Re: [CentOS] Kickstart syntax for CentOS upgrade

2008-04-28 Thread Tom Lanyon
ok much different to your config! Regards, Tom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs My fstab looks like //share/name/mount/pointsmbfs username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0 or the same using cifs When i try and mount that i get the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
This works for me... In /etc/fstab:- //share/name/mount/point cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0 In the credentials file:- username=your-windows-user password=XXX Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root. i have man

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Brown
I am using cifs without having the domain on a C4 box. I think something is not right with your setup. i could not agree more but i do not admin the windows side so they suggested i use the domain and that seems to work for this issue. We have many domains and i wonder if that causes c

[CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Tom Brown
In CentOS 4 does anyone know the switches to get NMAP to reveal the MAC of the host being scanned ? I cant seem to find it and i am using nmap-4.20 - i am sure this was available somehow on older releases. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Tom Brown
Others have given you good answers, but I felt I could share some insight on the matter.. The MAC address of a NIC is used by switches to send packets out the right port - As soon as you add a routing element, all traffic to a routed IP appears to be destined for the router, if one goes by

[CentOS] Re: FOSS Inventory Managment and Invoicing Application

2008-05-08 Thread Tom Diehl
for Ledger-SMB the last time I looked. I need someone to ping on when I get into a bind with the program. Fortunately now days I rarely have problems I cannot resolve myself but I have needed this support in the past and Dieter was very responsive and helpful. Regards, -- Tom Diehl

[CentOS] Re: OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Diehl
know good source (mostly locally built). Ummm, from the yum man page: --nogpgcheck Run with gpg signature checking disabled. Configuration Option: gpgcheck Does that do what you want? Regards, -- Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[CentOS] php-pear - required files - which rpm

2008-05-15 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am tying to install a php based application but the error i recieve is Failed opening required 'HTML/Template/IT.php' This is something to do with pear from what i can tell but i do have php-pear installed. The file IT.php is not on my system but does anyone know what rpm this would come

[CentOS] Re: clustered mail server?

2008-05-18 Thread Tom Diehl
information from it. Regards, Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: samba question

2008-05-24 Thread Tom Diehl
internal DNS server is trivial compared to setting up samba. I would suggest you take the time to learn how. Hope this helps. Regards, -- Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] Centosplus vmware kernels....???

2008-05-27 Thread Tom Bishop
OK, so I need to bring up a new vm and was wondering what the state of vm kernels for centos. I have read this http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189about the tick divider but it wasn't clear what the best step forward is for centos 5.1 was, i usually ran with the clocksource=pit option and it loo

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus vmware kernels....???

2008-05-27 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks much, I have in the past compiled my own but thought I would check. A big THANKS to whoever provides them... On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Tom Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so I n

Re: [CentOS] Centosplus vmware kernels....???

2008-05-29 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks Tru and Johnny, one more question. Can I just use the centos5-testing repo, ie, yum enablerepoxxx install kernel-vm? I ask because I tried and while it worked it loaded an older kernel. Should I just go to tru's directory and install the RPM directly? Also, ok more than one question, are

Re: [CentOS] Hardened ver of CentOS?

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Bishop
I have used this on my server http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/ ... On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rogelio wrote: > >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> CentOS /is/ a distro, there is only one centos 'distribution'. >>> centos configured with selinux enab

[CentOS] Re: kernels and irc

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Diehl
not answer that. Silence would be the best answer. Regards, -- Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Tom Brown
CF Fails, i can re inject it into a new CF card and away I go. yes if the HD fails ive lost the database, but its a monitoring box, toss a new one in , reboot the box and away we go. but as either cant operate without the other you have just doubled your chances of an outage rather than

Re: [CentOS] how to remove some packages with yum from a repo X????

