Re: [CentOS] Is there a rpm command to find the package that created a particular user or particular group?

2013-07-17 Thread Ian Forde
Just saw this. Here's how to do it via brute force. I have the user "ovirtagent" on one of my boxes, and wanted to find out who provided it. So I did the following: rpm --qf "%{NAME}\n" -qa | while read rname ; do if rpm -q --scripts ${rname} | grep -q ovirtagent ; then echo $rname ; fi ; done

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

2013-04-24 Thread Ian Forde
Yep - you'll want to do a 'ls -lZ' on both dirs and compare the differences... On Apr 24, 2013 8:32 AM, "Larry Martell" wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Johan Vermeulen > wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I'm currently troubleshooting NetworkManger scripts. > > > > I see a difference in mach

Re: [CentOS] NFS mount auto remount in case of problems.

2013-02-24 Thread Ian Forde
Why not use DRBD in lieu of shared storage? On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 20.02.2013 um 11:29 schrieb Rafał Radecki : > > Hi All. > > > > I have a setup in which I have two servers serving nfs share. The nfs > > service is made highly available with pacemaker. When the

Re: [CentOS] ACL/permissions question

2013-02-01 Thread Ian Forde
You could always try 'chattr +i /home/joe' to make it immutable. Check out the man page for details... On Jan 31, 2013 11:44 PM, "Boris Epstein" wrote: > Hello listmates, > > If I have a regular, ACL-capable filesystem on Linux (say, ext4 or xfs) is > there a way for me to establish the followin

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Forde
FYI - HAProxy is in EPEL, so it's a fairly easy installation to test. Especially in virtual environments... ;) -I On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Absolutely. The solution seems really robust and the price is not bad. > > In my case, however, this is not the answer as

Re: [CentOS] python26-memcached on centOS 5.5

2012-02-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Anand Jeyahar wrote: > Hi all, >  thanks a lot. Turns out that rpm is just a place holder.. i figured out the > rpm -qpil command and realized i had to build from  source. got it(memcached) > running now. > > > _

Re: [CentOS] Network Situation

2011-12-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Gene Poole >> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 13:08 >> To: centos@centos.org >> Subject: [Cen

Re: [CentOS] how to enable Flow Control on CentOS?

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 22:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/9/11 12:18 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > > Gigabit is different. > > No, the default of auto-negotiating works there too. > In 1000BASE-T, autonegotiation is required, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet#1000BASE

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 20:16 +0200, Kenni Lund wrote: > 2011/4/21 Ian Forde : > > Turns out that wasn't the only problem I faced in my migration. With 2 > > KVM servers, both sharing a volume mounted via NFS for VMs, I migrated > > all VMs to the second node, upgraded

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 and KVM failure

2011-04-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 03:47 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 04/09/2011 12:04 PM, compdoc wrote: > >> A similar incident was reported during the QA. Look at the .xml file. > >> If it says type='raw', change it to type='qcow2' and restart libvirtd. > >> Would that fix the problem ? > >> > >> Akemi >

Re: [CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 22:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want > the > console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with > freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary. And I have Server 1.x setups that have run > for >

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:51 -0500, John Hinton wrote: > Very good information, Ed. And yes, you will almost certainly be > fighting with the compliance company, as I have not yet seen any who > recognized CentOS. RHEL, yes. CentOS however does not hold the same > 'trusted standard' or clout as t

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:09 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: > Are you talking about the SAQC? I run all CC transactions through one > CentOS VPS webserver (actually I have two servers that I periodically > wipe out and alternate between every year or two). So I don't have POS > terminals or any Windo

Re: [CentOS] Bug in freeradius 1.1.3-1.5.el5_4 rpm

2010-05-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 09:09 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: > lheck...@users.sourceforge.net writes: > > Ian Forde writes: > > > I upgraded one of my servers to CentOS 5.4 today. The freeradius > > > service (radiusd) didn't start up due to permissions errors. I tracke

