RE: [CentOS] disable SELinux

2008-03-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hiep Nguyen wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Alex White wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Hiep Nguyen wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Tom Brown wrote: with minimal installation on centos 5, selinux also included. how do i remove selinux or disable it at least? cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux you'll

RE: [CentOS] Request for hplip upgrade

2008-03-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon? We only gets what the Redhats send us

RE: [CentOS] Request for hplip upgrade

2008-03-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: My wife purchased an HP Deskjet F340 all-in-one printer last year. CentOS 5 includes hplip-1.6.7. I need at least hplip-2.7.10 which I have had to install via tarball. Is there any plans to update this package soon? Instead of the whole HPLIP tar ball you can download

RE: [CentOS] LVM and kickstarts ?

2008-03-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Michael Gale wrote: Hey, Can anyone tell me why option 1 works and option 2 fails ? I know I need swap and such, however in trouble shooting this issue I trimmed down my config. It fails on trying to format my logical volume, because the mount point does not exist

RE: [CentOS] LVM and kickstarts ?

2008-03-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Michael Gale wrote: Hey, Can anyone tell me why option 1 works and option 2 fails ? I know I need swap and such, however in trouble shooting this issue I trimmed down my config. It fails on trying to format my logical volume, because

RE: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1x32 dum_Uinstance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-03-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: That shouldn't be, the list acts like any other CentOS list, maybe you entered your email address incorrectly, got spam filtered, or is just temporarily broken, but it should send you an email upon subscribing to confirm your subscription

Re: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-02-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1x64 Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Nah, RHEL 5.1+ supports 32-bit domU (PAE and non PAE) on 64-bit dom0. Actually RHEL Xen is 3.1 with the brain damaged 3.0 userland utilities. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

RE: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_U instance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-02-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Nah, RHEL 5.1+ supports 32-bit domU (PAE and non PAE) on 64-bit dom0. Actually RHEL Xen is 3.1 with the brain damaged 3.0 userland utilities. -Ross - Original Message - I've run into an interesting

RE: [CentOS] error creating Centos 5.1 x32 dum_Uinstance on CentOS5.1x64

2008-02-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Nah, RHEL 5.1+ supports 32-bit domU (PAE and non PAE) on 64-bit dom0. Actually RHEL Xen is 3.1 with the brain damaged 3.0

Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
-0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [big snip] I'd be interested in seeing a complete /var/log/yum.log file and the date of the last successful yum update. I have attached both yum.log files. Possible dates of interest are: Oct 10 09:14:15 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 Oct 24 05:43:29

Re: [CentOS] how to uninstall

2008-02-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jim, Try out 'alternatives' for managing symlinks to prefixed installs, especially if you have multiple versions. Works like a charm and can be used to fix/remove links later. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] xen domU shutdown and save

2008-02-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
gen2 wrote: Hi There, Having some trouble discovering how to shutdown domU's without saving them. I have some awful power from the grid causing the backup battery system to initiate shutdown's on dom0, which is the desired result, however domU's are saving (which I don't want) and

RE: [CentOS] Completely lost X (was system-config-display wronglysets up Viewsonic VG730m monitor)

2008-02-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 19:29:07 Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:02:31 Johnny Hughes wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: snip ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:

RE: [CentOS] Completely lost X (was system-config-display wronglysetsup Viewsonic VG730m monitor)

2008-02-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 20:00:25 Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Here is a simple Vesa config that should work on most cards and monitors, I use it here at work during kickstart installs. Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen

Re: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I'm not a big fan of Redhat's version of Xen and use the Xen 3.2 packages from xen.org as it has better management features through 'xm'. You will need to compile your own for 64-bit though as they only provide 32-bit binaries by default and if you want to run Xen as a hosting server you

RE: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I'm not a big fan of Redhat's version of Xen and use the Xen 3.2 packages from xen.org as it has better management features through 'xm'. You will need to compile your own for 64-bit though as they only provide 32-bit binaries by default

RE: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

2008-02-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: David Mackintosh wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:03:09AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Ern jura wrote: Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware and successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware?

