Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James B. Byrne wrote on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:45:21 -0400 (EDT): However, having been bitten once, I feel that I must ask this more formal question. What steps, if any, have been taken to establish the CentOS project as a separate legal entity distinct from any individual contributor? What

Re: [CentOS] out of memory

2009-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jerry Geis wrote on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:30:05 -0400: Any thoughts? Doesn't top help in finding out what's eating your RAM? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Grub fallback problem

2009-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matthias Blankenhaus wrote on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:47:22 -0700 (PDT): Now, I have read somewhere that grub requires a default file to get the savedefault feature working. However, I could neither find the 'savedefault' command nor the grub default file under /boot/grub or anywhere else. One

Re: [CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

2009-07-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Are you running MailScanner? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:32:54 -0400: I don't have a perl version installed at that location. I've only added a few modules from cpan. You have no Perl, but installed modules via CPAN? Digest that. What are you telling us? And, btw, you didn't even tell what your actual

Re: [CentOS] Compile linux kernel problem

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Hanmo wrote on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:35:56 +0800: Hello everyone, Please stop hijacking threads. If you want to ask something then hit the button new message. Thanks! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Cleaning up some problems

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:03:39 -0400: As for the exact problem -- it's an error message You may not have noticed that you didn't quote that error message. At least not in the messages I got. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

2009-07-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:40:28 +0200: What if you have legit users from China and Korea trying to connect to your server(s)? What if he does not? See, you always use the solution that fits you and your setup/environment/needs. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web

Re: [CentOS] Drupal installation

2009-07-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Timothy Murphy wrote on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:33:04 +0100: which takes me to http://www.gayleard.com/drupal, where I am invited to login. I do not recall ever being asked for a drupal username or password, except for those I gave for the drupal database. But when I give these I am told,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Bridge or para network.

2009-07-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You may want to rephrase in a way that people are more willing to reply. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Drupal installation

2009-07-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Timothy Murphy wrote on Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:33:04 +0100: I'm not a serious drupal user. I saw a recommendation on a local Linux group, and thought I would see what it was like. I have a very simple web-site, which I would like to improve, Honestly, I think you would then be better off

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

2009-07-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Bob Hoffman wrote on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:54 -0400: Enjoy this..., 8000+ attempts. I did not enjoy this. Could you please consider next time putting such a log up under a link somewhere and refer to it instead of sending it all to the list? Thanks. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get

Re: [CentOS] A little more info

2009-07-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Drinkard wrote on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:18:22 -0400: I forgot You forgot to post that in the thread it belongs to. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

2009-06-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chadley Wilson wrote on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:11:54 +0200: The fact That I have sent email to a mailing group address authorizes the group to read it. So I don't understand why we always have to go down this road. Simple: this disclaimer is useless and intrusive at the same time, dead weight.

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0500 (CDT): Many years ago I used portsentry for this. You can find an article about portsentry at http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1580 and can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80573 Kai -- Kai

Re: [CentOS] Yum Repo that has xcache

2009-06-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Matthews wrote on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:42:51 +0300: I am wondering where I can get a repo that has xcache. (Or if anyone has any tips on a PHP optimizer) rpmforge has always the fitting eaccelerator for CentOS PHP. Works great. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

[CentOS] Mailing List mail forwarding loop

2009-06-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided? This is the mail system at host mail.centos.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached

Re: [CentOS] Mailing List mail forwarding loop

2009-06-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
JohnS wrote on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:42:19 -0400: So you you only just got them when sending a message to the list? Yep. And it makes it to the list, yes. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Mailing List mail forwarding loop

2009-06-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:15:20 +0200: There is a user centos on that machine, but as aliases local users in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas. I think there must be some forwards that temporarily do not work or create a loop condition. Btw, it's happening only