Re: [CentOS] Cron and Cluster

2010-03-30 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 00:33 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >What kind of cluster? the term cluster can mean almost > >anything these days. > > Sorry, my bad. RHCS I can tell you how I did it for a 2-node heartbeat cluster. I enabled the cron jobs on both servers, and had the following snippet

Re: [CentOS] centos Installation on Multiple machines

2010-03-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:26 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, premr...@digilink.in wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do > > that ? > > Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS > > and installin

Re: [CentOS] upgrade

2010-03-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 15:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Mattias wrote on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:48:34 -: > > > Ok but how to to do all that > > I use the repo on vault.centos.org > > Why? This contains old software. You had to specifically change the repo > files for that. Just remove/go back

Re: [CentOS] Looking for Newsletter Stuff

2010-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > On 5 March 2010 17:07, Garry.Dale wrote: >> I like this idea, too. However, I feel compelled to point out a >> violation within your Data Center [5]. >> [5] >> http://wiki.centos.org/GarryDale?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=didiCIMG0027.

Re: [CentOS] Clustering apache

2010-02-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 10:27 -0600, Dan Burkland wrote: > I’m a greenhorn when it comes to clustering in RHEL/CentOS and > recently setup an active/standby clustering using Apache & Heartbeat. > It seems to be a good entry step into clustering however after testing > it I was disappointed in that th

Re: [CentOS] Mount USB disk at startup?

2010-02-04 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols > wrote: > > > Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available > > until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel with the > > rest of t

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> >> I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in >> RHEL >> anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic >> loss >> problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 22:47 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > > I am about to install a new server running CentOS 5.4. The server will > > contain pretty critical data that we can't afford to corrupt. > > > > I would like to benefit from the extr

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Ian Forde
On Nov 29, 2009, at 3:52 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:31 +, John Horne wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:57 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: >>> Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load >>> following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guida

Re: [CentOS] PHP updates

2009-11-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 08:34 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: > Michael Kress wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > >> and if enough people actually convinced the developers that > >> 5.2.9-2.el5.centos were feasible, then they would probably move it into > >> the 'Extras' repository. > > > > ... here's one t

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Forde
On Nov 23, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Christopher Chan > wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: You probably really want ldap for that sort of thing. You probably really want to reconsider using ldap for anything that gets loads of changes daily. In the case of a mail relay, at one point years back I d

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Forde
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On the contrary, having the ability to extend through external > software gives > you unlimited options. Note that postfix eventually got around to > copying this > feature. Also with mimedefang you can do most of y

Re: [CentOS] Install libnet-server-perl on Centos

2009-11-09 Thread Ian Forde
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:25 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Dhiraj Chatpar wrote: >>> Please help me as i am not able to find any way to install Libnet >>> Perl >>> Server >>> >>> I used to install this on debian using >>> apt-get install libnet-server-perl >>> Command >>> >>>

[CentOS] Bug in freeradius 1.1.3-1.5.el5_4 rpm

2009-11-01 Thread Ian Forde
I upgraded one of my servers to CentOS 5.4 today. The freeradius service (radiusd) didn't start up due to permissions errors. I tracked it to the permissions on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory being set to 640 rather than 750, so the radius user couldn't enter the directory. In the spec file from

Re: [CentOS] guestbook for centos 4 or 5 ???

2009-09-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:57 PM, "R-Elists" wrote: > > >> >> May I ask what purpose the guestbook should serve? >> >> You could just install wordpress and moderate every comment >> before it's posted. >> Guestbooks only accumulate spams. >> Who writes into guestbooks nowadays? >> I've got a blog mys

Re: [CentOS] what is the best way to delete so many queue files?

