Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 two network cards

2021-07-15 Thread Ken Smith via CentOS
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 7/15/21 2:39 PM, Ken Smith via CentOS wrote: Hi folks, I'm a bit confused about how to set up two network cards in different LANS in C8. I've done this multiple times in Centos6 and lower, but in the NetworkManager/systemd world I'm all at sea without a

[CentOS] Centos 8 two network cards

2021-07-15 Thread Ken Smith via CentOS
Hi folks, I'm a bit confused about how to set up two network cards in different LANS in C8. I've done this multiple times in Centos6 and lower, but in the NetworkManager/systemd world I'm all at sea without any charts. (I'm sure there's a HKLM in there somewhere -sorry ;-)) and my Googlefoo is

[CentOS] Centos 6 iwl3945

2020-01-09 Thread Ken Smith via CentOS
Hi everyone, I'm having a problem with an iwl3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop running Centos 6. Recently it has been failing to connect to a either 2.4G or 5G Wi-Fi coming from a Draytek Wireless Router. It has usually managed to connect in the past although it has sometimes been a little t

Re: [CentOS] C6 Bind

2018-10-15 Thread Ken Smith
Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 15.10.2018 um 00:33 schrieb Ken Smith: If I telnet to port 53 from outside my LAN I get a connection. If I stop bind that connection is refused, confirming the local bind instance is getting the connection. You cannot test bind operating on port 53 by UDP

[CentOS] C6 Bind

2018-10-14 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I'm really struggling with a bind problem on C6. bind runs split external and internal dns for a few zones. I had to change the motherboard in my server and the ethernet device name changed from eth3 to eth4. I've updated my firewall rules to accommodate that change but bind in not re

Re: [CentOS] C6 Module Keys

2017-05-21 Thread Ken Smith
Gordon Messmer wrote: Use "rpm -Vf /path/to/original/module.ko" If rpm tells you that the checksum has been modified, then the "original" file you've got isn't the correct file. Download the rpm that owns that file, and use "rpm -i --replacefiles --replacepkgs " to reinstall the kernel package

Re: [CentOS] C6 Module Keys

2017-05-17 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: Leon Fauster wrote: Am 17.05.2017 um 12:22 schrieb Ken Smith: {snip} Not sure if i understand your problem. Try to regenerate the map files with # depmod -a -- LF Hi Leon, I tried that and get the same error. Its to do with the modules being signed. But I don'

Re: [CentOS] C6 Module Keys

2017-05-17 Thread Ken Smith
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 17.05.2017 um 12:22 schrieb Ken Smith: {snip} Not sure if i understand your problem. Try to regenerate the map files with # depmod -a -- LF Hi Leon, I tried that and get the same error. Its to do with the modules being signed. But I don't see

[CentOS] C6 Module Keys

2017-05-17 Thread Ken Smith
Hello, As part of testing an alternative module I saved the original module and copied the test one in. The test was done and I put the original module back. Now the original module is not loading at startup and doing it manually I get the error WARNING: Error inserting {Module name & path

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic at Boot

2016-12-07 Thread Ken Smith
John R Pierce wrote: On 12/7/2016 12:09 PM, Ken Smith wrote: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd P43-ES3G thtas a rather old motherboard, like circa 2008?my longtime experiences with consumer desktop grade hardware suggest that at 5 years, 50% of them go flaky. that one is about 8 years old

[CentOS] Kernel Panic at Boot

2016-12-07 Thread Ken Smith
rs and a call trace after that. I have a photo of the screen if that information is useful Any idea how I can trace this. Many thanks Ken -- Ken Smith K-Net Technology 020 8651 5722 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Maybe OT - Centos 5 SATA JMicron JMB361 SATA

2016-08-10 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I know Centos 5 is almost EOL and all this is old but I'm helping a colleague who has moved a Centos 5 install on an IDE disk to system with a Foxconn M'board. His idea is to use the SATA interface that's on the Foxconn. The thing boots OK and then gets into a loop trying to star

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 changes strike again.

