Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:21 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/30/2014 1:07 AM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > >> I used to work with IBM mainframes back when the dinosaurs were >> hatchlings. >> At one place I worked the machine was powered off on Friday at 5pm and >> powere

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
the engineers and systems programmers wanted time with no users. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/29/2014 4:40 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> Yes, indeed. Those are blasted Unix sysadmins (Hm, I flatter myself by >> thinking of b

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
rs - and that means patching and if that means some downtime, then the users in general would not be put out, if their expectations had not been raised to expect no downtime. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Wed, October 29, 2014 6:32 pm, Cliff Pr

Re: [CentOS] Wow! Double wow!

2014-10-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
re > supposed to be up 24/7. And a bunch of people are always logged in... You > do the math. > > This is a corner that system administrators have allowed themselves to be painted into. It's not a law of nature. Civilized organisations will always allow a maintenance Windo

Re: [CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

2014-10-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
ut? *twitch* > > Adventure? Nah, that's why my rsync scripts rsync chunks of the filesystem rather than all of it in one go, and why it gets to run twice each time. Once bitten, twice shy. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rsync question: building list taking forever

2014-10-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
les present, and not their size. If you have many millions > of small files, it will indeed take a very long time. Over sshfs with > a slowish link, it could be days. > > and it may end up failing silently or noisily anyway. Cheers, Cliff __

Re: [CentOS] Recommended way of handling iptables firewall in CentOS?

2014-10-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
distribution's standard build. useradd is not really needed. How bare bones do you want to get? Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Le 13/10/2014 13:36, Ron Loftin a écrit : > >> Of course, if you are interested in something that will help y

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 docs, tutorials, etc...

2014-10-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
ode Red". There are definitely more exploits out there. Not all Linux admins are security aware, just as many are not backup aware. Many think that Linux systems are secure by default. Many will "get around to security" some time. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

2014-10-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
o, do you dig a new foundation for your house every 10 years? Trade > in your wife and kids? > > Yep, of course. Doesn't everyone? Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
untu:~$ file `which sendmail` /usr/sbin/sendmail: symbolic link to `exim4' Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] xfce on CentOS 7: can't lock screen

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
CDE? Shudder!! In spite of the way that modern desktops have turned out I can't imagine anyone using CDE these days. I used to use and loath it on HP/UX back when the Internet was a puppy. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:43:

Re: [CentOS] Apache wakes-up inactive Exim

2014-09-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
The daemon only handles incoming mail, or in other words waits for incoming connections from other mail servers. Outgoing mail is sent on demand, or in other words a connection is made to a mail server or relay as and when required. Cheers, Cliff On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Always Learning

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:28 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 26 Sep 2014 05:46, "Cliff Pratt" wrote: > > > > Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when > Apache > > started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the new one. Ther

Re: [CentOS] RPM install/upgrade problem

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
It may be that you have a bad bash RPM from somewhere. I believe that the cpio command works directly on the package so you could try with cpio on the command line to see if it will open the RPM. I suspect that it won't be able to. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Tony M

Re: [CentOS] firefox: annoyance

2014-09-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
h you, but then I would wonder, if that > request wouldn't work almost anywhere, why are the skr1pt k1dd13s doing > it? > Old source versions of Apache used to come with a test.sh file in the default cgi-bin directory, but those days are long gone, I suspect. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
e executed through them, so I'd say that the best way to be sure is to reboot. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when > Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the ne

Re: [CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

2014-09-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
Take the case of an Apache Bash CGI. This will have been loaded when Apache started, so Apache will have to be restarted to get the new one. There may be other similar cases. So the best thing is to reboot. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:39 AM, John Doe wrote: > If I underst

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
Fair enough I withdraw my comment as irrelevant. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Matt wrote: > > That's not a fix. A fix is finding out where the logs are being written, > > not installing another package. Though, having said that, I realise that > I >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
That's not a fix. A fix is finding out where the logs are being written, not installing another package. Though, having said that, I realise that I am assuming that the minimal install contains *some* logging package, and that may possibly be incorrect. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Aug 15, 2014