Re: [CentOS] Mailing List mail forwarding loop

2009-06-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:36:50 +0200: Anyone here from ohio-state.edu who can drop by there and give someone a hefty smack from me? It's not only them. I wasn't aware that the headers are included in those messages. Here's the one from yesterday: Received: from

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:31:40 +0200: What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache, which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it? Just forget that it is slow, it isn't. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web

Re: [CentOS] Welcome to the CentOS mailing list

2009-06-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sagar Koirala wrote on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:52:39 +1000: My apologies for posting an already solved problem Well, next time, pelase choose a better subject and make it a *new* mail ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Stewart Williams wrote on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:59:27 +0100: command=rsync -avz -e ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key /backup stew...@name.of.remote.server:/backup ssh-dss ... key ... As Nate says, the comand on the other end looks different. Here's a good explanation and also a script to check on the

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +0200: I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, being a scripting language, and not a compiled language. It's not slow at all. I have written such an interface 5 or more years ago for our needs and it's split in

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:23:42 +0200: Well, it's my understanding that compiled languages perform much better than scripting languages for this kind of operating, due to the fact that the script runs on top of the scripting engine, which in turn runs on top of the web server.

Re: [CentOS] Error messages? or what

2009-06-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:21:10 -0400: Those look like iptables LOG messages. Yepp. If you want to get them to a different log file redirect kernel.debug in syslog.conf to a different file. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be another way. Kai -- Kai Schätzl,

Re: [CentOS] munin stopped working

2009-06-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:13:14 -0400: I think for the second error in that thread you have to rollback your rrdtool from 1.3.7 to 1.2.30: Yes, that is what I finally did and what prompted me to post about -- allowdowngrade and versionlock as they don't seem to work.

Re: [CentOS] yum --allow-downgrade and versionlocking not working

2009-06-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:31:46 -0400: Another way to do it is to add: exclude=rrdtool perl-rrdtool to the [rpmforge] repository configuration in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo. yeah, I can do that and did it now. And I did it last time with perl-DBI. However, the

Re: [CentOS] Crontabs

2009-06-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Bensley wrote on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:08:52 +0100: 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M-%S`.log change the to to get all output. Furthermore, there might be a problem to run date in this environment. The path in

[CentOS] munin stopped working

2009-06-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Just noticed that my munin installation stopped showing any data after the last big update. I installed a lot of updates for CentoS, but there was also a munin update coming from rpmforge. However, in yum.log there is no munin listed. But I'm sure I updated munin to 1.2.5-2.el5.rf as well. Does

Re: [CentOS] munin stopped working

2009-06-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Steve Huff wrote on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:03:04 -0400: you should look at the archives for the rpmforge list :) http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-May/002416.html Hi Steve, thanks for the info. I notice that I'm subscribed only to suggest. I've now subscribed to users, too.

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Henry Ritzlmayr wrote on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:21:04 +0200: the logs you are referring to are only produced if you enable auth_verbose = yes right? That's possible, I didn't check. In that case and if I recall right I added that directive because I was missing the IP numbers in some log

Re: [CentOS] release/update question

2009-06-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:17:35 +0200: One of the reasons CentOS chose not to do it It appears that only a very very small number of people need it or *think* they need it. It would have surely been a great waste of time and ressources if CentOS had adopted it and no real

Re: [CentOS] release/update question

2009-06-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:14:55 +0200: Probably the latter. CentOS 5 SP 3 would maybe have been a better choice than CentOS 5.3 Not if one wants to stay in sync with the RHEL naming scheme :-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] release/update question

2009-06-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matthias Leopold wrote on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:56:47 +0200: is it normal behavior that through the use of yum update systems are forced to follow the point releases of a major release (5.0 - 5.1 - 5.2, etc)? is there a way and would it make sense to stay within one particular release and

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Henry ritzlmayr wrote on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:51:23 +0200: -Only the last try gets logged. can't reproduce this. The following was done in one connection to localhost. Jun 2 17:09:10 d01 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown Jun 2 17:09:10 d01 dovecot-auth:

