Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 installation on HP DL380 R05 server

Thanks to Joseph and Nate for helpful answers. A stupid question: I do not receive your mails although already subsribed to this list. I read your answers on mail archive. I set up my account to receive email from list but it seems not work. Chau _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 installation on HP DL380 R05 server

Nguyen Hai Chau wrote: > Hi All > > > > I will need to install CentOS 5.3 on HP DL380 R05 server with RAID-1 > required. I am a newbie to CentOS / HP servers, need your help: The specs look like a DL380 G5, perhaps that is the same as the "R05". As another poster mentioned it should work fine. I u

[CentOS] [SOLVED - PROBABLY] Re: High CPU usage by lftp

Rajagopal Swaminathan writes: > It seems yum -y update does not update lftp. probably lftp in standard repos are older version -- 3.5.x . I included the rpmforge repo and did yum -y update lftp -- 3.7.x. So far it seems to be ok. I am yet to find the solution to get wget to use full bandwith

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 installation on HP DL380 R05 server

>- Does CentOS 5.3 work smoothly with HP DL380 server especially >recognizing SAS disks and hardware RAID-1 features? >From you >experience, do you have to use HP Storage Drivers provided for >RedHat Enterprise Linux 5? I have a few of those G5's and they will work fine, CentOS has the needed driv

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 installation on HP DL380 R05 server

Hi All I will need to install CentOS 5.3 on HP DL380 R05 server with RAID-1 required. I am a newbie to CentOS / HP servers, need your help: - Does CentOS 5.3 work smoothly with HP DL380 server especially recognizing SAS disks and hardware RAID-1 features? From you experience, do yo

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem on 5.3 [SOLVED]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:17:43PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > I don't get this: /usr/share/magic/mime exists. it's not trying to > > install or update httpd. where is it getting this dependency problem from? > > For now: > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3613 > > Were

Re: [CentOS] regex help

>Wouldn't that match something like /dev/sda11 ? I tried a few >variations though didn't figure out the exact syntax(so used to >perl regex) to match exactly 1 number at the end of the line. Yup, but the script cleans the disc and makes 6 partitions so I am safe. OTOH, there is a portion which ha

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

nate wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > >> But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it? > > If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able > to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect > not. Technically, that's not overwriting.

Re: [CentOS] regex help

Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>/dev.*5$ > > Thanks, I don't know what I was thinking. Been looking at this script > too long and I wanna go home:) I got it anyway with grep '^/dev.*1$' Wouldn't that match something like /dev/sda11 ? I tried a few variations though didn't figure out the exact syntax(so

Re: [CentOS] regex help

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need a little help, trying to search for a line that begins with /dev > and ends with a single digit that I will choose, like 5. I can search for > ^/dev and 5$ but I am having trouble forming the combined search pattern > using egrep. If you mean any single digit not p

Re: [CentOS] regex help

>/dev.*5$ Thanks, I don't know what I was thinking. Been looking at this script too long and I wanna go home:) I got it anyway with grep '^/dev.*1$' jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] regex help

Hey, On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 18:11, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > ^/dev and 5$ but I am having trouble forming the combined search pattern > using egrep. > Any ideas? /dev.*5$ ? HTH, Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

[CentOS] regex help

I need a little help, trying to search for a line that begins with /dev and ends with a single digit that I will choose, like 5. I can search for ^/dev and 5$ but I am having trouble forming the combined search pattern using egrep. Any ideas? Thanks! jlc __

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

Scott Silva wrote: > But if you only have read access to the original file, can you overwrite it? If you have write access to the directory yes you should be able to, if you only have read access to the directory I would expect not. nate ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

on 5-12-2009 12:38 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: > nate wrote: >> mcclnx mcc wrote: >>> We are tried to count how many files belong to certain group. Our system >>> administrator told us "non-owner" can easy change file group name to >>> another. I have been tried several combination and ne

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

On May 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > IMO, yes (maybe). When the Initial install is done, I think there is > some stuff that is needed in the initrd to find the disk so root can > be > mounted. I'm not sure which initrd file contains it, but I think it's > got to be there som

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia GeForce 7300GS resolution problem

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:30 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of William L. Maltby > >Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:37 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia Ge

