[CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question

2009-04-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
I just set up a secure server. Followed the godaddy instructions for key generation/installation - and the server wanted my pass phrase to start. When I started developing I followed instructions for a self signed cert and everything went dandy. Anyway - after a little googling and an uneasy

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: > John Hinton wrote: > >> Error Downloading Packages: >> kernel - 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686: failure: >> RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No >> more mirrors to try. >> >> Is this just me? I've tried at different times from different machines >> and it s

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very >> smooth. > > I also updated two servers in the last few days without any problems. > I don't think I have ever had such a simple upgrad

Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Markus Falb wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> Backup servers need *maximum* protection too.. > > agreed, but... > maximum protection would mean turning network off. > but that could turn out as a little inconvinience. > > web

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kevin Krieser wrote: > On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > Kernel problems happen. Yes - I've had mixed results with power management with and audio on laptops before in Fedora with kernel updates, but none recently. Going from Fedora 8 to CentOS 5

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
already installed" - but it's not working. I had a hell of a time getting it work on my x86_64 desktop when FireFox 3 was released. Then I found out about an experimental x86_64 plugin - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html No pretty installer, just a plugin. Put it

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
you are on an i386 install and disregard the x86_64 note. Definitely try the yum install curl thing that was mentioned - the adobe rpm via yum works just dandy on my i386, so it may be an issue of a dependency that adobe neglected to require. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Frédérique Da Luene wrote: >> Useradd newuser : ok >> passwd newuser : ok >> >> The password is not MD5, only 3DES. > > Again: Have you looked if passwd on your machine is the one from CentOS? > I would suggesting copying the bina

Re: [CentOS] Update

2009-04-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
c, than what comes with 5.3. I needed that, because of couple >>>> radioamateur progs. >>>> Now have to think, how do I downgrade glibc. If I try remove, there's >>>> over 600 pagages, which have to remove and that's not good. >>> I'm rat

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Michael A. Peters wrote: >>> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >>>> Frédérique Da Luene wrote: >>>>> Useradd newuser : ok >>>>> passwd newuser : ok >>>>> >>

[CentOS] system-config-date-tui ??

2009-04-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Remote box keeps reverting the localtime to Eastern (America/New_York). cd /etc rm localtime && ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC localtime fixes it - but it seems to revert from time to time, I presume from yum updates (or possibly an init script ??) In /etc/sysconfig there is a config

Re: [CentOS] system-config-date-tui ??

2009-04-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:57 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> ...where is the format for /etc/sysconfig/clock specified? > > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt Ah crap. It's a xen but since the hardware clock doesn't appear to be

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4 - CentOS 4.7

2009-04-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
Tom Brown wrote: >> Sorry. :O. I know I got that Python SOMEWHERE. >> > > lets see how far i get building it from .src.rpm Careful - Red Hat uses python for a lot of stuff so you need to make sure ant 2.4 rpm you build does not conflict with system python. My recommen

Re: [CentOS] How do I determine if I have to rebuild rpms for 5.3?

2009-04-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I built rpms for Miredo 1.1.5-1 on Centos 5.2 from the fc8 rpms. > > How do I determine if I have to rebuild it for Centos 5.3? You probably don't. If there was a shared library that version you may need to but then yum

Re: [CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

2009-04-07 Thread Michael A. Peters
David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > Maybe I just haven't installed enough distros, but the times I've installed > CentOS, I've had to remember that by default, iptables is blocking inbound > port 80 requests. This leads me to believe that I have a non-OS firewall > error beca

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > > And in one case, I got kicked off of my ssh connection in mid-update. > I'm still not sure what happened there but I had to install yum-utils > and run yum-recover-transaction to continue. > That's why I use screen for remote updates. __

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Mike A. Harris
f you update something like krb5 or pam > does that require a reboot? Does the "fix" get automatically loaded and used > or do you just do a reboot always? If the kernel gets updated, obviously it goes without saying that you need to reboot for that. Also for 'init

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: wifi card shows in device manager , but cant configure wifi

