[CentOS] locate rpm spec files

2007-12-11 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I _have_ to use the following software versions on CentOS4 and RHEL4 Apache 2.0.53 mod_jk 1.2.22 Tomcat 5.5.9 Java 1.5.0_06 Can anyone point me to the spec files for these that i can use against the source tar balls or better yet a source rpm? thanks!

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Brown
I need to backup data to an HP autoloader, it needs to be *full* backups each time so using Amanda doesn’t make sense. Can someone point me to what utilities to use to access the autoloader, I would rather read up on this myself as my knowledge here is very weak. I am moving this unit from

Re: [CentOS] Mounting /var directory to a new HardDisk

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Brown
but not before you boot single user and copy all the contents across manually and then modify /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of /var. If I boot from single user mode and copy /var directory to new hardiisk, What will happent to permissions? use rsync to copy the data over -

Re: [CentOS] HP Autoloader

2008-01-18 Thread Tom Brown
Actually, you would use "dumpcycle 0" to get amanda to do full backups every run. tapecycle should still be set to however many tapes you have -- anything other than that and you lose amanda's ability to track the tapes for you. yeap - my bad ___

[CentOS] openldap 2.4.x - CentOS 4

2008-01-24 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Is there an rpm pf openldap 2.4.something for CentOS 4 around ? We have 2.3 but there is a bug we are hitting that is meant to be fixed in 2.4 Any pointers appreciated thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mail

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
Doesn't this take a considerable amount of setup work on the server side per-distro/per-version? For NFS you only have to download images into directories under an nfs export. not when using cobbler is doesn't http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ __

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
My fundamental question is why dump claims it cannot access what I want it to back up. What's to say other solutions - Amanda, etc, will work any better? I want to know how to resolve the source problem before looking into other products. How will BackupPC or Amanda do any better?

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
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 h

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
not when using cobbler is doesn't http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ Cobbler doesn't take any setup? not a 'considerable amount' nope - its quick, easy and very good at simplifying things so that additional builds are very easy ___ CentOS mailin

[CentOS] hp dl585 - qlogic hba's - centos 4.5 x86_64

2008-02-05 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I recently installed some hba's into a bunch of these 585's as they are forming a RAC cluster - previously to this they were all using DAS without issue. After the qlogic cards were installed i reinstalled the OS and now once installed the OS will not boot - the box just reboots continuou

[CentOS] ESX Server 2.5 - Centos 5.1 guest

2008-02-10 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Anyone got a driver disk for a CentOS 5.1 install running on an ESX 2.5 server ? When the install runs it seems it cant find any hdd's - In the past with 4.x i have loaded a driver disk but i cant seem to find one for 5.x Does anyone have this running? thanks __

Re: [CentOS] ESX Server 2.5 - Centos 5.1 guest

2008-02-10 Thread Tom Brown
Did you use the LSI Logic SCSI adapter? CentOS5/RHEL5 does not include a driver for the BusLogic SCSI adapter. thats the adapter yes - is there any work around available here or something available from VMware ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-14 Thread Tom Brown
I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice that a keyboard was not found. All my CentOS firewalls run without keyboad and mouses. I think it is related to BIOS. yes - check the 'halt on errors' section of your bios

[CentOS] Modify kickstart initrd to add Buslogic driver

2008-02-15 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have a running kernel with the same kernel version of that in the kickstart that contains the Buslogic driver which would enable me to install a vmware client using kickstart. Is there an 'easy' way to take the initrd that contains the correct drivers and inject these into the initrd of

Re: [CentOS] Modify kickstart initrd to add Buslogic driver

2008-02-15 Thread Tom Brown
I have a running kernel with the same kernel version of that in the kickstart that contains the Buslogic driver which would enable me to install a vmware client using kickstart. Is there an 'easy' way to take the initrd that contains the correct drivers and inject these into the initrd of

Re: [CentOS] Modify kickstart initrd to add Buslogic driver

2008-02-15 Thread Tom Brown
to follow up to myself this was in actual fact super easy, all i had to do was add driverdisk --source=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx./cobbler/ks_mirror/drivers/dd-RHEL4.img to my kickstart template and it was away! naturally that should read driverdisk --source=http://@@server@@/cobbler/

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - equivalent of xorg-x11 ?

