On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Has anyone ever standardized a way to do this that will work across more
> than a few platforms? I've always thought there should be a way to at
> least make a subversion repository holding copies of all of /etc of all
> of your machines where similar ho
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:06:56PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
> > Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new
> > release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from
> > Adobe, then find who's running 6
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> I thought that was the debian mantra. And also the reason we don't use it.
Who is this "we" you speak of? What I posted was the hard cold
truth of the matter. Redhat does not discuss release dates
with
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:14:19PM -0500, Tom Bishop wrote:
> Thanks and Yes and I agree and know that, but I was just wondering if they
> had a potential target date.I have read September and also October but
> was wondering if any of that was more than speculation
It's *all* spec
On 9/17/2010 4:52 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
>>
>>> I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
>>> much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
>>
>> Thanks for the
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new
> release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from
> Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit
On 64 bit, the [manual] install was as simply
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Denis wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis wrote:
>> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares
> Thanks, I looked there. But I was looking for something that would
> easily disconnect and maybe do it automatically when t
On 9/17/2010 4:48 PM, Denis wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis wrote:
>>> Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount
>>> a windows share. I can do:
>>>
>>> smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
>>>
>>> but have not been
I thought it was the Id mantra :-)
I've been checking around and haven't heard anything other than speculation.
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Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
>
>>> I was thinking of copying the old root partition with
>>> sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd
>
>> I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has
>> much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files.
>
> Thanks for t
On 9/17/2010 4:32 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new
>> release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from
>> Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit
>
> Can you find that out via TCP/IP, or
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Denis wrote:
>> Hi - using gnome I am trying to use Places -> Connect to Server to mount
>> a windows share. I can do:
>>
>> smbclient //disk.site.edu/uname$ -U uname%passwd
>>
>> but have not been able to transfer that infomation into the GUI
Hello this is the first time I write to the list.
I use in my company CentOS 5.5 on all servers, especially in the
firewall, recently I have problems with bandwidth, since my internet
connection is 512 Kbps and the same is saturated with torrents.
I need to limit the bandwidth consumption for t
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: m.r...@5-cent.us
> Subject: [CentOS] Was: Re: looking for cool, post-install things,
> is custom software
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
All I'm saying is that i
On Fri, September 17, 2010 05:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> from this RHEL doc page:
>
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-openssh-server-config.html
>
> the reader is advised to, for the sake of security, remove/disable
> vsftpd, ostensibly
On 9/17/2010 4:05 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:16:59PM -0500, Tom Bishop wrote:
>> Benn playing with the beta's and have looked around for a potential release
>> date...Does anyone know what the likely date is??? Thanks
>
> "When it is ready and not a second be
On 9/17/2010 3:36 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
>
>> Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should
>> really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not
>> just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every time
>> you build something yourself you ar
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work
>>> than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to
>>> train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will
> If
Thanks and Yes and I agree and know that, but I was just wondering if they
had a potential target date.I have read September and also October but
was wondering if any of that was more than speculation
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:05 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:1
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work
>>> than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to
>>> train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will
>>> s
On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work
>> than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to
>> train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will
>> scale, or be very careful ab
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:16:59PM -0500, Tom Bishop wrote:
> Benn playing with the beta's and have looked around for a potential release
> date...Does anyone know what the likely date is??? Thanks
"When it is ready and not a second before."
I would suggest you ask upstream bu
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should
> really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not
> just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every time
> you build something yourself you are tak
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
[snip]
> I've keyed configuration repositories to HOSTNAME before (and still do
> for very small installations), but over the long haul I've found
> the service-keyed repository more to my liking. In particular,
> cfengine makes it easy to work
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 3:08 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should
>>> really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not
>>> just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every time
>>> you
On September 17, 2010 01:14:42 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is there any distribution (or even a VM image) that comes with LDAP
> working out of the box for local and samba authentication and ready to
> replicate to others? I think ClearOS has it for a single install but
> the last I looked the repli
On 9/17/2010 3:08 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should
>> really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not
>> just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every time
>> you build something yourself y
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On 9/17/2010 3:01 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>
>>
>> And their utterly inadequate tools.
