RE: [CentOS] loading modules across reboots

2008-08-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Really, it depends on when this module is needed. If it's for a scsi controller, or other critical system disk, it needs to be in the initrd. If it can be loaded after the system is mostly running (network devices, usb bits, etc) then it can be slapped in other module locations. What sort of

RE: [CentOS] iptables question

2008-08-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Nope, but I'm open to suggestions. :) Scott provided a PDF a link to a non chunky html version that worked! I have it printed on my desk right now! That will make for some good dry reading on my plane ride Saturday. IPTables is something for me that has a few to many core holes and I need to

RE: [CentOS] Unable to install CentOS 5.2 on New HP Intel Core 2 Quad

2008-08-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Our new lab has HP Intel Core 2 Quad systems with DVD/CDRW and SATA. I can provide the model number if needed. They stop on kernel startup when trying to boot the CentOS 5.2 boot CD. It is during ACPI. Model #'s would be good, even some cheap units have quad cores now, so its Impossible to

[CentOS] iptables question

2008-08-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
When do you know you need the -m multiport option? I see examples with -dport xx:xxx for example that sometimes use it and sometimes don't? I have read the man page and see what -m multiport requires, but don't see the requirement involving its use. Thanks! jlc

RE: [CentOS] iptables question

2008-08-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
My understanding is that --dport can only specify a single port (--dport 80) or port range (--dport 137:139) inclusive. Use of the multiport module allows up to 15 ports (or port ranges) to be specified. Ned, So to write --dport 5060,1:6 you need to write: -m multiport -p udp -dport

[CentOS] loading modules across reboots

2008-08-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a CentOS 5.2 install on a machine with the Marvell nic issue outlined in http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2612. I have a few questions regarding this, what does the # echo 11ab 4364 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/sky2/new_id line do? Obviously it starts right after but what specifically is the

RE: [CentOS] loading modules across reboots

2008-08-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
11AB 4364 are likely the PCI Vendor/Device IDs. # lspci 00:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) # lspci -n 00:00.0 0200: 11ab:4364 (rev 12) Yup, so what was the significance of this requirement after loading the module? I

RE: [CentOS] loading modules across reboots

2008-08-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
possibly the driver as delivered doesn't recognize that specific version of the device, so needs a nudge to handle this specific device ID ? [this is purely a wild a** guess] Ok, so I see this on boot: Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: sky2 device eth1 does not

RE: [CentOS] Second Xen NIC not being recognized?

2008-08-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Both NICs show up in the Xen hardware details display. Looking at dmesg output from rebooting the domU, I see both eth0 and eth1 appearing there. By chance did you set the macs manually? Are they valid, look for a typo? I recall hearing about this behavior in lieu of that mistake. jlc

RE: [CentOS] Second Xen NIC not being recognized?

2008-08-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I set the second one manually; copied the first one and added one. vif = [ mac=00:16:3e:5b:44:5f,bridge=pubbr, mac=00:16:3e:5b:44:60,bridge=virtbr ] Looks good to me? Interfaces are associated with both bridges properly, but only an eth0 device appears in the domU. If the low-order bits are

RE: [CentOS] Second Xen NIC not being recognized?

2008-08-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
As in /usr/sbin/system-config-network? The yes. Or something else (probably officially called network manager)? At this point there are Well, I am probably about to be char broiled in flame, but I just edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth{n} and what ever else like resolv.conf by hand

RE: [CentOS] Getting IP in installer

2008-08-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What are you trying to achieve? If your trying to get an IP before the installation starts, you should use DHCP, or statically assign it using kickstart. Its for an iSCSI install with gPXE. Whats the correct syntax for getting the dhcp client to acquire an ip? I just ended up using ifconfig...

[CentOS] Getting IP in installer

2008-08-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How does one acquire an IP when in the ctr-alt-F2 console of the installer just as it begins? I must be doing something wrong, but I need to acquire one from the server before I start the installation. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
which xen rpms did you install? The ones from centos, or the ones from xensource? Rolled my own from the 3.2.0 srpm. Generally when building for x86_64, it's best to remove all traces of x86 packages on the system. How do you do this at install? Wouldn't that be cleaner? I suppose a rpm command

RE: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Actually, both of those commands should be looking for i[36]86, otherwise you'll miss, e.g., glibc.i686. Joshua, Any way to simply not install them when doing an install? jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
For people who are interested, yum-3.2.17-0_beta is in the *testing* repo at this moment. That fixed it! Its installing now... When Joseph said when doing an install, I assumed that meant at system install time. I know of no way of doing a pure x86_64 install via anaconda (although I'd love

RE: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Post the output from #fdisk -l Done many times - just shows the default layout of the PE2950's native hard drive. Am I missing something here? So the OS doesn't see the volumes created by your raid controller? Do you have the module for your raid card loaded?

