Re: [CentOS] GPT?

2009-10-09 Thread ML
John, > boot the installl CD and get into the rescue shell (from the startup > menu), then use something like > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024 > > note thats sda and not sda1 or whatever, we want the raw device and > not > the partition. Just the ticket! You da man T

Re: [CentOS] Possible to run iscsi-target and initiator on same server?

2009-10-09 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 21:42 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:14 PM, C Linus Hicks wrote: > > > > So for iet, that means /etc/iet/ietd.conf should define the Lun like > > this: > > > > Lun 0 Path=/dev/sdb,Type=blockio,ScsiId=asmdg,ScsiSN=dg0 > > > > If that's all it takes to make it

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Drew
I'm in the position of having both the mission critical & regular servers. Our mission critical machine, an app server that runs about 90% of our business, we lease so it gets recycled every five years. For us, it's worth the extra cost to have equipment under warranty with parts guaranteed next b

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/10 Gordon McLellan : > The best part the vendors deal, the "upgrades" will cost us the same price > if we buy the server from him or not - opting not to buy overpriced hardware > causes the programming fee to inflate by an equal amount - how is that for > service! Sounds like a fantastic

Re: [CentOS] Possible to run iscsi-target and initiator on same server?

2009-10-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:14 PM, C Linus Hicks wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 17:53 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, C Linus Hicks >> wrote: >>> I am trying to install Oracle RAC in a two node cluster for testing >>> purposes, so performance is not something that conc

Re: [CentOS] GPT?

2009-10-09 Thread John R Pierce
ML wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > >>> I try to proceed and I get: boot partition is on a disk using GPT >>> partitioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT. >>> >>> I have never seen this before. >>> >>> Advice? >>> >> Sure, drop into a shell (boot to a rescue mode for example) and

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Gordon McLellan
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > FWIW, that 12+ year old SCO system can probably run quite nicely > under a VMware virtual machine, and be significantly faster than > it is today.  You won't get support for hardware like Specialix > multi-port boards, so may have to replace a

Re: [CentOS] GPT?

2009-10-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Can I do this from an install though? Or should I use a LiveCD? The >drives in her ewont boot at this point. The install DVD will let you boot to a "rescue" mode, instead of typing "linux". Once in that mode, skip net and install scan. Then when you drop in to a shell, go into parted. You are ins

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread mbneto
Hi Sergey, I'll have a look. I was hoping that the RH based rpms would be available to maintain the same update process. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Sergey Smirnov wrote: > hi, > if you're looking for a newest version of PHP these links below can be > useful - > > http://oss.oracle.com/pro

Re: [CentOS] GPT?

2009-10-09 Thread ML
Hi Joseph, >> I try to proceed and I get: boot partition is on a disk using GPT >> partitioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT. >> >> I have never seen this before. >> >> Advice? > > Sure, drop into a shell (boot to a rescue mode for example) and > relabel > the discs. > > Use par

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Dave
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Just one of those things you kind of pick up as you go along and >>remember.  Tribal knowledge if you will. > > There's two pdf's and one command I use "often" :) > > The redhat 5.3 deployment and installation pdf's (or the online versions)

Re: [CentOS] GPT?

2009-10-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I try to proceed and I get: boot partition is on a disk using GPT >partitioning scheme but this machine cannot boot using GPT. > >I have never seen this before. > >Advice? Sure, drop into a shell (boot to a rescue mode for example) and relabel the discs. Use parted and its mklabel command and ch

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Dave
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > Is network-manager enabled? No. Dave ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Dave
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:32:39PM -1000, Dave wrote: >> Wow, there it is. I guess I could've found it by doing a careful >> search of the initscripts package, which contains/owns >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, which was the on

[CentOS] GPT?

2009-10-09 Thread ML
Hi All, I had a few 320gb sata drives that had OS X on them. Before that they were Windows for testing. I put them in an IBM eServer 335 and now trying to install CentOS 5.3 I get to the partition -> Create custom. I take sda and create a swap and a software raid partition. Same with sdb

Re: [CentOS] current howto for DSL?

