[CentOS-docs] Proposed change to HowTos/Skype

2011-07-20 Thread John Fettig
In the section for CentOS-5, it would be nice if the following alternative method for running Skype on CentOS-5 were presented: You can download a statically linked version of Skype which will work in CentOS-5 from http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.1.047.tar.bz2 I think it's a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Proposed change to HowTos/Skype

2011-07-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:10 AM, John Fettig john.fet...@gmail.com wrote: In the section for CentOS-5, it would be nice if the following alternative method for running Skype on CentOS-5 were presented: You can download a statically linked version of Skype which will work in CentOS-5 from

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-20 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/20/2011 04:48 PM, Kartik Subbarao wrote: On 07/19/2011 05:36 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Try the attached ks. It installs around 180 packages. libselinux-utils is in because I find it mandatory to be able to modify the selinux configuration of an existing system. Thanks for the info. I

[CentOS-virt] how to add file-based disk space to a guest

2011-07-20 Thread thomas veymont
hi there, I'm following these documentations to add a file-based disk volume to a KVM guest under Centos 6.0 : http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Storage_Volumes.html as instructed, I created a pool then a volume, file-based, e.g

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-20 Thread JDF. Franklin
For what it's worth here are a few more tools that I include due to fairly minimal impact, but are assumed by many 3rd party scripts for example: rsync unzip wget And personally I like these for local setup though they add a big more space: ntp elinks lsof nmap denyhosts yum-utils autofs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-20 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/21/2011 02:36 AM, JDF. Franklin wrote: For what it's worth here are a few more tools that I include due to fairly minimal impact, but are assumed by many 3rd party scripts for example: rsync unzip wget And personally I like these for local setup though they add a big more space:

[CentOS-es] xml2csv

2011-07-20 Thread Diego Sanchez
Hola a todos. Este es mi primer correo aca. Les comento el panorama: soy slackero, estoy estandarizando todo a a Debian en el trabajo o CentOS, segun el aplicativo utilizado y el nivel de conocimiento de los usuarios. El problema radica en que necesito trabajar con xml2csv, el cual instale a

Re: [CentOS-es] xml2csv

2011-07-20 Thread Salvador Guzman - Salman PSL
Utiliza el repositorio rpmforge alli tienes casi todas las dependencias de PERL. ( http://www.rubenortiz.es/2008/02/07/instalar-rpmforge-en-centos/ ) Una vez instalado el repositorio: Por ejemplo: yum list *unicode* Available Packages libunicode.i386 0.7-1.2.el5.rf

Re: [CentOS-es] xml2csv

2011-07-20 Thread Diego Sanchez
El día 20 de julio de 2011 08:19, Salvador Guzman - Salman PSL informacio...@salman.es escribió: Utiliza el repositorio rpmforge alli tienes casi todas las dependencias de PERL. ( http://www.rubenortiz.es/2008/02/07/instalar-rpmforge-en-centos/ ) Salvador. Buen dia y gracias. Te comento

Re: [CentOS-es] Configurar BIND varios dominios

2011-07-20 Thread Ernesto Pérez Estévez
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 12:45 -0500, Viviana wrote: Amigos de la lista solicito su ayuda por favor. Alguien a probado configurar bind para varios dominios. Necesito configurar www.uno.com y www.dos.com en el servidor DNS, pero no hay mucha información al respecto.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - VM network bridge issue (SOLVED)

2011-07-20 Thread James Hogarth
Initial thought is a routing issue particularly with multiple NICs. What does 'ip r s' reveal? That was it!  ip r s showed that I had the local facing NIC (eth1) as the gateway, which caused all outgoing packets to be routed to the local network DUH!. Yup been there before. So

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, hadi motamedi wrote: If we cannot find the exact application name for centos, say MATLAB for centos does not exist, so we must search for 'Mathematics laboratory for centos' ? Or if Pspice for centos does not exist so we must search for 'Electronics circuit schematics

Re: [CentOS] Recommended mailing list manager for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-20 Thread ken
On 07/19/2011 09:32 PM Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/19/11 8:19 PM, David Lemcoe wrote: Mailman is probably what you want to use, because anyone who subscribes to any amount of mailing lists knows exactly how to use Mailman and it's features. One feature you are likely to miss, though, is a

