Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

2008-04-02 Thread vincenzo romero
thank you again, more clarification, if anyone can pls shed light ... > > That happens anyway if the forwarder is not authoritative - that is, the > forwarder will act as a caching proxy. ok - so my lab.company.com is authoritative, so it should keep a copy of company.com's information then and

[CentOS] How to create LVM after Centos installation

2008-04-02 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, I wanted to create a Raid0 partition using LVM based on 2 LUNs available; I was unable to find an LVM GUI selection in the System->Adminsitration selection in the gui system-config-lvm is not available. What am I missing during the installation? thanks in advance, -- best, Vi

Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

2008-04-01 Thread vincenzo romero
thanks for the response! On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this supposed to have something to do with either company.com or > lab.company.com? It doesn't. And is there some reason you only want > the forwarder to only handle one zone? > my bad a ty

Re: [CentOS] DNS in CentOS

2008-04-01 Thread vincenzo romero
Felipe, Thank you for your response. Let me clarify further: On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the IP address of your DNS server? What is the IP adress of > the DNS server for company.com? What are the contents of the > resolv.conf file

[CentOS] DNS in CentOS

2008-04-01 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello, Am running Bind 9 in Cent OS 5.1. I have a DNS server, that: - DNS server to hosts in lab.company.com - 192.168.17.x - forwards query to company.com - 10.100.x.x. Problem: 1. FQDN and by-IP-address ping and nslookup is successful. 2. ping/nslookup by host-name-only --- from any 192.

Re: [CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
> So your first case is ALMOST right. resolv.conf should not point to the > loopback address, but to the static address of the host. But if you have > not configured NM for static addressing, well you get what you got. thanks much for replies ... so to be clear: qatest1 - 192.168.17.1 (DHCP se

Re: [CentOS] simple DNS question - reverse nslookup fails.

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
> > where 192.168.17.db is the name of the zone file. > > A good reference for DNS is > http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ thank you for the reference and response... I have also checked the above and reviewed it and attempted to follow the configuration file samples; however I noticed in

[CentOS] /etc/resolv.conf changes

2008-03-24 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, I'm getting frustrated attempting to understand; I googled and asked folks and am unable to get a straight answer. 1. How is the /etc/resolv.conf file maintained ? I do not seem to get a consistent result when I save resolv.conf configuration from GUI or by hand using vim /etc/resolv

[CentOS] simple DNS question - reverse nslookup fails.

2008-03-20 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, I am trying to configure a subdomain DNS server on a Cent OS 5.1 - for my lab. Brief configuration: Lab machine ---> 192.168.17.2 (should respond to DNS queries from hosts in 192.168.16.0/20 network) 1. I would also like to forward any queries outside the above network to our corpor

Re: [CentOS] Re: NFSroot is acting strange in CentOS5

2008-02-27 Thread vincenzo romero
> I haven't done it since kernel 2.2 days so my knowledge is old and rusty, > like me. > LOL! .. :) > Have you looked on any of the distros set up for this like k12LTSP? > Maybe they have a more current set of docs. > well, I found the issue - this was a problem in the 2.6.18 kernel; and a f

Re: [CentOS] Re: NFSroot is acting strange in CentOS5

2008-02-27 Thread vincenzo romero
Thanks for your reply Scott. > I haven't done this in a long time but do your workstation kernels have root > nfs in them? > config_root_nfs > This could be obsolete these days. > Yes, at least with Centos5 and fedora6 (2.6.18 kernels are what I am testing with on both distros), i have config

[CentOS] NFSroot is acting strange in CentOS5

2008-02-26 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, I have observed a problem with a diskless PXE client I am attempting to configure. PXE/NFS/DHCP/TFTPd server is running CentOS5.1 and the Diskless workstation's root and kernel was extracted from a CentOS5.1 (custom kernel due to setting to enable Root File System support). Problem: W

Re: [CentOS] NFS options on kernel parameters

2008-02-25 Thread vincenzo romero
at 2:41 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:36:17 -0800 > vincenzo romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to NFS root-squash the root directory. > > no_root_squash means just what it says. If you want to have root-squashi

[CentOS] NFS options on kernel parameters

2008-02-25 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello, I am running an NFS server/PXE on a Cent OS 5.1 server. I have defined an NFS export with "no_root_squash" option in my /etc/exports file: # # NFS Export Files # /export/images *(rw,sync,no_root_squash) ... A client PXE boots as a diskless station to the above server int

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
oh cl! thanks ... i'm in .. now to figure out why my NFS-Root is a mess .. thank you so much! - V On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Barry Brimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting vincenzo romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > this is great -

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
this is great - however one question in Step 3: i vi what file? vi /etc/pam.d/ ?? or did you mean for me to create a file: /etc/pam.conf file and add the contents you mention below? authsufficientpam_permit.so > account sufficientpam_permit.so > passwordsufficient

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello thanks for the reply: answers inline: > You can't. PAM is compiled into the authentication programs. Without PAM > you'd never be able to login at all! It's PAM that actually checks your > password etc etc etc. ok > This normally means you're trying to login as "root" but the

Re: [CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
:) thanks in advance, - V. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > vincenzo romero wrote: > > > I would like to DISABLE the PAM authentication; am unable to get the > > answer after googl'ing for hours; if anyone is familiar on how to do &g

[CentOS] How to Disable PAM in Centos 5.1

2008-02-22 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all I would like to disable PAM authentication in my test server running Centos5.1. Currently I get an error that states: "Feb 22 02:01:31 localhost login: pam_securetty(login:auth): access denied: tty 'tty1' is not secure !" I would like to DISABLE the PAM authentication; am unable to ge

[CentOS] Network Installation of CentOS disk image via PXE

2008-02-08 Thread vincenzo romero
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 deploy again via PXE to another

[CentOS] pxeos tool in system-config-netboot missing in CentOS

2008-02-01 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, Since the "pxeos" utility is missing per Bug #0002304, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2304 which is required for me to setup a PXE server; which I'd like to in CentOS; Question: ... I am unable to find source for this; seems like the bug means that this was an oversight; perhaps