RE: [CentOS-es] samba + netlogon + script + winxp
Saludos hermanos. Solucionado Fue una torpeza mia, tenia comentado el parametro logon script. Esto de andar Borracho.. No cojas lucha. A cualquiera le pasa eso. Gracias a todos que se tomaron la molestia de leer el correo. Y para redimirme aqui dejo unos links de libros sobre XEN, si a alguien le ineteresa. Claro que interesa. Yo pasé trabajo una vez montando los paquetes del Xen cuando era la 3.0.2. No me reconocía los dispositivos IDE, así que tuve que bajar la última versión estable del kernel disponible en ese momento y compilarla junto con los fuentes del Xen. El día que lo hice le perdí el miedo a compilar el kernel, ya que las veces que lo había hecho antes (cuando todo era oscuridad) no me funcionó. :D ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] RAID1 por software
Compañeros buenos dias. Deseo montar un Raid1 por software en un servidor HP ML150, en el momento tengo 2 D.D de 250 Gb sata, ya instale Centos 5.1 en el primer D.D, el segundo no le he hecho particiones, he busacado y he leido informacion sobre Raid con software, pero no he podido lograr configurar estos dos discos en raid1 porque no se ni como comenzar (No he encontrado informacion de explicita de este tema para centos). Que pena con ud, como comprenderan soy nuevo en el tema y me gustaria que alguien me indicara los pasos que debo seguir para configurar Raid1 por software en centos 5.1. Muchas gracias. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] RAID1 por software
Muchas gracias. 2008/7/28 Victor Padro [EMAIL PROTECTED] yo tengo este enlace pero esta en ingles, lo unico seria que entraras a el wiki de centos y buscaras la version en español en los manuales. http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sag-en-4/ch-software-raid.html a mi me ha servido mucho... Saludos. 2008/7/28 Luis Huacho Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] los servidores HP tienen un disco smart antes de inicializar la instalacion del sistema operativo donde se habilita el raid por hardware, por defecto crea raid 1+0. 2008/7/28 Luis Alberto Rojas P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Compañeros buenos dias. Deseo montar un Raid1 por software en un servidor HP ML150, en el momento tengo 2 D.D de 250 Gb sata, ya instale Centos 5.1 en el primer D.D, el segundo no le he hecho particiones, he busacado y he leido informacion sobre Raid con software, pero no he podido lograr configurar estos dos discos en raid1 porque no se ni como comenzar (No he encontrado informacion de explicita de este tema para centos). Que pena con ud, como comprenderan soy nuevo en el tema y me gustaria que alguien me indicara los pasos que debo seguir para configurar Raid1 por software en centos 5.1. Muchas gracias. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- Saludos Cordiales Luis Huacho Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.innovatech-peru.com ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS] script
Hi ALL
#!/bin/sh
# Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space
# It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free avilable) percentage
# of space is = 90%
# -
# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project http://cyberciti.biz/fb/
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# --
# Linux shell script to watch disk space (should work on other UNIX oses )
# SEE URL:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-to-watch-the-disk-space.html
# set admin email so that you can get email
ADMIN=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
# set alert level 90% is default
ALERT=90
df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 $1 }' |
while read output;
do
#echo $output
usep=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d'%' -f1 )
partition=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $2 }' )
if [ $usep -ge $ALERT ]; then
echo Running out of space \$partition ($usep%)\ on $(hostname) as on
$(date) |
mail -s Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep $ADMIN
fi
done
Am trying to run the above script on my machine, it gave the following error
[EMAIL PROTECTED] script]# ./disk_monitor.sh
./disk_monitor.sh: line 23: [: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00: integer
expression expected
./disk_monitor.sh: line 23: [: /: integer expression expected
Any help?
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Re: [CentOS] script
Mad Unix wrote:
...
df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 $1 }' |
Try changing df -H into df -H -P
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Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly
Now at IETF at IPSECme session and connected again Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 27.07.2008 um 16:36 schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was done to the internal hard drive... Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the hard drive. Now what? Can I rescue things? Your corporate IT departement may be able to do that. They should have a 2nd key and maybe even a copy of the MBR. If they don't have, then your lost. What do you use? SafeBoot? Yes, I think so. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly
D Steward wrote: Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the hard drive. If the purpose of the encrypted bootloader was to load an encrypted filesystem/s, then there must be a spare MBR on your drive somewhere. Its not standard to have more than one MBR, but my spidey sense is tingling and telling me any half-decent software encryption software wouldnt rely on a single fragile point of failure such as an mbr which is easily overwritten by viruses and installations. Providing you are still on the net, send an email to one of your tech guys asking for either the location of the spare MBR, or if there isnt one, a new MBR to replace yours - they should have a copy of your original. Fortunately that system is for my corporate email and corporate web sites and not my 'real' work. And the local tech guy knows this and my 'other' (read non-corp) email address. I have messaged him, of course it will be a few hours before he is in the office. I just missed reading the screen on the boot loader install to get it installed on the USB drive, not the hard drive. Speaking of that, is there some way to move the grub bootloader to that USB drive so at least I don't have to rebuild that drive too? Alternatively, if you know the name of the software package doing all this, you may be able to find (if you have a spare MBR) out on the net. FWIW, I wouldnt bother any PHB's with this - they will definitely not be amused. Nor will my boss be amused. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!
Ian jonhson wrote: BTW, the patched kernel by PF_RING is version 2.6.25.3. I do not have anything that new in testing .. however we do have this, which you might try to see if it still happens: http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel-rt/ Dell might also have modules posted for this machine. These say EL5 should work: https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=227919 https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=375801 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly
Speaking of that, is there some way to move the grub bootloader to that USB drive so at least I don't have to rebuild that drive too? Why, won't dd work? dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 is the usual command But if you're booting from the USB stick, I think that sda and sdb will be swapped around, so dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Shell script - ping
hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas regards, Gopinath ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Ah sorry, you meant bootloader not MBR. You'll probably have to reinstall grub. Have you been using this guide? http://www.ubuntugeek.com/a-much-easier-way-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-usb-device-stick-or-hd.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping
Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas regards, Gopinath Do you mean something like: ping -c10 host1 ping -c10 host2 which will ping host1 10 times, then host2 10 times etc. (see `man ping` for details of the options). If you have a list of hosts in a file, you could do: for host in `cat [filename]` do ping -c10 $host done or: while read host do ping -c10 $host done [filename] If you only want to ping each host once, you can substitute '-c10' with '-c1' (again, see the man page). Hope this helps Laurence ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping
Hi, If you you want a quicker execution - you could also run the pings to separate hosts in parallel starting the jobs in background () and waiting for them with wait after that. You'll have to be more careful about the outputs in that case - e.g. redirect them to separate files. Regards, Javor On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Laurence Alexander Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas regards, Gopinath Do you mean something like: ping -c10 host1 ping -c10 host2 which will ping host1 10 times, then host2 10 times etc. (see `man ping` for details of the options). If you have a list of hosts in a file, you could do: for host in `cat [filename]` do ping -c10 $host done or: while read host do ping -c10 $host done [filename] If you only want to ping each host once, you can substitute '-c10' with '-c1' (again, see the man page). Hope this helps Laurence ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:36 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote:
Ian Blackwell wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Suggest that you make sure you are fully updated, then
'touch /.autorelabel' then reboot (reboot at a time you choose because
it may take a long time to relabel every file on your system -
especially if you have a lot of files).
Craig
What Craig implies is that your system won't be available for quite a
long time (relatively), while the relabel takes place. The boot time
with an autorelabel is very long, and you won't have access to the
server until the relabel is completed. So choose your time for the
reboot with that knowledge.
Ian
No problems there - I'm getting my selinux feet wet on a test box. Not
quite ready to risk torching a production machine.
The relabel did take some time after a reboot - portmap httpd started
ok. WHile postgrey, clamd, postfix and amavisd all started, none could
access the libs dirs they needed to process emails.
So I disabled selinux, rebooted, made sure everything worked alright -
which it did. Then enabled permissive mode rebooted it relabeled
itself this time.
