Re: [CentOS] Centos 4.5 - HP Hardware monitoring

2007-10-22 Thread Tom Brown
Yes. Command line, web based, snmp based, however you like it. You need the Proliant Support cd's/web pages. Drill into the web page for the models you are interested. great thanks - On Dell they call it Open Manage so do you mind telling me the name that HP use for their tools please? Or

[CentOS] self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Diehl
le is not being helpful and I am getting frustrated. I wish I better understood open ssl. :-( Regards, -- Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Re: self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Brian Mathis wrote: On 10/25/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a pointer to correct documentation for generating and installing a self signed ssl cert for use on httpd on a C-5 machine? The docs say to use genkey but AFAIK upstream rm&#x

[CentOS] Re: self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Tom Diehl wrote: Ok, So I changed the Makefile from localhost to match the actual hostname of the machine. I then ran "make testcert" as suggested above and answered the questions as appropriate. It then generate

[CentOS] Re: self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Tom Diehl wrote on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:54:19 -0400 (EDT): error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate OK (roadrunner pts1) # Am I correct that the above error is normal for a self signed cert? Seems so, yes. I get the same. I think your cert

[CentOS] Re: self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Diehl
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:54 PM -0400 Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE Isn't that for when you need the client to prove who he his? Are you requiring client SSL certs? It looks like the client is

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-10-26 Thread Tom Brown
How about # MOUNTER=`ssh $i "mount | grep data | awk '{print \$1,\$2,\$3}'"` alas no MOUNTER=`ssh $i 'mount | grep data | awk "{print \$1, \$2, \$3}"'` results in awk: {print , , } awk:^ syntax error awk: {print , , } awk: ^ syntax error awk: {print , , } awk:^

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-10-26 Thread Tom Brown
How about # MOUNTER=`ssh $i "mount | grep data | awk '{print \$1,\$2,\$3}'"` alas no MOUNTER=`ssh $i 'mount | grep data | awk "{print \$1, \$2, \$3}"'` results in awk: {print , , } awk:^ syntax error awk: {print , , } awk: ^ syntax error awk: {print , , } awk:

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-10-26 Thread Tom Brown
Correction. MOUNTER=`ssh $i "mount | grep data | awk '{print \\$1,\\$2,\\$3}'"` This is what i tried and worked for me. bingo! gold star - thanks!! I need to query mount as these are nfs mounts configre by an automounter and so not in the fstab __

[CentOS] script help

2007-10-26 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am sure the answer here is really easy but i am stuck! # mount | grep data | awk '{print$1,$2,$3}' gives me the info i require locally, however i need to execute this over about 1000 hosts so i run things remotely using ssh something like # MOUNTER=`ssh $i 'mount | grep data | awk '{pri

[CentOS] Re: Boot Log Problems

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Diehl
hecked syslog it is running Just a thought, rpm -V sysklogd. See what you get. Also have you run ckrootkit or similar on the machine? I know you said this started after an update and most likely you are correct but it is just a thought. You never know what kind of coincidence you might run into.

Re: [CentOS] HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes

2007-11-07 Thread Tom Brown
Tom Brown wrote: I had to create a custom initrd file to make it work for me. (this was on an IBM x3655, but has the same NIC) Unpacked the driver from the manufacturer, grabbed the .ko file, and rebuilt the initrd with that driver for the kickstart. Is there any chance you could make

[CentOS] HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes

2007-11-07 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Well we are now using HP instead of Dell and have hit a major hurdle. We dont seem to be able to kix any of these boxes. I have been most recently trying on a dl585 and the issue appears to be that the kix kernel does not detect any nic. Its strange as the box can be installed using iso's

Re: [CentOS] HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes

2007-11-07 Thread Tom Brown
How old is the DL585? There were a bunch of firmware issues with the Broadcom NICs on the DL585, and HP released a firmware update, something like 18 months ago now, that fixed problems that I was having with some DL585's. thanks for the reply - these is brand new kit running dual core opt

Re: [CentOS] HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes

2007-11-07 Thread Tom Brown
I had to create a custom initrd file to make it work for me. (this was on an IBM x3655, but has the same NIC) Unpacked the driver from the manufacturer, grabbed the .ko file, and rebuilt the initrd with that driver for the kickstart. Is there any chance you could make this initrd available