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 06:29 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] OK! Thanks Johnny. You just confirmed a bug here. Now I will, as time allows, see if I can discover why /etc/rpm/platform is incorrect. Since the file is in an rpm directory, shall I

RE: [CentOS-virt] Fwd: Fast clock under VMWare

2008-02-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
chanms wrote: Hi everyone, I have been struggling with having the clock of Linux VM's (including CentOS 4.6 and 5.1) running very fast under VMWare, no matter what I have tried. My platform: - AMD Turion X2 TL-60 - AMD 690 chipset with integrated Radeon x1250 (probably doesn't

RE: [CentOS] bash - safely pass untrusted strings?

2008-02-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Benjamin Smith wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Bob Beers wrote: short answer: single quotes will handle all characters, except single quotes. long answer: man bash the section called QUOTING may help you figure a solution. I've read the man page. It helps if I already know

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:46 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:19 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's

RE: [CentOS] SAMBA is driving me crazy

2008-02-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ya know you can set hotmail to send in plain text which helps a lot with these mailing lists. -Ross From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of scaglietti amore Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:04 PM To:

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. I downloaded the current rpm file this morning and ran rpm -Uvh --force

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. snip The problem was most likely

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - equivalent of xorg-x11 ?

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tom Brown wrote: Hi If i want to add X to a system after install on CentOS 4 that would be a yum install xorg-x11 etc This package seems to have been renamed in CentOS 5 and i wonder if anyone can tell me what that now is please yum groupinstall base-x -Ross

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 - equivalent of xorg-x11 ?

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Tom Brown wrote: Hi If i want to add X to a system after install on CentOS 4 that would be a yum install xorg-x11 etc This package seems to have been renamed in CentOS 5 and i wonder if anyone can tell me what that now is please

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 00:19 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I would love this. However I don't know what my IP is nor how to find out. It's been too long and too much has changed. Seriously? ifconfig will tell you your IP address. Or just go to

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip] Bob, Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. I have verified this by downloading the latest kernel rpm. I

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff

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2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: [snip] Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum standpoint (as far as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this is beyond the control of yum. As someone else mentioned, taking a

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:22 +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: [snip] Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum standpoint (as far as downloading the updates

RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

2008-02-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Garrick Staples wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The contents of, # cat /etc/rpm/platform i386-redhat-linux Good Isn't that the problem? All

Re: [CentOS] nss_ldap failed to bind to LDAP server 127.0.0.1

2008-02-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
A short-cut to disable ldap name service: # authconfig --kickstart --disableldap And to disable ldap authentication: # authconfig --kickstart --disableldapauth Now I believe it only does something if /etc/sysconfig/authconfig has these marked =YES, but if they are turned on there they will

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
nate wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The agencies don't know what security backports vendor XYZ has implemented and frankly they don't care. All they have is a list of minimum version numbers that software must be at in order for it to be deemed compliant. So check the actual version

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Boilard wrote: Hello all, I love CentOS, but I am seriously regretting selecting Centos 4.4 for my production hosting servers. The current situation with CentOS 4.4 and being stuck at Apache 2.0.52 is a huge problem because of the new requirements for

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
nate wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Then there is the whole convincing these firms and agencies that since CentOS is a duplication of Redhat's system it is therefore certified by the laws of transitivity, but who knows if they will buy it... Well I wouldn't be surprised

RE: [CentOS] Re: Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: on 2/13/2008 7:44 AM nate spake the following: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The agencies don't know what security backports vendor XYZ has implemented and frankly they don't care. All they have is a list of minimum version numbers that software must be at in order

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I don't believe pvmove actually does any of the lifting. Pvmove merely creates a mirrored pv area in dev-mapper and then hangs around monitoring it's progress until the mirror is sync'd up then it throws a couple of barriers and removes the original pv from the

RE: [CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all the systems, both server and clients, default to

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: What are you pvmoving again? -Ross Ok, here is what happened: I have a box running iet exporting an LV that started out as two 750 gig HD's mirrored off an 8 channel LSI SAS controller. I needed more space, and added 3 400 gig HD's in a r5 vd to this VG. Yes,

RE: [CentOS] Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Erek Dyskant wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it. For

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale Don't know? Where are you pvmoving everything now? Where do I begin... Scenario is No cash to do it right so the interim step involves migration to a non fault tolerant setup temporarily. Server is a 1u HP and I don't have another controller that matches the remaining

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Ah, well you are using SAS drives, so there is some cash there... My bad, SAS controller with SATA II drives :( What industry do you work in? All sorts, odd company: We do everything from automotive accessories to home building! That's not true! I'm