After running some things, send/receive email, it still wants to deny:
type=AVC msg=audit(1216990772.410:72): avc: denied { read } for
pid=2037 comm=clamd path=/var/clamav/main.cvd dev=md0 ino=980355
scontext=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1216990777.968:73): avc: denied { read } for
pid=2037 comm=clamd name=meminfo dev=proc ino=-268435454
scontext=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1216990777.969:74): avc: denied { getattr } for
pid=2037 comm=clamd path=/proc/meminfo dev=proc ino=-268435454
scontext=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1216991822.928:113): avc: denied { signal } for
pid=2762 comm=postfix-script
scontext=root:system_r:postfix_master_t:s0
tcontext=root:system_r:initrc_t:s0 tclass=process
type=AVC msg=audit(1216992166.348:121): avc: denied { create } for
pid=2116 comm=amavisd name=p002.exe
scontext=system_u:system_r:amavis_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:amavis_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file
type=AVC msg=audit(1216992166.403:124): avc: denied { getattr } for
pid=2970 comm=arj
path=/var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080725T091655-02116/parts/p002.arj
dev=md0 ino=1005252 scontext=system_u:system_r:amavis_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:amavis_var_lib_t:s0
tclass=lnk_filetcontext=root:system_r:initrc_t:s0 tclass=process
type=AVC msg=audit(1216992166.348:121): avc: denied { create } for
pid=2116 comm=amavisd name=p002.exe
scontext=system_u:system_r:amavis_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:amavis_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file
type=AVC msg=audit(1216992166.372:123): avc: denied { unlink } for
pid=2116 comm=amavisd name=p002.exe dev=md0 ino=1005252
scontext=system_u:system_r:amavis_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:amavis_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file
type=AVC msg=audit(1216992166.403:124): avc: denied { getattr } for
pid=2970 comm=arj
path=/var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20080725T091655-02116/parts/p002.arj
dev=md0 ino=1005252 scontext=system_u:system_r:amavis_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:amavis_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file
SO - is it normal to have to update policies on basic services? Am I
missing an rpm?
those aren't basic services but are packages that are supplied by
postfix is centos, the rest are from rpmforge
repositories other than CentOS/upstream and apparently don't have all of
their files/folder labeled properly.
what do you get from command...
sealert -a /var/log/dmesg
zero alerts
or
sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log
lots of stuff from when it wasn't labeled right, so I stripped all
audit.log entries before the last DAEMON_START to a file ran sealert
on it.
found 15 alerts in new_audit_log
Summary:
SELinux is preventing clamd (clamd_t) search to ./kernel
(sysctl_kernel_t).
Detailed Description:
[SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied but was
permitted due to permissive mode.]
SELinux denied access requested by clamd. It is not expected that this
access is
required by clamd and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is
also
possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is
causing it to require additional access.
Allowing Access:
Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to
restore
the default system file context for ./kernel,
restorecon -v './kernel'
If this does not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow this
access.
Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access -
see FAQ
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can
disable
SELinux protection
RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I'm looking at setting up software RAID 10, using CentOS 5.1 x64 - what is the best way todo this? I'm reading some sources on the internet, and get a lot of different suggestions 1 suggestion says to boot up with a Live CD like Knoppix or SystemRescueCD, setup the RAID 10 partitions, and then install Linux from there. 2. Another is to setup a small RAID 1 on the first 2 HDD's, install Linux, bootup, and then setup the rest as RAID 10 The others didn't really make sense to me, so how do I actually do this? And then, how do I setup the partitioning? Do I setup /boot on a separate RAID partition? If so, what happens if I want to replace the 1st 2 HDD's with bigger ones? What's the hardware setup? I didn't really specify any, cause I want to keep it purely software. Generally it would be on a generic PIV motherboard with 4 / 6 SATA, or even mixed SATA IDE HDD's - all new, so at least 80GB per HDD I was primarily interested in the # of HDDs that can be used. If you have 6 disks, setup 2 disks as a RAID1 for the OS and the other 4 as a RAID10 for the data. If you have 4 disks all together: 1) create /boot partition as a 4 disk RAID1 across all 4 disks 2) create the remaining space as 2 separate RAID1s of type LVM 3) create a VG out of the 2 RAID1 PVs, create root, swap LVs on the VG with a stripe of 2. LVM striping over multiple RAID1 PVs provides the same performance as a native RAID10 array, plus you can add RAID1s later to increase the size/performance and dump/restore the data to stripe it across the larger set of PVs. Thanx, this seems like a fairly easy way of doing it. From what I gather, the data will fill up from the beginning of the stripe, right? So the 1st 2 HDD's will work hardest in the beginning, until there's enough data to fill the other 2 HDD's - unless of cause I split the LV's across the PV's - i.e. put root on md1 swap or var on md2 for example. Yes data fills from the start, which is the fastest location, which is better used for swap, so... 1) Create 2 4GB swap LVs on the install, swap0 and swap1, install the OS into swap1 2) After install and reboot, create a 8GB LV with interleave of 2 so it stripes the writes across the 2 MD PVs, use dump and restore to move the root data from swap1 to, call it 'root', modify the fstab and rebuild the initrds. 3) Once that's all done and you are booting off of the 8GB 'root' LV, you can do a mkswap on the swap1 LV and add it to the list of swap devices in fstab with the same priority as swap0 and pagecache will stripe the swap data between them. Then you have your 'root' LV striped, and your swap striped across the fastest portion of the disk. Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a performance boost? No, like stated create LVs for swap, swap in 2.6 kernels is very good on all types of mediums, raw disk, LVM and swap files. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:48 +0200: /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. leave /dev/sdb1 the same size as /dev/sda1 and call it /boot2 and try to remember to copy /boot to /boot2 each time you update the kernel. I understand this, but how do you boot from /boot2 on the second HDD if the 1st have failed? You don't (*). I don't understand John's advice here. There is no problem md mirroring /boot. You just need to install grub a second time on the other disk. For that you have to boot from it. (I think I also did it successfully without booting from the other disk in the past, but last time I tried it it didn't want to work like I remembered it should.) (*) Anyway, you would boot from a Rescue CD or such and rename it ... Yes, no problems, I had /boot mirrored across 4 drives (NAS box) and grub installed on each. If you use labels for /boot in fstab you don't even need to edit fstab from a rescue CD, just remove the failed first drive and boot. Can you please explain this to me? I've never used labels before, so if you could maybe show me a sample of how it's setup? Disk labels are stored in file systems superblock. For ext2/ext3 file systems you use the tune2fs and the -L option to define a label, then you can refer to it in fstab like such: LABEL=boot /boot ext3defaults1 2 The problem with labels is, say you have an external USB drive and it happens to have a label called 'boot' as well, well then it is possible the OS will mount that instead (but grub will still use the real 'boot' to boot off of as the physical disk is defined in grub), then you will wonder why you still are booting the old kernel after you have upgraded to the new one! -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server? No, why would I do that? I uninstalled nspluginwrapper and mplayerplug-in reinstalled the 64-bit Seamonkey, then reinstalled all the plugins. Everything is installed and working EXCEPT nppdf.so (the Adobe Read plugin) and Adobe's flash plugin - they're all in the right places, there are nswrappers for 32_64 and 64_64 for both of them in the plugin-wrapper directory, but they neither register nor work in the browser. I have run mozilla-plugin-config several times, and it lists both of these plugins, but they don't show up in the About Plugins and they don't work. What next? If you have VMWare Server installed, consider trying it under that, on a fresh, clean, installation, to see if it will work properly for you. Possibly the uninstalling and installing has corrupted something you are unaware of, on your bare metal installation. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote:
Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to
restore
the default system file context for ./kernel,
restorecon -v './kernel'
did you try this?
If this does not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow this
access.
Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access -
see FAQ
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can
disable
SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not
recommended.
Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi)
against this package.
Additional Information:
Source Contextsystem_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
Target Contextsystem_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t:s0
Target Objects./kernel [ dir ]
Sourceclamd
Source Path /usr/sbin/clamd
Port Unknown
Host Unknown
Source RPM Packages clamd-0.93.3-1.el5.rf
Target RPM Packages
Policy RPMselinux-policy-2.4.6-137.1.el5
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
MLS Enabled True
Enforcing ModePermissive
Plugin Name catchall_file
Host Name mail.alltechmedicalsystemsamerica.com
Platform Linux mail.alltechmedicalsystemsamerica.com
2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25
13:49:24 EDT
2008 i686 athlon
Alert Count 1
First SeenFri Jul 25 14:44:44 2008
Last Seen Fri Jul 25 14:44:44 2008
Local ID 8e3e4626-632c-4abc-b520-89c65771babf
Line Numbers 8, 9, 10
Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1217011484.818:9): avc: denied { search } for
pid=2026 comm=clamd name=kernel dev=proc ino=-268435416
scontext=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t:s0 tclass=dir
type=AVC msg=audit(1217011484.818:9): avc: denied { read } for
pid=2026 comm=clamd name=ngroups_max dev=proc ino=-268435368
scontext=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1217011484.818:9): arch=4003 syscall=5
success=yes exit=3 a0=265c24 a1=0 a2=27fff4 a3=281994 items=0 ppid=2025
pid=2026 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0
fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=clamd exe=/usr/sbin/clamd
subj=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0 key=(null)
this one is a bit beyond me unless the
restorecon -v './kernel'
works - you might want to check in on the selinux-list...