2009-04-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
the > appropriate wifi card.. when adding wifi connection > pls help I believe the madwifi driver is what you need. madwifi is what I use for my Atheros based wifi card - Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) It's a different model than y

Re: [CentOS] Mock Questions

2009-04-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Just started using mock to rebuild some srpms. I have two I want to > rebuild, problem is the first creates a dep that is required by the second. > > Is there an automated way to populate an additional repo/cache that mock > would look at when building

Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

2009-04-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to use cdrecord on the command line. I'm currently reading the > relevant chapter in Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook". Unfortunately, > some of the tricks and hints included in the book don't seem to work t

Re: [CentOS] Repo for Abiword

2009-04-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
cen...@911networks.com wrote: > Hi, > > I need to run Abiword on CentOS 5.3, any repository? > EPEL has 2.6.4 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] yum clean all

2009-04-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
There seems to be a lot of this needed lately. I suspect the issue is 5.2 -> 5.3 transition. Putting something like this in /etc/cron.daily/ when near a major update *might* make the transition times between point releases easier - #!/bin/bash RANGE=120 number=$RANDOM let "number %

Re: [CentOS] DKMS and new(er) Nvidia-drivers

2009-04-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
screen artifacts so as to make the >>> screen >>> more or less unreadable. >>> >> You could always try and make a newer version yourself using the old one as a >> template. Here is some help; >> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6896 >> >&

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
t; > I believe both times this happened, once yesterday and once today, I > was surfing on the web site of my favorite singer/musical group; or in > the forum, which is a highly restricted area. Today when it happened, > I believe I was looking at a video coming from YouTube.com >

[CentOS] failure to install python-tools

2009-04-17 Thread James A. Peltier
, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile 3 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Upgrade Process No Packages marked for Update -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS (fwd)

2009-04-17 Thread James A. Peltier
Doesn't look like my reply hit the list for some reason. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca |

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS (fwd)

2009-04-17 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Ross Walker wrote: > Time to format isn't really an issue as it is done once before being > put into production. The biggest concern is processing performance and > time to fsck as well as data integrity and recoverability. Listen, when you're talking a

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> Noscript will give you an idea of just how many sites run a script of some >> kind. You will see a large part of sites just look different when the scripts >> don't run, and some don'

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Robert Nichols > wrote: > >> My problem with NoScript is that there is virtually no site that I visit >> that does not require scripting to function properly. I think there is a mis-understanding of how noscript works.

Re: [CentOS] Minimal kickstart.cfg requested

2009-04-25 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, daniel_cu...@dell.com wrote: > Hello, all. > > I'm looking at building about a dozen CentOS VM's for a project. I have > a desire to use kickstart for this coupled with PXE. I'm looking for a > minimal ks.cfg file specifically, I want the bare

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use my eth0. >> >>Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned t

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use m

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-30 Thread Michael A. Peters
Beartooth wrote: > > I try never to install Ffx anywhere without NoScript, Adblock, > and several more. I do not use Adblock because I am a member of an online community that specifically forbids blocking of advertisements, their primary revenue source. An exception is

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-05-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jim Perrin wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server that is >>>

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
ase people aren't aware, when you create an AWS (Amazon Web > Services) account there's a management console that shows a list of > available images. Of this list, some are published by Amazon, others > are uploaded anonymously, or you can upload your own. I haven't

[CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Patricia A Moss
I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this. I just noticed that my /var/log/xferlog file is huge. There are no files in /etc/logrotate.d/ for xferlog. This is what leads me to believe that it isnot rotating. Or perhaps I do not have it set to rotate. I am not sure. I am running CentOS r

Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating.

