Re: [CentOS] Where is the blktrace utility?

I was bored so I looked around just to see if I could find this anywhere. The only place I found it was http://mirror.steadfast.org/debian/pool/main/b/blktrace/blktrace_0~git-20070718142546.orig.tar.gz Not sure if it'll work (haven't compiled/run it), but I think it's an unpatched ver. Geoff

Re: [CentOS] Subject: How do I recover from a corrupt fstab file on reboot?

On 08/09/2007, at 4:30 PM, chuck wrote: I am using CENTOS 5 and I am stuck where I have to repair my boot loader and all of the files are read only so I cannot fix them. How do I get around this? mount -o remount,rw / Do this for all your mount points, then run fsck etc... -- Steven Haigh

[CentOS] Subject: How do I recover from a corrupt fstab file on reboot?

I am using CENTOS 5 and I am stuck where I have to repair my boot loader and all of the files are read only so I cannot fix them. How do I get around this? Thanks Chuck ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

[CentOS] How to upgrade WBEL4 to CentOS4?

Hi, I've got a couple of servers that are running WBEL4 that I would like to upgrade to CentOS4. I noticed that there is a FAQ which explains how to upgrade WBEL3 to CentOS3, but haven't found anything similar for WBEL4. Are the instructions for the WBEL3 upgrade the same for WBEL4? Should I

[CentOS] Where is the blktrace utility?

I keep reading that RHEL/CentOS 5 supports blktrace, but I can't seem to find the blktrace/blkparse utilities. Is it that just the functionality is available in the kernel, but the user is left to have to hunt down the latest versions of the utilities on the net? If anybody knows where to get t

[CentOS] asking for a repo

Surfing on the web I had found a repo, I want to know how safe it is??? the URL is http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/el5/ sorry if a make any mistake on my writing. thanks to all -- “Nuestra recompensa se encuentra en el esfuerzo y no en el resultado. Un esfuerzo total es una victoria completa”

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Hosting

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 16:07 -0400, William Warren wrote: > I run selinux in permissive. Once i figure out how to write policy i'll > put it back on active.. > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On 01 September 2007, William Warren > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Message: 3 > > > > > >> you can also

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

Chuck Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting very far. The system is 2 dual core xeons (5160, 3.0 GHZ) w/ 8GB ram. It has two 320 GB disks on the motherboard controller (Supermicro X7DAE+), and 8 750 GB disks on a 3ware

[CentOS] Re: ext3 inode and journal limitation

Centos spake the following on 9/7/2007 1:38 PM: I have another question. if I mount a filesystem on root partition, is inodes on mounted file system is going to be added to root inodes ? thanks for help No. The inodes are part of the underlying partition, and it doesn't matter how many filesyst

Re: [CentOS] ext3 inode and journal limitation

I have another question. if I mount a filesystem on root partition, is inodes on mounted file system is going to be added to root inodes ? thanks for help Alain Spineux wrote: You can get inode info using "df -i" or tune2fs You should get info about journaling info using tune2fs too. Journal s

Re: [CentOS] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

This worked perfectly. Thanks. Scott On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Simon Jolle "sjolle" wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugged in, but that's

Re: [CentOS] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

Scott Ehrlich wrote: Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugged in, but that's it. fdisk -l doesn't see it. dmesg doesn't do much, either. It is a Western Digital My

[CentOS] Installation troubles

I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting very far. The system is 2 dual core xeons (5160, 3.0 GHZ) w/ 8GB ram. It has two 320 GB disks on the motherboard controller (Supermicro X7DAE+), and 8 750 GB disks on a 3ware 9650SE-8ml, pcie (x4) controller card. The 8

[CentOS] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugged in, but that's it. fdisk -l doesn't see it. dmesg doesn't do much, either. It is a Western Digital My Book II device.

