Re: [CentOS] rsync - set owner and group?

2008-05-09 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do your user and group names on both your source and destination >> systems have matching numeric values? > > No. The source system is a Windows machine running cygwin-rsyncd. > >> Linux/UNIX systems carry the numeric value

Re: [CentOS] Irritant

2008-05-07 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > >I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or > perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man > page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like ke

Re: [CentOS] Boot disk changes from /dev/sda during install to /dev/sdb on first boot

2008-04-30 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's been suggested (in the Dell Linux mailing list) that it is > >related to the virtual CD device of the DRAC. > > As far as I know, it is. I recall something about it emulating a > usb drive so it could be hot plu

[CentOS] Boot disk changes from /dev/sda during install to /dev/sdb on first boot

2008-04-30 Thread Jeff Larsen
CentOS 4.6 x86_64, Dell PE2950 with DRAC5, onboard SAS RAID 1, 2 arrays. After booting installed system, /dev/sda exists but does not appear to be a hard disk. fdisk -l displays nothing for sda. CentOS is on /dev/sdb and the second RAID 1 array is now /dev/sdc. It's been suggested (in the Dell Li

Re: [CentOS] sendmail and cups gets installed although not chosen in kickstart file

2008-04-28 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I setup a kickstart file that contains only @core and several packages > explicitely listed. postfix is listed, sendmail is not. And there's no > package where I would think it needs cups. Nevertheless, after the install >

Re: [CentOS] dying hd on live legacy system...

2008-04-25 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dan Halbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What is the most practical method to replace the hard drive? > > > > > > > Install another drive (same size or larger), boot from CD in rescue > > > mode and use the dd utility to copy the old drive image

Re: [CentOS] dying hd on live legacy system...

2008-04-25 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Jason Pyeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have an old 3.x server whose hd is dying (kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: > dma status == 0x61) and accessing certain files just crashes the system with > a reboot. > > We have moved as many files to a nfs server as we

Re: [CentOS] Bash script to logout user from console

2008-04-25 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am stumped to figure out how to logout a user after they run a script > interactively when logged into the console. I see how to do it if in x, but > this server does not have x installed. There are 2 possible interp

Re: [CentOS] Simulate RJ 45 Port

2008-04-18 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:18 AM, gopinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how to simulate a RJ 45 port to act as serial port any option in Centos 5.1. > Please help me out on this. > Are you perhaps looking for a serial over ethernet device such as the ones made by Moxa (www.moxa.com)? I'm sure

Re: [CentOS] redirecting outside connections to https on apache

2008-04-14 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Barry Brimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting ankush grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi friends, > > > > There are about 15 applications hosted on different in our > > infrastructure mostly running on apache/iis/tomcat. We have a frontend > > apache serv

Re: [CentOS] mod_auth_ldap Apache2 on CentOS 5 and require group

2008-04-10 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:35 PM, David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , i am facing a strange problem. > > I have centos , i wan to access svn trought apache using mod auth ldap. > > This is what i have configured > >AuthLDAPBindDN cn=svn,ou=Operators,o=Organization > AuthLD

Re: [CentOS] rsync question

2008-04-08 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run several backup scripts by cron, one of which backs up my mail. I do not > want it to back up the Trash folder, but it appears to be doing so. I > conclude that my script is faulty somewhere, and would be grateful for

Re: [CentOS] rsync question

2008-04-07 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a bit, done my googling > and archive searching but I still can't seem to 'get' it. > > Here goes: > > I've a spare drive in my CentOS5.1 box, which (for tes

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-28 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Mail Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now i would like to have another server like mirroring this server .. > so incase there is any problem with this server the other server is always > online and the problem server could be fixed without our users ge

Re: [CentOS] disable SELinux

2008-03-11 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, i asked this topic couple days ago, but i have problem again. > > for some reasons, iptables was turned on again. is there any way to > disable iptables completely? > > this is what i did last time: > #service ip

Re: [CentOS] Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?