Re: [CentOS] Recommended mailing list manager for CentOS 5.6

2011-07-20 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 20.7.2011 4.32, Les Mikesell wrote: One feature you are likely to miss, though, is a good search for the archives. If it is open to the public I suppose you can let google index it for you. +1 If someone knows a fix, please share. Mailman 3 will most probably have searchable archives, but

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/20/11, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, hadi motamedi wrote: If we cannot find the exact application name for centos, say MATLAB for centos does not exist, so we must search for 'Mathematics laboratory for centos' ? Or if Pspice for centos does not exist

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, hadi motamedi wrote: *snip* So you've installed Octave but it's not as powerful as MATLAB on windows. I know this is crazy talk, but have you tried MATLAB on CentOS? There is no one-to-one relationship between applications on one OS and on another. Hi Hadi. If you are

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, hadi motamedi wrote: You are right. But here, people use windows more than Linux. So hearing about MATLAB for windows comes natural. I need to switch completely to my centos so I need to do everything with my centos as I did them on my windows. It sounds a little bit hard

[CentOS] OT: matlab on CentOS (Re: firewall?)

2011-07-20 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:37:23AM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: ... If we cannot find the exact application name for centos, say MATLAB for centos does not exist If you purchased your matlab for windows, I am sure that your software vendor is able to quote you a linux version. Have you looked at

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: (1) I can open port 22 on the Billion, allowing me to ssh in from outside. But for some reason I cannot ping the same address from outside. This is due to modem refuses to answer to pings. You might have option to allow it in modem

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Apache oddity - appending garbage request does not result in a 404

2011-07-20 Thread Ray Leventhal
On 7/19/2011 4:47 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/19/11 1:28 PM, Ray Leventhal wrote: Example:http://www.domain.com/pagedoesnotexist returns the expected 404 But browse to a page that does exist, like goodpage.php, then append either a slash and some random string, or a ?=somerandomstring and

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Timothy Murphy wrote: Further to my question, how can I determine if it is the Billion 5200S modem/router that is preventing pings, or if it is the CentOS-6 MicroServer attached to the modem/router? I don't see any reference to ICMP on the modem web-page. On the other hand the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Markus Falb
On 20.7.2011 12:51, Timothy Murphy wrote: Further to my question, how can I determine if it is the Billion 5200S modem/router that is preventing pings, or if it is the CentOS-6 MicroServer attached to the modem/router? ... Is there any simple way, short of using something like ethereal, of

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:21 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) Congratulations. Are you planning to invite us to the wedding :-) -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 05:07:23 hadi motamedi wrote: If we cannot find the exact application name for centos, say MATLAB for centos does not exist, so we must search for 'Mathematics laboratory for centos' ? MATLAB stands for *matrix* laboratory, not mathematics. See

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread m . roth
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 05:07:23 hadi motamedi wrote: If we cannot find the exact application name for centos, say MATLAB for centos does not exist, so we must search for 'Mathematics laboratory for centos' ? MATLAB stands for *matrix* laboratory, not mathematics.

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/20/2011 5:51 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Further to my question, how can I determine if it is the Billion 5200S modem/router that is preventing pings, or if it is the CentOS-6 MicroServer attached to the modem/router? I don't see any reference to ICMP on the modem web-page. On the

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:21 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) Congratulations. Are you planning to invite us to the wedding :-) Hehehehe, no. My first name (Ljubomir) is old Slavic name that means He who loves peace,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 - VM network bridge issue (SOLVED)

2011-07-20 Thread Emmett Culley
On 07/20/2011 01:24 AM, James Hogarth wrote: Initial thought is a routing issue particularly with multiple NICs. What does 'ip r s' reveal? That was it! ip r s showed that I had the local facing NIC (eth1) as the gateway, which caused all outgoing packets to be routed to the local network

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Les Mikesell wrote: The biggest searchable, up to date collection of open source software project descriptions is probably http://freshmeat.net, but once you locate an interesting project you might want to see if you can find an RPM-packaged version at EPEL, rpmforge, etc. for easy