2008-02-25 Thread Tom Brown
Hi If i want to add X to a system after install on CentOS 4 that would be a yum install xorg-x11 etc This package seems to have been renamed in CentOS 5 and i wonder if anyone can tell me what that now is please thanks ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] proliant ml370

2008-02-28 Thread Tom Brown
basically, my question is do i want to config raid before install os or vs? i only want to use hardware raid and my controller & hd are scsi. you have to configure the RAID card before OS installation otherwise you will not get a desired result - just go into the RAID bios, set it how you

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Tom Brown
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all This is the first time I try and get Xen working, and want to install a few CentOS 5.1 32bit and FreeBSD 6.1 VM's on my CentOS 5.1 x64 server. Trying to get the first one to install is rather trivial, and I keep on running into errors. At fist I wanted to install it

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS 5.1 x64

2008-02-29 Thread Tom Brown
Are you sure? I've read on a few different sites / emails that people do this, mainly because the 64bit version can handle the large amounts of memory typically found in dedicated servers. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Virtualization-en-US/ch-virt-hw-support.

[CentOS] rpm - spec - on remove

2008-03-03 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Is there an option in the spec that i can say on remove do X - eg move a backup file back into place etc? eg %onremove mv foo bar thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart server variable name

2008-03-03 Thread Tom Brown
You may be able to get the IP out of /proc/cmdline during %post or export MYIP=`ifconfig eth0 | awk '/inet/ {print $2}' | cut -d: -f 2` ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart server variable name

2008-03-03 Thread Tom Brown
That would give the local IP, not the IP of the kickstart server... my bad - i thought thats what the OP wanted ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] disable SELinux

2008-03-04 Thread Tom Brown
with minimal installation on centos 5, selinux also included. how do i remove selinux or disable it at least? cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux you'll figure it out from there! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

[CentOS] kickstart LANG issue

2008-03-13 Thread Tom Brown
i sent this to the kistart list also - but i thought i may try my luck here also ;) Hi In my kix file i have LANG set to the following lang en_GB langsupport --default=en_GB en_GB however on install the box is # env | grep LANG LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 # cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" S

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Brown
Just for fun, the first hit on a google for "redundant atx power supply" http://www.directron.com/tc400r8.html Seems you can just plop one into your std atx chassis . . . i have never understood how something with a single feed can be termed 'redundant' ___

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Brown
Yeah, that PS appears to have only one outlet (unless i'm not seeing it in the photo), most redundant PS's have seperaate outlets for a Y power cable one for each supply. Guess it's not that redundant. yes - although i would never use a Y cable - Dual PSU's need 2 feeds from seperate PDU

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - Apache 2.0.52

2008-03-17 Thread Tom Brown
Hi does the stock apache in CentOS 4.5 - ie 2.0.52 come compiled in 'Pre-Fork' mode? I ask as we have an app that needs to run against apache and this needs to run in 'Worker Mode' as opposed to 'Pre Fork' If this is the case then i guess i will need to rebuild it from the .src.rpm but can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - Apache 2.0.52

2008-03-17 Thread Tom Brown
Look at the init script: # Set HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.worker in /etc/sysconfig/httpd to use a # server with the thread-based "worker" MPM; BE WARNED that some modules # may not work correctly with a thread-based MPM; notably PHP will # refuse to start. excellent thanks ___

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - Postfix Mysql

2008-03-19 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am building a new box and i want to get away from hand rolled stuff this time and i need Postfix with MySQL support compiled in - Is this available anywhere already built? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - MySQL 5.0.22 - Courier auth lib problem

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am finishing my mail server config and just trying to get the mysql login working - it fails to connect and thorws the following error Mar 21 21:58:21 mail0 authdaemond: failed to connect to mysql server (server=localhost, userid=courier): Can't connect to local MySQL server through so

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - MySQL 5.0.22 - Courier auth lib problem

