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The docs to installing cfengine refers to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root That doesn't exist. Nor does /etc/crontab. Heck I remember that from the "old days", now there are lots of cron entries, in /etc but no crontab. Not installed by default. So, I'm hunting that one down. Nate, what did you wind up doing?? Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father,

In some cases (specifically, SUSE grub2 environments) it is possible to fail to update the block entries in device.map. In turn, this causes an invalid path to be returned in perl-Bootloader code, which causes the conversion to fail with the following message: is_file_opts: is_file: is_file_stub: path must start with a / character This patch prevents the problem by adding device.map (for

Hi all, the commands "btrfs filesystem show" and "btrfs device scan" look at the /dev directory (and it subdirectories) for every block devices. This is a slow process because floppy and cdrom are also checked. Moreover, as highlighted by Helmut, if udev is not used, the /dev directory is populated by high number of non-existant devices, which slow the process. My patch

Hi all, I''d appreciate your help improving our understanding of what the community is most looking for from Puppet, how Reductive Labs manages it, and how best to provide services around the project. Toward this end, we''ve created a short survey (it should take you less than ten minutes): http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/95175/q1-2008-puppet-user-survey Please take a few

Aren't Friday's wonderful! I've just been hit up with a request from management to install Samba on our Solaris 8 UNIX servers to share out information to the windows PC's. This wouldn't be an issue if the backend was Windows AD but in our case it's eDirectory. The shares also need to be seamlessly accessible to eDirectory based groups/users without interfering with the

Hi, We have a virtual environment based on XenServer. In this environment I defined a template for CentOS 7 servers. I would like to start a script a boot time to complete the configuration of new VMs based on this template. How can I have a script started before any login prompt to ask question to the user to complete the configuration such as hostname, IP address, etc? Thanks, Bernard

It would be hard to use ansible, cfengine or whatever while there no IP address on the new VM..... On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:47 AM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: > On 2016-11-07 14:35, Bernard Fay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have a virtual environment based on XenServer. In this environment I > > defined a template for CentOS 7 servers. > > > > I

I'm setting up a domain member (Debian Wheezy, Samba 3.6.6) to join an AD DC (Wheezy backports, Samba 4.1.9). Everything looks good so far, in particular the checklist (http://linuxcostablanca.blogspot.com.es/2014/06/samba4-winbind-desperation.html) up to number 7 is okay. I also removed nscd. I can do "kinit user" and I can query the samba LDAP to see domain users. I did a

We use NIS (ypbind) and Kerberos at work for all our Linux and Unix systems. Home directories are mounted via autofs from an NIS map. Everything works just fine as long as all network resources are available (however, things turn ugly when the NIS servers are not reachable). Some users also want to start using laptops and bring them home or on trips to continue working while not at

Hey folks, A week or two ago someone mentioned something about using their own home-grown RPMs for managing config info on their boxes. I really like this idea and would like to learn more about it. Are there some examples out there? I have lots of custom config info and think this would be an ideal way to manage it. Others mentioned puppet and CF engine which probably have their merits as

On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 10:05:17 AM Matthew Booth wrote: > Feel free to remove ^$path. However, for robustness I ditch the leading > ^ from your replacement. The difference will be down to a different > version of file included in the libguestfs appliance on SUSE. I think I've addressed all the concerns you raised in the following patch. Can you take a look and let me know if

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm looking for a network management software. And as the network grows it clearly becomes that manual notes is getting too tedious. Also an integrated troube ticketing systemm would be great. Any reference is really appreciated. Thanks. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 13:10:54

Hello everyone. My 'wikiname' is JariJaakkola. I have a desire to be able to contribute to the CentOS community in some way. So, I am proposing a page that would be called a 'Newcomer's Checklist'. I feel the location of such page could best be decided by someone else as it would at least depend on the quality/usefulness of the page. Thank you, Jari -- Jari Jaakkola

I am trying to get Samba 3.4.0 (on an Ubuntu 9.10 box) set up as a file server for my home. The router is 10.1.10.1; the Ubuntu box ("chronicles") is 10.1.10.2; the OS X box I'm using for testing purposes ("job") is 10.1.10.3. From job, I can see ports 139 and 445 on chronicles are open. Neither box has 'chronicles' or 'job' listed in its /etc/hosts file.

Am 08.11.2016 um 16:47 schrieb cpolish at surewest.net: > On 2016-11-07 14:35, Bernard Fay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have a virtual environment based on XenServer. In this environment I >> defined a template for CentOS 7 servers. >> >> I would like to start a script a boot time to complete the configuration of >> new VMs based on this template. How can I

Here's the checklist I have so far: 1 - /home partition - separate drive 2 - Files copied to the second drive: /etc/X11/xorg.conf rpm for RPM forge /etc/yum - entire folder /etc/yum/repos.d - entire folder /etc/yum.conf /etc/yumex.conf /etc/yumex.profiles.conf 3 - Files installed via Yum(ex) - Hmmm, need to figure this one out. Any pointers? -- --- David Woyciesjes

Hi CentOS experts,* Short Version* I would like to produce a weekly report in HTML for each CentOS 5.x server we have indicating configuration compliance with some industry benchmark. I am looking for a tool or tools to implement this, I am happy to use 3rd party proprietary stuff if necessary. * Long(er) Version* Current Situation.. I have a client with many (200x) CentOS 5.x servers

Hello, I'm planning to automate domain joining with samba+winbind for a classroom. Using cfengine, I'll have to trigger domain joining by checking current status via a shell command. An example : has_hostname = ( '/bin/test -f /etc/hostname' ) What would be a simple and safe test to check whether or not the machine has already been joined to the domain ? Thanks in advance,

How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Thanks, Jerry

I was checking out Dag's ( not dagw ;-> ) new blog... I don't know how much, if at all, this has been debated... http://dag.wieers.com/blog/using-apt-in-an-rpm-world if he is so adamant about apt over yum, why are we using yum still? Laziness? ;-) ...or are we just tasty food centric? Yum yum yum !!! - rh