[CentOS] Mounting an external USB drive

2011-03-25 Thread Todd Cary
With Centos 5.5, my external USB drive appears to self mount in that the icon appears on the desktop and when I double click on it, the files are there. However, I recall that I need to make an entry in the fstab as well as some other changes. When I do a # /sbin/fdisk -l I learn that the de

Re: [CentOS] Default permissions for creating a new user

2011-03-25 Thread Todd Cary
On 3/25/2011 4:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/25/11 4:45 PM, Todd Cary wrote: >> I know this is a Linux 101 question, however I am unable to >> locate the answer in my O'Reilly Linux book: how to set the >> default for permissions when creating a new user. The default >> for the GUI in my n

Re: [CentOS] Default permissions for creating a new user

2011-03-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > I know this is a Linux 101 question, however I am unable to > locate the answer in my O'Reilly Linux book: how to set the > default for permissions when creating a new user.  The default > for the GUI in my newly installed Centos 5.5 is 700.  I u

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/25/11 6:31 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> One has to be cautious about the bootstrap environment, to make sure that the libraries available in your "mock" or other build environments are the same libraries. Red Hat seems t

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Barnes
> On 03/25/2011 11:17 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: >> http://www.ksplice.com/ >> >> I've heard of it, but never used it. Curious to hear other people's >> experiences... >> > > I have met and spoken at length with the ksplice guys - its really cool > stuff, and they are a great bunch of guys. If yo

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/11 6:31 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >>> One has to be cautious about the bootstrap environment, to make sure >>> that the libraries available in your "mock" or other build >>> environments are the same libraries. Red Hat seems to be very, very >>> good about this. >> >> It is not that th

Re: [CentOS] Default permissions for creating a new user

2011-03-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:45 Fri 25 Mar, Todd Cary (t...@aristesoftware.com) wrote: > I know this is a Linux 101 question, however I am unable to > locate the answer in my O'Reilly Linux book: how to set the > default for permissions when creating a new user. The default > for the GUI in my newly installed Centos

Re: [CentOS] Default permissions for creating a new user

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 4:45 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > I know this is a Linux 101 question, however I am unable to > locate the answer in my O'Reilly Linux book: how to set the > default for permissions when creating a new user. The default > for the GUI in my newly installed Centos 5.5 is 700. I usually > use

[CentOS] Default permissions for creating a new user

2011-03-25 Thread Todd Cary
I know this is a Linux 101 question, however I am unable to locate the answer in my O'Reilly Linux book: how to set the default for permissions when creating a new user. The default for the GUI in my newly installed Centos 5.5 is 700. I usually use 774. And when root creates a new directory,

Re: [CentOS] How to limit ftp users to just view their directory

2011-03-25 Thread Todd Cary
On 3/25/2011 12:13 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 25 March 2011 19:09, Todd Cary wrote: >> I am in the process of bring up Centos 5.5. My ftp server is >> vsftp. When I add a user (e.g. brian), the "brian" directory is >> owned by "brian" and is in the "brian" group with 700 >> permissions. How

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/25/2011 5:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that > matched > their binaries Red Hat's published source is what they use to create their binaries.

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/25/2011 11:17 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: > http://www.ksplice.com/ > > I've heard of it, but never used it. Curious to hear other people's > experiences... > I have met and spoken at length with the ksplice guys - its really cool stuff, and they are a great bunch of guys. If you do consid

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Devin Reade
Slightly OT, but I have more than one pacemaker/corosync cluster where one of the main reasons to use a cluster (in addition to the availability aspect) is to be able to perform running updates without affecting the user base. As in: 1. All services running on node A. 2. Update node B. 3. C

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 3:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/25/11 2:43 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> So doesn't that mean you need to start the next design sooner vs later? >> If the middleware layer handles most of the component interaction you >> might have some freedom to make piecemeal changes. On the othe

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 2:43 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > So doesn't that mean you need to start the next design sooner vs later? > If the middleware layer handles most of the component interaction you > might have some freedom to make piecemeal changes. On the other hand, > distributed database technology is st

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 5:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched their binaries >>> >>> Red Hat's published source is what they use to create their binaries. >>> There is no mis-match. >> >> I thought the issue causing the delays