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
Craig
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Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote:
Summary:
SELinux is preventing clamd (clamd_t) read to ./daily.cld (var_t).
Detailed Description:
[SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied
but was
permitted due to permissive mode.]
SELinux denied access requested by clamd. It is not expected that
this
access is
required by clamd and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It
is
also
possible that the specific version or configuration of the application
is
causing it to require additional access.
Allowing Access:
Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try
to
restore
the default system file context for ./daily.cld,
restorecon -v './daily.cld'
If this does not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow
this
access.
Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access
-
see FAQ
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can
disable
SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not
recommended.
Please file a bug report
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi)
against this package.
Additional Information:
Source Contextsystem_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
Target Contextsystem_u:object_r:var_t:s0
Target Objects./daily.cld [ file ]
Sourceclamd
Source Path /usr/sbin/clamd
Port Unknown
Host Unknown
Source RPM Packages clamd-0.93.3-1.el5.rf
Target RPM Packages
Policy RPMselinux-policy-2.4.6-137.1.el5
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
MLS Enabled True
Enforcing ModePermissive
Plugin Name catchall_file
Host Name mail.alltechmedicalsystemsamerica.com
Platform Linux
mail.alltechmedicalsystemsamerica.com
2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 25
13:49:24 EDT
2008 i686 athlon
Alert Count 2
First SeenFri Jul 25 14:44:44 2008
Last Seen Fri Jul 25 15:38:04 2008
Local ID c0eb4a2f-6b73-4632-8f93-ca7dc67bb0f2
Line Numbers 11, 12, 102, 103
Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1217014684.863:88): avc: denied { read } for
pid=2027 comm=clamd name=daily.cld dev=md0 ino=980633
scontext=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1217014684.863:88): arch=4003 syscall=33
success=yes exit=0 a0=b156a88 a1=4 a2=3e1e20 a3=b156a88 items=0
ppid=1
pid=2027 auid=4294967295 uid=101 gid=203 euid=101 suid=101 fsuid=101
egid=203 sgid=203 fsgid=203 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=clamd
exe=/usr/sbin/clamd subj=system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0 key=(null)
you definitely want to run...
restorecon -v './var/clamav/daily.cld'
or something like...
chcon -t system_u:system_r:clamd_t:s0 /var/clamav/daily.cld
Craig
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Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008, Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas If your goal is to test connectivity, you might look at the perl Net::Ping module. ``perldoc Net::Ping'' has several examples of checking one or more systems to see if they are alive. BTW: Anybody know of a python equivalent to this? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. -- Isabel Paterson, God of the Machine ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: SO - is it normal to have to update policies on basic services? Am I missing an rpm? those aren't basic services but are packages that are supplied by postfix is centos, the rest are from rpmforge repositories other than CentOS/upstream and apparently don't have all of their files/folder labeled properly. what do you get from command... sealert -a /var/log/dmesg zero alerts or sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log lots of stuff from when it wasn't labeled right, so I stripped all audit.log entries before the last DAEMON_START to a file ran sealert on it. I just want to point out that the issue isn't with postfix but rather amavisd and how/where amavisd connects/communicates with the various parts and pieces. I'm afraid that I can't be too much help here because I use MailScanner and not amavisd but the SELinux mail list could help you work through these things (I'm presuming that amavisd hasn't worked through all of their contexts). Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu
I have never been able to get cups to work properly since CentOS 4.x (and am now on 5.2). When I try to service start cups, cupsd immediately starts taking 100% of the cpu. Attaching strace to it shows no system calls happening. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling cups to get fresh config files. My printers.conf is empty. This is on a completely updated x86_64 CentOS 5.2 desktop system running gnome. There are no local printers attached the the box. We have a couple of networked HP printers and a Canon. I have not added any of these printers to the configuration. A lot of Googling has not turned up any help. Have you seen this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks much, Dan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Shell script - ping
I really like 'fping' for use in shell scripts. See: http://www.fping.com/ and http://fping.sourceforge.net/man/ It can be 'yum installed' from the CentOS RPMforge repo. So in your script you can just do fping -c 10 dest1 dest2 ... destN I don't understand exactly what 'scripts which launches 10 pings' and 'execution of single shell scripts' means. So don't think I can help with the scripting part... On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas regards, Gopinath ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu
Hello, have you installed fresh centos 5.2 or upgraded it from previous one ? it creates a problem in some services if any one upgrading the OS from old version to new version. well according to my opinion you should uninstall cupsd with their dependencies and reinstall it. well i am also working with cups and it s work well with local and N/W printers. -- Thanks and Regards, Kapil Singh Kushwah Linux System Administrator Hotwax Media Inc. Indore,(M.P) INDIA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: preferred software RAID 10?
snip Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a performance boost? Not a performance boost, but if the drive that swap is on fails while the OS has data there the system can choke horribly or even die. Swap on raid can sometimes be slightly slower. If you think your system won't swap any critical sleeping processes, you could be safe. But who can be that sure? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Dan Halbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never been able to get cups to work properly since CentOS 4.x (and am now on 5.2). When I try to service start cups, cupsd immediately starts taking 100% of the cpu. Attaching strace to it shows no system calls happening. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling cups to get fresh config files. My printers.conf is empty. This is on a completely updated x86_64 CentOS 5.2 desktop system running gnome. There are no local printers attached the the box. We have a couple of networked HP printers and a Canon. I have not added any of these printers to the configuration. A lot of Googling has not turned up any help. Have you seen this problem? Any suggestions? Is that a problem with the 64 bit version of CUPS? There is no problem with the 32 bit version of CUPS. I have it running on my desktop, without any problems. And, it runs on GNOME without any problems. Will the 32 bit version of CUPS run on your box? cupsd (pid 2232) is running... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: preferred software RAID 10?
Scott Silva wrote: snip Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a performance boost? Not a performance boost, but if the drive that swap is on fails while the OS has data there the system can choke horribly or even die. Swap on raid can sometimes be slightly slower. If you think your system won't swap any critical sleeping processes, you could be safe. But who can be that sure? Swap on RAID should perform completely adequate these days as opposed to say the 2.4 days. Swap on RAID1 or RAID10 wouldn't have any noticeable performance degradation, swap on RAID5/6 might be slightly slower and unbearable on a degraded RAID5/6, but if swap performance is a major concern then it may be time to add some RAM. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping
Bill Campbell escribió: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008, Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas If your goal is to test connectivity, you might look at the perl Net::Ping module. ``perldoc Net::Ping'' has several examples of checking one or more systems to see if they are alive. BTW: Anybody know of a python equivalent to this? Bill Hello, I have done something before with nmap -sP target time ago. Later you can grep the response to know whether an IP address is alive or not. Hope it helps, -- Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez Consultor de seguridad informática ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: IPCop updates, Evolution Calendar rarely crashes now
on 7-26-2008 1:05 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Scott Silva ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7-24-2008 5:36 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: snip At work, you do the reboot at 3 A.M. or you have users who are furious, or you send them a message the network is going down temporarily? I usually have to do updates like that on the weekends, as I can't depend on a 3AM reboot to be up in the morning when Exec's are in. A reboot I trust, but not the first one after a kernel change. On a weekend I can drive in and see what happened if necessary and switch to a backup router. In our main office I have 2 running side by side and I can log in to the T1 router and change switch ports to swap them. Then a reboot on the router to hasten the MAC changeover. Usually 5 minutes tops. Thank you for the explanation! I wondered, if you would trust it, to come back up, if you scheduled a reboot for 3 A.M. I just had a perfect example this morning. One of the routers didn't come back up after the upgrades and remote reboot yesterday. I had to have someone at the site powercycle the equipment. Still much easier than having to drive over there myself. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Shell script - ping
Hello,
This is a running shell script for ping multiple host it provides result
directly:
if host is successfully ping then it returns Host is alive. otherwise Host
is not alive
Try this i am working with that in my local n/w.
