single user mode boots (may be answered by first request). The same for C5 systems. Thanks. Sco

[CentOS] Out of disk space at 2 GB?

2008-01-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On an ext3 filesystem, what would cause the system to claim it is out of disk space for a program writing information to disk, when df -h shows ample GB available and the file is being written to local disk rather than an nfs-mounted filesystem? I believe the hard drive is good. Ideas welcome

[CentOS] tty login vs Gnome screen lock

2008-01-15 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Centos 4.4 system (unpatched) that lets me log in via tty/console, but when the Gnone screen lock kicks in, my password is unable to unlock. I am absolutely certain I an typing the correct password. I had to Alt-F1 to log in that way, issue a sudo reboot, then logged back in, enable

[CentOS] Fun with nosetuid!

2008-01-15 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On an unpatched Centos 4.4 system I chmod'd /usr/bin/sudo to ug+s, and set the filesystem in /etc/fstab to defaults,nosetuid. Reboot, and am told sudo needs to be set to setuid root. An ls -l shows rwsrws-- root root sudo I had to use a rescue CD to undo /etc/fstab for the filesystem partitio

[CentOS] screen locking - pam and xscreensaver

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Ehrlich
For an out-of-box Centos install that utilizes PAM for xscreensaver within both gnome and kde, what factors would lead to xscreensaver not being able to properly unlock the user? I reviewed the logs and nothing helped. I performed ldd on xscreensaver and an ls -l on each dependency proved th

Re: [CentOS] screen locking - pam and xscreensaver

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bob Beers wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 3:32 PM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If Xwindows was to be disabled, and only tty was used, what would be the best option for ensuring the logged-in session was locked after a determined amount of inactivity> If log

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

2008-01-18 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote: Jimmy Bradley a écrit : Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when I click on a link to

[CentOS] xscreensaver lock problem resolved!

2008-01-18 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Hello to all: I'd like to thank everyone who offered insight to why xscreensaver lock wasn't working. Just this morning I performed a last-minute search, based on some leads, of possible pam configuration issues. One URL that popped up via google was http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs//pa

[CentOS] limiting cron's capability?

2008-01-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a world-readable directory? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] limiting cron's capability?

2008-01-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Garrick Staples wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:02:38PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich alleged: Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a world-readable directory? Aren't all cronjobs generally al

[CentOS] crontab - corrected version

2008-01-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
So I want to see if there is a way to restrict crontab from running an executable or anything else from a world-writable directory, or subdirectory thereof. Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

[CentOS] Appreciate the help...

2008-01-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I received some interesting answers to my cron question. Most people said it was not possible. One person reviewed cron's source code and said the source would need to be modified. One person said I should mount the filesystem with noexec. I'll review and test the answers as best I can. T

Re: [CentOS] Appreciate the help...

2008-01-24 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:12:13PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: To answer several people's curiosities of why I keep pushing - when I'm tasked with a quest, I try to tap all my resources, including this list, to find a solution. One never

[CentOS] Breaking Windows XP user password?

2008-01-24 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Granted this is not a UNIX system, but in case there is a UNIX tool to accomplish the goal... I am looking for a bootable CD/DVD (or application to be placed on a CD/DVD to be made bootable) that can let me mount a Windows XP drive/partition (SP1 or SP2), and force-crack the admin password (ev

Re: [CentOS] Appreciate the help...

2008-01-24 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I try not to wear out the list, but do what the list was created for - discussion and inquiry of UNIX and related topics. No, you are mistaken there - this is not a Generic UNIX and related topics list, this is a list directed

[CentOS] Timing a command

2008-01-25 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I want to keep track of how long a task is running. Thinking it wouldn't take that long, I opted not to run time before it. The fact that it is taking a long time, if I revisit the machine in the morning, what would be the best way to find out what time it ended? In this case, I'm using mt t

[CentOS] Cron on certain days?

2008-01-28 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Is it possible for me to schedule cron to say run script A on the first Friday of the month, script B on the second Friday of the month, script C, etc.? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

[CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in my office. I was hop

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hangin

[CentOS] Dump answer thanks

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Thanks to everyone who pointed out (and, had I read the man page, would have discovered) dump is for ext2/3, not cifs. And to those who gave insightful, brief summaries of how backuppc and amanda work. Much appreciated to all. Scott ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] VMWare 6.02 and Linux screen saver?

