Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Johan Vermeulen
Op 24-04-13 22:53, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: > John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>> Disabling SELinux is not going to fix your problem. Since the field is >>> just showing you that you have extended attibutes assigned to yr files. >>> >

Re: [CentOS] DIMM problem

2013-04-25 Thread John Doe
From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > Good idea, though, and I just installed OpenIPMI and ipmitool... and the > only thing that ipmitool sel list shows is a power supply failure > yesterday. I did go into the datacenter and look at it, and it's got this > cute pull-out little display... and it's not showing

Re: [CentOS] Writing to a symlink on a read-only file system that land on a read-write file system

2013-04-25 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > We've come across a problem with 6.4 kernels that we didn't have with > 6.2 kernels - which involves writing to a symlink that is on a read-only > file system - but the symlink lands on a read-write file system > > The following shows the issue: > > mkdir -p /mnt/tmp >

Re: [CentOS] Anybody Else Seeing these internet spikes?

2013-04-25 Thread ken
n 04/24/2013 06:14 PM John Hinton wrote: > Is anybody else seeing these internet spikes that seemed to come along > with the WP bots? And, what are good methods for defense? It looks like > they are hitting port 80 but not leaving a trace in logs. > What utility or tool then are you using which sh

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread James Hogarth
> as far as I can test this at the moment, it works without Selinux and > doesn't work with Selinux enabled. > > I also want Selinux enabled. > So I will do some searching on how to make it work with Selinux. > > > Although i don't use NetworkManager I suspect it runs in some kind of context such a

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/25/2013 3:57 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > I suspect there is no boolean to allow what you want so if you want selinux > enabled you'll need to build a module - look at audit2allow and the various > guides surrounding that for how to use and you wonder why people give up on selinux. 'sorry, bos

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Johan Vermeulen
:-) In this context " I ' run your backup when verzonden m.b.v Android vandaar de beknoptheid. John R Pierce schreef: >On 4/25/2013 3:57 AM, James Hogarth wrote: >> I suspect there is no boolean to allow what you want so if you want selinux >> enabled you'll need to build a module - look at

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Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread mark
On 04/25/13 04:54, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > Op 24-04-13 22:53, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: >> John R. Dennison wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: Disabling SELinux is not going to fix your problem. Since the field is just showing you that you have ex

[CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Adekoya Adekunle
I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can 1) Check the version of my cent os 2) Check all the open ports (tcp and udp) on my machine 3) Open a specific port say port 3306 so that a telnet request from a remote machiene can be accepted 4) Disable the eff

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread John Doe
From: Adekoya Adekunle > I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >   1) Check the version of my cent os >   2)  Check all the open ports (tcp and udp) on my machine >   3)  Open a specific port say port 3306 so that a  telnet request from a > remote machiene ca

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >1) Check the version of my cent os lsb_release -a >2) Check all the open ports (tcp and udp) on my machine netstat -atulp (man netstat) >3) Open a

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Burger
I'm all for helping people with their questions and problems...heaven knows, I've needed my share of help with things, but I don't usually ask until I've performed some level of research. Having said that, I hope that you will all accept my apologies for any interpreted attitude in what follows.

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Burger
> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >> I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >>1) Check the version of my cent os > > lsb_release -a >From the question, he wants to know the version of CentOS, not the LSB info. rpm -q centos-release

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Dave Cross
On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > >> I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can > >>1) Check the version of my cent os > > > > lsb_release -a > > >From the question, he wants to know the ve

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/2013 04:54 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > > > > > Op 24-04-13 22:53, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: >> John R. Dennison wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: Disabling SELinux is not going to fix your pro

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Mike Burger
> On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >> >> I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i >> can >> >>1) Check the version of my cent os >> > >> > lsb_release -a >> >> >From the question, he wants t

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:39:29PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > > lsb_release gives the version of CentOS. > > $ lsb_release -a > LSB Version: > :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch > Distributor ID: CentOS > Description: Cent

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Johan Vermeulen
Op 25-04-13 14:49, Daniel J Walsh schreef: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/25/2013 04:54 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >> >> >> >> Op 24-04-13 22:53, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: >>> John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

[CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
Using CentOS 5.8: Currently on my workstations, when I press the power button the computer immediately does a 'shutdown -h now' (per /etc/acpid/events/power.conf). Is there a way to change it so that a confirmation dialog comes up, rather than an immediate shutdown? I assume that I am going to n

