Re: [CentOS] More then one version of KDE

2009-06-19 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/19/09 5:20 PM, "Robert Spangler" wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to have more then one version of KDE installed and switch > between them? I'd like to try out the new KDE but don't want to lose what I > have now. Thnx > It is possible. You'll have to follow the directions pretty clos

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > > Yes, I see it too. The announcement says in it that the files are being > released to the mirrors, not that they are available to download. > > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mirrors: > >

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Robert wrote: > > Yes, I HAVE but no, I'm not. I really don't know what's different, > either. The announcement is dated Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:00:02 -0400 > and at 13:25 -0500 (2.4 hours later) I see a new kernel, new kernel-devel, > updated kernel-doc, updated kern

Re: [CentOS] One of my servers crashed, need help

2009-06-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote: >> > Be prepared to restore from a backup too, doesn't look good. > >> No need to...Seagate screws me again. 3rd bad hard drive on >> this server. >> Unbelievable. Under warranty, but...g. > > One tip I try to adhere to, although hard to follo

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 6-19-2009 12:33 AM Chadley Wilson spake the following: > > I would be lying if I said I am a newbie, but I am rusty so please bear > with me. > > I am looking for a how-to for Redhat or Centos to remake the installation > CD. > > > > First

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, S.Tindall wrote: > As a side note, Tomato Firmware allows you to adjust transmitter power > up to 6 times the normal level and that has let me go through some very > think brick walls to pick up remote network cameras. We have to see what the result of that is on any offsprin

[CentOS] More then one version of KDE

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Spangler
Hello, Is it possible to have more then one version of KDE installed and switch between them? I'd like to try out the new KDE but don't want to lose what I have now. Thnx -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] Odd module mentioned during update of kernel-PAE

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen Harris
During my update from 5.2 to 5.3 I saw these lines during the update of kernel-PAE Installing : kernel-PAE[153/477] Warning: Module vboxnetflt.ko from kernel 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 has no modversions, so it cannot be reused for kernel 2.6.18-128.1.14

[CentOS] yum update bug with disk requirement calculation?

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen Harris
I just updated my machine from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 and noticed an oddity. The update required around 280Mb of disk space. I had over 500Mb of free space on root. And... the update failed with "need more space" errors. Now I can understand this; normally it would fetch the files from a http server,

Re: [CentOS] One of my servers crashed, need help

2009-06-19 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > Be prepared to restore from a backup too, doesn't look good. > > > No need to...Seagate screws me again. 3rd bad hard drive on > this server. > Unbelievable. Under warranty, but...g. > One tip I try to adhere to, although hard to follow when setting up a new computer is this... Try

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 10:19 AM MHR spake the following: > Is anyone else seeing this situation? > > I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five > announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to > get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after th

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
>> > [CW] My Apologies, I forgot to mention that I am not disassembling the > diskboot.img for the USB drive, but rather boot.iso which I assumed is the > iso that is loaded as a ram disc when you boot from the cd. > That would be the wrong assumption. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 8:00 AM Chadley Wilson spake the following: > >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Chadley Wilson >> Sent: 19 June 2009 03:56 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installat

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 8:49 AM Jim Perrin spake the following: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Tru > Huynh wrote: > >>> Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: >> ... LOL ... >> Tru > > Oh GREAT, first we reproduce his email without his company's consent, > and NOW you make fun of the disclaim

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-19-2009 12:33 AM Chadley Wilson spake the following: > Hi All, > > I would be lying if I said I am a newbie, but I am rusty so please bear with > me. > I am looking for a how-to for Redhat or Centos to remake the installation CD. > > First let me explain: > I have an installation disc suppl

Re: [CentOS] Does Cent OS Come With Any Kind Of Customer Portal Application(s)

2009-06-19 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/19/09 9:50 AM, "nate" wrote: > Kemp, Larry wrote: >> Other than coding something yourself...does Cent OS come with any kind of >> portal application(s) that would allow remote users to purchase a domain >> name through me or log in and edit their domains settings and go active in >> my DNS?

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread S.Tindall
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:06 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Julian Thomas wrote: > > > > Why not look at a small access point that plugs into the RJ45 and uses USB > > for power? DLink DWL-G730AP or > > other equivalent. > > If it really is an AP, it won't do the job, as an AP cannot be a cli

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Chadley Wilson wrote: > > [CW] Hi Karanbir, thanks for the input I just ran this past my HOD, the > solution is good for us to load the servers in house and we are now planning > to this, but it does not work for providing the customer with a CD... :( So > it looks like I am in for the long haul

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Julian Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:31:33 -0400 fred smith wrote: > >> >>> David McGuffey wrote: >>> Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but nothing else. I wa

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Julian Thomas
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:31:33 -0400 fred smith wrote: > > >> David McGuffey wrote: >> > Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in >> > my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but >> > nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module an