2008-01-31 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a user who freshly installed CentOS on their desktop. They also installed VMWare 6.02. When they click the mouse on their Linux desktop, the screen saver properly activates. But, when they click the mouse in their VMWare session, the Linux screen saver never activates. This has been

[CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos 5 64-bit. I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that, compiled and installed, and ./configure for pgadmin saw wxWidgets and was happy with that.

[CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled. Windows XP with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can communicate with it via samba, ssh, and anything else.I also disabled the Windows Firewall. The C5 system does not have any firewall enabled. Other C5 workstatio

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, nate wrote: kalinix wrote: http://rpmfind.net/ yep, your right too. I've used rpmfind off and on over the past few years(never directly, usually via google searches). For some reason it never occurred to me to query it directly, duh. I guess I was expecting more of a si

[CentOS] Cluster fun

2008-02-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've priced some 1 and 2U Dell servers. Now, I'd like to perform a price comparison of COTS hardware for 1 and 2U servers. What VAR companies do people recommend I check out for putting machines together? I'm perfectly capable of installing and swapping hardware components when/where needed,

Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine

2008-02-05 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Rozsa Sandor wrote: Hi people, I have a 64 bit Centos machine. My problem is that I can't run 32 bit applications on that. I can compile with the 32 bit option my sources, but when I'm trying to run them I obtain the following error message: -bash: ./a.out: cannot execute

[CentOS] RAM for cluster net boot?

2008-02-06 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I'm looking at building a small cluster of disk-less 1 or 2U servers and will probably use CentOS 5. Since these machines will not have any hard drives, what would be the minimum amount of RAM I'd need? Also, if using Rocks or something similar, will that help cluster the RAM together so 4 s

Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine

2008-02-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Rozsa Sandor wrote: Hi, The command ldd returns $ ldd ./a.out /usr/bin/ldd: line 161: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file not a dynamic executable and $ ls -l /lib/ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 31 16:57 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.5.so This li

[CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

2008-02-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
A user wants to time a command/program/application and ensure the full contents of that command's data management has been flushed from RAM/cache and saved to disk. Is there a way to ensure the cache/RAM is flushed to disk, or is the flushing a function of the kernel or the application? This

RE: [CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

2008-02-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
that actually leads. Scott -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 7:05 AM To: centos@centos.

[CentOS] Backing up remote system

2008-02-14 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have an Overland Arcvault tape library, a CentOS 5 box, a Windows XP system, and RAID box that supports NFS and CIFS. The RAID box is remotely located and acts as central file storage. I might normally use dump to perform backups, but as was learned here, and on dump's man page, dump doesn't

[CentOS] C5 64-bit on Dell not seeing 1 GB link

2008-02-19 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've got a Dell Precision Workstation 490 with 64-bit Centos 5, fully updated, with an on-board Broadcom 57xx gigabit Ethernet controller, updated BIOS, 1 GB switch, and /var/log/messages and dmesg both claim the link is 100 Mb, not 1 GB. I tried setting eth0 to mtu 9000 but got an error in go

[CentOS] Options for desktop?

2007-07-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
At work I am building and will be responsible for maintaining 64-bit Centos 5 systems. For desktop use, I'm debating between 32 and 64-bit versions. I know such applications, such as flash for firefox, are first honed for 32-bit systems, then evolve for 64-bit. What other obstacles could I

Re: [CentOS] non-privaledged reboot ???

2007-07-08 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, René Standfest wrote: Matt Shields schrieb am 08.07.2007 14:32: On 7/8/07, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 22:51 -0700, Robert - eLists wrote: Greetings On centos 5, if I ssh in as a regular non-superuser account and go to the sbin

[CentOS] Firefox and CPU spikes?

