Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 02:30:16AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 03.12.2011 01:05, schrieb fred smith: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> > >> > >> Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith: > >>> Hi all! > >>> > >>> I'm still googling for this, but after

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:37:55AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 12/03/2011 01:06 AM, fred smith piše: > >> I am in professional wireless business. My solution was to deinstall > >> syslog and install syslog-ng, it's supports separation based on IP, > >> name, etc.. > > > > thanks. I w

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread Corey Henderson
On 12/2/2011 5:06 PM, fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:48:14AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Vreme: 12/03/2011 12:04 AM, fred smith piše: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so >>> I figured I'd ask you guys: >>> >>> I've got

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Alan McKay
My Ubuntu desktop at home seems to show up to windows boxes on the home lan and vice-versa, without me having to do anything to configure it. Something I've done in the past in small office situations is set up a DNS server that knows the names of all the local machines and then proxies off to a r

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.12.2011 01:05, schrieb fred smith: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so >>> I figured I'd ask you guys: >>> >>> I've got m

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 12/03/2011 01:06 AM, fred smith piše: >> I am in professional wireless business. My solution was to deinstall >> syslog and install syslog-ng, it's supports separation based on IP, >> name, etc.. > > thanks. I was hoping for some kind of hack so I wouldn't need to do that. > I am not aware

Re: [CentOS] Missing sources in CentOS 6.0

2011-12-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/02/2011 01:12 PM, Ryan R. Uber wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In the 6.0 release, I have found a gap in the provided source under the > SRPMS/ directories on the mirrors. > > Let's take the 'bash' source as the first example. The version of bash that I > find in the binary x86_64 directorie

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:48:14AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 12/03/2011 12:04 AM, fred smith piše: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so > > I figured I'd ask you guys: > > > > I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so > > I figured I'd ask you guys: > > > > I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to lo

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 12/03/2011 12:04 AM, fred smith piše: > Hi all! > > I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so > I figured I'd ask you guys: > > I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to log the router's > system events. Works fine. > > however, it mixes 'em into /var/l

Re: [CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith: > Hi all! > > I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so > I figured I'd ask you guys: > > I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to log the router's > system events. Works fine. > > however, it mixes 'em into /var/

[CentOS] remote syslog question

2011-12-02 Thread fred smith
Hi all! I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so I figured I'd ask you guys: I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to log the router's system events. Works fine. however, it mixes 'em into /var/log/messages along with the messages from the Centos box itse

Re: [CentOS] qemu-kvm failed after update from CR repo

2011-12-02 Thread Nataraj
On 11/28/2011 10:38 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: > I finally decided to install the CR repo on one of my CentOS 6 machines that > I use as a host for some VMs (also running CentOS 6). > > Before updating the host I updated a VM that was not critical to test the > process and was able to boot that VM,

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Timothy Madden wrote: > > > Actually, as I was saying, I have a sub-net of 8 computers and 1 router > (and also one switch if you want). > > The router is stubborn enough to make sure that no incoming connections > or outside traffic get to the sub-net (except on t

Re: [CentOS] Multicast versus broadcast network load (was:Re: How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names)

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> My point is that every device on your network has to process every >> broadcast packet.  Maybe you have CPU overkill on all your computers, >> but you might also have some dumb controllers too.  And they have to >> go out the wifi too. > > Et

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, wrote: >> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're effectively static. >>> >>> If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS.  Linux >>> tools >> Um, no can do: we don't ru

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:59 PM, wrote: > >>> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're >>> effectively static. >> >> If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS.  Linux tools >>> > Um, no can do: we don't run the DNS here on campus (a US gov't

Re: [CentOS] Missing sources in CentOS 6.0

2011-12-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/02/2011 01:12 PM, Ryan R. Uber wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In the 6.0 release, I have found a gap in the provided source under the > SRPMS/ directories on the mirrors. > > Let's take the 'bash' source as the first example. The version of bash that I > find in the binary x86_64 directorie

[CentOS] Missing sources in CentOS 6.0

2011-12-02 Thread Ryan R. Uber
Hello everyone, In the 6.0 release, I have found a gap in the provided source under the SRPMS/ directories on the mirrors. Let's take the 'bash' source as the first example. The version of bash that I find in the binary x86_64 directories is: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6.0/os/x86_64/Pack