Re: [CentOS] iso creation with dd

Al Sparks wrote: ... > After I posted this, I mounted the CD-ROM and the file was also > missing. I "mount" the CD on a Windows XP machine, and the file shows > up. Was it a multi-session CD? IIRC there can be differences between Windows and Linux on handling multi-session. Phil __

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

On May 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William L. Maltby wrote: > There is another possibility? Grub installs a stage2 (IIRC) file that > has specific device in it. That's probably your next point of > failure (I > don't recall what your original failure mode was). The system boots, grub menu starts, c

Re: [CentOS] Agentless Inventory

>If it is agentless how does it gain the information? With a login with appropriate local rights, for example on the windows clients a wmi query can return everything you need. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

nate wrote: > mcclnx mcc wrote: >> We are tried to count how many files belong to certain group. Our system >> administrator told us "non-owner" can easy change file group name to >> another. I have been tried several combination and never successful (only >> ROOT can change file group to other na

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

mcclnx mcc wrote: > > We are tried to count how many files belong to certain group. Our system > administrator told us "non-owner" can easy change file group name to > another. I have been tried several combination and never successful (only > ROOT can change file group to other name). > > Does an

Re: [CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

2009/5/12 mcclnx mcc : > Does anyone know how "no-owner" can change file group name? I believe that is not possible. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Filipe ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

[CentOS] can non-owner change file group setup?

We are tried to count how many files belong to certain group. Our system administrator told us "non-owner" can easy change file group name to another. I have been tried several combination and never successful (only ROOT can change file group to other name). Does anyone know how "no-owner" ca

Re: [CentOS] iso creation with dd

>> Al Sparks wrote: >> > >> > I placed a CD in a drive. >> >I ran >> > sudo dd sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom >> > of=HMI_B_Image_File_4-23-09_disk_1.iso >> > >> > It completed. I then transferred the ISO file to an XP >> machine, use > > What happens when you load that file in an emulator like

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

Bowie Bailey wrote: > I recently switched to using Thunderbird for my email and installed the > Lightning calendar add-on. Now all I need is a remote calendar server. > I just need a simple server to support a few personal calendars and a > shared calendar. Any recommendations for a CentOS /

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 13:32 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > There is another possibility? Grub installs a stage2 (IIRC) file that > has specific device in it. That's probably your next point of failure (I > don't recall what your original failure mode was). > P.S. Don't forget to take adva

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:43 -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > On May 12, 2009, at 11:28 AM, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > For the OP's situation, might need to search a little further to get > > to > > the same results. But I think it's surely something in the initrd, > > even > > if the driver is

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

Scott Silva wrote: > Most of my users seem OK with it. I was running it side by side with roundcube > as a test, and most users seem to like the extra bits. Besides, horde keeps > compatibility with less than brand new PHP versions, but Roundcube insists you > have the newest PHP installed everyti

Re: [CentOS] Agentless Inventory

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone know of an OS/Software inventory tool that supports Linux and Windows > that is agentless? If it is agentless how does it gain the information? You can manually enter items into GLPI (which works with OCS-ng) but pretty much everyt

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

At Tue, 12 May 2009 11:43:54 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > On May 12, 2009, at 11:28 AM, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > For the OP's situation, might need to search a little further to get > > to > > the same results. But I think it's surely something in the initrd, > > even > >

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

On May 12, 2009, at 11:28 AM, William L. Maltby wrote: > For the OP's situation, might need to search a little further to get > to > the same results. But I think it's surely something in the initrd, > even > if the driver is the same. OK, so two hits on initrd, I'll go and read up on that.

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-12-2009 4:24 AM Max Hetrick spake the following: >> Scott Silva wrote: >> >>> [...] >> >> I had looked at Horde some time ago, but brushed it off. I think I'll >> check it out though again and get it up and running. >> >> Thanks! >> Max > Most of my users seem OK with it.