Re: [CentOS] question about backup regimens

2007-11-08 Thread Tom Brown
I need to recommend some backup options for a web server running CentOS 4.1. The client prefers using a tape drive as their backup device and has access to safe offsite storage. I was thinking of system backups weekly and differential backups nightly but don't know what software to recommend

[CentOS] Centos 5 - Install Hangup

2007-11-08 Thread Tom Browder
under Fedora 7. BTW, old AMD dual CPU, Gigabyte server MOBO, 1.5 Gb RAM, WD IDE drive, generic IDE CD-RW. ATI Raden graphics card. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes

2007-11-08 Thread Tom Brown
As it turns out, I did this for 4.2, instead of 4.5...but here are my notes from when I did it: (It is geared toward IBM of course, but the steps would be the same..) Grab driver disk (.iso)from: http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisp lay?lndocid=MIGR-5070766&b

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 - Install Hangup

2007-11-08 Thread Tom Browder
On Nov 8, 2007 12:32 PM, Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you able to install via NFS from a laptop or anything? Thanks, Thom, is, I'll try it. It didn't even cross my mind since I've always been able to use a CD in YG/RH/FC/F installation. I'll report

Re: [CentOS] HP DL585 - CentOS4.5 - kix woes

2007-11-12 Thread Tom Brown
thanks for this - alas for me it still gives me the same issue during the kix namely 'no network cards available for kickstart' or words to that effect. it seems crazy to me that HP have shipped kit that RedHat appears to not see out of the box. OK looking into this more i have made it

Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Tom Brown
First off I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me. Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5. I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues have come back to haunt me. The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is

Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Tom Brown
Hmm, could i remove then reinstall perl or did you have to rebuild the server? no its a nagios thing not a perl problem - so i just recompiled my nagios, although this was when rpm's were not available so i rolled my own. Why not try using some of the pre rolled rpm's ??

Re: [CentOS] phpmyadmin on centos 4

2007-11-15 Thread Tom Brown
how do i find out the 'filename'? i don't know what r u refer to. it was installed in /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/ when i tried: rpm -qf /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/index.php and i got: file /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/index.php is not owned by any package. i'm clueless now. can someone help me to

Re: [CentOS] phpmyadmin on centos 4

2007-11-15 Thread Tom Brown
i don't remember and that's the problem. rpm -qa | grep php and i got: php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.9 php-ldap-4.3.9-3.9 php-pear-4.3.9-3.9 php-mysql-4.3.9-3.9 php-4.3.9-3.9 and there lies the issue - it was not installed as an rpm remove the 'stuff' that was installed via tar and then install usi

Re: [CentOS] weird cron problem

2007-11-16 Thread Tom Brown
I'm having some problems with a script in /etc/cron.daily. It's quite simple: -- #!/bin/sh touch /mnt/Backup/foo rsnapshot daily - So the touch gets executed, but the rsnapshot not. If I run manually run-parts /etc/cron.daily/ everything's fine. Also when I run rsnapshot f

[CentOS] Generating CMDB - Recommendations

2007-11-19 Thread Tom Brown
Hi We use Remedy as our tool to help us with ITIL but we have a LOT of boxes ~4000 and that is growing all the time. I am looking at ways for us to be able to update the CMDB within remedy with little effort from us. I can get our DC team to pretty much touch a file on the OS with the box loc

Re: [CentOS] install via http

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Brown
The CentOS DVD images (not sure about CD images) have an images directory that contains a boot.iso file that can be used to net boot machines. That's the one I used. Together with a combination of autofs, lighttpd, rsync'ing and cron I am able to fully support a lab of about 500 machines

Re: [CentOS] install via http

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Brown
We do not have DHCP addressing for the networks I manage. I wish we did, but I have written scripts that automatically generate the kickstart configuration files and manually typing the linux ks=... lines don't take a lot of time. I wish I didn't have to do that either, but hey, it works.

