Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option
Karanbir Singh wrote: Could we have something like this for people who dont have edit rights : - people can make an 'edit' - but the edit is handled either as a patch emailed to the page maintainer / edit group / editorial group / this list ? but not displayed till its 'accepted / approved ' I still would like to open up the wiki even more - especially as what we all already have talked about would not require writing macros for Moin, but would require editors to at least say yes to the license. I want to have a new version of the software on the wiki beforehand, though. And some place to test changes to the login process. Ralph pgpRGRRuy3am1.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option
Ralph Angenendt wrote: I still would like to open up the wiki even more - especially as what we all already have talked about would not require writing macros for Moin, but would require editors to at least say yes to the license. Sounds good - I guess the original plan is still worth sticking with, and lowers the bar all around. And if we can get comments going as well - that would be fantastic! I want to have a new version of the software on the wiki beforehand, though. And some place to test changes to the login process. We should have both of these things as doable right now, or as soon as time permits! - KB ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option
Ralph Angenendt wrote: I still have a small problem with the comment plugin I have found quite some time ago - you can only have one comment box per page. Second problem is that it is open to everyone (well, you need a login, but no Edit Access), so we need many people having an eye on comments to weed out spammers. Considering most of the content here is from static files, I wonder how much work it would be to plugin some other comment system and have the content included in the page itself. I'm happy to hack together something like this with you if you fancy it? - KB ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option
Good Evening, Ralph Angenendt wrote: I still have a small problem with the comment plugin I have found quite some time ago - you can only have one comment box per page. Second problem is that it is open to everyone (well, you need a login, but no Edit Access), so we need many people having an eye on comments to weed out spammers. Considering most of the content here is from static files, I wonder how much work it would be to plugin some other comment system and have the content included in the page itself. I'm happy to hack together something like this with you if you fancy it? Comments may be an opportunity, but I think not the best. At least in wikipedia, comments are sometimes used to post suggestions (or spam), but often ignored by the original author. I would prefer to have a direct link on each page to the original author and the last editor (besides the page history) to get in contact with him/her. Also the revision number would make sense for translations, as mentioned some time ago. On top of my personal list is LDAP integration, as we want to push website v2 a bit. But I guess the groundwork has already been done by Ralph for Moin ;) Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: Good Evening, Ralph Angenendt wrote: I still have a small problem with the comment plugin I have found quite some time ago - you can only have one comment box per page. Second problem is that it is open to everyone (well, you need a login, but no Edit Access), so we need many people having an eye on comments to weed out spammers. Considering most of the content here is from static files, I wonder how much work it would be to plugin some other comment system and have the content included in the page itself. I'm happy to hack together something like this with you if you fancy it? Comments may be an opportunity, but I think not the best. At least in wikipedia, comments are sometimes used to post suggestions (or spam), but often ignored by the original author. I would prefer to have a direct link on each page to the original author and the last editor (besides the page history) to get in contact with him/her. Also the revision number would make sense for translations, as mentioned some time ago. I think having comments is better than a link to the original and last author mostly because sometimes people want to report some small improvement, but if the overhead of doing the report is too big (opening an email application, copying the address, entering a subject, write the comment) than we may loose out on the feedback. Also a comment system can be moderated by a group of people, while private email/messages may get lost. For those reasons I like a comment system more (eg. I always loved the comments in the PHP annotated manual which was the first such comment system I had seen for documentation). We just have to make sure that comments are in some way moderated. Or only visible to people that are logged on, or something like that. We should avoid at all cost that a spam message becomes available to non-authenticated users even for a short period (because it would be a motivation to spam). -- -- dag wieers, d...@centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] proposed changes option
Dag Wieers wrote: We just have to make sure that comments are in some way moderated. Or only visible to people that are logged on, or something like that. The Editorial Group setup becomes crucial for this. But if it can be done - would be really nice. Specially for things like the Release Notes for 5.3 - there is so much potential to harvest in massive amounts of knowledge from the users, it would be so nice if they could directly post feedback. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:0407 CentOS 5 x86_64 pidgin Update
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:0407
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0407.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
x86_64:
59624fd343efdab53b97fee0f519c84b finch-2.5.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
ce2d1d2113b1288aef59b56dcdfdb335 finch-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
d3b5e119395ec5262983bc19fea233d7 finch-devel-2.5.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
181fd288301d8adc9b2799a2a7cecd61 finch-devel-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
a72e7e1f21409e86ea3d06a216204f61 libpurple-2.5.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
27107718bd639816512a2212f2294e91 libpurple-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
f0832a4ede545ff6fdf318c16dce3994 libpurple-devel-2.5.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
70858cc8029772bd520718dedb226b8a libpurple-devel-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
cfae2dfc85cf115db2703fc6d68beccb libpurple-perl-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
f846f51ef325072678831dd3dc6a75cc libpurple-tcl-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
2795fe572458a95a245958b775804473 pidgin-2.5.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
8f49e5c732ff8bd80bd3f5079dc7719d pidgin-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
16b1d43b7d2e87cadd5cc623e72d pidgin-devel-2.5.5-1.el5.i386.rpm
53aa0b73bc4a48ec695806d9efa95d0c pidgin-devel-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
23147a90ce8fff5322ba0cd57a1aa2e7 pidgin-perl-2.5.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
Source:
ddbd82feab0c2d3248c513ea287c9330 pidgin-2.5.5-1.el5.src.rpm
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[CentOS-virt] Machine freeze
Hi all, we are running CentOS 5.2 Xen virtualization system with the latest CentOS packages with couple of VMs on DELL PowerEdge. quot;Sometimesquot; the whole machine freezes without anything in log files, anything on the console. quot;Sometimesquot; really means we cannot define why or when. Sometimes the machine was idle with just one VM, sometimes quite busy with couple of VMs. nbsp;Has anybody had the same experience? If yes, any hints on how to resolve it or how to trace the cause? nbsp; Thanks.nbsp;___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze
Yes, mem and disk check was also our first thing to do. But it happened on different machines (1950s and 2950s), different BIOS versions and number of NICs. The freeze situation is unrecoverable - machine replies to pings, but did not write anything to console. You cannot SSH to it, the only thing we could do is power down the machine. After that everything is fine. Thanks. 2009/4/3 Tim Verhoeven tim.verhoeven...@gmail.com On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Maros TIMKO ti...@pobox.sk wrote: we are running CentOS 5.2 Xen virtualization system with the latest CentOS packages with couple of VMs on DELL PowerEdge. Sometimes the whole machine freezes without anything in log files, anything on the console. Sometimes really means we cannot define why or when. Sometimes the machine was idle with just one VM, sometimes quite busy with couple of VMs. Has anybody had the same experience? If yes, any hints on how to resolve it or how to trace the cause? The complete freezing of a machine like that sounds like a hardware issue to me, most likely the memory. Does the machine unfreeze after a while or do you have to power cycle the server when it happens ? I would suggest running a memtest. Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven...@gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the microsoft approach to programming and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds) ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-virt] kernel-vm - humble request
Look, I pay nothing for an incredible operating system with enormous features and stability, so it feels a bit awkward asking for more. [Sarcasm On] Now, get going and build me up a 5.3 kernel-vm's would ya? ;) [Sarcasm Off} -- Humbly, John Thomas ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
[CentOS-es] Ver lo que un usuario envia x correo
Buenos dias, Soy nuevo en esto y mi pregunta es la sgt. Desearia saber si hay forma de recibir (hacer copia espejo) de los mails q envia una determinada persona. Utilizon el qmail. Si alguien me puede ayudar se lo agradecería. Saludos ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] agregar usuarios