2008-03-11 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a > Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively > Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed >

Re: [CentOS] rsync

2008-03-07 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've gone over and over the man page and I don't get it and it's > obviously a simple task > > I want to rsync a directory but only the pdf files... > > rsync -ncauv --include=*.pdf $WORKING $WEB_SERVER > # sync's everyth

Re: [CentOS] VMWare error: Use of uninitialized value in string eq

2008-03-04 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I hope anyone can help me with this. I'm trying to get vmware to play > along nicely on CentOS 5.1 x64, but I get errors when I try and start a > vmx image, or list them. This the the error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch showing entries for non existent services

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had removed Exim and installed Postfix yet Logwatch still shows an empty > Exim section? Why is that still in the output? Probably because the package removal does not remove log files. Try manually deleting the logs.

Re: [CentOS] OFF Topic: mysql installation problem

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Morrison wrote: > > This is interesting: > > > > Locate shows this: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# locate mysql | less > > > > > > > > > But listing the directories will not show the same files: > > > > [EM

Re: [CentOS] domain name display issue in linux pc

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now, I am facing a different issue. I have to set up DNS server using > BIND on Centos 4.3. When I type the hostname on Centos, it shows: > > sipserver.vodcalocal.com > > But the cli prompt has [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ meaning only the

Re: [CentOS] Apache2::Request on CentOS 5

2008-02-10 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 10, 2008 12:24 AM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Running mod_perl, and trying to get Apache2::Request installed. I can't seem > to find an RPM for it. Has anyone got this working on CentOS 5? I am not a perl expert, but since nobody else is commenting... Check out the cpan c

Re: [CentOS] Java not seeing timezone/tomcat displaying times in GMT

2008-02-09 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 8, 2008 6:18 PM, Isaac Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting export CATALINA_OPTS= "Duser.timezone=America/Los_Angeles" > in my init.d script that starts up the tomcat(haven't set it in > $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh)...but will try that as well i wrote a > simple java functi

Re: [CentOS] Java not seeing timezone/tomcat displaying times in GMT

2008-02-08 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 7, 2008 9:12 PM, Isaac Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas how to force tomcat to display directory listing in local time > zone format of my cent box instead of GMT. > > > I tried all suggestions here: > http://marvinlee.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/java-timezone-setting-in-cento >

Re: [CentOS] system smtp server question

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 6, 2008 12:03 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > > Currently I have postfix setup with maps so that root on server A has mail > > sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that is relayed > > to my production box. It just seems like it is an add

Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine

2008-02-05 Thread Jeff Larsen
> A more targeted approach: run "ldd a.out" and see what 32-bit > libraries your 32-bit binary is expecting to have available. I should have also said that you need to install the 32-bit versions of libraries separately. The base CentOS install may have some 32-bit libs installed, but if you need

Re: [CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine

2008-02-05 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 5, 2008 10:16 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Rozsa Sandor wrote: > > > Hi people, > > > > I have a 64 bit Centos machine. My problem is that I can't run 32 bit > > applications on that. I can compile with the 32 bit option my sources, but > > when I'm tr

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 1, 2008 10:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:49:47 -0600 > "Jeff Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. I have the same problem, but the admin does not want to > > > install Microsoft Services For UNIX.

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 1, 2008 9:38 AM, Michael Semcheski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So is it possible to use nss_ldap with MS-AD if the Services for Unix > are not installed? Or do you still have to resort to "/etc/password > monkey business"? (I'm all for eliminating the monkey business, but I > don't think

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 1, 2008 9:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:29:07 -0600 > "Jeff Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't use Samba. > > > > Microsoft Services For UNIX or 2003R2 support UNIX attributes in >

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-01-31 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Jan 31, 2008 2:51 PM, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to authenticate shell login's against an MS-ADS. I don't > have admin access to the ADS, but I can talk to the admins. > > I have gotten as far as getting authentication working, but the uid's > depend on

Re: [CentOS] Cron on certain days?

2008-01-28 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Jan 28, 2008 1:26 PM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible for me to schedule cron to say run script A on the first > Friday of the month, script B on the second Friday of the month, script C, > etc.? There is always the lowly 'at' command. Setup and maintenance would be a

Re: [CentOS] Do you need to reboot after adding an entry to fstab?

