Re: [CentOS] [Request] mod_auth_ntlm_winbind
Rob Townley wrote: Morten, i may have mixed up the conversations. I had just posted about wanting a SaMBa 3.2 package for CentOS. This would make it so that the user could logon to a XWindows/SSH Linux workstation using MS Active Directory Services credentials. You are talking about getting your CentOS server to check credentials by verifying with ADS. Your users are likely on Windows machines. Yes, my users are on windows machines. I also have my CentOS server set up to use AD to authenticate on SSH.. No local users required This is also working fine - to give access to the server, all one has to do is to add the staff to a certain AD group. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [Request] mod_auth_ntlm_winbind
Rob Townley wrote: One of the other users posted about EnterpriseSamba.com. Their repository is at *http://ftp.sernet.de http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/services/samba/README.txt Haven't tried it myself. Then again, you are referring to using AD Authentication in a web browser, but i would think their package would eliminate some of the steps, anyway. I'm uncertain as to what you are talking about, but, yes what I am doing is using NTLM to get seamless logon to web servers from clients that are logged into AD. This is working quite fine, and there was little I had to do on CentOS, I basically only installed mod_auth_ntlm_winbind, and everything was fine and dandy.. There was one little issue though, I had to turn on keepalive in httpd.conf -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] [Request] mod_auth_ntlm_winbind
http://adldap.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mod_auth_ntlm_winbind I have built an rpm for my own use, by grabbing the source files from sambas' web interface to cvs. It would be real neat to have it packaged and available through yum. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] MRTG Problem - no traffic recorded
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
Morten Nilsen wrote:
...
Target[vlan10]: `ifconfig vlan10 |
/usr/bin/awk '/bytes/{ gsub(/:/, " "); print $3 "\n" $8}'`
Try adding the full path to ifconfig
I did in fact do that last night, and left it running, and now the graph
is fine..
Thanks for the reply, none the less!
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[CentOS] Package request: php, pear: spreadsheet::excel::writer
Hello, I am currently using this PEAR package to generate .xls documents in PHP; http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer It would be very much appreciated if someone could add it to the repository, as it is always to prefer rpm packages over manually installed ones. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] MRTG Problem - no traffic recorded
Hi all,
I've just recently replaced my old firewall with a new one, running
CentOS 5..
Yesterday, I decided to get MRTG up and running again, so I entered
sections like this into the mrtg.conf file:
Title[vlan10]: Bandwidth usage on tenchi.4th-age.com (Internet)
PageTop[vlan10]: Traffic stats on VLAN 10 (Internet)
Target[vlan10]: `ifconfig vlan10 |
/usr/bin/awk '/bytes/{ gsub(/:/, " "); print $3 "\n" $8}'`
MaxBytes[vlan10]: 1250
Options[vlan10]: noinfo, growright, bits
WithPeak[vlan10]: wmy
The Target is all on one line in the file.
This config worked fine on my old firewall, but on the new, I get this
in the log files:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mrtg]# head /var/lib/mrtg/vlan10.log
1218175802 -1 -1
1218175802 3 3 3 3
1218175501 3 3 3 3
1218175500 3 3 3 3
When testing, I ran the mrtg command, precisely as it is written in
/etc/cron.d/mrtg, and that placed real values where now it says -1, but
as soon as the cron job ran, the values became -1 again.
I hope someone can shed some light on this problem..
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Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?
Bent Terp wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Noob Centos Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /sbin/iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 219.64.114.52 -j DROP I'd recommend you add the extra rules by editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables instead. At least that way you can be sure they'll survive restarts off iptables. I rather prefer to add rules using the command and then issuing service iptables save when I'm adding one or two simple rules.. If completely redesigning the firewall or adding in many complex rules, then I edit the iptables file. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] is CentOS an LSB certified product?
