Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I stumbled upon this while looking for something else > > http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340 > > And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on > that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wonder

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, February 05, 2010 12:45 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > I am indeed using winbind. While I am not new to CentOS I am a greenhorn when > it comes to Winbind. What log is considered the main Winbind log? (perhaps > /var/log/samba/winbind.log?) Also. I have posted my smb.conf on pastebin: > h

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-04 Thread Dan Burkland
I am indeed using winbind. While I am not new to CentOS I am a greenhorn when it comes to Winbind. What log is considered the main Winbind log? (perhaps /var/log/samba/winbind.log?) Also. I have posted my smb.conf on pastebin: http://centos.pastebin.com/f5b4406a7 Thanks again for your help, Da

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, February 05, 2010 12:20 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hey All, > > Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to > authenticate against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to > complete this particular setup however I have run into some difficulties su

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-04 Thread Dan Burkland
Hey All, Just wondering if any of you have been able to setup CentOS 5.4 to authenticate against AD on a Server 2008r2 Domain Controller. I am trying to complete this particular setup however I have run into some difficulties such as not being able to lookup domain users via getent passwd. Th

Re: [CentOS] giving normal user a super user privilege

2010-02-04 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
my mistake, i had done sticky bit on /sbin/ifconfig yesterday # chmod u+s /sbin/ifconfig 2010/2/5 Umarzuki Mochlis > I had added user umarzuki to wheel group > # usermod -G wheel umarzuki > > *Yes, I can use/setup sudo but I do this just for learning purpose > > My /etc/pam.d/su as below > > aut

[CentOS] giving normal user a super user privilege

2010-02-04 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I had added user umarzuki to wheel group # usermod -G wheel umarzuki *Yes, I can use/setup sudo but I do this just for learning purpose My /etc/pam.d/su as below authsufficient pam_rootok.so # Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group. #auth

Re: [CentOS] pls help about changing network card but assign to another ethx

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Spangler
On Thursday 04 February 2010 14:21, adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > I change eth1 from realtek to dlink but the centos is showing eth2 instead > of eth1 Edit your ifcfg-eth1 and add the MAC Address of the card. I would do this for every interface. -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://cou

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread John R Pierce
Drew wrote: >> I know nothing about vmware and virtualbox on this score. >> > > VMware ESX(i) has their own set of optimized drivers for disks (and > Lan). Forget the names off the top but they are paravirtualised and > are available for Linux & Windows. > the drivers are called 'vmware t

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 3:17 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: > > Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or > district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy > would be nice. > Will clustering not work with certain apps? We have a couple mysql dbases, > oracle datab

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread John R Pierce
Ned Slider wrote: > Yes, you can sign the drivers yourself, but the issue as I understand it > is that for the drivers to work with Windows (Vista, Server 2008, Win7 > ??), they need to be signed by a cert that has a chain of trust to > Microsoft's root cert. Red Hat (and others) have such a cer

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
> Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or > district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy > would be nice. I'm in the process of going through something like that right now. The solution we're pursuing is to virtualize our existing phys

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols > wrote: > > > Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available > > until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel with the > > rest of t

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread nate
Bo Lynch wrote: > Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or > district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy > would be nice. > Will clustering not work with certain apps? We have a couple mysql dbases, > oracle database, smb shares, nfs,

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols wrote: > Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available > until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel with the > rest of the boot sequence. Be sure to put a timeout in that loop lest it > ha

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> What do you mean? Forwarding to the virtuser expansion address should >> work just like any other address. > > It sounds like he didn't forward before, but queue and deliver (e.g. he's > the only available MX and queues for a firewalled MX or uses maile

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
> For pure RHEL/Centos/Fedora environments (especially centos/rhel) I > can recommend Spacewalk for any reasonable number of systems (20+) for > the combination of package management, configuration management and > kickstart management... > Has it improved significantly since the end of this past A

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Les Mikesell wrote on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:52:08 -0600: > What do you mean? Forwarding to the virtuser expansion address should > work just like any other address. It sounds like he didn't forward before, but queue and deliver (e.g. he's the only available MX and queues for a firewalled MX or u