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, The Wiki has a page specifically on securing SSH: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH It should give you some good ideas. HTH, Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread fabian
Dear All, Tahnks to all you guys for immediate reply by the way i jus hav modified the firewall by explicitly specifiying a rule to block ssh traffic from outside i will wait for sometime and check the log again thnaks again guys apprecite your replies Regards Fabian > 2009/6/19 Cisco-Educat

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Giovanni Torres
Linux Advocate wrote: > >>> [Normal log stuff from dictionary attack deleted...] >> This is common, and, presuming you have good passwords or only >> accept authorized_keys, not a real problem other than large log >> files. >> >> Look at fail2ban for a method that will automatically add >> iptab

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread Matthew Kent
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 10:19 -0700, MHR wrote: > Is anyone else seeing this situation? > > I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five > announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to > get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Brian
2009/6/19 Cisco-Education : > Dear All, > > I have the following setup running perfectly OK for a long time > > CentOS release 5 (Final) > sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 > MailScanner 4.76.25 > bind-9.3.4-6.0.3.P1.el5_2 > > now i jus setup a centos box running BackupPC for backing up my my above > mail serv

Re: [CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread Robert
MHR wrote: > Is anyone else seeing this situation? > > I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five > announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to > get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the > announcement. The last time ar

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: > > Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in > > my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but > > nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel modu

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Linux Advocate
> > [Normal log stuff from dictionary attack deleted...] > > This is common, and, presuming you have good passwords or only > accept authorized_keys, not a real problem other than large log > files. > > Look at fail2ban for a method that will automatically add > iptables blocks when this occurs

[CentOS] how to determine if my kernel has real-time clock function?

2009-06-19 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Hello: I'd like to install VmWare on my Centos 5.2; as a pre-requisite, it says that the kernel should have the real-time clock capability. How do I determine if the kernel has that capability? Regards, Chip Campbell -- someday I'll have a good signature, I'm sure of it... ___

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:54:37 +0300 (AST) Cisco-Education wrote: > Now both the Mail server and the backup pc server behind firewall and ssh > protocol is denied to the hosts in the DMZ zone This statement is incorrect. What you think you have set up isn't what you actually have set up. The outs

[CentOS] Time to sync (NOT a complaint)

2009-06-19 Thread MHR
Is anyone else seeing this situation? I subscribe to the announce digest, and for the last four or five announcements that contained updates to CentOS 5, I've been unable to get a successful run of yum update for as much as 24 hours after the announcement. The last time around, I tried at about 5

Re: [CentOS] Does Cent OS Come With Any Kind Of Customer Portal Application(s)

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:03:48 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Content-Language: en-US > > > Other than coding something yourself...does Cent OS come with any > kind of portal application(s) that would allow remote users to purchase > a domain name through me or log in and edit their domai

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Ron Lorah
In my opinion, the easiest way to handle this is to move the SSH ports. Then just pass the -p (port) option for logging in. While this is not bullet proof, it will stop 99.9% of  Brute Force attempts. ~Ron Cisco-Education wrote: Dear All, I have the following setup running perfectly OK f

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009, Cisco-Education wrote: >Dear All, > >I have the following setup running perfectly OK for a long time > >CentOS release 5 (Final) >sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 >MailScanner 4.76.25 >bind-9.3.4-6.0.3.P1.el5_2 > >now i jus setup a centos box running BackupPC for backing up my my above >

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Cisco-Education wrote: > Jun 19 16:26:06 kmdns1 sshd[11073]: Invalid user jeka from 87.118.122.78 > Jun 19 16:26:06 kmdns1 sshd[11074]: input_userauth_request: invalid user jeka > Jun 19 16:26:06 kmdns1 sshd[11074]: Received disconnect from > 87.118.122.78: 11: Bye Bye > Now both the Mail server

Re: [CentOS] Does Cent OS Come With Any Kind Of Customer Portal Application(s)

2009-06-19 Thread nate
Kemp, Larry wrote: > Other than coding something yourself...does Cent OS come with any kind of > portal application(s) that would allow remote users to purchase a domain > name through me or log in and edit their domains settings and go active in > my DNS? Has anyone set anything like this up befor

[CentOS] ssh security

2009-06-19 Thread Cisco-Education
Dear All, I have the following setup running perfectly OK for a long time CentOS release 5 (Final) sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 MailScanner 4.76.25 bind-9.3.4-6.0.3.P1.el5_2 now i jus setup a centos box running BackupPC for backing up my my above mail server using ssh as per the instructions in backup

[CentOS] Does Cent OS Come With Any Kind Of Customer Portal Application(s)

2009-06-19 Thread Kemp, Larry
Other than coding something yourself...does Cent OS come with any kind of portal application(s) that would allow remote users to purchase a domain name through me or log in and edit their domains settings and go active in my DNS? Has anyone set anything like this up before using Cent OS? The clo

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 10

2009-06-19 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: >> Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: > ... LOL ... > Tru Oh GREAT, first we reproduce his email without his company's consent, and NOW you make fun of the disclaimer They're going to sue us for sure now. We should probably try t

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:00:53PM +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Chadley Wilson > > Sent: 19 June 2009 03:56 PM > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to r