Nicholas wrote: Just to see if it matters to ppl if it matters to be certified. And what, pray tell, is LSB? -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] EVMS?
drew einhorn wrote: EVMS Enterprise Volume Management System sounds interesting, looks like it supported CentOS4, but not CentOS5. EVMS was introduced in the 3.0 release of TSL, but was jerked out of 3.0.5, the test-version of 3.1, which was never released.. Back then, EVMS was slapped on without any kind of explanation or well sorted plan.. It merely created problems for users or wasn't noticed at all.. It was one of many things that drove most of the user base away, long before the distro was scrapped by Comodo. I have yet to see what EVMS is supposed to do, other than muck up the booting process with additional indirection.. I still have TSL on servers both at home and work, as I have not yet had the time needed to rework them. -- Cheers, Morten Nilsen Former TSL contributor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address
Tom Brown wrote: In CentOS 4 does anyone know the switches to get NMAP to reveal the MAC of the host being scanned ? Others have given you good answers, but I felt I could share some insight on the matter.. The MAC address of a NIC is used by switches to send packets out the right port - As soon as you add a routing element, all traffic to a routed IP appears to be destined for the router, if one goes by the MAC address in the packet. If the destination MAC were to be encoded in the packet, no switches would be able to keep their internal tables sane, as it would be flooded with MACs, all on the same port (the one connected to the gateway). When a switch recieves a packet adressed to a MAC that doesn't appear in the switch-internal list, the packet will be flooded (sent out on all ports). Once a packet from that MAC passes through the switch, that MAC will be added to the list, and future packets only leave that one port. The main function of a switch is to keep irrelevant packets away from hosts, but packets to unknown (to the switch) hosts get sent everywhere, just like a Hub would do. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I remember about the Netflix format from before 2000. It's a very low bandwidth format with really bad quality. AFAIK it was mainly porn sites using it. I thought it had died out since long. I believe there are two entirely separate things called "netflix".. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS as VPN Gateway?
Akemi Yagi wrote: There is a driver for the Attansic L1 thanks to wolfy (Manuel Wolfshant). Please see: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/CentOS5/AttansicL1 Thanks a bunch, that fixed it! -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS as VPN Gateway?
Barry Brimer wrote: Hello, I am currently setting up my new router, and I opted for using CentOS.. Now, I need OpenVPN support, and I'd rather not install it from source. I tried yum, but there doesn't appear to be any packages for it available.. Any tips? rpmforge has openvpn packages for Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora: Thanks! -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS as VPN Gateway?
Morten Nilsen wrote: Hello, I am currently setting up my new router, and I opted for using CentOS.. The new router hardware has an Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, which the internet tells me is supported from kernel 2.6.21.. Any chance of the CentOS kernel gets updated (or the driver backported) to allow me to use this interface? Or should/must I just go ahead and bake my own kernel? -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS as VPN Gateway?
Hello, I am currently setting up my new router, and I opted for using CentOS.. Now, I need OpenVPN support, and I'd rather not install it from source. I tried yum, but there doesn't appear to be any packages for it available.. Any tips? -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] XFS at install time
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why won't the installer let me choose XFS for my partitions? The distro kernel (thus installer CD) does not have xfs support. I don't actually use a CD, but okay.. Please consider adding xfs support.. It doesn't please me to run things on ext3.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] XFS at install time
Why won't the installer let me choose XFS for my partitions? -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Turning off Gnome and other stuff
Dennis McLeod wrote: Is there a simple way to turn all the applets and such off and start from the command line? Idea is to come up with a default level of 3 via the inittab, due a remote login and then a command line entry "startx &" to start the X server, possibly a minimum window manager, and then go right into the sim programs. That is an excellent solution, though, you can start the X11 server directly without startx.. So, "X & my_simulator.bin" You could also toss that into rc.local to get it up automatically.. If you trim down the boot process to its bare bones, you should be able to get it to load up quite fast as well. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Can't get .htaccess to work
Pam Astor wrote: That you got a server error is good.> > > Here are the last two log file entries for that httpd request:> > you want to look in the *error* log if you look for errors!> > > > I could not access the site,> > which means exactly what? ;-) OK, starting from scratch this morning, here is the .htaccess file I am using which is inside of the /home/LinuxAccountName/www directory: Options NoneAuthName "UserNameIUsedToCreatePasswordWith"AuthType BasicAuthUserFile /home/LinuxAccountName/.htpasswdRequire valid-user www above refers to the root or web directory - the lowest or first or base directory that is web accessable. And, this is the error I am getting from my httpd error log for this domain: [Sun Apr 20 07:47:40 2008] [alert] [client 75.46.110.14] /home/LinuxAccountName/.htaccess: Remove the tag.. a .htaccess file is placed inside a tag for the folder it is in automatically.. Consequentially, your .htaccess looks like this to apache: ... -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Another samba problem - SOLVED!