>
> LDAP's, or AD's? Our Windows admin teaches mixed martial arts as a
> sideline, so I don't argue too much with him. :)
>
> All kidding aside, to the OP, though it's not a cool thing--it's one of
> the crummy
Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:34:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Scott Robbins wrote:
>
>> And their utterly inadequate tools.
>
> LDAP's, or AD's? Our Windows admin teaches mixed martial arts as a
> sideline, so I don't argue too much with him. :)
openLDAP.
>
> All k
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 2:15 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
How to download, md5sum check, unpack, configure and
compile a GPL *.tar.gz package.
As SysAdmin that's something they will need to do sooner or
later :)
>>>
>>> But it's much more important to know all
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Agreed that it's good to know how - but 'there isn't any rpm' should
> really mean there isn't any rpm at any well-maintained location, not
> just in the base system or that you didn't bother to look. Every
> time you build something yourself you are tak
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> logging utilities? intrusion detection? monitoring? anything that
> leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours. i'm already
> thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel. other ideas?
> thanks.
Cacti, pmac
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:34:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >
> > Heh--well, since I've written my own page on it, it's gotten better. RH
> > didn't help by making some undocumented changes, but once again, the
> > CentOS folks got it documented.
>
> I did have some
On 9/17/2010 2:15 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>>> How to download, md5sum check, unpack, configure and
>>> compile a GPL *.tar.gz package.
>>>
>>> As SysAdmin that's something they will need to do sooner or
>>> later :)
>>
>> But it's much more important to know all the reasons *not* to do that
>
On 9/17/2010 2:12 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
> You, on the other hand, remind me of Larry Wall, who popped into
> comp.lang.awk around '93 or '94, and rather than try to help someone solve
> his awk problem, tried to get him to rewrite it into perl
I'll take that as a compliment. Larry has
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> My general method is to keep a CVS committed directory somewhere on
> the root filesystem with all configurations. Then I symlink the
> tracked files back to that repository. For example:
>
> /etc/hosts --> /configs/HOSTNAME/etc/hosts
> /etc/syslog.conf
On 9/17/2010 2:07 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>
Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access.
>>>
>>> h ... good idea. or i might just add in VNC and carry over the
>>> freenx to an additional course dealing with networking/remote
>>> admin/etc. thanks.
>>
>> I'd guess th
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> To: centos@centos.org
> From: Les Mikesell
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] looking for cool,
> post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
>
> On 9/17/2010 1:21 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
How to download, md5sum check, unpack, configure and
Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:18:23PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Scott Robbins wrote:
>> >> >> Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access.
>
>> > And then, you can give them one of the more important Linux lessons.
>> > Let them install FreeNX, go to the
On 09/17/10 12:12 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> You, on the other hand, remind me of Larry Wall, who popped into
> comp.lang.awk around '93 or '94, and rather than try to help someone solve
> his awk problem, tried to get him to rewrite it into perl
>
>
well, not all problems are nails, even
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:18:23PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >> >> Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access.
> >> >
> >
> > And then, you can give them one of the more important Linux lessons.
> > Let them install FreeNX, go to the website and see
Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:18:38AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 9/17/10 7:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> >
>> >> Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access.
>> >
>> >h ... good idea. or i might jus
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 1:06 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> How to download, md5sum check, unpack, configure and
>> compile a GPL *.tar.gz package.
>>
>> As SysAdmin that's something they will need to do sooner or
>> later :)
>
> But it's much more important to know all the reasons *not* t
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 12:45 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> I don't get it. Why wouldn't you just talk to the db directly with
>>> perl's dbi/dbd, replacing both the awk and C parts? I do that all the
>>> time. Or was that before dbi - or the dbd you needed?