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM,   wrote: >> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're >> effectively static. > > If you've done that, you might as well put them in DN

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM,   wrote: >>> > And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're > effectively static. If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS.  Linux tools > >>> Um, no

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, wrote: >> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're effectively static. >>> >>> If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS.  Linux tools >> Um, no can do: we don't run the DNS here on campus (a US go

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Timothy Madden
On 02.12.2011 18:17, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:06:51 AM Craig White wrote: >> ummm... there are WINS master browser elections on every subnet ... > > 'Master browser election broadcasts' != 'broadcast-based name resolution.' > > I have measured significant broadcast traffi

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:17 PM, wrote: > >>> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're >>> effectively static. >> >> If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS.  Linux tools >> just normally make this difficult.   SME server made it handy long ago >> by combining

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 01:17:19 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Within our division, we > control the horizontal, we control the vertical And now we have reached the outer limits of topicality. /me ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Timothy Madden
On 02.12.2011 17:01, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 06:36:25 AM Timothy Madden wrote: >> Sorry to say the instructions did not work for me. > ... >> Still, no success in ping-ing other (samba) machines in my network. But >> I could ping the same machines from a Windows workstation

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:40 AM, wrote: >> >> And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're >> effectively static. > > If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS. Linux tools > just normally make this difficult. SME server made it handy long ag

[CentOS] Multicast versus broadcast network load (was:Re: How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names)

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 12:40:32 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > But, lacking metrics, it's somewhat of a moot point. > My point is that every device on your network has to process every > broadcast packet. Maybe you have CPU overkill on all

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:40 AM, wrote: > > And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're effectively > static. > If you've done that, you might as well put them in DNS. Linux tools just normally make this difficult. SME server made it handy long ago by combining the user entr

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:43:48 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >> Nobody cares much about hardware/network efficiency these days since >> you are likely to have plenty except in those marginal wifi areas, but >> broadcasts get accepted by every NI

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:40:39 AM Craig White wrote: > On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I have measured significant broadcast traffic reduction when migrating from > > non-WINS to WINS SMB/CIFS name resolution. ... > As for how much broadcast occurs... A very detailed page

Re: [CentOS] DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0

2011-12-02 Thread Timothy Madden
On 02.12.2011 16:59, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Timothy Madden wrote: On 02.12.2011 13:25, �лек�андр Кириллов wrote: [...] For some strange reasone, when I do that, I get 'host name lookup failure' during `service network restart´ invocation, so in the end I resorted to using ju

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:43:48 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > Nobody cares much about hardware/network efficiency these days since > you are likely to have plenty except in those marginal wifi areas, but > broadcasts get accepted by every NIC on the network and pushed up the > network stacks until

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 82, Issue 1

2011-12-02 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> I'm sort of surprised no one pointed out that mDNS/avahi type of name >> resolution was probably the way to go for a heterogenous network but yes, it >> too is not generally installed/configured on a normal Linux install. > > While there is

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Craig White
On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/02/2011 09:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 12/02/2011 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > [netbios naming is] like a

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: > There is also certainly nothing wrong with doing dynamic dns if you have > a linux box giving out dhcp addresses. You can run ddns and wins on the > same box. I have both. And we have our DHCP give out IP by MAC addresses, so they're effectively static. mark _

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Craig White
On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:06:51 AM Craig White wrote: >> ummm... there are WINS master browser elections on every subnet ... > > 'Master browser election broadcasts' != 'broadcast-based name resolution.' > > I have measured significant broad

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/02/2011 09:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 12/02/2011 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own name all th

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:02:18 AM Craig White wrote: > I'm sort of surprised no one pointed out that mDNS/avahi type of name > resolution was probably the way to go for a heterogenous network but yes, it > too is not generally installed/configured on a normal Linux install. While there is

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:06:51 AM Craig White wrote: > ummm... there are WINS master browser elections on every subnet ... 'Master browser election broadcasts' != 'broadcast-based name resolution.' I have measured significant broadcast traffic reduction when migrating from non-WINS to WIN

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 10:47:53 AM Craig White wrote: > I think 'recommended' is a bit of a stretch - it is a possibility. 'Recommended' if you don't want to (or can't) use either old-style NT domains or ActiveDirectory. When you need to support routable SMB/CIFS traffic for WinXP Home, V

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Craig White
On Dec 2, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 10:38:11 AM Craig White wrote: >> indeed but to continue Les's fairly adept analogy, this is akin to running >> wires & a PA system to another office so the yelling happens not just in one >> room but in several rooms.