#/bin/bash
for n in {1..5};
do
host=192.168.1.$n
ping -c2 $host /dev/null
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
printf %-30s is alive \n $host
else
printf %-30s is not alive \n $host
fi
done
Note: 1.Replace ip with your ip range
2.Replace the no. of ip according to your need.(means value of n in for
loop)
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Kapil Singh Kushwah
Linux System Administrator
Hotwax Media Inc.
Indore,(M.P) INDIA
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[CentOS] Re: Centos 5.1 NFS problems
on 7-26-2008 9:54 AM Mag Gam spake the following: Thankyou everyone. I updated the 5.2 kernel onto 5.1 and everything seems to work fine. Thanks for all of your help and wisdom. You still are at risk by not updating. The kernels are a small part of the security updates that came in 5.2. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!
I choose CentOS because I believe it is the most stable OS in commodity machines. But I don't know how to do when facing the trouble. The difference lies in that I patched a PF_RING patch in original kernel and recompiled the kernel to run my machines. I wonder whether the patched kernel crashes the CentOS because PF_RING automatically downloads the kernel codes from www.kernel.org, but not the one from www.centos.org? Or, the centOS holds the bugs in its distribution? When you use a custom kernel, you usually get to keep the pieces. Go buy a new car and change the engine and then see if they honor the warranty. We stopped using Dell machines some time ago. For some reason there reliability has been steadily falling. I don't know if they are doing non-standard stuff in their bios's or just using less than optimal hardware to cut costs, but I probably won't go back. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Hello, My hardware (?) RAID system seems to work but says duplicate PV while booting, I don't think I was reading them before. Any clues will be appreciated. From what I recall: 1) RAID 1 was setup (using firmware setup program) on a machine with Intel S3200 SHV Server Board. 2) Installed Centos 5.1, default LVM style. Anaconda saw a single 500GB disk so I assumed this was a true hardware RAID system. Am I wrong here? 3) Then wanted to reduce LogVol00 so as to make room for a new, data only filesystem on its own LV. Started by booting with rescue CD, lvscanned the disk, lvchanged -a y. Intended to resize root filesystem with resize2fs. Was asked to fsck, which I did (by the way, getting many errors). Fixed them all (fingers crossed), fsck again said ok. Then resize2fs worked happily. 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now Duplicate PV shows at boot. Honestly I don't know whether this was being displayed before (this is an inherited server). This message shows at the screen but no record of it is kept on any log file. 5) Everything seems to work well anyway. I created a new LV as I wished, just this message keeps me thinking... Should I care? Should I fix it? Is it a true RAID board? Should I be better off going software-RAID 1? lspci says 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server DRAM Controller 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 (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02) 03:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) 03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05) Thank you in advance -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, My hardware (?) RAID system seems to work but says duplicate PV while booting, I don't think I was reading them before. Any clues will be appreciated. From what I recall: 1) RAID 1 was setup (using firmware setup program) on a machine with Intel S3200 SHV Server Board. 2) Installed Centos 5.1, default LVM style. Anaconda saw a single 500GB disk so I assumed this was a true hardware RAID system. Am I wrong here? 3) Then wanted to reduce LogVol00 so as to make room for a new, data only filesystem on its own LV. Started by booting with rescue CD, lvscanned the disk, lvchanged -a y. Intended to resize root filesystem with resize2fs. Was asked to fsck, which I did (by the way, getting many errors). Fixed them all (fingers crossed), fsck again said ok. Then resize2fs worked happily. 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now Duplicate PV shows at boot. Honestly I don't know whether this was being displayed before (this is an inherited server). This message shows at the screen but no record of it is kept on any log file. 5) Everything seems to work well anyway. I created a new LV as I wished, just this message keeps me thinking... Should I care? Should I fix it? Is it a true RAID board? Should I be better off going software-RAID 1? lspci says More informative output would be: # sfdisk -d # pvs # vgs There might be a disk from an old RAID1 set in there. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now Duplicate PV shows at boot. Honestly To me it sounds likely that the raid controller is shitty and is presenting two sets of devices to the OS, one likely being the RAID device and the other a more generic device(s). What does 'dmesg' say? Do you see more devices than you think you should have on the system? As long as LVM is using the right one, I think there shouldn't be a problem. As another poster mentioned show your LVM configuration, you may want to add a filter into /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to make sure it uses the right one. I've only seen this condition myself when: 1) Using multipathing software and multiple links to the same storage (in which case I adjust lvm.conf to account for this) 2) snapshot a volume on an array and export it to the same host that had the master(in which case I decided that wasn't the best way to accomplish what I wanted). nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: I just want to point out that the issue isn't with postfix but rather amavisd and how/where amavisd connects/communicates with the various parts and pieces. I'm afraid that I can't be too much help here because I use MailScanner and not amavisd but the SELinux mail list could help you work through these things (I'm presuming that amavisd hasn't worked through all of their contexts). Sounds like my situation is not completely unexpected. Thanks for your hints - I'll follow up on them. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that a problem with the 64 bit version of CUPS? There is no problem with the 32 bit version of CUPS. I have it running on my desktop, without any problems. And, it runs on GNOME without any problems. Will the 32 bit version of CUPS run on your box? cupsd (pid 2232) is running... I have absolutely no problems with cups on my x86_64 CentOS 5.2 HTH (realizing that it may not). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu
Hey, lsof -p 2232 and show the output. --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ - Original Message - From: MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15:09 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that a problem with the 64 bit version of CUPS? There is no problem with the 32 bit version of CUPS. I have it running on my desktop, without any problems. And, it runs on GNOME without any problems. Will the 32 bit version of CUPS run on your box? cupsd (pid 2232) is running... I have absolutely no problems with cups on my x86_64 CentOS 5.2 HTH (realizing that it may not). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, My hardware (?) RAID system seems to work but says duplicate PV while booting, I don't think I was reading Could just be that lvm is finding your pv through another path - lvm.conf can be setup to only scan specific devices. There might be a disk from an old RAID1 set in there. I'll second that. I forgot to zero out one of my disks from a test raid setup the when I rebooted for the 5.2 upgrade, lvm refused to start - duplicate uuid - IIRC. 5.1 + updates didn't present the problem, so something was changed in that regard for 5.2. mdadm --examine pv device(s) will tell if there's raid metadata there, --zero-superblock will erase it. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Toby Bluhm wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, My hardware (?) RAID system seems to work but says Never mind, mdadm don't apply with HW raid. mdadm --examine pv device(s) will tell if there's raid metadata there, --zero-superblock will erase it. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Now you did it Olly
on 7-27-2008 7:14 PM D Steward spake the following: Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the hard drive. If the purpose of the encrypted bootloader was to load an encrypted filesystem/s, then there must be a spare MBR on your drive somewhere. Its not standard to have more than one MBR, but my spidey sense is tingling and telling me any half-decent software encryption software wouldnt rely on a single fragile point of failure such as an mbr which is easily overwritten by viruses and installations. Providing you are still on the net, send an email to one of your tech guys asking for either the location of the spare MBR, or if there isnt one, a new MBR to replace yours - they should have a copy of your original. Alternatively, if you know the name of the software package doing all this, you may be able to find (if you have a spare MBR) out on the net. FWIW, I wouldnt bother any PHB's with this - they will definitely not be amused. Or the installer might have created some sort of rescue disk. If the corporate IT guys installed the disk encryption, they probably have a corporate back door disk for this. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. Can someone enlighten me (us)? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
MHR wrote: Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Thanks. I was waiting for you :) BTW - my name is Toby. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Toby Bluhm wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, My hardware (?) RAID system seems to work but says Never mind, mdadm don't apply with HW raid. Ah, but it would if a hardware RAID1 mirror were broken, a new disk stuck in, then later the old disk was inserted into the enclosure and it was presented as a regular disk... Though he would need to determine if that is actually the case, verify it is actually not part of any existing RAID set, then remove it's LVM metadata. If it is just a fake RAID not abstracting the physical disks properly then he just needs to filter them out in lvm.conf. Key is to make sure it isn't the fake RAID scenario or it will have disastrous consequences. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now Duplicate PV shows at boot. Honestly To me it sounds likely that the raid controller is shitty and is presenting two sets of devices to the OS, one likely being the RAID device and the other a more generic device(s). What does 'dmesg' say? Do you see more devices than you think you should have on the system? dmesg says nothing about this, the message only appears at console when booting or otherwise using the PVs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pvs Found duplicate PV 8D7K2wg15HqD0l9HxZCz7QlDfpqJOhXT: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2 PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 465,62G0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvs Found duplicate PV 8D7K2wg15HqD0l9HxZCz7QlDfpqJOhXT: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2 LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 150,00G LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 1,94G LogVol02 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 313,69G [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# sfdisk -d # tabla de particiones de /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 208782, Id=83, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 208845, size=976543155, Id=8e /dev/sda3 : start=0, size=0, Id= 0 /dev/sda4 : start=0, size=0, Id= 0 # tabla de particiones de /dev/sdb unit: sectors /dev/sdb1 : start= 63, size= 208782, Id=83, bootable /dev/sdb2 : start= 208845, size=976543155, Id=8e /dev/sdb3 : start=0, size=0, Id= 0 /dev/sdb4 : start=0, size=0, Id= 0 Awful--I expected to see just one device :P There might be a disk from an old RAID1 set in there. Don't think so, this machine was integrated here with new materials. Oops... system-config-lvm shows under 'Uninitialized entities': /dev/sda - part 1 - part 2 - unpartitioned space /dev/sdb - part 1 - unpartitioned space These shouldn't be appearing as two discs in the first place-- but anaconda said I only had one unit... Anyway, why the asymmetry? Did I screw the RAID volume somehow? Or did I install plain on sda and this RAID never worked as such? :P The machine BIOS correctly describes the RAID volume at start. Doesn't It smell like fake RAID? Should I declare sdb invalid to the firmware program so as to force resync? Thanks again -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?
Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200: For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager agents. I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- hour searching on the site I finally found an hpasm package that seems to be it. They make it really hard to find it as it doesn't appear when searching for drivers and software for the server. Unfortunately, that didn't change anything. hpasmd is running, but hpasmcli just hangs when I try it out. There was an hp-OpenIPMI packaged mentioned, I'll search for that - tomorrow. Thanks for the hint, anyway. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7
on 7-27-2008 10:19 PM Ian jonhson spake the following: Hi all, The PF_RING seems not to work smoothly in CentOS 5. Several day before, I patched the kernel 2.6.25.3 and installed the PF_RING-patched kernel in my CentOS5. Based on the PF_RING, I developed my program to capture the network packages. I wished it can work until the machine power is off. Unforturnately, no matter how to adjust my program, whole system can not run more than 48 hours. Finally, whole system crashed and syslogd said it found the following kernel output. PF_RING seems to be used for the newest version of ntop for faster packet capture and analysis. Is that what you are trying to accomplish? Or did I just get a bad google? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:30AM -0700, MHR wrote: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. On a Dell, dmidecode will give you the serial number of the system. (I can see motherboard, chasis, memory sticks on my machine). Doubt if you can get the serial number of the DVD burner. -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Toby Bluhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was waiting for you :) I knew it! Furses! Coiled again! BTW - my name is Toby. Then I wasn't talking to you! Either that, or it was a typo - the n and the b are right next to each other on my keyboard, and I do that a lpt. ;^) (Sorry about that!) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response Toby On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: snip Oops... system-config-lvm shows under 'Uninitialized entities': /dev/sda - part 1 - part 2 - unpartitioned space /dev/sdb - part 1 - unpartitioned space These shouldn't be appearing as two discs in the first place-- but anaconda said I only had one unit... Anyway, why the asymmetry? Did I screw the RAID volume somehow? Or did I install plain on sda and this RAID never worked as such? :P The machine BIOS correctly describes the RAID volume at start. Doesn't It smell like fake RAID? Should I declare sdb invalid to the firmware program so as to force resync? Thanks again If it were me I was just starting out on a new setup, I'd blow it all away and start from scratch. I hate that nagging feeling something's gonna bite me later down the road. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: IPCop updates, Evolution Calendar rarely crashes now
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I usually have to do updates like that on the weekends, as I can't depend on a 3AM reboot to be up in the morning when Exec's are in. A reboot I trust, but not the first one after a kernel change. On a weekend I can drive in and see what happened if necessary and switch to a backup router. In our main office I have 2 running side by side and I can log in to the T1 router and change switch ports to swap them. Then a reboot on the router to hasten the MAC changeover. Usually 5 minutes tops. Thank you for the explanation! I wondered, if you would trust it, to come back up, if you scheduled a reboot for 3 A.M. I just had a perfect example this morning. One of the routers didn't come back up after the upgrades and remote reboot yesterday. I had to have someone at the site powercycle the equipment. Still much easier than having to drive over there myself. Good that you are very conservative and do not leave the executives without Internet access! :-) I updated our backup IPCop box yesterday. Our IPCop box and our ADSL modem are choke points. The ADSL modem is the only thing we have that we don't have a backup for. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- hour searching on the site I finally found an hpasm package that seems to be it. They make it really hard to find it as it doesn't appear when searching for drivers and software for the server. Unfortunately, that didn't change anything. hpasmd is running, but hpasmcli just hangs when I try it out. There was an hp-OpenIPMI packaged mentioned, I'll search for that - tomorrow. Thanks for the hint, anyway. I'm just guessing here, but it seems like hpasm is just there to make you feel good on their machines, especially if they make it hard for you to find it. Or maybe it makes the machine feel good SCNR mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Toby Bluhm [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response Toby Ouch! Excuse me plz If it were me I was just starting out on a new setup, I'd blow it all away and start from scratch. I hate that nagging feeling something's gonna bite me later down the road. Agreed, I just expected to get a bit more knowledge from this crappy situation Cheers -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a Dell, dmidecode will give you the serial number of the system. (I can see motherboard, chasis, memory sticks on my machine). I did that. The only item of real interest (i.e., surprise) was that the CPU was listed as a Sempron-class CPU, which I found rather odd for an AMD 64x2 (which it also correctly identified). Doubt if you can get the serial number of the DVD burner. Didn't see it there Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] fetchmail from a server and delete spam messages
Hi i have an old account on a pop3 server... i don't use for a long time...but i want to receive the emails from there sometimes... but i have a problem...this email has a lot of spam emails... I wish to know if there's a way to check all the emails and those emails that match at spamhaus or spamcop will be deleted... Anyone know f this can be done? Thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200: For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager agents. I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- hour searching on the site I finally found an hpasm package that seems to be it. They make it really hard to find it as it doesn't appear when searching for drivers and software for the server. Unfortunately, that didn't change anything. hpasmd is running, but hpasmcli just hangs when I try it out. There was an hp-OpenIPMI packaged mentioned, I'll search for that - tomorrow. Thanks for the hint, anyway. IMHO, the HP Support site is *very* difficult to navigate, if one is not there frequently; in comparison to the Dell Support site. Once you get to the right place, they probably have what you need. I won a Compaq Evo D300v some years ago in a raffle. The BIOS in it seems far advanced, compared to our 4 Dell Dimension boxes, because it is for Enterprise use. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
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Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700
MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one
of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message
mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there
was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the
system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of
subjects was unrevealing.
Can someone enlighten me (us)?
Thanks.
mhr
You can try hdparm -i /dev/yourdevice
You may need to run this as root. There is a field for Serial
Number, but for my devices no serial number is provided. This may
not help you, but it could work.
Output from my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 011, FwRev=E1.14,
SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR=5Mbs DTR10Mbs
nonMagnetic }.other info is there but is not relevant.
HTH
Alex White
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Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. Can someone enlighten me (us)? PITA. You will probably need to open the box and look at the label on the drive. The Maxtor software I use to check our hard drives tells what the SN is, among other things. Now, the company should be open. Possibly send their Tech Support an email and ask if there is a way for you to get the SN, without opening the box. Two of our Dell Dimension boxes are very easy to open, if the plastic doesn't bend, but in our 3 other boxes, this would be a PITA. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. Can someone enlighten me (us)? Follow on: When I had a problem with the Teac CD-RW drive in my daughters box, I sent an email to Teac Tech Support, asking if they had Diagnostics for it. The reply was that they had no Diagnostics. I put it into the trash and I will not buy any more Teac drives, because they have no Diagnostics. If the company has Diagnostics for your DVD burner, that will probably be able to show you the SN. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
MHR wrote:
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my
DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should
have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that
from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't
remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing.