2008-06-16 Thread Tom Brown
I have installed some packages from a Repo X, lets call it like that, so now I need to unistall all those packages with yum is there a way to do that how? yum erase foo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/m

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell? - SOLVED

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 23/06/2008, at 7:56 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Anyway, it's working now. I had to change the Xen config in /boot/ grub/menu and tell Xen not to use ttyS0 as a serial console for itself. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/InstallationNotes#head-b915c65538e3d0cb29da04e05cb278e44624a522 Good to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Lanyon
tOS 5.x i386 boxes with 8 GB memory trying to run CentOS 4.x i386 domUs with 3.5 or 4GB memory? Regards, Tom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Brown
I have done 700k and 800k files transfers (including hardlinks), but indeed it could take a while to compute the transferlist. Newer rsync versions bring down the amount of memory needed drastically. That is one of the reasons I offer a recent rsync in RPMforge. There is almost never a good

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Lanyon
nning on a DomU hosted on an i386/ PAE box with 6G ram running CentOS5.1/xen. Hi Luke, Thanks for the confirmation; this is what I had understood but some of the prior discussion scared me. :) Regards, Tom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] problem with telnet

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 24/06/2008, at 3:28 PM, fabian dacunha wrote: Dear All i have a centos 5 server running as a backup PC server and is working perfect for abt 3 months jus a couple of days back when i tried to telnet to the server it gave me connection refused What on earth are you using telnet for?

[CentOS] Bonding question - active-backup

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have bonding working and i can failover between active (eth0) and backup (eth1) without issue, however is there a way to automatically fail back to eth0 when this link once again becomes available? I understand this may be undesirable due to flapping etc but i just wonder if its possibl

Re: [CentOS] Bonding question - active-backup

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Brown
I believe you can do this with the 'primary' option to the bonding module - in your case 'primary=eth0' yes - that does it thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade mail server to new machine

2008-06-24 Thread Tom Brown
I have an old RHEL3 box that I am upgrading to CentOS5. I picked up a new Dell Poweredge R200 to use for that. Is there an easy way to copy all the user accounts and existing mail from the old server to the new one? if local users copy /home/* /etc/passwd /etc/shadow after first making

Re: [CentOS] CentOS roadmap/EPEL

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Brown
There are lots of exciting things happening in the CentOS ecosystem at the moment, by which I mean "upstream" or "across stream" in Fedora and RHEL. I'm thinking of projects that equip RH-like EL in general for serious entry into the enterprise, things like the Fedora Directory Server, and

Re: [CentOS] dm-multipath use

2008-06-25 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 26/06/2008, at 3:57 AM, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: Hi, I'm running ~45 machines that boot from SAN/or are connected to our SAN fabrics on CentOS 4.x/5.x (And about 20 more running RHEL5) without problems at all. The storage is IBM SVC (2145). Just make sure multipathd is running on yo

[CentOS] 64 bit aware CPU

2008-06-30 Thread Tom Brown
I dont think it is but would the following CPU be able to take a 64 bit version of CentOS ? processor: 0 vendor_id: GenuineIntel cpu family: 15 model: 2 model name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz stepping: 7 cpu MHz: 2401.247 cache size: 512 KB physical id

Re: [CentOS] 64 bit aware CPU

2008-06-30 Thread Tom Brown
flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr If your CPU has 64-bit mode support the output will include the “lm” flag. OK thanks all - it was a long shot _

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

2008-06-30 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 01/07/2008, at 2:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/6/30 Bazy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, Is anyone using Spacewalk (http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/) on CentOS 5 or 4? What kind of hardware are you useing it on? Do I read it right that it requires Oracle 9?? (http://tinyurl.com/6rff8l) or

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

2008-07-01 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 01/07/2008, at 5:23 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: Blahh 9, 10, whatever - it's not free. I'd sort of expect it to work with PostgresQL/MySQL. "Weird choice", as the guy who works for me put it. Thanks for the clarification. --Amos It has (only just) spawned from a non-open, non-free syste

[CentOS] mod_python - apache crash

2008-07-04 Thread Tom Brown
one of my developers is using a mod_python module called xml.dom.minidom and its causing the issue as outlined below http://www.dscpl.com.au/wiki/ModPython/Articles/ExpatCausingApacheCrash This is on CentOS 4.5 and so Apache 2.0.52-38 - I cant change the OS version but i could change the apa

Re: [CentOS] mod_python - apache crash

2008-07-04 Thread Tom Brown
Specifically ... I am looking at the httpd and python and pyexpat used in CentOS 4 ... I get this: = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# python Python 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:28:55) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informatio