2016-01-30 Thread Ken Smith
Rob Kampen wrote: Still in the process of migrating from an old CentOS5 server to a brand new CentOS7. After finally getting Virtualbox-5.0 installed and a new Wondoze10 Pro installed it became time to shift the data from the old server to the new. The old server is headless and I installed

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-08-02 Thread Ken Smith
Chris Murphy wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 08/01/2015 12:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: parted fs resize is deprecated. http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6837 parted fs move can only move a partition into free space https://www.gnu.org/software/par

Re: [CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-07-31 Thread Ken Smith
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ken Smith wrote: Hi All, Slightly OT as this is on a Centos 6 system Not at all OT. We started using parted when we started using 3TB drives a few years ago, since fdisk can't handle> 2TB. Wait, you're resizing a partition? I don&

[CentOS] OT - parted guidance

2015-07-31 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, Slightly OT as this is on a Centos 6 system I'm getting the fdisk message "partition does not start on a physical sector boundary" on a 4096 sector disk. I understand why this has happened. I just want to be sure of my parted syntax before I really mess things up. (before anyone says

Re: [CentOS] C6 New Kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2 PPTP fail

2015-03-26 Thread Ken Smith
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ken Smith wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Ken Smith wrote: Just updated to kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 and pptp vpn (invoked via Gnome Network Manager) fails to connect. Boot up the previous 2.6.32-504.8.1

Re: [CentOS] C6 New Kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2 PPTP fail

2015-03-25 Thread Ken Smith
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Ken Smith wrote: Hi All, Anyone else seeing this. Just updated to kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 and pptp vpn (invoked via Gnome Network Manager) fails to connect. Boot up the previous 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 and pptp all good

[CentOS] C6 New Kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2 PPTP fail

2015-03-25 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, Anyone else seeing this. Just updated to kernel 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 and pptp vpn (invoked via Gnome Network Manager) fails to connect. Boot up the previous 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 and pptp all good. OpenVPN is not affected. Anyone else seeing this. I have log file details i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: Hi All, I'm just wanting to check that my understanding of the settings is correct as my web searches are finding a lot of dated information. If I want a Centos 6 sendmail system act as the secondary MX for domain b.co.uk do I just add a Connect:b.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Ken Smith
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 13/02/15 18:45, Valeri Galtsev wrote: So, what is the secondary MX server that you are describing that "accepts everything" is based on? if you actually read the thread you are replying to blindly, you might find out ? :-) -- This message has been scanned for viru

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Ken Smith
Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Otherwise it accept junk that your primary rejects Not exactly. If greylisting on primary is set, but on backup MX is not, still what is killed by greylisting by primary MX, almost never will come through backup MX.

[CentOS] Centos 6 Sendmail backup MX Config

2015-02-13 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I'm just wanting to check that my understanding of the settings is correct as my web searches are finding a lot of dated information. If I want a Centos 6 sendmail system act as the secondary MX for domain b.co.uk do I just add a Connect:b.co.uk RELAY statemen

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN problem

2014-02-09 Thread Ken Smith
Timothy Murphy wrote > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > >>> I'm having problems communicating with a remote server, with openvpn. >>> >> {snip} >> Second, what exactly are you doing/do you want to achieve? >> VPN makes sense if you go thru a triangle (client -> network a -> network >> b, wher

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-07 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: > Hi All and happy new year, > > Via a cron job a USB disk is mounted on a Centos 6.4 machine for backup > and dismounted after. I've noticed this failing. See below, the backup > directory that was in /mnt had disappeared, so creating it again as > fo

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-03 Thread Ken Smith
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 03.01.2014 15:37, Leon Fauster wrote: > >> Am 03.01.2014 um 15:04 schrieb Ken Smith: >> >>> Leon Fauster wrote: >>> >>>> Am 03.01.2014 um 08:57 schrieb Mauricio Tavares: >>>> >&g

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-03 Thread Ken Smith
Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 03.01.2014 um 08:57 schrieb Mauricio Tavares: > >> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Leon Fauster >> wrote: >> >>> Am 02.01.2014 um 20:34 schrieb Ken Smith: >>> >>>> Fred Smith wrote: {snip} >>

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Smith
Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:23:26PM +0000, Ken Smith wrote: > >> >> Fred Smith wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:05:31PM +, Ken Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi All and happy new year, >

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Smith
Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:05:31PM +0000, Ken Smith wrote: > >> Hi All and happy new year, >> >> {snip}) >> >> After the umount the directory vanishes. >> > I'd guess that something is rm-ing the mount point wh