Anthony Mogrovejo escribió: El tipico problema de su. 1.- Logeate con tu usuario 2.- Luego escribes: # su - 3.- Como root, escribes porsiaca su - 4.- Luego creas tu usuario: useradd pepito Saludos El 2 de abril de 2009 19:02, Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez cen...@nuestroserver.com mailto:cen...@nuestroserver.com escribió: killerfs wrote: hola comunidad tengo problemas en agregar usuarios y no con el root si no que quiero asignar a un usuario especial pepe esta tarea de poder agregar usuarios, y como no quiero que tenga permisos de root como puedo hacer esto? gracias intenta con sudo saludos! epe ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org mailto:CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org mailto:CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- Anthony Mogrovejo cel 9-91681659 Consultor Junior IT Documents Project Fedora Linux User # 433253 Ubuntu User # 9562 - Quisiera cambiar al mundo pero no me dan los RPM... ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es Hola, no se si será efectivo pero se me ocurre lo siguiente. Create un script con permisos 100, que reciba como parametros lo que quieras pasarle para crear el usuario, (nombre,path,gid,uid,shell.) y luego en el script haces un login como rooty un useradd. Quizas así sea posible. Saludos, ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] agregar usuarios
El Viernes, 3 de Abril de 2009 11:36, Manolo escribió: Anthony Mogrovejo escribió: El tipico problema de su. 1.- Logeate con tu usuario 2.- Luego escribes: # su - 3.- Como root, escribes porsiaca su - 4.- Luego creas tu usuario: useradd pepito Saludos El 2 de abril de 2009 19:02, Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez cen...@nuestroserver.com mailto:cen...@nuestroserver.com escribió: killerfs wrote: hola comunidad tengo problemas en agregar usuarios y no con el root si no que quiero asignar a un usuario especial pepe esta tarea de poder agregar usuarios, y como no quiero que tenga permisos de root como puedo hacer esto? gracias intenta con sudo saludos! epe ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org mailto:CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org mailto:CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- Anthony Mogrovejo cel 9-91681659 Consultor Junior IT Documents Project Fedora Linux User # 433253 Ubuntu User # 9562 - Quisiera cambiar al mundo pero no me dan los RPM... ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es Hola, no se si será efectivo pero se me ocurre lo siguiente. Create un script con permisos 100, que reciba como parametros lo que quieras pasarle para crear el usuario, (nombre,path,gid,uid,shell.) y luego en el script haces un login como rooty un useradd. Quizas así sea posible. Saludos, ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es Con sudo, puedes especificar para que binarios tendrá acceso el usuario, le asignas sólo permisos de super-usuario para useradd y listo. Saludos. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] Listado numero de puertos
Estimados alguno de ustedes tienen un listado con el numero de puertos de un computador... Saludos. Rodrigo winmail.dat___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Listado numero de puertos
Hola: Primero.- Reglas se coloca [centos-es] Segundo.- san Google ayuda mucho Tercero.- San Google me dijo haz clic aki http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Salu2! Super Ken! _ De: centos-es-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-es-boun...@centos.org] En nombre de Rodrigo Leal Astorga Enviado el: Viernes, 03 de Abril de 2009 10:42 a.m. Para: centos-es@centos.org Asunto: Listado numero de puertos Estimados alguno de ustedes tienen un listado con el numero de puertos de un computador... Saludos. Rodrigo ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Listado numero de puertos
Tambien puedes dar un vistazo al archivo /etc/services :) Ken Salinas Rodriguez escribió: Hola: Primero.- Reglas se coloca [centos-es] Segundo.- san Google ayuda mucho Tercero.- San Google me dijo haz clic aki http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Salu2! Super Ken! *De:* centos-es-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-es-boun...@centos.org] *En nombre de *Rodrigo Leal Astorga *Enviado el:* Viernes, 03 de Abril de 2009 10:42 a.m. *Para:* centos-es@centos.org *Asunto:* Listado numero de puertos Estimados alguno de ustedes tienen un listado con el numero de puertos de un computador... Saludos. Rodrigo ___ 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
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps. geez, makes me wonder if I should even bother to leave mine running with a 50kbyte/sec uplink ca (thats about 500kbps)... if I raise the cap much higher, it seriously throttles my home network (6Mbps in, 700k out)... I know, I know, I should implement some form of QoS or packet prioritization at my firewall. Every little stream helps when using bittorrent, even at 50kbps upstream, so keep seeding! ;-) I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't seed at home anymore for some reason... 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Spangler Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! If your torrent has distributed hash table [DHT] capability, I suggest that you also use that feature. So what is everyone using for their torrent? What is the best? Ask ten people and you get ten answers. 8-) Me, I prefer Azureus. In Sweden p2p has gotten a bad name (Pirate Bay anyone?). People flinch when I say I fileshare at work... Seems like all p2p is bad p2p here, which might explain why my ISP did something with the p2p-protocol. 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:56 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! I think my ISP at home has done something with regard to p2p. I can't seed at home anymore for some reason... 8-/ Mine limits me to 40k up - leave it running long enough though, and it is easy to give back several times what you took. As far as home networks, I found that when I was running NAT on Linux (RH8 through FC2 days) - bt really screwed up my home network. However, when using hardware routers, even the cheap consumer kind (Linksys) the home network is fine. I think bt is very hard on software routing. I use Smoothwall as a router/firewall appliance at home. It has worked fine before. Besides, I seed from Windows XP at home. Before, while seeding worked at home, I capped at approx 50kbps using Smoothie 's QoS-features and it worked like a charm. But yes, bt *is* giving me grief at work where I'm trying to set up a CentOS 5.3 seeding machine with iptables. The university helpdesk told me they use tcp established-filters for inside machines going out and blocks most everything from incoming. The normal way I guess. And it does work from Windows, but linux - no... 8-/ I've used the below as a base for setting this up, but I'm not there quite yet. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-iptables-open-bittorrent-tcp-ports-6881- to-6889.html -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum trying to install both i386 and x64 binaries
2009/4/3 James Matthews nytrok...@gmail.com Hi, I am trying to install lighttpd and yum wants to install both versions. == PackageArch Version Repository Size == Installing: lighttpd-fastcgi x86_64 1.4.20-6.el5epel42 k lighttpd-fastcgi i386 1.4.20-6.el5epel42 k Installing for dependencies: lighttpd x86_64 1.4.20-6.el5epel 378 k luax86_64 5.1.2-1.el5 epel 225 k spawn-fcgi x86_64 1.4.20-6.el5epel17 k Transaction Summary == Install 5 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Anyways to disable it? yum install lighttpd-fastcgi.x86_64 would only install the x86_64 version this time... If installing other packages that exist for both archs in the future, you'd still have to remember to suffix the arch you want though if you don't want both... d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] company exchange server exim best practices.
Hi all, I hope this isn't too OT, but since I use a CentOS5.2 + Exim mail server (which is hosted in one of our data centres) I don't think it should be. On of our clients use an MS Exchange 2003 SBS server, with exchange for their internal email. We provide them with a domain, ADSL (which uses dynamic DNS) and POP3 email. They don't have an spam filter program on the exchange server itself due to costs, so I have setup each user on the Exim server, which runs ASSPX for anti-virus / spam filter / etc. Then I setup the SBS 2003 server to pull the email via POP3, but this doesn't seem to work too well, cause the exchange server doesn't always download the POP3 email, and then the users often sit without email until I go there to manually download the mail again. I have tried changing the MX record to point to their DynDNS address, and it works well, but then they get a lot of spam. And the cost of a server-side spam solution is just too expensive, and they also pay for the bandwidth uses when spam comes in. So, I moved their MX record back to the Linux server. But now I sit with the problem of the POP3 connector failing from time to time. So, I would like to know, is there a way to push (not forward) mail from the Linux server, after it has arrived and spam been blocked, to another domain, but with the same email address? i.e. the domain in question is attorneys.co.za and I've setup attorneys.dyndns.net as the dynamic domain, but the exchange serves email for attorneys.co.za Forwarding email doesn't work, since there's no such user as b...@attorneys.dyndns.net, but rather b...@attorneys.co.za. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum trying to install both i386 and x64 binaries
Thanks On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:23 AM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: 2009/4/3 James Matthews nytrok...@gmail.com Hi, I am trying to install lighttpd and yum wants to install both versions. == PackageArch Version Repository Size == Installing: lighttpd-fastcgi x86_64 1.4.20-6.el5epel42 k lighttpd-fastcgi i386 1.4.20-6.el5epel42 k Installing for dependencies: lighttpd x86_64 1.4.20-6.el5epel 378 k luax86_64 5.1.2-1.el5 epel 225 k spawn-fcgi x86_64 1.4.20-6.el5epel17 k Transaction Summary == Install 5 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Anyways to disable it? yum install lighttpd-fastcgi.x86_64 would only install the x86_64 version this time... If installing other packages that exist for both archs in the future, you'd still have to remember to suffix the arch you want though if you don't want both... d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- http://www.goldwatches.com/Watches.asp?Brand=71 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] company exchange server exim best practices.