Re: OT: [centos] open source inventory system with invoicing and serial no tracking

2008-07-11 Thread Tom Diehl
-ledger.com. I am not sure about the serial numberi generation part but it rusn on a web server, does inventory and invoicing and is licensed under the GPL. Regards, -- Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spamtrap address [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Tom Brown
I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? i would say Pulp fits the bill from what you have said https://fedorahosted.org/pulp

Re: [CentOS] copy

2008-07-21 Thread Tom Brown
I want to copy all the following files/folder/subfolders under /usr/local/apache/htdocs to a remote server within this directory /var/www/html/ Am I correct with this command, or far away o tar zcvf - /usr/local/apache/htdocs | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > /va

[CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have a situation where i need to blanketly allow read permissions on /opt to any user at all. I have some bad behaving apps though that seem to overwrite these permissions and do not set world read on their log directories. Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than root/sudo to change them? Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, then remount it rw when you need to make changes. i cant as the applicati

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
What are the applications? What is the directory structure? Is the permission problem on a directory or a file? What user account owns the application process? Is the app un-doing your manual permission changes on existing files and directories, or just not granting read permission to new objec

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
If it is the permissions on the directory that are the problem, then you may be able to change the owner of the logs directory and then give the application rw permissions. That way the application will be able to write its logs, but would not be able to change permissions on the directory.

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Brown
Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? # dmidecode | grep Product Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Brown
# dmidecode | grep Product Product Name: VMware Virtual Platform ___ mmm a XEN VPS gives me this: # dmidecode | grep Product /dev/mem: mmap: Bad address so its not running on VMware - great job done __

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Tom Brown
Tony Mountifield wrote: | Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine | whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? | Obviously from the responses many people have a solution... my question is "Why do you care?". What is it that you would do

[CentOS] Login Feature

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Browder
locked by another user (a switch user feature). Is that feature available or is it planned? Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Login Feature

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Browder
On 7/30/08, Hywel Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: > > I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable > > distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years. > > > > His main objection so far has b

Re: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Bishop
..or the OP might want to try to get gparted loaded up, would make things much easier on him. I think the last time I looked I found it on one of the repo's but not sure which one. It provides a very nice and easy gui to do all of this from, although of course it is all available from the cli, de

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks, that is the part I was looking for also...I wish thee was someway that Redhat would work with folks to not make it so difficult, I realize that the original intent was to make it harder for Oracle and the likes but the end up hurting the community more than they hurt the big guys...bummer :

Re: [CentOS] Duplicated packages in CR repo?

2011-10-28 Thread Tom Brown
> fixed. Apologies for this getting through. I've done the rm's manually, > but we need a test to make sure this does not happen again. do you have a list of the bad packages so that i can remove them from our spacewalk before they cause us an issue? thanks ___

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-16 Thread Tom Bishop
I would get a dell r210 from the outlet site and then load pfsense, been running in multiple locations, solid and works great. On 1/16/12, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I > can host this in my garage. (Comcast o

[CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
on functioning stacks for this problem would be helpful. Thanks, Tom ps SORRY FOR THE LONG EMAIL ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
rack my progress, I will keep it updated. http://serverfault.com/questions/355680/configuration-compliance-auditing-for-many-centos-5-x-boxes If you have any great ideas then I will bung some points on your account there... Cheers, Tom ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On 02/02/12 00:26, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Is anyone looking at salt instead of puppet yet? http://saltstack.org/ > I had such a bad experience with puppet, that I ran like a jilted teenage lover on a rebound into the arms of chef... unfortunately I may not have reviewed all the options (includ

Re: [CentOS] Promo Store is now open

2012-02-20 Thread Tom Bishop
For Shipping to the US it appears to be about ~$17 per shirt or there aboutsI did 2 of them and it was $35... On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Craig Thompson < cthomp...@loganthompsonlaw.com> wrote: > There's no way to see what shipping is without checking out -- which means > registering. D

[CentOS] Centos 6.x and Freenx issue..