Anne Wilson wrote: Unbelievably simple, once I found it. /etc/hosts had lost several lines. I have no idea how that could have happened, but one of the missing lines was the address of the server. I can now see all the server's shares within konqueror! Yes, that would indeed do it.. However, there has in "recent" years been made some progress in this field, and DNS has solved the issue of hosts-files being corrupted or out of sync between machines on the local network.. It might be worth the effort to set up dhcp with ddns updates - it makes such interoperability a piece of cake! -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Can't get .htaccess to work
Pam Astor wrote: When I reload, apache will not reload. What am I doing wrong? I suspect your only fault is not checking the logs.. Right after you issue service httpd start, go look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/* -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Simulate RJ 45 Port
On 4/18/2008, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 23:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> John wrote: >> > Attachment Unit Interface? (AUI) RJ46 to Serial DB9 or RJ45 to LPT ? >> >> AUI connectors were DB15, and also aren't 'serial ports', they are >> ethernet without the PHY layer transcievers. > >I thought it was a DB9. I have not seen one in years. IIRC I used them >for printer connections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_Unit_Interface -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQL from 4.1 to 5
Tito Valentin wrote: I am trying to upgrade MySQL on CentOS 4.5 but having a hard time. I need to go from MySQL 4.1 to 5. I downloaded the following two files: mysql-server-5.0.58-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm mysql-5.0.48-2.el4.centos.i386.rpm I tried to do: yum install mysql-server-5.0.58-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm The command to use here would be rpm -Uvh, as these packages are not in the yum system. You would need to uninstall the current mysql first, however - and to migrate any data, you need to use mysqldump --all --opt before that, and then import it back after 5.x is installed. Last time I checked, you could not use the same database files for different major versions of MySQL - I could be wrong on this point, however. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys
Clint Dilks wrote: 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is it worth the effort of changing this and setting up ssh-agent compared to what you gain in security by doing this ? Certainly, adding passphrases nudges the security up a step, as otherwise a compromised account means the offender can log onto any other system - or in the case of compromised root, can log in anywhere as anyone.. It comes down to, like all security measures, a balancing act between security and ease-of-use.. You need to take into consideration what data is around the systems, and what the worst case scenario would be.. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Relax man, didn't you see the smiley face ? Hey man, would you please trim replies in the future.. Five miles of quoted text is actually worse than html mail ;) -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Alan Bartlett wrote: Then surely it comes down to an issue with either *your* video controller card or monitor. Please now try the obvious, follow scientific procedures and swap them out, one at a time. Clearly, it is a hardware problem and nothing to do with CentOS - unless you can convince me otherwise. I will first have to find a new vga card to try that.. But I do know it isn't the monitor, as the three other boxes connected to it never show this sort of behaviour.. I have found a way to provoke the flashes, by the way; simply invoking ifup and ifdown triggers it. -- Chers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Johnny Hughes wrote: Alan Bartlett wrote: Please remember that there are also active CentOS fora. Perhaps this may be of interest: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12678&forum=37&post_id=41742#forumpost41742 That does indeed look exactly like what is being described and they are not fixing it in RHEL ... though you might try their patch and see if it fixes it for you. I don't think that sounds like the same error at all, my screen switches off and depending on what is going on doesn't switch back on right away (like that one time when some process didn't start up and I had to ssh in to poke it) Nevertheless, I tried applying the patch, and the result was identical.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Big devices and missing space
Hello, I have a Promise EX 12-port RAID controller in my box, connected to 8 750GB disks. I have set up 2 RAID-5 devices and joined these using LVM. This is working fine. However, there is something that seems wrong.. (4-1) * 750 = 2250, but df reports the LVM volume as a mere 4.0T; /dev/mapper/storage_volume-stor 4.0T 3.6T 507G 88% /storage Shouldn't this be 4.5TB? Relevant bit of boot log: scsi4 : stex Vendor: Promise Model: 4 Disk RAID5 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdb: 4395053952 512-byte hdwr sectors (2250268 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 12 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdb: 4395053952 512-byte hdwr sectors (2250268 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 12 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Vendor: Promise Model: 4 Disk RAID5 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdc: 4395053952 512-byte hdwr sectors (2250268 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 12 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). SCSI device sdc: 4395053952 512-byte hdwr sectors (2250268 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 12 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: sdc1 sd 4:0:4:0: Attached scsi disk sdc sd 4:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 Vendor: Promise Model: RAID Console Rev: 1.00 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 03 scsi 4:0:16:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 3 -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Rudi Ahlers wrote: What happens when you reboot in "safe mode"? What exactly do you mean by "safe mode"? The monitor I have hooked up is a 15" LCD panel, by the way. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Morten Nilsen wrote: Next time I reboot the system, I'll report back on the state of the flashing.. Rebooted just now to test, and the flashing still happens.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a Linux washu3.4th-age.com 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:37:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1 I really do hope somebody have an idea, because this is real annoying. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sofware caused connection abort
Gergely Buday wrote: On 29/03/2008, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have seen similar problems if ICMP is blocked.. On my LAN, putty sessions live forever. They connect via the internet, could it make a difference? And, how can I check if ICMP is blocked? Ping sends ICMP packages, so try pinging the server from the clients whom experience problems. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] sofware caused connection abort
Gergely Buday wrote: some of my users use putty to connect to my server via ssh protocol. After some time they get the above error message, and it could be that my CentOS-side configuration caused this. Do anybody has experience with this problem? I have seen similar problems if ICMP is blocked.. On my LAN, putty sessions live forever. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Trey Sizemore wrote: On Fri Mar 28, 2008 07:47PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal with this? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 1. Change the default port 2. use only SSH protocol 2 3. Install some brute force protection which can automatically ban an IP on say 5 / 10 failed login attempts 4. ONLY allow SSH access from your IP, if it's static. Or signup for a DynDNS account, and then only allow SSH access from your DynDNS domain Fail2Ban is a good brute force protector. It works in conjunction with IPTables to block IPs that are "attacking" for a said duration of time. :) I haven't used Fail2Ban, but I do like what I've been experiencing with apf[1] and sim[2]. The Reactive Address Blocking (RAB) feature in apf is a bit timesaver, but I expect Fail2Ban has something similar. apf is basically an easier (for me, anyway) of managing iptables. Manually banning an ip or block is as easy as adding it to the deny_hosts.rules file and restarting apf. RAB really helps, again imo. HTH, -Ray [1] http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php [2] http://rfxnetworks.com/sim.php ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Here's a quick howto for Suse10.3, but the principles stay the same. Fail2Ban can be used for many other things as well, like FTP, MySQL, SMTP, etc :) I don't see the how-to... Sorry, here it is http://howtoforge.net/fail2ban_opensuse10.3 (leaving quoted text in place for illustrative purposes) I would really appreciate it, as well as most others I believe, if everyone could begin trimming down their replies.. When I read the emails of this thread, I had to scroll down quite a bit to get to the text, which wastes a few seconds of my time and leaves me slightly annoyed. This in and of itself is surely no big deal, but multiply that with the number of subscribers on this list, and we are truly getting somewhere. So, please, in the future when replying to an email, delete all text that isn't directly related to your reply. -- Thank you, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] [Request] Slurm
Hi, I really like the tool "slurm", which lets me monitor bandwidth usage realtime from within screen.. I would really appreciate it if this could be added to CentOS.. http://www.wormulon.net/slurm/ If some other tool that covers this need exists, I'll be glad to hear about it. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Akemi Yagi wrote: Well, if it is suspected that there are more duplicates in the rpm database, you might want to follow the procedure detailed in this forum post: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=10139&forum=27 I've now gotten the dupes sorted out, and have run yum upgrade.. Next time I reboot the system, I'll report back on the state of the flashing.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Scott Silva wrote: The attached script should fix it up, but check it first, don't just run it. Your attachment got stripped, it seems.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Alan Bartlett wrote: If the command rpm -q centos-release returns centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1 then you *are* running CentOS 5 update 1. I had previously looked at /etc/issue, which says "release 5 (Final)".. # rpm -q centos-release centos-release-5-0.0.el5.centos.2 centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1 hmm, that doesn't look right to me..? -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Niki Kovacs wrote: The question may sound silly, but are you up-to-date? As far as "yum update/upgrade" tells me, yes.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Robert Nichols wrote: If you installed 5.0, you're missing a LOT of updates. The normal update mechanism should bring your machine up to 5.1 unless you've taken action to lock it to the 5.0 release. When I installed this box, 5.1 wasn't out yet.. And, no I haven't taken any kind of action to lock it to 5.0. I have run "yum update" a few times, but I don't see any signs of it wanting to upgrade to 5.1.. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Johnny Hughes wrote: Do these options exist in /boot/grub/grub.conf on the "Kernel" line: quiet rhgb Just got home - and no, they do not.. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: 'yum remove libgnomesomething' will do the depsolving for you (just like 'yum install'). I don't really mind doing it manually, it yields greater control.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