[CentOS] Possible bug in yum requirements handling with yum-priorities

2009-05-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Just upgraded my perl-DBD-SQLite rpmforge package to 1.25 which resulted in all applications trying to use it to fail. As it turns out the following happened: Newer versions of DBD::SQLite need a DBI version of at least 1.57. The rpmforge package *does* include this requirement. However, CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-05-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gordon Messmer wrote on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:19:04 -0700: I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: rsync -vrPtz -e ssh

Re: [CentOS] eth0 killed when adding virtual interface and multiple NICs are present

2009-04-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
JohnS wrote on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:17:13 -0400: Kai, I read the Xen list and the way your doing it (the last option) looks like something I may try for testing in VMs. It works fine, I'm converting all my setups to that now. Indeed also I when I installed Xen I had to manually take out peth0

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Bensley wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:14:54 +0100: This all works great for the inital test except its prompts me for a password for myuser (as you would except) but how can I embed the password for ssh into the command line? Or can I not? You can't. You use a certificate. There are many

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gregory P. Ennis wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:20:21 -0500: The RAID controller appears to be on the mother board to me. It's then Intel fake RAID. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: Interesting - why not do a pull from the CentOS box? He's doing that. I mount Windows Server 2003 as follows: Mounting is completely different from using rsync on two hosts - e.g. you loose the delta algorithm advantage of rsync the

[CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I want to add the following route command route add -net 192.168.2.0/27 gw 192.168.2.3 via the normal network setup. The result should be the following routing table (the first line): 192.168.2.0/27 via 192.168.2.3 dev xenbr1 scope link 192.168.2.0/27 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src

Re: [CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:25:00 -0400: Assume 192.168.2.3 is reachable via eth0 (eg eth0's IP is 192.168.2.2). Make the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0: NETMASK0=255.255.255.224 ADDRESS0=192.168.2.0 GATEWAY0=192.168.2.3 eth0 does not have an IP no., it

Re: [CentOS] adding static route via network setup fails

2009-04-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Nate wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:21:48 -0700 (PDT): any net 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.224 gw 192.168.2.3 in your /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file yes, this works, thanks! I have found a better method without adding a route in the meantime, but I wanted to know about this, just in

Re: [CentOS] centos firewall?

2009-04-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:20:24 -0700: There is something fundamental that I am missing and having never used CentOS is probably not helping. I think the point is that you are *not* on CentOS. Your system is *derived* from CentOS. You should contact your hoster.

Re: [CentOS] centos firewall?

2009-04-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:51:13 -0700: I only have SSH ability at this point... That's good enough. If you are not comfortable with managing the system from the command line then use Webmin. Some think that is unsafe, but it is surely several degrees safer than

Re: [CentOS] centos firewall?

2009-04-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:04:23 -0700: and looking for /etc/sysconfig/iptables you have to install iptables. Then you get iptables-config. The file you mention is created when you save the state of iptables with service iptables save. And the rules are loaded from

[CentOS] eth0 killed when adding virtual interface and multiple NICs are present

2009-04-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I have a strange problem on one machine where eth0 gets killed when I add a virtual interface. It's got something to do with the NIC ordering or with the xen network script having a problem with multiple NICs and virtual interfaces. I could need some help/comments on this. Some history: I

Re: [CentOS] df -h shows system at 100% used, but there is space left

2009-04-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dnk wrote on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:04:38 -0700: What does that command do exactly? what about using man? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] eth0 killed when adding virtual interface and multiple NICs are present

2009-04-25 Thread Kai Schaetzl
JohnS wrote on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:32:06 -0400: You *must* specify the HWADDR field in the ifcfg-* files in order to have persistent ethernet naming. And that is what I always do. Never done it another way. You may have overlooked that part in my message where I state that it works without a