2007-07-09 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Is it just me, or does anyone else experience their CPU utilization spiking to 100% for about 5 to 10 seconds when Firefox is about to download a file, via http or ftp? Then, after the file starts to download, the CPU usage drops back down to normal. I've got Firefox 2.0.0.4 running on CentO

[CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I just performed a fresh install of 64-bit Centos 5 on a system, booted fine, then performed a yum update, or at least tried to. Files downloaded, and were about to install, when it complained that the gpg keys could not be found. I ran into this about a month ago and found a web page showing

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I just performed a fresh install of 64-bit Centos 5 on a system, booted fine, then performed a yum update, or at least tried to. Files downloaded, and were about to install, when it complained that the gpg keys could not be found. I ran into this

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Media checked fine with both md5sum and sha1sum. I believe I obtained my DVD version from kernel.org, and were obtained within the last couple of months. Other insights and ideas welcome. Thanks. Scott On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi Scott, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I just

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Media checked fine with both md5sum and sha1sum. I believe I obtained my DVD version from kernel.org, and were obtained within the last couple of months. what does this say : 'rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: Before we take this any further ... was the key you imported to a repository other than an official CentOS one. (for example, RPMForge, ATRPMS, etc.). The install was from DVD, default packages (I planned to use yum for updates, etc). No other repos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-12 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Steven Vishoot wrote: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos something really screwy around here! Steven What do others have to say? Now that I think of it, I also had the same situation occur on a 32-bit install on a laptop from CDs. Again, my preferred

[CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
smartctl, hdparm, and sdparm all are valuable tools to obtain hard drive info. But, they don't seem to work, at least, on obtaining hard drive info from drives on a Dell PERC controller. Instead, I'm given basic PERC controller info, not drive info. Is there a tool to let me get the hard driv

Re: [CentOS] Searching an Scsi Controller for CentOS 5

2007-07-20 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Olaf Mueller wrote: Hello, does CentOs 5 supports an Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW scsi controller (pci)? Is this controller maybe supported by the aic7xxx driver? I want to install CentOS 5 on my desktop pc but the currently installed pci scsi controller for my scanners (drive

[CentOS] Ham Radio s/w and CentOS? {including Echolink}

2007-07-31 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I am going to present Linux to my ham radio club at some point in the next few months, and wanted to collect info on ham radio software, including options for echolink. Our repeater has an echolink connection, thus if I present the software available for it, it might perk up people's interests

[CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat releases

2007-08-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
In comparing CentOS to RedHat releases, it seems to me CentOS is the Desktop/Workstation class distro from RedHat. Does the CentOS project then not have a Server class distro, or am I missing something? Granted, most any operating system can act as a server, but there are some fundamental c

Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat releases

2007-08-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote: In comparing CentOS to RedHat releases, it seems to me CentOS is the Desktop/Workstation class distro from RedHat. Does the CentOS project then not have a Server class distro, or am I missing something? Granted, most any operating system can act as

[CentOS] Distro clarification thanks

2007-08-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I want to take a moment to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry. The education is most appreciated, and well-received. This is list is wonderful. Simply lurking, I, along with many others, no doubt, pick up so much. A great support team. Again, thanks to all. Scott __

[CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat packages

2007-08-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Hello Once Again: Another learning experience question - it is my understanding that CentOS essentially IS RedHat but with any commercial connection removed. That being said, is there any difference in the included, or quality of packages between the two distros? I've got some basic issues

Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat packages

2007-08-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Shawn Everett wrote: I've got some basic issues with a critical server I'm about to set up, and if I cannot get beyond said issues, I may opt to try CentOS. Seeing that CentOS is free (can't call RedHat for support), I'm wondering if I should try and make the case for CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat packages

2007-08-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Shawn Everett wrote: Anyone on the list experience the same kind of problem, and find an answer? If so, what was it? A couple of follow up questions: - How much disk space is on the server and how is it partitioned? How many logical disks in the RAID controller (if any)

RE: [CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat packages

2007-08-05 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 8:43 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs RedHat packages On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Shawn Everett

[CentOS] RHEL5 and CentOS 5 root logins

2007-08-08 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I found, under a 64-bit CentOS 5 workstation install, it is possible to modify /etc/inittab and add a couple of lines to prevent root from logging into the console. I found, under a 64-bit RHEL 5 server install, adding the same two lines completely breaks the OS, to the point that a reboot aft

