Re: [CentOS-docs] Images for CentOS Documentation

2011-03-09 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 09.03.11 10:45, schrieb Andreas Rogge: The SVG has text inside. Can you convert the text into pathes so it doesn't break when viewed without the Denmark font installed? Sure. It's on people.centos.org now. Regards, Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing

[CentOS-virt] Virtual Machine

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Smith
Hi everyone, I am still struggling to install a Windows XP host within my virtual machine manager, i can't seem to do a http, ftp and nfs. Can someone explain a simpler way of installing i have read all the Redhat documentation but still struggling :-( Thanks Mark

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtual Machine

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Thom, Well i have an iso file and followed the instructions on the redhat website to do a http install but when i copied the iso file over to the correct public directory it extracted all the files which then in turn i could not work out how to install it. Mark On 9 March 2011 16:29, Thomas

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtual Machine

2011-03-09 Thread Ricardo Sardá da Silva
Have yout tried to mount the iso on a dir? Like: # mount -o loop windowsxp.iso /home/root/winxp/ and put it on the config? Em 09/03/2011 13:33, Mark Smith escreveu: Hi Thom, Well i have an iso file and followed the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtual Machine

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Smith
Ok i am trying the route of what Thomas suggested and i just got this error host does not support virtualization type 'hvm' Mark On 9 March 2011 17:59, Thomas Smith theitsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Mark Smith m.smit...@gmail.com wrote: Ok once mounted now what do i

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtual Machine

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Smith
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mark Smith m.smit...@gmail.com wrote: Ok i am trying the route of what Thomas suggested and i just got this error host does not support virtualization type 'hvm' Your CPU may not support the required virtualization extensions for running Windows in Xen. This

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtual Machine

2011-03-09 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 09.03.2011 21:38, schrieb Thomas Smith: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Mark Smith m.smit...@gmail.com wrote: Ok i am trying the route of what Thomas suggested and i just got this error host does not support virtualization type 'hvm' Your CPU may not support the required virtualization

[CentOS-virt] Next3 (eg ext3 snapshots support) on OpenNode / CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 howto and rpms

2011-03-09 Thread Andres Toomsalu
We have created an next3 and patched e2fsprogs OpenNode / CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 rpms - installable from opennode-test yum repo. Provided next3 kernel module is currently built against RHEL5 OpenVZ kernel used in OpenNode - so installing this next3 rpm package on your CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 host will

Re: [CentOS-es] CONECTAR CON VNC

2011-03-09 Thread Andres Lucena
El sáb, 05-03-2011 a las 16:32 -0500, Carlos Alberto Jara Alva escribió: Saludos comunidad. Gracias por sus respuestas sobre como conectar usando vnc desde cualquier lugar, pero todos me dicen que habra los puestos, 5900 5800, pero quisiera saber en donde los abro?? centos tiene algun

Re: [CentOS-es] CONECTAR CON VNC

2011-03-09 Thread Ricardo Cuevas Camarena
-Original Message- From: centos-es-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-es-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Andres Lucena Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:38 AM To: centos-es@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-es] CONECTAR CON VNC El sáb, 05-03-2011 a las 16:32 -0500, Carlos Alberto

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of my problem in the first place!! I should have known better; all I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files. And when I did the dumb thing of deleting the /boot files, they were moved into the protected

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of my problem in the first place!!  I should have known better; all I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.  And when I did the dumb thing

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
I inadvertently missed using the list...here are my recent messages. As Nico suggested, download the kernel but also grub and redhat-logos, like so wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.9/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-100.EL.i686.rpm wget

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of my problem in the first place!!  I should have known better; all I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.  And when I did the dumb

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Leen de Braal
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM. Any chance the problem's with the video card? Video is on the MB. It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the system doesn't respond to network when it crashes. It could be

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Leen de Braal l...@braha.nl wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM. Any chance the problem's with the video card? Video is on the MB.  It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Wouldn't it have been easier to reinstall the kernel grub, i.e.: yum reinstall kernel grub Surely if yum reinstalls it, it would re-create the permissions symlinks as well? Yes, only that reinstall doesn't exist

Re: [CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

2011-03-09 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le mar 08 mar 2011 22:04:27 CET, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écrit: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: On 08/03/11 16:55, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote: Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ?

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-09 Thread hadi motamedi
On 3/8/11, bedo bedo.w...@gmail.com wrote: OK, i know ,you need ICS with XP ,you can see below: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx 2011/3/8 hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com On 3/8/11, bedo bedo.w...@gmail.com wrote: your topology is below?

