Re: [CentOS] [OT] Connecting to a Windows server via NFS

2007-12-12 Thread Steven Haigh
appens. It sounds like this part isn't configured correctly to make it work with your setup. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 Usenet is a sewer. Don't waste soap trying to clean it. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-01 Thread Steven Haigh
-A INPUT -j DROP iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP There you go. That's a very basic firewall using iptables in about 3 minutes :) -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2008-01-03 Thread Steven Haigh
rdering of your rules. Up and running. I can understand what shorewall rules are saying. And I can see the results. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[CentOS] Random procmail filter failures.

2008-01-04 Thread Steven Haigh
.gr32" File and directory permissions on my Maildir directory etc are fine, and I'm at a loss to explain this. I've run fsck over the disk with no sign of errors. Has anyone stumbled upon this before? -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Ph

[CentOS] Re: Random procmail filter failures.

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi All (again). I am still at a loss on this one. Does anyone have any pointers for me? On 05/01/2008, at 4:10 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi all, I'm seeing a random issue with my procmail filters (only on email from this list) where once every so often, it will fail to filter a messa

Re: [CentOS] Re: Random procmail filter failures.

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Haigh
On 23/01/2008, at 2:35 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 7:23 AM, Steven Haigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All (again). I am still at a loss on this one. Does anyone have any pointers for me? [EMAIL PROTECTED] perhaps? Hmm - thanks - that might be my next resort if I

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Haigh
ie: $ echo > --help $ ls -l -- *help* -rw-rw-r-- 1 netwiz netwiz 1 Jan 23 03:51 --help $ rm -f -- --help $ ls -l -- *help* ls: *help*: No such file or directory $ -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 _

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Steven Haigh
: "Interestingly, most Unix utilities have a command line option which will cause the system to rip the user's legs off and beat them to death with the soggy ends. This is often the default behaviour." -- Bruce Murphy -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au P

RE: [CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Haigh
$ man sync -- 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.org Subject

[CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
colo - so I can't sit down and reboot upon reboot to try and figure out the cause of the problem. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
obvious additions in .53 are kpartx and dmraid - however as I'm using a plain HDD (hda) with no RAID, I don't really think that would cause an issue. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 -Original Message- Fr

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
olo. As the system boots, I'm thinking of writing a script that will gather this, then reboot the system after changing the default=x line in /etc/grub.conf - however obviously I want to make sure it works 100% before I tell the machine to reboot ;) -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

RE: [CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Haigh
ork connectivity. ping -c 1 -n if [ $? -eq "0" ]; then # We can ping the gateway! exit 0 else # We have no network connectivity :( cp -f /etc/grub.conf-good /etc/grub.conf reboot fi --- End script - Does anyone have any additions or insigh

RE: [CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Haigh
to root=/dev/hda3, all works perfectly. Man I miss the days when we used device names, not labels ;) -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

RE: [CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Haigh
t/bootinfo echo "-- End troubleshooting --" >> /root/bootinfo # Test if we have network connectivity. ping -c 1 -n > /dev/null if [ $? -eq "0" ]; then # We can ping the gateway! echo "Network ok." exit 0 else # We have no network connectivity

RE: [CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread Steven Haigh
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott Silva > Sent: Friday, 15 February 2008 7:15 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Re: Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network. > > on 2/14/2008 10:38 A

Re: [CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

2008-02-29 Thread Steven Haigh
CentOS: RHELly good value. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Re: about mono

2008-03-02 Thread Steven Haigh
people are much more willing to help you if you don't throw abuse at them. -- 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

[CentOS] Re:

2008-03-08 Thread Steven Haigh
ng drives to get some kind of redundancy. Then restore what you can from backups. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread Steven Haigh
n of Open Source... The Scalix license (http://www.scalix.com/community/opensource/licensing.php ) may also fit the bill... -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization question

2007-07-07 Thread Steven Haigh
somehow? With Xen, you can use VNC as a graphics display. You will need to make sure you have the correct hardware, as it requires a certain CPU capability to virtualise Windows on Linux using Xen I think it's HVM? Google should be able to help you out here. -- Steven Haigh Email: [

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization question

2007-07-07 Thread Steven Haigh
get these And you need also a processor with VT (Intel) or V-Pacifica (AMD) to support full-virtualization on Xen Ahhh VT - that's the one :) -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474

Re: [CentOS] Simple Question about Resolving Names without suffix with bind

2007-07-07 Thread Steven Haigh
omain-name "example.com"; -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Tired of temp induced shutdowns

2007-07-15 Thread Steven Haigh
CPU freq scaling on (the cpuspeed daemon) - as your system should NEVER get this hot. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] Re: Horde on CentOS 5

2007-07-18 Thread Steven Haigh
st get the SRPM's and rebuild them fairly simply too. It is just as easy to just install the webmail edition if that is all you need. http://www.horde.org/webmail/ Just untar the archive, run the config and you're up. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au

Re: [CentOS] Re: Major problem with software raid

2007-07-26 Thread Steven Haigh
from "fdisk -l /dev/sda" - the same for hdb and hdd? -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Data corruption on external hard disk

2007-08-03 Thread Steven Haigh
Quoting Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: *snip* Is there any way to repair this obviously corrupt data? fsck.ext2 /dev/sda1 Obviously replacing sda1 with your partition and drive for your external device. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03

Re: [CentOS] problems with sendmail

2007-08-05 Thread Steven Haigh
onfAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl Then, These two are needed. chkconfig saslauthd on /etc/init.d/saslauthd start Also make sure you have the cyrus-sasl-md5 package installed if you want to use MD5 auth. By default, PLAIN auth information

Re: [CentOS] tsclient/rdesktop connection to Vista?