[CentOS] script to take cd iso's and create dvd iso

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I used to have a script that would take a dir of cd iso's and then stick them together and create a DVD iso. I seem to remember downloading it from a link posted in here. I have searched but cant find it, i dont suppose anyone knows of such a thing? thanks ___

Re: [CentOS] script to take cd iso's and create dvd iso

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Brown
Is this what you're looking for? http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/build/mkdvdiso.sh it is indeed - thanks very much! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

2007-11-29 Thread Tom Brown
What do you call a person that only speak one language ? :-) British ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mail Server Install

2007-11-29 Thread Tom Brown
No, but your close :-) english? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Persist perms on devices after reboots

2007-11-30 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Dumb question i think but how can i make devices permissions persist after a reboot. I dont think i have come across this issue before but i have some SAN disks that need to be oracle:dba as their perms but after a reboot they reset back to brw--- 1 root root 120, 49 Nov 30 10:40 /de

RE: ****Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

2007-12-02 Thread Tom Diehl
. Regards, -- Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 (RHEL 4.5) - x86_64 - Login issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Strange problem here i think but - I can ssh in to the box fine as root and other users eg oracle BUT i am trying to login to the console to install oracle using X but i cant and i see this in the logs hostname su(pam_unix)[20237]: session closed for user oracle and also hostname login

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 (RHEL 4.5) - x86_64 - Login issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
I have added this to my pam.d login file session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so my bad - this is x86_64 so session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so should read session required /lib64/security/pam_limits.so thanks ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Exec fail for command "/opt/hp/hpmouse/hpmouse-helper" Permission Denied This is indeed only accessible by root it seems so does anyone know how non root users are supposed to use the mouse on HP boxes? and if i manually change perms on that file this occurs Program "/opt/hp/hpmouse/hp

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Hi OK another issue trying to get X going on these boxes. It seems to be a HP issue but if anyone knows a solution that would be great. I am using the iLo interface and the hpmouse-1.1.0-73.noarch.rpm driver. As root i can startx and all is well, however when starting X as the oracle user it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Doesn't it work without the high performance mouse driver? I've never needed any extra mouse driver to be able to use X under iLO. thanks for the input - nope, without this driver installed i have no mouse, i have the pointer but it does not do anything. With this driver loaded i can us

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Yes - i have disabled the high performance mouse in the settings pane. Can i ask for remote console are you using "Integrated Remote Console" or "Remote Console" In other words option 1 or 3 in the Remote console Information pane? Ok by using option 3 i have managed to configure X with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
My machines have iLO, not iLO2. The hpmouse package says it can only run with iLO2 hardware. I don't have any "Integrated Remote Console" option. yes - these are iLo2's ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Strange, it works for me. Fresh install of centos 5.0. No changes to xorg.conf Do you get the block cursor visible in text mode when you move the mouse around? No i dont "High Performance Mouse" has to be deselected in the Remote Console window. Yes - i have disabled the high perf

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - ProLiant DL585 G2 - Mouse Issue

2007-12-04 Thread Tom Brown
Ok by using option 3 i have managed to configure X with a mouse without using the high performance driver. However when i try a startx even as root the X server just crashes with the following any thoughts? Anything in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? Did the installation of hpmouse modify your xo

[CentOS] 5.x install - loses display when launching anaconda

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lanyon
when I get home and see if I have more success. Regards, Tom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.x install - loses display when launching anaconda

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 06/12/2007, at 8:20 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: Tom Lanyon wrote: Hi all, Trying to install 5.0 or 5.1 (i386 or x86_64) on a new system from an install DVD. As soon as the installer launches anaconda, the screen shuts off and from this point I'm unable to switch to any othe

Re: [CentOS] 5.x install - loses display when launching anaconda

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lanyon
try that until tomorrow, unless anyone else has any ideas? Tom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS 5

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Bishop
I assumed you had the kernel-devel pkgs installed, if not make sure that is done...that for sure will stop it from happening. On 6/29/07, Tom Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark this is a running problem with fedora, and I don't think that vmware has released an update for RH

Re: [CentOS] Installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS 5

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Bishop
Here look at this link it has most if no0t all of the details http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=642278򜳦 On 6/29/07, Brian Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/29/07, Mark Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the t

Re: [CentOS] Installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS 5

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Bishop
Mark this is a running problem with fedora, and I don't think that vmware has released an update for RHEL5 yet, so what I would do is go look for vmware-any-any-update* patch and run this when trying to compile vmware server from your host. Here's a link to a post that leads to the patch http://w

[CentOS] CentOS 5 - Dell Latitude d630 - Vodaphone 3g Card

2007-07-04 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I may be forced to move from my mac book pro onto a dell laptop, spit, but i sure as heck dont want to have to run windows so Does anyone know how easy it is to get CentOS to work with a vodaphone 3g card? I see that it should be possible and a couple of reports of it working under ge

Re: [CentOS] nic bonding

2011-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, John Horne wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:05 +1300, Smithies, Russell wrote: >> >> I've just setup nic bonding on our server (DL585-G7 running Centos 5.5 >> x86_64) as detailed on the wiki: >> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces and all seems

