Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread John R Pierce
Noob Centos Admin wrote: > downloaded jrrd but it refuses to ./configure because it cannot find > rrd_create > > yum install rrdtool but there was no rrd_create > well, i note there's a few versions of rrdtool in the various repositories. the stock CentOS 5 version 9from upstream) is 1.2.30

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Hi, > I don't see any similar problem on machines upgraded to Centos5.3 that > are monitored with (and running) OpenNMS, so I'd guess that since you > didn't change your snmpd.conf settings it is MRTG-specific. I think it's my server, quite possibly I screwed up something during the initial setup

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-14 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following: >> I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the >> kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't >> backport. > Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point rele

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following: > I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the > kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't > backport. Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point releases. Between point releas

Re: [CentOS] slugishness

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-3-2009 5:30 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: > Hi all, > > I have a 3G AM2 quad core CPU... x86_64 centos 5.3 > > > When I am doing backing up to my external USB drive > my system becomes sluggish. Clicking on a thunderbird compose > takes some time to pop up the window. Typing doesn't ke

Re: [CentOS] - OT - VIM - recording

2009-07-14 Thread Julian Thomas
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:07:38 -0400 Ed Donahue wrote: > > >Is it possible in vim to do the following: > >Search for this block of data: > ># Catalog Service 2.0 for uat03 > >PathPrepend /inquiryservices >Cluster 172.21.1.1:999 > > >And change Cluster 172.21.1.

[CentOS] - OT - VIM - recording

2009-07-14 Thread Ed Donahue
Is it possible in vim to do the following: Search for this block of data: # Catalog Service 2.0 for uat03 PathPrepend /inquiryservices Cluster 172.21.1.1:999 And change Cluster 172.21.1.1: to Cluster 172.21.1.2:7000 It needs to have uat03 (or 02, 01

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---its OK now

2009-07-14 Thread fabian
> fabian wrote: >>> fabian wrote: >>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory >>> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just >>> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you >>> can move all other data off of /var and reformat it,

Re: [CentOS] Custom udev rules to override defaults?

2009-07-14 Thread James Pearson
Ron Loftin wrote: > > It seems like it should be. I presume that you have already been > reading the rules guide found on your system > at /usr/share/doc/udev-095/writing_udev_rules/index.html. I can't add > much to that, except to point out that to support various models of UPS > on different s

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 00:42 -0400, JohnS wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:32 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: So now it seems what I have is an Openoffice problem. It writes odt files just fine via nfs but not doc files. Must be a micro$oft conspiracy. I'll take this off lis

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Thanks guys for all the suggestions. None of it changed the situation > but I'm beginning to think that it might have to do with SNMP not > accepting word names in MRTG, or more specifically some kind of > language encoding issue. > > This is because of the following rea

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Thanks guys for all the suggestions. None of it changed the situation but I'm beginning to think that it might have to do with SNMP not accepting word names in MRTG, or more specifically some kind of language encoding issue. This is because of the following reasons 1. It's been pointed that out t

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
fabian wrote: >> fabian wrote: >> >>> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory >> Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just >> a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you >> can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread fabian
> fabian wrote: > >> apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory > > Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just > a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you > can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the > data back.

Re: [CentOS] Custom udev rules to override defaults?

2009-07-14 Thread Ron Loftin
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:52 +0100, James Pearson wrote: > I'm trying to work out how to set up a custom udev rule to override > permissions on serial ports (/dev/ttyS* and /dev/ttyUSB*) on CentOS 5.3 > > The default rule, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules has the line: > > KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*",

[CentOS] Custom udev rules to override defaults?

2009-07-14 Thread James Pearson
I'm trying to work out how to set up a custom udev rule to override permissions on serial ports (/dev/ttyS* and /dev/ttyUSB*) on CentOS 5.3 The default rule, in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules has the line: KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*",NAME="%k", GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660" and I would like th

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread nate
fabian wrote: > apprecite some help n advice how to get reid of this directory Is /var/ on a separate file system? It sounds like there is just a massive amount of files there, if /var is split out then you can move all other data off of /var and reformat it, and copy the data back. Otherwise pe

[CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%-- solved---but still a query

2009-07-14 Thread fabian
Dear All, I had solved the problem earlier of CPU wait state being almost 100% and had solved the problem of disbling the cron job of tmpwatch -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 290 Jul 5 21:24 tmpwatch which is a cron.daily file now more investigations reveleved to me that since im running havp 0.89 w

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Re: [CentOS] reload /etc/security/limits.conf without reboot server??