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 4, 2010 4:09 pm, Drew wrote: Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks >>> >>> There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do? >> >> I guess the main objective would be av

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 02/04/2010 06:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > cfengine or puppet (or something else - slackmaster?) are where I want slackmaster, i dont know about - but are you refering to 'slack' ? its a fairly easy way to get started, and is essentially a wrapper around rsync. takes about 2 min to get setup an

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
>>> Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to >>> use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. >>> Thanks >> >> There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do? > > I guess the main objective would be availability. We need more information then just an "Av

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread James Hogarth
For pure RHEL/Centos/Fedora environments (especially centos/rhel) I can recommend Spacewalk for any reasonable number of systems (20+) for the combination of package management, configuration management and kickstart management... James ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at >> least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description >> language I'd be very interested.  Cfengine v

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 4, 2010 3:31 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: >> Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to >> use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. >> Thanks > > There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do?

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: > Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to > use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks There are all types of clustering. What are you looking to do? ___ CentOS mai

[CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-04 Thread Bo Lynch
Just wanted to get the lists opinion on clustering and what project to use. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Bo Lynch ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 1:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at >> least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description >> language I'd be very interested. Cfengine v3 might be g

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:47:55 -: > >> Indeed as can Scam-backscatter, but I'm attempting to not load the backend >> mailserver with connections if at all possible, > > Yeah, I see. If you fill virtusertable with the valid addresses the

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:47:55 -: > Indeed as can Scam-backscatter, but I'm attempting to not load the backend > mailserver with connections if at all possible, Yeah, I see. If you fill virtusertable with the valid addresses then you have to give explicit forwards for each ex

[CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at > least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description > language I'd be very interested.  Cfengine v3 might be getting there but > the windows version seems

[CentOS] pls help about changing network card but assign to another ethx

2010-02-04 Thread adrian kok
Hi I change eth1 from realtek to dlink but the centos is showing eth2 instead of eth1 In another version of linux, I can change 70-persistent-net.rules but I check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules but it doesn't have the file 70-persistent-net.rules please help Thank you Send in

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread robert mena
Thanks. Somebody entered an incorrect information in /etc/yum.conf On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Robert mena wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:30:18 -0400: > > > > > Note the "?" at the end, you likely have a typo in your proxy config. > > Kai > > -- > Get your web at Conactiv

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 12:45 PM, nate wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: > >> I was actually going to start another "configuration management redux" >> thread as a follow up to a thread I started a few months ago. > > As Les mentioned, it's far more common in that situation to use > ssh key authentication and a for l

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Wade Hampton
I've been using clusterit for several years for multiple small clusters. It works well and was easy to install. I believe I got the Fedora source RPM and rebuilt it for CentOS. On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:31:39PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote: >> > I

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Alan McKay wrote: And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what all is out there and what I should use. the most comprehensive list of such things of which i am aware is here

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 12:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines >> or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you >> might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least >> something running under cron to

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Gavin Carr
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:31:39PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > > It depends on what you need to do.  If you really have enough machines > > or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you > > might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least > > somethin

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: > I was actually going to start another "configuration management redux" > thread as a follow up to a thread I started a few months ago. As Les mentioned, it's far more common in that situation to use ssh key authentication and a for loop, if your ssh key has a pass phrase use a

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 10:14 AM, Drew wrote: >> No no no not kvm >> Vmware are the best > > Yes and No. Each has their own strengths and their own weaknesses. > > I use ESXi in production because the smaller footprint and 3rd party > tools I have make management& backup exceptionally simple to use. I'm > als

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKay
> It depends on what you need to do.  If you really have enough machines > or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you > might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least > something running under cron to make them independent. cfengine or puppet (

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 11:45 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > I stumbled upon this while looking for something else > > http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340 > > And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on > that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:45 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > The solution being simply to define the cronjob for the user... since > there's only one on the machine :o) You may want to beautify it a bit and have the script check to see if the user is actually logged in before trying to bring up the m