>>
>> Mike, you reall
On 9/17/2010 10:52 AM, John Kennedy wrote:
>
> It's all about picking the right tool for the job. Python is good for
> some things, perl for others, awk for still different things...
> It is the beauty of Linux...
But there are things a beginner won't know when making this choice -
like the limit
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:18:38AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/10 7:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> >> Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access.
> >
> >h ... good idea. or i might just add in VNC and carry over t
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I know the OP asked for "cool" things to do, but I'll add my vote to
> those who suggested highlighting configuration management. I'm not
> sure how much puppet or cfengine you teach in a half-day, but I'm
> fairly confident you could cover:
On 9/17/2010 1:21 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
>>> How to download, md5sum check, unpack, configure and
>>> compile a GPL *.tar.gz package.
>>>
>>> As SysAdmin that's something they will need to do sooner or
>>> later :)
>>
>> But it's much more important to know all the reasons *not* to do that
>> e
On 9/17/2010 10:14 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I know the OP asked for "cool" things to do, but I'll add my vote to
> those who suggested highlighting configuration management. I'm not
> sure how much puppet or cfengine you teach in a half-day, but I'm
> fairly confident you could cover:
>
>1. c
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> To: centos@centos.org
> From: Les Mikesell
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] looking for cool,
> post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
>
> On 9/17/2010 1:06 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can inst
Hi,
My storage admin just assigned a Lun (fibre) to my server. Then re scanned using
echo "1" > /sys/class/fc_host/host5/issue_lip
echo "1" > /sys/class/fc_host/host6/issue_lip
I can see the scsi device using dmesg
But mpath device are not created for this LUN
Pleas see below. The last 4 shou
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> is it possible to set up NFS on centos 5.5 so that it uses *only*
> version 4? i tried this not that long ago on fedora and was surprised
> to see a complaint when i tried to start the server and was told that
> i was missing required functionali
On 9/17/2010 12:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Wildman wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>> i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install
>>> things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org
>>> on extra repos.
On 9/17/2010 1:06 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
>>> i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install things
>>> like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org on extra
>>> repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? i'll revisit
>>> that page later today but i'm thin
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 12:45 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> I don't get it. Why wouldn't you just talk to the db directly with
>>> perl's dbi/dbd, replacing both the awk and C parts? I do that all the
>>> time. Or was that before dbi - or the dbd
On 9/17/2010 12:45 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> I don't get it. Why wouldn't you just talk to the db directly with
>> perl's dbi/dbd, replacing both the awk and C parts? I do that all the
>> time. Or was that before dbi - or the dbd you needed?
>
> Mike, you really aren't reading all of what
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Wildman wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: Jim Wildman
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] looking for cool,
> post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can insta
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Jim Wildman wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install
> > things like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org
> > on extra repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend?
> > i'll
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> So, what's the longest awk scripts you've ever written, Mike? It works
> wonderfully well for what it was intended - and mostly, I use it for
> reports or data conversion.
>
Upwards of 1000 lines..back in the 90's.
--
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i've already added a section on EPEL, just so i can install things
> like git. and i know there's an entire page at centos.org on extra
> repos. any there that you *particularly* recommend? i'll revisit
> that page later today but i'm thinking tha
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 10:47 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> Ah, no. I wrote 30 scripts around '91-'92 to take datafiles from 30
>> sources and reformat them, to feed to the C program I'd written with
>> embedded sql, in place of the d/b's sqlloader (*bleah*). Then, 11 years
>> ago, I
is it possible to set up NFS on centos 5.5 so that it uses *only*
version 4? i tried this not that long ago on fedora and was surprised
to see a complaint when i tried to start the server and was told that
i was missing required functionality of NFSv1, or something equally
weird. i'll check th
On 9/17/2010 10:47 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
> Ah, no. I wrote 30 scripts around '91-'92 to take datafiles from 30
> sources and reformat them, to feed to the C program I'd written with
> embedded sql, in place of the d/b's sqlloader (*bleah*). Then, 11 years
> ago, I wrote a validation program
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: Robert P. J. Day
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] looking for cool,
> post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system
>
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On 9/17/2010 8:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:08:23 -0700
cpol...@surewest.net wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Michel van Deventer wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > (another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify
> > > > for the sake of future courses taught on centos.)
