Re: [CentOS-docs] Page Request

2007-09-23 Thread Kirk Bocek
Ralph Angenendt wrote: No, I just wanted to see if you'd ask a second time :) I hope I've proven my loyalty to the wiki. I'll let you know when it's done. Kirk Bocek ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

[CentOS] Gnumeric spreadsheet?

2007-09-23 Thread Frank Cox
Where can I get the Gnumeric spreadsheet for Centos 5? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please

2007-09-23 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 22 September 2007 15:12:23 Paul wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:53 +0100, John Bowden wrote: On Friday 21 September 2007 11:39:03 Jim Wildman wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, John Bowden wrote: (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two ink-jets),

Re: [CentOS] Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and, stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email, reporting

2007-09-23 Thread David G. Miller
Alexander Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr and stdin, which is easy: backup.sh /var/log/backup.log 21 However, I would like to propagate only stderr

Re: [CentOS] install freezes at partition layout

2007-09-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 22 September 2007, Barry Schiffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 15 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT) snip I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm using the DVD image. Barry: Possibly the small amount of RAM is

Re: [CentOS] install freezes at partition layout

2007-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 14:22 -0700, Barry Schiffman wrote: I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm using the DVD image. The media check said the DVD was OK. Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text modes), untl I

[CentOS] chmod / chown settings on /var/www/html

2007-09-23 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm setting up a new CentOS 4.4 server to work with Fruity (a frontend program that operates Nagios). For security purposes, what chmod and chown settings do you put on the /var/www/html folders? Also, can anyone recommend any good LAMP hardening guides? While I'm not planning on putting this

Re: [CentOS] chmod / chown settings on /var/www/html

2007-09-23 Thread gjgowey
I can't answer all your questions, but I can answer a little. Ideally your should have everything from the html dir on down owned by root (or the account of whoever is going to be maintaining the html pages), but with a group of www. The permissions for everything should have the group and

[CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Rajeev R Veedu
I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it for ext3. The default partitioning utility doesn't do this. The OS sits on another SATA

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Fabian Arrotin
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it for ext3. The default

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/23/07, Rajeev R Veedu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. We recently installed CentOS 5 on a pair of machines with 2.5TB RAIDs and the only way we could

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not increase the block size above 512 Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant sector size there, not block. ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

2007-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: snip There exists a command-line command to do this as well, 'chvt' which is part of the kbd package. I want to add openvt, just for completeness

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not increase the block size above 512 Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant sector size there, not block. IIRC,

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread gjgowey
Gparted and partion magic will do it. Windows will do it if you format via the disk management console. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Message- From: William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:43:48 To:CentOS General List

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread Von Landfried
I had this same issue with 'fdisk' when I installed it on a server with 12TB of space RAID'd down to 6TB. Just use 'parted' and it will solve your problems. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/ On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I need to install Centos on a machine

Re: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

2007-09-23 Thread Les Mikesell
William L. Maltby wrote: I'm not sure when this next thing would be useful, but another thing that I think has a high degree of coolity is that I can openvt from an X terminal and work in the standard (usually 80x25) console screen. ... Oh wait! When my old eyes get tired of squinting

[CentOS] (gnome-session:5212) error

2007-09-23 Thread Todd Cary
One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied and Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied Any suggestions are welcomed.. Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707)

Re: [CentOS] (gnome-session:5212) error

2007-09-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Todd Cary wrote: One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied and Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied Any suggestions are welcomed.. Wrongly set home directory in /etc/passwd? Why

Re: [CentOS] (gnome-session:5212) error

2007-09-23 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:46:08 -0700 Todd Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied and Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied It looks to me like you have

Re: [CentOS] fstab problem after a failed drive

2007-09-23 Thread Alain Spineux
When your / is mounted ro, you can remount / in rw using this command # mount -o remount,rw / Then update your fstab and reboot Regards Alain On 9/22/07, Gregory P. Ennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone, I installed a sata drive on a SuperMicro with SCSI drives. No problem with the

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-23 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware level(used to be set with jumpers and/or low-level format programs?). I seem to recall that new drives don't really have sectors anymore, but have supporting circuits/(EE)proms that emulate that? no, sectors are still

[CentOS] question on yum --enablerepo=centos

2007-09-23 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm installing Fruity for Nagios using the 4.4 Single Server CD and want to force upgrade PHP 4 to PHP 5 without having to upgrade everything on CentOSplus. In order to install Nagios, I have to first enable RPMforge. However, to use Fruity, I have to use PHP 5, which isn't included in the

Re: [CentOS] question on yum --enablerepo=centos

2007-09-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm installing Fruity for Nagios using the 4.4 Single Server CD and want to force upgrade PHP 4 to PHP 5 without having to upgrade everything on CentOSplus. First off ... the php in CentOSPlus is part of the CentOS Web Stack ... if you use that php, you will need to use

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

2007-09-23 Thread Feizhou
Simon Banton wrote: At 17:34 +0800 14/9/07, Feizhou wrote: .ohdo you have a BBU for your write cache on your 3ware board? Not installed, but the machine's on a UPS. Ugh. The 3ware code will not give OK then until the stuff has hit disk. Having now installed BBUs, it's made no

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-23 Thread Feizhou
Mark Weaver wrote: umair shakil wrote: Dear Salam, Well i have used the command on shell updatedb it will allow you to make fast searching. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD um... what? Peace, peace. He appears to have read between the lines and come to conclusion the OP was trying to

Re: [CentOS] question on yum --enablerepo=centos

2007-09-23 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
First off ... the php in CentOSPlus is part of the CentOS Web Stack ... if you use that php, you will need to use all the things that go with it from the Stack. See this page: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/CentOSPlus/CentOSWebStack Wow, this looks perfect. Thanks, Johnny! (I will give

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 crash (cifs bug ?)

2007-09-23 Thread Kuang-Chun Cheng
Hi Akemi, I were expected that there may have a CentOS testing repository which will offer the bug fixed kernel. But ... this should be enough, I will try that. Thanks Regards KC On 9/23/07, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/07, Kuang-Chun Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I

RE: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

2007-09-23 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: snip There exists a command-line command to do this as well, 'chvt' which is part of the kbd

RE: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

2007-09-23 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: snip There exists a command-line command to do

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 crash (cifs bug ?)

2007-09-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On 9/23/07, Kuang-Chun Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Akemi, I were expected that there may have a CentOS testing repository which will offer the bug fixed kernel. But ... this should be enough, I will try that. Thanks Regards KC CentOS cannot provide the bug-fixed kernel because

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-23 Thread Feizhou
William Warren wrote: actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. Used to (bar buggy firmware, incompatibilities). Most hardware raid cards nowadays not only have sufficient processing power, they also come with decent sizes of RAM cache which helps swing things a

[CentOS] searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway

2007-09-23 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement apt-get –y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl yum search can't find some of the packages. Is there some sort of online DB or something that I can

Re: [CentOS] fstab problem after a failed drive

2007-09-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:57 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote: When your / is mounted ro, you can remount / in rw using this command # mount -o remount,rw / Then update your fstab and reboot Regards Alain Thanks Alain, That worked perfectly Greg