Re: [CentOS] Can't build PHP 5.3.6 with MySQL 5.5.10 on CentOS-4

2011-03-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Santi Saez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to build PHP 5.3.6 in a CentOS-4 server with MySQL 5.5.10 and I > get this error: Update directly to CentOS 5.5, and build the "php53" SRPM from upstream. That will be in CentOS 5.6. __

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/25/2011 4:38 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 03/20/2011 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched >>> their binaries >> >> Red Hat's published source is what they use to

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 4:38 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 03/20/2011 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched >> their binaries > > Red Hat's published source is what they use to create their binaries. > There is no mis-match. I thought th

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 2:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> So no one develops new applications there? > > This is a large scale manufacturing execution system. You don't just go > off and design an all new system based on the buzzwords d'jour, when > your factories are dependent on it. Pretty much everyone i

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 03/20/2011 12:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Or, maybe there was back in the days when they released source that matched > their binaries Red Hat's published source is what they use to create their binaries. There is no mis-match. ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 3:42 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >>> My concern with buffering / blocking output has more to do with some >>> critical service saying "wups, no more serving until I can flush my log >>> buffers" than it does losing a few lines of logging periodically (though >>> that should also be min

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

2011-03-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:18 Fri 25 Mar, Mogens Kjaer (m...@lemo.dk) wrote: > On 03/24/2011 10:05 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > You can create a "timestamp" cron job. Just a > > > > */10 * * * * root Logger "--- TIMESTAMP ---" > > syslogd already has this buildin. It's normally disabled > by the "-m 0" in /etc/

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:28 Fri 25 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: > On 3/25/2011 2:53 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > > My concern with buffering / blocking output has more to do with some > > critical service saying "wups, no more serving until I can flush my log > > buffers" than it does losing a

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 2:53 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > My concern with buffering / blocking output has more to do with some > critical service saying "wups, no more serving until I can flush my log > buffers" than it does losing a few lines of logging periodically (though > that should also be minimized).

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 2:48 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> Well... except that in this context, it's not only database >>> transactions: it's any granular interaction between client and server. >>> You don't, for example, want part of a form you've just clicked >>> on to only partly get there, if there's

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 12:21 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > So no one develops new applications there? This is a large scale manufacturing execution system. You don't just go off and design an all new system based on the buzzwords d'jour, when your factories are dependent on it. Picture large factory floors wi

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:19 Fri 25 Mar, Ilyas -- (umas...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi! > > Also note that: > 1. logrotate wouldn't rotate fifo/pipes if options `notifempty' > enabled in logrotate profiles. > 2. enable buffering in syslog-ng.conf (next - whole list of options in > my config): > options { > sync (1

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:08 Fri 25 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: > On Thursday, March 24, 2011 06:52:24 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > Right, and the general solution also generalizes to other tools. > > Postgresql (which we aren't using currently) also has its own log > > handler (a small frustration of mine

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/25/2011 2:11 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Not everything deals in transactions, though. The recently popular distributed database versions that scale up are more about doing something reasonable in scenarios where you can't guarantee a transaction s

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 2:11 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> Not everything deals in transactions, though. The recently popular >>> distributed database versions that scale up are more about doing >>> something reasonable in scenarios where you can't guarantee a >>> transaction state (where 'reasonable' is

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 12:11 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > * Paradigm, as in, "the new flavor toothpaste of spearment instead > of peppermint is a New Paradigm!!! and will (dare I say it) > Change the World As We Know It!!" :) We're still trying to stick forks in "Younameit as a Service" (Y

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/25/2011 1:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Not everything deals in transactions, though. The recently popular >> distributed database versions that scale up are more about doing >> something reasonable in scenarios where you can't guarantee a >> transaction state (where 'reasonable' is define

Re: [CentOS] How to limit ftp users to just view their directory

2011-03-25 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 25 March 2011 19:09, Todd Cary wrote: > I am in the process of bring up Centos 5.5.  My ftp server is > vsftp.  When I add a user (e.g. brian), the "brian" directory is > owned by "brian" and is in the "brian" group with 700 > permissions.  However, using a FTP client, the user "brian" can > vi

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/25/11 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Not everything deals in transactions, though. The recently popular >> distributed database versions that scale up are more about doing >> something reasonable in scenarios where you can't guarantee a >> transaction state (where 'r