[CentOS] Matlab 2007a and C5 out-of-box broken

2007-08-13 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I had to reinstall C5 64-bit out-of-box on two machines. Before the reinstall, Matlab 2007a 64-bit worked fine. Now, I get "failed to start the desktop; failure loading desktop class". matlab -nojvm works fine. The reinstall was not an upgrade. I tested on two identical systems - one before

Re: [CentOS] Matlab 2007a and C5 out-of-box broken

2007-08-14 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote: On 8/13/07, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had to reinstall C5 64-bit out-of-box on two machines. Before the reinstall, Matlab 2007a 64-bit worked fine. Now, I get "failed to start the desktop; failure loading desktop class"

[CentOS] Data recovery with superblocks?

2007-08-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
It recently occurred to me, as I was partitioning a RAID with fdisk, that when I built the system, I was presented with a graphical utility that "magically" created the partitions. Now, using fdisk, I was reminded of being given superblocks. Although I haven't used data recovery techniques u

[CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5 workstations. Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the workstations to the server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt. Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing up /mnt, w

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Steve Searle wrote: Around 01:56am on Saturday, August 18, 2007 (UK time), Scott Ehrlich scrawled: Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing up /mnt, which produces an unwanted loop, including /mnt/samba_share I looked at tar with --exclude

[CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am looking to add more storage. I know a lot of factors can go into the type of answer given, but for present and future technology planning, should I look for a rack of SATA, SCSI, or fibre channel drives?Maybe I'm dating myself with fibre channel, and pos

[CentOS] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

2007-08-22 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I'm looking for RAID options for at least 10 TB to attach to a Dell PowerEdge 2950 running RHEL 5 64-bit Server. The system will act as a single sign-on server for XP and Linux, thus storing user's data from mounted home directories exported from the server to various workstations. It may als

[CentOS] Who does snapshots other than Network Appliance?

2007-08-22 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Having snapshot technology is great. Who else supports it? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Single sign-on help requested

2007-08-23 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a RHEL5 Server and some dual-boot XP/CentOS 5 systems (Linux systems all 64-bit). All Linux is out-of-box, with all packages, minus international languages, installed. No patching has been done. On the server, I selected system-config-authentication and enabled LDAP for User Informat

[CentOS] LDAP + SAMBA + NIS + PHP help

2007-08-25 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Continuing my single sign-on efforts, I'm adjusting things a bit - incorporating NIS+Samba+LDAP on the server. I found an Ubuntu-based document that gives step-by-step instructions for my things, and seemed to work as I was adapting some of the items to RH/CentOS. Its url is: https://help.ub

[CentOS] CentOS/RH 5 Samba as PDC+NIS w/o LDAP?

2007-08-27 Thread Scott Ehrlich
For those who are new or forget - I have a RHEL 5 Server and a few dualboot XP w/SP2 and CentOS 5 systems. The Linux machines were installed straight of CD/DVD, no patches. I was initially going to try a single sign-on to the RH 5 box via LDAP, but RH says it simply isn't possible and I don't

[CentOS] NIS probs - Login and no home dir -help

2007-08-28 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I'm trying to configure two things on my RH 5 server with dual-boot CentOS 5 (out-of-box) and Windows XP w/SP2 (fully patched) clients: - NIS/NFS: I have managed to get user logins, but all accounts produce Can't Find Home Directory, Using Root!The error logs, when trying to mount any NFS

[CentOS] Help with nis password changes

2007-08-30 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I normally try not to ask questions until I have done as much research as possible, and again, this is the case... Just after I thought I had my RH5 samba/nis server working fine, I come across the inability to update nis passwords. From the server as root: passwd guest1 Changing password

[CentOS] NIS/Samba update

2007-09-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
My test setup consists of Enterprise 5 server running NIS and Samba, and dual-boot XP and CentOS 5 clients. On my test setup, I'm able to create new samba accounts and change samba passwords with no problems. NIS still gives me problems, though. I am unable to change passwords no matter wha