Can someone enlighten me (us)?
libsmbios is good getting Dell service tag serial number of system.
hal-device is good getting specific device information:
23: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_HL_DT_ST_GCR_8240N'
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths = { 'hal-storage-eject',
'hal-storage-closetray' } (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames = { 'extra_options',
'extra_options' } (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures = { 'as', 'as' } (string
list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names = { 'Eject', 'CloseTray' }
(string list)
info.interfaces = { 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage',
'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage' } (string list)
info.addons = { 'hald-addon-storage' } (string list)
block.storage_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_HL_DT_ST_GCR_8240N' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_HL_DT_ST_GCR_8240N'
(string)
storage.cdrom.write_speeds = { } (string list)
storage.cdrom.write_speed = 0 (0x0) (int)
storage.cdrom.read_speed = 4224 (0x1080) (int)
storage.cdrom.support_media_changed = true (bool)
storage.cdrom.hddvdrw = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.hddvd = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.bdre = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.bdr = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.bd = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrdl = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrwdl = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrw = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdplusr = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdram = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdrw = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvdr = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.dvd = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.cdrw = false (bool)
storage.cdrom.cdr = false (bool)
storage.requires_eject = true (bool)
storage.hotpluggable = false (bool)
info.capabilities = { 'storage', 'block', 'storage.cdrom' } (string list)
info.category = 'storage' (string)
info.product = 'HL-DT-ST GCR-8240N' (string)
storage.size = 0 (0x0) (uint64)
storage.removable = true (bool)
storage.removable.media_available = false (bool)
storage.physical_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27df_ide_0_0' (string)
storage.firmware_version = '1.10' (string)
storage.vendor = '' (string)
storage.model = 'HL-DT-ST GCR-8240N' (string)
storage.drive_type = 'cdrom' (string)
storage.automount_enabled_hint = true (bool)
storage.media_check_enabled = true (bool)
storage.no_partitions_hint = true (bool)
storage.bus = 'ide' (string)
block.is_volume = false (bool)
block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int)
block.major = 3 (0x3) (int)
block.device = '/dev/hda' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_27df_ide_0_0' (string)
linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/hda' (string)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/hda' (string)
-Ross
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Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
Lanny Marcus wrote: Follow on: When I had a problem with the Teac CD-RW drive in my daughters box, I sent an email to Teac Tech Support, asking if they had Diagnostics for it. ... DVD burners, at $39 or so new, are pretty much disposable. i find most burners are good for a few 100 disks then become less reliable. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700
MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one
of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message
mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there
was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the
system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of
subjects was unrevealing.
Can someone enlighten me (us)?
Thanks.
mhr
You can try hdparm -i /dev/yourdevice
You may need to run this as root. There is a field for Serial
Number, but for my devices no serial number is provided. This may
not help you, but it could work.
Output from my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 011, FwRev=E1.14,
SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR=5Mbs DTR10Mbs
nonMagnetic }.other info is there but is not relevant.
Mark: Try that! On my Desktop, it gives me the SN for the HD (hda),
but the space for
SN is blank, for hdc (DVD reader) and hdd (CD-RW). . If you are lucky,
on your box, it will give you the SN for the DVD
burner. Lanny
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Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MHR wrote: Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Maybe that would have broken the list limit ... 53k * several thousand mails ... Seems like it already would have if it could. Okay, post on a web page somewhere Picky, picky, picky, I just don't know, never satisfied, yada, yada, yada ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PITA. You will probably need to open the box and look at the label on the drive. I'll have to do that anyway - they said it was probably defective and I should send it back for an exchange. Foo. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:09 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: Follow on: When I had a problem with the Teac CD-RW drive in my daughters box, I sent an email to Teac Tech Support, asking if they had Diagnostics for it. ... DVD burners, at $39 or so new, are pretty much disposable. i find most burners are good for a few 100 disks then become less reliable. We live in South America, so things cost more down here and probably the model I would specify, if I were in the USA, can't be found here. . I have had better luck with burners made by other companies. We have a Sony CD-RW drive, in an old box and it is still running. Someone on the list told me months ago he doesn't order Teac drives and I think he said he'd had good luck with LG drives. I bought an LG DVD burner for my wife's box. No more Teac stuff for me. Sony had Diagnostics for the CD-RW drive and it checked out OK. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:09 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVD burners, at $39 or so new, are pretty much disposable. i find most burners are good for a few 100 disks then become less reliable. True, but it's still a PITA to install and remove them, and external drives cost more (yeah, I'm /that/ cheap :-). mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Toby Bluhm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response Toby Ouch! Excuse me plz If it were me I was just starting out on a new setup, I'd blow it all away and start from scratch. I hate that nagging feeling something's gonna bite me later down the road. Agreed, I just expected to get a bit more knowledge from this crappy situation Re-install with software RAID1. RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded! -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] selinux httpd portmap
Ralph Angenendt wrote: MHR wrote: Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Maybe that would have broken the list limit ... Not sure of your meaning - by being 53k or being a 53k attachment? 53k * several thousand mails ... I did check my trashbin for Centos messages sorted by size 53k was no where near the worst offenders - not trying to make an excuse, just showing my thought process - seemed like I would be okay. And it was data, not just the same sig repeated 50 times or a big bitmap. Is there a recommended limit on email size posted somewhere? Perhaps the membership join/reminder could have etiquette/rules included? Awaiting my penance . . . . -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240 ext203 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: selinux httpd portmap
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Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?
/dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it with hdparm. Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it impossible to smart monitor thru a RAID controller? You probably will want to install the HP Proliant Support Pack as it will include the hpasm command line tools as well as a handy HP System Management home page. You can set it up to send you email alerts or send snmp traps to a central server running the HP SIM software any time one of your hard drives fails. We use HP SIM in production to monitor both our Dell and HP servers, and it works great. I get an alert any time a RAID card or hard drive has issues. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] script
Mad Unix wrote: I suggest make it a little bit lighter: inline corrections: #!/bin/sh # Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space # It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free avilable) percentage # of space is = 90% # - # Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project http://cyberciti.biz/fb/ # This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above # - # This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC) # Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information. # -- # Linux shell script to watch disk space (should work on other UNIX oses ) # SEE URL: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-script-to-watch-the-disk-space.html # set admin email so that you can get email ADMIN=[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # set alert level 90% is default ALERT=90 df -HP | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | while read partition size used free perc mnt ; do usep=$(echo $perc | tr -d '%' ) if [ $usep -ge $ALERT ]; then echo Running out of space \$partition ($usep%)\ on $(hostname) as on $(date) | mail -s Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep $ADMIN fi done it works for me. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
snip - unpartitioned space These shouldn't be appearing as two discs in the first place-- but anaconda said I only had one unit... Anyway, why the asymmetry? Did I screw the RAID volume somehow? Or did I install plain on sda and this RAID never worked as such? :P The machine BIOS correctly describes the RAID volume at start. Doesn't It smell like fake RAID? Should I declare sdb invalid to the firmware program so as to force resync? Thanks again -- It sure looks as if it was originally a mirrored set, but broke later, maybe a kernel update no longer supports that fakeraid controller. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
on 7-28-2008 12:10 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700
MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one
of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message
mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there
was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the
system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of
subjects was unrevealing.
Can someone enlighten me (us)?
Thanks.
mhr
You can try hdparm -i /dev/yourdevice
You may need to run this as root. There is a field for Serial
Number, but for my devices no serial number is provided. This may
not help you, but it could work.
Output from my system:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 011, FwRev=E1.14,
SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR=5Mbs DTR10Mbs
nonMagnetic }.other info is there but is not relevant.
Mark: Try that! On my Desktop, it gives me the SN for the HD (hda),
but the space for
SN is blank, for hdc (DVD reader) and hdd (CD-RW). . If you are lucky,
on your box, it will give you the SN for the DVD
burner. Lanny
I don't think most optical drive manufacturers embed serial numbers in their
drives. Hard drives are different, as their testing process lets them change
something like a serial number, but an optical drive would require a custom
firmware to be created and then loaded to the drive. That would slow the process.