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread m . roth
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: snip I use http://rpm.pbone.net/ to search for CentOS/RHEL and Fedora packages. It says that there is matlab 7.4.0 rpm for Fedora 5 and 10-15. snip Couple problems: first, it *is* COTS, and if you live in a country that cares, you could be in

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I use http://rpm.pbone.net/ to search for CentOS/RHEL and Fedora packages. Valid. It says that there is matlab 7.4.0 rpm for Fedora 5 and 10-15. Fedora 5 version should be good for CentOS 5 , and Fedora 12 package for CentOS 6. Link for

[CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread cbul...@gmail.com
Hi, We are trying to track some specific rules using LOG as target. Everything is working well but the problem is that iptables is flooding the console with LOG messages. We tried --log level 4 on iptables rules but it didn't work. We fixed the problem changing KLOGD_OPTIONS value in

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

2011-07-20 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
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 append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network

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

2011-07-20 Thread m . roth
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 append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network

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

2011-07-20 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
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 append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network

Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List

2011-07-20 Thread Markus Falb
On 17.7.2011 23:52, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Always Learning wrote: Do your Mail Transfer Agents use valid or bogus HELO/EHLO names ? Mine uses proper name, but then again I am one of the few in my country to offer POP3 on SSL port 465. And I am small local WISP. Probably you meant smtps

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

2011-07-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS problem. We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE. It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which fails. What I'd love to learn is how

Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: cbul...@gmail.com cbul...@gmail.com Subject: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console Hi, We are trying to track some specific rules using LOG as target. Everything is working well but the problem is that iptables is

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

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, John Hodrien wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: I fail to see how your repository

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

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/20/2011 05:18 PM, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS problem. We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE. It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Iain Morris
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss alternative for

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Devin Reade
--On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 08:45:54 PM -0700 cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 19, 2011 6:48 PM, Jay Leafey jay.lea...@mindless.com wrote: I usually use SSH keys in conjunction with ClusterSSH In the same vein, I instead recomend pdsh. Another variant that has been around a long time is

Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Markus Falb wrote: On 17.7.2011 23:52, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Always Learning wrote: Do your Mail Transfer Agents use valid or bogus HELO/EHLO names ? Mine uses proper name, but then again I am one of the few in my country to offer POP3 on SSL port 465. And I am small local WISP.

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I use http://rpm.pbone.net/ to search for CentOS/RHEL and Fedora packages. Valid. It says that there is matlab 7.4.0 rpm for Fedora 5 and 10-15. Fedora 5 version should be good for CentOS 5 , and Fedora 12 package for

Re: [CentOS] firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: OK. If it needs license, what would be the harm if you install (newer) version from rpm? Their source RPM is actually nosrc.rpm so they just package it for easier install. I was assuming this when I suggested the packages. What I meant was,

Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread cbul...@gmail.com
On 7/20/2011 10:18 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: cbul...@gmail.comcbul...@gmail.com Subject: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console Hi, We are trying to track some specific rules using LOG as target. Everything is

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread m . roth
Iain Morris wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/7/20 m.r...@5-cent.us: Iain Morris wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Lists centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:03 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Redhat satellite can handle it. Too

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/20/2011 06:11 PM, Iain Morris wrote: Spacewalk is great, but be prepared for some significant configuration time and energy. Also, it requires Oracle (postgres is in progress last I checked). From what I read the PostgreSQL support is functional for regular usage and has been

[CentOS] NetApp DataFabric Manager/Sybase/SQLAnywhere on CentOS?

2011-07-20 Thread Matt Garman
Hello, Has anyone out there successfully installed NetApp's DataFabric Manager (DFM) on CentOS? If so, what version of DFM, CentOS, and what architecture? I am trying to install DFM 4.0.2, and have tried on both CentOS 4.8 i386 and CentOS 5.5 x86_64. I have edited my /etc/redhat-release file

Re: [CentOS] NetApp DataFabric Manager/Sybase/SQLAnywhere on CentOS?