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people > actually work for money and need to address client issues then I'm > sure your colleagues won't be please if you make them loose all their > work just to be an arrogant

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >>Behalf Of Tom H >>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [C

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with > something right now. And I'm not talking about administrative access. > Sure, I can access any PC via root login, and frankly for that matter > I can also reset any user'

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

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: > >> Yes but someone's posted a global gconftool-2 recipe. > > Run gconf-editor as root and you can edit the global mandatory rules too. Very true, as long as you ca

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of >> working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if >> it's been improved or not. >

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You clearly work in an insecure environment. > > By who's definition? The fact that you're PC is connected to the > internet place you in the same enviro

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > > And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security > incident. > It beggars my belief > You now publicly declare that your company not just advocates the sharing of > passwords, but certainly encourages it, if no

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> >>> NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair >>> bonding and bridges. It may be helpful for wire

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >>> The key to *keeping* it off in RHEL 6, and I assume in CentOS 6, is >>> the setting NM_C

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Murphy
talk to the coprocessor via pci. A more detailed description of our system is at www.conveycomputer.com. Thanks a lot. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:36 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:19 -0600, Tom G Murphy wrote: > > Nothing hard about doing this I do it a lot...

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Murphy
Thanks, this is an great idea. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/28/2011 09:19 PM, Tom G Murphy wrote: > > I am guessing I have either have too much or too little included in the > > kernel. I tried to make sure everything I thought was needed were

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: >> >> As you know, $HOME is generally located at "/home/$username" by default. >> >> I would like to re-locate all users' $HOME directories to something like >> "/export/home/$username" w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 new virtualization features?

2011-02-02 Thread Tom Bishop
Spot on KB, I like KVM but the management tools are just not quite there, unless your a big installation and can run RHEV on a windoze server. I know they are moving towards an open source RHEV implementation but it appears that it will take awhile to get there. I still plan to use KVM but will j

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Rafa Grimán wrote: > On Thursday 03 February 2011 20:42 Robert Heller wrote >> At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> > Hi :) >> > >> > On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote >> > >> > > On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wr

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Saturday, February 12, 2011 09:02 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> >> Anyway, neither in windows nor in unix/linux you want to specify >> permissions on a per user level. Always groups. If the user leaves the >> company and the permissions ar

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, compdoc wrote: >> >> However, we're not set up for UUIDs, the fstab >>just shows /dev/md0, etc. > > I mentioned it because I recently installed and set up servers with ubuntu > 10.04 and fedora 14, while I was waiting for C6. Using the UUID is the > default now. I

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:05:41PM -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:09 PM, compdoc wrote: >> >> >> In Ubuntu and Fedora, UUID's the default replacement of "/dev/sdXY" >> de

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > Let's face it most auditors these days are just accountants with Infosys Mgmt > text books. Or former sysadmins who didn't make it in the "management track" but still wanted to be able to lord it over others...

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast as we > possibly can? > > What, exactly, is the problem here? > > You have my permission to use something else. Does that help? Good answer! :)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, wrote: > Peter Peltonen wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM,   wrote: >>> Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a "8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller". We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare as hw RA

Re: [CentOS] How to install source rpm on centos

2011-03-13 Thread Tom Diehl
-1.2.2-1.rf.src.rpm > error: cannot create %sourcedir /home/test/rpm/SOURCES Just a guess but try creating the %sourcedir above. Most likely you will need other directories as well. You could also use mock but that will need to be setup as well. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: >> >> It's a matter of personal taste, but I find more useful the -X (or >> - --exclude-from) option > > Yes, personal taste, but in crontab confusing not seeing the excludes > and besides that it has t

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglieno wrote: > On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: >> >> With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, >> and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't see >> anything. I think having some news once

[CentOS] PHP - Security Updates

2011-03-19 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am wondering if this has made it into any updates? http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-4645 thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc wrote: > > RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files > and slightly different locations for some config files. > > It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make > sense to me that a business

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc wrote: >>> >>> RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config >>> files >>> and slightly different locations for some config files. >>> >>> It's not like one is a drop in repl

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sam Trenholme wrote: > > As an open-source developer, I understand the frustration of working > hard and having a lot of freeloaders not appreciating my work. I feel > people posting here talking about how unprofessional CentOS is acting > are completely missing th

Re: [CentOS] Mounting an external USB drive

2011-03-26 Thread Tom Diehl
make fstab entries? The system already knows enough to make it useful. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installing php-mcrypt

2011-03-27 Thread Tom Diehl
these are very simple > question, and for that please accept my apologies. How about yum install php-mcrypt? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rssh / scponly

2011-03-27 Thread Tom Diehl
on clients. By default no subsystems are defined. Note that this option applies to protocol version 2 only. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080220110039 might be useful in setting this up. Of course I could be wrong since I have not tried this yet but it is on my short list for this week. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit compat-gcc on 64-bit CentOS?