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[CentOS] sys-unconfig
Does sys-unconfig work as advertised in 4.x? Meaning that if I have a fully configured box on my internal net and run sys-unconfig, will I be able to power up the node on a totally different network and have things work providing I answer the questions properly. Most typically this will mean taking a box that is using NIS in DNS domain A, NIS domain B, and static IP addr and move it to DNS domain C, NIS domain D, and dynamic IP. I can't remember the details now, but something didn't work right in 3.x -Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Re-install with software RAID1. RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded! I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arrays? Does software RAID give you this? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu
Thanks to all for the suggestions. I did do lsof on the process and saw nothing interesting (just libraries). Attaching gdb to the process showed that it appeared to be looping inside getservbyname(). However, after a little more thought, I rm -rfd /var/spool/cups/ (which had some stuff from 2007) and restarted. No more looping! Now I can configure my printers. We'll see whether it keeps working. Dan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
D Steward wrote: Re-install with software RAID1. RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded! I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arrays? Does software RAID give you this? Hot swap, yes, if the hardware supports hot swap, auto rebuild, yes, if you defined a hot spare beforehand, otherwise you have to add the replacement to the array with the --add option. That is how the hardware controllers do it. They don't auto assume that a new drive inserted is a spare for the one removed, but if you defined a hot spare then they will auto-rebuild off that just like software RAID will. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?
Following up, info below. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line, 127.0.0.1 localhost? Nope. It's there by default in some form or another. By default, it usually looks like this - 127.0.0.1 installname localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 If you don't have anything like this in your /etc/hosts, you either need to find a mirror and begin yelling at responsible parties, or stalk whomever else has root on this particular machine. I guess I could yell at myself as I'm doing kickstart installs from a local mirror. I found the same thing on two CentOS 5.1 installs here, one on a VMware VM, the other on real iron. The wierd thing is that the base VMware VM I have that I copy to create new VMs looks OK. Now I'm going to have to poke around to see what's causing this line to be deleted. Bill I had a similar problem using OpenVZ images, installed from kickstart - almost like it's leaving some stuff out by default. So I ended up creating the file manually and adding it to the kickstart file to be copied over. The file was OK after the kickstart install, and after a ``yum update''. We install about 240 packages under the OpenPKG portable package management system which may have caused this, but I have not seen this problem prior to CentOS 5.2. I did not check to see the status of the /etc/hosts file after configuring the network with system-config-network, and before installing OpenPKG and its packages. I may create a new VM, and run through the network configuration etc. to see where this is happening (VMware snapshots and revert sure simplify things like this :-). I just did a fresh kickstart install of CentOS 5.2 as a VMware virtual machine, and the 127.0.0.1 localhost line is missing after doing ``yum update'' when I run ``system-config-network'' to assign a static IP address to the new VM. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny ... In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. -- William Ellery Channing ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
on 7-28-2008 2:30 PM D Steward spake the following: Re-install with software RAID1. RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded! I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arrays? Does software RAID give you this? Maybe not hot-swap yet -- I think it is in the works, but you can have hot-spares that function very well. But fakeraid doesn't do most of that either, and an ICH9 controller is fakeraid. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?
Scott Silva wrote: on 7-28-2008 2:30 PM D Steward spake the following: Re-install with software RAID1. RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded! I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arrays? Does software RAID give you this? Maybe not hot-swap yet -- I think it is in the works, but you can have hot-spares that function very well. But fakeraid doesn't do most of that either, and an ICH9 controller is fakeraid. Scott, I've tested hot swap and it works if the hardware says it can hot swap. I don't know about unplugging a SATA cable while it's running and sticking in another, but you can try it on a desktop system, I don't see why it wouldn't work. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?
Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700: Or maybe it makes the machine feel good Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down the daemon (with all of its agents) the core temperatures in sensors dropped within a few seconds by 4 degrees. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?
Am 29.07.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700: Or maybe it makes the machine feel good Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down the daemon (with all of its agents) the core temperatures in sensors dropped within a few seconds by 4 degrees. It's know for consuming some CPU. But taking a quick look on the support site (HP.com - Support/Drivers- Servers-Proliant-DL140G3), I see that they consider your DL140 a bit too small to support with all tools. Normally, something like the HP Array Diagnostics utility would do the job, but alas: HP ProLiant 100-series customers: Because the HP System Management Homepage software is not supported for use with HP ProLiant 100-series servers, the Array Diagnostics Utility for Linux cannot be installed. Rainer___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm
Hey everyone, This is the first time I've ever used a mailing-list so bear with me :-) I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, and Apache (among other things). I noticed that PHP version is 5.1.6, the MYSQL is 5.0.45, and Apache is 2.2.3 I ran yum to update, thinking it would update them to 5.2.6, 5.0.51a-community, 2.2.9 respectively: # yum makecache # yum update Of course after some time, I realize that the CentOS 5 repos only have those versions as the latest rpms in the list. So my question is, how do I change my yum configuration to install the latest and greatest versions of rpms installed via yum? Best Regards, Justin Bull http://www.c3studios.ca/pubkey.asc (PGP Public Key) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, This is the first time I've ever used a mailing-list so bear with me :-) I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, and Apache (among other things). I noticed that PHP version is 5.1.6, the MYSQL is 5.0.45, and Apache is 2.2.3 I ran yum to update, thinking it would update them to 5.2.6, 5.0.51a-community, 2.2.9 respectively: # yum makecache # yum update Of course after some time, I realize that the CentOS 5 repos only have those versions as the latest rpms in the list. So my question is, how do I change my yum configuration to install the latest and greatest versions of rpms installed via yum? Welcome to CentOS. You might want to start by reading: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/?sc_cid=3093 Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm
on 7-28-2008 4:16 PM Justin spake the following: Hey everyone, This is the first time I've ever used a mailing-list so bear with me :-) I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, and Apache (among other things). I noticed that PHP version is 5.1.6, the MYSQL is 5.0.45, and Apache is 2.2.3 I ran yum to update, thinking it would update them to 5.2.6, 5.0.51a-community, 2.2.9 respectively: # yum makecache # yum update Of course after some time, I realize that the CentOS 5 repos only have those versions as the latest rpms in the list. So my question is, how do I change my yum configuration to install the latest and greatest versions of rpms installed via yum? Best Regards, Justin Bull http://www.c3studios.ca/pubkey.asc (PGP Public Key) CentOS will never have the latest and greatest of anything. That is not how Enterprise Linux distributions work. They are designed to be stable and unchanging over their lifespan of half a decade or more. If you want the latest and greatest, along with whatever new issues and problems they might have, CentOS is not for you. Now if you want somewhat newer, you can look at the CentOSplus repo. It can have newer packages. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed
Is this the standard behavior? Is there a way to only update the packages I installed without deselecting the ones I don't want? Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
dmidecode should work in any Linux: man dmidecode DMIDECODE(8) DMIDECODE(8) NAME dmidecode - DMI table decoder SYNOPSIS dmidecode [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This ta‐ ble contains a description of the system's hardware compo‐ nents, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware. While this is a good point in terms of report speed and safeness, this also makes the presented information possibly unreliable. ^^^ sometimes truth is stranger than fiction -bad religion- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist ^^^ I don't think the computers will take over the world. I have a bucket of water. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:30AM -0700, MHR wrote: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. On a Dell, dmidecode will give you the serial number of the system. (I can see motherboard, chasis, memory sticks on my machine). Doubt if you can get the serial number of the DVD burner. -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Mark Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the standard behavior? Is there a way to only update the packages I installed without deselecting the ones I don't want? That depends on what you are updating and what you want. Could you be a little (no, a lot) more specific? What are you doing (exactly) and what is not working the way you think it should? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
