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So I went to System > Administration > Server Settings > Samba and added a folder to share and initially set it to guest access to get things going. I couldn't access this one and only share on this server with guest access from either my Windows laptop (XP Pro SP3) or a Leopard server (10.5.8) so I changed the settings to use user authentication and added my local user details

Hi List, We have a CentOS VPS running a web site in a DC far away. The chap that dev's this site told me he couldn't SFTP in yesterday, his password was being rejected (I went to his desk to confirm and saw it was telling him the password was incorrect but neither him nor me had changed it and we are the only two with access to this VPS). So I logged in as root and reset his password, be

So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this so I'm wondering, if I had mounted that vdi as a secondary device on another VM, browsed the file system and delete /etc/shadow would this have wiped all users passwords

I have some questions on how I can perform the following actions from the terminal in CentOS 5.5 final. My Google searches aren't helping and I keep seeing references to the command 'useradd' but this isn't present on my box; -How to add a new user? $ useradd -bash: useradd: command not found (This is the same for my normal user and when logged in as root) -How to set/change an

Listee's... I have a 5.5 box and I have formatted a partition as ext4 however I can't mount it, the mount command is telling me its an unknown file system type. fsck tells me the partition is a clean ext4 partition but I can't mount it. Some reasearch has lead me to believe the problem is that ext4 isn't enabled in the kernel by default in 5.5 (this was originally a 5.2 box that

Hi All, I am looking for a way to troubleshoot issues with TDM (E1) trunks with a provider. Currently with SIP trunks I am using tcpdump to perform packet captures between our gateways and the SIP providers IPs, capturing traffic on all ports, to include both the SIP messages and the RTP stream. How can I achieve a similar result on TDM links connected to TDM cards in Asterisk servers, where by

Hi On 6/10/09, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> Hi all, I don't know what exactly is causing this, but I can't find cron / crontab on my CentOS 5.3 machine. Yes, I know, it's an obvious one, install it. But, it is, according to rpm: [root at zaxen01 ~]# rpm -aq | grep cron anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos crontabs-1.10-8...

I'm stuck trying to work this one out and my Google skills are apparently lacking today. This is a test bash script; #!/bin/bash do something | tee a.log if [ $? -ne 0]; then echo broken fi The problem with this script is $? contains the exit value of the tee command, but I want to check the exit value of whatever command I put in place of 'do something'. How can I achieve this

Howdy all, Does anyone know of a niffty CLI tool for Linux that can take a PCAP file that was created on a SIP PBX for example, and then dump the payload of the various RTP streams in there into seperate files so I can listen to them? I can go this graphically with Wireshark, but I'd like to script it for automation. Cheers, James.

Hey Guys n Gals; I have some arrays that I can't seem to expand correctly (if that's the correct word?), imagine the following example: #!/bin/bash myArray=("First" "Second" "Third") First=("Monday" "Tuesdays" "Wednesday") Second=("One" "Two" "Three") Third=("A" "B"

Hello list I'm running Icecast 2.3.2. Every few seconds, streams are interrupted by a noticeable glitching or popping sound. It sounds like it's being caused by a buffering or latency problem but I'm not sure how to fix it. If the listener re-connects to the stream it stops the glitching for a few minutes, but eventually it returns. Glitching is also appearing in the dumpfiles

Hi List, I suppose this isn't strictly CentOS but I'm talking about some 5.5 servers so I thought someone else here may have had the same issues; We power on servers at night via IPMI and shut them down the same way for automation. The problem I'm facing is that the servers are shutdown in about 2 seconds. IPMI provides remote access to the power features as we know so I don't

Hi List :) So, I have a folder1, its owner is user1 who has r+w on the folder. User2 is the group owner who only has read access (when I say user2, I mean the group called user2, because when you make a new user the OS can make them their own group). You can see these permissions below: [user2 at host test]$ ls -l drw-r----- 3 user1 user2 28 Nov 2 16:17 folder1 How ever user2 can not

Shadies and Mentlemen; I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our nightly backups as "sleep" is a sort of low power usage mode. (At this point I would be curious to know the different levels of sleep, what can I achieve? Does my server just drop into a low power state, or can I stop the hard

Hey guys, I'm a bit of a beginner (understatement!) with shell scripting and seek help! I am setting up our new squid proxy. Its working a treat and squidGuard is the icing on the cake. But, I am trying to write a shell script to search through our black list category's for squidGuard and remove the parsed value; Scenario: /some/directory/where/blacklist/is/stored contains about 40-50

Hey Listees, I have a question (hopefully quite simple) about the system V init scripts in /etc/init.d. I have an app installed and for some reason it had no system V init script. It has been installed a long while now so I can't quite remember whats going on but basically I remember I wrote the init script my self and the app is enabled as a service which chkconfig to run at system levels 3,

Hey List, Firstly I am sorry for the length of this email and that you are all having too receive it but the point is that this email will now go into the archive and be indexed by Google (hopefully) and thusly, people will be able to find these links through Google. My goal is to mirror CentOS on RapidShare. "Why you fool there are loads of mirrors?" you might ask; simply for

Hey List, How do people measure how many listeners they can have on a single NIC card? A 1Gig Ethernet NIC card maybe able in terms of bandwidth to serve 31,250 listeners at 32Kbps (not including overheads etc, just a flat calculation) but there is no way the NIC card its self could handle 31k concurrent connections to 31k different IPs on 31K ports? (Obviously the OS comes into play here a bit

Hey Guys I'm trying to install xcache on our web server (php optcode cacher) but I am having the following error. I have download the xcache tar ball, unzipped and when in the unzipped directory attempting to run phpize but it fails with the following error: [root at server1882 xcache-1.2.2]# phpize Configuring for: PHP Api Version: 20041225 Zend Module Api No: 20060613 Zend

Hey Listee's! I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or can you get update RPMs? I hope this doesn't pose to much of a stupid question. Thanks for your help everyone. Regards, James ;) -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++>