Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
> You must be spoiled by always using GUI tools that present a pick list - no > one > would ever type all that crap every time they want to access a file.  And, you > could just as well use underscores instead of spaces and get the same visual > effect AND still permit natural 'break on whitespace

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 01:14 PM, Drew wrote: >>> Barring that I've had good luck with Linksys over the years. We just >>> recently installed a 48port gigabit switch in the office that set us >>> back around $900. Equivalent Procurve was priced at around $3000. >>> >> >> ??? >> >> For $3000 I c

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Drew wrote: >>> Samba can serve files with " to Linux clients. It's a Windows >>> limitation not a Samba one. >> Thanks. Well that's a bit sad really... > > I don't if it's so much "sad" as a design choice for NTFS. In > Windows/NTFS one can put spaces in a filename so the " is used as a > delimit

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
>> Barring that I've had good luck with Linksys over the years. We just >> recently installed a 48port gigabit switch in the office that set us >> back around $900. Equivalent Procurve was priced at around $3000. >> > > ??? > > For $3000 I can get PoE+, 48 port gigabit + two expansion slots (empty)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:43 AM, Drew wrote: >>> D-Link? :-D. I had to get D-Links when money was a bit tighter but now I >>> have HP Procurve 9210al switches. >>> >>> /me stomps on Cisco crap. >> >> D-Link had always been decent to me so that's what I usually go for if >> available. I've hear

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:53 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/10, Christopher Chan wrote: >> So cut appropriate corners to fit. Just not like Backblaze. Their's is >> decidedly crap hobbled together. > > With the kind of budget I have to work with, things are already > looking very rou

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
>> Samba can serve files with " to Linux clients. It's a Windows >> limitation not a Samba one. > > Thanks. Well that's a bit sad really... I don't if it's so much "sad" as a design choice for NTFS. In Windows/NTFS one can put spaces in a filename so the " is used as a delimiter of sorts on the co

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Drew
>> D-Link? :-D. I had to get D-Links when money was a bit tighter but now I >> have HP Procurve 9210al switches. >> >> /me stomps on Cisco crap. > > D-Link had always been decent to me so that's what I usually go for if > available. I've heard people mentioned the HP ProCurves for many years > as r

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, John Jasen wrote: > Googling the CVE # and the vendor will usually turn up the patched > version or disposition quickly. An easy way to nail down CVE verifications is via http://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/ This url allows you to search and verify CVE issue

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/30/10, Christopher Chan wrote: > So cut appropriate corners to fit. Just not like Backblaze. Their's is > decidedly crap hobbled together. With the kind of budget I have to work with, things are already looking very rounded already. >> I'm just thankful they paid for a Gigabit switch previo

Re: [CentOS] fresh install of centos looking for non-existant /dev/hda : /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found

2010-06-29 Thread Jay Leafey
Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:39:35 -1000 CentOS mailing list wrote: # lvm pvs /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found Couldn't find device with uuid r5HNPO-l18V-XfJ7-9RXY-AaWC-a4YY-3oL5h7. PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VolGroup01 lvm2 a

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Wildman
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that > apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities? Is > there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been > fixed in the RHEL/CentOS updates or do yo

Re: [CentOS] fresh install of centos looking for non-existant /dev/hda : /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found

2010-06-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:39:35 -1000 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > # lvm pvs > /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found > Couldn't find device with uuid r5HNPO-l18V-XfJ7-9RXY-AaWC-a4YY-3oL5h7. > PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree > /dev/sda2 VolGroup01 lvm2 a- 232.72G

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread Spiro Harvey
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and > (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to get > the mkfs.ext3 time down to 15 sec on both systems. > Solving (a) should shed light on (b). Any ideas? Look into prelinking (man prelink). A

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/29/10 6:17 PM, Craig White wrote: > Similar says, not exactly and the hard drives, controller and RAID > configuration differences would be the first place to look for your > answer. > > indeed, first place I'd look would be for things like battery backed raid controllers with/without w

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread Dave
I ended up going ahead and letting the installer do whatever, then I removed the logical volume. The howto (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removelv.html) is not so helpful about helping you figure out what you need to know. Unfortunately I clobbered my history file & don't really know how I did it

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 18:07 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Situation: two similar servers, both with CentOS 5.4 64-bit. Making > an ext3 filesystem on one takes seconds, on the other minutes. > > Partition SizeServer 1 Server 2 > > 1 GB 0.7 sec 0.3 sec > > 4

[CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-29 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Situation: two similar servers, both with CentOS 5.4 64-bit. Making an ext3 filesystem on one takes seconds, on the other minutes. Partition SizeServer 1 Server 2 1 GB 0.7 sec 0.3 sec 4 GB 2.5 sec 1.2 sec 40 GB15 sec

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread John Jasen
Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that >> apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities? Is >> there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been >> fixed