2009-07-14 Thread mcclnx mcc
Thank you for answer. can you tell me more detail which service need restart for those 3 files? Thanks. --- 09/7/14 (二),nate 寫道: > 寄件者: nate > 主旨: Re: [CentOS] reload /etc/security/limits.conf without reboot server?? > 收件者: centos@centos.org > 日期: 2009年7月14日,二,上午11:48 > mcclnx mcc wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] reload /etc/security/limits.conf without reboot server??

2009-07-14 Thread nate
mcclnx mcc wrote: > > We have CENTOS 4.7 on DELL server. We need change following 3 files: > >/etc/security/limits.conf >/etc/pam.d/sshd >/etc/pam.d/su > > Does there has way reload it without reboot server? Restart the service(s) you want to see the changes in. limits.conf typically

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Jerry Franz
Noob Centos Admin wrote: > I got itchy fingers over the weekend and decided to fix what wasn't > broken and upgraded one of the older servers from Centos 5.2 to Centos > 5.3. Following the recommended process of updating glibc and such > before the rest, it appeared to work perfectly and rebooted w

[CentOS] reload /etc/security/limits.conf without reboot server??

2009-07-14 Thread mcclnx mcc
We have CENTOS 4.7 on DELL server. We need change following 3 files: /etc/security/limits.conf /etc/pam.d/sshd /etc/pam.d/su Does there has way reload it without reboot server? Thanks. ___

Re: [CentOS] nfs (v3?) fails to allow writes and permission changes

2009-07-14 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 00:42 -0400, JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:32 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: > > > > > So now it seems what I have is an Openoffice problem. It writes odt > > files just fine via nfs but not doc files. > > Must be a micro$oft conspiracy. > > I'll take this off list as i

[CentOS] Font problem for Chinese font support

2009-07-14 Thread hanmo
Hello, I have one question how to support Chinese font in my CentOS 5.3. I have install Chinese language package but the font is boring. I have copyed the fonts from WinXp to CentOS, but the system says that can not find the family of this font. Does anyone can help me? ___

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread kOoLiNuS
Il 14/07/2009 14:29, Karanbir Singh ha scritto: > On 07/14/2009 01:12 PM, kOoLiNuS wrote: >> Choosing minimal installation > > That option doesnt exist with CentOS-5 :) The latest one I did was last january, then cloned the machines via clone-zilla ... probably it's then a remembering of the Sci

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/14/2009 01:12 PM, kOoLiNuS wrote: > Choosing minimal installation That option doesnt exist with CentOS-5 :) - KB ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/14/2009 01:14 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote: >> It should be in your path Eugene. I just finished an install and yum >> worked perfectly. Just make sure you choose "linux text" and de-select >> everything including "base". > > Got it. What if I omit 'linux text' ? it should make zero difference

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread Eugene Vilensky
> It should be in your path Eugene. I just finished an install and yum > worked perfectly. Just make sure you choose "linux text" and de-select > everything including "base". Got it. What if I omit 'linux text' ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread kOoLiNuS
> William Warren wrote: >> for some reason cent 5 now wants cd 3 as well as 1. I make sure to >> uncheck everything and instlal only the base system. Bad iso or new >> default? Choosing minimal installation (at the end of the "page" when you choose custom installation) will give you a perfect wo

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread Mfawa Alfred Onen
> > When I de-selected *every* package and installed, YUM was not > available to me.  Was it just not in my path? > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos It should be in your path Eugene. I just f

Re: [CentOS] no more single cd installs?

2009-07-14 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Radu Radutiu wrote: > Installs from the first CD still work. You just need to make sure that > you chose "Customize software packages now"  instead of the default > "Customize later" and deselect every package on the next screen. It > has worked for me on all CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:07 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Hi, > > > Did the update overwrite your snmpd.conf file? The 'view' on the default > > one > > may not permit access to the things mrtg needs to see. Try changing it to > > .1 to > > expose everything. > > It might have done so. To