RE: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Plant, Dean wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The system was initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled later by me. Are you aware of the commands getenforce & setenforce? The problem ended up being rat

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

semi linux wrote: > The only thin I can think of is that maybe my crypted password > contains an escape sequence that might not be properly handled in > anaconda? The crypted password might end on a character like '/' or '.' -- are you grabbing the complete string? johnn ___

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Stephen Harris wrote: The traditional crypt strings are from a limited set 64 characters and are always 13 characters long. GNU libc can use md5 based encryption (the first 3 characters are $1$ and are up to 34 characters in length) but are still from the character set [a

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:17:18AM -0700, semi linux wrote: > it and trying to kickstart from it - no change. (I thought there was > only one right answer, but if I reset my password and type the same > thing, the crypted string changes slightly everytime.) Traditionally, a password can be encry

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

For whatever reason, this just does not want to work for me... I get my crypted password from the /etc/shadow file and copy it directly into the ks file. I've done this ~ 6-8 times now, resetting the root password, copying it and trying to kickstart from it - no change. (I thought there was only

[CentOS] Re: Problems in x86_64 Centos 5

Mogens Kjaer spake the following on 9/7/2007 6:15 AM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We upgraded a 64 bit server from Centos 4 to 5 and encountered some strange problems. I've seen this problem both for CentOS and Fedora. An example could be: CentOS 4.x: has foo-7.2-el4 CentOS 4.x updates: has fo

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Karanbir Singh wrote: Ray Leventhal wrote: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few years now, no reason why people should not be using that these days :) Thanks, I shall. But as this is a production server, is

Re: [CentOS] ext3 inode and journal limitation

You can get inode info using "df -i" or tune2fs You should get info about journaling info using tune2fs too. Journal size is set a creation time using mke2fs "man" will help you :-) On 9/7/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > what is the limitation of inode and journaling on 32 bi

Re: [CentOS] LVM problem

In /etc/lvm/lvm.conf you can tell LVM to ignore some drive when looking for VG. I you hide hdb, you will be able to rename hda2. But his is a very hard work with some trap if you never did it before (update grub, inittab, initrd .) The shortest way for you is to boot on the CD whit only the ba

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Sounds like the issue is at hand. xx.xx.16.xx is the inital /24, base >> for the unit and default address on eth0 >> >> The additional, alias addresses are in the xx.xx.106.xx /24. They >> gateway on 16.1 and 106.1 respectively. > > Since you are us

[CentOS] LVM problem

Hi, I have CentOS 5.0 which use an old hard disk. And recently I found there are some bad sector on it ... I try to backup my data to other CentOS 5.0 box What I did is. I remove the old HD (with bad sector) and install it as a slave IDE on a working CentOS 5.0 ... I try to mount the old

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Ray Leventhal wrote: Sounds like the issue is at hand. xx.xx.16.xx is the inital /24, base for the unit and default address on eth0 The additional, alias addresses are in the xx.xx.106.xx /24. They gateway on 16.1 and 106.1 respectively. Since you are using legacy tools, I'll let someone els

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> I'm getting an error on adding the route. The machine's base IP is in >> the xx.xx.16.x /24. The additional IPs are in another /24. Base is >> physical, the others are virtual hosts. > > What Ross said, will work fine if your network bits match and

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Ray Leventhal wrote: I'm getting an error on adding the route. The machine's base IP is in the xx.xx.16.x /24. The additional IPs are in another /24. Base is physical, the others are virtual hosts. What Ross said, will work fine if your network bits match and your gateway is shared. If you

[CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

Thank you for all the suggestions. I have now retrieved the source rpms while I had already read the material at rpm.org. It was that experience that convinced me to ask here for help. If anything useful comes of this I will report back here. Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE chan

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

umair shakil wrote: Dear Ray, If you analyze, both the commands: ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it is valid /sbin/ip didnot see such situation may in future. Umair, you might want to go read 'man ip', iproute2 is completely different toolset than le

[CentOS] ext3 inode and journal limitation

Hello what is the limitation of inode and journaling on 32 bit ext3 file system. what about 64 bit. Thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] HP DL140 Help Required