Re: [CentOS] don't use centos 7 as a developer workstation

2014-08-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
no developer qualifications anyways:-) > > i already build and install a few (!?), but still like to install > everything from rpm and not mess the whole os with packages and files > like on windows.. > > Nooo! Developers are not and should never be sysadmins!!! I'd give a de

Re: [CentOS] Convert "bare partition" to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
t a > > > "daily" backup more often then about 2x per week. > > > > What about: > > 1. Setup inotify (no idea how it would behave with your millions of > files) > > > > 2. One big rsync > > 3. Bring it down and copy the few modified

Re: [CentOS] Convert "bare partition" to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
backed up every so often. But it depends whether or not the OP's data is arranged so that he could do something like that. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:25 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Benjamin Smith > > > Thanks for your feedback - it's advice I would have g

Re: [CentOS] Analyzing the MBR

2014-06-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
I believe that the whole of the first track on a disk used to be "reserved" or rather used to contain the MBR only (and anything else needed by the boot loader) and the first filesystem on disk used to start at track 1. Of course, with the larger disks this got more complicated. Chee

Re: [CentOS] find with exclude directory

2014-05-12 Thread Cliff Pratt
Why not copy the directory elsewhere, then delete the rest and move it back? You'd take a copy of it anyway, if it is important, right? Cheers, Cliff On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Thanks. But what if I want to turn that statement into one that will delete >

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

2014-05-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
That file is 'sourced' by other network scripts so doesn't have to be executable, but the contents set environment variables for other scripts. Or so I believe. No doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Matthew Miller w

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
Mmm, top posting. I'd rather not do it but What I describe does not pollute the base install, and using a container seems over the top. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Daniel Condomitti wrote: > Have you thought of doing this in a Linux container to avoid tain

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
alternate version of Perl would have to reflect the location of the alternate version of Perl and you would have to source any prerequisite Perl modules from CPAN, which is another chamber of hell. But it does avoid issues like you are having. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Bennett

Re: [CentOS] has anybody gotten horde working?

2014-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
ought to Johnny's reply was why would CentOS want to > reinvent this particular wheel, looking to solve a problem that has > already been solved, just not by CentOS. > > I thought that CentOS's space was to be plug compatible with RHEL. Or has that changed? As such any

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS 7 Dual boot with CentOS 5.x/6.x - default boot quick solution/howto

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
hange order in the > > GRUB2 menu :) > > Oh boy, I'm so going to miss Grub 0.97.. > Thanks for sharing, though! > That method of ordering configuration files has been around for decades, so nothing new there. (eg /etc/init.d). However I do find grub2's configuration

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Always Learning > wrote: > > > > > Nothing is easier and simpler than > > > > > > [any-section] > > > parameter1=value1 > > > parameter2=

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
configuration files > > > > suddenly *desperately* need to be xml? > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > > > Because misguided fools believe XML is wundervol and they don't want > > > simplicity of use. > > On Sat, 2014-03-22

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
uddenly > > *desperately* need to be xml? > > Because misguided fools believe XML is wundervol and they don't want > simplicity of use. > > The advantages of XML are that it is a common, mature standard, it is easily parseable by humans and computers. Cheers, Cliff

Re: [CentOS] weird apache issue

2014-03-07 Thread Cliff Pratt
t have a CENTOS/RHEL system to look at. I'm not even sure if my suggested scenario makes sense! Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > > > Not really sure how to interpret that, unfortunately.