2012-02-27 Thread Tom Bishop
Finally got a chance to install Centos 6.x x86_64 version and having an issue with the latest version of freenx. This is a desktop install on a esxi 5 with all updates and only thing I have installed is the latest vmware tools. When I enable the extras repo and install the nx-3.5.0-1.el6.ay.x86_6

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.x and Freenx issue..

2012-02-28 Thread Tom Bishop
Looks like it might be this, will not get a chance to test until tonight but this reads just like what I am seeing...will post back, I debated on going with the esx tools vs the open source tools, looks like I guessed wrong :( From: christoph.galuschka@chello.a Tom, take a look at this post

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.x and Freenx issue..Solved!!

2012-02-28 Thread Tom Bishop
latest freenx and nx rpms found in the repo. Thanks again :) On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:36 AM, christoph.galusc...@chello.at < christoph.galusc...@chello.at> wrote: > Tom, > > take a look at this post, maybe it solves your problem. > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/cento

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - bonding 'error' but everything works fine

2009-05-20 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am seeing the following at boot time http://home.ng23.net/boot.jpg however the bonds work perfectly so i just wonder what the permission denied is implying. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

[CentOS] script help - '3rd last field'

2009-06-08 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I need some logic to work out a value for me - this value is _always_ the 3rd last field in a string seperated by '.' but the string could be 5 or 6 fields long, e.g foo.bar.VALUE.baz.lala foor.bar.gigi.VALUE.baz.lala I need to find VALUE - if this were python or something i could do it b

Re: [CentOS] script help - '3rd last field'

2009-06-08 Thread Tom Brown
> I am pretty sure there is a way in awk to figure out how many fields > you have, then take the total # of fields -3 each time to get the > third last one. Just heading out the door and off hand can't remember > how it would be done. > > i can do it in cheetah templating with set myloc = $g

Re: [CentOS] script help - '3rd last field'

2009-06-08 Thread Tom Brown
>echo foo.bar.VALUE.baz.lala | awk -F. '{ print $(NF-2); }' > > excellent - just what i needed thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 update do RHEL 5.3

2009-06-08 Thread Tom Diehl
greater then the existing centos versions you will never get the updates. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] re-install over internet

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Brown
> I just got back from a datacenter where I installed a new server running > CentOS 5.3. I set up a software raid with md0 being /. (Only one mount, > didn't split anything up.) > > I just discovered that instead of raid 1, it did raid 0... Not exactly what I > wanted! Probably missed that litt

Re: [CentOS] hostname changes

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Brown
> > > How do I change the hostname? > In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and > /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes? > /etc/hosts has nothing to do with the hostname this is just a way to resolve a name to an IP where DNS is not available or some o

Re: [CentOS] kickstart not install evolution

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Brown
> I wish to NOT install evolution during my kickstart process... > In the %packages section I put a line > > -evolution > > but it still installed evolution. > How can I keep evolution from being installed in the kickstart process? > > find out what package is requiring it and remove that also

[CentOS] OT - Tomcat CLASSPATH issue

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Brown
if this is ignored then fair enough as its not really the place for it but if anyone has seen this it would be good to know tomcat is 6.0.18 CLASSPATH is set in /etc/sysconfig/ and this IS getting used as _some_ configuration items are being picked up from /etc/ but the issue is when default s

Re: [CentOS] OT - Tomcat CLASSPATH issue

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Brown
> Does this answer your question? > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html > > not really no .. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT - Tomcat CLASSPATH issue

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Brown
> From the same version of Apache-Tomcat (6.0.18) web.xml config file: > > > > > > > You are setting CLASSPATH as an OS environment variable. Tomcat > wants/has it's own and you set it within the engine, or let the > engine take care of it for you. > > > interesting thanks

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Brown
> command="rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key" /backup > stew...@name.of.remote.server:/backup" ssh-dss ... key ... which user is doing this as maybe the env of that user in cron is not the same as when logged in using a shell ? ___ CentOS mailin

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

2009-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
I need PHP with mycrypt support see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php i wonder - is this available in the PHP that comes with CentOS 5.3 ? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

2009-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
> I need PHP with mycrypt support see > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php > > i wonder - is this available in the PHP that comes with CentOS 5.3 ? > > i should have just tried it - works fine! thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