On Friday 07 September 2007, Barry Brimer wrote: > > I checked; > > > > less /var/log/dmesg > > > > it says BIOS Corrupt. > > > > ACPI-0584: *** Warning: Type override - [DEB_] had invalid type (Integer) > > for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) > > I would run HP SmartStart Diagnostics. If you a

RE: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Leventhal > > > >> if you'd explain, I'd be grateful. > >> > > > > You will need to add the routes for the other subnet in your routing > > table as such. > > > > route add -net XX.XX.XX.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > > >

Re: [CentOS] rpm spec files for ruby

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:41 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > I have zero experience with creating rpm packages, but I ran across a > reference to checkinstall in a reply to one of my queries on ruby-forum > and have decided to have a go at putting an rpm together, for my own > purposes if it proves b

RE: [CentOS] vsftp and nonpriv_user option question

So what is the advantage of using nopriv_user=ftpsecure ? _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of umair shakil Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:01 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] vsftp and nonpriv_user option question Dear Blackburn, There a

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

>> if you'd explain, I'd be grateful. >> > > You will need to add the routes for the other subnet in your routing > table as such. > > route add -net XX.XX.XX.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 > > I believe there is a place to add static routes in one of the startup > scripts (besides rc.local), b

Re: [CentOS] vsftp and nonpriv_user option question

Dear Blackburn, There are 0 to 1024 ports that are privileged ports and those ports will on be run by root. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/7/07, Blackburn, Marvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thhis didnt go through completely the first time. > > > I am a bit confused as to how this works. >

Re: [CentOS] Restrict User on Sending Mail

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jun Salen wrote: I search from google on how to restrict user from sending mail and I did trial and errors for three days already but to no success. What I want to do is to restrict some user in sending mail while some unrestricted user will send mail to internet and intran

RE: [CentOS] rpm spec files for ruby

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne > > I am trying to package ruby-1.8.6 for CentOS-4.5 and I would > like to take > a look at the spec files used for ruby-1.8.1 that ships with > CentOS. Is > there any place that I can see these or could someone do me

[CentOS] vsftp and nonpriv_user option question

thhis didnt go through completely the first time. I am a bit confused as to how this works. I created a local unpriveleged user (with /bin/nologin shell). i uncommented the line containing nopriv_user=ftpsecure and restarted vsftp. I am confused as to what is supposed to happen. Shuld the

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Dear Ray, I think u should need to explain whole scenario what u actually want??? i suppose Karanbir is not getting what u want Please clear ur confusions secondly by adding the IPs with this cammand just only changes the ip of running interface. what when u reboot the system try

RE: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Leventhal > > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Ray Leventhal wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a > given machine > >> will answer. > > > > for f in 10 11 30 31 13 15 20 21 22 ; do ip ad

[CentOS] rpm spec files for ruby

I am trying to package ruby-1.8.6 for CentOS-4.5 and I would like to take a look at the spec files used for ruby-1.8.1 that ships with CentOS. Is there any place that I can see these or could someone do me the kindness of sending them to me? I am also confused as to how one breaks out the componen

RE: [CentOS] Problems in x86_64 Centos 5

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > We upgraded a 64 bit server from Centos 4 to 5 and encountered some > > strange problems. Tcsh segfaulted irregurar

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine >> will answer. > > for f in 10 11 30 31 13 15 20 21 22 ; do ip addr add dev eth0 > xx.xx.xx.${f}/24 ; done; ip addr ls; ip route ls; > > check firewall to make sure

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

umair shakil wrote: > Dear Ray, > > If you analyze, both the commands: > > ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it > is valid > /sbin/ip didnot see such situation may in future. > > Regards, > > Umair Shakil > Askai Bank Limited > Pakistan Thanks for that, I will d

Re: [CentOS] HP DL140 Help Required

I checked; less /var/log/dmesg it says BIOS Corrupt. ACPI-0584: *** Warning: Type override - [DEB_] had invalid type (Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) I would run HP SmartStart Diagnostics. If you are not running the most current version of your system firmware, you might con

