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Re: Configure Linux for smtp auth

Based on your kernel version number, you seem to be running RHEL 6.3.Any changes to sendmail.mc will only take effect if both these conditions are true:the sendmail-cf package is installed, andyou have...

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Application Install as root

We have lot of application requests to install their rpm (mysql) etc as root on Redhat Linux (6).  How are these requests handled typically across different companies? We install those rpm's for them,...

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Re: BIOS Version Issue/Confusion

Jimmy,HBA is displaying fw version and driver version but i am unable to find the bios version information.let me know if there is any other way to determine bios on hba please ?Here is the output: any...

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Re: BIOS Version Issue/Confusion

You might try looking in dmesg, boot, or messages.  some drives show all the device info when they load

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centOS upgrade?

have a server with CentOS 4.8.  Can this version be upgrade to 6.3?

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Re: Application Install as root

A RPM package installation needs to update the RPM database of installed software, which is normally writeable by root only, so having root access is a requirement for installing RPM packages. A RPM...

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Re: centOS upgrade?

Is the server hardware powerful enough to satisfy the minimum requirements of 6.3? A direct upgrade from any 4.x release to 6.3 is unlikely to be successful. The recommended way would be to backup all...

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Re: BIOS Version Issue/Confusion

No Luck tried to look over there and didn't find. Any other option as i can't reboot this box as it is in production environment.

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storage in root is 100% usage, what to remove to free it

Hi, You can see below my  space at '/' is 100% use.  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p6      20G   19G     0     100%    / /dev/cciss/c0d0p7     9.7G  151M  9.1G...

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Re: storage in root is 100% usage, what to remove to free it

Hi,  you can use 'du' to find out what is using the most. For example this: cd /du -ch --max-depth=3 >> /tmp/listall  would give you a list in /tmp/listall that has all the directories within 3...

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Re: storage in root is 100% usage, what to remove to free it

I can do that and infact i have tried listed themout, but the problem is that whenever i use the command du, it just stops there on the screen and hang. Any other ways to see them.

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Re: storage in root is 100% usage, what to remove to free it

If you run the command I showed then all the files should be listed in /tmp/listall, not on the screen. If there's nothing in there either, check /var/log/messages (might vary, what OS are you running)...

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Re: Configure Linux for smtp auth

Hi Matti , We have tried make option too.Even then its the same , recipient address rejected .  :(  sendmailcf package also is installed.Anything to be done at Mail server end ?They are saying you just...

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chkconfig issue

Hi start/stop scripts are placed in /etc/init.d. when I run chkconfig activemq on link file for start/stop is created in /etc/rc.d/rc.* but when I run chkconfig tomcat onlink file for only startis...

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Re: chkconfig issue

hello.I didn't understant your request :  1- link file for start/stop is created in /etc/rc.d/rc.* 2- but when I run chkconfig tomcat onlink file for only startis created in /etc/rc.d/rc.* 3- after...

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Re: chkconfig issue

Which Linux distribution are you using? For chkconfig to work correctly, the script in /etc/init.d must contain some special comments at the beginning of the script (before any other non-comment lines)...

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Re: Configure Linux for smtp auth

Authentication without encryption is just a way to give away your login credentials to anyone who might be snooping your network traffic. Most ISPs today recognize that this is a bad idea. So, you will...

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Re: storage in root is 100% usage, what to remove to free it

The "du" command will search through all the directories (optionally up to the requested depth) to check the disk space occupied by each file and directory. This can take a while, especially if you...

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Re: multipath

Let me get one step back, how do I take a single path offline using dm multipath command?Then how do I put it back online?I need to change the domain ID of a Switch so I need to take the switch...

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Re: multipath

In RHEL 5. you'll need a version of dm-multipath that is patched to support the -k option of multipathd; I think it was added at about RHEL 5.4. In RHEL 6, this functionality was included in the...

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