Re: [CentOS] Wake on LAN

2009-04-04 Thread Gordon McLellan
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Has anyone experience with WOL under Centos (5.3).? > If so, how exactly do you put the machine to sleep, > and how exactly do you wake it up remotely? Put the machine in a suspend to ram state using acpi: echo -n mem > /sys/power/state you

[CentOS] xen thinks guests exist but not show in list

2009-04-04 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: I tried to unsuccessfully install a guest on xen. It failed when it tried to connect to the display since I installed the OS without a graphical environment. When I do an xm list, I do not see the guest, but if I try to do virt-install with the same guest name, it tells me the domain alrea

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:41 PM, IT-Oregon Administrator wrote: > I am having a problem logging in too. Also tried to request my password > but got nothing. I want to change my settings to daily digest to avoid > flooding my mailbox. Everytime I wake up I have 100s of messages. > I figured the

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread IT-Oregon Administrator
ok that worked this time. Thanks alot. :-) Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:41 PM, IT-Oregon Administrator > wrote: >> I am having a problem logging in too. Also tried to request my password >> but got nothing. I want to change my settings to daily digest to avoid >> flooding my m

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:41 PM, IT-Oregon Administrator wrote: > I am having a problem logging in too.  Also tried to request my password > but got nothing.  I want to change my settings to daily digest to avoid > flooding my mailbox.  Everytime I wake up I have 100s of messages. If you are talki

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread IT-Oregon Administrator
I am having a problem logging in too. Also tried to request my password but got nothing. I want to change my settings to daily digest to avoid flooding my mailbox. Everytime I wake up I have 100s of messages. Ned Slider wrote: > rock wrote: >> Ned Slider wrote: > >>> OK, looks like I found

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread Ned Slider
rock wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: >> OK, looks like I found you and have activated your account. Would you >> please now try to log in. >> >> Thanks. >> > > Thank you Ned!! > > Did that and all is A okay now. > > oz :-) > Great :-) ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread rock
Ned Slider wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: > >> rock wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have joined the Centos forum a few days ago and still do not have my >>> activation email. >>> >>> My user name and email address is in there but I cannot do anything >>> until I activate. >>> I have left a mess

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: > rock wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have joined the Centos forum a few days ago and still do not have my >> activation email. >> >> My user name and email address is in there but I cannot do anything >> until I activate. >> I have left a message with the webmaster and I have requeste

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread Ned Slider
rock wrote: > Hi, > > I have joined the Centos forum a few days ago and still do not have my > activation email. > > My user name and email address is in there but I cannot do anything > until I activate. > I have left a message with the webmaster and I have requested a lost > password, but

[CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-04 Thread rock
Hi, I have joined the Centos forum a few days ago and still do not have my activation email. My user name and email address is in there but I cannot do anything until I activate. I have left a message with the webmaster and I have requested a lost password, but get nothing. I have checked a

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Frédérique Da Luene wrote: >> Useradd newuser : ok >> passwd newuser : ok >> >> The password is not MD5, only 3DES. > > Again: Have you looked if passwd on your machine is the one from CentOS? > I would suggesting copying the binary to a known clean machine to check t

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Frédérique Da Luene wrote: > Useradd newuser : ok > passwd newuser : ok > > The password is not MD5, only 3DES. Again: Have you looked if passwd on your machine is the one from CentOS? Ralph pgprLrbSiATmz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Wake on LAN

2009-04-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
This is a decent reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN I wrote WoL code for cluster provisioning software earlier in my career. It is actually quite simple. So long as your motherboard/NIC support WoL and you have ACPI support then a simple "shutdown" will halt your OS but the N

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?

2009-04-04 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Tosh: > execute the command on the drive /dev/sdc, not the > mounted partition When I do extlinux /dev/sdc, I get the Usage screen. The same thing happens if I do extlinux /dev/sdc1 The only way I could figure was to run extlinux on the mounted partition. Any ideas? Neil -- Neil Agga

Re: [CentOS] Wake on LAN

2009-04-04 Thread John R Pierce
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Has anyone experience with WOL under Centos (5.3).? > If so, how exactly do you put the machine to sleep, > and how exactly do you wake it up remotely? I've never found WOL to work at all well in any environment. for it to work at all, you need A) network hardware on the c

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:14 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: > > > > From: centos4b...@triad.rr.com > > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 10:11 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my > centos > > > desktop. > > > > > > When i go to the ado

[CentOS] Wake on LAN

2009-04-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Has anyone experience with WOL under Centos (5.3).? If so, how exactly do you put the machine to sleep, and how exactly do you wake it up remotely? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin __

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
Hey guys, Sorry about that, the flash player was already installed OK with your help.! The problem was the website I was using to test, apparently they did not write their code correctly and their front page had the flash player icon on it to get the player, but flash was already running on

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
> NO, you don't give the *file name*, you give the base package name, in > this case 'flash-plugin'. The repo metadata supplies the proper > version+release (10.0.22.87-release) and arch (i386 or posibly x86_64). > The .rpm gets added somewhere in the bowels of yum, as needed to fetch > the prop

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:04:59 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > ---Executing: recode > > > > > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:26:11 -0400 > > From: hel...@deepsoft.com > > To: centos@centos.org > > CC: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on cent

Re: [CentOS] what requires lm_sensors?