2008-01-17 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Jan 17, 2008 2:11 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 11:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs. Does simply > > adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed? (or > > some service restar

Re: [CentOS] 4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Larsen
> Jeff Larsen wrote: > > We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party > > application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or > > warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a > > few minutes

Re: [CentOS] 4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Dec 21, 2007 10:29 AM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:53 -0600, Jeff Larsen wrote: > > We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party > > application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file

[CentOS] 4.6 update overwrote my /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py file

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Larsen
We had some custom additions to our site.py file for a third party application. 'yum update' to 4.6 overwrote the file with no backup or warning. Not hard to repair, but it did have me worried there for a few minutes when the application failed to start. Is this a python issue, an upstream issue o

Re: [CentOS] Getting email from cron when script is run manually

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Larsen
> > > Could a previous cronjob be hanging, waiting for the initscript to finish? > > > > > > I bet the daemon doesn't die as expected sometimes. > > > > Aha! looking at 'ps aux' we have: > > > > crond > > /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > awk -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/gk-restart ..

Re: [CentOS] Getting email from cron when script is run manually

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Larsen
> Could a previous cronjob be hanging, waiting for the initscript to finish? > > I bet the daemon doesn't die as expected sometimes. Aha! looking at 'ps aux' we have: crond /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily awk -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/gk-restart ... All at 4:02 AM which is when c

[CentOS] Getting email from cron when script is run manually

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Larsen
We have some third party software running on a CentOS 4.5 virtual machine. The software is delivered as compiled python and I wrote an init script for it myself (/etc/init.d/gk). Because the software lacks the usual robustness of CentOS services, I have a bash script (/etc/cron.daily/gk-restart) wh

Re: [CentOS] Logging into Windows 2003 Active Directory

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Dec 18, 2007 1:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been searching the net for directions on rhel and centos 5(1) to log > in to a windows domain and have found many examples, all different and none > work for me. You don't say exactly what you are trying to accomplish, b

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Connecting to a Windows server via NFS

2007-12-12 Thread Jeff Larsen
> My guess would be permissions on the Windows server, but the test it, I > have setup "Everyone" to have full control of the share while I test it. > If anyone has experience with SFU and would be will to give me some > pointers that would be great. "Everyone" permissions has no application to NF

Re: [CentOS] OT: Rsync question

2007-12-08 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Dec 8, 2007 6:21 PM, Steven Vishoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So in general is there a way i can do multiple > directories in one command or am i left with doing > them each individual as in rsync -av server:/dir1/ > /dir1/ > and repeat for the rest of directories. or does > someone know of a

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 netinstall iso bugged ?

2007-12-06 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Dec 6, 2007 8:15 AM, kOoLiNuS - Nicola Losito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > server: mirror.centos.org > path: centos/$releasever/os/$basearch Try path: centos/5/os/i386 (or x86_64 instead of i386) I don't think the $releasever and $basearch variables are set in this instance. Jeff __

Re: [CentOS] yum update for 5.0 ==> 5.1

2007-12-05 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Dec 5, 2007 5:24 AM, fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I don't remember getting a huge bolus of updates, which is what I would > have expected to constitute a 5.0==>5.1 transition. For a minimal install, there were surprisingly few new packages for 5.0 => 5.1. Looking at my /var/log/y

Re: [CentOS] Local repository via createrepo assumes apache?

2007-12-03 Thread Jeff Larsen
> It seems that I need to run apache on the repository server. But I can > basically run with defaults? You can use any web server supported by the operating system that hosts the files. As long as the web server software has read access to the files. Believe it or not, my local CentOS repository

Re: [CentOS] install via http

2007-11-26 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Nov 26, 2007 11:50 AM, James A. Peltier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > Maybe I missed the install option, but I didn't know this was possible! > > > > I thought the install could only occur from CD or DVD media? > > > > Scott > Far from it, you can install from CD, DVD, N

Re: [CentOS] SNMP and MIB

2007-10-19 Thread Jeff Larsen
On 10/19/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has any one is using Dell OpenManage on Centos ? We use Dell OpenManage on Centos 4.5. First you have to trick the OpenManage software (and installer) into thinking you have RHEL. For v4 you add "Nahant" to the end of line of text in /etc/redhat-re

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Xen and Vmware Server

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Larsen
On 10/16/07, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Sousa wrote: > > Well, > > > > I have installed CentOS with XEN support, but the vmware doesn't work at > > all. > > When i push the start button in the vmware, after some minutes, it gives me > > na error, telling that vmware process