Hi, my solution to this kind of problem is the following : Set up a relay mailserver (in my case Postfix) which accepts mail (and has the MX record for the domain) for the domain but has no mailboxes. Postfix takes care of spamblocking (dnsbl and spamfilter ). In Postfix I use a transport table to relay the mail to the Exchange/Whatever mailserver, that can also be on a nonstandard port (in my case port 2525). Delivering to a dyndns host is really easy, Dyndns uses a short ttl for the hostname (something like 3 minutes ?). I set up a nameserver record which let a 'fixed' name (like mail.domain.nl) point to the dyndns name using CNAME. mail.domain.nl. IN CNAME mailhost.dyndns.org Sending the mail to the dyndns hostname directly without the nameserver trick is also possible. Using a non-standard port is to bypass SMTP limits from the provider and to make (almost) sure your mail doesn't get delivered to a mailserver of someone else ;) Regards, Michel On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 09:40 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I hope this isn't too OT, but since I use a CentOS5.2 + Exim mail server (which is hosted in one of our data centres) I don't think it should be. On of our clients use an MS Exchange 2003 SBS server, with exchange for their internal email. We provide them with a domain, ADSL (which uses dynamic DNS) and POP3 email. They don't have an spam filter program on the exchange server itself due to costs, so I have setup each user on the Exim server, which runs ASSPX for anti-virus / spam filter / etc. Then I setup the SBS 2003 server to pull the email via POP3, but this doesn't seem to work too well, cause the exchange server doesn't always download the POP3 email, and then the users often sit without email until I go there to manually download the mail again. I have tried changing the MX record to point to their DynDNS address, and it works well, but then they get a lot of spam. And the cost of a server-side spam solution is just too expensive, and they also pay for the bandwidth uses when spam comes in. So, I moved their MX record back to the Linux server. But now I sit with the problem of the POP3 connector failing from time to time. So, I would like to know, is there a way to push (not forward) mail from the Linux server, after it has arrived and spam been blocked, to another domain, but with the same email address? i.e. the domain in question is attorneys.co.za and I've setup attorneys.dyndns.net as the dynamic domain, but the exchange serves email for attorneys.co.za Forwarding email doesn't work, since there's no such user as b...@attorneys.dyndns.net, but rather b...@attorneys.co.za. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:11:15 R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4. I had no problems whatsoever. Is this the sort of situation you mean? yup -- exports to another would not be affected by root_squash. To some degree, the fact that upstream did not detect the issue, and I missed it in testing, was a wry observation that the 'old ways' of a common set of /home/ exported from a very reliably 'up' box through an office, is passing away. The takeaway was that I need to 'test as I do, and do as I test'. My testing regime will have to include 'cloning' a test box, and simply 'moving into it' for an afternoon when doing 'updates' QA testing. I took it for granted that CentOS would be server, not client. Silly to assume anything, I guess. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CMAN: Cluster membership rejected
Hello, Might be worth posting a copy of the config, however at a guess, check the node ID for each node in the cluster and ensure that it is uniq. HTH Darrin 2009/4/3 FM dist-l...@lexum.umontreal.ca Hello, Several machine cannot joint the cluster after a reboot. Here is a example of the error : caserta kernel: CMAN: Join request from como.dmz.lexum.pri rejected, node ID 3 already in use by ancona.dmz.lexum.pri All cluster.conf are the same (checked with md5sum) I googled this but did find nothing Any ideas? tx ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Darrin Khan medav...@gmail.com Rita Rudner - In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] company exchange server exim best practices.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Michel van Deventer mic...@van.deventer.cx wrote: Hi, my solution to this kind of problem is the following : Set up a relay mailserver (in my case Postfix) which accepts mail (and has the MX record for the domain) for the domain but has no mailboxes. Postfix takes care of spamblocking (dnsbl and spamfilter ). In Postfix I use a transport table to relay the mail to the Exchange/Whatever mailserver, that can also be on a nonstandard port (in my case port 2525). Delivering to a dyndns host is really easy, Dyndns uses a short ttl for the hostname (something like 3 minutes ?). I set up a nameserver record which let a 'fixed' name (like mail.domain.nl) point to the dyndns name using CNAME. mail.domain.nl. IN CNAME mailhost.dyndns.org Sending the mail to the dyndns hostname directly without the nameserver trick is also possible. Using a non-standard port is to bypass SMTP limits from the provider and to make (almost) sure your mail doesn't get delivered to a mailserver of someone else ;) Regards, Michel On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 09:40 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, I hope this isn't too OT, but since I use a CentOS5.2 + Exim mail server (which is hosted in one of our data centres) I don't think it should be. On of our clients use an MS Exchange 2003 SBS server, with exchange for their internal email. We provide them with a domain, ADSL (which uses dynamic DNS) and POP3 email. They don't have an spam filter program on the exchange server itself due to costs, so I have setup each user on the Exim server, which runs ASSPX for anti-virus / spam filter / etc. Then I setup the SBS 2003 server to pull the email via POP3, but this doesn't seem to work too well, cause the exchange server doesn't always download the POP3 email, and then the users often sit without email until I go there to manually download the mail again. I have tried changing the MX record to point to their DynDNS address, and it works well, but then they get a lot of spam. And the cost of a server-side spam solution is just too expensive, and they also pay for the bandwidth uses when spam comes in. So, I moved their MX record back to the Linux server. But now I sit with the problem of the POP3 connector failing from time to time. So, I would like to know, is there a way to push (not forward) mail from the Linux server, after it has arrived and spam been blocked, to another domain, but with the same email address? i.e. the domain in question is attorneys.co.za and I've setup attorneys.dyndns.net as the dynamic domain, but the exchange serves email for attorneys.co.za Forwarding email doesn't work, since there's no such user as b...@attorneys.dyndns.net, but rather b...@attorneys.co.za. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanx Michel, but how todo this on Exim? :) lemme see if I can find similar scenarios for Exim, now that I know what to look for. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] company exchange server exim best practices.
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Thanx Michel, but how todo this on Exim? :) lemme see if I can find similar scenarios for Exim, now that I know what to look for. consider trimming your posts ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Latest updates break b43 wireless
On 02/04/2009, Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/1 Terry Polzin foxec...@wowway.com: Can't connect to network even with no security. Is this possibly a firmware issue? I'm not seeing this problem. The broadcomm adapter on my laptop (see http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/HP/Pavilion-ze5300_Series) is working after the upgrade. Completed upgrade to 5.3 with laptop using broadcom4306 rev3 card last night with no problems and no changes required. mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success
On 04/02/2009 06:05 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: Greetings CentOS Team- Since the list tends to be filled with things don't work and why did you do it this way and complaint X, I thought I'd make a small deviation... I have a production system running on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server. I simply ran 'yum update' and rebooted with no problems. Everything continues to work as rock solid as before. So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) --Tim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Had the same success with a dozen of xen domUs and a couple of dedicated servers (both i386 x86_64), although I made sure I updated glibc and yum first, just to stay in the safe side. :) Great job, Centos team. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] sorting a file
I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - the IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the best way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address appears ? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sorting a file
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Tom Brown wrote: I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - the IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the best way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address appears ? Depends on what the seperator is between the columns. If it's a space (as with httpd logs) then cut -d' ' -f1 FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sorting a file
From: Tom Brown t...@ng23.net I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - the IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the best way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address appears ? grep ^IP | wc -l JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sorting a file
From: Tom Brown I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file - the IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the best way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address appears ? grep ^IP | wc -l Oops, replied too quickly... missed the 'each IP' go for Stephen solution ^_^ JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Olaf Mueller daily-pla...@istari.de wrote: Hello, if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. Any hints? DId you use cpan to update or install any perl modules? Have you built a newer version of perl in an alternate location which may be in your path? It could also be a corrupted package. Try a 'yum clean all' then rerun the update. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3
Hello, if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. [...] Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 set to be updated Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/yum, line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File /usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py, line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File /usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py, line 145, in main (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 647, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py, line 704, in resolveDeps for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires(): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py, line 939, in _checkFileRequires if not self.tsInfo.getOldProvides(filename) and not self.tsInfo.getNewProvides(filename): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py, line 414, in getNewProvides for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems(): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py, line 300, in getProvides return self._computeAggregateDictResult(getProvides, name, flags, version) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py, line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult sackResult = apply(method, args) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 861, in getProvides return self._search(provides, name, flags, version) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 837, in _search for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True): File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 568, in searchFiles self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 470, in _sql_pkgKey2po pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey']) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 413, in _packageByKey po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone()) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 68, in __init__ self._read_db_obj(db_obj) File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object But for example an 'yum install createrepo' works. [...] Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package createrepo.noarch 0:0.4.11-3.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved PackageArch Version Repository Size Installing: createrepo noarch 0.4.11-3.el5 base 59 k Transaction Summary Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 59 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.noarch.rpm | 59 kB 00:00 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : createrepo [1/1] Installed: createrepo.noarch 0:0.4.11-3.el5 Complete! Any hints? Thanks a lot Olaf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] dm-ioband RPM packages
Hi all, This is a good news for LVM users, especially for RHEL and CentOS users. You can control I/O bandwidth of your disks easily without hassle, because I've made RPM binary packages of dm-ioband and dm-ioband-config available at http://people.valinux.co.jp/~ryov/dm-ioband/binary.html The RPM binary packages are for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and CentOS 5.x. They were tested on CentOS 5.3 and will also work on other 5.x versions. Please refer to the on-line manual at http://people.valinux.co.jp/~ryov/dm-ioband/manual/index.html or the README file which is installed into /usr/share/doc/dm-ioband-VERSION for usage information. The dm-ioband-config package provides a configuration file and an init script to make it easy to assign bandwidth to LVM logical volumes. The merits of using this are the followings: - I'm sure you can use this script without any efforts since most of modern Linux distributions already make filesystems on LVM logical volumes. - You can enable and disable dm-ioband anytime you want. No need to modify any configuration files which refer to the logical volumes, because enabling/disabling dm-ioband doesn't make any changes to device names and numbers. - You can apply dm-ioband to a root device even if it is already mounted. The following diagram shows how dm-ioband is applied to the existing logical volumes. run service ioband start === --- --- | LogVol00|LogVol01 | | LogVol00|LogVol01 | | (dm-linear) | (dm-linear) | | (dm-ioband) | (dm-ioband) | |---| |---| | VolGroup00 | | LogVol00-orig | LogVol01-orig | --- | (dm-linear) | (dm-linear) | |---| | VolGroup00 | --- === run service ioband stop Thanks for the device mapper infrastructure, any device mapper modules can be dynamically pushed into kernel or replaced with other modules anytime. Please refer to the README file at http://people.valinux.co.jp/~ryov/dm-ioband-config/README.txt or which is installed into /usr/share/doc/dm-ioband-config-VERSION for usage information. Any comments and suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Ryo Tsuruta dm-ioband is an IO controller which provides disk bandwidth control to Linux. It can controls bandwidth on a per partition, per user, per process basis and so on. If you use dm-ioband in a virtual machine environment, you can control bandwidth on a per virtual machine basis. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sorting a file
I need to find out how many times an IP address appears in a file -
the
IP is the first field in the access log string so what would be the
best
way to sort this file and count how many times each IP address
appears ?