2011-05-20 Thread Patricia A Moss
properly nocompress missingok } PATI MOSS System Engineer Sr. Professional CSC From: Phil Schaffner To: Date: 05/20/2011 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] xferlog not rotating. Patricia A Moss wrote on 05/20/2011 09:25 AM: > > I am not sure how to correctly troubleshoot this

Re: [CentOS] increase harddisk diskspace Failed to suspend LogVol00

2011-06-02 Thread Corey A Johnson
On 6/2/2011 1:13 PM, Manu wrote: Hi, I want to increase my harddisk space and receive the following error # lvextend -l +323 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 48.97 GB device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Failed to suspend LogVol00 Try

[CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-13 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I've written a custom udev rule to change the permissions of /dev/ttyS* but it doesn't seem to be working at boot up. If I run /sbin/udevcontrol reload_rules; udevtrigger The rules are parsed, applied and the permissions are then correct but why is it not doing so at

[CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | > Hi All, | > | > I've written a custom udev rule to change the permissions of | > /dev/ttyS* but it doesn't seem to be working at boot up. If I run | > | > /sbin/udevcontrol reload_rules; udevtrigger | > |

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 6/14/11, James A. Peltier wrote: | > The rules are parsed, applied and the permissions are then correct | > but why | > is it not doing so at boot? The file in questions I've called | > /etc/udev/rules.d/49-udev-override.rules and it contains | &

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | - Original Message - | | On 6/14/11, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > The rules are parsed, applied and the permissions are then correct | | > but why | | > is it not doing so at boot? The file in questions I've called | | > /etc/ude

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-16 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | | > BTW: Can anyone try this to see if it is in fact a bug or not? | > | > Create a file called | > | > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-udev-override.rules | > | > that contains | > | > KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*", GROUP=&

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

2011-06-21 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | fred smith wrote: | > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:46:09AM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: | >> fred smith wrote: | >>> I've been running Firefox 4 on Centos 5 (had to find a | >>> libstdc++.so.6 for | >>> it by perusing n

Re: [CentOS] perl PDF parser

2011-06-29 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, June 29, 2011 4:26 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser? I use PDF::API2 and PDF::API2::Simple (from rpmforge). ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Progress as per qaweb

2011-07-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
lp immensely. I only have ~5Mbps of upload, so I > will be reserving 4Mbps for CentOS 6 .torrents for a next month. I've got 2.5Mbps outbound that sees very little outgoing traffic normally, and 250GB of monthly transfer here at home and only use about up to 40GB or so per month. Wheneve

Re: [CentOS] What package contains ifconfig?

2011-07-15 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Fri, July 15, 2011 2:39 pm, John J. Boyer wrote: > I don't have ifconfig on my new installation of CentOS 5.6, but it is on > my server in the cloud. What package contains it? net-tools Make sure /sbin is in the PATH of the account you are using. ___

Re: [CentOS] really large file systems with centos

2011-07-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 7/15/2011 6:37 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: | > On Saturday, July 16, 2011 04:24 AM, Devin Reade wrote: | >> --On Friday, July 15, 2011 10:54:35 PM +0800 Christopher Chan | >> wrote: | >> | >>> I would not touch ZFS on FreeBSD with a

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file

2011-07-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: | > We have CentOS 6 manual installation working by PXE booting from a | > RHEL5.6 | > PXE/TFTP server. However, when we add a Kickstart file in the PXE | > configuration: | > | > kernel CentOS-6-i386/vmlinuz | >

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in | /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as | | [server-Standard] | name=Standard server | command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 | chooser=false | handled=true | flexible=true | priority=0 | | After this change, Xorg

Re: [CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?

2011-08-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 02/08/2011 3:41 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > I had a problem wherein running a script with an embedded ftp call > would work in the login shell during integration testing and then > fail with an unrecognized option error in cron during acceptance > testing. > > In solving this

Re: [CentOS] VLAN support?

2011-08-03 Thread James A. Peltier
| lesmikes...@gmail.com So far none that I've found. I use VLANs quite extensively so I'm stuck rolling it with kickstart/puppet or manually when testing. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-

Re: [CentOS] Interactive PXE install

2011-08-04 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I've got a system (Supermicro P8SCT) that lacks a floppy or CD and | it's old | enough that it won't boot from a USB stick. Before I scrounge an | optical | drive to plug in, I thought perhaps I could install over the network, | as I | see "leg

[CentOS] Continuous releases and repository protection

2011-09-01 Thread James A. Peltier
cted? Did I miss this announcement on -devel or such because I searched but couldn't find it. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/i

Re: [CentOS] Continuous releases and repository protection

2011-09-01 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | > Maybe I missed something, but it appears that the CR repository is | > not compatible with yum priorities & possibly repository protection. | > I had priority=1 set on [base] and [updates] and no updates | > appeared.