Re: [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

2009-04-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
RedShift wrote on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:20:32 +0200: Yes, I have tried it, but that's a workaround, not a real solution. Well, after reading just the first few lines I think the point is that a PHP accelerator (APC) is involved. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

2009-04-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
RedShift wrote on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:41:50 +0200: There is no PHP accelerator involved. It's all standard. Maybe for you. There's probably an Apache module or a PHP extension installed that is causing this. Ah, I just saw your next message. So, you know the reason now. Kai -- Kai Schätzl,

Re: [CentOS] [centos] libata-core kernel errors

2009-04-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:12:48 -0500: Apr 18 01:10:00 xenmaster kernel: BUG: warning at drivers/ata/libata-core.c:4923/ata_qc_issue() (Tainted: G ) snip What do those BUG warnings mean? (Tainted: G) Those appear various times, in the messages you posted. That driver

Re: [CentOS] Threading and CentOS mailing list digest

2009-04-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David G. Miller wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:39:50 -0600: What is happening is I get the CentOS mailing list in digest form. Ah, that explains it. Other people usually just reply to the digest (which then creates a new thread with Digest in the subject) or add a note that they replied to a

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:37:53 +0200: How do you mean broken? Sorin, why do you think I replied to you? The person using the broken configuration is David G. Miller. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:16:33 +0200: Apparantely Windows can bork up after a while if the system files aren't on C:. No, that is a myth. You just cannot put the system drive on an extended partition, it has to be a primary partition. If that is the first non-Linux partition

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Devin Reade wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:19:54 -0600: The symptoms you describe could be a side effect of being previously hit by http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2914 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447841. Thanks for the belated info, anyway. But this doesn't seem to apply

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:46:14 -0400: I didn't know who you were talking about either. It's good to point out the problem, but maybe next time leave some text clue as to whom you are referring. why? The threading makes it quite clear who I replied to. Or is your client

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John R Pierce wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:34:49 -0700: odder, I don't see a In-Reply-To: header, so I dunno HOW it appears threaded just fine. It's been put in the thread according to the time sequence because the header you mention is missing. So, it just *appears* to be threaded, but the

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:47:26 -0400: What makes you think mine is broken? because you didn't know who I replied to. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail forwarding external email sent to root

2009-04-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Neil Aggarwal wrote on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:54:13 -0500: I guess that facility just does not exist in sendmail. what facility? Everything Benjamin explained is there. I'm not getting any email to r...@ on my servers. I suggest you try to find out where you might have exposed it. Spammers

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:08:57 +0200: Basically, what would I need to change in the how-to from apcmag.com above?? It's like that tutorial says. Forget about backing up grub.conf. This is nonsense. You want to make a backup before changing it, just in case, but not because of

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:35:40 +0200: Googled some more. Realised /boot/grub/menu.lst *is* /etc/grub.conf... Duh! You want to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, nothing else ! Also some people say it's better to have Windows installed to the first harddrive and the first partition

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:03:53 +0200: Generally speaking, which one is the easiest and/or safest if time is an issue and you want to things fast and streamlined doing this, grub-install or backup and restore MBR. That is assuming I don't screw up when I do either and

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Victor Padro wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:45:04 -0500: install windows xp then install easyBCD and make the dual boot work without changing any file on any OS. Of course you change files. But it works as well, yes, just checked it out. I wasn't aware of this, although I have EasyBCD already

Re: [CentOS] Dual-boot with WinXP, CentOS already installed

2009-04-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
could you please switch to a less broken client that supports threading? (I know that Thunderbord supports threading, but that version or client that you use does not.) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] rt3 3.8.2 latest version as rpm for C5?