I always solve a problem like this with a small Perl script. It can
probably be done in awk as well, but I prefer Perl. Try something
like this:
=== cut here ===
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $log = shift || /var/log/httpd/access_log;
my %hash;
open(LOG, $log) || die Can't open $log for reading ($!)\n;
while(LOG)
{
next unless (/(^\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/);
$hash{$1}++;
}
close(LOG);
foreach (sort keys %hash)
{
printf %15s: %d occurances\n, $_, $hash{$_};
}
exit(0);
=== cut here ===
The script looks in either the file passed as the first parameter, or
in the absence of that in /var/log/httpd/access_log.
Alfred
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Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3
Olaf Mueller wrote: File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object We're somehow seeing this error all over the place, which seems to be a problem with multiarch. See bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3486 and the related ones plus https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484728 - not sure at the moment what is causing this. Funny thing is that nobody got that during qa ... One question: Your system has been updated to 5.3? Ralph pgpaZ1tmx0YEv.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sorting a file
Oops, replied too quickly... missed the 'each IP' go for Stephen solution ^_^ yeap - thanks both ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3
Jim Perrin wrote: Hello, On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Olaf Mueller daily-pla...@istari.de wrote: if running 'yum update' on a CentOS 5.3 workstation, that was upgraded from CentOS 5.2, I run into the following error with perl. [...] It could also be a corrupted package. Try a 'yum clean all' then rerun the update. Thank you very much! Everything works fine after 'yum clean all'. regards Olaf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] suggestions on other packages
Hi all - Since upstream patches the stock 2.6.18 kernel into something that is not 2.6.18 (for the rest of the world) I am having issues trying to compile some packages like v4l (latest is needed for a different project). When compiling packages like v4l that a doing conditionals based on kernel number - but - header files are messing other things up... is there some great trick to getting things to compile or behave nicely? What do others do in this circumstance? Note: If I did compile a kernel (2.6.17.10 for example) v4l works fine. however then I am not getting kernel updates with releases etc... Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] suggestions on other packages
I have always handled the build errors as they come for the particular package ... if someone has a better method, I'd love to hear it too! Sean 2009/4/3 Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com Hi all - Since upstream patches the stock 2.6.18 kernel into something that is not 2.6.18 (for the rest of the world) I am having issues trying to compile some packages like v4l (latest is needed for a different project). When compiling packages like v4l that a doing conditionals based on kernel number - but - header files are messing other things up... is there some great trick to getting things to compile or behave nicely? What do others do in this circumstance? Note: If I did compile a kernel (2.6.17.10 for example) v4l works fine. however then I am not getting kernel updates with releases etc... Thanks, Jerry ___ 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
[CentOS] booting 5.3 on a770 biostar
I am booting 5.3 on an a770 biostar motherboard THe machine boots, I get the prompt from the DVD I hit return and the screen says kernel alive but it never gets past that. I tried booting again with noprobe on the command line same thing. I tried booting again with noprobe and noapic nolapic and same thing. Any thoughts on how to get past the halting?? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Kickstart regression
The 5.3 upgrade broke the kickstart procedures for my xen virtual machines. They are installed via http. 1. The installer sets up the timezone interactively even though it is specified in the kickstart file. Not a big deal, though. 2. The installer hangs unpredictably when installing selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-203.el5.noarch.rpm. Performing a dozen or so installs, sometimes the rpm installs just fine, sometimes the installation takes 10 minutes, sometimes the installer just seems to hang and I kill virt-install after half an hour. An nfs kickstart install of a real machine does not exhibit this problem. Excluding the package works, and installing it manually later gives: | ... | Installing : selinux-policy-targeted [2/2] | nagios homedir /var/spool/nagios or its parent directory conflicts with a | defined context in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts, | /usr/sbin/genhomedircon will not create a new context. This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account. If it is a system account please make sure its login shell is /sbin/nologin. | mysql homedir /usr/local or its parent directory conflicts with a | defined context in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts, | /usr/sbin/genhomedircon will not create a new context. This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account. If it is a system account please make sure its login shell is /sbin/nologin. | tomcat homedir /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat or its parent directory conflicts with a | defined context in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts, | /usr/sbin/genhomedircon will not create a new context. This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account. If it is a system account please make sure its login shell is /sbin/nologin. | No packages related to nagios/mysql/tomcat are installed, this is a pretty stripped-down system. On an identical vm that completed the installation successfully, the following is found in /root/install.log after the installation: | Installing selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-203.el5.noarch | /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.60754: line 4: 1493 Killed semodule -b base.pp -i dnsmasq.pp -i ipsec.pp -i virt.pp -i pyzor.pp -i amavis.pp -i clamav.pp -i razor.pp -i dcc.pp -i nagios.pp -i evolution.pp -i mplayer.pp -i mozilla.pp -i ricci.pp -i oddjob.pp -i ccs.pp -i smartmon.pp -i iscsi.pp -i pcscd.pp -i prelude.pp -i zosremote.pp -i pki.pp -s targeted I even ran this command manually after installation and it worked fine, with exit status 0. Finally, here is the first part of the kickstart file, leaving out %packages and %post. | install | url --url http://www/centos/i386 | lang en_US.UTF-8 | keyboard us | network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp | rootpw --iscrypted $1$iMuKLiWQA$kljIOj097NBAD8SDlkjnmk | firewall --disabled | authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain=localdomain | selinux --disabled | timezone --utc Eire | bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda | # Clear all partitions and create a single partition for / | # Note that no swap partition is created! VMs should *never* swap. | clearpart --all --initlabel | part / --fstype ext3 --size=100 --grow Apologies for the lengthy posting :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009 05:11:15 R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. I have /home exported and ran the upgrade from this laptop over the network, where that directory is mounted and displayed in a folderview under KDE4. I had no problems whatsoever. Is this the sort of situation you mean? yup -- exports to another would not be affected by root_squash. To some degree, the fact that upstream did not detect the issue, and I missed it in testing, was a wry observation that the 'old ways' of a common set of /home/ exported from a very reliably 'up' box through an office, is passing away. The takeaway was that I need to 'test as I do, and do as I test'. My testing regime will have to include 'cloning' a test box, and simply 'moving into it' for an afternoon when doing 'updates' QA testing. I took it for granted that CentOS would be server, not client. Silly to assume anything, I guess. I've found it somewhat useful in development/test scenarios to export /home via nfs and samba from a physical machine, then use one or more vmware guests with the testing framework that mount the shared /home with the developers using the vmware guest machine for their work. The guests often run on the same physical host as the home directories but are somewhat disposable and easy to replace. The samba share from the physical side is more efficient than doing it from a guest and gives windows users easy access. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
To those that have sent off list emails, thank you. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dukes Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 18:30 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell... -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:55 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell... Can I get some recommendations: We are looking for a hosting provider (other than godaddy) with 0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We even don't want to change configurations. 1: SLA We have a shared account with godaddy, and they told us that there is a known issue with connectivity (actually it was server load of 2x # of cpus) and we could not be relocated to another server, and if we wanted expidited response we would have to pay 150$/hour. 2: SSH access We only want to chage our files, get our logs 3: subversion/rsync or the ability to install binaries / compile source. cd html.swap svn up cd .. mv html html.swap2 mv html.swap html mv html.swap2 html Or change the svn up with a rsync -e ssh Would like them to include http/https and email. Any suggestions? -Jason I have used godaddy for hosting my e-commerce site for years. You probably need to go with one of their shared servers or dedicated servers. You won't get what you need in a hosting plan. That is what we have. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100- - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum update perl error in CentOS 5.3
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Hello. Olaf Mueller wrote: File /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py, line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object One question: Your system has been updated to 5.3? Yes, I have updated the system to 5.3 yesterday and the perl error was today. This is a bit mysterious cause there were no such problems with a server, a workstation and two notebooks. Also one notebook and the desktop pc with the perl error have approximate equal rpms installed. regards Olaf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Jason Pyeron a écrit : Can I get some recommendations: We are looking for a hosting provider (other than godaddy) I'm in France (Europe), and I'm using a cheap dedicated server by OVH. Support is forum only, so that's how they keep the cost down. Reasonably fast machine, 250 GB harddisk, full root access, CentOS base install (several Linux distros on offer, with CentOS, Slackware and Debian in the expert selection), ssh access... and from there on, you do anything you like on this machine. Bandwidth is a real 100 Mbps, and the whole thing costs only around 25 euros a month. Looks pretty much unbeatable. cheers, Niki Kovacs PS: I'm running a database server for eleven small public libraries on it... plus my private webradio to fill some extra unused bandwidth: http://91.121.7.181:8000/radionovak.ogg :o) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] procmail can't invoke spamc/spamassassin in 5.3 due to SElinux denials