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Thanks everyone. Sure appreciate your suggestions!! I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything like that. I think it needs more then resistance like a gate 20 emulator in a dongle. Easier to just have the BIOS ignore it. I

RE: [CentOS] fsck

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Centos wrote: Hello our server is crashed and now some files are missing. when I do ls, I can see the file but when I do ls -la, file does not show up. I am going to do fsck, but was wondering if there is any other quick fix rather than umount and do fsck. Fsck is a necessary

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Since your moving the data over to a new server/array combo have you thought about using LTO tapes to back it up and restore it on the new server? I know it isn't as sexy as LVM pv duplication and such, but it works... We have an HP Autoloader, I thought of

RE: [CentOS] Re: Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:37, Scott Silva wrote: I didn't see it but did you do a 'uname-a on both systems to see if one is running a PAE kernel? No, that was not it. But I did finally track it down. There was one additional difference in the software

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Good suggestion, no it's not ESX, but it does do snapshots. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Sent: Wed Feb 13 17:30:39 2008 Subject: RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed I am facing the same issue with a migration of

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Bell wrote: Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree whole heartily. It would go a long way though if Redhat provided independent certification of their products under these compliance banners. RHEL 5 is Common Criteria certified against the Controlled Access

[CentOS] RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] Performance Question

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Yes, jumbo frames, no irq coalescence, blockio and see if you can get Backup Exec to use large io request sizes when reading and writing the data. The larger the better. Ok, Jumbo's enabled on the switch and media server. For the sake of our sanity jumping back

RE: [CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Masters IT Gmail wrote: Sorry i miss that link that you give me i am reading now thanks for the tip i am going to try. Thanks for all! -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Michael A. Peters Enviado el: Miércoles, 13 de Febrero de

RE: [CentOS] change the GUI manager

2008-02-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sobari Tanuwijaya wrote: actually, everytime I turn on the computer, the log in is the text login screen, then after I entered my username and password, I have to type startx to start the xserver, that's the other thing I want to know how to make the login directly to GUI. To start

RE: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Start with a working RIS setup, enable support for legacy RIS images. Wow, thorough detail :) I see you have kept sp2 off the RIS box to prevent RIS from becoming WDS. I assume this is because there is no way to do this in WDS? Nah, I have SP2 on there, you need

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Problem with Debian patch is it may conflict with some of the RH backports, but if it works why not submit it to CentOS team for testing as I hear the RH current workaround has issues with GPFs. I

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, jarmo wrote: Ofcource there's a way, get vanilla kernel 2.6.24.2 and use old config compile it and run. I've done it. And *poof* you lost all support

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, jarmo wrote: Scott McClanahan kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 11. helmikuuta 2008): On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon,

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I wonder if any existing user-land utilities have hooks into vmsplice that may be able to be accessed via PHP, Perl, or CGI? It's a system call. Yes, but conceivable an application can make use

RE: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

2008-02-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
vincenzo romero wrote: Hello all, I've deployed new servers - installing new CentOS servers via PXE booting using its iso distribution stored on an NFS server. For certain server types; I'd like to install custom applications into a server and then generate an image of that server, and

RE: [CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

2008-02-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: If you have a Win2k3 server license you could setup a Xen guest to act as a RIS server too which would allow you to host Windows and Linux distributions. Ross, I would love to know how you did this, I assume it wasn't trivial to install Linux guests with RIS?

RE: [CentOS] Disk partitions and LVM limits

2008-02-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Peter Blajev wrote: Undo the LVM config, wipe out any MBR or disklabels on the drive, then pvcreate the raw disk (/dev/sdb) it should be able to handle the whole 5.4TB. I tried this but I'll try again tonight just in case I missed something the first time. I didn't check what

RE: [CentOS] Trouble Ticket System

2008-02-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: Johnny Hughes ha scritto: I would like to recommend a piece of software known as GLPI ... when used in conjunction with OCSng, it will track all hardware and software installed on each machine, which users use which machines, etc.

RE: [CentOS] Security help desperately needed - more info

2008-02-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Michael Simpson wrote: On 2/7/08, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008 13:53, Milton Calnek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: - samba Begin WARNING!! Errors when creating subnets: No subnets

Re: [CentOS] Re: system gets suspended automatically!