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: > Hi All and happy new year, > > Via a cron job a USB disk is mounted on a Centos 6.4 machine for backup > and dismounted after. I've noticed this failing. See below, the backup > directory that was in /mnt had disappeared, so creating it again as > f

[CentOS] Disappearing directory

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All and happy new year, Via a cron job a USB disk is mounted on a Centos 6.4 machine for backup and dismounted after. I've noticed this failing. See below, the backup directory that was in /mnt had disappeared, so creating it again as follows... # cd /mnt # mkdir backup # mount /dev/sdb1 /m

[CentOS] Captive Portal

2013-11-25 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I'm trying to set up a Captive Portal using a Centos6 box. I've been experimenting with WiFiDog but it looks like development has faltered and I'm chasing my tail getting all the bits of PHP together for it to run. Some bits I've got look like Alpha code. What I'm trying to accomplish i

Re: [CentOS] Strange unexplainable CUPS problem after upgrade to 5.10

2013-11-10 Thread Ken Smith
Robert Heller wrote: > I manage a bunch of workstations at the Wendell Free Library. They are all > diskless, boot via PXE and mount all of their file systems via NFS from a > server. All of the machines are 32-bit and run CentOS (fully up-to-date > running 5.10). There are two printers with que

Re: [CentOS] SELinux Question

2013-07-23 Thread Ken Smith
James Hogarth wrote: > On 23 Jul 2013 07:42, "Ken Smith" wrote: > >>> >> For some reason auditd wasn't running or enabled. I'm now seeing the >> messages I needed in /var/log/messages. I'm running bind chrooted and >> v

Re: [CentOS] SELinux Question

2013-07-22 Thread Ken Smith
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/22/2013 07:41 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > >> Hi Guys, My google foo is failing me this afternoon. Just configuring a >> new C6 install. I know there are SELinux alerts happening, eg: I know I >> need to enable named to write to the local .jnl

[CentOS] SELinux Question

2013-07-22 Thread Ken Smith
Hi Guys, My google foo is failing me this afternoon. Just configuring a new C6 install. I know there are SELinux alerts happening, eg: I know I need to enable named to write to the local .jnl file as part of dynamic DNS, but sealert -b is not listing any alerts. I can see raw audit messages. I

Re: [CentOS] Where has system-config-sound gone? {Solved}

2013-06-03 Thread Ken Smith
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 06/01/2013 06:18 PM, Ken Smith wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Just installed 6.4 on a system that might become a Myth Backend. Where's >> the normal sound icon gone that usually appears in Gnome? I can see the >> intel sound

Re: [CentOS] Where has system-config-sound gone?

2013-06-01 Thread Ken Smith
Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:18:17 +0100 Ken Smith wrote: Where's the normal sound icon gone that usually appears in Gnome? It shows up in the Notification Area on your panel. If you don't have a Notification Area installed on your panel, you won't see

[CentOS] Where has system-config-sound gone?

2013-06-01 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, Just installed 6.4 on a system that might become a Myth Backend. Where's the normal sound icon gone that usually appears in Gnome? I can see the intel sound card driver is loaded. Which bits of alsa should be there? This is what I've got:- rpm -qa | grep alsa alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9.rc

Re: [CentOS] Yum Segfaulting

2012-12-19 Thread Ken Smith
James Pearson wrote: > Ken Smith wrote: >> >> Hi James, brilliant "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" worked. So >> does that mean that there wasn't enough free memory for yum to run? > > No, it might mean that there was a 'corruption' of

Re: [CentOS] web mail and Squirrelmail

2012-12-19 Thread Ken Smith
Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 19/12/2012 9:43 πμ, M. Fioretti wrote: > > >> what about Sogo: Is it slower/more complicated to install... any comment is >> appreciated! >> > I have not used SoGo yet, but I have read good things about it from many > admins. > {snip} > Other free groupwar

Re: [CentOS] Yum Segfaulting

2012-12-19 Thread Ken Smith
James Pearson wrote: > Ken Smith wrote: > >> On both the faulty system and a good one, yum appears to hunt for >> various versions of python files. >> >> Anyone with more knowledge than I have of system calls, is there a clue >> in here? >> >