RE: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Yeah, you're missing the iscsi part. Means the 'drives' are on a different system on the other end of a network link. Heh, thought you were trying to export those discs *on* the iSCSI server and couldn't see them there, my bad :) 'iscsiadm -m discovery -p ip of target' wont give the target

[CentOS] Dell Perc snmp

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to help a friend with a 2850 and snmp monitoring of a controller and its arrays. I don't have any dells, do they have a rpm to make easy work of this for the Percs? They have a monitoring solution already. Any hints I could pass on would be appreciated! Thanks, jlc

RE: [CentOS] Dell Perc snmp

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I've only tested these on CentOS 4.x and RHEL 4.x. Have not tested on 5.x. I am sure you and Al's post will be sufficient! Certainly wasn't as easy as using HP's hpacucli utility that is available to scan HP's storage arrays. nate OT: I would sure love to get this working inside of busybox so

[CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Just my luck, None of my CentOS systems or my Fedora systems can #yum groupinstall Development Tools Development Libraries? Both are having dep issues? Is that a coincidence, or what's going on? The CentOS boxes all complain: -- Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-18.el5_1.1 for package:

RE: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

2008-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
There are two times when this becomes an issue. One is on x86_64 systems where build deps can cross architectures, and the other is when using systems like openvz/virtuozzo where the glibc is often replaced or otherwise lobotomized. Which one is yours? Ahh, all the CentOS boxes are either x64

RE: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created on the 3000i to be seen by the OS as usuable drives. What's the size of the volume(s)? Post the output from #fdisk -l jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Checking last shutdown state

2008-08-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How do I check the last shutdown, or any if possible for the status related to whether or not it was clean? I need to know if a UPS had successfully shut a few boxes down. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Checking last shutdown state

2008-08-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
You should be able to check the boot logs to see if the file systems were mounted cleanly or if they had to have their journals checked. I see this in messages: Aug 14 12:36:05 xen kernel: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. Aug 14 12:36:05 xen kernel: EXT3-fs: write access

RE: [CentOS] Checking last shutdown state

2008-08-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Does your UPS software have any logging capabilities? I know APC's PowerChute+ software logs everything it does. There would be an entry in it's logs saying it was doing a clean shutdown. The system logs may also have something about the time the system shutdown too. Using apcupsd, the silly

RE: [CentOS] Checking last shutdown state

2008-08-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Sorry if this doesn't exactly answer your question :) Don't be sorry, I appreciate the knowledge! I assume I can get this script to work, but next time I am setting up ups ware, I will look into this! Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] PXE Booting floppy image

2008-08-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I can confirm that the memdisk from the centos-5 pkg syslinux-3.11-4 does indeed boot 2880K floppy images. /Peter Yes, from what I have read it should even boot floppies of 8-9 meg. I found a script used to extend the size but nothing I do is working for some reason. I really only need about

RE: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
brute force approach... dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384 That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before you boot if you use lvm right? Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy actual data which should be quick in your case? jlc

[CentOS] PXE Booting floppy image

2008-07-31 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know the correct syntax for specifying a floppy image in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file? I am trying to use: label Dos Bootdisk MENU LABEL Dos bootdisk FDIMAGE discimage.img But when I select it the menu, I get a message saying Automatic boot in 30 seconds and

[CentOS] Floppy boot disc w/ lspci

2008-07-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know where I can get this? I need to deduce what type of nic is a proprietary CNC machine that I don't want to dismantle so I can make a gpxe floppy for so I can run some diags of my tftp server. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Floppy boot disc w/ lspci