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Craig White
On Dec 2, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: > > Maybe I got used too much to the way this thing "just works" on a > Windows network. But I really expected a modern Linux OS to have some > better decentralized name resolving support off-the-box for a small, > router-based home network. I

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 10:38:11 AM Craig White wrote: > indeed but to continue Les's fairly adept analogy, this is akin to running > wires & a PA system to another office so the yelling happens not just in one > room but in several rooms. Uh, no. With properly configured WINS (both server

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Craig White
On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >> [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own >> name all the time as a means of identification with no way to handle >> those out of hearing distance or to arbitr

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/02/2011 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >>> [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own >>> name all the time as a means of identification with no way to

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Craig White
On Dec 2, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/02/2011 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >>> [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own >>> name all the time as a means of identification with no way to ha

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 12/02/2011 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >> [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own >> name all the time as a means of identification with no way to handle >> those out of hearing distance or to arbitrate du

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 06:36:25 AM Timothy Madden wrote: > Sorry to say the instructions did not work for me. ... > Still, no success in ping-ing other (samba) machines in my network. But > I could ping the same machines from a Windows workstation... ... > I the end, I had to revert to stati

Re: [CentOS] DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Timothy Madden wrote: > On 02.12.2011 13:25, Александр Кириллов wrote: >>> Sorry for the wrong wording: what I want is the DHCP client to send >>> the hostname when a lease is requested, but I do not want to give >>> dhclient any explicit hostname to be sent. >>> >>> I want dhclien

Re: [CentOS] Was, Re: megaraid/PERC, is LVM

2011-12-02 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 01:53:59 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> So, I've done pgscan, vgscan, see the group name, tried vgchange >> --mknod, >> but the groups aren't active, nor is there a VolGroup directory created >> down in /dev. Anyone know what I've missed? > > vgchan

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 02, 2011 08:42:42 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > [netbios naming is] like a roomfull of people yelling out their own > name all the time as a means of identification with no way to handle > those out of hearing distance or to arbitrate duplicates. ... > But that's a matter of luck,

Re: [CentOS] DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0

2011-12-02 Thread Timothy Madden
On 02.12.2011 13:25, Александр Кириллов wrote: >> Sorry for the wrong wording: what I want is the DHCP client to send >> the >> hostname when a lease is requested, but I do not want to give >> dhclient >> any explicit hostname to be sent. >> >> I want dhclient to read the hostname from `hostname` o

Re: [CentOS] Was, Re: megaraid/PERC, is LVM

2011-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 01, 2011 01:53:59 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > So, I've done pgscan, vgscan, see the group name, tried vgchange --mknod, > but the groups aren't active, nor is there a VolGroup directory created > down in /dev. Anyone know what I've missed? vgchange -ay perhaps? _

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: > >> After you've set that up, test it with 'dig @192.168.0.1 name.localdomain'. > > Well ... yes, you are right, the router has that reservation table in > its DHCP settings. But if I have to include *all* my machines on the > DHCP reservation

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Timothy Madden
On 30.11.2011 17:39, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Timothy Madden > wrote: >> >> Thank you all for your answers. >> >> Indeed, my router (D-Link DIR-100) only does DNS relay and nothing more. > > Errr, unless I'm looking at the wrong online manual, DNS relay does > _exact

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Timothy Madden
On 30.11.2011 17:00, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 08:54:04 AM Timothy Madden wrote: >> Is there a way to get the name service switch to use wins, while the DNS >> configuration is handled by DHCP client ? > > Yes, there is (or at least should be). While I know some will obje

Re: [CentOS] DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0

2011-12-02 Thread Александр Кириллов
> Sorry for the wrong wording: what I want is the DHCP client to send > the > hostname when a lease is requested, but I do not want to give > dhclient > any explicit hostname to be sent. > > I want dhclient to read the hostname from `hostname` or from > /etc/sysconfig/network or any other way, an

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller

2011-12-02 Thread Anton Turon
Richard, we have just installed a CentOS 5.5 on 320G6 with B110i controller. As you correctly said, the CentOs shows both devices while booting w/o dd. However, as we have found, contrary to what is said in release notes for the controller DD, you must not dd it, however, just unzip it and place