Re: [CentOS] Agentless Inventory

Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone know of an OS/Software inventory tool that supports Linux and Windows > that is agentless? No, but ocsinventory-ng (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/) has an agent rpm for centos in the epel repository and a remote deployment tool that makes putting it on windows a

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 09:47 -0600, Shad L. Lords wrote: > Chris Boyd wrote: > > So I have an issue with CentOS 5.3 i386, LVM, and SATA. > > > > Boot device is a 200GB ATA disk on hda2. > > > > I've added a couple of disks with the on-the-mobo SATA controller ports > > and grown the EXT3 fs with

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

on 5-12-2009 4:24 AM Max Hetrick spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: > >> I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your >> webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths >> through >> IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then th

[CentOS] Agentless Inventory

Anyone know of an OS/Software inventory tool that supports Linux and Windows that is agentless? Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

Chris Boyd wrote: > So I have an issue with CentOS 5.3 i386, LVM, and SATA. > > Boot device is a 200GB ATA disk on hda2. > > I've added a couple of disks with the on-the-mobo SATA controller ports > and grown the EXT3 fs with system-config-lvm. > > Then, as an experiment, I added a PCI SATA cont

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote: > What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server that is > running web, e-mail, ssh, ftp, mysql, coldfusion and will be > processing payments from www? Jason: In addition to the other recommendations in this thread, IMHO,

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem on 5.3

On May 12, 2009, at 9:13 AM, fred smith wrote: More importantly, how do I resolve it? http://www.google.com/search?q=centos+%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fmagic%2Fmime -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://fi

Re: [CentOS] yum dependency problem on 5.3

fred smith wrote: > I don't get this: /usr/share/magic/mime exists. it's not trying to > install or update httpd. where is it getting this dependency problem from? For now: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3613 Were working on a more permanent fix in the mean time. - KB ___

[CentOS] yum dependency problem on 5.3

Hi! I've got three Centos-5.3 machines. one of' em ran the latest updates without trouble. the other two are giving me grief. both giving the same error: # yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

It also depends on which service you are running on the server. It depends on what you are running etc On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle > wrote: > > What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server tha

Re: [CentOS] iso creation with dd

Use mkisofs next time. It is designed to create iso files (cd images) On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Al Sparks wrote: > > I placed a CD in a drive. > I ran > sudo dd sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=HMI_B_Image_File_4-23-09_disk_1.iso > > It completed. I then transferred the ISO file to an XP m

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server

Scott Silva wrote: > I actually used the tarball from the horde site. If you untar it under your > webroot, it is pretty easy. I have it authing through imp, which auths through > IMAP from my local users. It was a lot easier then the rpm's in the extra, but > you can't beat the ease of just "yum

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 12:06 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > As that was a bit too large for the bug tracker: > > > > r...@dryckjom:~# LANG=C yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=update > whatprovides "/usr/share/magic.mime" > Loaded plugins: fas

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/11/2009 05:24 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3613 > > > > I'll note for "the Record" that the "yum clean all" trick worked on > > 100% of my x86_64 machines, about six in all. > > > > Ralph was working on this earlier today, however

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 18:15 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > Ralph was working on this earlier today, however it would be really good > > to get a copy of someone's /var/cache/yum ( minus the rpm's ) in a > > tarball, attached to that bugreport - from a time when they can > > demonst

Re: [CentOS] High CPU usage by lftp

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:04 +, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > JohnS writes: > > > --- > > Check out you networking stack. Like NIC Card settings with ethtool and > > your dns like namserver settings in resolve.conf. If it is getting an > > address by dhcp sometimes it want pull in the actual

Re: [CentOS] High CPU usage by lftp

JohnS writes: > --- > Check out you networking stack. Like NIC Card settings with ethtool and > your dns like namserver settings in resolve.conf. If it is getting an > address by dhcp sometimes it want pull in the actual real dns servers. ethtool eth0 spake thus: Settings for eth0: Su

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime

I also had this problem. I try with "yum update --skip-broken" now that solved JohnS wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 03:52 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Can someone help me figure out what I have to do about to get update to work with

Re: [CentOS] High CPU usage by lftp

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 06:13 +, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > JohnS writes: > > > > > > > May be a server issue. You may want to try another server. If you have a > > local LAN try to wget a large file for comparing. > > > > But from the same server, on a windows box with DAP such speeds

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia GeForce 7300GS resolution problem

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of William L. Maltby >Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:37 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 nVidia GeForce 7300GS resolution problem > >> The monitor is OK as it's atta

Re: [CentOS] High CPU usage by lftp

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 06:17 +, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > JohnS writes: > > > > Is there a method to log the filenames that are downloaded? > > > > Hmm prolly so, I believe for sure wget can do that and also > > pull files from a server based on a filelist. > > > > > > Where do you g