> > > >
> > > >
On Thursday 16 September 2010 16:03, alexus wrote:
> I'm trying to do some simple tcp port forwarding
The first thing you need to do is drop the RH-firewall BS and create a new
firewall rule set setup for your needs. If you don't know how to setup a
firewall then I would suggest you get one o
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:47, wrote:
> Ah, no. I wrote 30 scripts around '91-'92 to take datafiles from 30
> sources and reformat them, to feed to the C program I'd written with
> embedded sql, in place of the d/b's sqlloader (*bleah*). Then, 11 years
> ago, I wrote a validation program for data
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 10:12 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On 9/17/2010 8:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short
> course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those
> short
On 9/17/2010 10:12 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 9/17/2010 8:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short
course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those
short, stunningly useful examples
On 9/17/2010 10:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short
course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those
short, stunningly useful examples to help them get the idea that
they definitely should get their fee
Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
>> > over the next several weeks, i'm teaching some courses in
>> > RHEL admin but (unsurprisingly) i'll be using centos 5.5.
>> > it's a decently-written, 3rd party course, all the generic,
>> > standard admin topics but it does leave me about a 1/2 day
>> > to throw in
I know the OP asked for "cool" things to do, but I'll add my vote to
those who suggested highlighting configuration management. I'm not
sure how much puppet or cfengine you teach in a half-day, but I'm
fairly confident you could cover:
1. considering configuration files to be code -- it needs
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 8:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>> Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short
>>> course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those
>>> short, stunningly useful examples to help them get the idea that they
>>> definitely sh
> > over the next several weeks, i'm teaching some courses in
> > RHEL admin but (unsurprisingly) i'll be using centos 5.5.
> > it's a decently-written, 3rd party course, all the generic,
> > standard admin topics but it does leave me about a 1/2 day
> > to throw in any cool stuff i want to
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> (another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the
> sake of future courses taught on centos.)
>
> from this RHEL doc page:
>
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-ope
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/17/2010 8:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> >
> >> Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short
> >> course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those
> >> short, stunningly useful examples to help them get the idea t
On 9/17/2010 8:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> Proper scripting abilities are perhaps beyond reach for a short
>> course, but you could at least show off some one-liners or those
>> short, stunningly useful examples to help them get the idea that they
>> definitely should get their feet wet on
On 9/17/2010 8:18 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> h ... good idea. or i might just add in VNC and carry over the
>> freenx to an additional course dealing with networking/remote
>> admin/etc. thanks.
>
> I'd guess that for most people starting with linux, freenx with NX running on
> their ex
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Michel van Deventer wrote:
>
> > >
> > > (another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the
> > > sake of future courses taught on centos.)
> > >
> > > from this RHEL doc page:
> > >
> > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Ha
Morten P.D. Stevens wrote on 09/17/2010 09:55 AM:
> Hi Phil,
>
> This command is great to list (and remove) all packages from EPEL repository.
You're welcome. Guess you managed to ignore the extraneous Xoops code
tags from the forum copy/paste. :-)
Phil
I have NUT configured on a few of my CentOS servers. I compiled and
installed from source (2.4.3), so all of my nut-related files sit under
/usr/local/ups. I am using a Liebert UPS. Here's how I have it working:
Connect a serial cable from your server to the UPS (if available; USB is an
option on
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> To see the packages from a
> particular Vendor, for example EPEL:[code]
> rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME} %{VENDOR} \n" | grep "Fedora Project" | cut -d ' '
> -f 1 | sort
> [/code]
> The result should be a list of EPEL packages.