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, February 4, 2010 05:28, Radu Radutiu wrote: > Just for the reference if you want to keep SELINUX enabled and > create a new instance of sshd (with the stock CentOS 5.4 sshd) > with sftp only you can do the following: > > -create a copy of /etc/ssh/sshd_config e.g. > cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:04 -: > > > I am attempting to stop any > > backscatter that these servers cause by only accepting mail for > specific > > us...@domain or for domains with a catch-all account. > > I believe milter-ahead or smf-sav can be used for this. > >

[CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I stumbled upon this while looking for something else http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340 And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what all is out there and what I should use. Is there on

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Marko A. Jennings a écrit : > > Since the crontab entry I posted earlier works for me, I would concentrate > on trying to determine why exactly yours is failing. Oooops. According to Murphy's law, your initial message is the only one I had been overlooking... and it's also a *working* example

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, February 4, 2010 12:00, Ned Slider wrote: > > > I was under the impression that sshd runs unconfined in the current > CentOS? > > $ ps axZ | grep sshd > system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh 2766 ? Ss 0:00 > /usr/sbin/sshd > > For example, you don't need to change the ssh_p

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
Frank Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:36 +, Ned Slider wrote: >> I might be wrong, but I don't think the freely available drivers are >> signed, unlike the virtio drivers supplied by Red Hat through the >> Supplementary channel which are signed. > > The download page that was just post

Re: [CentOS] Block network at logoff on workstation

2010-02-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
David McGuffey wrote: > I'm trying to reduce the attack surface to a home machine that is always > on and connected to the Internet. It is running CentOS 5.4, with tight > iptables rules and sits behind a Verizon FiOS firewall/switch also > configured with tight rules. > > I was wondering how to b

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert mena wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:30:18 -0400: > Note the "?" at the end, you likely have a typo in your proxy config. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, February 4, 2010 12:07 pm, Niki Kovacs wrote: > I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just > simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ? *If* the issue has to do with one user trying to display the message on a desktop owned by another user, that mig

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ? Thanks, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
James B. Byrne wrote: > > I am not sure what effect disabling SELinux support in SSH actually > has from a security standpoint. So, if anyone cares to enlighten me > on the the consequences I would like to know. > I was under the impression that sshd runs unconfined in the current CentOS?

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:36 +, Ned Slider wrote: > I might be wrong, but I don't think the freely available drivers are > signed, unlike the virtio drivers supplied by Red Hat through the > Supplementary channel which are signed. The download page that was just posted here says: QUOTE: Cod

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Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 9:47 AM, Drew wrote: >> I know nothing about vmware and virtualbox on this score. > > VMware ESX(i) has their own set of optimized drivers for disks (and > Lan). Forget the names off the top but they are paravirtualised and > are available for Linux& Windows. Yes, if someone is starti

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, February 4, 2010 11:26 am, Geoff Galitz wrote: > >> I think the problem boils down to this : >> >> "How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?" >> >> I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't >> succeed either. >> > > > > I think if you did something like

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno > 4] IOError: What's your mirrors config file look like? I'm thinking something in the url is messed up. Most likely a missing '/' after the 8080. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood

[CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread robert mena
Hi, I am trying to update a CentOS 4.4 but the yum update gives me error messages Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 9:05 AM, Simon Billis wrote: > > Another would be to use MimeDefang as the framework instead of >>> mailscanner. It has an option to check recipient addresses via smtp >> to >>> the delivery servers before accepting. You may have to write a >> snippet >>> of perl to get that right for

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
You wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : >> >> On further thought, here's a nasty one: on that line, echo $PATH. I >> wonder if you need all the X paths, and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, for >> zenity to run. >> > I think I do grasp in theory what you suggest, but I wouldn't know how > to get it into

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
> I think the problem boils down to this : > > "How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?" > > I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't > succeed either. > I think if you did something like this: -- #!/bin/sh # set DISPLAY export DISPLAY="local