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

2011-09-06 Thread James A. Peltier
adcom adapter - Original Message - | I have a Broadcom 802.11b/g hardware on my dual-boot laptop. | Note first that in the WinXP partition, the wifi makes DHCP | connections to my router with no problem. Since this | was not working in my new CentOS 6 partition, and | remembering that there

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

2011-09-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:28:03 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > I didn't read the whole thread but you should make sure you | > blacklist | > the b43, bcm43xx and ssb drivers | > | > vi /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf | > | > blacklist

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

2011-09-06 Thread James A. Peltier
eth1 or wlan0, regardless - although I always configured it | > as | > eth1), sadly, this is not entirely true anymore. To be more precise, | > the | > latest driver from Broadcom site doesn't work at all on CentOS 5 | > (tested | > it not a month ago with BCM4311). So, in order t

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on +61 | 478 241 896. | | Regards, | Christopher Hawker | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64

2011-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
Any reason why 5 is not a symlink to 5.7 whereas 4 is a symlink to 4.8? Looks like the same applies to 6!?! - Original Message - | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.7 | for | i386 and x86_64

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64

2011-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:24:48PM -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Any reason why 5 is not a symlink to 5.7 whereas 4 is a symlink to | > 4.8? Looks like the same applies to 6!?! | | Because the contents of 5/ are symlinks to the 5.7/ directories!?! Yes,

Re: [CentOS] PostgreSQL database design tool

2011-09-23 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Fri, September 23, 2011 8:54 am, Steve Campbell wrote: > Been thinking about playing with PostgreSQL. When I did my research, on > the PostgreSQL site, there were a few tools they "recommended" for > design, display of schemas, etc. I use pgAdmin III from the rpmforge rep

Re: [CentOS] I can't connect to /dev/ttyS0

2011-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | The computer is an HP Proliant DC7600S. | O/S: Centos 5.7 | | I try to connect minicom or Hylafax to /dev/ttyS0 and I can't reach | the | modem. | | Can somebody had this problem and find a solution? | | | --- | Michel D

[CentOS] ImageMagick Bug

2010-03-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Hello, I am experience a segfault while trying to use convert between svg and png. I suspect that the bug I am experiencing is identical to this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472253 I can try the suggested patch myself, but is this the kind of thing that maybe could be

Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick Bug

2010-03-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Hello, > > I am experience a segfault while trying to use convert between svg and png. > > I suspect that the bug I am experiencing is identical to this one: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472253 > > I can try the suggeste

[CentOS] fsck.ext4 huge memory usage

2010-03-03 Thread James A. Peltier
I have a 5.4TB file system, ext4, that currently is reporting problems, however, every time I run fsck.ext4 on the file system, it grows to more than 17GB. Can anyone tell me WTF is going on here? Why is it using so much disk space? -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, March 4, 2010 2:00 pm, Sean Carolan wrote: > What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. > This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory > instead of /etc/group: > > [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt > touch: cannot touch `test.txt':

Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick Bug

2010-03-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Michael A. Peters wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am experience a segfault while trying to use convert between svg and png. >> >> I suspect that the bug I am experiencing is identical to this one: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.c

Re: [CentOS] ==> gcc 4.4.3 on centos 64 bit

2010-03-28 Thread James A. Peltier
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Dieter Best wrote: > Hello, > > I need a newer version of gcc (gcc 4.4.3), with yum install I got > 4.1.2. Has anyone figured out how to configure for the gcc 4.4.3 build > to go through? > > Thanks. Yes, I built it from sources -- James A. Peltier Sy