2008-02-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I don't think that is the harmless error message mentioned in the release notes as that had to do with the crash kernel. I saw this same error on a Dell AMD system. It seems the motherboard in that system didn't do ACPI IRQ routing as the kernel expected and experienced a lot of random

Re: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's

2008-02-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I use apcupsd from epel -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'centos@centos.org' centos@centos.org Sent: Wed Feb 06 18:11:12 2008 Subject: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's Apparently there is only an Itanium client for RHEL according to APC? I

Re: [CentOS] PCNS for CentOS and APC ups's

2008-02-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Well I'm not near the config, but I remember it was easy. The default timings match APC's defaults, so all you really need to do is set the UPS name (for identification purposes) and the comm type will be snmp, port will be something like hostname:161:community and set an email address to send

RE: [CentOS] Enterprise-class monitoring system for CentOS and Win2k3server

2008-02-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sean Carolan wrote: Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both Linux and Windows servers? Here are my requirements: SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc)

RE: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 at 11:56am, Ross S. W. Walker wrote You can't use an MBR partition table on a volume that large there is a max 2TB disk size limit and 2TB partition size limit for MBR, so you must use GPT. For completeness' sake, MBR=master boot

RE: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I would seriously start thinking about using LVM on such a large storage unit. You can't use an MBR partition table on a volume that large there is a max 2TB disk size limit and 2TB partition size limit for MBR, so you must use GPT. There is a real lack of reliable and easy GPT tools under

RE: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rob Lines wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with LVM, you could join several smaller logical drives, maybe 1TB each, into a single volume set, which could then contain various file systems. That looks like it may be the result.

Re: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
That's old information, kernel swapper can handle all types of dev mapper setups these days (well all types on fixed media). -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'CentOS mailing list' centos@centos.org Sent: Mon Feb 04 17:43:50 2008 Subject: RE:

RE: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rob Lines wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 3:34 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Lines wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with LVM, you could join several smaller logical drives, maybe 1TB each

Re: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid and LVM

2008-02-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Create a swap lv in the vg you created out of /dev/md1, assuming /dev/md0 is /boot. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'centos@centos.org' centos@centos.org Sent: Mon Feb 04 17:29:45 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Install on two discs with Software Raid

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Check to see if the town/county has any policies in place for computer systems and networks for public services and follow those guidelines. Otherwise look at surrounding public library systems to see if they have any you can adopt. For a LAMP setup your definitely going to want to use

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
list centos@centos.org Sent: Fri Feb 01 14:24:29 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] General questions about security Ross S. W. Walker a écrit : Check to see if the town/county has any policies in place for computer systems and networks for public services and follow those guidelines. Otherwise

RE: [CentOS] Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: I am unable to ping NE.TW.RKB.IP1 from an outside network. Other machines which do not have access or routes for NET.WOR.KA.0 respond just fine. How do I get it to respond on both NET.WOR.KA.0 and NE.TW.RKB.0 given all default traffic should go through NET.WOR.KA.1

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like Parted Magic and others. Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tue Jan

Re: [CentOS] Re: Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org centos@centos.org Sent: Tue Jan 29 18:03:13 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Re: Network routes on 1/29/2008 2:53 PM Jason Pyeron spake the following: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker Sent

RE: [CentOS] Re: Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Sorry for the top post. The default route is the route applied when no other route matches the destination IP. From that how would you figure out which default route to pick, only if the routes were weighted could you pick

RE: [CentOS] Locating the broken links

2008-01-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Garrick Staples wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:45:43AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos alleged: Is there any command that I can use to find the broken links that point to non-existent files? Not pretty, but should work fine: find . -type l 2/dev/null| while read line;do test -e $line

RE: [CentOS] what options do I have?

2008-01-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sobari Tanuwijaya wrote: Dear All, If I want make a lan users (with private IP) can access the internet just after passing the verification, what options do I have? What I want is: * If I user want to access the internet * He (must) run the browser * whatever the address he typed on

RE: [CentOS] Breaking Windows XP user password?

2008-01-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Ehrlich wrote: Granted this is not a UNIX system, but in case there is a UNIX tool to accomplish the goal... I am looking for a bootable CD/DVD (or application to be placed on a CD/DVD to be made bootable) that can let me mount a Windows XP drive/partition (SP1 or SP2), and

RE: [CentOS] Breaking Windows XP user password?