2009-10-09 Thread John R Pierce
Drew wrote: >> A lot changes in 7 years >> >> Anyway, so I just fire up adsl-setup, and it should walk me through; then >> run adsl-start? At that point, should I be able to browse to Verizon's >> setup your account website? >> > > If the ADSL modem provides an Ethernet jack w/ DHCP then i

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Shawn Everett
Thanks to everyone for their comments so far. The "server" in question is a basic 2 node cluster connected to an MSA500. It runs a variety of applications including Oracle, Apache, Samba, and a proprietary app built by another vendor. The hardware is monitored, maintained and backed up regularly

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it > 10 years old at that time. > > At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server > to the mix.  Their business model is fairly sta

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009, Gordon McLellan wrote: >On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it >> 10 years old at that time. >> >> At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new serv

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Gordon McLellan
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it > 10 years old at that time. > > At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server > to the mix.  Their business model is fairly sta

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009, Shawn Everett wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it >10 years old at that time. > >At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server >to the mix. Their business model is fairly static. > >I'd like

Re: [CentOS] Rendering farm?

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Funny, I build/maintain em all the time. U in VFX by chance? What are you rendering, in what app? If the app is only in Winblowz, hen thats the pain u will be in. What are your artists, mainly VFX sup comfortable in, Winblowz or Linuz? I like to ask the VFX sup what he/she wants first b4 pro

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Good one. I run into very similar situations. Focus purely on cash cost of maintenance of older stuff vs newer stuff. Quote reputable sources like Gartner Group, etc... Get a little familiar with ITIL in terms of like cycle. Its very daunting to convince companies to spend money but if you f

[CentOS] Rendering farm?

2009-10-09 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I received at least one email suggesting a Windows-based rendering farm - likely to consist of a few rack systems all running 64-bit Windows. I read an article on Tomshardware which gave some decent insight. What can list participants offer on this concept? I don't care _how_ the resource is im

[CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-09 Thread Shawn Everett
Hi Guys, I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it 10 years old at that time. At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server to the mix. Their business model is fairly static. I'd like to see them upgrade. Can anyone suggest specific r

Re: [CentOS] Possible to run iscsi-target and initiator on same server?

2009-10-09 Thread C Linus Hicks
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 17:53 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, C Linus Hicks wrote: > > I am trying to install Oracle RAC in a two node cluster for testing > > purposes, so performance is not something that concerns me. I just want > > to go through the process all the wa

[CentOS] choppy audio playback

2009-10-09 Thread ken
Oh, wise Centaurs, On the last install (Suse) I was running on this old notebook (Dell i600m) the audio worked fine. Specifically, Realplayer and onsite players (like you get at NPR and other sites) and youtube played just fine. But with this current install (CentOS 5.3, fully updated) all of th

Re: [CentOS] Possible to run iscsi-target and initiator on same server?

2009-10-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, C Linus Hicks wrote: > I am trying to install Oracle RAC in a two node cluster for testing > purposes, so performance is not something that concerns me. I just want > to go through the process all the way to creating a database. I have all > the prerequisites except

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: >> Really hard to say what's going on.  Does your DB need optimization? >> Do the applications hitting it?  Maybe some indexing?  Maybe some more >> RAM on the machine would help?  What exact

Re: [CentOS] steps to add a new physical disk to existing LVM setup in new centos box?

2009-10-09 Thread Jerry Queirolo
> >> The disk layout on the older one is a 2 partition (/boot and /) with / >> being a logical volume. Laying out what I think I need to do looks like >> this : >> >> 1. yank old drive and cable up to newer system, expecting this 2nd drive >> to now be /dev/sdb on the new box >> 2. pvcreate /dev/s

[CentOS] Possible to run iscsi-target and initiator on same server?