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:25 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher > wrote: > >> Define cheap. Like these...er...hmm...creative chums here? >> >> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ >> >> Or how about 78

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/29/2010 03:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > It's internal, but requires a formal response - or an application > update. The test tool says: > > These are the reported vulnerabilities > > Apache Server 2.x Prior To 2.2.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities Apache > \'mod_proxy_ftp\' Wildcard Characters C

Re: [CentOS] Dell R605 w/ Perc 6/i problem

2010-06-29 Thread Jacob Bresciani
R605 is a power edge server model I think.The Perc6/i is a Dell rebranded raid controller, it's actually an LSI in disguise. Try downloading the Megaraid utilities from LSI and using them to see the status of the card. Also, when you boot the R605, you should be able to get into the Perc's firm

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/29/2010 4:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010, Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that >>> apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities? Is >>> there

Re: [CentOS] fresh install of centos looking for non-existant /dev/hda : /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found

2010-06-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/29/2010 02:39 PM, Dave wrote: > # lvm pvs >/dev/hda: open failed: No medium found >Couldn't find device with uuid r5HNPO-l18V-XfJ7-9RXY-AaWC-a4YY-3oL5h7. >PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree >/dev/sda2 VolGroup01 lvm2 a- 232.72G 0 >/dev/sdb1 V

Re: [CentOS] Dell R605 w/ Perc 6/i problem

2010-06-29 Thread Agile Aspect
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, wrote: > I think there was just a thread 'bout this, and I didn't pay attention... > and then I walked into our smallest server room to rebuild a server with > CentOS... and that's what it is. The problem I'm having is this: there are > two 1T SAS drives, raided,

[CentOS] fresh install of centos looking for non-existant /dev/hda : /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found

2010-06-29 Thread Dave
# lvm pvs /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found Couldn't find device with uuid r5HNPO-l18V-XfJ7-9RXY-AaWC-a4YY-3oL5h7. PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VolGroup01 lvm2 a- 232.72G 0 /dev/sdb1 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 232.81G 32.00M unknown device V

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010, Brian Mathis wrote: >On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that >> apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities?  Is >> there an official document about what known vulnerabili

[CentOS] Dell R605 w/ Perc 6/i problem

2010-06-29 Thread m . roth
I think there was just a thread 'bout this, and I didn't pay attention... and then I walked into our smallest server room to rebuild a server with CentOS... and that's what it is. The problem I'm having is this: there are two 1T SAS drives, raided, via the controller. There's also a 750G SATA drive

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that > apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities?  Is > there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been > fixed in the RHEL/CentOS upda

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread John Hinton
On 6/29/2010 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that > apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities? Is > there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been > fixed in the RHEL/CentOS updates or do yo

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that > apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities?  Is > there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been > fixed in the RHEL/CentOS upda

[CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Les Mikesell
What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities? Is there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been fixed in the RHEL/CentOS updates or do you have to wade through the changelog to try to

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > *shrug* > "Custom partition", which is what I *always* do, both at work and at home, > since, unlike WinBlow$, I *NEVER* want everything on the same > partition I've been bitten a few times with the partitioner programs. My strategy now is to con

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread m . roth
Dave wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller > wrote: >> At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> > So, am I stuck? It seems like my only option is to go ahead and add >> > both disks, then try to remove one of the disks after completing the >> > install

Re: [CentOS] centos5.5 text install forcing me to add all disks to LVM volgroup

2010-06-29 Thread Dave
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:15:20 -1000 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > So, am I stuck? It seems like my only option is to go ahead and add both > > disks, then try to remove one of the disks after completing the install. Is > > there some sort

Re: [CentOS] An Interview with Karan

2010-06-29 Thread Tom Bishop
+1...from mePLUS the many others for their ongoing, Herculean CentOS efforts.. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, didi wrote: > > > A nice little insight into CentOS : > > > > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100628#feature > > Nice! T

Re: [CentOS] An Interview with Karan

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, didi wrote: > A nice little insight into CentOS : > > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100628#feature Nice! Thanks for the link. (And thanks to KB for his ongoing, Herculean CentOS efforts...) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ _

Re: [CentOS] [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFO SS‏

2010-06-29 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 6/29/10, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 28 June 2010 21:32:21 Murali M wrote: >> The billion dollar question among the computer users in India now! >> >> >> * Has NRC-FOSS done its job in promoting FOSS in India since 2005 ??? >> >> * If not, do we need such anorganization

Re: [CentOS] spamassassin needs updating?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > Refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552127 > > You can update spamassassin rules by running as root: > > sa-update I have a simple cron script stuck in /etc/cron.daily that's useful for getting notice of spamassassin rules updates:

[CentOS] Amavisd-new UBE problem on Postfix server

2010-06-29 Thread John Hinton
This is a web hosting mailserver, so there are multiple domains being passed through this email system. I decided this new system would be Postfix and followed the Centos Wiki to aid in the installation and setup. It seems that Amavisd is throwing this error from time to time. - Subject: C