2009-04-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Traut wrote on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:54:57 +0200: I really do not want to install f10. :O You could run it in a VM. Yeah, but that means installing after all... :D Right, right, it sounded like you were contemplating to replace the bare metal OS and didn't like that ... Kai --

Re: [CentOS] Clamd and Amavis

2009-04-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anne Wilson wrote on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:55:07 +0100: I had already found that out, and thought it so obvious that it didn't need mentioning. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You really are judgemental, aren't you? Uuh, what is that? Pissed? Good. That was the purpose of

Re: [CentOS] Clamd and Amavis

2009-04-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anne Wilson wrote on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:14:19 +0100: Wrong again. Both are true. First you say, you changed it, then you didn't change it. As I said, both cannot be true. If the default had worked I would not have needed to try alternatives. clamd in default settings works

Re: [CentOS] rt3 3.8.2 latest version as rpm for C5?

2009-04-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Traut wrote on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:07:23 +0200: I really do not want to install f10. :O You could run it in a VM. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Clamd and Amavis

2009-04-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:00:40 +0100: I came unstuck with the instruction regarding the LocalSocket. If I change that in clamd.conf to $MYHOME/amavisd.sock or $MYHOME/clamd the clamd service won't start, saying the socket doesn't exist. And maybe that's true, did you check

Re: [CentOS] Clamd and Amavis

2009-04-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anne Wilson wrote on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:47:50 +0100: It doesn't. I thought so. You should have found that out yourself and told here in your first posting! I'm under the impression that a socket cannot be manually created, but has to be created by the application, so I simply don't know

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.3 upgrade and duplicate processes running

2009-04-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You have a habit of reasking your questions again and again. Please stop this! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] powernow-k8 in newer centosplus kernel

2009-04-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mark Pryor wrote on Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:39:53 -0700 (PDT): When I update to the newer xx-128.1.6 centosplus kernel all the throttling stops and the box runs at highest speed. FYI: It works like before with the normal kernels, no problems. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

Re: [CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David Lemcoe wrote on Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:12:33 -0400: So wait, how do I fix my Blackberry for mailing lists? Does this method work? I'm using the GMAIL app for Blackberry. Yes, this message contains in-reply-to/references. The others did not. Which means that there is no threading available

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:01:43 -0400: Hmmm... Maybe the *64 systems are different? No, they are the same in this respect. I'm not seeing any difference. There is a difference between systems (no matter which arch) when the /etc/grub.conf symlink got created. On all my

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:39:27 -0400: The installonlypkgs and installonly_limit keywords. The first, according to man yum.conf, defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported and the latter to 3. It seems to default to

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4 - CentOS 4.7

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tom Brown wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:30:16 +0100: I cant currently change the OS on this box but i need to have python 2.4 on it. Does anyone know if there is a python 2.4 rpm available for CentOS 4 ? You should know that this likely breaks some functionality in CentOS unless you

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see if the kernel was added there. Sorry, I was talking about /boot/grub/grub.conf. I

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lincohn john wrote on Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:49:17 -0700 (PDT): Well, you can always manually edit the grub.conf file, right? sure, but it should work automatically. And did on all the other upgrades. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on x86 and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf And as I already mentioned in my first posting this file *got* touched. The last modified date got changed, but

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:04 -0400: AFAIK, my 5.3 is completely box stock in this area, and probably 98% of others too. I have no /etc/grub*. $ ls -l /etc/grub* ls: /etc/grub*: No such file or directory I also checked my 4.6 Centos. It has the

Re: [CentOS] error from yum from 5.3

2009-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Craig White wrote on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:09:12 -0700: after you upgrade rpm from 5.3 upgrade, it seems that you need to clean something in yum not in general, some need to. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders

2009-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Karanbir Singh wrote on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:32:25 +0100: What can we do in order to better, faster, more visibly communicate the fact that 5.3 is the new target most people should be focusing on. Point all visible 5.2 stuff to 5.3 and add a if you are really looking for 5.2 and not the 5.3

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail-SMTP, Cyrus-IMAPD and plus (+) addressing.

