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I''ve not gone completly mad... but I''m getting there..... I have been trying to get a VM under a XEN-CentOS5.1 installation and its not having any of it! I first looked for help in the http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12946 CentOS forums but have currently had no reply. (sorry for linking to the details outside of this forum) Basically - I have a

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 into a root-NFS directory underneath the above /export/images export. When the client boots;

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 192.168.17.x hosts to any 10.100.x.x hosts fail and vice versa. I have setup the DNS of lab.company.com

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 group of servers. Wanted to find out if anyone can forward any pointers to papers or links

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 the source is available somewhere and I can simply compile? If anyone is familiar

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 get the answer after googl'ing for hours; if anyone is familiar on how to do

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, Vince

Hello all, Though the question is NFS-related, it is in conjunction with the PXE booting. Issue/Scenario: - PXE/DHCP/NFS and tFTP server running CentOS51 and is configured per PXE/Syslinux and RHEL diskless workstation documentation. 1. Attempt to test ability for client to PXE boot over the network and run Root-NFS 2. NFS export in the PXE server is: # # NFS Export Files for qatest1 host #

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.conf. a. Sometimes I the entries toggles between the two entries: # generated by

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 corporate domain (no firewalls between our 192.168.16.x network and the corporate network. The domain

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: When the diskless client boots and logs in I notice that my root user is being squashed, even if I