2008-07-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
you can't boot a CD? any distribution of centos, disk 1, boot it and specify `linux single` at the grub prompt and get a shell prompt... No cd/dvd on it, I would have to disassemble it to get one on :( Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
VNCSERVERS=2:vnc VNCSERVERARGS[2]=-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 Here you are starting a vncserver on port 5902 for user vnc. Does he exist? here i have created a user vnc and set the password using vncpasswd cmd. Ok then i started the vncserver # vncserver New 'localhost.localdomain:1

RE: [CentOS] Re: harddisc or nfs based install

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
With NFS mounts, you can only have one set in any particular directory, and the last time I did a hard disc install it was the same way. But I have to confess that I haven't done a hard disk install since RedHat 7.something. That makes sense. Thanks Scott! jlc

[CentOS] Sendmail conf

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
A long time ago someone helped me with setting up sendmail to simply queue and relay mail. They suggested: 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and set DAEMON=no 2) edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and set FEATURE(`msp', `[IP.of.relayhost]')dnl Given the sendmail-cf RPM is already installed a service

[CentOS] harddisc or nfs based install

2008-07-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
When choosing either of these methods and using an iso, how does CentOS determine the right iso file to mount? Is there an expected file name format? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Personal Wiki for CentOS

2008-07-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
the only downside is that the default theme is a bit crusty looking. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos John, Got a pointer to a theme that's appealing? Thanks! jlc

[CentOS] Personal Wiki for CentOS

2008-07-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
For ages I have been keeping docs and notes in Public Folders inside an Exchange server and want to move this out to a more modern facility that allows tagging and searching via a web interface for keywords so I can keep all my notes more organized. Anyone have any personal recos for the

RE: [CentOS] Kernel is not compiled with IPv6 support?

2008-07-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Since I was SSHed into the boxes, I could not test ifconfig (down then up!). Just so you know, you can do this type of thing even with SSH. (I don't know what would of helped that situation, but for future ref...) #echo ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 | at now through ssh will work fine, and you will

RE: [CentOS] hard drive info

2008-07-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
i'm acessing a centos box via ssh, is there any way that i can find out the hard drive info, such IDE/SATA, format, size, make model, etc...? Cat something from /sys such as #cat /sys/block/sda/size x #cat /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:10.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/model 0/model Virtual

[CentOS] Shell Script Question

2008-07-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What's the simplest way to increment the number up by one until some other 4 digit number while preserving leading zero's until the 1000's has a digit other than 0? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Shell Script Question

2008-07-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Your homework done in a snap! Lol, nah, not homework :P I don't know what I was thinking, long day. OTH, I never seq could do this as well! Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] CentOS mount doesn't support smbfs type ?

2008-07-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Any help would be appreciated. I think you need samba-client, then you use #mount -t cifs jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

2008-07-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
If this is true, why did this package get updated? Can't answer that, but do you use yum-priorities? I was actually just looking at ATRPMS and about to see if it had what I needed for a new install. It would be good to know if that problem happened with the repo protection in place... jlc

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Why don't you try it and see what happens. I did, which is what lead me to believe it only checks the db:) jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] i386 version of Perl getting installed on x64 system?

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
There is a known issue with the new version of yum on RHEL/CentOS 5.2 ... You need to specify the packages like this: yum install package_name.x86_64 not yum install package_name If you do not specify, then yum can install both (or either) of i386 or x86_64 packages to meet that requirement.

RE: [CentOS] i386 version of Perl getting installed on x64 system?

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Just to muddy the waters on this a bit more... for me, the rpmforge perl-Time-HiRes package won't install as it conflicts with my base installation of perl. Yea, I just figured that out. This is on a RHEL5.2 x86_64 system however. So I assume an x86 install doesn't have this issue? # rpm -qf

RE: [CentOS] i386 version of Perl getting installed on x64 system?

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I would say it is the Best one ... it seems there is a problem in this instance. Its just not my day :P I used my gmail to sign up to rpmforge, and received the sub confirmation instantly, replied to it and received my membership confirmation. Sent an email regarding both packages I am having

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
If it won't wok, you'l have to cook up something. :-) YUK, YUK! Now that's ironic (you'l):P ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to install perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 from rf and it is failing suggesting it needs /usr/bin/false. #yum whatprovides /usr/bin/false yields nothing. My CentOS 5.1 machines don't have this, and this is the same list of yum install items I always use when setting up assp. Any idea what to

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Wierd, I just confirmed the issue. There is not a /usr/bin/false, but there IS a /bin/false on a stock 5.2 install. You might check in the rpmforge forums/list archives for some mention of this problem. I thought I might be able to symlink /bin/false to /usr/bin/false (a kludge, I admit) or

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 Missing Dependancy

2008-07-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I had no trouble copying it or linking it. Yes, but how does that satisfy yum? jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] i386 version of Perl getting installed on x64 system?