2009-10-09 Thread C Linus Hicks
I am trying to install Oracle RAC in a two node cluster for testing purposes, so performance is not something that concerns me. I just want to go through the process all the way to creating a database. I have all the prerequisites except the shared storage and thought I'd give this a try. I'm runn

Re: [CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Hello to all: > > I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to > gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. > > I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who > will doing a lot of CAD,

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Ryan Manikowski
If someone already mentioned this my apologies... Use 'ifconfig ethX' to display adapter stats. Look for TX and RX errors. Another problem could be faulty RAM. Try memtest. Ryan Manikowski | System Administrator :703.677.8499: ryan.manikow...@2ergo.com 2ergo – Digital leaders in a mobile worl

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:34 PM, David Suhendrik wrote: > When I tried to shutdown iptables and download again still after 4.1 > GB, > download can't continue and file unusable... Try to strace wget and see what you get. -Giovanni ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, James A. Peltier wrote: > > Are you seeing any high I/O waits and lots of kjournald's running? Sorry, what I meant to say here is, are you seeing logs of long running kjournald's. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simo

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. > > I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that > the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) > > We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin > http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Keith Keller
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some > chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. > > Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe > even better, wh

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Warren Young
Toby Bluhm wrote: > > Try fail2ban from rpmforge. The main problem with fail2ban is that it's based on Python, so it takes a fair bit of memory. This isn't a big problem on a dedicated server or on a system with swap, but a lot of these attacks are made against shared servers or those running

Re: [CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
If OpenGL is a big concern, then virtualization is an ok option, but not a very good one. Despite some OpenGL/DirectX support in VM's, with the apps mentioned, bare metal may be the best choice. However, experiment and see if your particular apps will work good enough for you. We use Maya,

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread Sergey Smirnov
hi, if you're looking for a newest version of PHP these links below can be useful - http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/files/EL5/i386/ http://blog.famillecollet.com/tag/php On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:41 PM, mbneto wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any

Re: [CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:18:45PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Hello to all: > > I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to > gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. > > I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who > will doing a

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Suehowicz
Raid10 should be better on your writes. Random reads and writes are the most important for a db. For random io the more spindles(disks) you have the better. I would use sas over sata if possible. How big is your database? If it is small you may be able to put it on a few solid state drives there re

[CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Hello to all: I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who will doing a lot of CAD, Matlab, SolidWorks, and other apps that will utilize a lot of num

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Toby Bluhm
Toby Bluhm wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some >> chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. >> >> Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe >> even better, whole IP clas

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:35:25 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some > chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. > > Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe > even better, wh

Re: [CentOS] layer 8 / user level firewall on linux?

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Thats a really good post and a good link. There's the i7 plugin to iptables (netfilter) that you may find useful but its not on the app layer thats above the app layer. For what its worth, when I was a Cisco admin, i used timed access lists to block certain users during work hours. Not at al

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
fail2ban, thats a good one, gotta save that link. try the gui to iptables; http://www.fwbuilder.org/ On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some >> chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 20:35 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some > chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. > > Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe > even better, who

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Toby Bluhm
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some > chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. > > Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe > even better, whole IP classes ? I know it's feasibl

[CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole IP classes ? I know it's feasible with iptables, but is there so

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread David Suhendrik
Frank Thommen wrote: >> :( >> wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on >> my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same >> problem :( >> >> Btw John, thank You for your advise... >> >> Really confused :( >> > > This might be either a proble

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:45:14PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. > > I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that > the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) > > We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin > http://b

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Hi Alan, Strictly on a disk I/O issue, I would test diff raid/disk configs and use Iozone with the wks output flag which generates some nice Exel spread sheets and graphs. I was at a job years ago were I used a combo of strace, ptrace and some other mysql debug utils to determine why the DB

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions From: Alan McKay To: CentOS mailing list Date: Friday, October 09, 2009 12:55:35 PM Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doin

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, >> doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch >> inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay >> key writes or adjust locking me

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Ron Loftin wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:45 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. >>> 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 >> Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 >> > That's not a bi

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
> Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, > doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch > inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay > key writes or adjust locking mechanisms on the insert. Some databases > have special i

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Blake Hudson
I would second what another poster stated, to look at DB/RAM optimizations. If possible, you should have enough RAM in the system to hold your entire DB in memory - and your db software should be setup to take advantage of that memory. Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:34:17PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > Really hard to say what's going on.  Does your DB need optimization? > > Do the applications hitting it?  Maybe some indexing?  Maybe some more > > RAM on the machine would help?

