Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Bob Hepple
Les Mikesell writes: > Doesn't x11vnc always stay tied to the console screen? Sometimes > that's what you want, but I generally want independent remote > sessions. Yes - but the OP wanted something that would tie to display :0 even for gdm/kdm/xdm logins. Also - it looks like the -clientdpms

Re: [CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On hold until monday. It was decided we (family) would pack up and go to Chicago for the weekend. Will work on this when I get back. Thanks for the pointer. On 01/24/2013 02:48 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/24/2013 01:15 PM, Robert Moskow

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-25, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > I used to think that, but a password is almost always recoverable, on > more or less any Linux system. In the San Francisco case, the passwords in question were for Cisco routers and other networking equipment. Those are probably much harder to recover/reset

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:34 AM, wrote: > > What, you're forgetting, was it LA or SF, that just had that happen very > publicly, when that admin left and didn't want to tell the admins the > passwords, a couple of years ago? > > No. A manager should *always* have the written passwords, somewhere,

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Bob Hepple wrote: >> >> I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system is >> via > gdm/kdm. Yes, I know about vino, >> and /etc/sysconfig/vncservers but what I'm looking for is a sertup >> that allows me to see the *dm login screen instea

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Bob Hepple
Bob Hepple writes: > > Bruce Ferrell writes: > > This doe what you want - not sure if it's optimal, but by putting it in > /etc/rc.local I can see gdm on reboot: > > x11vnc -xkb -auth guess -q -rfbauth /home/bhepple/.vnc/passwd -display :0 > -clear_all -loop > Hmmm - apologies for repetitio

[CentOS] CentOS 5.8, Adaptec 6405 but lsmod lists dmraid?

2013-01-24 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi I have (actaully on a number of machines) various Adaptec card installed, yet lsmod shows "dmraid" loaded? How come? I thought that dmraid is software raid? Is this part of the booting and if so How do I tell mkinitrd NOT to make it part of the bootup process? Jobst -- When you lose

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-24 Thread Nux!
On 24.01.2013 20:27, James Freer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Leon Fauster > wrote: >> Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer >> : >>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes >>> wrote: On 01/22/2013 03:01 PM, James Freer wrote: > I've just installed v6.3 as a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:27 PM, James Freer wrote: > >> i do not recommend to use this two repos simultaniuous (or use priorities!). >> LF > > hmmm - well what is one supposed to do? I've got EPEL installed fine > but that doesn't have abiword, pyrenamer and some of the the other... > fairly stan

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-24 Thread John Hinton
On 1/24/2013 3:27 PM, James Freer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Leon Fauster > wrote: >> Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer : >>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 01/22/2013 03:01 PM, James Freer wrote: > I've just installed v6.3 as a desktop

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-24 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 24.01.2013 um 21:27 schrieb James Freer : > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Leon Fauster > wrote: >> Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer : >>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> puias... sorry i overlooked that. Clear enough now. I'll use the epel >>> and r

[CentOS] lokkit and multicast

2013-01-24 Thread Jerry Geis
I use lokkit to set my firewall. on 5.X seems the default is to allow multicast through. on 6.3 seems the default is to block multicast what can I use on the command line for lokkit to enable port 6550 for multicast? Thanks, jerry ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-01-24 Thread James Freer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 22.01.2013 um 23:03 schrieb James Freer : >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 01/22/2013 03:01 PM, James Freer wrote: I've just installed v6.3 as a desktop (from Centos-6.3-i386-LiveCD.iso) and to get

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-24, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > What, you're forgetting, was it LA or SF, that just had that happen very > publicly, when that admin left and didn't want to tell the admins the > passwords, a couple of years ago? It was San Francisco. Here are some stories on it; I'm sure DDG can find

Re: [CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/24/2013 01:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Thank you for your suggestion, but it did not fix the permissions problem. > > On 01/24/2013 10:13 AM, Rob wrote: >> usermod -a -G amavis clam > > How is this different from: > > gpasswd -a clam amav

Re: [CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Rob
On 24.01.2013, at 19:15, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Thank you for your suggestion, but it did not fix the permissions problem. > > On 01/24/2013 10:13 AM, Rob wrote: >> usermod -a -G amavis clam > > How is this different from: > > gpasswd -a clam amavis > > And I am still getting the permiss

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

2013-01-24 Thread James Pearson
fred smith wrote: > James: > > I gave it a quick try last night, and got hung up on the python version. > The build wants <= 2.7, and EL5 has something much older than that. > > I'd be afraid to just drop a new one in since thatwould probably break > lots of things. Unless I could put it in a pr