2008-07-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to install: perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 perl-Net-DNS perl-Time-HiRes perl-Email-Valid perl-File-ReadBackwards perl-File-Scan-ClamAV perl-Mail-SPF-Query perl-libwww-perl perl-LDAP perl-Unix-Syslog perl-Mail-SRS perl-Net-CIDR-Lite perl-Mail-SPF which are all either noarch

RE: [CentOS] i386 version of Perl getting installed on x64 system?

2008-07-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Can you identify which one of these packages individually is requiring the 32-bit perl? In other words, can you install perl-LDAP without it wanting to pull in the 32-bit perl? Same for all of them... You can also do an rpm -q -R -p rpm on the .rpm file to see what it requires, but I'm not sure

[CentOS] OT: General Help in chroot build environment

2008-07-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to compile a module for a Realtek 8168 for thinstation. I have pulled the developer tarball and executed the script to enter its build environment. I also have the source for the module I want to compile, but when I execute #make clean modules it errors out. Reading the errors, I can

RE: [CentOS] OT: General Help in chroot build environment

2008-07-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I don't normally dink with this stuff anymore. But from watching the lists, IIRC, you need a kernel development rpm to be installed. Use the yum available stuff and if you see something promising, give it a shot. Being a holiday here, I don't know how long until someone knowledgeable will reply.

RE: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

2008-07-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Also, conder trimming your posts please What does that mean, I'm not a native speaker so I didn't follow that, sorry. Didn't want to ofend or even make mistakes, my only point its that freenas could do the job under a SMB enviroment. And I don't even compare CentOS between FreeNAS in anything.

RE: [CentOS] Rescan /dev/sd* without reboot?

2008-07-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
This is an old way of doing it but it's worked fine for me over the years. I think the new way is documented here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7321 I am guessing you could rescan it with a less obtrusive method... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] EPIA-M board for Centos

2008-07-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I've built some successful systems on the Atom 230 recently. Much faster than the Epia and about the same price (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342) So far everything works out of the box and its much faster than even the 1.2Ghz Epia's I tried. Fan is fairly noisy

RE: [CentOS] EPIA-M board for Centos

2008-07-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
the new generation ( well, anything in the last 2 years or so ) JMicron 's are all 100% AHCI compatible and do a fairly good job of just being a sata interface, and I've not seen a JMicron pata interface in years.. not sure if they even make those anymore. Well, I admit my inquiry was not CentOS

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-06-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
/boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. Not true for all mobo's. Regardless, why not have a copy safe somewhere easier to manage then the following suggestion IMHO. Let the computer worry about remembering to copy it. leave /dev/sdb1 the same size as /dev/sda1 and

[CentOS] Awk help

2008-06-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have csvde dump from active directory I process on my postfix mta. It takes output like this: CN=Curtis xxx,OU=Domain Users,OU=xxx xxx,DC=xxx-xxx,DC=local,X400:c=US\;a= \;p=xxx xxx xxx\;o=Exchange\;s=xxx\;g=xxx\;;SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and should return a relay_recipient map in the form of:

RE: [CentOS] Awk help

2008-06-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
It works OK on the test line you provided; my guess is your datafile has other lines that match SMTP in other fields of the source. Yeah when I echo'ed a single email into it everything was fine, but the file wasn't. I looked at it in vi and saw all the dos carriage returns so added a tr -d '\r'

RE: [CentOS] Awk help

2008-06-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
you can simplify that line down to: awk 'BEGIN { FS=: } /(smtp|SMTP)/ { printf %-30sOK\n, $NF }' $1 the -30 will make sure that everything aligns, because with just a tab to separate the email addresses, you'll end up with a wonky OK column. -30 pads out the first column to 30 characters. also,

RE: [CentOS-virt] kvm under centos5.1/5.2

2008-06-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Thanks Daniel, but which OS types can I run using kvm-36 under Centos5? http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Guest_Support_Status ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