2009-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James B. Byrne wrote on Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:17:07 -0400 (EDT): If anyone has gotten this to work then I would very much appreciate knowing the exact steps that you followed to implement it. 1. I am not changing smtp MTAs, the legions of fans of qmail and postfix notwithstanding. 2. Ditto

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail-SMTP, Cyrus-IMAPD and plus (+) addressing.

2009-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Les Mikesell wrote on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:50:45 -0500: Sendmail handles it to the extent of looking for a .forward+additional in your home directory (if it has read permission)and can do the things you would do in a .forward file (redirect to other addresses or a file) Ah, I didn't know

Re: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders

2009-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Brian Mathis wrote on Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:42:59 -0400: The centos.org page doesn't have a news section in any obvious place, and the CentOS 5 section only just has the version number updated. If someone were not following the mailing lists or missed the announcement that one day on a news

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ron Blizzard wrote on Sat, 4 Apr 2009 19:58:44 -0500: It works well in two ways -- everything in this mailbox is CentOS related and Gmail keeps conversations together -- so if there are 16 emails on one subject, they'll all be threaded under a single tab. Oh, that is surely a ground-breaking

Re: [CentOS] xen thinks guests exist but not show in list

2009-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Neil Aggarwal wrote on Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:01:49 -0500: When I do an xm list, I do not see the guest, but if I try to do virt-install with the same guest name, it tells me the domain already exists. I tried xm delete on the domain but that also tells me the domain does not exist. Remove

Re: [CentOS] what requires lm_sensors?

2009-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
D Tucny wrote on Sun, 5 Apr 2009 02:58:10 +0800: requires are not always a package name... That I knew but I didn't remember to use --provides :-) Thanks! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Update

2009-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jarmo wrote on Sun, 5 Apr 2009 11:08:19 +0200: I'm having troubles update my system. Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-34 is needed by package glibc Update stops here. Any idea, how to continue? read the release notes, read this list. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I updated two machines yesterday. No problems after reboot so far. Very smooth. Before I was able to update I hit minor annoyances with getting rid of packages I didn't want installed (like linuxwacom) and a perl dependency of a third-party perl package. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 Update Success

2009-04-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Timothy Murphy wrote on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:26:24 +0100: I yum-updated glibc, glibc-devel, yum and rpm before upgrading. I forgot to mention that I did not do this. No problems. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

[CentOS] what requires lm_sensors?

2009-04-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I found that lm_sensors got installed because of a dependency on my first Xen VM that I updated to 5.3. lm_sensors doesn't make sense in a VM. I thought, ok let's check after the update who wants it. However: rpm -q --whatrequires lm_sensors no package requires lm_sensors (same for

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2009-04-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Thomas Dukes wrote on Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:04:02 -0400: Changed all references in repo file to baseurl from mirror Please don't do that. If you want to hardcode the mirror then look for a mirror that you like and use that one, but not the central CentOS distribution base. Kai -- Kai Schätzl,

Re: [CentOS] duplicate commands

2009-04-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Melinda Odom wrote on Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:27:55 -0500: I just upgraded to CentOS 5.3 last night and see these duplicate commands (migration/0, migration/1) when running top -c? you did never run top before? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2009-04-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ned Slider wrote on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:34:03 +0100: You didn't wait for the official release announcement ;) Why should he? Is he only allowed to run yum update after each official announcement? I still see no release announcement yet, but packages are already available. I think there is a

Re: [CentOS] bash_logout

2009-04-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Paul A wrote on Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:12:06 -0400: If I create a file ~/.bash_logout file it gets executed when the user logs out but when I create a system wide /etc/bash_logout it doesn't work. Not what the issue is since I couldn't find anything on that. AFAIK, there is no basic mechanism

Re: [CentOS-virt] Backing up a running KVM guest

2009-03-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Julian Price wrote on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:48:36 +: Are you syncing the disk image as one file via the host, or all the files within via the guest? The sync happens as if I had two physical machines. Phys backup logs in to Virt tobebackupped on Phys wherever and syncs Virt tobebackupped

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