2007-08-16 Thread Steven Haigh
: send: Connection reset by peer Make sure Vista is set to allow connections from older "less secure" clients. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474 ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Subject: How do I recover from a corrupt fstab file on reboot?

2007-09-07 Thread Steven Haigh
On 08/09/2007, at 4:30 PM, chuck wrote: I am using CENTOS 5 and I am stuck where I have to repair my boot loader and all of the files are read only so I cannot fix them. How do I get around this? mount -o remount,rw / Do this for all your mount points, then run fsck etc... -- Steven

Re: [CentOS] Very strange problem i have faced in my 2 years carrier

2007-09-12 Thread Steven Haigh
st hacking attempts use the username root. Changing this to something else means that all those attempts would fail. As long as the UID is set to 0, most system things won't care that the user root is now known as R00t. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[CentOS] Cron set_loginuid failed opening loginuid errors.

2007-09-14 Thread Steven Haigh
m-auth #sessionrequired pam_loginuid.so sessionincludesystem-auth I commended out pam_loginuid.so - as I remember reading somewhere that this was the cause of this issue, however it hasn't made a difference this time... Does anyone have any insight in this? -- Steven Haigh Ema

Re: [CentOS] Cron set_loginuid failed opening loginuid errors.

2007-09-15 Thread Steven Haigh
On 15/09/2007, at 2:26 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:15:30PM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi all, I've had this error rear it's ugly head again and I'm not exactly sure why. The output in /var/log/message is: crond[14764]: pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_

Re: [CentOS] Server Virtualization

2007-09-17 Thread Steven Haigh
essor system, and divide up usage between physical CPUs. This way, you get the best usage of your hardware. 4) Get lots and lots of RAM. We use systems with 8Gb RAM. We give the hypervisor 256Mb, and then chunks of 256Mb, 512Mb or 1Gb to each DomU depending on usage. -- Steven

Re: [CentOS] NFS issue

2007-09-24 Thread Steven Haigh
have the correct permissions on each system, and the correct username associated with the same UID on each machine. If you are running multiple systems, I would suggest looking into NIS. This will allow you to create the accounts in NIS and have them use the same details on each machine. -- S

[CentOS] flex package marked as fc6 and no flex-devel?

2007-09-29 Thread Steven Haigh
go is here? Available Packages Name : flex Arch : i386 Version: 2.5.4a Release: 41.fc6 Size : 124 k Repo : base -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing list C

RE: [CentOS] Damaged rpm database?

2007-10-06 Thread Steven Haigh
1) This could be anything. From file system corruption, to a bug. 2) rpm --rebuilddb will do what you need. -- 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

Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-11 Thread Steven Haigh
disabling all network adapters from coming up at boot time and using NetworkManager for establishing network connectivity. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Need a blog server

2007-12-04 Thread Steven Haigh
d have to be wordpress. You can download it at www.wordpress.org - it requires apache + php + mysql. There's a hell of a lot of support for it, and it's very quick to get going. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 &q

[CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues.

2007-12-04 Thread Steven Haigh
same as xterm-color linux = same as xterm-color Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this? Is this an issue with screen or the termcap or maybe even mutt? -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 "Do not meddle in th

Re: [CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Haigh
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:49:21PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to fix a display issue when using mutt inside a screen session. > > This issue came to my attention when the following posts hit my mailbox: > > 10723 Mário Gamito

Re: [CentOS] yum update repo problems

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Haigh
, so that should rule > out DNS issues (all are running caching-nameservers). > > Is there any problem with repos? Anybody else having same erors? It looks like the domain name expired with Tucows and the domain was put on hold. Looks like someone paid the bill, as it all seems to be back u

Re: [CentOS] screen + mutt terminal issues. [SOLVED]

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Haigh
US.UTF-8" This means that most other applications will probably work ok with UTF-8. PuTTY however doesn't default to UTF-8, which causes weird display corruption when using screen. On a side note, the Mac OSX terminal isn't affected. It handles UTF-8 by default. -- Steven Haigh

Re: [CentOS] Need a sendmail help mail list

2007-12-05 Thread Steven Haigh
d highly advise against editing the sendmail.cf file directly. Spend a little extra time and install the sendmail-doc package, then consult the file /usr/share/doc/README.cf. >From experience, this will save you LOTS of hassle in the future. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://w

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 iptables

2007-06-12 Thread Steven Haigh
g/ for the mentioned file and it was not found. I did a quick check and locate only found /sbin/ iptables-restore. I had done updatedb before using locate. All your firewall rules are in the file: /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Check on line 35 of that file. -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [CentOS] where is smbmount on centOS 5

2007-06-28 Thread Steven Haigh
s /mnt/maildaily I can not issue such command on centos 5. When I try , It gives below error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mount -t smbfs -o ip=192.168.5.225,username=mailbackup,password=secret //server/mail_backups /mnt/maildaily mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs' yum install samba-client

Re: [CentOS] "driconf" to try to solve "texture size" problem with beryl+radeon+dualhead+mergefb

2007-07-04 Thread Steven Haigh
s your final total resolution happen to be 2960x1050? It looks like that's where the issue is, however I haven't played with beryl in quite some time now... -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 059

Re: [CentOS] Help repairing a broken Software Raid5

2007-07-05 Thread Steven Haigh
; /sys/block/md1/md/sync_action This will get your RAID array to rebuild and hopefully be fine... Or be marked as dead ;) -- Steven Haigh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0404 087 474 ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Help repairing a broken Software Raid5

2007-07-05 Thread Steven Haigh
Oh, and if you want to read a little more on linux raid and data hints, check out: http://www.crc.id.au/2007/07/06/raid-arrays-in-linux/ Quoting Steven Haigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Quoting "Andrew @ ATM Logic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Anyone know where I should to to g