2009-08-31 Thread Ian Forde
Heh - I always preferred the indirect approach. Move the dir out of the way, recreate it, and delete in your own time... # service sendmail stop # cd /var/spool # mv clientmqueue clientmqueue-todelete # mkdir clientmqueue # chown --reference=clientmqueue-todelete clientmqueue # chmod --reference=c

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 28.07.2009 um 03:23 schrieb Robert Heller: > >> >> Right. The other option, if there is some specific thing you need >> changed is to grab the source RPM and tweek the .spec file and >> include >> your own patch(es). Keep the patch(e

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 16:06 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > Perhaps I can use that to determine what ./configure options to use when > compiling, but really, I don't see any differences in the two except some > directory paths, and APR version (the CentOS version uses APR 1.3.0 and my > version uses A

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:09 -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. That'll pretty much break the apache rpm installation... > And it works. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that > to work. If you stick with the rpm-based Apache ins

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:16 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > The highest speed I can get through that link with drbd is 11 MB/sec > (megabytes) Not good... > But if I copy a 1 gig file over that link I get 110 MB/sec. That tells me that the network connection is fine. The issue is at a higher

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

2009-07-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:07 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Hi, > > > Did the update overwrite your snmpd.conf file? The 'view' on the default > > one > > may not permit access to the things mrtg needs to see. Try changing it to > > .1 to > > expose everything. > > It might have done so. To

Re: [CentOS] Unexplained reboots in DRBD82 + OCFS2 setup

2009-06-25 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 07:22 -0700, nate wrote: > Kris Buytaert wrote: > > > > > > We're trying to setup a dual-primary DRBD environment, with a shared > > disk with either OCFS2 or GFS. The environment is a Centos 5.3 with > > DRBD82 (but also tried with DRBD83 from testing) . > > Both OCFS2 and

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

2009-06-13 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:54 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Jerry Geis schrieb: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a kickstart file that works for /dev/sda. > > I now need to detect an HP server and use /dev/cciss instead of hard > > coded /dev/sda. > > > > How can I detect what the name of the device is a

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

2009-06-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 01:57 -0400, JohnS wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:46 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:30:10AM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > > > > > It would be prudent to review his web code to see > > > if he did something in an insecure way. If his code >

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:13 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: > Dear ML > > We upgraded a Dell Poweredge PE 1950 Server the 8th of May. Since then > the server rebooted 3 times without external cause (it is located in a > server farm with redundant power supply etc.). Looking at the servers > mo

Re: [CentOS] Certificate system

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:22 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anybody inform me wether the "RedHat Certificate System" or > actually a CentOS equivalent is available for CentOS. > Just skimmed on a download site through the RPM's for 5.3 and I > couldn't find it. > According

Re: [CentOS] Controlling log file sizes

2009-04-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 22:25 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > My fetchmail and procmail log files are getting rather large, and there's > really no reason to keep entries for ever. How do others handle this? I > know > I could manually delete the older stuff then re-save the file, but it doesn't >

Re: [CentOS] rpmnew puzzles

2009-04-09 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:30 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 09 April 2009 15:01:37 George Negoita wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Anne Wilson > wrote: > > > I'm puzzled by such statements as > > > > > > diff /var/clamav/daily.cvd /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew > > > Binary files

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:21 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: > Who makes packages for centos? Or who makes decisions about it? > > Hope it's not dummy question. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 See the section entitled: "CentOS : Community ENTerprise Operating System" so if RH

Re: [CentOS] gnet-2.0, gio-2.0

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:59 +0100, Ondrej Filip wrote: > I asked on Saturday and I didn't get reply. I'm trying again. > > I'm porting one project to centos where we use gnet and gio libraries. Will > be these libraries part of centos in future? I'm not sure what relationship > is between these li

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 18:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Yes, but raid1 in software has none of those problems, since as far as > the boot loader is concerned, you are booting from a single drive. And > there is a trade-off in complexity, since sw raid works the same on > Linux across different

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 17:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > Might not be a bad idea to see how they're able to use > > mdadm to detect and autosync drives. I don't *ever* want to go through > > something like: > > > > http://kev.coolc

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 08:40 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > I'd have to say no on the processing power for RAID 5. Moore's law has > > grown CPU capabilities over the last 15 or so years. HW RAID > > controllers haven't

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:52 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Bollocks. The only area in which hardware raid has a significant > performance advantage over software raid is raid5/6 given sufficient > cache memory and processing power. I'd have to say no on the processing power for RAID

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-02-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 18:46 -0600, ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have two servers in the same subnet, one has this arrangement: > > BOX A [3 ips, one real two vips] > > BOX B [1 ip] > > I need to redirect input from one of the vips (192.168.0.1:8080) on BOX > A to BOX B (192

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:57 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-18-2009 1:45 PM Scott Silva spake the following: > > on 2-18-2009 1:36 PM Ian Forde spake the following: > >> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > >>> For a speedy backup, could put the

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:35 -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote: > For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would > be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, > rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. That's what I'd suggest too, but be warned that performance on that

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 08:13 -0800, dnk wrote: > On 18-Feb-09, at 2:01 AM, John Doe wrote: > > >>> For controller, what is the interface on your drives?? SCSI, SAS?? > >> Dell 2950, SAS 6 Host Bus Controller. > > > > Integrated SAS 6/i(base): 4 port SAS controller (does support RAID > > 0/1) > >

Re: [CentOS] MySql server on Centos 5

2009-02-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:54 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > > > You can always use the MySQL community RPMs. > > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads > > Second that. I'm not normally a big fan of replacing stock system >

Re: [CentOS] MySql server on Centos 5

2009-02-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:22 +, Tom Brown wrote: > > I have a question about Mysql. > > I use mysql 5.0.68 on Centos 4 from Centos plus repository. > > > > The old hardware steers me to Centos 5, however there is mysql 5.0.45. Some > > program solutions which we are using on the old server (prod

Re: [CentOS] network driver at installation time

2009-02-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:34 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Is there anyway to load a network driver at installation time. Centos > 5.2 x86_64. Yep - it's definitely in the kickstart docs - don't remember where though... > Alternatively, is there a way to do a USB network driver at boot? See above..

Re: [CentOS] Suggestion for Server Room monitoring

2009-02-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:59 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I have a situation like this: > Our little server room is always on. It has an air conditioning unit, > but barely enough. > So sometimes during weekend, the temperature could reach unhealthy > level, like 29 degree Celsius. > Cur

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 11:08 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > That sounds like the kiss of death for any critical service. Can't it > figure out ahead of time that this is going to happen and let the > service keep running unchanged with a warning message about needing the > update instead? You're

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:34 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > With one very large caveat. > > Be aware that updating bind via yum can result in your existing bind > configuration files being renamed to something.rmpsave and your name > server left in a dysfunctional state. I suggest that you consider

Re: [CentOS] real SATA RAID

2009-02-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 15:33 -0600, Sam wrote: > The software raid in linux with mdadm is very powerful. Alot of people > stay away from software raid because they think that a hardware solution > would be easier to work with. But with a hardware solution, how do you > monitor the status of you

Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network

2009-02-03 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:17 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Isaac Hailperin wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:42 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> Isaac Hailperin wrote on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:45:44 +0100: > >> > >>> append initrd=distro/centos5.2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7494 > >>> ks=http://9.0.0.1/al

Re: [CentOS] Linux HA or Heartbeat IP address question

2009-02-02 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:58 +1100, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > Hi all, > > I am following the guide on HowToForge to get Heartbeat going for two > Apache web servers > (http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_heartbeat_centos), a > quick question for anyone who might have a similar setup. > > D

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:46 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 at 6:43pm, Jake wrote > > > I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the > > 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one of those > > in what is supposed to be

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script - Compare packages. rpm.

2009-01-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:26 -0200, Tiago Dias wrote: > Hi, > > I need a script which makes the package compação rpm's > through two text files ... > > Since a file is the output of the command rpm-qa > pkg.out > > And the second file is a list of several packages rpm

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 21:06 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm > > being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why > > we don't need to install

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:19 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hi All, > > Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm > being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why > we don't need to install a

Re: [CentOS] kickstart over ilo serial port

2009-01-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:11 +0100, Jure Pečar wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone managed to redirect output of kickstart install to ILO > serial console? > > I have to test and deploy the remote install with kickstart but have > trouble debugging it because I can't see the output. > For kickstart us

Re: [CentOS] xorg-x11-drv-nouveau for CentOS?

2008-12-29 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 14:34 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Ultimately, you're better off to use video chipsets with good open source > drivers. Currently, that means Intel and (recently) ATI. That depends upon one's purpose. If, for example, one wants to use mythtv, I would use an NVidia card with th

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail problem

2008-12-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 07:27 +0100, swilting wrote: > I wish to add options to sendmail > > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', > `S=local:/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock, F=T, > T=C:5m;S:4m;R:4m;E:5m')dnl > dnl MAILER(cyrusv2)dnl > > INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`greylist', > `S=local:/var/run/mil

Re: [CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:02 +0530, Dhaval Thakar wrote: > I prefer non-encryption vpn. Uhh... without encryption, you take the "p" out of "vpn"... -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] drbd 8.3.0 is out

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:20 +0100, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > is this the right place to ask for updated -extras- packages? > > this seems to be the successor of the 8.2.x branch and contains various > bugfixes. Uhhh... this was *just* released... that's a little quick to be asking, isn't it

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The > > OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: > > > > http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, > sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. > > I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, > and with some hacking/klduging of their insta

Re: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?

2008-11-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:21 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I use xfs, i dont use jfs. but only on x86_64 Ditto. > xfs in CentOS is more widely used than jfs is in centos ( impression I > get from looking at logs on and off - generated at mirror.centos.org ). (much snippage) - over on the mytht

Re: [CentOS] Oracle start up script issue with RHEL3 Cluster

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 09:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:53 AM, lingu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thank a lot for your valuale information also we are getting lot > > of mails in this mailing list about debian,ubuntu,knopix and even the > > microsoft and the people a

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 15:08 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > Is there a way to "freeze" a list of installed packages and exact > > versions, then tell yum (or any other tool/script) to install exactly > > these verions either on the same or another systme? > > There isn't a nee

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Broken Pipe error and Heartbeat configuration

2008-11-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 08:41 -0800, nate wrote: > lingu wrote: > > > Can any one guide me what is this above error indicates and how to > > troubleshoot.After a long google search i found the below link from > > redhat that is matching my scenario.Can i follow the same because it > > is my very c

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines

2008-10-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 07:36 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Thanks very much everybody for your numerous comments. I guess I got > much more than I expected. One more suggestion... try SystemImager... -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] Seeking advice about auth/home serving

2008-10-15 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:52 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using nis/nfs3/autofs in a small network (20 boxes), and > planning on using a more secure/elegant method. The thing is, which > solution to adopt ? The network is mainly composed of Centos boxes, > and a couple M

Re: [CentOS] creating a user from an RPM package

2008-10-14 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 16:22 +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: > What wizardry do you guys use in the SPEC file when creating/deleting a > user from an RPM package? > > I was going to create a macro like: > > %define user(login,uid,gid,name,homedir,shell) \ > echo "$1:x:$2:$3:$4:$5:$6" >>/et

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:40 -0700, Joe Pruett wrote: > rpmforge has just released a new perl-DBD-mysql for el4 that has an > obsoletes against perl-DBD-MySQL and the protectbase yum plugin doesn't > grok obsoletes. the priorities plugin does. so if you are having issues > with this, install th

RE: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-17 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thx. A former unix-admin at the dept thinks it might be a little on the old > side hardware-wise, this particular server is about four years old. I'm > split... > > This particular Poweredge modell is certified for RHEL 2 and 3. If I'd

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 02:51 +0700, Lunix1618 wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > there underneath the OS. You also may be able to do it using omconfig > > after installing omsa. This question really belongs on the Dell Linux > > list though... I can say that I've expanded

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:35 +0700, Lunix1618 wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running > > dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). > > > > *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd li

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on Dell Poweredge 2850

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running > dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). > > *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with you > guys if

Re: [CentOS] Changing swap resume signature location

2008-09-01 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 13:25 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > 1. Format the swap partition again: sudo mkswap /dev/XXX > 2. Activate swap partition sudo swapon /dev/XXX > 3. Replace UUID=XXX in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume by "resume=/dev/XXX" > 4. Regenerate the initrd: sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initr

Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB

2008-08-31 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 09:47 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: > Hello, >And the problem that I'm having is with my two Linux distros. Ive > installed CentOS & Windows in my SATA HDD and I've used my complete > 40GB PATA HDD for Ubuntu. Well all OS's work fine with out any > problems but when

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:00 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: > Hi, > > Yes I know what your saying ok! I didn't ask him any descent question > but I gave a solution based on my experience. So why hell r u guy's > coming after me and as you said in the world of IT there are lot of > perhaps OK

Re: [CentOS] Help me

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:39 +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote: > Hi, > I think you need to get the proper device drivers not the generic > ones that comes with the CentOS. Try updating your drivers or > sometimes when you install a vendor driver or any other driver after a > kernel update or a fu

RE: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:54 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: > >> > > >> >So there are new packages anyway in spite of the other bits. > >> > >> Hi all, have I missed something or is there a CentOS update for 5x but > none > >> for 4x ? I've made sure my mirror is synced and looked around at a few > >> ot

Re: [CentOS] apache

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:42 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Mad Unix wrote: > > Am running Oracle10g on the server, I do OCI connection from php/apache to > > my DB 10g > > so how would you insert the values to apache... > > To quote John (reading helps!): > > | you would put those variable assig

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 02:42 -0700, Ian Forde wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:38 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > Ralph Angenendt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 12:21): > > >> Thanks for quick reply. That didn't help yet. The error message in > > >

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:38 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Ralph Angenendt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 12:21): > >> Thanks for quick reply. That didn't help yet. The error message in maillog > >> is still the same: "sendmail.pem unsafe: Permission denied". The directory > >> perms are n

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ian Forde
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:21 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > Ralph Angenendt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 11:24): > > >> dr-xr-xr-x 2 mail mail 4096 Aug 11 14:42 /etc/mail/certs > > > ^^^ > > > > > > Even allowing group to read there and enter there might be t

Re: [CentOS] Re: SIGPIPE in assorted apps after "yum update"

2008-07-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 07:07 -0600, John Hanks wrote: > Paul Bijnens pointed out that Ian Forde had similar issues with dhcpd > minutes before I posted my message. I missed that one as I scanned the > archives, then joined the list to ask my question. My problem is also > solved by r

[CentOS] ANSWER: Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, Ian Forde wrote: > 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to > stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the > command-line with the "-d" flag and it serves up leases. But without > the -d

Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:39 -0400, S.Tindall wrote: > Seems like it would be simpler to get an adapter that work with > the current/native pl2303 driver. Yeah... but mine works - with some extra work... didn't want to buy this type of device twice but... > For the purpose of serial consoles, the

Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 00:54 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > I figure that this is the kind of situation that -plus is meant to > > solve... > > open a request at http://bugs.centos.org/ - thats the *only* way to get > stuff into centos_plus, and

Re: [CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:34 -0400, Marko A. Jennings wrote: > On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: > > 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to > > stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the > > command-line with

Re: [CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:12 -0400, Marko A. Jennings wrote: > On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: > > 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to > > stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the > > command-line with

Re: [CentOS] Getting something into centosplus for 5.2?

2008-07-06 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I won't speak on the -plus topic, but as far as upstream is concerned, > you definitely need to open an RFE SR if you're a paying customer... > probably won't be super speedy, but better than your bug sitting around > forever ignored. :) H

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