[CentOS] what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread erikmccaskey64
I use privoxy. In the user.action file i have a redirect rule and a few websites: { +redirect{s@http://@https://@} } .twitter.com .facebook.com Ok! it's working great, e.g.: if i visit any *twitter.com URL it gets redirected to HTTPS! But: with wireshark i can see some OCSP packets [

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Leen de Braal
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Leen de Braal l...@braha.nl wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM. Any chance the problem's with the video card? Video is on the MB.  It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the

Re: [CentOS] what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/09/11 1:30 AM, erikmccaskey64 wrote: But: with wireshark i can see some OCSP packets... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=OCSP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/09/11 1:34 AM, Leen de Braal wrote: Very often resulting in a damaged board, because you damage the via's when pulling the caps. But it is worth a try. sure, if your time is worthless. you can easily burn a couple hours recapping a motherboard, which typically exceeds the boards worth.

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, wessel van der aart wrote: does anyone here uses nfs without sync in production? does data corrupt often? Yes, I use it. If you had an NFS server that regularly died due to hardware faults, or kernel panics, then I wouldn't consider using it. all the data send from the

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: The absolute definiton of safe here is quite important. In the event of a power loss, and a failure of the UPS, quite possibly also followed by a failure of the RAID battery

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:25 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: I think you're right that this is how it should work, I'm just not entirely sure that's actually generally the case (whether that's because typical applications try to do sync

[CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread Dvorkin, Asya
Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out the best way to accomplish below project and would appreciate your input. I need to setup a web page on CentOS with Active Directory authentication. So far I've accomplished the following: - Setup httpd.conf to successfully authenticate against AD by

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:44 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: The absolute definiton of safe here is quite important. In the event of a power loss, and a failure of

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to do http authentication without passing my username/password considering server is already binded to AD, thus authenticated. Would I be able to utilize PAM authentication for this purpose? mod_auth_kerb can use

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread Dvorkin, Asya
Thank you, John. I forgot to add that we cannot generate keytab from AD server for various reasons that I have no control over. Would mod_auth_kerb still work? My google searches all point to keytab file being there... Thank you, Asya On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:35 AM, John Hodrien wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 04:44:54 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I'd very strongly recommend you configure netconsole. Ok, now this is useful indeed. Thanks for the information, even though I'm not the OP While I suspected the facility might be there, I hadn't really dug for it, but if this

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: Thank you, John. I forgot to add that we cannot generate keytab from AD server for various reasons that I have no control over. Would mod_auth_kerb still work? My google searches all point to keytab file being there... Yes. If you join AD

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 09:24 Tue 08 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: The absolute definiton of safe here is quite important. In the event of a power loss, and a failure of the UPS, quite possibly also followed by a failure of

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Dvorkin, Asya wrote: Thank you, John. I forgot to add that we cannot generate keytab from AD server for various reasons that I have no control over. And are you really sure this is the case? If you can join to a domain, you can

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate is one unknown system hang every few weeks, how many wees

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate is one unknown system hang

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
OK, here is what I have after manually copying files back to /boot, leaving behind old kernel files: /boot/: total 9169 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root9216 Mar 8 20:24 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root4096 Jan 24 08:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51676 Feb 17 22:41 config-2.6.9-100.EL -rw-r--r--

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
OK, here is what I have after manually moving files into /boot/ and /boot/grub/, leaving behind old kernel files. Of course, no links. /boot/: total 9169 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root9216 Mar 8 20:24 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root4096 Jan 24 08:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51676 Feb 17

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:16:34 am Brunner, Brian T. wrote: This would be far cheaper than the time spent troubleshooting the running (sometimes hanging) system. Let me interject here, that from a budgeting standpoint 'cheaper' has to be interpreted in the context of which budget the

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:16:34 am Brunner, Brian T. wrote: snip Starting with RAM and Power Supply is not random ... They're The Usual Suspects. This is a very true statement. Heat and airflow are two others. Hmmm... has the a/c been changed lately? Or maybe stuff

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Peltonen
I need to do a new CentOS net install on a new server having the Supermicro X7DVL-3 motherboard: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon1333/5000V/X7DVL-3.cfm Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We received the server with 3 drives

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:16:34 am Brunner, Brian T. wrote: This would be far cheaper than the time spent troubleshooting the running (sometimes hanging) system. Let me interject here, that from a budgeting standpoint 'cheaper' has to be interpreted in

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-09 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
excuse me, could you be more helpful ? Actually I am not able to get any security update from CentOS 5.5 repo. Is there something I must change in the repo files ? thank you On 3/4/11 12:14 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: the archive would have told you. Kai

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts - hostname alias for 127.0.0.1

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Spangler
On Tuesday 08 March 2011 12:39, the following was written: And giving it 127.0.0.1 would tell it others to ignore it, I think. Where did your user come up with this idea - clearly, they have *no* clue what they're doing, and need at least a brown bag lunch about TCP/IP, and they