Re: [CentOS] gnutls bug

2014-03-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
se", but the OS supplier will not support the OS if you upgrade the package to the latest release! Cheers, Cliff Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:12:49PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 5, 201

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message "outdated version" although "yum list installed" reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
I should read right to the bottom, shouldn't I? Sigh! On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would > be eg 0.98.1-3. > > Cheers, > > Cliff > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53

Re: [CentOS] CLAMAV problem: Error message "outdated version" although "yum list installed" reports correct version

2014-02-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
No. 0.98-2 is a patched version of 0.98. A patched version of 0.98.1 would be eg 0.98.1-3. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:20:05PM -0600, Johnny Hughes (joh...@centos.org) > wrote: > > On 02/19/2014 08:

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
unny. Mea culpa. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Darr247 wrote: > On 07 February 2014 @06:45 zulu, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason > I > > can think of doing that is "because it was there". &

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Darr247, that is verging on the bizarre! Why on earth... The only reason I can think of doing that is "because it was there". Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Darr247 wrote: > Well that didn't take as long as I thought it would... > HashCalc does

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Yep, it works OK for me, but it may not work for the guy down the road. I don't have an issue with that. But for most people it just works fine. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote: > On 02/06/2014 03:08 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Rejy, for th

Re: [CentOS] iso burn

2014-02-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
t may not work, and this is where download tools come into their own. But I think that for most people, browsers will work OK. The real advantage of the download tools is that a transfer is usually restartable and that is not always possible with a browser download. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 6,

Re: [CentOS] netcdf

2014-01-30 Thread Cliff Pratt
mably on his own machine (which makes sense). Les directed him to vmware or virtualbox. Sounds like a beginner and there might be a language barrier. We've all been there at one time! Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] default gw route has gone? SOLVED

2014-01-16 Thread Cliff Pratt
It will probably be the same elsewhere, because they are CHEAP. I've used a few NZ Telco supplied routers over the years and a couple of cheap bought ones. All had some issue or the other. Nowadays I put up with or workaround any issues. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rob K

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
Thanks! I got similar suggestions when I mentioned this at work. I was of course joking about rot13. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:41 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/9/2014 3:33 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumab

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumably CentOS) and Ubuntu no longer implement the 'rot13' program. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 01/09/2014 05:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2

Re: [CentOS] Why does 'mysql' user has /bin/bash shell?

2014-01-09 Thread Cliff Pratt
a powerful tool if you know what you are doing. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hello, > > Default MySQL installation on CentOS sets /bin/bash as shell. > I'm on a user cleanup task where I want reduce unneeded privileges to >

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
don't think so. If grub needed to know about the file systems other than the one it is using to boot, then it would have parameters to describe the other file systems. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Lists wrote: > On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: > >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS & eclipse

2013-12-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Probably not 4.3. Maybe 4.0 or 4.1. It is still going to be behind the latest release. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Steve wrote: > > John R Pierce wrote: > > On 12/26/2013 10:50 AM, Steve wrote: > > > My understanding was that CentOS was general

Re: [CentOS] Log rolling with a daemon

2013-12-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
John's suggestion is still pertinent. You'll need a SIGHUP handler in your script. Logrotate could send the SIGHUP in a postrotate 'script'. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM, John R Pierce > wrote:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
Ah, right. I was assuming (maybe erroneously) that the OP knew what was on his/her system. 8-) Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Cliff Pratt >wrote: > > > 3.9.3 is the kernel number. All Linux distribution

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, linux and kernel version

2013-12-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
buntu 13.10 shows 3.11.0 so you have a fairly old Ubuntu version there. In general the Ubuntu kernel will be newer than the more conservative CentOS/RHEL. Cheers Cliff On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jayadevan Maymala < jayadevan.technol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using CentO

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
postfix? > > 3) I take it that in the last stage postfix passes the email to dovecot, > which stores it in ~/Maildir/cur/ (in my case). > > It is picked up from there by KMail on my laptop, > but that is another story. > > Why do you insist on calling it the "sendma

Re: [CentOS] Machine check events

2013-11-28 Thread Cliff Pratt
He's not running the Poisson distro, he's using CentOS! 8-) On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Devin Reade wrote: > Quoting Glenn Eychaner : > > > This is brand-new Kingston 1600MHz ECC memory on a workstation/server > > running at high altitude [snip] > > Cosmic rays? Do you have a Poisson dis

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-27 Thread Cliff Pratt
*Something* is causing it to appear that there are two paths. I can't think how else the two apparently different disks have the *same* file system. But I've not used iSCSI much. Perhaps if you post the type of the device someone might have any idea? Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 201

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem labeling confusion or mess up

2013-11-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
Looks like you have more than one path to the devices. I would expect to see *4* devices. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I do have an iscsi storage with two raidsets. I

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
unlikely.. not ...likely... Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that > era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the > availability of drivers. &

Re: [CentOS] RAM Requirements

2013-11-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
Wow! RH9 was discontinued in 2004! It is likely that a machine from that era has the ability to run CentOS 6.4 both in terms of resources and the availability of drivers. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > Does anyone know wh

Re: [CentOS] file managementttttttttttt

2013-11-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
> > Well, I dislike gnome anyway - at work, we've got a lot of folks on kde. > At home, I use IceWM. But what is this "open a directory"? Is that like > rxvt, click into the xterm, ls ...dir/subdir/subsubdir? > > mark > Very similar, but less archaic! 8-)

Re: [CentOS] Network Problem on New Install of 6.4

2013-10-26 Thread Cliff Pratt
or similar? Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I have a new install of CentOS 6.4 on an HP Pavilion 500-27c with one > mother board nic card. > > results of lspci : > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gi

Re: [CentOS] Difficulty building custom Install CD

2013-09-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
Then get disk 1 of the CentOS distribution and copy it from there.. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:37 PM, zGreenfelder > wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 14, 201

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64 & hylafax+ 5.5.3

2013-08-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
Greg, I haven't sent a fax in ages, so my suggestion would be to take a step back and see if you still need to use fax. You may still have a need for it, but I'm just suggesting that you think about it! Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:20:31AM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > Please try not to top post. > > Sorry, I blame GMail, which hides the previous quoted posts under an ellipsis.

Re: [CentOS] unprivileged users rebooting at console

2013-05-05 Thread Cliff Pratt
How are you rebooting? What groups are you in? From the command line? When I try this on Ubuntu (don't have a RHEL/CentOS here) I get "Have to be root" if I issue the /sbin/reboot command as an ordinary user. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:

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

Re: [CentOS] [centos-6.3-desktop] Unable to login

2013-04-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
, Cliff On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Mayur Patil wrote: > Hello, > > I have trapped in weird problem. My Setup is CentOS 6.3 Desktop edition > x86_64 arch. > > My login screen is blinking so frequently that I am unable to see and > login into it. > > And also I

Re: [CentOS] Supermicro & Boot Failures with DVD Centos 6.2

2013-04-19 Thread Cliff Pratt
he point of testing > the memory. > > Thanks for your advice about F4 I will not be able to try > this until I can get to the machine, prob 24 hrs. I'll let you know > what happens. > > Greg, can you scare up a spare disk and attach it to test your theory? Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] iptables settings for X11 forwarding in CentOS 6.2

2013-03-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
l > > machine when you run ssh - -X user@clusterhost (I wouldn't send it > > all to the list, cuz it'll be a ton of nonsense, but the last page or > > of output lines have helped me find issues in the past) > > > > ... or am I completely off in left field and you're saying you're > > unable to ssh into your machines? > > -- > Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nscd

2013-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On Tuesday, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:26 AM, wrote: >>> Has anyone had problems accessing random websites since going up to 6.4? >>> >>> Since about the day after I got

Re: [CentOS] nscd

2013-03-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
o do the actual lookups. Am I correct? In which case, the MS DNS server should be caching the DNS lookups anyway, so you probably don't derive a lot of benefit from the nscd unless you do a lot of repeated DNS lookups. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ctrl-Alt-F? bindings broken under xen 3.0.3-142.el5_9.1 / 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5xen?

2013-03-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
The graphics chip is probably relevant. FWIW I can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn to any Virtual Console (I just get a black screen, no login prompt). I have a nVidia graphics chip. There are many reports on the Internet of trouble with VC and nVidia and some other graphics chips. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, M

Re: [CentOS] Using LAMP stacks

2013-03-14 Thread Cliff Pratt
tart. > Thanks, > I suggest that solving the issues that you get would be ultimately more useful than looking for a solution that works out of the box. I suggest that you look at the documentation for Apache virtual hosts. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using LAMP stacks

2013-03-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
LAMP stack. One option is to find an appliance ISO and use that rather than try to install a LAMP stack on top of an existing system. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LDAP users/groups not showing up with nis, pam, & ldap

2013-02-20 Thread Cliff Pratt
Or just stopping it. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > Do you have nscd running? If so, try stopping and starting that. > > Cheers, > > Cliff > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Wes Modes wrote: >> I am trying to configure NIS, PAM, & L

Re: [CentOS] LDAP users/groups not showing up with nis, pam, & ldap

2013-02-20 Thread Cliff Pratt
Do you have nscd running? If so, try stopping and starting that. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Wes Modes wrote: > I am trying to configure NIS, PAM, & LDAP on a CentOS 6.2 host. I've > previously installed a similar configuration on RHEL4, but CentOS now >

Re: [CentOS] The moving of VNC port from 580n to 590n

2013-02-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
ort 590n. I've seen it claimed that a) port 580n is not used and can be blocked, b) 580n is used for the Java VNC client, c) 580n is used for browser requests for VNC (probably via the Java VNC client, I'd guess). I don't know when the change occurred and it may be that it happened

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
rd is almost always recoverable or resettable so I've stopped worrying about making my passwords 100% safe from destruction or loss. However they should be as close to 100% secure from being stolen as possible. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] crontab and gedit

2013-01-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
s > either not my system to change, or I have a serious problem indeed. > That's fine unless you have 100s of machines to administer. If you have 100 machines do you a) set all the root passwords to the same, or b) maintain a manual file of logins. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cronjob not running

2013-01-22 Thread Cliff Pratt
#x27; at the command prompt it will show the location of 'curl'. Probably it will be '/usr/bin/curl'. I would suggest that you modify the crontab to have the full path. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Adekoya Adekunle wrote: > i did this from the consol

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-11 Thread Cliff Pratt
it for script generated scripts too. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installing Java 7 on a system with Java 6

2012-11-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
You can install version 7 alongside version 6, but you will most likely have to get the package directly from the Java site. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:30 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > My system is 5.6, with upgrades. I installed Java 6 from the Centos > repository. It doesn

Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-16 Thread Cliff Pratt
ce -p 14058' (the process >>> currently listening) in one window while you telnet in another. >> Before tracing anything (processes or network traffic) the OP should >> check the maillog. It for sure will the the truth ab

Re: [CentOS] Killing a Service

2012-10-15 Thread Cliff Nadler
o I figure out which program is using tcp to > listen on port 143? > TIA, > John > Try "lsof -i tcp:143" or "netstat -antp | grep 143" Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Simple routing question

2012-09-04 Thread Cliff Pratt
e IP range to another. Having both networks connect to the firewall router is risky in case of a misconfiguration. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using two subnets to change network configuration

2012-07-25 Thread Cliff Pratt
everything moved > to the > new address scheme. > Why? It can be confusing, yes, but many people route VOIP over the same cabling to desk phones. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
000 paid custmers to their >> Linux subscription hardly a major player still. >> But like I said, the more competition wrt pricing the better. > > Be difficult to beat CentOS on price, surely? > RedHat and Oracle both provide value

Re: [CentOS] wins option in nsswitch.conf not working

2012-06-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
that the file or directory cannot be found, not that name resolution is not happening. Thirdly, ping uses DNS not netbios by default so it is not able to find a DNS entry for 'parallels'. Please show the DNS entry for 'parallels' and the resolv.conf contents. Finally, a '

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
ort, but will try now and then when >> probed...lol > > Do it. And try abuse; if not, I meant it about asking for the legal > service address, which is what you have your lawyer send a letter to. Or > the FBI. Give them something to do other than setting up naive innocent > idi

Re: [CentOS] build postfix rpm with mysql

2012-03-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
es: > >  [root@beta SPECS]# rpmbuild -ba postfix.spec > error: Failed build dependencies: >        MySQL-shared is needed by postfix-2.9.1-1.rhel5.x86_64 >        MySQL-devel is needed by postfix-2.9.1-1.rhel5.x86_64 > Why don't you just install the packages? Cheers, Cliff __

Re: [CentOS] testing a udp socket with netcat

2012-03-15 Thread Cliff Pratt
ECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited >> > COMMIT >> > # Completed on Wed Mar 14 19:58:13 2012 >> > >> And your INPUT chain rejects everything that is not matched by those=20 >> lines above it. >> >> You'll need a: >> >> -A INPUT -p udp --dport -j ACCEPT in there before you go to REJECT= >> =2E >> >> --=20 >> Best Regards, > > for testing purpose i have flushed all rules in iptables -t filter > > $iptables -t filter --flush > > but still if try putting data by nc: > > $nc -uvv localhost 7160 > > outputs : > > write error: connection refused. > Is the UDP daemon listening on 127.0.0.1 (localhost)? Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine Manager error

2012-01-18 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> >> Install libvirt and run the libvirtd service. > . > > Complete! > [root@centos Desktop]# service libvert status > libvert: unrecognized service > He said libvirt

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Cliff Pratt
end) can never be completely safe. A book like this is probably what you are looking for: http://www.wilyhacker.com/ Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
e, I > had a page of them! Our group's, the corporate test systems, the corporate > *production* systems, and *each* had their own, along with their own > password aging (there was *no* single sign-on), the contracting co's > We use PasswordSafe to solve that one. There are other similar products. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
I would highly advise against trying to time a CTRL-C in a specific amount of time. Not sure why you would even try and do that when, that's the exact purpose of the yum-download only which is easier to install and run then wait for a whole update to complete and try and manually kill the job. Sor

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
19, 2011 at 12:02 PM, cliff here wrote: > > > Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. > > > > I actually just installed cobbler a few weeks ago and will look into it for > this to see if it has a way to grab a repository without rsync > >

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ryan Wagoner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > Is there any way to fake a "yum update" just to get yum to force a > download > > of all the

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
Oh but keep in mind if you enable keep cache in your repo file it will still install them, just it will keep a copy as well. Keep that in mind. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, cliff here wrote: > You can use the yum download-only plugin, or you can enable a keep cache > variable in you

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread cliff here
You can use the yum download-only plugin, or you can enable a keep cache variable in your /etc/yum.repos.d/yourfile.repo. Don't remember the syntax off the top of my head. However a quick google search should turn them both up. Other option if you want to sync a repo you can check out an applicati

Re: [CentOS] Group permission problems

2011-12-13 Thread Cliff Pratt
and I am confused.  Can anybody guide me to > where I need to go? Thanks,Michael > Use the id command to check what groups you are in. Stop nscd if it is running and run id again. Cheers, Cliff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
@John, yea good catch thanks =) On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:59 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, cliff here wrote: > > > Also to note, if you edit your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file manually > there > > is a line in /etc/init.d./iptables at line number

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
Here's a really good overview of how the iptables process works http://fedoraunity.org/Members/kanarip/iptables-howto On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:23:45 -0500 > > cliff here wrote: > > > >

Re: [CentOS] C6 gateway/firewall problem

2011-12-13 Thread cliff here
. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:05 AM, cliff here wrote: > Here's a really good overview of how the iptables process works > > http://fedoraunity.org/Members/kanarip/iptables-howto > > > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > >> Laurent Wandrebeck wr

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