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Hi, I would like to give read-only access to mysql and apache-http server log files to a non-root user. I can modify group or other permissions. But is there any other way you can suggest? Can I update it in user's home dir? -- CS.

Hi, I need to maintain a same user/group list on multiples systems. Can we just copy the same passwd and groups file on all machines? If we create a new user on one system then I will need to copy this to all other systems. This is quite cumbersome. Any suggestions? - CS.

Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://<server>/<dir>'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? Thanks, CS.

Howdy, I have a diff file in my /var/tmp and would like to apply patch to a file in a different directory (other than /va/tmp). I tried using patch with -d switch, but that doesn't work. It complains abt 'patch: **** Can't open patch file tilda.diff : No such file or directory'. Do I need to copy my diff file to the directory where original file resides? Or is there any other way

Hi, I have a autofs configured to mount home dir from NFS. All user accounts lookup is done using LDAP. All is working fine with this setup. Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir also on local system. So I added a new user account and changed auto.home as follows: test1 -rw,hard,intr /home/test1 * -rw,hard,intr nfs1:/export/users/& But this

I am using autofs to mount user's home and group directories. The setup works fine for home directories which are mounted after user logs in. The group shares are also mounted, but user has to manually do cd or ls command on group shares, e.g.: ls /groups/chemistry will mount chemistry group share. Is there any way to mount group shares automatically? I noticed that after successful login

Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. - CS. ------------------- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the

I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade the kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a specific patch and apply it? Any help? Thanks, CS. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090617/f5000aaf/attachment-0001.html>

Howdy, How do I change the hostname? In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes? Thanks, CS. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090615/fb9e463a/attachment-0001.html>

I am getting following error while creating a new topic using RESTful design. But, everything works fine when I use <% form_tag :action => :create do %> . ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `symbol_path'' for #<ActionView::Base:0xb72a2e40>) on line #3 of topics/new.rhtml: 1: <h1>New Topic</h1> 2: 3: <% form_tag :topic, :url => topics_path do %>

I am trying to create a null object in my application. I would like to assigned a null user object for anonymous/ mot-logged-in user, i.e. if session variable has nil data. In my User model, I have created a subclass like this: class UnassignedUser < User def save false end def update false end def username "Unassigned" end def county_id

Hi, I would like to get some inputs on how to configure iptables. I have referred to CentOS wiki http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables and it has been very helpful. I have configured iptables with the help of this tutorial, but I haven't understood few things about default firewall config. - What does 'RH-Firewall-1-INPUT' chain means? This also seems to be a predefined

Hi, I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new file the default permissions are again username:username. How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so that any files created in that directory will always have specifc

I am getting above error while updating an item using form_tag helper. <h1>Edit Topic Item</h1> <% form_tag edit_topic_item_path(@item.topic, @item), :html => { :method => :put} do %> <%= render :partial => ''item_form'', :object => @item %> <%= submit_tag ''Save'' %> <% end %> <%= link_to ''Add

hello in first i made a test with a single machine with samba and ldap authentication, everything works fine. my qestion is the following : we have 2 samba server (pdc 2domains), one for the teachers population, and another for the students/teachers population. i dont know how to do to make it works with an ldap authentication. how to "tell" to ldap that the user "teacher1"

Howdy, I tend to try out many open source apps/packages - games, editors to media tools. I have a bad habit of downloading and extracting source in the /var/tmp directory and then doing configure-make-install process. I am not sure of best practice (good practices) to be followed when installing any software. For example how and where to keep the src. Any comments and/or resources would be really

Dear all, I am using R CMD SHLIB to compile a c++ code into a library (.so) and dyn.load to load this library into a R code. I am facing some problems in the c++ code that I can not figure out how to solve. Do you recomend any good way to debug this R + C++ program? If I was programming only in C++ I would use GDB. I would much appreciate any help or suggestion! Best regards, Charles -- Um

I am forwarding traffic on port 8080 to port 80 with following rule. # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j REDIRECT --to-port 80 # iptables-save However, I am unable to add it directly in /etc/sysconfig/iptables. I think it is used only for filter table and not nat table. So where do nat table rules go? Any help? - cs.

Howdy, I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I was trying find and ls together as: # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls Similar behavior is seen even when I execute both commands separately. Any thoughts on what might be wrong here? -- thanks, neubyr

Howdy, I have renamed a directory on NFS ver 3 server and then created a new directory again with the same name. # mv dir dir-hosed # mkdir dir The directory is auto-mounted on client side. I had unmounted directories on client side before making above changes. Now when I try to mount back 'dir', I still see old files and not new empty dir. Am I missing something here in the NFS config?