2011-07-20 Thread James Hogarth
I am trying to install DFM 4.0.2, and have tried on both CentOS 4.8 i386 and CentOS 5.5 x86_64.  I have edited my /etc/redhat-release file to be equal to RHEL's, as the DFM installer immediately aborts if that isn't right.  However, I still have errors during the install: ...

Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread Daniel DeFreez
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, cbul...@gmail.com cbul...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/20/2011 10:18 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: cbul...@gmail.comcbul...@gmail.com Subject: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console Hi,

Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: cbul...@gmail.com cbul...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console On 7/20/2011 10:18 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: To: centos@centos.org From:

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/20/11 10:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Oracle named user license is very cheap .. but if you read the license, every single node that generates data is considered a 'user', even if it goes through a webservice or other form of 'data concentrator' and doesn't directly connect to SQL. --

Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread cbul...@gmail.com
On 7/20/2011 12:52 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: cbul...@gmail.comcbul...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console On 7/20/2011 10:18 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com

[CentOS] Script to sync with repo

2011-07-20 Thread Jerry Geis
under 5.6 I have a script that runs every night to rsync the repodata for local installations. I added the 6.0 to do the same. Something seems wrong now for 6.0. I do the same thing and I get errors from my local repo at install time. Seems like the cyrus-sasl package is never happy and aborts

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Markus Falb wrote: I would use tcpdump on the CentOS Server to be sure the icmp echo requests are arriving or not. tcpdump is something like ethereal but it could be as easy as $ tcpdump -l proto \\icmp or $ tcpdump -l proto \\icmp and host sourceip or $ tcpdump -li ethX proto \\icmp

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Timothy Murphy wrote: Markus Falb wrote: I would use tcpdump on the CentOS Server to be sure the icmp echo requests are arriving or not. tcpdump is something like ethereal but it could be as easy as $ tcpdump -l proto \\icmp or $ tcpdump -l proto \\icmp and host sourceip or $ tcpdump

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: ICMP packets are blocked by Billion, it's 99% chance, since public IP resides on the Billion. Only way (known to me) to pass ICMP to your CentOS server (on cheap modem/routers) is to do 1:1 NAT (all connections to all ports are redirected to system behind it with

[CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Sean Carolan
This is kind of odd. [scarolan@host:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rhoncus dui vitae eros euismod fermentum sollicitudin sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi. Maecenas mollis pulvinar euismod. Duis

Re: [CentOS] Script to sync with repo

2011-07-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
for VERSION in 5.6 6.0 Check your httpd error log for a 404:) Just a WAG, I presume you modified your 5x installs to not look in the default 5 location, where point releases get symlinked too once they are current. Your 6.0 install looks for a 6 directory.

Re: [CentOS] Script to sync with repo

2011-07-20 Thread Devin Reade
Also try an invocation of rsync with the checksum flag; that'll catch any files that might be corrupted. It does increase server load and rsync run time, though, so you should probably disable it again afterwards. Devin ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote: [snip] Where did all the letter n's go? I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box. What locale are you set to? Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent embedded newlines, which had to be stripped out

Re: [CentOS] Script to sync with repo

2011-07-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
It does increase server load and rsync run time, though, so you should probably disable it again afterwards. That's why most repo's don't allow the use of it, I use the same master as you Jerry, and they are certainly far too large to allow that. ___

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

2011-07-20 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
Patrick Lists wrote: I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS problem. We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE. It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which fails. What I'd love to learn is how others have made

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Sean Carolan
2011/7/20 Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu: On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote: [snip] Where did all the letter n's go? I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box.  What locale are you set to?  Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Sean Carolan wrote: This is kind of odd. [scarolan@host:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rhoncus dui vitae eros euismod fermentum sollicitudin sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi. Maecenas

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Sean Carolan
[scarolan@server:~]$ echo $myvar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, co sectetur adipisci g elit. lots of letter  ! Weird huh? Ok, I'm a bonehead; I had this in my bash history: IFS='\n' That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's. Now the next question would be, how can I include the \n

Re: [CentOS] Iptables - flooding console

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, cbul...@gmail.com wrote: *snip* Keith and Daniel, Thanks so much for your help!. Keith you are right. I had --log-level 4 in the iptables rules because I played with that option in order to fix the problem. Now, it's working well. I didn't update the kernel. Hi

[CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Michael McNulty
Can someone help clear up some confusion in reading memory usage in Top and System monitor. Here is a picture of both. http://s1176.photobucket.com/albums/x327/ionosphere2011/ Why does System Monitor show 1.7gb free out of 8gb. While Top shows all 8gb being used? If 1.7gb is free then it

Re: [CentOS] Script to sync with repo

2011-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: under 5.6 I have a script that runs every night to rsync the repodata for local installations. I added the 6.0 to do the same. Something seems wrong now for 6.0. I do the same thing and I get errors from my local repo at install time. Seems like the

[CentOS] Refurbished Dell Servers (fwd)

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
Just got this from another mailing list, just in case anyone here might be interested? Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/20/2011 02:56 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: Can someone help clear up some confusion in reading memory usage in Top and System monitor. Here is a picture of both. http://s1176.photobucket.com/albums/x327/ionosphere2011/ mailto:centos@centos.org Why does System Monitor show 1.7gb free out

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: So I assume the modem is rejecting the ICMP packets. As I said, I don't see anything about this in the modem documentation or on the modem web-site. I suppose another possibility is that some site along the way rejects ICMP packets? traceroute seems to timeout in Milan:

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Robert Nichols wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:56 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: Can someone help clear up some confusion in reading memory usage in Top and System monitor. Here is a picture of both. http://s1176.photobucket.com/albums/x327/ionosphere2011/ mailto:centos@centos.org Why does System

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

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: Patrick Lists wrote: I fail to see how your repository problem is related to my Kickstart PXE/NFS problem. We can install CentOS 6 (no Kickstart) without problems using PXE. It's the NFS-mounting of the Kickstart-file which fails. What I'd love to learn is how

[CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld with a clean error log, I get the following messages: 110720 21:38:47 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.5.14-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 2500 MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi 110720

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Timothy Murphy wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: So I assume the modem is rejecting the ICMP packets. As I said, I don't see anything about this in the modem documentation or on the modem web-site. I suppose another possibility is that some site along the way rejects ICMP packets?

Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Keith Roberts wrote: This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld with a clean error log, I get the following messages: 110720 21:38:47 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.5.14-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 2500 MySQL Community

Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER

2011-07-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs Subject: Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER Keith Roberts wrote: This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld with a clean error

Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER

2011-07-20 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Keith Roberts wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs Subject: Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER Keith Roberts wrote: This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 02:53:06 PM -0500 Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: Now the next question would be, how can I include the \n characters in my variable string, without fudging with $IFS? Can you describe, functionally and a bit higher level, what you're trying to achieve?

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Michael McNulty
Thanks for the replies. I checked free and that makes sense to me now. The only thing I cannot figure out is, if there is all this memory available why would swap space start building? I started checking all this out because the system slowed to a crawl after I noticed swap space being used

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-20 Thread Sean Carolan
(No, I don't advocate perl for everything, but knowing more about the problem can help in determining a suitable solution.) You're right, I gave up and used python instead. The basic idea here was to gather together a long list of hostnames by grepping through a few hundred files, check the

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

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/20/2011 09:49 PM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: Mounting a file system via NFS now defaults to NFSv4. Yes, this sounds like the correct explanation! Our RHEL5.6 PXE/TFTP/NFS server is certainly configured for NFSv3. I haven't explored the NFSv4 approach though. How can we tweak the

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/20/2011 05:27 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: Thanks for the replies. I checked free and that makes sense to me now. The only thing I cannot figure out is, if there is all this memory available why would swap space start building? I started checking all this out because the system slowed to

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-20 Thread Michael McNulty
I think I found my problem. I did not realize using /dev/shm as a ramdisk will create swap space. Is there a way to prevent the ramdisk from swapping to disk? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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

2011-07-20 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/20/2011 05:15 PM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: What I'd love to learn is how others have made NFS/Kickstart work... I download the kickstart file via http: append initrd=initrd_c60_x86_64.img ks=http://172.20.0.1/linux/c6_x86_64.ks nofb Works for CentOS 5 and 6. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer,