Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-09 Thread drew einhorn
yum-priorities. There are techniques for finer grained management of compatiblity issues among repositories, that I have never needed to learn about. Someday this is going to sneak up and bite me. Pretty sure there is a 3rd party repo page in the centos wiki. I've never heard of some of thes

Re: [CentOS] mysql error

2009-08-30 Thread Drew
> [r...@localhost bcm]# mysqladmin -ucountry You're getting that because "-ucountry" isn't a valid flag for mysqladmin. Did you mean to log into the MySQL server as user "country"? If so put a space after the "-u" -- Drew "Nothing in life is to

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

2009-08-22 Thread drew einhorn
changes have been checked and verified is a > simple file ``mv'' command. Another open source tool you might want to consider. http://ftimes.sourceforge.net/FTimes/index.shtml -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] FireWire in CentOS 5.3

2009-08-18 Thread Drew
reWire & USB2 are great for archiving but for any sort of transfering, transcoding, etc you should stick with SATA. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Inclusion in the GNU/Linux distro list

2009-08-11 Thread Drew
As much as I agree with the aims of the FSF & GNU, I'm perplexed that *none* of the mainstream distributions were on that list, especially Debian which, IMHO, is one of the more "free" versions out there. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be un

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-08 Thread Drew
ing my head up when I have answers to questions and/or questions myself. My contribution to Linux as a whole is to work on promoting it within my sphere of influence. That I can do, and it allows me to promote CentOS along the way. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is o

Re: [CentOS] Million linux virtual machines

2009-08-06 Thread Drew
ng FLOSS". :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Split dns issues

2009-08-02 Thread Drew
k. You can't attack what you can't see and even a misconfigured router or firewall won't expose my network to prying eyes. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-31 Thread Drew
pay for a subscription to access the upstream vendor's support system for package updates. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PCI modems

2009-07-23 Thread Drew
e six Telus modems hanging around the four offices I manage. That says something about the "oldskool." :-) -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-14 Thread Drew
and hardening php using suhosin/hardened-php or the like. The jail will will limit the damage a hacker can do when they break in, and Suhosin will make it harder for them to do so. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-13 Thread Drew
PMyAdmin to primarily prevent tampering by my various users but it also makes it easier to update/patch the app(s) when needed. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread Drew
automatically mean they broke in through SSH. As has been mentioned a few times the most likely vector of attack/compromise on your machine was through a app/script of some sort running on your website. Any of the app's you mentioned in an earlier post is suspect in this case. -- Drew "

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-29 Thread Drew
Samba 3 as a AD domain member and aside from having to chmod 777 the root of the fileshare to allow the ACL's to work properly everything is fine. But that's an issue for another list. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie

[CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-28 Thread Drew
site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP 50x errors. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Feature list between 5.2 and 5.3

2009-04-16 Thread Drew Weaver
does anyone know if (and where) a feature list of the changes between CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 can be found? All of the documentation that I could find on centos.org is related to 5.2 and 5.1 thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] That RTL8169 thing...

2009-03-16 Thread Drew Weaver
? Thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
zation. Does the controller really know enough about what's going on in the drive to make effective use of the drives cache to speed things up? My guess is that I'll start with WB Cached DisDskCache on the primary, and may be surprised where we end up

[CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
Life is much better now that I'm using -h instead of the manual. I have a new question about policies Direct and DisDskCache makes sense Cached and EnDiskCache makes sense not so sure about Directand EnDskCache Cached and DisDsk Cache Do they make sense? -- Drew Ei

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>+ /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay 168 -a0 >>^MInvalid input at or near token -AdpPRSetDelay >> >>Doesn't like the syntax > > Looks like the manual is outdated, you should have > ran a -h :) &g

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
o fire one > up and just figure it out... Next I'm trying to setup a raid-10 logical volume. Got the two mirrors built. Now I need to stripe them Here's an excerpt from -LDPDInfo I just added a little white space it makes the output much more readable. And I deleted the stuff about

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
to change it to anyway? > Is the value sane? + /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay -Val168 -a0 ^MInvalid input at or near token -AdpPRSetDelay Hmm. It didn't like that either! I'm just trying to figure out the command syntax. And writing some utility scripts. -AdpPRSetDelay -Val

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>The manual IS sloppy. >>missing - characters in the syntax >> >>Tryijng to figure out -Val syntax >> >>megacli AdpPRSetDelay -Val >>                    -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL >> >> >

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
i ­AdpPRSetDelay ­-Val -aN|-a0,1,2|-aALL + /home/drew/bin/MegaCli -AdpPRSetDelay 0 -a0 Invalid input at or near token -AdpPRSetDelay Tried sticking a - in front of the zero. Doesn't make much sense, tried it anyway, didn't help. This cheat sheet for another vintage

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM, John Doe wrote: > > From: drew einhorn >> When I try to delete it, it refuses and says: >>    This is an OS drive.  The virtual drive cannot be deleted. >> Any ideas on how to get past this problem with the MegaRAID Storage Manager, &

[CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread drew einhorn
umentation, and maybe even a tutorial for the MegaCLI interface. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread drew einhorn
> the machines are screamer... > As in sound like an industrial strength vacuum clearer? Where did you get them? What did you pay for them? I've seen similar boxes dual 3.0 GHz Xenons upgradable to 12GB RAM SATA RAID controller from an unfortunately unreliable source.

Re: [CentOS] Support for i7 architecture?

2009-01-23 Thread Drew Weaver
It is trivial to create an initrd for the installer which has support the x58 chipset. If you would like my copy which also works with atom boards just e-mail me off-list. -Drew -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael

[CentOS] Bezerk they will go!

2009-01-22 Thread drew einhorn
chief in "Dead men don't wear plaid", > you > don't ask when the next release comes out here. Someone might go berzerk. > Bezerk they will go, because for each person who doesn't ask, there will be dozens who do. Betcha one of you can make this rhyme, I can'

Re: [CentOS] Bogus ssh complaints about dns

2008-12-16 Thread drew einhorn
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:52 PM, nate wrote: > drew einhorn wrote: > > > I browsed through the man pages for ssh, sshd, > > ssh_config, and sshd_config and did not spot > > anything that was misconfigured. But I could have > > missed something > > > che

[CentOS] Bogus ssh complaints about dns

2008-12-16 Thread drew einhorn
s for ssh, sshd, ssh_config, and sshd_config and did not spot anything that was misconfigured. But I could have missed something -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Don't suppose

2008-12-09 Thread Drew Weaver
Oh, I'm sorry the one I need is actually r8168, I apologize. -Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Farkas Levente Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:22 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't suppose Drew We

[CentOS] Don't suppose

2008-12-09 Thread Drew Weaver
Anyone has gone to the trouble of creating an install initrd for 5.2 that has (a working) r8169 module built into it? Mainly for kickstarts. -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] net-snmp puzzle

2008-11-19 Thread drew einhorn
1 And does not work. Fooling around with snmpconf leads to much different config files but they don't work any better. Any ideas? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] net-snmp

2008-09-03 Thread drew einhorn
n error message. I have not been able to find what net-snmp considers a valid community string. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Dual-QUAD Intel NIC which bonding is supported in CentOS?

2008-08-20 Thread Drew Weaver
Is anyone aware of any Dual or Quad port Intel NICs which work out of the box in CentOS 5.2? we need bonding to work. Thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Difference between system-config-* and system-config-*-tui ?

2008-07-18 Thread drew einhorn
g-*-tui ? > > Thank you. > > Fabrice > > > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-05 Thread drew einhorn
In looking at the possibility of using yum-priorities on a RHEL5 system, I noticed on thing that is different from my recollection, I see that the default priority it 99, but I seem to recall that it used to be 1. Is my memory faulty, or did it change? Actually 99 seems to make the most sense whe

Re: [CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-05 Thread drew einhorn
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > drew einhorn wrote: > >> Hi, we have a new customer to support. They have RHEL5 not CentOS5. >> > > You need to think more about things like compiling custom kernels or 3rd > party re

[CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-02 Thread drew einhorn
files, interacts with the web interface via rhn.redhat.com, ... We wonder if there are other differences that we have not yet stumbled upon, that might create issues in the future. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] setroubleshoot

2008-07-01 Thread drew einhorn
There is a setroubleshoot package that runs under X, that really makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot selinux, but I really don't want to run X on all my vms. Does anyone here know of an equivalent that doesn't require X? -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] mdadm on reboot

2008-06-16 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > drew einhorn wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm in the process of trying mdadm for the first time >> >> I've been trying stuff out of tutorials, etc. >> >> At this

[CentOS] mdadm on reboot

2008-06-15 Thread drew einhorn
Hi, I'm in the process of trying mdadm for the first time I've been trying stuff out of tutorials, etc. At this point I know how to create stripes, and mirrors. My stripe is automatically restarting on reboot, but the degraded mirror isn't. -

[CentOS] dependency on /usr/lib/nx

2008-06-12 Thread drew einhorn
d Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/nx is needed by package freenx-server Not only does this sound like an odd dependency /usr/lib/nx exists! Any ideas? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Software raid tutorial and hardware raid questions.

2008-06-09 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6-7-2008 9:35 AM drew einhorn spake the following: > >> > Anybody know about the >> LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller >> in particular. >> >> I know that wit

[CentOS] EVMS?

2008-06-07 Thread drew einhorn
EVMS Enterprise Volume Management System sounds interesting, looks like it supported CentOS4, but not CentOS5. But maybe I'm not looking in the right places. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

[CentOS] Software raid tutorial and hardware raid questions.

2008-06-07 Thread drew einhorn
revisions had to match. I would be surprised but not astonished if the board hardware revision level had to match, too. I hope we are past those days. Anybody know about the LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller in particular. -- Drew Einhorn -- Drew Einhorn

RE: [CentOS] Adding new drivers to the pxeboot initrd/kernel

2008-05-28 Thread Drew Weaver
Drew Weaver wrote: > Does anyone have a howto or documentation on how to add new drivers to > the pxeboot initrd/kernel? It appears that although some newer dells > (t300) have Broadcom NetXtreme IIs in them, 4.6 won't recognize them for > some reason (possibly because they&#x

[CentOS] Adding new drivers to the pxeboot initrd/kernel

2008-05-28 Thread Drew Weaver
Does anyone have a howto or documentation on how to add new drivers to the pxeboot initrd/kernel? It appears that although some newer dells (t300) have Broadcom NetXtreme IIs in them, 4.6 won't recognize them for some reason (possibly because they're dual por

[CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

2008-05-20 Thread Drew Weaver
tly? Thanks in advance if anyone has any hints. -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Updating Dovecot package?

2008-04-02 Thread Drew Weaver
Does anyone know if upstream ever plans on updating the dovecot package to a non RC version or to even one of the RC versions that isn't so insecure, And by insecure, I of course refer to the recent rash of bugs which have been found. Thanks,

Re: [CentOS] IPTables GUIs

2008-02-03 Thread drew einhorn
=== > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Intel (brand) Penryn (8xxx) motherboard which works natively with CentOS 4/5?

2008-01-25 Thread Drew Weaver
slots, the realtek NIC isn't supported (don't know why, its just a standard realtek NIC, although it might be some new PCI-E one). Has anyone found the "Holy Grail" yet? Please let me know :) -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list C

[CentOS] Chipset support for 6750 Intel CPUs

2007-12-07 Thread Drew Weaver
r. Thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] what happened to netconfig in 5.1

2007-12-03 Thread Drew Weaver
I also noticed that minicom isn't installed, although not a big deal it was nice to know it was there in a pinch and it couldn't have been very heavy weight... -Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Geis Sent: Monday, D

[CentOS] Custom vmlinuz/initrd.img ??

2007-08-10 Thread drew einhorn
/images/CentOS5-i386/ I don't betlieve this vmlinuz/initrd.img supports the WMware network drivers. How do I check what drivers are supported in this vmlinuz/initrd.img pair? If as I suspect I need to add support for the vmware nic drivers, how do I do that? -- Drew Ei

Re: [CentOS] inexpensive / reasonably priced workstation / server development box

2007-08-09 Thread drew einhorn
s has been done in magazines with great expense, and even > with lower expense, yet I trust the list more than a magazine that wants > to > sell me advertising etc > > Thanks in advance > > - rh > > > >

[CentOS] Quick query about LVM in 4.5

2007-08-08 Thread Drew Weaver
14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM Now, /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 should be /dev/dm-0p2. Is there a new way to 'address' these partitions in 4.5? Thanks, -Drew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation

2007-08-01 Thread Drew Weaver
their particular 'disk tool' that you can use memdisk to boot over the network. Thanks, -Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Balaji Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:45 AM To: CentOS@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Reg:Checking H

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-30 Thread drew einhorn
nd > user choose which he wants. I'd just like to see a little less > granularity in that namespace than centos vs. ubuntu... > > -- > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-28 Thread drew einhorn
Hmm. We need a tool that creates repotags from signatures. Sounds like it should be a small easy project. Hope it inspires somebody. I'm too slow. On 7/28/07, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/28/07, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [CentOS] Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-28 Thread drew einhorn
systems. Do not enable repositories company wide ! > > -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org >

Re: [CentOS] Re: setroubleshoot w/o X?

2007-07-27 Thread drew einhorn
On 7/27/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, drew einhorn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I recently discovered setroubleshoot, a wonderful tool that helps > > diagnose and resolve selinux problems, even if you really do not > &

[CentOS] setroubleshoot w/o X?

2007-07-27 Thread drew einhorn
shoot that runs on a minimal server configuration without X installed? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
tain packages, because issues with complex dependencies were too difficult for it. Someone suggested switching to the "smart" package manager, which was smart enough to downgrade certain packages to resolve dependency issues. Have not seen signs of similar problems so far with yum on Cen

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
between repos instead of one, which makes it easy to throw something in the middle between 2 packagesif you need to. I think epel probably goes between 3 and 4, so I think we need the wider for it. Will repost my final set of priorities once the stream of suggestions dries up. --

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
to be the same priority as "base" and "updates". That could be a problem. Thanks. -- Dave K Unix Systems & Network Administrator Mount Laurel NJ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
s bogus. Priority 4 kbs-CentOS-Misc-Testing kde-testing-all kde-testing Hope I never need to dig this deep into the bleeding edge. Priority 5 kde-unstable-all kde-unstable Not sure which is less stable testing or unstable. -- Drew Einhorn __

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
Great idea, But to take it one step further, think I'll use 10, 20, 30, ... That way I'll have room to insert new levels where ever I need them. On 7/26/07, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/26/07, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's how I s

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
I will change to that, > from ProtectBase. :-) Lanny The CentOS team is great. See who contributed to that articular article: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories?action=info Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mail

Re: [CentOS] disabling SELinux on CentOS: a good idea?

2007-07-15 Thread drew einhorn
On 7/15/07, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Learning to use it correctly is the real answer. That's on my list of things to. I'm the meantime setroubleshoot helps me get by. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

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