2009-04-04 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/4 Kai Schaetzl > I found that lm_sensors got installed because of a dependency on my first > Xen VM that I updated to 5.3. lm_sensors doesn't make sense in a VM. I > thought, ok let's check after the update who wants it. However: > > rpm -q --whatrequires lm_sensors > no package requires l

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Linda Stark wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:28:24 -0600 > > From: thea...@sasktel.net > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on > centos 5.3 desktop machine > > To: centos@centos.org > > CC: nads...@live.com > > > > On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:14:53 -0700 > > Li

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:28:24 -0600 > From: thea...@sasktel.net > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 > desktop machine > To: centos@centos.org > CC: nads...@live.com > > On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:14:53 -0700 > Linda Stark wrote: > > > Thanks I'll do some

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
> From: craigwh...@azapple.com > To: centos@centos.org > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:25:11 -0700 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos > 5.3 desktop machine > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:14 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: > > > Thanks I'll do some research on g

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:14:53 -0700 Linda Stark wrote: > Thanks I'll do some research on google. It's not clear to me if your Centos installation is x86_64 or i386. If it's x86_64, then do this: yum install curl.i386 -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com _

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:14 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: > Thanks I'll do some research on google. For now, I am assuming that > the file I need to install is > "flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.i386.rpm" - is this correct? I > downloaded it from adobe, assuming it > got saved in tmp. > > And you a

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:28:05 -0700 > From: mpet...@mac.com > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 > desktop machine > > Linda Stark wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos >

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
> From: centos4b...@triad.rr.com > To: centos@centos.org > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:56:08 -0400 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos > 5.3 desktop machine > > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 10:11 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having tro

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:26:11 -0400 > From: hel...@deepsoft.com > To: centos@centos.org > CC: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 > desktop machine > > At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:11:50 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 10:11 -0700, Linda Stark wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos > desktop. > > When i go to the adobe site, I click on the YUM for Linux version, > then install it, and PC says > "/tmp/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch-1.rpm is a

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:31:19 +0200 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:26:24 +0100: > > > I yum-updated glibc, glibc-devel, yum and rpm before upgrading. > > I forgot to mention that I did not do this. No problems. I've upgrade 3 machines so far and had no issues o

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Linda Stark wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos > desktop. > > When i go to the adobe site, I click on the YUM for Linux version, then > install it, and PC says "/tmp/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch-1.rpm is > already installed" - but it's not

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:11:50 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos > desktop. > > When i go to the adobe site, I click on the YUM for Linux version, then > install it, and PC says "/tmp/adobe-relea

[CentOS] Having trouble installing flash player on centos 5.3 desktop machine

2009-04-04 Thread Linda Stark
Hi, I'm having trouble getting the flash player installed onto my centos desktop. When i go to the adobe site, I click on the YUM for Linux version, then install it, and PC says "/tmp/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch-1.rpm is already installed" - but it's not working. So then tried d

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 50, Issue 4

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Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kevin Krieser wrote: > On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > Kernel problems happen. Yes - I've had mixed results with power management with and audio on laptops before in Fedora with kernel updates, but none recently. Going from Fedora 8 to CentOS 5 broke my thinkpad slee

Re: [CentOS] company exchange server & exim best practices.

2009-04-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:13:50 +0200, 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. > > basically a manualroute router like this could

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> >>> I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. >>> Very >>> smooth. >> >> I also updated two servers in the last few days without any problems. >> I don't think I have

Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Markus Falb wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> Backup servers need *maximum* protection too.. > > agreed, but... > maximum protection would mean turning network off. > but that could turn out as a little inconvinience. > > webservers that cant boot without

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-04 Thread Chuck Munro
> Jason Pyeron" 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

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS directly from usb drive?

2009-04-04 Thread Tosh
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

Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ?