I just discovered that my spam filters are not being properly executed
in CentOS 5.3 because when procmail attempts to invoke spamc. I have
spamd running properly, and can invoke spamassassin and spamc from the
bash prompt manually without any issues, however procmail fails with
permission denied then bails. Watching the procmail.log I get the
following:
procmail: Executing /usr/bin/spamc
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/spamc: Permission denied
procmail: Program failure (126) of /usr/bin/spamc
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
Examining the SElinux audit logs, I discovered:
type=AVC msg=audit(1238765234.301:1752): avc: denied { execute } for
pid=20177 comm=procmail name=spamc dev=hda1 ino=936505
scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:spamc_exec_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1238765234.301:1752): arch=4003 syscall=11
success=no exit=-13 a0=95c0d90 a1=95c0020 a2=95c3cf0 a3=0 items=0
ppid=20176 pid=20177 auid=4294967295 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500
fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=12 fs
gid=500 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=procmail
exe=/usr/bin/procmail subj=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1238765234.325:1753): avc: denied { read } for
pid=20177 comm=sh name=spamc dev=hda1 ino=936505
scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:spamc_exec_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1238765234.325:1753): arch=4003 syscall=5
success=no exit=-13 a0=9a95718 a1=8000 a2=0 a3=8000 items=0 ppid=20176
pid=20177 auid=4294967295 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500
egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=50
0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=sh exe=/bin/bash
subj=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 key=(null)
Here is a similar web forum report from someone else:
http://tinyurl.com/cpkvpg
Didn't find any reports in CentOS bugzilla about this yet, however I
found one in Red Hat bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486187
Shall I file a tracking bug in CentOS bugzilla, or just wait for the
trickle down?
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Re: [CentOS] Kickstart regression
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: The 5.3 upgrade broke the kickstart procedures for my xen virtual machines. They are installed via http. 1. The installer sets up the timezone interactively even though it is specified in the kickstart file. Not a big deal, though. This is mentioned in the Release Notes and I think it is a problem. There is a workaround - see the Release Notes. No idea (or possibility to test) about the rest of your problems :) Ralph pgpVf9N7tc5m2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Kickstart regression
Ralph Angenendt writes: lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: The 5.3 upgrade broke the kickstart procedures for my xen virtual machines. They are installed via http. 1. The installer sets up the timezone interactively even though it is specified in the kickstart file. Not a big deal, though. This is mentioned in the Release Notes and I think it is a problem. There is a workaround - see the Release Notes. D'oh - I only read the upstream release notes. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?
Hello: I followed the instructions here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/ch02s04s01.html to put isolinux on a usb drive. When I boot from the usb drive, the installer comes up and I can do a network install. I have to say that is very impressive! But, since I have a 4GB usb drive, I am thinking I can load the rest of the installation onto the usb drive so I do not have to use a network install. I searched the Internet but could not find any instructions on doing that. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CMAN: Cluster membership rejected
I reboot all nodes everything is fine now. Weird Tx anyway ! Darrin Khan wrote: Hello, Might be worth posting a copy of the config, however at a guess, check the node ID for each node in the cluster and ensure that it is uniq. HTH Darrin 2009/4/3 FM dist-l...@lexum.umontreal.ca mailto:dist-l...@lexum.umontreal.ca Hello, Several machine cannot joint the cluster after a reboot. Here is a example of the error : caserta kernel: CMAN: Join request from como.dmz.lexum.pri rejected, node ID 3 already in use by ancona.dmz.lexum.pri All cluster.conf are the same (checked with md5sum) I googled this but did find nothing Any ideas? tx ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org mailto:CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Darrin Khan medav...@gmail.com mailto:medav...@gmail.com Rita Rudner - In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. ___ 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] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Tsai Li Ming wrote: Found this on upstream bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483071 Good catch! Panu Matilainen posted what appears to be the answer, though I haven't tested it yet: To have rpm semi-reasonably deal with NFS-mounts on rpm owned paths, you need to tell rpm about them. This'll tell rpm to avoid touching /home and /usr/local: # echo %_netsharedpath /home:/usr/local /etc/rpm/macros.nfs -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Tim Nelson wrote: So, I just wanted to say 'Thank You' to all those who put in such hard work into the CentOS project. The time between releases was not a problem here. If it was, I guess I'd just ask for a refund. :-) I agree. I've only updated one server so far (the backup server, which is completely subservient to my will -- unlike development servers with real live users who might complain), but it went very smoothly. Thank you very, very much! +1 Thank you for a job well done, Andy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: I just kicked everyone off, killed all apps with open file descriptors on /home, umounted /home, upgraded the rpm, then re-mounted /home. That worked just fine. I confer 42 geek points on Paul -- hope that's enough to buy armor to protect him from the horde of angry users coming up the LTSP path with torches and pitchforks after him. ;) -- Russ herrold I think those should be BOFH points instead. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl A developer got me a BOFH ribbon at some conference, which I displayed proudly in my cube, but it got lost when we moved offices last summer. Now I just have my Mr. Potato Head Darth Tater stare menacingly at visitors. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: I followed the instructions here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/ch02s04s01.html to put isolinux on a usb drive. When I boot from the usb drive, the installer comes up and I can do a network install. I have to say that is very impressive! But, since I have a 4GB usb drive, I am thinking I can load the rest of the installation onto the usb drive so I do not have to use a network install. I searched the Internet but could not find any instructions on doing that. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I currently use a different method. 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 3) if you chose (a) fat : you will need to make syslinux work on the stick syslinux /dev/sd[c]1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick extlinux /dev/sd[c]1 4) I extract the isolinux folder from the dvd iso 5) rename all isolinux to (a) syslinux - (b) extlinux 6) copy the dvd/cd iso(s) to your stick 7) normally you should get the same boot loader as when you would pop in the cd/dvd, centos install will start loading necessary drivers and then you will have to chose hard disk install and point to the drive where your dvd/cd iso(s) are 8) anaconda will start and well the rest you know I have a 16gb stick with CentOS 4 32bit 64bit and CentOS 5 32bit 64bit to install my systems There is one problem, if you want to use kickstart, it will want the mounted iso files, have not yet figured a way to get around this or to get some command to mount the images somewhere Regards, Tosh. -- Toshaan toshli...@gmail.com - http://www.toshaan.be ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: The takeaway was that I need to 'test as I do, and do as I test'. My testing regime will have to include 'cloning' a test box, and simply 'moving into it' for an afternoon when doing 'updates' QA testing. I took it for granted that CentOS would be server, not client. Silly to assume anything, I guess. * nod * we tend to forget our culture's history I have used Linux as my desktop ( and CentOS as the lead one since the death of RHL ) that I can only stare in wonderment at people who do _not_ use it as their stable production environment, or those sell it but do not believe in it [1]. 'Back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth,' Bank One, (now rolled up in JPMorgan Chase) ran X-tops at the C level on down, because it was the full featured (for the day) GUI window environment that 'just worked' [and no other credible alternative existed]; on a walk through I did at the NYSE trading floor two years ago, X based Motif windowed applications abounded at the trading posts; ditto at the CME for options traders. Not the sole platform any more of course, but clearly suitable for mission critical with major real money. Note that I am not saying a ephemeral 'distro du jour' is suitable, but clearly, despite what some upstream might say, it 'just works' ;) The craft lives so long as it is remembered, but the children can only stare in wonderment at the Easter Island stone heads, unable to summon the spirits -- NFS homes is part of that culture -- Russ herrold [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/03/25/Red-Hat-CEO-questions-desktops-relevance-in-Linux-debate_1.html Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst pointed out several issues with running Linux on the desktop, including financial concerns the company has as a Linux vendor. First of all, I don't know how to make money on it, Whitehurst said. Very few people are running a desktop that's mission-critical, so they do not want to pay the company for a desktop OS, he said. Query: Isn't making money on a desktop, orthogonal to its suitability ... unless one is just in it for the money? sad that is the 'first of all' objection. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] installing from pen drive?