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/04/2013 14:43, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: Using CentOS 5.8: Currently on my workstations, when I press the power button the computer immediately does a 'shutdown -h now' (per /etc/acpid/events/power.conf). Is there a way to change it so that a confirmation dialog comes up, rather than an immedia

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 4/25/13 9:46 AM, "Giles Coochey" wrote: >You are talking about something that acpid is doing for you: > >http://linux.die.net/man/8/acpid > > Yes, I know this is handled by acpid; that's where the /etc/acpid/events/power.sh file comes in. I'm asking if anyone knows what changes to make to tha

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/04/2013 15:00, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: On 4/25/13 9:46 AM, "Giles Coochey" wrote: You are talking about something that acpid is doing for you: http://linux.die.net/man/8/acpid Yes, I know this is handled by acpid; that's where the /etc/acpid/events/power.sh file comes in. I'm asking if

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > See if chcon -t bin_t /usr/bin/rsync solves your problem. > > I believe that NetworkManager runs its helper scripts as initrc_t which is an > unconfined domains, except that when it executes rsync, it transition to a > confined rsync serve

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread m . roth
Johan Vermeulen wrote: > Op 25-04-13 14:49, Daniel J Walsh schreef: >> On 04/25/2013 04:54 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >>> Op 24-04-13 22:53, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> Disabling SELinux is not g

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread John Doe
From: "Vanhorn, Mike" > Yes, I know this is handled by acpid; that's where the > /etc/acpid/events/power.sh file comes in. I'm asking if anyone knows what > changes to make to that file so that it gives a prompt first. > > I'm guessing that there is a program out there already that will prompt >

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Vanhorn, Mike
On 4/25/13 10:38 AM, "John Doe" wrote: >On CentOS 5: /etc/acpi/events/power.conf Sorry, I meant "power.conf" in my original post, not "power.sh". >Do you use gnome? >If so, in 'System / Preferences / ... / Power Managment', in the >'General' tab, Yes, and that works fine, *if* the user is logg

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread John Doe
From: "Vanhorn, Mike" > Yes, and that works fine, *if* the user is logged in. But what about when > the workstation is sitting there at the login window? At that point, when > the action from power.conf is taken, there is no power manager, so it does > the shutdown. > I'm wanting to get a prompt

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Johan Vermeulen
Op 25-04-13 16:33, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: > Johan Vermeulen wrote: >> Op 25-04-13 14:49, Daniel J Walsh schreef: >>> On 04/25/2013 04:54 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: Op 24-04-13 22:53, m.r...@5-cent.us schreef: > John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Da

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/25/2013 5:01 AM, mark wrote: > Two things: unless this is a laptop, shut down NetworkManager - there is > *no* use for it in a wired environment. doesn't it handle DHCP too? or is there an alternate mechanism for that? -- john r pierce 37N 122W some

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/25/2013 8:36 AM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >> Ah! And selinux. Have you encrypted the h/d's? > you know, I did argue that with my boss but he was against it. Guess he > didn't want to type 2 passwords. > So the only encrypted laptop is my own. > But my boss was sorry when his got stolen a few mon

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Two things: unless this is a laptop, shut down NetworkManager - there is >> *no* use for it in a wired environment. > > doesn't it handle DHCP too? or is there an alternate mechanism for that? At least in an 'always connected' scenari

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-25 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/25/2013 5:01 AM, mark wrote: >> Two things: unless this is a laptop, shut down NetworkManager - there is >> *no* use for it in a wired environment. > > doesn't it handle DHCP too? or is there an alternate mechanism for that? Dunno if it does, but network certainly do

Re: [CentOS] kde in centos 6.4

2013-04-25 Thread Craig White
On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Michel Donais wrote: > Brand new Centos 6.4 installation. > The window manager is Gnome; I tried some trick found on the web to chande > it to KDE without success. > Do somebody can tell me what to do to get KDE working on this installation. You should be able

Re: [CentOS] kde in centos 6.4

2013-04-25 Thread m . roth
Craig White wrote: > On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Michel Donais wrote: > >> Brand new Centos 6.4 installation. >> The window manager is Gnome; I tried some trick found on the web to >> chande it to KDE without success. Do somebody can tell me what to do >> to get KDE working on this installation. >

Re: [CentOS] kde in centos 6.4

2013-04-25 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
On 2013/04/25 07:51, Craig White wrote: > On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Michel Donais wrote: > >> Brand new Centos 6.4 installation. >> The window manager is Gnome; I tried some trick found on the web to chande >> it to KDE without success. >> Do somebody can tell me what to do to get KDE working on