2011-03-30 Thread Tom Bishop
-snip > > Does anybody know how to set up KVM on a headless, unattended server to > run a virtual machine automatically on boot? I've only ever used it on > my desktop with pointy-clicky tools like virt-manager. Even still, I > usually use VirtualBox for virtual machines on my desktop. > > -Alan >

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-04 Thread Tom Yates
out for is a call you must make for your server(s); i just wanted you to have more points of view about what people are doing out there in the wild. -- Tom Yates - http://www.teaparty.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Door not hitting me on my way out

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > For those saying that CentOS devs are slow, take notice that Scientific > Linux released SL 6.0, *but* SL 5.6 is still in it's *ALPHA* stage. If > too separate teams are close with results, then there is no room for > accusations or wo

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Russell Jones wrote: > > I am having a strange issue with CentOS 5.4 that I cannot seem to solve. > > Every DNS lookup results in records being requested first before A > records. As a result, this causes a large amount of unnecessary DNS > traffic on the netw

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Russell Jones wrote: > > Thank you! > > If forcing it to stop system-wide is not possible, is there any way of > forcing IPv4 lookups to occur first then? You're welcome. In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when specifying ipv4 tran

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:46:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests >> when specifying ipv4 transport ("-4"). > > Umm, no.  The transport

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Hendrik wrote: > > Or is that the Indian mentality? I hope that you're banned for this racist comment. (And as an added bonus, we'll be rid of someone who's making a mess of message threading and the mail archive.) ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom Yates
wasn't one of them. I had a really sharp intake of breath when I read it, and I'm pleased to see that several others also think it's beyond the pale. Please, don't say stuff like that again. Not here. It's just out of order, really it is. --

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-07 Thread Tom Grace
On 07/04/11 15:40, Les Mikesell wrote: > There is one quirk about USB booting that I forgot: it is likely to > confuse the installer's concept of disk names and where to install grub. The thing to watch for with this is "Disk ordering" in the grub setup (only in the graphical installer). Generall

Re: [CentOS] CentOSPlus kernel (Was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-07 Thread Tom Bishop
This is excellent information Akemi, provides opportunities for folks to dig in and specific information that is needed and where to go to learn more...Thanks! :) On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Changing the subject line for good ... > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Lamar

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Good ... if you don't like CentOS, then we do not want you to use it. > > For people who do like it, we do want you to use it. > > What we do not want is for people to think that they have a Service > Level Agreement with CentOS to produce

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: > >> This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project >> shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is >> another example) because it makes the developers look lik

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> It's the second time that I point out that the CentOS communication >> policy (if you there is one) is completely unprofessional. You can let >> off steam by saying "we

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-08 Thread Tom Grace
On 08/04/11 11:28, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I re-formatted the USB stick under Windows, >>> and tried dd-ing diskboot.img to /dev/sdb1 >>> but the outcome was the same. > > I'll try again, now that I'm sure what you mean. > You might also have some luck with "unetbootin" (ht

Re: [CentOS] STOP THIS THREAD NOW!

2011-04-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > STOP IT! Take a few deep breaths! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-09 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Is there any ETA for the SRPM's from the base tree of 5.6? I need to get my hands on the src for the centos-release package as i have to rebuilt it to prevent the repo definitions from being included. I see the src's for the updates RPM's but not the base. many thanks

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > > it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. > I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? > I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6 From http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_E

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Traut  wrote: >>> >>> it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. >>> I thought upstream has ext4 ful

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-10 Thread Tom Diehl
a .repo file. > What am I misunderstanding? (Sorry for the pun, I think I'm mostly talking > to Tom ;-) I cannot speak for the other Tom but in my case I rebuild the centos-release rpm and add my own repo files so that all of my machines pull from my local repos. Yes, I know that the mod

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