RE: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Plant, Dean wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The system was initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled later by me. Are you aware of the commands getenforce & setenforce? I am now, having rece

[CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have RHEL5 Server originally configured and installed by me with Firewall enabled, but passing through NFS, Samba, and SSH. I then disabled SELinux. As you all likely recall, I had configured a test environment to get samba and nfs/nis up and running. I got it going, and recently brought i

RE: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Plant, Dean wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The system was initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled later by me. Are you aware of the commands getenforce & setenforce? The problem ended up b

[CentOS] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugged in, but that's it. fdisk -l doesn't see it. dmesg doesn't do much, either. It is a Western Digital My Book II device.

Re: [CentOS] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

2007-09-07 Thread Scott Ehrlich
This worked perfectly. Thanks. Scott On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Simon Jolle "sjolle" wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugg

[CentOS] Help with Dell Latitude, CentOS 5, and intel 3945abg wireless

2007-09-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've visited several web pages, including Dell's, for help in getting the wireless card activated. lspci shows it, but iwconfig doesn't list it. I also visited linux.dell.com and downloaded and installed the 64-bit Fedora 7 RPMs, but couldn't get anywhere. dellwirelessctl also doesn't show

[CentOS] k3b 1.0.3, qt and C5 64-bit?

2007-10-16 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have C5 64-bit running on my laptop and am trying to get k3b 1.0.3 compiled from source. It keeps complaining about qt not being installed or available. I performed a yum install of everything qt, but it still complains. I've read some postings on various web pages about creating symlinks,

[CentOS] KDE 1.0.3 and kdelibs problem

2007-10-16 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I'm able to get ./configure to get past the Qt error but now it complains that kdelibs isn't installed, or the version of qt doesn't match kdelibs. Everything was yum installed, and this is on CentOs 5 64-bit. Thanks for additional configuration help. Scott

Re: [CentOS] KDE 1.0.3 and kdelibs problem

2007-10-16 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jim Perrin wrote: On 10/16/07, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm able to get ./configure to get past the Qt error but now it complains that kdelibs isn't installed, or the version of qt doesn't match kdelibs. Everything was yum installed,

Re: [CentOS] k3b 1.0.3, qt and C5 64-bit?

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Lukasz wrote: Ross S. W. Walker pisze: Last time I compiled a KDE app from source (knights I believe) I had to specify the Qt development lib path manually with an option to 'configure'. a) in Red Hat Qt sources are in /usr/lib/qt-3.3 directory, but generally in distrib

Re: [CentOS] k3b 1.0.3, qt and C5 64-bit?

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Lukasz wrote: Ross S. W. Walker pisze: Last time I compiled a KDE app from source (knights I believe) I had to specify the Qt development lib path manually with an option to 'configure'. a) in

[CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've got a RHEL5 server acting as a NIS/NFS server, and connected one C5 machine just fine. I'm trying to connect another, and for the life of me, cannot figure out why NIS won't bind. NFS works fine. ypbind just hangs. I disabled SELinux and the firewall. I just cannot get it to bind.

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Clint Dilks wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I've got a RHEL5 server acting as a NIS/NFS server, and connected one C5 machine just fine. I'm trying to connect another, and for the life of me, cannot figure out why NIS won't bind. NFS works fine. ypbind

RE: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-17 Thread Scott Ehrlich
127.0.0.1 yp.conf on the client is: domain my-nis-domain server ip-of-server Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS problems On

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Ehrlich
until an answer is found... Scott Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, sam wrote: so... if i'm understanding: -you have a 32bit NIS server that you've Correction here - server is 64-bit RHEL 5 Server. All machines are full, out-of-box, unpatched systems, with no Internet

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Ehrlich
the ypinit -s, what name do you provide for the server? It must match the name the server expects, so if the server host name is nis, then you do ypinit -s nis.domainname Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, sam wrote: so... if i'm understanding: -you have a 32bit NIS server

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I'm at a complete loss as to what is going on. I changed kernels and disabled the video driver, removed the firewire card. NIS refuses to work on this workstation. Unless this gets figured out, I'm going to simply have to create local user accounts, then let NFS take over. It would be re

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