Re: [CentOS] Running commercial softwares on CentOS

2010-03-28 Thread James A. Peltier
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rahul Tidke wrote: > Hello! > > How can I use CentOS as a complete desktop OS? I want to run Autodesk > products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) support > running such software? No. > Can I use (KVM,Xen) virtualization to run W

Re: [CentOS] Running commercial softwares on CentOS

2010-03-29 Thread James A. Peltier
used in RHEL for this? I just want to explore the > possibilities for using CentOS as a full fledged desktop OS. I have been > using CentOS as a server since very long time. > > Rahul. Red Hat uses Wine, but only to support the most commonly used Windows applications like Office, Phot

Re: [CentOS] Cloud on CentOS

2010-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
build "cloud". I *oh* so hate that term! -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread James A. Peltier
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under > ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? > > Thanks. > > Boris. Smaller volumes is best, but really it depends

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
david walcroft wrote: > I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos > before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far > to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an image. > > Thanks david This is

Re: [CentOS] System Resources Graphing

2010-04-26 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Mon, April 26, 2010 12:09 pm, Matt wrote: > Is there a package I can get that will graph system resources such as > CPU and disk I/O to an html file or something? Take a look at Munin (available from RPMforge): http://munin-monitoring.org

Re: [CentOS] route question

2010-05-14 Thread Corey A Johnson
55.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth2 > 0.0.0.0 24.123.23.169 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth2 > > > I dont want 74.X traffic going out 24.X network. I want it going back > out the 74.X network. > How do I setup the ifcfg-eth files so the GW above will r

Re: [CentOS] route question

2010-05-14 Thread Corey A Johnson
le to preroute and postroute. What exactly does not work? Connecting to what destination IP? Your default route is pointing out eth2. So any traffic to a non-directly connected network will go out eth2. (without some additional static routes) What are you tr

Re: [CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

2010-05-16 Thread James A. Peltier
On Sun, 16 May 2010, fred smith wrote: > a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation > of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email. > upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my > custom sendmail.c

Re: [CentOS] setup firewall with 3 nic cards

2010-05-21 Thread James A. Peltier
On Wed, 19 May 2010, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > Hi Jerry, > > Just a general remark. > When deploying a firewall, it is advisable to have (atleast for input, better > for all) to have the general policy set to drop, and only allow in what you > expect to be coming in. If

Re: [CentOS] Multipathing with Sun 7310

2010-05-27 Thread James A. Peltier
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Jens Neu wrote: Dear list, we have a relatively new Sun Storage 7310, where we connect CentOS 5.5 Servers (IBM LS21/LS41 Blades) via Brocade Switches, 4GBit FC. The Blades boot from SAN via qla2xxx, and have no harddisks at all. We want them to use multipathing from the

Re: [CentOS] ATI Proprietary Drivers LAG

2010-06-01 Thread James A. Peltier
lar issues with Dell machines. This seems to be related to the BIOS. In almost every case, if there is a new ATI driver there is a new Dell BIOS version. Check your motherboard manufacturer and see if there is an update that might correct it. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIU

Re: [CentOS] help with sendmail closing relay

2010-06-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Fri, June 4, 2010 11:10 am, Jerry Geis wrote: > I have centos 4.8 i686. It has stock sendmail. see file below. > > I am getting reports that it is an open relay. I have searched all around > and it seems like it should be closed. I have dnl for > accept_unresolvable_domains. > > What can I do to

[CentOS] spamassassin needs updating?

2010-06-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
to be the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule. I was able to fix that via running sa-update as root per http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Should the rule be fixed in the actual RPM though since it is past 2010? Secondly a lot of mail is marked due to DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS In

[CentOS] Windows 2003 AD, Winbind, Kerberos and NFSv4

2010-07-02 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I'm having a bit of difficulty getting a CentOS 5.5 Kerberized NFSv4 server working. This server is configured as a Winbind client to a Windows 2003 Active Directory. I've successfully bound it to AD and I am able to authenticate. I've successfully created a NFSv4