On 3/27/2008, "Johnny Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> that time the monitor stayed off.. had to ssh in to resolve it..That may >> indicate that someting in the sysinit shuts off the monitor at the start >> of a script, then turns it back on at the end.. > >Do these options exist in /boot/grub/grub.conf on the "Kernel" line: > >quiet rhgb > >If so, please remove them if you do not want X on the server. These 2 >things try (during boot up) to take away the standard startup screen and >replace it with a Blue background and picture. This uses X, which could >cause something if it has been removed and the options are still listed. > >Removing those options (if they are there) should fix that issue. I'll look into it, thanks. >We do not seem to have php-mssql for CentOS extras as it requires >freetds and we were concerned about potential patent issues with >freetds. However, it seems Fedora is including freetds now in version 8 >and version 9, so I will research this freetds issue again and if we >think we can safely build and distribute freetds I will get it into our >extras repo soon. If not, you should be able to easily build it ... but >I think we will add it, so not to worry. Good to hear :) I know I can easily build it, I supplied contrib rpms of freetds for Trustix a while back, which got adopted into official.. I just asked because I really like getting updates without having to rebuild php/freetds each time.. >Also ... some rpms do require certain things to be available, and the >binaries are LINKED against the shared libraries. So, one can not just >delete (for example) all xorg-x11 RPMS just because you don't want X. If >you did use "rpm -e" (with a --force or --nodeps) then it should be OK >since if a library is necessary, RPM will complain and not do the >removal unless overridden. Yes, I am well aware of the dependency thing.. I used to maintain a large selection of packages in TSL contrib.. I did rpm -e libgnomesomething and added on packages until it stopped complaining about deps.. As far as X11 goes, I deselected that during install, don't remember having to remove any of those rpms by hand.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
On 3/27/2008, "Karanbir Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power off mode - the LED turns >> orange. > >Sounds like your monitor does not like switching modes between text / >gui perhaps ? Which GUI are you referring to? I removed all the X11 stuff.. Also, one time I booted, it had some problems starting some service, and that time the monitor stayed off.. had to ssh in to resolve it..That may indicate that someting in the sysinit shuts off the monitor at the start of a script, then turns it back on at the end.. -- Cheers, Morten :wq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Karanbir Singh wrote: Morten Nilsen wrote: - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and when logging in? mine does not, so cant say what is going on with your setup, perhaps posting some more info about your setup might help make it easier to diagnose. Isn't much to say, really.. * ATI Radeon PCI * Intel 975 Chipset The motherboard is an Asus "Wallstreet Quartet".. - When I chose a pure console environment, without any X11 stuff, why did a bunch of gnome packages get installed? CentOS comes with a package manager, yum. There is a man page for that, and lots of docs online. You can use that to remove anything you dont need. Yes, I know.. I didn't ask how to remove anything, just why it got installed to begin with.. The gnome stuff is long gone on this box. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
D Steward wrote: - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and when logging in? I presume you mean when logging in at the console, the fonts look a bit glitchy and flickery at times. no, that's not it.. the monitor goes into power off mode - the LED turns orange. I don't see it now, in any case, since I login via ssh and dont need to be at the console. Yes, I do that too.. but each time I actually need to use the console, this annoys me to no end.. - When I chose a pure console environment, without any X11 stuff, why did a bunch of gnome packages get installed? As strange as it may seem, some apps which are supposedly text-only, have dependencies based on the gnome libs. I can't remember the offending packages offhand, but I don't really care much since disk-space is so cheap. Well, sure.. But on the other hand, it is nice to keep bloat down. - Is it possible to get a php-mssql package? -I need this if I'm going to use CentOS at work.. There is no default rpm for centos5, but one exists for Fedora. I am aware of this fact, which is why I asked for CentOS to add a php-mssql package.. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] A few questions regarding CentOS (5.0)
Hello list, I'm a former Trustix User (were active in that community since the very first betas), and now that my dear distro is dead, I'm looking to make a switch.. Several people recommended CentOS, so I decided to give it a spin.. I installed one new server with 5.0 a few months back, and I do have a couple of questions.. - Why does the screen flicker on and off several times during boot and when logging in? - Why does floppy.so get loaded? I have no floppy, and having floppy.so loaded while installing certain packages is dreadfully slow. - When I chose a pure console environment, without any X11 stuff, why did a bunch of gnome packages get installed? - Is it possible to get a php-mssql package? -I need this if I'm going to use CentOS at work.. I think that's it for now.. -- Cheers, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