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
sure, if your time is worthless. you can easily burn a couple hours recapping a motherboard, which typically exceeds the boards worth. Amen. It's not enough to replace the bulging caps - you need to replace all the caps of the same brand as the damaged ones. Otherwise you'll just be doing it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Peter Peltonen wrote: I need to do a new CentOS net install on a new server having the Supermicro X7DVL-3 motherboard: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon1333/5000V/X7DVL-3.cfm Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-09 Thread David Sommerseth
On 09/03/11 17:06, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: excuse me, could you be more helpful ? Actually I am not able to get any security update from CentOS 5.5 repo. Is there something I must change in the repo files ? What he meant was that you could do this:

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 9:55 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: This is where mental ossification amongst bean-counters can kill a company. Economic Opportunity Cost should raise its head here: What would we do with the $capex if we paid $opex vs what would we do with the $opex if we paid $capex. The Time

[CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Foster
Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. -- Mark D. Foster m...@foster.cc http://mark.foster.cc/

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi and thanks for your reply, On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare as hw RAID-5 preinstalled. During bootup I see that

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 05:06:21 pm Riccardo Veraldi wrote: excuse me, could you be more helpful ? Actually I am not able to get any security update from CentOS 5.5 repo. Is there something I must change in the repo files ? The kernel you're expecting is not an update for 5.5 but a part

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/09/2011 04:45 PM, Mark Foster wrote: Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. All of those apply to 5.6 ( where apply

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 05:45:22 pm Mark Foster wrote: Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. See the on-going thread

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi and thanks for your reply, On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare as hw RAID-5 preinstalled.

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:48:29 am m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lamar Owen wrote: Heat and airflow are two others. Hmmm... has the a/c been changed lately? Or maybe stuff outside the rack been moved, and so obstructed the airflow? To followup a little, I had a motherboard one time, with a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 10:47 AM, Peter Peltonen wrote: I recently had a problem like that with a Dell box. The trick is that with a hardware controller, it supercedes software RAID. What you need to do is go into the firmware controller configuration on boot, before you get to grub, and make sure

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:45:06 am Les Mikesell wrote: And if you are running Centos the one thing you don't need is to pay for extra licenses to cover the backup/development instances. And this is significant, and really highlights the reasoning of the CentOS team in 'bug-for'bug'

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Peltonen
Hi, On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Some controllers want to map arrays to volumes and present the volumes to the OS instead of drives, so you have to go through the motions of assigning the resources to volumes and initializing them even if you only

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:48:55 am Peter Kjellström wrote: The kernel you're expecting is not an update for 5.5 but a part of 5.6. 5.6 (along with 4.9 and 6.0) is currently being built and tested by the CentOS team. Minor correction: 4.9 is released: [root@localhost ~]# cat

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Leen de Braal
sure, if your time is worthless. you can easily burn a couple hours recapping a motherboard, which typically exceeds the boards worth. Amen. It's not enough to replace the bulging caps - you need to replace all the caps of the same brand as the damaged ones. Otherwise you'll just be doing it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
Hmm, I am not sure if I understand you correctly: are you saying that in the firmware configuration there might be an option that makes the disks invisible for the OS? Most controllers have a firmware you can enter at boot with a keystroke. Once in, you create/prepare arrays or single drives,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
Hmm, I am not sure if I understand you correctly: are you saying That in the firmware configuration there might be an option that makes the disks invisible for the OS? No, not as such. You just have to define the arrays: sssign the drives as needed. It's a rare thing that a factory will set up

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate is one unknown system hang every few

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Michael Eager wrote: John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate is one unknown

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 11:32 AM, Michael Eager wrote: I'm not particularly interested in a listing of the myriad of hypothetical causes absent observable evidence and some of which are contradicted by evidence (such as overheating). Note that overheating can be localized or a bad heat sink mounting or

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-09 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Ok Thank you very much On 09/mar/2011, at 17:48, Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 05:06:21 pm Riccardo Veraldi wrote: excuse me, could you be more helpful ? Actually I am not able to get any security update from CentOS 5.5 repo. Is there something I must

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Michael Eager wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: snip Here's one more, off-the-wall thought: do the setterm --powersave off, and find some way to make it work, so that you can see what's on the screen when it

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
Les Mikesell wrote: Note that overheating can be localized or a bad heat sink mounting or fan on a CPU. I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Heat related problems usually present as a system which fails and will not reboot immediately, but will after they sit for a

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
During the next server downtime, I'll re-seat RAM If the ram is passing memtest86+, I think reseating only serves to introduce dust and dirt into an area where a tight connection was previously keeping it out. Gently press them down to make sure they're seated, sure. But pulling them out only

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
On 3/9/11 5:45 PM, Mark Foster wrote: Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. My solution at least for the kernel, was to get