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, ML wrote: > So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. > > Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it > automatically) like: > > 173.13.167.209 --> 173-13-167-209-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net > > I created a DNS entry at GoDaddy for 173.13.167.209 that is >

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Really hard to say what's going on.  Does your DB need optimization? > Do the applications hitting it?  Maybe some indexing?  Maybe some more > RAM on the machine would help?  What exactly is the workload like -- > especially during the time

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Pickard
Hi Alan, You will get the best performance on /dev/sdb by making that a RAID 10 device. The write penalty for R5 is a killer. You will lose a bit of space over R5 but the performance is worth it. As to the external enclosure, 15k 300g SAS drives are dropping in price if you shop around or ask a

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:45:14PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. > > I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that > the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) > > We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin > http://b

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Wilson Lee
From: Bowie Bailey To: centos@centos.org Sent: Fri, October 9, 2009 9:17:26 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!) ML wrote: > OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. > > So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my mo

[CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008/12/graphing-linux-disk-io-statistics-with-munin.html

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Ron Loftin
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:45 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. > > 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 > > Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 > That's not a big surprise, just kee

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Chiming in a bit late on this one. Not sure you still have a problem with this but what I do for domU install sources are; - Download the distros iso, and copy its contents to some dir, I then serve out that dir via a local apache server, so my install url would look like; http://ip-addy-o

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I > activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is > my private/internal IP. > > It did not let me specify nameservers though. > > So I know this is resolv.con

Re: [CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
ping -I is broken The following deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. Demonstration that *ping -I is broken*. When specifying the source interface using -I with an *ethX* alias and that interface is not the default gateway interface, then ping fa

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Kemp, Larry
Like Bowie said, the owner of the IP block (under ARIN or whatever registry you are under) must provide the reverse (IP-Number to host.domain) resolution. I have customers that we issue /30's and larger to that want to run their own mail-server for example. As the ISP under ARIN I simply give t

Re: [CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
The following deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. ping -I is broken Demonstration that *ping -I is broken*. When specifying the source interface using -I with an *ethX* alias and that interface is not the default gateway interface, then ping fa

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Kemp, Larry
That will work great. One box...two NICS, running ipchains. If you are looking to resolve your own names locally such as http://intranet (like many places are) but you still want to be forwarded up to your ISP's resolvers, you can just list them in BIND (or your chosen DNS app) as the places to

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: > OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. > > So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. > 13 IPs for your modem? Is this a business account or something? > Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it > automatically) like: > > 173.13.167.209 --> 173-13-167-209

[CentOS] Unexpected Enconsistency

2009-10-09 Thread vijay shanker
Hi Linux geeks; I have just shipped from windows to linux. I am setting up a linuxa server with centos. now after 5 to 6 normal startups shutdown; now this problem has come up. I am not able to get any relevant link any where. /mote: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck manually can any body pleas

Re: [CentOS] current howto for DSL?

2009-10-09 Thread Drew
> A lot changes in 7 years > > Anyway, so I just fire up adsl-setup, and it should walk me through; then > run adsl-start? At that point, should I be able to browse to Verizon's > setup your account website? If the ADSL modem provides an Ethernet jack w/ DHCP then it's usually even simpler the

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I > activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is > my private/internal IP. > > It did not let me specify nameservers though. > > So I know this is resolv.conf. > > I know I put in: > name

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 3

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Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. > 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

[CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Jerry Geis
Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread ML
Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I know this is resolv.conf. I know I put in: nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameser

Re: [CentOS] current howto for DSL?