Re: [CentOS] hard drive question - WD red

2013-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 4/25/13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Oh, good, someone actually running Reds. How long have you had them, and > have you had any issues? I'm not actually worried about RAID - we have a > very few servers with RAID 1, and I think they're all software RAID. The > big RAIDs, we bought the boxes with

Re: [CentOS] DIMM problem

2013-04-25 Thread Nathan Duehr
It won't help you on troubleshooting which RAM module is bad, but dmidecode may be helpful in figuring out how many slots/sticks you have and what's populated and not populated. Typically if the lights are not on on that display, the RAM is tossing ECC errors or similar, but not fully failing.

Re: [CentOS] DIMM problem

2013-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/25/2013 1:49 PM, Nathan Duehr wrote: > I had a G7 that kept setting the RAM lights as if it had a RAM problem, so > the server support vendor visited more than once. The real problem was a > failing CPU. I mention it, because I've seen RAM problems that really > weren't and were misdiagno

Re: [CentOS] DIMM problem

2013-04-25 Thread m . roth
Nathan Duehr wrote: > It won't help you on troubleshooting which RAM module is bad, but > dmidecode may be helpful in figuring out how many slots/sticks you have > and what's populated and not populated. > Heh. It's *fully* populated, the whole m/b, and all four optional risers. > Typically if the

Re: [CentOS] DIMM problem

2013-04-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/25/2013 2:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > In addition, after much googling, I finally found HP system management, > and the SIM, separately. Installed them... and SIM seems as though it's > missing something. I try to log on, via the SM homepage, and it takes > better than 5 min to get to the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading 6.3 to 6.4 "kdump: mkdumprd: failed to make kdump initrd" should I be concerned?

2013-04-25 Thread P J
Hmm, no ideas guys? Should I open up a bug report for this? Thanks, -PJ On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM, P J wrote: > Howdy, > > Running a round of updates from 6.3 to 6.4 and I'm seeing the following on > all the servers. > > Want to make sure I'm not going to end up with a kernel panic if

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/25/2013 01:39 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > On 25 April 2013 13:30, Mike Burger wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can 1) Check the version of my cent os >>> >>> lsb_release -a

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 04/26/2013 12:40 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 26.04.2013 01:35, schrieb Phil Dobbin: >> How odd. On my 64-bit CentOS 6.3, 'lsb_release -a' returns: >> >> 'bash: lsb_release: command not found' >> >> Works on Debian 6.0.5 & Ubuntu 12.04.2 & 12.10. >> >> The CentOS distro is a cloud server

[CentOS] Why is my default DISPLAY suddenly :3.0?

2013-04-25 Thread Joakim Ziegler
I'm on Fedora 6.3. After a reboot, some proprietary software didn't want to run. I found out that the startup script for said software manually sets DISPLAY to :0.0, which I know is not a good idea, and I can fix. However, this still doesn't explain why my default X DISPLAY is suddenly :3.0. -

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
re point 3, do you have 'telnetd' installed. You should probably use ssh unless you have a good reason not to. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Adekoya Adekunle < adekunleadek...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >1) Check the versi

[CentOS] lxde

2013-04-25 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, anyone know when lxde will be available for centos? Fedora lxde was nice but its end of life is far to short for a server. Thanks Gary. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Mike Burger wrote: >> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 13:04 +0100, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: >>> I want to know the right command to type from a bash shell so that i can >>>1) Check the version of my cent os >> >> lsb_release -a I believe you need to install the package t

Re: [CentOS] kde in centos 6.4

2013-04-25 Thread Michel Donais
On the login screen there was no place as in 5.9 or older to make a choice of desktop environment. I changed DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" and it has no effect; GNOME hang on there. So because of a lot of flaws in my installation and of lack of time I decide to go back to 5.9 and get a loo

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.4 networking problem

2013-04-25 Thread Michel Donais
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:50:38 -0400 > Michel Donais wrote: > >> > What do you have in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts? > >> ifcfg-eth0 >> ifcfg-eth1 > > What are the contents of these tegining; The content of these two files was the same as in my 5.9 server. The system was working properly at the

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.4 networking problem

2013-04-25 Thread Ashish Yadav
Have you verified MAC address of your two NIC's with their respective network configuration file? Are they same? Sometime that can cause a problem. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Michel Donais wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:50:38 -0400 > > Michel Donais wrote: > > > >> > What do you have