Hi Phil,
This comman
On 09/17/2010 03:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>(note: i asked this a few days ago but it *appears* that that post
> was tossed due to getting excessive bounces from my account. so i'm
> posting it again, apologies if you're seeing it a second time.)
>
>over the next several weeks, i'm t
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
>> logging utilities? intrusion detection? monitoring? anything that
>> leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours. i'm already
>> thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel. othe
Geert Batsleer wrote on 09/17/2010 09:14 AM:
> I'm having problems setting up a samba server with sellinux in centos
> 5.6 (x64).
>
> My samba config works flawlessly when selinux is disabled but fails to
> access shares when selinux is enabled. Wich command makes it possible
> to run samba wi
Morten P.D. Stevens wrote on 09/17/2010 07:06 AM:
> What's the best way to remove all amavisd-new packages (and it's
dependencies) from EPEL repo and reinstall it from rpmforge repo?
To see what repos you have installed packages from:
[code]
rpm -qa --qf "%{VENDOR} \n" | sort | uniq
[/code]
The
On 9/17/10 7:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> I'd consider the most valuable things to know about would be the
>> nature of an assortment of 3rd party yum repositories (i.e. EPEL
>> makes an effort not to overwrite core packages but probably won't
>> ha
Hello,
Amazon has just released a custom Linux distribution (Amazon Linux
AMI) for use in their EC2 cloud:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_is_the_Amazon_Linux_AMI
Out of curiosity, I googled a bit around it and read in various places
(e.g. [1] and [2]) that it is based on CentOS 5 (basically
I'm having problems setting up a samba server with sellinux in centos 5.6
(x64).
My samba config works flawlessly when selinux is disabled but fails to
access shares when selinux is enabled. Wich command makes it possible to
run samba with selinux without disabling it, now I've done: "set sebool
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> logging utilities? intrusion detection? monitoring? anything that
> leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours. i'm already
> thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel. other ideas?
> thanks.
If your stude
On 17/09/10 08:39, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>(note: i asked this a few days ago but it *appears* that that post
> was tossed due to getting excessive bounces from my account. so i'm
> posting it again, apologies if you're seeing it a second time.)
>
>over the next several weeks, i'm teac
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'd consider the most valuable things to know about would be the
> nature of an assortment of 3rd party yum repositories (i.e. EPEL
> makes an effort not to overwrite core packages but probably won't
> have everything you want), how to find and install th
On 9/17/10 2:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>(note: i asked this a few days ago but it *appears* that that post
> was tossed due to getting excessive bounces from my account. so i'm
> posting it again, apologies if you're seeing it a second time.)
>
>over the next several weeks, i'm tea
take a look at
http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
On 09/17/2010 01:06 PM, Damas Ally wrote:
> Please,
> Forward to me some basic instructions on how to do or specify the policy. I
> mean which service or protocol should be assigned to my iptables and how?
> would i need to create some groups or use
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>
> logging utilities? intrusion detection? monitoring? anything that
> leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours. i'm already
> thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel. other ideas?
> thanks.
sysadmins
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Adding Multimedia capabilities
>
> Using SQLite3 from the command line
> Creating a Database
> Creating and populating a table
> Selecting, inserting, updating and deleting data in the
> database
>
> Remote login sessions using ssh -X
>
> Intro t
Hi CentOS Mailinglist,
we are using amavisd-new (with all dependencies) from Fedora/Redhat EPEL repo.
Some packages from EPEL repo are very old. (amavisd-new, clamav, spamassassin)
What's the best way to remove all amavisd-new packages (and it's dependencies)
from EPEL repo and reinstall it fro
Please,
Forward to me some basic instructions on how to do or specify the policy. I
mean which service or protocol should be assigned to my iptables and how?
would i need to create some groups or use mac address of a user pc?
thanks,
rgds!
Damas
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Juergen Gotteswinte
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