Re: [CentOS] Yum Segfaulting

2012-12-18 Thread Ken Smith
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 18.12.2012 19:41, schrieb Ken Smith: >> Hi All, I have a Centos 5.8 system with relatively little memory, that >> runs in rl3, where yum has decided not to work any more. {snip} >> >> Any ideas where to look - I'm a bit stumped

[CentOS] Yum Segfaulting

2012-12-18 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I have a Centos 5.8 system with relatively little memory, that runs in rl3, where yum has decided not to work any more. As follows:- # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:774628 697516 77112 0 77720 313284

Re: [CentOS] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2012-09-14 Thread Ken Smith
M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, September 15, 2012 12:10 am, Ken Smith wrote: > >> Stephen Harris wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:21:29PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: >>> >>> >>> {snip} >> Can you ssh from B to A? &g

Re: [CentOS] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2012-09-14 Thread Ken Smith
Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:21:29PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > >> No, it's not, sorry for the confusion. I meant to write "as soon as the >> server is reachable again" >> > {snip} > > ? > > Can you ssh from B to A? :-) Ken -- This message has been scanned fo

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail Masquerade

2012-08-20 Thread Ken Smith
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > >> {snip} >> >> So what have I missed? >> > Are you doing the test that fails as the 'EXPOSED_USER' in sendmail.mc > (i.e. root)? That is for intentional excep

[CentOS] Sendmail Masquerade

2012-08-20 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I'm usually quite good with sendmail on Centos 5.8 but I must have missed something here. I've not done this before but, I want to set sendmail so that its outgoing mail appears to come from the domain of the network it lives on. Its real hostname is server2.domain.co.uk ( the domain b

[CentOS] Odd hang on a 5.6 system

2012-03-27 Thread Ken Smith
Hi All, I've been trying to trace the cause of a hang on a 5.6 i386 system. After running for almost a year, it hung last week, when I plugged in a screen it was blank, machine was unresponsive to the keyboard, over the network ssh and other daemons didn't respond but the thing has two network

[CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-16 Thread Ken Smith
Hi all, I swapped a Realtek 8139 100M Net Card for a Realtek 8169 Gig Net card in a Centos 5.6 system. After reconfiguring the network settings I find that on boot up the 8169 interface does not start. The startup script says something like "The 8169 is not available..." ifconfig -a shows a de

[CentOS] Centos 5.6 3ware raid 5

2012-02-07 Thread Ken Smith
Hi, I've seen comments about the poor performance of these cards with raid 5 configs. I have an old card with 3 x 500G IDE drives connected in raid 5 and I'm getting around 10mb/s write performance. :-( I'm seeing high iowait figures at times and associated very high cpu load average figures, p

Re: [CentOS] Yes another "I can't open port 53 for Bind DNS"

2012-02-01 Thread Ken Smith
Ken Smith wrote: > Shane Bywater wrote: > >> Hi, >> It's just past 3am and for the past 6 hours I've been >> >> > > iptables -I INPUT 4 -p udp --dport 53 -m state --state > NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > iptab

Re: [CentOS] Yes another "I can't open port 53 for Bind DNS"

2012-02-01 Thread Ken Smith
Shane Bywater wrote: > Hi, >It's just past 3am and for the past 6 hours I've been > configuring a secondary name server to replace one that just crashed. > My problem appears to be that port 53 is not open for some reason on my > server even though I have this: > > [root@tribe etc]# net

Re: [CentOS] Web Site centos.org is down

2011-08-17 Thread Ken Smith
Fine here on Claranet South London UK Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 02:06 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > >> Works fine from Singapore. >> Must be your ISP thing. >> > Yes I guess so. > > I tried via Manchester with one ISP and via London with an unrelated > ISP :-( > > >

Re: [CentOS] How to add a HD to a LVM

2011-05-08 Thread Ken Smith
Todd Cary wrote: > On 5/8/2011 7:37 AM, Todd Cary wrote: > >> On 5/8/2011 12:03 AM, Ken Smith wrote: >> >>> Todd Cary wrote: >>> >>>> I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) >>>> and I am not s

Re: [CentOS] How to add a HD to a LVM

2011-05-08 Thread Ken Smith
Todd Cary wrote: > I have connected a HD that was a prior system drive (Centos 4.8) > and I am not sure of the command line procedures to find out if > it is recognized (I believe it is since it present in the GUI), > delete all data on it and finally add it to the LVM. > > I would like to use it