2009-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
> > ever thought of yum search php-mcrypt? > > clearly not ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have boxes with a quad card that shows up with e1000 e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection However since rebuilding a box from 4.7 to 5.3 this card has vanished - I would have thought this card is pretty generic so i dont believe there are not drivers for it - Any other thoug

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Brown
> > try modprobe e1000 and see if it comes back? (there's also the > e1000e driver as well I think that is for the latest cards mostly > PCIe) > > Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. > Check lspci to verify it's still there? >

Re: [CentOS] intel nic vanished with 5.3

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Brown
> > Maybe an IRQ conflict or something? I don't recall ever > seeing a situation where lspci wouldn't show a device that > was actually present and working. Try a different PCI > slot? > > yes its rather odd - i will ask the DC guys to check but i am working on second hand info regarding this

Re: [CentOS] Configure a local DNS caching nameserver: partial success

2009-07-02 Thread Tom Brown
> > Now I'd like all the other machines on the network to use this local DNS > server instead of my ISP's DNS. First thing, I know Bind uses port 53, > so I take care to open that port on the server as well as on the other > machines in the network. Then, I try to use my local DNS server manual

[CentOS] Upgrade 4.7 > 5.3 poorer 'performance'

2009-07-02 Thread Tom Brown
Hi During a test upgrade of a number of hosts in a pool i have found that exactly the same JVM based app runs more efficiently on the 4.7 systems than it does on the 5.3 on identical hardware. Specifically the apps seems to exhibit about 10% more 'load' on the CPU's for the same workload - bef

Re: [CentOS] Configure a local DNS caching nameserver: partial success

2009-07-02 Thread Tom Brown
> > No, that's not it. I disabled the (internal) firewall just for testing's > sake, and still nothing. I can only use Bind on localhost (e. g. on the > machine where I installed it), but not from any other machine on the > network. > what does you named.conf look like? i am guessing you ha

Re: [CentOS] Configure a local DNS caching nameserver: partial success

2009-07-02 Thread Tom Brown
> I just got it to work. In fact, I deleted the stock caching-nameserver > package and followed this excellent tutorial: > > http://www.madboa.com/geek/soho-bind/ > > i dont see what was wrong with the stock one - seems you did not fully configure it _

Re: [CentOS] Network Utilization

2009-07-06 Thread Tom Brown
> I'm attempting to create a script that will indicate the % utilization > of a network interface. I need this to export a one shot output that can > be called by nagios. > > I've tried the following tools but I was unable to find a way to output > just the utilization, and just one time: bmon, if

[CentOS] script to monitor interface errors

2009-07-23 Thread Tom Brown
Has anyone knocked up a script to monitor for interface errors before? i know i can look at the interface statistics with ethtool -S but i wonder if anything has something that looks at the last value for this statistic and then can alert if they increase? any thought how to solve this? it has

Re: [CentOS] Need help on start samba

2009-07-23 Thread Tom Brown
Tran Van Hung wrote: > Hello all! > > I have met inform as following. I see that no smb on init.d folder. > > [r...@maychu1 home]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start > bash: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: No such file or directory > > Pls help me how to have smb on init.d folder? Thank you. > > Thank you & Best Reg

Re: [CentOS] script to monitor interface errors

2009-07-23 Thread Tom Brown
> > surprise, surprise > > I have a similar situation. On a very slow Pentium I machine, runing > 2.2.XXX kernel, sometimes I have overruns and frame errors, which > choke up the interface and I have to restart it using > The overruns are due to torrent traffic generated by one of the geeks here.

Re: [CentOS] Need help on start samba

2009-07-23 Thread Tom Brown
>>> >>> >> what rpm did you use for this install? >> > --- > He did not use an rpm so he is on his on. He used the source tarball. > > one would wonder why ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] iso from rpm's

2009-07-24 Thread Tom Brown
> I have downloaded from an ftp something like RHEL 5.3 ppc64 rpm's. Is there > any way to make from them an installation iso? > > > why not just download the iso's from redhat with the valid subscription details you have? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] rpm

2009-07-24 Thread Tom Brown
> > hi, thanks, but where should I add that repo and how can I use it? > > dont top post google yum ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Brown
> I have a CentOS 4 system running BIND and I am wondering: > > Are there now BIND updates for CentOS 4? Will CentOS 4.8 include > updates for BIND? How close is the 4.8 release -- Days, Weeks, Months? > > # rpm -qa | grep bind bind-libs-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4 bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4 bind-utils-9.2.

