[CentOS-docs] ASUS F5N How to

2008-10-27 Thread Ali Abbas
Hi, My wiki username is: AliAbbas I would like to add a page entry to http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptopsfor the Asus F5N laptop, as to explain the installation process and how to configure the hardware. sincerely, -- Ali Abbas This email contains confidential information. If you have

Re: [CentOS-docs] ASUS F5N How to

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ali Abbas wrote: Hi, My wiki username is: AliAbbas I would like to add a page entry to http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptopsfor the Asus F5N laptop, as to explain the installation process and how to configure the hardware. Go ahead. Cheers, Ralph pgpTsn4cmlLQo.pgp Description: PGP

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0965 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 lynx - security update

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0965 lynx security update for CentOS 3 x86_64: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0965.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: updates/x86_64/RPMS/lynx-2.8.5-11.3.x86_64.rpm source:

[CentOS-es] nagios

2008-10-27 Thread Gino Francisco Alania Hurtado
Una consulta amigos ... en realidad mas de una : 1.- como podria automatizar la creacion del archivo hosts a para 500 o mas maquinas .. manualmente ? 2.- en algunos mapas veo una dependencia de algunos hosts ubicandose en una misma lan y enlazados a otros y estos tambien con sus propios hosts,

[CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives

2008-10-27 Thread Geoff Galitz
cpan2rpm is getting relatively old, compared to some of the newer things that can be done with the CPAN and RPM build procedures. The latest version isn't available on its sourceforge site and the What are the newer procedures? I'll be needing to do this in the very near future. I was

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Semih Gokalp wrote: yes i did it before. du /var/log/message 28 /var/log/faillog but ls -al /var/log/ -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog but why it is different ? As already has been said: It's a sparse file with holes in it. As to why it has to

Re: [CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Scott Silva wrote: The default install doesn't do a software raid, and if you are trying to use an Nvidia onboard raid controller as a raid device in linux, you are probably out of luck. To do software raid with LVM over it, you have to do it all manually. First creating the raid devices,

Re: [CentOS] how to boot centos from install CD

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:10:47PM +0800, Ian jonhson wrote: Hi, Hi, Now, the problem I met is how to boot from other media such as CD and then mount the hard disk so as to fix the mistake. type: linux rescue at the cd1 boot prompt Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64

Re: [CentOS] dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:37:26PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: I am trying to set up user quotas on my /var partition to enforce limits on user's mailbox sizes. The machine is running CentOS 5. When I do this: /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/md2 | grep 'Block size' Block size:

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:55:09PM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: ... So let me insist: I want *that* specific wallpaper. On *my* desktop. Get Red Hat trademarked pictures from the src.rpm, rebuild them for yourself and DON'T distribute them. See your lawyer and the EULA you have agreed by

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : ftp.redhat.com - get + rebuild their .src.rpm, that wont have any centos patches in there :D Of course! (Slap my forehead) Thanks! N ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] system-auth on CentOS 5.2

2008-10-27 Thread Semih Gokalp
Hi al.I have a problem with pam.d authentication rules. I searched on google and modified my system-auth file.Bu some rules does not works properly my system-auth like below: -- authrequired pam_env.so authrequired pam_tally.so onerr=fail

RE: [CentOS] dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

2008-10-27 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Tru: no, the quota are expressed in kB units, not filesystem block unit. Thanks for the information. I assumed that because the quota reports in blocks, that meant file system blocks. I read the man pages to try to find some documentation of the block size for quota but did not see

[CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-27 Thread fabian dacunha
Dear All, I am quite new to centos i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot it jus was goin to the grub prompt i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me .. cd i

[CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-27-2008 1:27 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: The default install doesn't do a software raid, and if you are trying to use an Nvidia onboard raid controller as a raid device in linux, you are probably out of luck. To do software raid with LVM over it, you

RE: [CentOS] mrtg

2008-10-27 Thread Dennis McLeod
I used MRTG (It's still running actually), and have migrated to Cacti. It's still a bit tricky (Devices, data queries, Graphs, etc) but well worth it... Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Sunday, October 26,

Re: [CentOS] dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

2008-10-27 Thread MHR
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Neil Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: Also, if I do: df /var I get this Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 39674140 20401792 17224468 55% /var Which tells me the blocks are 1K in size. The

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-27 Thread MHR
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I am quite new to centos i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot it jus was

Re: [CentOS] Recommended Configuration Control Software?

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremiah Heller
On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Sean Carolan wrote: We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers that are in use 24x7, we do not have the luxury of

Re: [CentOS] Recommended Configuration Control Software?

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremiah Heller
On 27 Oct 2008, at 15:56, Jeremiah Heller wrote: On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Sean Carolan wrote: We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-27 Thread Spiro Harvey
cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub could you please use entire words instead of txt talking? In this sentence you use cd to mean could and compact disc. It's very confusing and when you make people's brains hurt reading your message, we're not very inclined to waste

Re: [CentOS] Help with custom udev rule

2008-10-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Found another interesting detail. net/tun is listed in /etc/udev/makedev.d/50-udev.nodes, which starts with this comment: # These device have to be created manually I just didn't find who/what actually creates those, and using which permissions. Anyway, another clue

[CentOS] The relationship between udev and MAKEDEV

2008-10-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, Recently an issue where I was trying to changed the group and permission associated with the device /dev/net/tun. As I knew devices were controlled by udev I went looking at its configuration and found this rule 50-udev.rules:KERNEL==tun,NAME=net/%k. Some

[CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
Hello, I'm in a slightly unusual situation and I'd really appreciate some advice. I installed CentOS 5.2 on a server about a month ago. Today I happened to check the 'free' command and noticed that the Swap line reads as follows: Swap:0 0 0 I'm pretty certain

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread nate
Ian Masters wrote: Hello, I'm in a slightly unusual situation and I'd really appreciate some advice. I installed CentOS 5.2 on a server about a month ago. Today I happened to check the 'free' command and noticed that the Swap line reads as follows: Swap:0 0

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to Centos 4.7 on HP DL580G5 caused problems

2008-10-27 Thread nate
Dr Les Oswald wrote: Googling revealed many different scenarios with this boot error message, some suggesting a memory error - Oh Joy, these two machines have 64GB RAM each. Login to the ILO and checked the integrated management log for errors? It does sound like a hardware issue. nate