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Maybe, it's stupid question but I've just installed CentOS5 and when I'm going to edit some of my conf files I see no colors as it did in old CentOS4x... I'm using: [root at domian:~]$ echo $TERM xterm Thanks in advance, Regards, Israel

List, It's amazing the soon the messages on this list are answered, I am glad and I want to thank you all for that... Here is my question, I have a DataBase CentOS server working with about 150 users connected via ssh, so I want to set up for all users strongs passwords, I mean, 8 or more caracters, with ,.;* , ect....... Is there some option, bash command which do that? Is there some HOWto,

I'm trying to make a bootdisk in my CentOS server and I got this error.. any ideas? [root at server:~]$ rpm -qa kernel kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL [root at server:~]$ mkbootdisk 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL --device /dev/fd0 Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost. Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.d20227/initrd.img': No space left on

Hi again, I was reading from the net http://www.kriptopolis.org/node/4067 about a forkbomb and ran it from a root console in a non-critical machine running CentOS4.4 and the serevr goes down... the command I ran was :(){ :|:& };: Please, does anyone knows how to aboid this on CentOS? regards, Israel

I want to make a cluster with two simple (INTEL SATA) pcs using CentOS, my question is? Is there something easiest than Linux RedHat Cluster Manager to make a cluster using CentOS with just two pcs? Regards, Israel

List, I installed my server and I want to start Mysql, but I can not find the file /etc/ini.d/mysqld .. [root at netflow ntop]# rpm -qa|grep mysql mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1 libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-10.RHEL4.1 mysql-4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 mysql-devel-4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 Am I missing some mysql rpm from Cds? regards. israel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was

Hi, Is there any Red Hat Directory Server RPM for Centos? Or similar? Regards; Israel

How do I know the options which was compile openldap-servers-2.2.13-4.i386.rpm on my CentOS 4.3 or another rpm? I exactly want to know if the openldap package was compile with -- enable-ppolicy?? Regards Israel

List, I've installed my CentOS Server running progress 9.1D database system, with only 15 users working every day, this server has 2GB RAM, so, my question is: Why the 2GB of RAM is always used? Even with only one user connected... How can I messuare the real RAM MEM used by my system split in proccess? Is there another tools which I use to compare the results from top. Or vmstat? Regards,

List, I have a CentOS 4.0 server in my intranet which will serves as a CentOS repository updates, so I need a script to do that job, I can not use RSYNC. I just want to download CentOS 4.0 updates every night. Can you help me? Regards, Israel

I'm running CentOS 4.3 on Intel. I don't have any tape device on my system for backup, but I have an entire disk (/dev/sdb) for backup ... my question is: How can I backup ALL my filesystems to some place of my backup hdd (dev/sdb) using dump/restore? I don't want to use tar. Regards Israel

List, How can I check the permissions of all the files of my CentOS server? I'm looking for some kind of report with this information.. Is there some command? Some tool? Regards, Israel

Hi, I have one centOS 4.4 with apache and some services. I want to upgrade to version 5 running: Yum -y -c /etc/yum.repos.d/base_centos upgrade Where the file bases_centos has: [base] name=CentOS-5 - Base baseurl=ftp://repository.mydomain/centos/5/os/i386 gpgcheck=0 timeout=1800 And, repository.mydomain is a mirror of mirror.centos.org It began to download all headers until I get this error:

Hi, I've installed CentOS5.2 on an INTEL Core 2 Duo (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz), 4 GB RAM (MemTotal: 4072176 kB) and my system gets sevarel minutes to startup, specially on udev daemon. Once the system is UP, every command I run gets 100% CPU and every is very slowly at the point yum -y update never ends. The system installed by default this kernel 2.6.18-53.el5PAE.

I got this error when my server try to update using my own CentOS mirror.... I have downloaded this file from other mirrors....and nothing.... Can you help me? [root at razor bin]# yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up Repos update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files update :

Can I upgrade my CentOS using yum? Regards, israel

Hi, I have a new server HP proliant DL320 G4, with two 160 GB SATA hdds.. I have installed CentOS 4.5 with mdadm without any problem, but when I disconnect one disk the server does not boot or I received a kernel panic when booting... I have disabled the SATA embeded raid (BIOS) and nothing.. I've also download the driver from HP site HP (Embedded SATA RAID Controller Driver Diskette for Red

Alex, thanks for your soon answer, but in case I want to configure PPP on this server, what files do I have to configure? Can I login in this server using SSHD over a PPP conection? Regards; Israel > Just terminal access -> I want to login in my linux server connecting > through the modem connected in /dev/ttyS0 Not sure if this is complete. Install mgetty if not already present on

>>israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote: >>> I'm running CentOS 4.3 on Intel. I don't have any tape device on my >>> system for backup, but I have an entire disk (/dev/sdb) for backup ... >>> my question is: >>> >>> How can I backup ALL my filesystems to some place of my backup hdd >>> (dev/sdb) using dump/restore? >>>

Hi, I have a serial modem connected to /dev/ttyS0 on my CentOS server, I want to set up this server to allow connections through this serial modem but only to the console.... (I want to log in)... PS: I don't want PPP, I just want to get my linux console through this serial modem... What do I have to configure on my linux? Thanks for your time Regards; Israel