hi I have downloaded 7 iso files onto a dvd for 5.2 x64 . can i install them using a pendrive or i need to make 7 cds out of them? Many thanks, Sumit ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
I need a new pda/smart phone that allows me to do some remote admin. Anyone know of anything that I can run a vpn and cli/ssh with? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Niki Kovacs wrote: snip I'm in France (Europe), snip C'mon, Niki! Give us a break. Our knowledge of world geography is not THAT bad on this side of the Atlantic. :-) On a more serious note, I was thinking while reading the list the morning what a great statement it makes for the dedication of the guys who make CentOS work and for their product, that there are questions about providers, software choices and general banter only 2 days after the release of several hundred megabytes of updated software being glommed by hundreds of thousands of users. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] (no subject)
hi , i have CentOs 4.4 x64 already up and running and i downloaded 5.2 x64 .do i need to do a clean and reinstall , or i can install other ways. my dvd has 7 independ iso.. thanks, Sumit. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] installing from pen drive?
sumit agarwal wrote: hi I have downloaded 7 iso files onto a dvd for 5.2 x64 . can i install them using a pendrive or i need to make 7 cds out of them? Many thanks, Sumit ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Just follow the instruction I mailed already to Neil Aggarwa It also works for cd iso images instead of dvd iso images I currently use a different method. 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 3) if you chose (a) fat : you will need to make syslinux work on the stick syslinux /dev/sd[c]1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick extlinux /dev/sd[c]1 4) I extract the isolinux folder from the dvd iso 5) rename all isolinux to (a) syslinux - (b) extlinux 6) copy the dvd/cd iso(s) to your stick 7) normally you should get the same boot loader as when you would pop in the cd/dvd, centos install will start loading necessary drivers and then you will have to chose hard disk install and point to the drive where your dvd/cd iso(s) are 8) anaconda will start and well the rest you know I have a 16gb stick with CentOS 4 32bit 64bit and CentOS 5 32bit 64bit to install my systems There is one problem, if you want to use kickstart, it will want the mounted iso files, have not yet figured a way to get around this or to get some command to mount the images somewhere -- Toshaan toshli...@gmail.com - http://www.toshaan.be ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
Joseph L. Casale schrieb: I need a new pda/smart phone that allows me to do some remote admin. Anyone know of anything that I can run a vpn and cli/ssh with? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I think, in theory you can add an ssh-client to an iPhone. In practice, it's not an official app, last time I looked, and you might have to jailbreak the phone. I'd skip this until Apple comes out with something that is smaller than a MacBookAir and bigger than an iPhone but allows attaching a bluetooth-keyboard... In addition, for opening and handling xterms, a real X11 still feels better than OS X (IMO). Only when I try to draw something in gnome-dia, I wish I had a Mac with Omnigraffle at work... ;-) The real question is: is there a phone with a keyboard that doesn't such at this specific discipline? Maybe the Google-Phone: http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ What specific (if any) VPN-client would you need? Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
On 3-Apr-09, at 8:50 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need a new pda/smart phone that allows me to do some remote admin. Anyone know of anything that I can run a vpn and cli/ssh with? Thanks! jlc Hate them or love them, I use an iphone, and have access to my machines with ssh. I also can remote desktop into systems (that have appropriate port forwards) for windows machines. There is a VNC client too. d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] (no subject)
On 3-Apr-09, at 9:01 AM, sumit agarwal wrote: hi , i have CentOs 4.4 x64 already up and running and i downloaded 5.2 x64 .do i need to do a clean and reinstall , or i can install other ways. my dvd has 7 independ iso.. thanks, Sumit. Major version jumps are recommended to backup/fresh install/ restore. d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
What specific (if any) VPN-client would you need? Cisco pix, I'll look at an iPhone again... Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
On 3-Apr-09, at 9:07 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: I think, in theory you can add an ssh-client to an iPhone. In practice, it's not an official app, last time I looked, and you might have to jailbreak the phone. no need to jailbreak, there are a few terminal apps in the app store. I use Touch Term. Very happy with it. But typing on any phone for stuff kind of umm sucks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
On 3-Apr-09, at 9:17 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What specific (if any) VPN-client would you need? Cisco pix, I'll look at an iPhone again... Thanks! jlc I just wish it supported openvpn. but getting OT.. so i clam it up! d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Robert wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: snip I'm in France (Europe), snip C'mon, Niki! Give us a break. Our knowledge of world geography is not THAT bad on this side of the Atlantic. :-) Where's the Atlantic? Is that up in Canada? ;) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup
I don't know if I really like this background though it is kind of neat. Where do I find the app to change this? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Jason Pyeron wrote: 0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We even don't want to change configurations. But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off from a huge world of software that doesn't allow this. You can maybe install some simple CGI programs, and you'll have to build everything from source, because you can't change the RPM DB, you can't make servers listen on ports 1024, you'll have to reconfigure/rebuild anything that wants to put config files in /etc I don't see why you'd shackle yourself like that. You don't get yum install thingy without root access. Everyone's pushing you to one of the VPS providers because that's what all the cool kids are doing now that VM technology is commoditized. And on that note, we use VPSLink. Their parent company, Spry, offers VPSes with more hand-holding, at a higher price. You can get VPSes from either with various flavors of CentOS on them. And I can warn you off of WebIntellects. Not bad people, but I left them because their systems management policies were too lackadaisical. If you were willing to monitor your site 24x7 from the outside, you could maintain good uptimes. Otherwise, your site could be down for hours until you noticed it, but they would start counting the downtime from the time your reported the problem, not from when it actually went down. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting
I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was viewing. Yum updates are logged in /var/log/yum.log, which is what Logwatch scans. Seems that the format of the log entries is: MMM DD, the year is missing! This morning looking at this log sequentially I noticed I did do yum updates on Apr 02 and Apr 03 as reported in last night's logwatch, but not April of 2009, but rather April of 2008! Has anyone else noticed this behavior and/or know if there is a fix in progress for it? Brett ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need a new pda/smart phone that allows me to do some remote admin. Anyone know of anything that I can run a vpn and cli/ssh with? I used to do ssh on a palm treo - not sure what vpn clients are available. It wasn't fun but sometimes beat driving 30 miles to fix something. If you need it for more than rare/occassional use, you would probably want a netbook/laptop with a usb wireless adapter or bluetooth phone-as-modem (not many plans permit this, though). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting
Brett Serkez wrote: I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was viewing. Yum updates are logged in /var/log/yum.log, which is what Logwatch scans. Seems that the format of the log entries is: MMM DD, the year is missing! This morning looking at this log sequentially I noticed I did do yum updates on Apr 02 and Apr 03 as reported in last night's logwatch, but not April of 2009, but rather April of 2008! Has anyone else noticed this behavior and/or know if there is a fix in progress for it? I've noticed the same problem occurs at least as far back as Fedora Core 1 and it has startled me as well. I like to keep my log files around for a lot longer than the system defaults. I guess people running the stock logrotate configuration and never changing it would be much less likely to ever notice this problem. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Memory Leak with stock Squirrelmail, PHP, mysql, apache since 5.3
Hi list, We are experiencing a memory leak on our SquirrelMail server since the 5.3 update. The server is fully updated, only stock rpms. The httpd processes are eating all the memory and after swapping like hell, the server became unresponsive and we must hard-reboot it. The server is not that much loaded (max 10-15 concurrent users but with tons of mail in their inbox). Configuration's speaking, nothing was changed before and after the update. Is there someone else experiencing the same thing ? How can I search deeper the origin of the leak ? Thx, kfx Details follows: Screenshot from munin showing the memory usage's graph: http://uppix.net/e/a/7/cd2bdea933d57b0e28bde1f96b854.png [r...@webmail ~]# uname -a Linux webmail 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:53:14 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [r...