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Kemp, Larry
Chadley, If I remember right yum can tell you what package contains what items. It has been a long time since I used it though admittedly. I think a "man yum|less" might give us the options. Larry Kemp U.S. Metropolitan Telecom, LLC Bonita Springs FL Email: larry.k...@usmetrotel.com -Origi

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Chadley Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Chadley Wilson > Sent: 19 June 2009 03:56 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD > > > > > well, you can always just give the cutomer a US

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Chadley Wilson
> > well, you can always just give the cutomer a USB key :) > > - KB [CW] Nope I am afraid we don't do business that way, it would be nice though... unfortunately I don't get to decide... Good news however I am testing my first rebuilt disc... Pinnacle Technology Holdings E-Mail Disclaimer: Th

Re: [CentOS] Yum Repo that has xcache

2009-06-19 Thread andrew . hearn
James Matthews wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering where I can get a repo that has xcache. (Or if anyone has > any tips on a PHP optimizer) How about http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/ Looks to have XCache 1.2.2 -- Andrew ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:38:03 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in > my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but > nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the > bcm43xx-microco

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script: Simple array usage = bad substitution?

2009-06-19 Thread Bob Beers
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:43 AM, James Bensley wrote: > Hey Guys n Gals; > > I have some arrays that I can't seem to expand correctly (if that's > the correct word?), imagine the following example: > > #!/bin/bash > myArray=("First" "Second" "Third") > > First=("Monday" "Tuesdays" "Wednesday") >

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for installing CentOS 5 via USB?

2009-06-19 Thread Phil Schaffner
John Doe wrote: > From: Phil Schaffner ... > Hum, my bad... I am myself using a kickstart file and I forgot I had to use > the following line in it (and I use HP raid controlers): ... > And, to be honest, I should not really get credit for this; I found most of > the info on the web... ^_^ You

[CentOS] Shell Script: Simple array usage = bad substitution?

2009-06-19 Thread James Bensley
Hey Guys n Gals; I have some arrays that I can't seem to expand correctly (if that's the correct word?), imagine the following example: #!/bin/bash myArray=("First" "Second" "Third") First=("Monday" "Tuesdays" "Wednesday") Second=("One" "Two" "Three") Third=("A" "B" "C") for ((i=0;i<${#myarr...

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Robert Moskowitz
David McGuffey wrote: > Have decided to give up on the embedded Broadcom 4312 wireless device in > my son's Dell laptop. I get WEP open authentication to work, but > nothing else. I was about to dump the bcm43xx kernel module and the > bcm43xx-microcode5.fw firmware and work with the newer b43 mo

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/19/2009 11:27 AM, Chadley Wilson wrote: >> yes, dont bother with all this stuff - just setup a network boot >> environment > [CW] Hi Karanbir, thanks for the input I just ran this past my HOD, the > solution is good for us to load the servers in house and we are now planning > to this, but

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Chadley Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: Chadley Wilson > Sent: 19 June 2009 12:28 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Karanbir Singh

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Chadley Wilson
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Karanbir Singh > Sent: 19 June 2009 11:32 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD > > On 06/19/2009 08:33 AM, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > The p

Re: [CentOS] Which external WiFi device for laptop running CentOS 5.3?

2009-06-19 Thread Mfawa Alfred Onen
Maybe you can try an intel based USB or PCMCIA card for your son and give it a try. I had my CentOS 5.2 work with an Intel based card which was inbuilt on the Laptop. I believe with the new Kernel in CentOS 5.3 you should have a good chance of getting it to work. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:38 PM, D

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/19/2009 08:33 AM, Chadley Wilson wrote: > The problem we have is that the CD does not support our CDROM (it8213). I > have managed to compile the driver from the sources, and I have a boot > stiffy. So I have managed to load the server, the problem is that we need to > load about 10 of th

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for installing CentOS 5 via USB?

2009-06-19 Thread John Doe
From: Phil Schaffner > John Doe wrote: > ... > > Here's how I did my USB key (minus the kickstart part) but you need a linux > (in a VM or from the live CD)... > > And you will have to change devices names! > > Cool! Any problems with the bug mentioned in the release notes about > /boot being wr

Re: [CentOS] NAS Storage server question

2009-06-19 Thread PV Juliet
HI All, I have created own distribution CD. but after installation that is when it is going post installation sh :/usr/sbin/mouseconfig file or directory not found " . can any help me to solve this . Thanks in advance Juliet ___ CentOS mailing l

[CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-19 Thread Chadley Wilson
Hi All, I would be lying if I said I am a newbie, but I am rusty so please bear with me. I am looking for a how-to for Redhat or Centos to remake the installation CD. First let me explain: I have an installation disc supplied to me, with centos 5.2 which has kickstart, post and pre installation

Re: [CentOS] NAS Storage server question

2009-06-19 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 15:28 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Coert Waagmeester schrieb: > > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 22:59 +0200, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > > > >> 2009/6/11 Coert Waagmeester : > >> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >>> At our office a have a server runnin