2009-10-09 Thread m . roth
> At Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:25:33 -0600 (MDT) CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> Anyone have a pointer to a current howto for DSL? All I find is a howto >> from 2002. > > I seriously doubt much has changed. Basically most DSL providers > implement PPPoE, so what you want is info on setting up PPPoE

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread mbneto
Hi Majian, Thanks for the info but my post is about the webstack packages for centos that were in the testing repo and were supposed to me moved to a 'stable' repo soon. The last message was from april so I was wondering if we have any update on this matter. Regards. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:1

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-10-09 Thread Majian
Yeah! I agree you ! If you install CentOS in Windows , you firstly backup the important data to some place in case of the machine is crashed;Then you can start to install CentOS by the useful tool which called grub-for-docs. That tool is to build to grub for CentOS and Windows .You can search i

[CentOS] layer 8 / user level firewall on linux?

2009-10-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, Does anyone know of a Linux firewall that offers layer 8 firewall / user level firewalling? Cyberoam (http://www.cyberoam.com/firewall.html) has a layer 8 firewall built into their UTM firewalls, and while it's a great product I find it a bit limited for what I want. I basically want to t

[CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread ML
OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it automatically) like: 173.13.167.209 --> 173-13-167-209-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net I created a DNS entry at GoDaddy for 173.13.167.209 that is

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread Majian
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.2.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features, bug fixes and security enhancements. You can download it on its website: http://www.php.net/downloads.php and comp

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread mbneto
Hi, Is there any news regarding this? The last email I saw about the webstack is from april. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Eduardo Silvestre < eduardo.silves...@nfsi.pt> wrote: > Hello z00dax, > > any update about this issue? As i can see, in centos 5.3 the version of > php still 5.1.6. > D

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-10-09 Thread Matt
>>> Thats my thought as well.  Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. >>> Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'?  They >>> seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. >>> Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. >> >> Not using, but I've

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 07:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: > > > > > > > > > +---+ Error ++ > > > > > > || > > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] web based file sharing software

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Ransom
My clients are using Windows, so I presume they are using IE or Firefox. I am using a Mac and it works in Firefox and Safari. I cannot see why it would not work with Firefox on any platform. It takes 5 minutes to install so it's worth a shot! On 10/10/2009, at 12:15 AM, Alan McKay wrote:

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: > > > > > > +---+ Error ++ > > > > || > > > > | Unable to retrieve | > > > >

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Barry Brimer
I haven't been following this thread very closely since my last post, but if you want to know who is doing what ... use auditctl. Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
> > > +---+ Error ++ > > || > > | Unable to retrieve | > > | http://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mirrors/cent | > >

Re: [CentOS] web based file sharing software

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Oliver Ransom wrote: > I've deployed this for one client and had pretty good feedback: > http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/ And that works OK for Windows and Linux clients? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, auth

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Thommen
Dave wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Craig White wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:19 -1000, Dave wrote: >>> [r...@lee1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > [snip] >>> PEERDNS=yes >> - ^^^ >> change to PEERDNS=no > > > What man page would tell me what this means

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Jussi Hirvi
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia > > wrote: > > > > > Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program > > virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen > asking for > > ftp server, a

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, > One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf()  function in > /sbin/dhclient-script. btw. a more common way would be to create a /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks with the following content: make_resolv_conf(){ : } Best Regards Marcus _

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Thommen
> :( > wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on > my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same > problem :( > > Btw John, thank You for your advise... > > Really confused :( This might be either a problem on the server you are downloading fr

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread David Suhendrik
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > David Suhendrik wrote: > >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> David Suhendrik wrote: >>> Hi All, I've finish setup vsftpd as anonymous FTP server, and I also setup apache for web service on my linux box. yesterday, I'm tried to put CentOS 64

Re: [CentOS] Is fr.centos.org dead ?

2009-10-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Fabian Arrotin a écrit : > Hi Niki, yes unfortunately (maybe you have read what i posted on the > centos-fr list two weeks ago) > The plan is to get a new machine installed, but maybe with new forum > software , as no backup can be restored anyway. > More informations to come on the centos-fr li

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