[CentOS] KS Package Selection

2008-06-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
My ks file has just Base which obviously pulls in a few other things I don't want like dialup support etc. System-config-kickstart doesn't let you specifically drill down what options are in each group. Is there a resource depicting exactly what packages are in each of the groups so I could write

RE: [CentOS] iptables starting while disabled

2008-06-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
chkconfig iptables off That was how I disabled it originally yet it was being started by something else. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] iptables starting while disabled

2008-06-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Did you install another firewall front end? Something like Firestarter? No, but /etc/sysconfig/iptables had previous config so I purged the file. I haven’t rebooted since to see if its starts again. I noticed on another machine that had iptables disabled in chkconfig that after setting it to

RE: [CentOS] assigning best gateway via DHCP

2008-06-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What might I do Linux-wise to create a system that looked at multiple gateways and then assigned (via DHCP) the gateway that was the least congested? Anyone have any good suggestions in this department? Your assumption is that the level of congestion would remain unchanged for the length of the

[CentOS] Key Card Access software

2008-06-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
We have http://www.cansec.com/ based prox readers and port servers but the software is a joke. It doesn't run as a service, so the server must be logged in at the console. Anyone use anything Linux based they can vouch for? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS

RE: [CentOS] assigning best gateway via DHCP

2008-06-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
This is a good idea, thanks. So, I'm assuming that you mean something like this? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ Yeah, I don't know how sexy the solution would be, but you could poll for throughput/availability with a script, then rewrite the iptables rule for example taking the

RE: [CentOS] Bind acl statement issue

2008-06-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
view external { // what the Internet will see match-clients { any; }; It looks like the example file's external - !localnets; !localhost wouldn't match anything? I also used any and everything is fine. It appears as Bind will stop once matched so this is safe. Thanks! jlc

[CentOS] OT: HP Autoloader Issue

2008-06-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I spent a good chunk of time trying to get an HP LTO Autoloader to work with Amanda only to later find out it was faulty. Aside from HP who has a brutal system for repairing hardware, does anyone know where I might be able to send it for repair? Thanks! jlc

[CentOS] Bind Standard Practise

2008-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In a chroot Bind installation, named.conf is located in /var/named/chroot/etc/. In that file, references to files for includes and other zones can be made as filename without a path. What is the expected location when no path is used, simply up one dir under chroot/? While moving a DNS from one

[CentOS] Bind acl statement issue

2008-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
From the manual, localnets matches hosts belonging to a network for which the server has an interface in. I have a dns server in a dmz with an ip of 192.168.2.2 in /24. Named.conf has 3 views, localhost_resolver - localhost, internal - localnets, and external - !localnets; !localhost. I have a

RE: [CentOS] iptables starting while disabled

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I'm not sure as it relates specifically to XEN - but I would have a look through the /etc/rc.d directory. If it's not being turned on there, 'egrep -i iptables' /etc/init.d/* and see if it's in any startup script there. Slim chance they may be something in rc.local as well. -Peter Peter, Arghh,

[CentOS] Device Mapper and pretty names

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How does one view the dm-{n} names wrt the actual dev names? I assume it involves dmsetup but I cant figure it out. I am using iostat to track some busy disk io and don't know which dm-{n} to watch :) Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Device Mapper and pretty names

2008-06-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Try ls -l /dev/mapper/ Slick, thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS-virt] Migration from Windows VMs from VMWare server to Xen

2008-06-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Thank you... thats great - and easy. Windows being so particular about drivers and disk mappings I figured there would be more to it. Cheers Stephen Well, you still have to consider that:) Why this works without you doing any extra legwork is because for you to run windows on Xen, unless your

RE: [CentOS] centos RS232 to IP port program

2008-06-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there a method in centos where a program can be started that listens on a given IP port and when something connects it will transfer data from the RS232 port to the IP port. reads and writes of course. Can't help you with a software solution, but Digi makes a hardware device that does just

[CentOS] RDesktop and redirected MF Printers

2008-06-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to redirect a printer/scanner with rdesktop, anyone know of this is doable? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Determine what physical port a USB device is attatched to

2008-06-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
How does one do this? For example: # lspci | grep USB 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I