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
Simon - I performed the tasks as outlined and here are the contents of /boot: /boot/: total 25121 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:31 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 24 08:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root51676 Feb 17 22:41 config-2.6.9-100.EL drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:05 Wed 09 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 04:44:54 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I'd very strongly recommend you configure netconsole. Ok, now this is useful indeed. Thanks for the information, even though I'm not the OP While I suspected the

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 07:06 Wed 09 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 09:24 Tue 08 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
And here are the contents of grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
How goes the repair? Got it all worked out? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:37 Wed 09 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:16:34 am Brunner, Brian T. wrote: This would be far cheaper than the time spent troubleshooting the running (sometimes hanging) system. Let me interject here, that from a budgeting standpoint 'cheaper'

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Michael Eager wrote: snip I'll have to stop the server to find out what the installed bios version is and see whether there is an update. Most bios updates appear to only change supported CPUs. Something else for the next downtime. Nope: dmidecode, or lshw, is your friend. mark

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 12:35 PM, Todd Cary wrote: Simon - I performed the tasks as outlined and here are the contents of /boot: It might be a good time to review what you can do with an install disk after booting with linux rescue at the prompt. If you've made a mistake in the setup you can get back

[CentOS] scanning under CentOS

2011-03-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I've got an HP Officejet 7110 All-in-One Printer which I am trying to get to scan for us. Details on the printer/scanner/FAX here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=uslc=endlc=enproduct=91472 Now xsane seems to handle individual pages OK but multiplage scans through

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 11:52 Wed 09 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: On 3/9/2011 11:32 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Memory diagnostics may take days to catch a problem. Did you check for a newer bios for your MB? I mentioned before that it seemed strange, but I've seen that fix mysterious

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 12:47 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: That represents an accounting failure, as opex is now subsidizing capex. Troubleshooting of known bad equipment should be an opex chargeback against capex or some capital reserve. This requires clueful beancounters. Recent

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:29 Wed 09 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Note that overheating can be localized or a bad heat sink mounting or fan on a CPU. I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Very strongly advised. It's a simple and very cheap

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the heatsink, if not. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/09/11 10:29 AM, Michael Eager wrote: I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. do have on hand the suppplies to clean off the old heatsink goo (I use alcohol pads for this), and some fresh heatsink goop check all fans when its powered off that they spin easily. I've

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
compdoc wrote: I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the heatsink, if not. No evidence to suggest that it is. -- Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
And here are the contents of grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. #

Re: [CentOS] keepalived+LVS

2011-03-09 Thread Jure Pečar
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:44:38 +0800 bedo bedo.w...@gmail.com wrote: oh,god , anybody help me! Do yourself a favour and use HAproxy or something more higher level. I had nothing but bad expirience with lvs for the past few years. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org http://f5j.eu

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: snip I'll have to stop the server to find out what the installed bios version is and see whether there is an update. Most bios updates appear to only change supported CPUs. Something else for the next downtime. Nope: dmidecode, or lshw, is

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread m . roth
Michael Eager wrote: compdoc wrote: I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the heatsink, if not. No evidence to suggest that it is. Have you used ipmitool to see what the temperatures are?

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:24 Wed 09 Mar, Simon Matter (simon.mat...@invoca.ch) wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: user deletes /boot, hilarity ensues Wouldn't it have been easier to reinstall the kernel grub, i.e.: yum reinstall kernel grub Surely if

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-09 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:39 Tue 08 Mar, Todd Cary (t...@aristesoftware.com) wrote: Simon - Did I screw up? I deleted what was in /boot! Yes, as others have noted. Lessons: 1: Don't go randomly/arbitrarily deleting system files (unless you're curious to see what happens when randomly deleting systems files).

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
Unfortunately, I live out with the cows, so I am using DSL to download the latest - it will take awhile. It has been awhile since I downloaded the four disks, however I assume disk 1 contains all that I need to do a rescue. Once I get that down, I will use torrent to get all four disks. Hey,

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement. End of story. I'll repeat: this is a house-made system. There's no vendor to RMA to. It seems obvious to me: RMA is not a

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: compdoc wrote: I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the heatsink, if not. No evidence to suggest that it is. Have you used ipmitool to see what the

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement.  End of story. I'll repeat:  this is a house-made system.  

[CentOS] Which file system to use for a USB backup

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy to a USB drive. However, I want to be able to access the files from Windows or Mac OS's. Where should I look for instructions on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only option? Many thanks -- Ariste

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
compdoc wrote: I'll re-seat the CPU, heatsink, and fan on the next downtime. Is the CPU overheating? Pointless to reseat the cpu or even remove the heatsink, if not. No evidence to suggest that it is. As much as I love telling anecdotes, I have none to tell you concerning cpu reseating.

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