2008-01-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Brian Mathis wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 9:10 AM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted this is not a UNIX system, but in case there is a UNIX tool to accomplish the goal... I am looking for a bootable CD/DVD (or application to be placed on a CD/DVD to be made bootable) that

RE: [CentOS] Add more space to LVM

2008-01-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: Tim Verhoeven wrote: This is perfectly possible with LVM. First add the HD (aka the HW RAID volume) to the OS. Then do a pvcreate on that disk so that LVM can use it. Then do a vgextend, this adds the disk to the volume group. A vgdisplay should then show that

Re: [CentOS] Howto for LDAP authentication with replication

2008-01-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
In fact Kerberos and LDAP are two great tastes that go well together. Keep user information and authorization information in LDAP while keep user authentication information in Kerberos. Later you could try to keep Kerberos authentication information in LDAP with Heimdel (spelling?) Kerberos

[CentOS] Use CentOSplus to carry latest GUI packages

2008-01-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I don't know if this has been talked about much in the past, but I was wondering if CentOSplus could be used to carry the latest stable versions of the GUI applications KDE/Gnome. These apps often lag behind quite a bit even on the selected stable branch upstream has chosen. For example,

Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD?

2008-01-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wed Jan 02 20:15:58 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Xen, GFS, GNBD and DRBD? On 03/01/2008, at 9:55 AM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Take a look at iSCSI for the storage servers. iSCSI Enterprise Target is what I use

Re: [CentOS] Random files in homedir gets deleted

2008-01-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
You can enable auditing to determine if the files are disappearing due to human/machine intervention (audit file system deletes) or if it is due to file system corruption (files disappear and no delete audits recorded). It may just be an errant rsync script. -Ross -Original

[CentOS] Automatic kerberos ticket renewal

2008-01-03 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Is there an app, configuration or script that works well to keep tickets fresh? We use KDE as our environment here. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein

[CentOS] How to add Xen machine to xenstore?

2007-12-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I have been looking at the docs, but can't seem to find a way to add a machine to the xenstore so it shows up in 'xm list' even when it is shutdown. I can swear that there was a way to do this and the machine would appear in /var/lib/xen/xend-db/domains/uuid Was this feature removed in the

Re: [CentOS] How To increase RAMDISK in CENTOS 4

2007-12-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Don't use the ram disk feature it was really intended for initrd images. Use tmpfs instead which you can configure on the 'mount'. -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org centos@centos.org Sent: Tue Dec 18 10:30:08 2007 Subject:

Re: [CentOS] Bonding problem in CENTOS4

2007-12-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Try setting a manual MAC address on the bond interface that is different then any of the physical ones. -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org centos@centos.org Sent: Mon Dec 17 07:44:21 2007 Subject: [CentOS] Bonding problem in

Re: [CentOS] Expandable network storage

2007-12-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
No it probably would not provide the performance unless run on 10 Gbe. Of course that depends on the number of write transactions, 1Gbe maxs around 100MB/s, so if you need faster performance look elsewhere. I doubt it's reliability too, nbd is a simple protocol, but as such doesn't provide

[CentOS] What is the REAL version of Xen in 5.1?

2007-12-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I have a 5.1 system with Xen installed. The package says 3.0.3, but an 'xm info' shows 3.1. So what is it? Is it 3.0.3 patched to 3.1 or is it 3.1 packaged as 3.0.3? And if it's the former, does anybody have any idea why upstream wouldn't just deploy 3.1 (now 3.1.2) which is more stable?

RE: [CentOS] What is the REAL version of Xen in 5.1?

2007-12-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Dec 17, 2007 7:49 AM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 5.1 system with Xen installed. The package says 3.0.3, but an 'xm info' shows 3.1. So what is it? Is it 3.0.3 patched to 3.1 or is it 3.1 packaged as 3.0.3

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Suitable VPN RPM on centos 5?

2007-12-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I've noticed quite a few of these India consulting companies using the mailing lists to supplement their lack of internal skilled personnel. It really gives me pause when/if I need to consider outsourcing technology work. The fact that these companies are not upfront about their knowledge base

Re: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

2007-12-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
tight in the snapshot add more storage. -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tue Dec 11 01:50:01 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions? On 11/12/2007, Ross S. W

RE: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

2007-12-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Tan wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Tan wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem that doesn't store duplicate data

2007-12-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
that doesn't store duplicate data On Thursday 06 December 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: How about a FUSE file system (userland, ie NTFS 3G) that layers on top of any file system that supports hard links That would be easy but I can see a few issues with that approach: 1) On file level rather

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