RE: [CentOS] Determine what physical port a USB device is attatched to

2008-06-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
the UPS isn't a PCI device. the USB channels on the motherboard are, however, thats what you see. I think I worded this bad :) I want to know what USB controller (it is a PCI device) that the USB based UPS is attached to. Its only a coincidence, but it is attached to the USB port belonging to a

[CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I made a post in the Fedora list that didn't yield much help regarding this. I need to use a CentOS5.1 server to remotely boot a few Fedora 9 workstations. I have the option of using straight PXE, or even reflashing gPXE to the LOM for the clients. What I am interested in knowing is the best

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What's wrong with NFS? You can even have root on NFS these days A quick google found: http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/linuxnfs Nothing actually, just no experience with it. What is the performance like of NFS? Given good hardware, does this make for a production quality setup? Thanks! jlc

RE: [CentOS] Booting Diskless Workstations

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The key is mostly sufficient memory so that the machine doesn't swap and can keep commonly accessed programs in I/O cache. If the clients had lots of ram (=2Gb), can I disable the swap file altogether? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 64bits can't boot

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I was able to install RHEL 4 with no install parameters, but I can't upgrade using the RHEL 5 DVD, still the same issue..no HD detected in install process. What does your bios say for SATA config? I use many asus mobo's for desktop/lab/home setups. That mobo should work, all mine have the SATA

RE: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 64bits can't boot

2008-06-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
And the AHCI does install CentOS, but when the install process its finished it boots up and says could not mount such file system, not such file or directory Hrm, AFAIK you should use AHCI w/ CentOS. As far as it complaining after boot sounds like it simply didn't load the module it needed

RE: [CentOS] /etc/sysctl.conf edit not permanent

2008-05-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I expect that you will see net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 Please confirm. Barry You were right, thanks for the info. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Secure iptables settings

2008-05-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I really didn't understand what you are trying to accomplish. Please give more details, perhaps explain what problem are you trying to solve. Filipe Filipe, No problem, but rather just want to make sure the original config never changes or persists past a reboot. Thanks, jlc

RE: [CentOS] Bind Help

2008-05-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
$INCLUDE common.inc Please refer to bind documentation for more information on this statement. HTH, Filipe Got it, so both views reference this one file. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] /etc/sysctl.conf edit not permanent

2008-05-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What exactly did you add to /etc/sysctl.conf? Do you have any errors when you run sysctl -p on the command line as root? Filipe Hi, I added the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 sysctl -p does not show any errors. So after a #service network restart, I see this: Shutting

[CentOS] Secure iptables settings

2008-05-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is it feasible to write protect the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file so nothing can overwrite it, such that at least the config is persistent through a reboot? If not, is there a better way to accomplish this? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
iptables will process rules until a match. If the match is -j ACCEPT/REJECT/DROP, it will end processing there. If it's -j another_chain, it will jump to the other chain. If it matches a rule in the other chain with -j ACCEPT/REJECT/DROP, it will stop processing there. Otherwise, if no rules in

RE: [CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Fajar, I really appreciate all the detailed help here! I have some questions. Hi JLC, There are 2 ways to implement firewall: negative list and positive list. Looks like you want a very strict one that is positive list. Assuming eth0 is WAN, and eth1 is LAN (assuming 192.168.0.0/24)(please mind

[CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a dual homed server in an install for someone who is very cost sensitive. This server originally is being setup as an Asterisk server, but now the simplest thing for me to do is also set it up to provide internet access for the small shop as well. So it will have one external, WAN

RE: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is much more intelligently designed than any closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. Pretty strong opinion that would be disputed by many don't you think? I would venture to say that any large system involved in SLA's with 5 9's

RE: [CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
This CentOS wiki may help: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables Akemi Akemi, That was helpful (I should have checked the wiki:). After reading that and the RH related links, I think I have what I need but I am unclear about one aspect. What is the correlation between filtering LAN

[CentOS] Show IP Traffic on a port

2008-05-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to determine the root of an issue I am having. How can I watch traffic destined to a specific port on my CentOS 5.1 box to see if its even hitting it? It would be udp traffic. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Show IP Traffic on a port

2008-05-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Try tcpdump -i interface udp port port. -Chris That's so going in my toolbox :) This confirmed what I needed to know! Thanks everyone! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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