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by herrold
2012/11/01 20:57:51
Forum: CentOS 6 - General Support
Topic: updating Centos 4.7 to Centos 6.x on s390x architecture
Replies: 5
Views: 1010

Re: updating Centos 4.7 to Centos 6.x on s390x architecture

Hi, Dave

I did not connect your forum userid with you ;-)

Yeah, David B and Rick T mentioned that you had something come up

-- Russ
by herrold
2012/10/31 20:06:33
Forum: CentOS 6 - General Support
Topic: updating Centos 4.7 to Centos 6.x on s390x architecture
Replies: 5
Views: 1010

updating Centos 4.7 to Centos 6.x on s390x architecture

It is non-trivial but doable. I have worked with a build team, and completed a full rebuild of the Red Hat 6 series sources for a private client, under s390x / s390 (there are some build dependencies on the 31 bit platform). As it turns out, we were also able to attain some packages which the upstre...
by herrold
2011/08/11 02:48:31
Forum: CentOS 5 - Security Support
Topic: PCI - SSL Medium Strength Cipher Suites Supported
Replies: 5
Views: 12314

PCI - SSL Medium Strength Cipher Suites Supported

Presently PCI permits medium level ciphers This is an excerpt from an 'mod_ssl.conf' file, enabling (+) and disabling ciphers (-) various levels. It is not enough simply not list a cipher; to disable it, the leading '-' and explicit mention of a level is needed [code]# SSL Cipher Suite: # List the c...
by herrold
2011/08/05 20:25:13
Forum: CentOS 5 - Networking Support
Topic: Routing Problem with 127.0.0.1
Replies: 4
Views: 682

Routing Problem with 127.0.0.1

ehhh? /etc/hosts does not ever need to be touched, if a proper DNS is pointed to in /etc/resolv.conf, and is returning PTR records /etc/hosts only needs: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ...
by herrold
2011/07/31 14:09:58
Forum: CentOS 5 - Networking Support
Topic: How to make my linux act like a router?
Replies: 6
Views: 5191

Re: How to make my linux act like a router?

Not to be harsh here, but you do not enumerate what you did and those articles run many pages with IP forwarding, your unit will act as a router from interface 0 to interface 1 and back, to pass packets -- that is to act as a router Is your subnetting of the network segments correct? Do you need NAT...
by herrold
2011/07/31 01:24:01
Forum: CentOS 5 - Networking Support
Topic: How to make my linux act like a router?
Replies: 6
Views: 5191

How to make my linux act like a router?

Hasn't changed in years

http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/s1-lvs-forwarding.html

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-fw.html

-- Russ herrold
by herrold
2011/07/22 16:02:26
Forum: CentOS 6 - Networking Support
Topic: Help! Broadcom wireless doesn't work after installing CentOS 6.
Replies: 6
Views: 3538

Help! Broadcom wireless doesn't work after installing CentOS

A person also has to be running in the kernel to get the new module (so it can figure out where to put the new module), needs to run: 'make install', needs to blacklist some conflicting modules, and needs to re-run: depmod -a I run this set of sources locally, on a laptop, and we should be able to w...
by herrold
2011/06/14 01:12:19
Forum: CentOS 5 - Software Support
Topic: Getting "cpio: Bad magic" when trying to rpm install into a mounted Logical Volume
Replies: 2
Views: 2227

Getting "cpio: Bad magic" when trying to rpm install into a

This is, 'most likely, fallout of the digest algorithms change in the last couple Fedora instances I wrote about it a while back: [url=http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2009/03/oh-my-goodness.html]Oh My Goodness[/url] ... and if you are willing to risk an install, I have preserved the SRPMs needed to handl...
by herrold
2011/05/19 19:37:45
Forum: CentOS 5 - Server Support
Topic: Setting up a PXE server to distribute CentOS
Replies: 10
Views: 1666

Re: Setting up a PXE server to distribute CentOS

... so start reading the logs, or fire up tcpdump, and see how far it gets

-- Russ herrold
by herrold
2011/05/19 19:18:04
Forum: CentOS 5 - Server Support
Topic: Setting up a PXE server to distribute CentOS
Replies: 10
Views: 1666

Re: Setting up a PXE server to distribute CentOS

ummm

standford != stanford

-- Russ herrold