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Brown
I am finishing my mail server config and just trying to get the mysql login working - it fails to connect and thorws the following error Mar 21 21:58:21 mail0 authdaemond: failed to connect to mysql server (server=localhost, userid=courier): Can't connect to local MySQL server through soc

Re: [CentOS] System Rebooted by 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Brown
This looks like a normal shutdown command was issued from somewhere, IMO. I would check the other log files under /var/log and its sub- directories for entries around this time. Especially secure.log*. Also, I don't know your configuration, but is there a cron or at entry that has a scheduled re

Re: [CentOS] System Rebooted by 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Brown
Check if you allow write access to snmp and from whom. A reboot request could have been issued via snmp. it could but you'd need something to map the OID being hit to either a script or the reboot command ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Brown
if the machines are within the LAN, yes. My original point was that if you have a static IP address for your local LAN *and* you want to restrict the *remote* machines to be ssh-connectable only from that LAN (which is a good security measure) *and* you are on the road you can still work on y

[CentOS] Postfix - Maildir - MySQL - Cyrus Imap - Sieve

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Brown
I would like to use the above config, i think. Can cyrus-imap work nicely with Maildir ? If so is there one available thats configured with msql support? In the past i have used courier-imap but ideally i want to use sieve thanks ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - Maildir - MySQL - Cyrus Imap - Sieve

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Brown
No. cyrus has its own mail store format. Which is similar to maildir, but ... cyrus can authenticate against everything which can be authenticated against via pam (I use ldap), so mysql shouldn't be an issue, if there are pam modules to do that. That all works via saslauthd. ok thanks - s

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - Maildir - MySQL - Cyrus Imap - Sieve

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Brown
I would like to use the above config, i think. Can cyrus-imap work nicely with Maildir ? If so is there one available thats configured with msql support? In the past i have used courier-imap but ideally i want to use sieve if it's just for sieve, you can use dovecot. it's mostly "compati

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - Maildir - MySQL - Cyrus Imap - Sieve

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Brown
hi - yes what i am trying to get working is server-side mail filtering and in the past with exim i have used cyrus with sieve. Can you tell me what dovecot will offer me to achieve this over courier? think i am going to look at procmail but not sure how well that will work with virt use

Re: [CentOS] IMAP security

2008-03-28 Thread Tom Brown
These, it seems, are outgoing packets. Why, then, have they got those source addresses? Is someone managing to bounce packets through my mail server to hide their tracks? I've never seen many of these, just the occasional one. Sometimes they seem to relate to an ntp source. Often they se

Re: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Tom Brown
Ok, that I understand. So, do I still need to install the default Xen kernel from the CD than? is that a deliberate typo in your signature? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Xen 3.2 x64 rpms?

2008-03-30 Thread Tom Brown
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all Does anyone know where I can get Xen 3.2 x64 rpm's? I see there are Xen 3.2 rpm's on the Xen downloads page for CentOS 5, but they're 32bit please see my response to you on the kickstart list and also the responses on the Xen list _

Re: [CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

2008-03-31 Thread Tom Brown
That is what I suspect. I presume I have to block it from being upgraded after as well. How can I force the new app back in without worrying about this dependency? to prevent a package from being updated or installed from a certain repo you'd add exclude=package_name to the yum confi

[CentOS] courier-imap-mysql

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I see the courier-imap-mysql rpm is available on rpm.pbone.net, does anyone know if this is also available in a repo ? I looked in extras but it didn't find anything. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

[CentOS] CentOS - HP

2007-08-02 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc? We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather than some

Re: [CentOS] How to use a modem under CentOS

2007-08-08 Thread Tom Brown
It's a "worthless winmodem". I'd suggest throwing it in the trash and replacing it with an external serial (not USB) modem. I note that as of this evening, Newegg.com has several such modems, starting from a low of $17.99 and going up from there. I have no idea if any of them are any good, YMMV.