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine will answer. for f in 10 11 30 31 13 15 20 21 22 ; do ip addr add dev eth0 xx.xx.xx.${f}/24 ; done; ip addr ls; ip route ls; check firewall to make sure traffic is allowed in/out for those IP

RE: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Leventhal > > Hi all, > > I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine > will answer. > > I did this: > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 xx.xx.xx.11 net

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Dear Ray, If you analyze, both the commands: ifconfig is a way to configure your IP address as the name shows, it is valid /sbin/ip didnot see such situation may in future. Regards, Umair Shakil Askai Bank Limited Pakistan On 9/7/07, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Karanbir S

RE: [CentOS] Problems in x86_64 Centos 5

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > We upgraded a 64 bit server from Centos 4 to 5 and encountered some > strange problems. Tcsh segfaulted irregurarily and emacs gave > irregurarily > strange error messages about regular expressions. Both probl

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Ray Leventhal wrote: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few years now, no reason why people should not be using that these days :) Thanks, I shall. But as this is a production server, is there something that /

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

> Dear Ray, > > Please assure me that: > > /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > Is this the valid netmask " 255.255.255.0 " for > static IP address for this machine > you mentioned > > it will be "ifconfig eth0:0 x netm

Re: [CentOS] Problems in x86_64 Centos 5

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We upgraded a 64 bit server from Centos 4 to 5 and encountered some > strange problems. I've seen this problem both for CentOS and Fedora. An example could be: CentOS 4.x: has foo-7.2-el4 CentOS 4.x updates: has foo-7.4-el4 CentOS 5: has foo-7.3-el5 So when you do an

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ray Leventhal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine >> will answer. >> >> I did this: >> >> /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Dear Ray, Please assure me that: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 Is this the valid netmask "255.255.255.0" for static IP address for this machine you mentioned it will be "ifconfig eth0:0 x netmask 255.255.255.255" Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/7/07, Ray Leve

Re: [CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine will answer. I did this: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 you might want to investigate /sbin/ip - its been around for a few years now, no reason why people should not

[CentOS] unable to add IP address to eth0:0 eth0:1 etc

Hi all, I need to (quickly!grrr) update IP addresses for which a given machine will answer. I did this: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 xx.xx.xx.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 xx.xx.xx.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:2 xx.xx.xx.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:3 xx

[CentOS] Problems in x86_64 Centos 5

We upgraded a 64 bit server from Centos 4 to 5 and encountered some strange problems. Tcsh segfaulted irregurarily and emacs gave irregurarily strange error messages about regular expressions. Both problems disappeared when a 32-bit version was installed instead of the 64-bit. Ldconfig still occ

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

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RE: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Plant, Dean wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The system was initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled later by me. Are you aware of the commands getenforce & setenforce? I am now, having recently disc

RE: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The > system was initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled > later by me. Are you aware of the commands getenforce & setenforce? Dean ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] NIS binding probs w/Firewall and SELinux

On Friday 07 September 2007 00:58, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > Is there a file I can edit to ensure SELinux is disabled? The system was > initially installed with SELinux Enabled, then disabled later by me. set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/sysconfig/selinux Tony > > In the meantime, I did find > htt

[CentOS] Centos 5 Xen Problem

Hi , I am using Centos 5 for virtualization , i have installed Centos 5 as Host OS and trying install Centos 5 as a guest OS but system is stuck at final screen Starting Install process. This may take saveral minutes.. and its not doing anything else after that i am waiting for at leat 30

[CentOS] VNC reporting -> logs -> logwatch

Hello all, Does anybody know how to get the vncserver to report connections so I can receive it via the daily logwatch e-mail? Thanks, Michael ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] HP DL140 Help Required

Salam, Thanks for replying me. My HP DL140 has following specs: CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz RAM: 512 MB HD: 72x72GB Well i haven't tried HP Diagnostics, If i reset the BIOS to "Restore Default", should there be booting problem after doing this, i mean