@webmail ~]# yum list | grep -e php -e squirrel -e mysql -e httpd | grep installed httpd.x86_64 2.2.3-22.el5.centos installed mysql.x86_64 5.0.45-7.el5 installed mysql-server.x86_645.0.45-7.el5 installed php.x86_64 5.1.6-23.el5 installed php-cli.x86_64 5.1.6-23.el5 installed php-common.x86_64 5.1.6-23.el5 installed php-ldap.x86_645.1.6-23.el5 installed php-mbstring.x86_645.1.6-23.el5 installed php-mysql.x86_64 5.1.6-23.el5 installed php-pdo.x86_64 5.1.6-23.el5 installed php-pear.noarch1:1.4.9-4.el5.1 installed php-pear-DB.noarch 1.7.13-1.el5.centos installed php-pear-MDB2.noarch 2.4.1-2.el5.centos installed php-pear-MDB2-Driver-mysql.noarch 1.4.1-3.el5.centos installed squirrelmail.noarch1.4.8-5.el5.centos.3 installed Dmesg: Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:init invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel: Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:Call Trace: Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[802bc998] out_of_memory+0x8b/0x203 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[8020f657] __alloc_pages+0x245/0x2ce Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[8021336e] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xd0/0x21c Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[80262824] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x66 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[88081d4d] :dm_mod:dm_any_congested+0x38/0x3f Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[80213c47] filemap_nopage+0x148/0x322 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[80208db9] __handle_mm_fault+0x440/0x11f6 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[802639f9] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x14 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[802666ef] do_page_fault+0xf7b/0x12e0 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:[8025f82b] error_exit+0x0/0x6e Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel: Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:Mem-info: Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:DMA per-cpu: Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:84 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:57 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:DMA32 per-cpu: empty Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:Normal per-cpu: empty Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:HighMem per-cpu: empty Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:Free pages:2912kB (0kB HighMem) Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:Active:73144 inactive:40971 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:728 slab:4076 mapped-file:2 mapped-anon:114411 pagetables:2857 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:DMA free:2912kB min:2916kB low:3644kB high:4372kB active:292576kB inactive:163884kB present:532480kB pages_scanned:1521701 all_unreclaimable? yes Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Apr 2 17:18:28 s_lo...@webmail kernel:DMA: 12*4kB 8*8kB 3*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB
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Re: [CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009, Brett Serkez wrote: I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was viewing. Yum updates are logged in /var/log/yum.log, which is what Logwatch scans. Seems that the format of the log entries is: MMM DD, the year is missing! This morning looking at this log sequentially I noticed I did do yum updates on Apr 02 and Apr 03 as reported in last night's logwatch, but not April of 2009, but rather April of 2008! Has anyone else noticed this behavior and/or know if there is a fix in progress for it? I would be surprised at any syslog entries that did have a year in the date. Any log processing routines that sort on date have to deal with this, particularly on year-end logs where one may have entries for December followed by those from January. This seems to be the case for syslog entries going back at least to Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (the oldest Linux system we support running today that I can check). I just checked a SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a box, and its log entries are missing the year as is a new OpenSolaris system I built within the last week. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com 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 Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease. Disraeli replied, That all depends upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Warren Young schrieb: Jason Pyeron wrote: 0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We even don't want to change configurations. But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off from a huge world of software that doesn't allow this. I think you do not understand: he wants a managed VPS/manged root server. Actually, my employer does provide those, but they are no bargains. You get CentOS, though ;-) Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote: Robert wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: snip I'm in France (Europe), snip C'mon, Niki! Give us a break. Our knowledge of world geography is not THAT bad on this side of the Atlantic. :-) Where's the Atlantic? Is that up in Canada? ;) When my oldest brother was living in upstate New York his employer gave him a temporary assignment in Plymouth, England. One of the neighbors commented, Won't that be a long drive? Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I don't know if I really like this background though it is kind of neat. Where do I find the app to change this? Right-click on the desktop, select Change Desktop Background from the menu. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting
Brett Serkez wrote: I've been noticing yum updates on several servers I manage over the last few weeks, which I know I didn't perform and could not explain until this morning. At first I suspect a break-in, but found no other evidence or reason an intruder would run the yum updates I was viewing. Yum updates are logged in /var/log/yum.log, which is what Logwatch scans. Seems that the format of the log entries is: MMM DD, the year is missing! This morning looking at this log sequentially I noticed I did do yum updates on Apr 02 and Apr 03 as reported in last night's logwatch, but not April of 2009, but rather April of 2008! Has anyone else noticed this behavior and/or know if there is a fix in progress for it? That's why the logrotate default for yum.log was changed to yearly in the 5.3 updates. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] A problem with Java update on x86_64
I do not know if this is caused by something that I have done, or failed to do, but I cannot seem to get this update to java to take: # yum list installed java\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Installed Packages java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.x86_64 1.4.2.0-40jpp.115 installed java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_641:1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos installed java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin.x86_64 1:1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos installed # # yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: www.muug.mb.ca * base: mirrors.liquidweb.com * updates: ftp.lug.udel.edu * addons: mirror.anl.gov * extras: www.muug.mb.ca Reducing Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 to included packages only Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates Finished Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Extras Finished Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos for package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin --- Package java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 1:1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos is needed by package 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos is needed by package 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.16.b09.el5.centos.x86_64 (installed) # What do I need to do to get this to work? P.S. The rest of the updates to 5.3 went very smoothly. I give my unreserved thanks to the CentOS maintainers. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?
Tosh: 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit I did this. 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 I formatted it using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick extlinux /dev/sd[c]1 I mounted the drive and did extlinux /media/disk 4) I extract the isolinux folder from the dvd iso I copied all the files from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/isolinux/ to the root directory of the usb drive. 5) rename all isolinux to (a) syslinux - (b) extlinux I renamed the isolinux.bin to extlinux.bin and isolinux.cfg to extlinux.cfg 6) copy the dvd/cd iso(s) to your stick I copied the iso to the root directory of the usb drive. 7) normally you should get the same boot loader as when you would pop in the cd/dvd, centos install will start loading necessary drivers and then you will have to chose hard disk install and point to the drive where your dvd/cd iso(s) are I tried to boot off the usb drive and I get a message that it could not boot the operating system. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Warren Young Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:30 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell... Jason Pyeron wrote: 0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We even don't want to change configurations. But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off from a huge world of software that doesn't allow this. Exactly. We will only need to push our web application and pull our logs. You can maybe install some simple CGI programs, and you'll have to build everything from source, because you can't change the RPM DB, you can't make servers listen on ports 1024, you'll have to reconfigure/rebuild anything that wants to put config files in /etc I don't see why you'd shackle yourself like that. You don't get yum install thingy without root access. We can use rsync over ssh, scp, or subversion over ssh/https to do our push and pulls. No need for more ... (insert 640k jokes) Everyone's pushing you to one of the VPS providers because that's what all the cool kids are doing now that VM technology is commoditized. I do not have an opinion on this. And on that note, we use VPSLink. Their parent company, Spry, offers VPSes with more hand-holding, at a higher price. You can get VPSes from either with various flavors of CentOS on them. Not insearch of hand holding, but out sourced responsibility, hence the SLA. And I can warn you off of WebIntellects. Not bad people, but I left them because their systems management policies were too lackadaisical. Good to know, this is the Godaddy issue right now. If you were willing to monitor your site 24x7 from the outside, you could maintain good uptimes. Not willing to take responsibility, but willing to pay for it. Otherwise, your site could be down for hours until you noticed it, but they would start counting the downtime from the time your reported the problem, not from when it actually went down. Could automate: * * * * * pingscript.sh || emailsupportscript.sh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100- - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New Centos 5.3 gnome backgroup
Robert Nichols wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I don't know if I really like this background though it is kind of neat. Where do I find the app to change this? Right-click on the desktop, select Change Desktop Background from the menu. Oh, of course I did this so long ago, I just don't notice it every time (dayly!) that I right click to open a terminal window! I got the kids involved and gnome curves was selected. Perhaps I will move the FC9 background over. They liked that one. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?