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Define cheap. Like these...er...hmm...creative chums here? > > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ > > Or how about 7850USD for a 4U, 36 bay ( loaded with 12 x 1TB - not going > full out :-(

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher > wrote: >> gluster don't care about underlying filesystem...it don't support acl >> yet for a reason > > Could you elaborate on that? Although at the moment I don't appear to > have a need for ACL on the storage, it is always go

Re: [CentOS] slapd auxpropfunc error no mechanism available

2010-06-29 Thread m . roth
sync wrote: > > I am trying to setup OpenLDAP on CentOS 5.3 i386 for a client of mine. > everytime I try running 'service ldap start', > I get the following in syslog: > > r...@xx ~: tailf /var/log/messages > .slaptest: sql_select option missing > slaptest: auxpropfunc error no mechanism av

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745

2010-06-29 Thread Dicker, Edwin
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I tried both things. The bios update and the i810 driver and nothing worked. After the bios update the vesa driver seems a bit more stable, but still not 100%. And with the i810 driver it doesnt work at all.

Re: [CentOS] posixGroup LDIF problem

2010-06-29 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:11:00PM +0800, sync wrote: > dn: cn=admins,dc=X,dc=org > changetype: add > objectClass: groupOfNames > objectClass: top > objectClass: posixGroup > cn: admins > gidNumber: 1001 > member: cn=admin,dc=X,dc=org Shouldn't these members be membeUid and just be the local unix

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > gluster don't care about underlying filesystem...it don't support acl > yet for a reason Could you elaborate on that? Although at the moment I don't appear to have a need for ACL on the storage, it is always good to be aware of any potential pitfal

[CentOS] Problem in migrating DRBD from CentOS4.4 to CentOS5.5

2010-06-29 Thread Balaji
Dear All, Previously we have used CentOS4.4 release with Supported Cluster Suite and DRBD 8.0.0 Active/passive (failover) We have build the DRBD 8.0.0 Source in CentOS4.4 Setup We have configured the DRBD Resource with default OS installed LVM (/dev/mapper/vgroot-LogVol00 and /dev/mapper/vgroot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan wrote: >> raid1/iscsi if you have a single host accessing the data or gluster if >> you have more than one host accessing the data... > > This is starting to look really complicated with NCP Storage units on > zfs -> iscsi to gluster unit e

[CentOS] posixGroup LDIF problem

2010-06-29 Thread sync
Hi,all: I'm working on populating an OpenLDAP server (Dapper) for pam authentication. I'm having trouble import LDIFs for my groups. The following is and example: (this imports on CentOS 5.3 i386, openldap version is 2.3.43-3.el5 ) # org.X.admins dn: cn=admins,dc=X,dc=org changetype: add obj

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745

2010-06-29 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Dicker, Edwin wrote: > > This is an issue with the graphics, it gets initialized in the wrong way > ( driver ) The installer does not recognize the correct video chip > during install. > If you boot the system in runlevel 3 and then change the driver to i810 > in

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745

2010-06-29 Thread Dicker, Edwin
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Janez Kosmrlj Sent: maandag 28 juni 2010 13:59 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745 Hi, we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q chipset. The problem is, tha

[CentOS] slapd auxpropfunc error no mechanism available

2010-06-29 Thread sync
Hi,guys: I am trying to setup OpenLDAP on CentOS 5.3 i386 for a client of mine. everytime I try running 'service ldap start', I get the following in syslog: r...@xx ~: tailf /var/log/messages .slaptest: sql_select option missing slaptest: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available slapd

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 on optiplex 745

2010-06-29 Thread Tony Molloy
On Monday 28 June 2010 12:58:36 Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > Hi, > we have some old dell optiplex 745 machines which have the Intel 965q > chipset. The problem is, that they freeze as soon as the system tries to > start the X system. It happens even before any log is written. This happens > almost every

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 Xen installation trouble installing FUSE

2010-06-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Eric B. wrote: > I've got CentOS 5.3 installed as a Xen client installed. I've recently been > trying to install TrueCrypt on the VM, but am having miserable troubles with > the Fuse kernel module. > > To date, I've installed the following packages: > yum install

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan wrote: > raid1/iscsi if you have a single host accessing the data or gluster if > you have more than one host accessing the data... This is starting to look really complicated with NCP Storage units on zfs -> iscsi to gluster unit ext3 since gluster doesn't do zfs ->

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/28/10 7:53 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than > the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on > a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. According to some sources, > the failover delay of a few seconds w

Re: [CentOS] CentOS MD RAID 1 on Openfiler iSCSI

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, June 29, 2010 01:23 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/29/10, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> The only problem is their HA is commercial only and costs more than >>> the entire hardware budget I've got for this. Crucially, it relies on >>> a failover/heartbeat kind of arrangement. Accord