2009-04-04 Thread Frédérique Da Luene
Hi, --- En date de : Jeu 2.4.09, Les Mikesell a écrit : > De: Les Mikesell > Objet: Re: [CentOS] Shadow passwords NOT md5'ed ? > À: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Jeudi 2 Avril 2009, 16h42 > Frédérique Da Luene wrote: > > > >> De: Barry Brimer > >> Have you checked /etc/libuser.conf for > cr

Re: [CentOS] Can't install domUs in 5.3 dom0

2009-04-04 Thread Tomasz Nowak
my previous install.cfg looked like this: --- kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-install" ramdisk= "/boot/initrd-install.img" extra = "ks=http://xx.yy.zz.xx/ks/domu.ks"; name = "domu" vcpus = "4" memory = "2048" disk = [ 'phy:vg0/d

Re: [CentOS] Apache SSL key pass phrase question

2009-04-04 Thread Markus Falb
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Backup servers need *maximum* protection too.. agreed, but... maximum protection would mean turning network off. but that could turn out as a little inconvinience. webservers that cant boot without human intervention are not acceptabl

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very >> smooth. > > I also updated two servers in the last few days without any problems. > I don't think I have ever had such a simple upgrade of any system. I have - twice befo

Re: [CentOS] warning for nis users and 5.3 upgrade

2009-04-04 Thread Markus Falb
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:15:40 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-3-2009 2:40 PM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: >>> Folks, be sure to do an updatedb and then locate rpmsave and rpmnew >>> after upgrading the system. Then you can make sure your local changes >>> get propagated into the updated s

[CentOS] what requires lm_sensors?

2009-04-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I found that lm_sensors got installed because of a dependency on my first Xen VM that I updated to 5.3. lm_sensors doesn't make sense in a VM. I thought, ok let's check after the update who wants it. However: rpm -q --whatrequires lm_sensors no package requires lm_sensors (same for --triggeredb

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Timothy Murphy wrote on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:26:24 +0100: > I yum-updated glibc, glibc-devel, yum and rpm before upgrading. I forgot to mention that I did not do this. No problems. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com _

Re: [CentOS] Newby- New install forgot Login - pwd

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Thommen
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Which is why I should password protect grub on my desktop -- have done so >> now on my laptop. > > Don't bother, that's the dumbest feature I ever saw. You can edit the > password out of the grub > line to... I think that shouldn't be? http://www.gnu.org/software/gru

[CentOS] Can't install domUs in 5.3 dom0

2009-04-04 Thread Tomasz Nowak
Hello. I can't install 5.3 domUs in 5.3 dom0 with the very same /etc/xen/domU.cfg and remote domU.ks that I've used in Centos 5.1. The only I've changed is Centos version (including new 5.3 xen kernel and initrd images). Results are that anaconda can't assing networki configuration to network int

Re: [CentOS] clamav and selinux

2009-04-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Craig White wrote: > this might prove to be more durable through upgrades (time will tell). > > semanage fcontext -a -t clamd_t "/var/clamav(/.*)?" Yepp, I was just about to suggest using that, as it survives a relabeling of the file system :) Cheers, Ralph pgp10KsmFvyaC.pgp Description: PGP s

Re: [CentOS] clamav and selinux

2009-04-04 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 06:00 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > after cleaning up a bunch or selinux alerts, I update and wham, > > > clamav/clamd/clamav-db make me assert contexts again to /var/clamav > > > like... > >

Re: [CentOS] clamav and selinux

2009-04-04 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > after cleaning up a bunch or selinux alerts, I update and wham, > > clamav/clamd/clamav-db make me assert contexts again to /var/clamav > > like... > > > > chcon -t clamd_t clamav -R > > > > which temporarily solve

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very > smooth. I also updated two servers in the last few days without any problems. I don't think I have ever had such a simple upgrade of any system. I'd like to add my thanks to the Centos team. Followi

Re: [CentOS] clamav and selinux

2009-04-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Craig White wrote: > after cleaning up a bunch or selinux alerts, I update and wham, > clamav/clamd/clamav-db make me assert contexts again to /var/clamav > like... > > chcon -t clamd_t clamav -R > > which temporarily solves the problem but it would be better if it were > policy and not file cont

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-04 Thread Frank Thommen
John Hinton wrote: > I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. > Each attempt results in this... > > (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB > 00:16 > http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.i686.rp

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart regression

2009-04-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > Ralph Angenendt writes: > > > 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. Hmmm. Wasn't that in the upstream release notes too or di

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very smooth. Before I was able to update I hit minor annoyances with getting rid of packages I didn't want installed (like linuxwacom) and a perl dependency of a third-party perl package. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Ge

Re: [CentOS] company exchange server & exim best practices.

2009-04-04 Thread Markus Falb
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:13:50 +0200, 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. basically a manualroute router like this could do smart_host: driver = manualroute domains

Re: [CentOS] OT: Torrent software choice

2009-04-04 Thread Linux Advocate
> Linux Advocate wrote: > > is there a cli option? > > > Yes, there is. /usr/bin/bittorrent-console is provided as part of the > bittorrent package, available from http://bittorrent.com/ thanx, i will get it frm the rpmforge repo. ===

Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco

2009-04-04 Thread Andrew Colin Kissa
The BB bold does have VPN support at least i have tried the Cisco VPN concentrator connection and it works. I have not tested the other VPN's On 03 Apr 2009, at 11:43 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > I can ssh from my blackberry, but no vpn that I can find