Re: [CentOS] nfs installation

2007-08-15 Thread Tom Brown
what i meant was there's no nfs daemon on /etc/init.d so i can't start it or anything. $ rpm -qa | grep nfs-utils what do you get ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Help with backups

2007-08-20 Thread Tom Brown
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,

Re: [CentOS] Need help to track an ip port problem

2007-08-20 Thread Tom Brown
That's at least the default in CentOS 5, I don't remember how CentOS 4 handled this. You have to put a variable in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, but I don't know which one as I always compile my own sendmail.cf. dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback address

Re: [CentOS] How do I know if I am using SAN?

2007-08-22 Thread Tom Brown
How can I verify if I am using SAN for my Linux Server? Also, how do I find WWNs of HBAs? errr what? Is that a serious question or trolling? If you have a SAN and you need to ask if you are using it i'd worry, or perhaps i just dont understand the wording of your question.

[CentOS] RPM for mod_php

2007-09-21 Thread Tom Brown
Hi Guys I am trying to find an rpm for CentOS 4.5 and mod_php but i cant seem to find one - Am i going my the wrong name? thanks for any pointers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RPM for mod_php

2007-09-21 Thread Tom Brown
'yum list php\*' thanks but i still dont see what i need Available Packages php.i386 4.3.9-3.22.9 update php-acid.noarch 0.9.6b22-1.2.el4.rf dag php-adodb.noarch 4.81-1.el4

Re: [CentOS] mail server

2007-09-25 Thread Tom Brown
what can you recommend for mail server. I'll be needing mail server with tls,ssl and virtual domains with web ui management, im doing this for a client of mine. i have been using this for about 3 years now http://www.techie.org/TNMailServer/TNMailServer.php its great and has a gui front

[CentOS] Centos 4.5 - HP Hardware monitoring

2007-10-22 Thread Tom Brown
Hi We have up until now been a Dell shop but are looking at HP. I would normally monitor hardware by installing OMSA from dell and then using nagios as the monitor. Are there tools for HP that would allow me to do similar? thanks ___ CentOS mailin

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

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

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

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] 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

[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] 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

[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

[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] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-11 Thread Tom Brown
>> I'm hazarding a guess here - that the os/{i386,x86_64}/CentOS/*.rpm's that >> have 'centos' in the name have had changes made for CentOS. The others >> have not and the sources are available from upstream at eg >> >> http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ >

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 - SRPM's

2011-04-11 Thread Tom Brown
> Instead of removing the unwanted .repo files, replace them with empty files. > That way an upgrade should just result in a .rpmnew file being created. because by removing them from the centos-release package and rebuilding it they are not there in the first place. ___

[CentOS] Find and excluding directory

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have to use find to change the perms of a directory and files within that directory recursively but i need to exclude a directory within the top level directory, as its a netapp and so contains a read only .snapshot dir. I have tried... # find /var/data/foo -path '\.\/\.snapshot' -prune

Re: [CentOS] Find and excluding directory

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Brown
> Your "-path" argument is wrong. Try this: > > find /var/data/foo -path '/var/data/foo/.snapshot' -prune -o -exec chown > usera:groupb {} + > > You need the whole path, and there is no need to escape the '.' character. > I've also used "+" as the terminator. That's just an efficiency issu

[CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
Hi - On my CentOS 4 cobbler server i am having some odd dhcp issues. There is only 1 dhcp server on the network and the cobbler box manages the dhcp. When i kick off the PXE install during the PXE phase things seem OK then when anaconda tried to get an IP sometimes things work out fine and oth

Re: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
I have an issue on a server that stops to ask SMP or not so SMP on bootup. Its a pain as its a remote unit, and if I update (or the power goes out for 3 hours) the server will not restart I remember back in the day editing a start up file to tell it what kernel to start... Is that the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
these are not virtual machines? the cobbler server is (currently) a VM yes - the clients are not. Why should that make any difference? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Edit to change startup from SMP to not so SMP

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
Ok, it was grub, and this is what I have.. I see default=0 how should I change that to one of the items below Thanks, default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.2.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL ro

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

2008-04-17 Thread Tom Brown
Tom Brown wrote: these are not virtual machines? the cobbler server is (currently) a VM yes - the clients are not. Why should that make any difference? actually in that example the client was also a VM i remember now - but the symptoms are the same on 'real' client

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