Try using unetbootin. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Cheers J. Neil Aggarwal wrote: Tosh: 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit I did this. 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 I formatted it using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick extlinux /dev/sd[c]1 I mounted the drive and did extlinux /media/disk 4) I extract the isolinux folder from the dvd iso I copied all the files from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/isolinux/ to the root directory of the usb drive. 5) rename all isolinux to (a) syslinux - (b) extlinux I renamed the isolinux.bin to extlinux.bin and isolinux.cfg to extlinux.cfg 6) copy the dvd/cd iso(s) to your stick I copied the iso to the root directory of the usb drive. 7) normally you should get the same boot loader as when you would pop in the cd/dvd, centos install will start loading necessary drivers and then you will have to chose hard disk install and point to the drive where your dvd/cd iso(s) are I tried to boot off the usb drive and I get a message that it could not boot the operating system. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. ___ 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] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Rainer Duffner wrote: But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off from a huge world of software that doesn't allow this. I think you do not understand: he wants a managed VPS/manged root server. I thought about that, but assumed that since GoDaddy hosting was attractive to him in the first place, he's probably not looking for your sort of services. But maybe this thread is his change of heart. In that case, there are lots of managed hosting companies, and yeah, they're expensive. Humans want to be paid enough to house themselves and eat, for some reason. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?
Tosh: Actually, I figured out how to do it: 1. Using fdisk, I created two partitions on the drive: /dev/sdc1 = 15 MB /dev/sdc2 = The rest I marked the first one bootable 2. I used dd to copy the diskboot.img to /dev/sdc1 3. Formatted /dev/sdc2 as ext3 and copied the iso images there 4. When I boot from the usb drive, I selected hard drive install and pointed the installer to /dev/scd2 It worked perfectly! Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tosh Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:10 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive? Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello: I followed the instructions here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/ch02s 04s01.html to put isolinux on a usb drive. When I boot from the usb drive, the installer comes up and I can do a network install. I have to say that is very impressive! But, since I have a 4GB usb drive, I am thinking I can load the rest of the installation onto the usb drive so I do not have to use a network install. I searched the Internet but could not find any instructions on doing that. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I currently use a different method. 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 3) if you chose (a) fat : you will need to make syslinux work on the stick syslinux /dev/sd[c]1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick extlinux /dev/sd[c]1 4) I extract the isolinux folder from the dvd iso 5) rename all isolinux to (a) syslinux - (b) extlinux 6) copy the dvd/cd iso(s) to your stick 7) normally you should get the same boot loader as when you would pop in the cd/dvd, centos install will start loading necessary drivers and then you will have to chose hard disk install and point to the drive where your dvd/cd iso(s) are 8) anaconda will start and well the rest you know I have a 16gb stick with CentOS 4 32bit 64bit and CentOS 5 32bit 64bit to install my systems There is one problem, if you want to use kickstart, it will want the mounted iso files, have not yet figured a way to get around this or to get some command to mount the images somewhere Regards, Tosh. -- Toshaan toshli...@gmail.com - http://www.toshaan.be ___ 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
[CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question
I just set up a secure server. Followed the godaddy instructions for key generation/installation - and the server wanted my pass phrase to start. When I started developing I followed instructions for a self signed cert and everything went dandy. Anyway - after a little googling and an uneasy feeling that I messed up and godaddy might charge me a fee to resubmit for a new cert, I found the following solution - openssl rsa -in secure.shastaherps.key.old -out secure.shastaherps.key After running that and entering my pass phrase, no pass phrase is required to start the server and it seems like the browsers don't complain, so I think I'm set, but I thought I'd verify that all really is well and that doing that isn't going to cause any issues. If I understand it correctly, the phrase was needed when Apache starts in order to decrypt the key, and all I did above was decrypt the key so that apache doesn't have to, correct? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Jason Pyeron wrote: It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, We will only need to push our web application Are we talking about PHP or similar? In that case, you probably don't need root access. I wouldn't really call that installing software. I reserve that term for stuff that typically lives under /usr or /opt. If we're talking about anything that needs to be compiled and can't run from either /home or cgi-bin, I think we're back to root access or fully managed hosting. Everyone's pushing you to one of the VPS providers because that's what all the cool kids are doing now that VM technology is commoditized. I do not have an opinion on this. Better get one. VM technology is only going to become more pervasive. If you think you don't have any use for VMs, you're probably wrong. :) There's nowhere I use computers that I don't use VMs, now. Not willing to take responsibility, but willing to pay for it. How much? Fully managed hosting usually starts well North of $100 a month. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question
Michael A. Peters wrote: openssl rsa -in secure.shastaherps.key.old -out secure.shastaherps.key After running that and entering my pass phrase, no pass phrase is required to start the server and it seems like the browsers don't complain, so I think I'm set, but I thought I'd verify that all really is well and that doing that isn't going to cause any issues. I've been doing that for years and it works fine so I think your good to go. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Update for 5.3 failed on subversion and gstreamer-plugins-good
2009/4/2 Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com: 2009/4/2 Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de Why should we list rpmforge packages in the Release Notes? exclude subversion from base if you want to use the one from rpmforge because it is newer - and remove gstreamer-plugins-bad, because it shares some files with gstreamer-plugins-good from from the base repository. That was my only issue with on my laptop upgrade. All I did was... # yum remove gstreamer-plugins-bad ...and then re-ran the upgrade. I'm going to blame my failing eyesight for this one. I removed both the bad and the ugly, and everything worked fine. Now I need to remember to put them back GREAT JOB AND THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK! I can't tell you how pleased I am with all of CentOS, bug and my own stupidity notwithstanding. Now I'm ready to update my laptop. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: After running that and entering my pass phrase, no pass phrase is required to start the server and it seems like the browsers don't complain, so I think I'm set, but I thought I'd verify that all really is well and that doing that isn't going to cause any issues. If I understand it correctly, the phrase was needed when Apache starts in order to decrypt the key, and all I did above was decrypt the key so that apache doesn't have to, correct? You are correct. As long as you can guarantee limited access to the file containing the key, then storing it in decrypted form is probably worth the risk. On a server with untrusted users, however, I'd keep it decrypted. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: On a server with untrusted users, however, I'd keep it decrypted. Er, I'd keep it encrypted. There's also the issue of how it gets stored in your backup system. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote: Can I get some recommendations: We are looking for a hosting provider (other than godaddy) with 1: SLA 2: SSH access 3: subversion/rsync or the ability to install binaries / compile source. Would like them to include http/https and email. Any suggestions? I don't know if they have everything you look for, but I have all of my personal web sites hosted at http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10785129 (that includes my id for a reference, please use it if you like them). They are cheap and have multiple levels of packages to support a lot of different kinds of businesses. Let me know if you choose them - I'm curious what you think. HTH mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
MHR wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote: Can I get some recommendations: We are looking for a hosting provider (other than godaddy) with 1: SLA 2: SSH access 3: subversion/rsync or the ability to install binaries / compile source. Would like them to include http/https and email. Any suggestions? I don't know if they have everything you look for, but I have all of my personal web sites hosted at http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=10785129 (that includes my id for a reference, please use it if you like them). They are cheap and have multiple levels of packages to support a lot of different kinds of businesses. Let me know if you choose them - I'm curious what you think. HTH mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I am renting a full root access vm from a friend of mine..gives me everything except the sla. If you want the sla you are going to be looking at a fully managed service of some kind. 2 vcpu at 2.0ghz, 2 gigs ram, 20 gigs hdd..os of my choice..which is Centos 5..:) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Rainer Duffner wrote: I think you do not understand: he wants a managed VPS/manged root server. Actually, my employer does provide those, but they are no bargains. You get CentOS, though ;-) how about getting the project one ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...
Am 03.04.2009 um 22:57 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Rainer Duffner wrote: I think you do not understand: he wants a managed VPS/manged root server. Actually, my employer does provide those, but they are no bargains. You get CentOS, though ;-) how about getting the project one ? You mean for the CentOS project? Hm. Haven't though about that. I assumed, CentOS had enough of everything (except maybe developers). ;-) Also, it's not my call to hand out free VPSs ;-) But I could certainly ask. What do you want to do with it? cheers, Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] warning for nis users and 5.3 upgrade
i think that previous versions did this as well, but for sure the newest ypserv in 5.3 replaces /var/yp/Makefile with a new copy. needless to say if you've made any changes to that file, you will not be happy. we had a couple hours of phone calls after passwords stopped working. the original file is save as Makefile.rpmsave, so recovery of the file is straightforward. the issue has been flagged upstream and it sounds like it should be fixed before any new updates to ypserv are made. /etc/ypserv.conf is another file that can get overwritten. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