Re: [CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Thank you for your suggestion, but it did not fix the permissions problem. On 01/24/2013 10:13 AM, Rob wrote: > usermod -a -G amavis clam How is this different from: gpasswd -a clam amavis And I am still getting the permissions error. > service clamd restart > > be happy > > On 24.01.2013, at

Re: [CentOS] Software Updater issue

2013-01-24 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 01/24/2013 01:18 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> For some reason the Software Updater thought it would be interesting for >> me if it upgraded my nvidia 304 driver with the nvidia 310.32-1 driver. > This would be elrepo's driver, right? You'll

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

2013-01-24 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:15:21PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system

Re: [CentOS] Software Updater issue

2013-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/24/2013 01:18 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey All, > > Heads up! > > For some reason the Software Updater thought it would be interesting for > me if it upgraded my nvidia 304 driver with the nvidia 310.32-1 driver. This would be elrepo's driver, right? You'll want to uninstall nvidia-x11-dr

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/24/2013 10:34 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz >>> wrote: On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM

Re: [CentOS] How to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare?

2013-01-24 Thread zGreenfelder
I'm not really sure I can clarify things for you, but I'll give it a shot. > > I read this discussion on serverfault.com > http://serverfault.com/questions/106131/raid-5-with-hot-spare-or-raid-10-with-no-hot-spare > > > but still quite confused as some people think RAID-10 is way safer while > som

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread m . roth
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz >> wrote: >>> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >>> I don't use sudo. If I ne

Re: [CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Rob
usermod -a -G amavis clam service clamd restart be happy On 24.01.2013, at 04:16, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am trying to follow: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd > > Which seems to really be written for Centos 5, with just some selinux > references for Centos 6. There are real pr

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/23/2013 03:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz > wrote: >> On 01/23/2013 01:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > How can I open crontab with gedit any any other editor

[CentOS] permission problems with avamis and Centos 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am trying to follow: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd Which seems to really be written for Centos 5, with just some selinux references for Centos 6. There are real problems here for Centos 6 with the userids section. It gives the following command and result: cat /etc/passwd | grep "a

Re: [CentOS] How to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare?

2013-01-24 Thread Ken godee
raid 6 On 1/24/2013 7:37 AM, Wenshan Ren wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers writes: > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ren Wen shan wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I am new to this group so please forgive me if this question has been >>> already asked. >>> >>> With four identical hard drives, I want

Re: [CentOS] How to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare?

2013-01-24 Thread Wenshan Ren
Rudi Ahlers writes: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ren Wen shan wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am new to this group so please forgive me if this question has been >> already asked. >> >> With four identical hard drives, I want to setup RAID 5 + 1 hot spare by a >> fresh CentOS (6.3) ins

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread Boris Epstein
I have, thanks! That one works just fine. Unfortunately, it does load balancing - and that is all. ClearOS, for instance, does a myriad of things but the kind of load balancer I want. And I would like to have it all in one machine. That is another challenge I face. Boris. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013

Re: [CentOS] How to setup VNC for GDM access on 6.3

2013-01-24 Thread Bob Hepple
Bruce Ferrell writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for pointer for setting up VNC so that access to the system is via gdm/kdm. Yes, I know about vino, > and /etc/sysconfig/vncservers but what I'm looking for is a sertup > that allows me to see the *dm login screen instead of being dropped dire

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 95, Issue 8

2013-01-24 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread Christopher Buckley
Pound Load Balancer is pretty good in my experience. On 19 January 2013 20:35, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > The question is not necessarily CentOS-specific - but there are lots of > bright people on here, and - quite possibly - the final implementation will > be on CentOS hence I figur

Re: [CentOS] Software Updater issue

2013-01-24 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Barry Brimer wrote: >> I'm not sure about this but that seems like a bug when it thinks that >> the 310 driver package is an upgrade for the 304 driver package. >> >> Jan 23 21:43:39 Updated: kmod-nvidia-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 >> Jan 23 21:43:49 Updated: nvidia-x11-drv-310.32-1.el6.elrepo.i686 >>

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread ankush grover
You can try Zen Load Balancer http://www.zenloadbalancer.com/ On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:20 PM, andreas wrote: > Στις 23-01-2013 16:25, Bowie Bailey έγραψε: > > On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > >> > >> You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the > >> above > >