Re: [CentOS] Windows 2003 AD, Winbind, Kerberos and NFSv4

2010-07-02 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 11:27 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: >> Hi All, > >> To support NFSv4 with Kerberos security, we also need to generate service >> principal for NFS: >> >> [r...@aconite ~]# net -U administrator

Re: [CentOS] Windows 2003 AD, Winbind, Kerberos and NFSv4

2010-07-02 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, James A. Peltier wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm having a bit of difficulty getting a CentOS 5.5 Kerberized NFSv4 > server working. This server is configured as a Winbind client to a > Windows 2003 Active Directory. I've successfully bound it to AD and I

Re: [CentOS] about repository

2015-02-11 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 17:19 +0800, TheIsmaelAzman . wrote: > i am offering my storage for the download mirror link for the centos. is > there any guide? > > > thank you.. > > ismael > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] xfs_quotas

2015-02-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi, folks, | |(The system I'm doing this on is actually RHEL 6.6, but that list is so | quiet) | |We've got a new RAID box attached to the server. Large. We'd like to | implement xfs quotas... but one thing I can't find is informatio

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH wiki article outdated

2015-02-13 Thread Earl A Ramirez
cted Historical Computer Security Papers, > http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/ There is a caveat however, > "The Rainbow Series of Department of Defense standards is outdated, > out of print, and provided here for historical purposes ONLY." I > imagine the CSRC believes

Re: [CentOS] Custom wallpaper on CentOS 7?

2015-02-14 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 10:07 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed CentOS 7 + GNOME on my Asus S300 laptop. So far > everything runs very nice and smoothly, and I'm quite happy with it. > > Curiously enough, I can't seem to be able to set a custom w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, systemd and firewall-cmd

2015-02-25 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 16:33 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: > > firewall-cmd --add-service=rsyncd > > > firewall-cmd --add-service=rsyncd > Error: INVALID_SERVICE: rsyncd > > Is there another place that there needs to be an rsyncd service file, > whatever it's supposed to be n

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-02-27 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 27 February 2015 at 13:49, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: > All, > > Please excuse any ignorance in this e-mail as I am not a RH/CentOS/Fedora > user and may > blunder my way through the correct terminology for my request. > > I'm tasked with reconstructing the CentOS versio

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Dear All, | | I am in desperate need for LVM data rescue for my server. | I have an VG call vg_hosting consisting of 4 PVs each contained in a | separate hard drive (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, and /dev/sdd1). | And this LV: lv_home was created to use all the

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:24:57 -0800 | John R Pierce wrote: | > On 2/27/2015 4:52 PM, Khemara Lyn wrote: | > > | > > What is the right way to recover the remaining PVs left? | > | > take a filing cabinet packed full of 10s of 1000s of files

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > People who understand how to use the system do not suffer these problems. | > LVM adds a bit of complexity for a bit of extra benefits. You can't | > blame LVM for user error. Not having

Re: [CentOS] Networking troubles on CentOS 7

2015-03-06 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 6 March 2015 at 02:15, Kashyap Bhatt wrote: > > > >> Are you sure the vmware NIC is configured as bridged, not NAT on the > host side? > Not really. Does it help if I say I'm using the same Network Adapter > configuration with which another VM in same subnet work

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Persistant static routes

2015-03-12 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 12 March 2015 at 13:43, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I know how to use 'ip' to set up a static route, e.g.: > > ip route add 192.168.128.0/17 via 40.53.24.3 dev eth0 > > But if you reboot or restart network, you loose this. Thus you have to > make it pe

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 database access only possible trough localhost and not IP

2015-03-15 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 15 March 2015 at 03:52, robert rottermann wrote: > Hi there and hello to everybody, > > > > I am all new to centos but I have good experience working with ubuntu and > suse. > We are moving a an elderly SuSe box to a virtual machine running > centos 7. &g

Re: [CentOS] Samba shares not appearing

2015-03-16 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 09:59 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently fiddling with Samba, trying to make it work on CentOS 7. > Before that, I ran Samba successfully in a mixed environment with > Slackware64 14.1 on the server and Slackware/Windows Seven on the cl

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