[CentOS] How to limit ftp users to just view their directory

2011-03-25 Thread Todd Cary
I am in the process of bring up Centos 5.5. My ftp server is vsftp. When I add a user (e.g. brian), the "brian" directory is owned by "brian" and is in the "brian" group with 700 permissions. However, using a FTP client, the user "brian" can view all of the directories. I do not see any dir

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Not everything deals in transactions, though. The recently popular > distributed database versions that scale up are more about doing > something reasonable in scenarios where you can't guarantee a > transaction state (where 'reasonable' is defined by th

Re: [CentOS] {OT] Re: Installing IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/24/2011 2:07 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Having said that, I have this troubling thought for last decade: What >> exactly is high availability: is it 24/7 power on time? or is ti "when >> needed". Please not it am not talking about the maybe arrogant "on >> demand" attitude of a human. >

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/25/11 3:15 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't >> reboot. >> Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we >> don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (po

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Ilyas --
Hi! Also note that: 1. logrotate wouldn't rotate fifo/pipes if options `notifempty' enabled in logrotate profiles. 2. enable buffering in syslog-ng.conf (next - whole list of options in my config): options { sync (128); time_reopen (10); log_fifo_size (16384); chain

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 3:15 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't > reboot. > Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we > don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing > to some other da

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

2011-03-25 Thread m . roth
Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7) wrote: > > On 3/25/2011 7:51 AM, John Doe wrote: >> From: Dave Windsor >> >>> Today, there are not high I/O loads. This server was intended to >>> replace two older HP-UX servers. I had just begun to migrate the >>> workload to the new server when the crashes began t

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

2011-03-25 Thread Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7)
On 3/25/2011 7:51 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Dave Windsor > >> Today, there are not high I/O loads. This server was intended to >> replace two older HP-UX servers. I had just begun to migrate the >> workload to the new server when the crashes began to occur. There are >> some minor, sporad

[CentOS] Can't build PHP 5.3.6 with MySQL 5.5.10 on CentOS-4

2011-03-25 Thread Santi Saez
Hello, I'm trying to build PHP 5.3.6 in a CentOS-4 server with MySQL 5.5.10 and I get this error: //usr/include/mysql/my_config_i386.h:610:1: warning: "PACKAGE_NAME" redefined /usr/include/mysql/mysql/psi/mysql_thread.h:100: error: syntax error before "pthread_rwlock_t" /usr/include/mysql/my

Re: [CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-25 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > But what could be the cause for throwing this ACPI errors? I've had acpi errors like the ones you list, that went away when I installed SL6.0 Before then I had to boot acpi=off. Your board is not SMP and does not support ACPI. >> following errors were shown up

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 06:52:24 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Right, and the general solution also generalizes to other tools. > Postgresql (which we aren't using currently) also has its own log > handler (a small frustration of mine with the database). PostgreSQL has had syslog support since ve

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

2011-03-25 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/24/2011 10:05 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > You can create a "timestamp" cron job. Just a > > */10 * * * * root Logger "--- TIMESTAMP ---" syslogd already has this buildin. It's normally disabled by the "-m 0" in /etc/sysconfig/syslog. Change the zero to 10, restart syslogd and you get t

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-25 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM, John Hodrien wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: >> >> Sure, but if you're not a domain admin, you've only got a machine principal, >> and your own principal (which I can use to join machines to the d

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

2011-03-25 Thread John Doe
From: Dave Windsor > Today, there are not high I/O loads. This server was intended to > replace two older HP-UX servers. I had just begun to migrate the > workload to the new server when the crashes began to occur. There are > some minor, sporadic I/O loads but nothing that I would thin

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Barnes
> Hi all, > I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't > reboot. > Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we > don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing > to some other date), right? On the topic of updating the k

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:15:38 +0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't > reboot. > Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we > don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (post

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Thomas Göttgens
Hi Fajar, usually you're fine, although i experienced some kind of "binary rot" if I did that too excessively. Especally things that are located "near" the kernel like initscripts and the xen daemon may start acting funny (like domU not starting up any more and such things...) if the kernel versio

[CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't reboot. Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing to some other date), right? Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] Remote-logging nginx? (or other non-syslog-enabled stuff)

2011-03-25 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
First: thanks very much for spelling this out, Ilyas. This was along the lines of what I'd been considering. You addressed a number of concerns I had (e.g.: non-blocking output) which is really helpful. on 08:39 Fri 25 Mar, Ilyas -- (umas...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using follow method