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 9:09 AM, Simon Billis wrote: > Hi, >>> I would question how "real time" that would be for every email for >> 6k+ >>> domains. If a few have a large client base, or are expecting >> responses >>> from a mass emailing, it might start to take a *while*, unless you've >> got >>> pretty heav

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
> No no no not kvm > Vmware are the best Yes and No. Each has their own strengths and their own weaknesses. I use ESXi in production because the smaller footprint and 3rd party tools I have make management & backup exceptionally simple to use. I'm also supporting a mixed Windows / Linux shop so I

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > > I assume you've checked /var/log/cron, to make sure it ran. > I think the problem boils down to this : "How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?" I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't succeed either. Phew, how I hate

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : > > I assume you've checked /var/log/cron, to make sure it ran. Yes, it looks so. > > On further thought, here's a nasty one: on that line, echo $PATH. I wonder > if you need all the X paths, and maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, for zenity to > run. > I think I do grasp i

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Drew
> I know nothing about vmware and virtualbox on this score. VMware ESX(i) has their own set of optimized drivers for disks (and Lan). Forget the names off the top but they are paravirtualised and are available for Linux & Windows. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be under

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
> Geoff Galitz a écrit : > >> Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's >> crontab it is, when applicable). Check your root mailbox for an error, >> I'm assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual >> culprit in a case like this. >> > No mail fo

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Geoff Galitz a écrit : > Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's > crontab it is, when applicable). Check your root mailbox for an error, I'm > assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual culprit > in a case like this. > No mail for root.

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:04 -: > I am attempting to stop any > backscatter that these servers cause by only accepting mail for specific > us...@domain or for domains with a catch-all account. I believe milter-ahead or smf-sav can be used for this. Kai -- Get your web at

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread mattias
No no no not kvm Vmware are the best -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] För Chan Chung Hang Christopher Skickat: den 4 februari 2010 16:19 Till: centos@centos.org Ämne: Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as gues

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
> 3) But when I add it to crontab like this : > > # crontab -e > > 15 22 * * * /usr/local/sbin/warning.sh > > ... nothing happens at the given time (10:15 PM). > > Any idea what's wrong here? Any errors from a cron run go to your root mailbox (or whatever user's crontab it is, when applicable

Re: [CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
mattias a écrit : > Yes but the command alsa not exist > Like debian you can do > Alsa reload > To load alsa drivers > $ alsamixer And then : # alsactl store ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread mattias
Yes but the command alsa not exist Like debian you can do Alsa reload To load alsa drivers -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] För Niki Kovacs Skickat: den 4 februari 2010 16:13 Till: CentOS mailing list Ämne: Re: [CentOS] alsa mat

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Sergej Kandyla wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: >> >>> Dear All >>> I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you >>> please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this >>> purpose ? >>> Tha

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, February 4, 2010 10:08, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: > >> >> > Have you looked at using rssh as the users shell? You can limit the > user to a chroot sftp only. Its not stock, but ssh can then be. > > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rssh/ > I looked at rssh briefly yesterday when someone su

Re: [CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
mattias a écrit : > How to install alsa for sound > I use vmware and it requre alsa # yum install alsa-utils ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > > I would question how "real time" that would be for every email for > 6k+ > > domains. If a few have a large client base, or are expecting > responses > > from a mass emailing, it might start to take a *while*, unless you've > got > > pretty heavy duty equipment and networking. > > It's the

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : > > On second thought, a bash file calling zenity in a cronjob will be > better. You can have zenity show any message you want in a window on > the desktop and the only option available in that window can be "ok". > kalarm would allow the user to change the alarm, and that's n

[CentOS] alsa

2010-02-04 Thread mattias
How to install alsa for sound I use vmware and it requre alsa ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > >>running > >> make -C /etc/mail but this has no effect on the sendmail.cf file. My > > Does it not give output? Have you tried adding -d? I get an updated sendmail.cf file but the only diff is the header telling me when it was complied. Adding -d give the following (I've removed the non re