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Brown
>> >> >> If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the >> conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall. >> > > There are other RHEL rebuild projects out there. > > why is everyone getting so jumpy - its only a domain name thats at stake, he's been AWOL fo

Re: [CentOS] BIND Updates / CentOS 4.8 release

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Brown
> > Where are these rpms available from? They don't seem to be available as > normal updates (eg yum update bind...). > > they are - # yum clean all # yum update bind ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel?

2009-07-31 Thread Tom Brown
> I understand the worries. The news have reached the front page of > Slashdot, and thus might reach certain technically inclined managers, > which in turn may cause questions about contingency plans to be directed > at the IT staff. I have a feeling that "I have no contingency plan, > don't w

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel and support

2009-08-01 Thread Tom Brown
Geoff Galitz wrote: > > >> tell said managers to open the coffers and pay for support if they are >> that worried >> > > Maybe they would, but there is no content on the Centos wiki on the > commercial support page. Considering the allegations of mishandling > of funds, I doubt any organi

[CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Brown
Hi On 5.3 i have a situation where some boxes have been 3 or 4 seconds out and restarting ntpd has fixed the issue. What i dont understand is why the clocks did not drift to the correct time when the config seems correct in that restarting ntp did correct the time. Is there something 'special

Re: [CentOS] ntp will not drift to correct time

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Brown
> Is the directory /var/lib/ntp present, and with write permissions for > the 'ntp' user? Does the drift file exist? > Does ntpd ever lock in? What do you see in 'ntpq -p' over time? > Are these heavily-loaded boxes, or boxes with wildly-varying loads? > > $ ll /var/lib/ntp total 4 -rw-r--r-

Re: [CentOS] wordpress on centos, rpm or source?

2009-09-05 Thread Tom Keyser
have it require database updates that need to be done manually or via a script or control panel. 3) some updates of wordpress are not as stable as some would think. Tom Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for opinions here. Do people generally use wordpress via > an rpm package,

[CentOS] mrepo - RHEL5

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Brown
OK this is talking about downloading from rhn but does anyone have any tips with getting mrepo on a CentOS 5 box to be able to download from rhn reliably? Seemingly everything is configured OK as it downloads a package or 2 but mainly bombs out with... Error communicating with server. The mess

Re: [CentOS] mrepo - RHEL5

2009-09-11 Thread Tom Brown
> > You might get a bit more targeted exposure for your problem if you post > to the mrepo mailing list[1]. I seem to recall someone posting about > this issue recently[2]. No responses yet however... > > [1] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tools > [2] http://lists.rpmforge.net/piperm

[CentOS] Centos 5.3 Kernel panic with fuse and glusterfs.

2009-09-15 Thread Tom O'Connor
ter and fuse from development snapshots and stable releases, I've tried patched versions of fuse released by Gluster. Nothing seems to improve this problem. If anyone has any ideas for further debugging, or other routes for support. I'm running out of ideas.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 Kernel panic with fuse and glusterfs.

2009-09-15 Thread Tom O'Connor
Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:24:52PM +0100, Tom O'Connor wrote: > >> If anyone has any ideas for further debugging, or other routes for >> support. I'm running out of ideas. >> > > Enterprise Linux 5.4 with included official

Re: [CentOS] CentOS to RedHat and vice versa

2010-08-05 Thread Tom Georgoulias
e via YUM and CentOS > repositories. I have not seen the reverse, however. Check this out, it will point you in the right direction: http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2010/04/15/Switch-from-CentOS-5.4-to-RHEL-5.5 Tom ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2010-08-09 Thread Tom H
2010/8/9 Rajagopal Swaminathan : > 2010/8/9 Giuseppe Corazzin : > > duh.. I cant understand a word of it. and won't bother with translation. > > English please.Rest are irritating in a tech list. It's spam! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

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