2008/7/28 thad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dmidecode should work in any Linux: As was discussed earlier in this thread, dmidecode mainly reports on motherboard components and does not address peripheral devices. Also, please do not top post. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Brent L. Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to check out Scientific Linux: https://www.scientificlinux.org/ They include a number of things that CentOS doesn't, like `R'. I don't know if or how many of the other items you are looking for are on their site. Just check them out for yourself. They seem to try to be more up to date on some things than CentOS. I hope this helps some. I tried Scientific Linux and found I had to re-build the same things that I rebuild for CentOS, including R, because their versions lagged behind the cutting edge. I switched to Centos hoping that the larger user community would generate more contributions of updated packages for other things, like gnumeric or such. So far, that's not panning out, but I still have hope. I am trying to find my way into the rpmforge rpmrepo or rpmfusion or whatever it will be called. You can compare the stuff I had to build with it http://pj.freefaculty.org/ScientificLinux/5/i386/kups/packages/ and it is basically the same stuff I had to build for Centos: http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/i386/kups/packages/ For Scientific Linux, I even had to build Firefox, which required rebuilding yelp. Maybe people will find this thread and suggest I try the Debian off-shoots, like Ubuntu or Mint. I've been doing that too. I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop and it is closer to what I need than Fedora or CentOS. It has a slower-changing kernel than Fedora, but more up-to-date applications than Centos. However,I am not installing it in our labs or on public machines because I find it harder to secure. On a workstation that I use personally, it is OK. For someone making the switch from Windows to Linux, Ubuntu may be the preferred option. But in a lab or on a widespread basis, there are some things that hold me back. 1. The basic install of Ubuntu is less security conscious. There's no firewall in the default installation. (That is justified on the grounds that no public services are offered in the default configuration. The default iptables framework allows everything. However, users can easily install services, without realizing that there is no firewall.) It doesn't (by default) secure the bootloader with a password. I noticed that default users have more privilidges in Ubuntu than Fedora (they can use fuse file system). Without having a comprehensive knowledge of Ubuntu, I'm not sure how many other gotchas are waiting. Maybe I've not found the CentOS gotchas yet. 2. It includes too many invitations to ordinary users to add/remove packages. If somebody tries to run something that is not installed, the shell replies you can install that if you type sudo apt-get install xyz. They can't do that, they don't have privileges. The Applications menu has an add/remove package program. I don't want users to be asked to do things for which they don't have privileges. The whole design of the package manager is to not be automatic, but ask for constant user intervention. Not good with many machines. 3. I do not have as much faith in the deb packaging process. For me, this the biggest reason I'm hanging around in the RPM distributions. I learned RPM building from the classic Maximum RPM, which is emphatic about keeping the 'pristine source code.' If you have never built a Debian package, you will will be in for a surprise. You can't even build a Deb package unless you manually untar the source code and create a directory inside it. My experience is that it is much harder to rebuild a debian package than it is to rebuild an SRPM. Most of the time, if you find an SRPM and you want to build it on your system, it is as simple as rpmbuild --rebuild whatever.src.rpm. I can't find anything comparable to that for Debian. It is always necessary to open up the source package. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
howdy, did you tried lshw? Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ - Original Message - From: MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Terça-feira, 29 de Julho de 2008 01H33m GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s) 2008/7/28 thad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dmidecode should work in any Linux: As was discussed earlier in this thread, dmidecode mainly reports on motherboard components and does not address peripheral devices. Also, please do not top post. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Scientific Linux and found I had to re-build the same things that I rebuild for CentOS, including R, because their versions lagged behind the cutting edge. I switched to Centos hoping that the larger user community would generate more contributions of updated packages for other things, like gnumeric or such. CentOS is strictly a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and yes, it lags quite a ways behind the bleeding edge, but that's what stable distributions do. For more cutting edge, there's Fedora; bleeding edge is more like Ubuntu or Gentoo, but AFAIK that's pretty much it. Most of the other distributions lag behind a little or a lot, depending on which one you choose. Now if you want truly bleeding edge software for your computer, and you don't mind massive numbers of security holes and other bugs, there's always Window$! ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
Eduardo Silvestre wrote: howdy, did you tried lshw? have you? this package, available in rpmforge, shows considerably less than hal-device did, albeit in a somewhat cleaner output format... .. neither hal-device or lshw showed the serial of the optical devices on the 3 different random servers I tried them on. lshw doesn't even show the serial on SCSI hard disk drives, which is available from several sources on the same machine. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:39 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Scientific Linux and found I had to re-build the same things that I rebuild for CentOS, including R, because their versions lagged behind the cutting edge. I switched to Centos hoping that the larger user community would generate more contributions of updated packages for other things, like gnumeric or such. CentOS is strictly a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and yes, it lags quite a ways behind the bleeding edge, but that's what stable distributions do. Right. We know that. As I said in the original post, I'm looking to have a distribution that is conservative on the kernel, disk support, network drivers, suspend features for laptops, and all of the basic things like that. I do not want the Fedora experience of having a palm device work in Fedora 6, but not in Fedora 7 and 8, only to spend 20 hours reading through debugger output and advice in bugzilla about what's gone wrong with some kernel module or driver. I do not want to play the game anymore of does my wireless still work? on a weekly basis. I don't want to waste my user time trying to find out what's wrong in HAL or the the acpi subsystem. I don't want the desktop to change gratuitously. For me, there's been no user-perceptible improvement in Gnome for about 4 years. As long as it supplies a program menu and a file manager, that's enough. I do want up-to-date applications that people here actually use, like LaTeX, Emacs, R, Gnumeric, and the other ones I can provide. If I can't get those from EPEL or rpmforge or wherever, I'm willing to build those packages. I'm offering to share that back to you, but if you don't need it, that's fine. pj For more cutting edge, there's Fedora; bleeding edge is more like Ubuntu or Gentoo, but AFAIK that's pretty much it. Most of the other distributions lag behind a little or a lot, depending on which one you choose. Now if you want truly bleeding edge software for your computer, and you don't mind massive numbers of security holes and other bugs, there's always Window$! ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed
Here's what I'm doing. In the gui environment, gnome, there's a box in the upper right corner that reports about updates available every once in a while. I click on it and I get something called Package Updater that lists the packages that can be updated according to the server, I believe yum, it's querying. I'm not sure exactly what the Application name is, but that's what the title bar says. Sorry, I'm not an expert on gnome, so I'm having trouble tracking down what the actual app is. My guess is that it's Yumex or some close relative. When I get the list of packages to be updated, there are things that I don't recognize having installed. For instance a package called metacity, which apparently is a window manager. I understand there could be dependencies that need to be installed, but that is usually dealt with after yum downloads and queries the actual packages isn't it? Is the main Package Updater designed to just give you the packages you installed or does it give you everything that's available from the server it's talking to? Thanks. MHR wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Mark Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the standard behavior? Is there a way to only update the packages I installed without deselecting the ones I don't want? That depends on what you are updating and what you want. Could you be a little (no, a lot) more specific? What are you doing (exactly) and what is not working the way you think it should? mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, and Apache (among other things). I noticed that PHP version is 5.1.6, the MYSQL is 5.0.45, and Apache is 2.2.3 If you do some research, you will find that Hostik helped you, by installing this great (IMHO) distribution on your server. What you will get from CentOS, among other things, are: security, stability, a very long life and super support from many of the highly experienced people on this mailing list. So my question is, how do I change my yum configuration to install the latest and greatest versions of rpms installed via yum? As Scott wrote, you will rarely get the latest and greatest versions on this or any other Enterprise distro. And, you probably should not have them, on a server. Welcome to CentOS and to Enterprise Linux and good luck with your new dedicated box. Do some reading, on the CentOS Wiki and Download the Manuals from the CentOS web site and you can begin learning how to secure your server. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k on a number of subjects was unrevealing. Can someone enlighten me (us)? snip Mark: Try that! On my Desktop, it gives me the SN for the HD (hda), but the space for SN is blank, for hdc (DVD reader) and hdd (CD-RW). . If you are lucky, on your box, it will give you the SN for the DVD burner. Lanny I don't think most optical drive manufacturers embed serial numbers in their drives. Hard drives are different, as their testing process lets them change something like a serial number, but an optical drive would require a custom firmware to be created and then loaded to the drive. That would slow the process. That probably explains why when I tried it, there were no serial numbers for my opticlal drives. I always see an SN for a HD, when running diagnostics on them. Sounds like Mark is going to need to pull the bad DVD burner anyway, so when he does, he can read the SN on the label and get an RMA for it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Mark Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I'm doing. In the gui environment, gnome, there's a box in the upper right corner that reports about updates available every once in a while. I click on it and I get something called Package Updater that lists the packages that can be updated according to the server, I believe yum, it's querying. I'm not sure exactly what the Application name is, but that's what the title bar says. Sorry, I'm not an expert on gnome, so I'm having trouble tracking down what the actual app is. My guess is that it's Yumex or some close relative. When I get the list of packages to be updated, there are things that I don't recognize having installed. For instance a package called metacity, which apparently is a window manager. I understand there could be dependencies that need to be installed, but that is usually dealt with after yum downloads and queries the actual packages isn't it? Is the main Package Updater designed to just give you the packages you installed or does it give you everything that's available from the server it's talking to? I use that. It's called PUP and it is a front end to YUM. Today it had one (1) update available for my CentOS 5.2 Desktop. I use GNOME almost exclusively, but I also have KDE installed. I believe it only offers you the updates that are available for stuff you have installed on your box. There are many packages on your box (and mine!) that we do not recognize, but, they are installed. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