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > One approach here if it is practical to collect/maintain all of the > valid > recipient addresses is to build a virtuser table with a default reject > for each > domain the relay handles plus the list of all valid addresses. This is > very > efficient if you can automate the table updates

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Warren Young
On 2/4/2010 7:10 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 02/04/2010 02:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > ... >> how about mounting that drive on rc.local ? > > That's too late; I need it before /etc/init.d/mythbackend > starts. # ls /etc/rc`runlevel | cut -c3`.d/*myth* Then write a script in /etc/init.d to wai

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 02/04/2010 03:36 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: ... > Be sure to put a timeout in that loop lest it hang > forever if that external device is absent. > Yes, I have added the following: for (( times = 1; times < 120; times++ )); do echo Wait for /dev/sdb1 $times if [ -b /dev/sdb1 ]; then

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Mike wrote: >> Simon Billis wrote: > > >>> I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail >>> (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail >>> for a large number of domains (6000+) scan the mail removing spam and >>> then

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Nichols
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > ... >> How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? > > It turns out to be some sort of race condition: > > If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: > > ... > STRING=$"Checking filesystems" > echo $STRING >

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? > > Mogens > Try adding 'user' to the 'options' field in /etc/fstab: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html - -- - -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertw

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
Mike wrote: > Simon Billis wrote: > >> I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail >> (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail >> for a large number of domains (6000+) scan the mail removing spam and >> then forward the ham to another serve

Re: [CentOS] Block network at logoff on workstation

2010-02-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:36 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > I'm trying to reduce the attack surface to a home machine that is > always > on and connected to the Internet. It is running CentOS 5.4, with > tight > iptables rules and sits behind a Verizon FiOS firewall/switch also > configured with t

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Simon Billis wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have a couple of questions which I hope that you will be able to assist > with, first some background. > > I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail > (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for >

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 02/04/2010 02:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: ... > how about mounting that drive on rc.local ? That's too late; I need it before /etc/init.d/mythbackend starts. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mob

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:37:06PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > It turns out to be some sort of race condition: The problem with USB disks is that they aren't always "ready" as quickly as the rest of the OS, so the kernel hasn't been able to detect them yet. What you might be able to do is use au

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Sergej Kandyla
Christopher Chan wrote: > On Thursday, February 04, 2010 03:48 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > >> Dear All >> I need to install Windows as guest on my CentOS 5 as host . Can you >> please give me the link to download the requierd rpm package for this >> purpose ? >> Thank you >> > > yum install

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/4 Mogens Kjaer : > On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > ... >> How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? > > It turns out to be some sort of race condition: > > If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: > > ... >         STRING=$"Checking filesystems" >         echo $STRING >        

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 02/04/2010 02:15 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... > How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot? It turns out to be some sort of race condition: If I modify /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: ... STRING=$"Checking filesystems" echo $STRING sleep 2 echo ls 1 ls -l

[CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Folks, I have a couple of questions which I hope that you will be able to assist with, first some background. I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large number of domains (6000+) sc

[CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Mogens Kjaer
I have a CentOS 5 machine with an external 500G USB disk, formatted with JFS. How do I get this to mount automatically at boot time? If I add to /etc/fstab: /dev/sdb1 /var/video jfs defaults 1 2 fsck.jfs complains at boot time: Error: Cannot open device /dev/sdb1 Usage: fsck.jfs ... ... Giv

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
John R Pierce wrote: I may be mistaken, but I thought those were only available to RHN subscribers, and are not open source or free to redistribute. >>> The virtio block drivers? Really? I think I remember something about it >>> being leaked...need to check >>> >> No

Re: [CentOS] Changing size of a xen guest filesystem

2010-02-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some >> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me >> on a production server. >> >> I wish there would be

Re: [CentOS] Changing size of a xen guest filesystem

2010-02-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 3.2.2010 19:54, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> It should be easy, but I have not yet found a solution. Only some >> methods involving use of dd, but that sounds a little scary to me >> on a production server. >> >> I wish there would be

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