Hello
In preparation of the soon-to-arrive Centos 6, I have created the
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS6 page and added to it the explanation
for the disappearance of boot.iso.
As usual, please help in keeping the documentation updated /
corrected / etc .
Manuel
PS: I did
Hi,
This is my very first time using CentOS and I find documentation a little bit
confusing.
For example, I don't know which iso image suits my needs, isn't adding big,
shining red link READ THIS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH ISO SHOULD YOU CHOOSE a
good idea? 'README' file on mirrors with
On 06/29/2011 02:50 PM, BlessJah wrote:
Hi,
This is my very first time using CentOS and I find documentation a little bit
confusing.
For example, I don't know which iso image suits my needs, isn't adding big,
shining red link READ THIS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH ISO SHOULD YOU CHOOSE a
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 04:15:27PM +0300, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
I think ArchLinux wiki, and it's Begginer Guide and Official
Installation Guide are good examples, how it can be done. Both leads user
through process of getting, installing and configuring system.
Thank you for your
- BlessJah bless...@jacekowski.org wrote:
- Manuel Wolfshant wo...@nobugconsulting.ro wrote:
On 06/29/2011 02:50 PM, BlessJah wrote:
For example, I don't know which iso image suits my needs, isn't adding
big, shining red link READ THIS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH ISO SHOULD YOU
Hi,
This is VeeraSena Reddy (shortly called VSR), recently started working on
XEN.
I installed CENTOS 5.5 as HVM Guest on XEN-3.4.3 and now i would like to
install and test PV Drivers on this guest.
Can anyone please guide me where can I get PV drivers for CENTOS 5.5 HVM
guest?
Thanks in
Buenas tardes quisiera saber si alguien tiene experiencia en montar un
servidor de antivirus en linux con las ternimales en windows, desaria saber
que tan bueno es la perfomance del cliente ClamAV en windows
--
Saludos
Paúl Vizuete
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En algun momento lo he intentado eso. No fue buena idea. La cosa era que
servidor linux seria solamente el repositorio de firma y db de virus ya
que el clamwin no esta desarrollado como cliente servidor. Otro problema
es que el clamwin no tiene escaner en tiempo real por lo que hace que
los
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Khusro Jaleel wrote:
I have experienced strange behaviour from Firefox once or twice after
doing a yum update. I believe it was not because Firefox was updated but
because a bunch of GTK related stuff was updated which Firefox uses,
hence why it got confused. I don't
Hey,
recently I experienced yum bugs on some servers...
A simple 'yum update' gives me the yum usage...
I noticed a difference between it and a simple 'yum':
# yum udpate
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
usage: yum [options] COMMAND
# yum
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror,
On 29.6.2011 12.56, John Doe wrote:
I noticed a difference between it and a simple 'yum':
# yum udpate
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
usage: yum [options] COMMAND
# yum
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
You need to give some command
usage: yum
Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly:
[Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of
mirrors more than a dozen times.
Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to upgrade I upgraded just yesterday without
a problem on
On 06/28/2011 11:06 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Hüvely Balázs wrote:
I've a toshiba satellite notebook, and I tried to install centos 5.6.
The installer starts, but when it turns to graphical mode, the backlight
goes off. I see the windows, buttons, but it's very dark, maybe
Hello Keith,
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:46 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
I've also noticed that Firefox will not operate correctly
after some updates, and a reboot seems to fix this.
Logging out from your X session and then restarting it
(ctrl-alt-backspace) should suffice to get Firefox to work
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database?
Hello Keith,
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:46 +0100, Keith Roberts
Hüvely Balázs wrote:
On 06/28/2011 11:06 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Hüvely Balázs wrote:
I've a toshiba satellite notebook, and I tried to install centos 5.6.
The installer starts, but when it turns to graphical mode, the
backlight goes off. I see the windows, buttons, but
Checking my daily logwatch file, I see the following kernel
error:
- Kernel Begin
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...: 1 Time(s)
-- Kernel End -
The
On 29.6.2011 20.37, Keith Roberts wrote:
Checking my daily logwatch file, I see the following kernel
error:
- Kernel Begin
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...: 1 Time(s)
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: Jussi Hirvi listmem...@greenspot.fi
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors
On 29.6.2011 20.37, Keith Roberts wrote:
Checking my daily logwatch file, I see the following kernel
error:
Is there any mention of a floppy in output of mount?
Hello Jussi.
On 29.6.2011 20.51, Keith Roberts wrote:
None at all using 'mount' or 'df -h'
Here is somebody having the same problem, though on Suse:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly:
[Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of
mirrors more than a dozen times.
Oddly, the RPMs
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: Jussi Hirvi listmem...@greenspot.fi
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors
Is there any mention of a floppy in output of mount?
Hello Jussi.
On 29.6.2011 20.51, Keith Roberts wrote:
None at all using
Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6,
and would like to add one or more additional repositories for yum a/o
PackageKit to draw on. (In particular, at the moment, I can't seem to
find an rpm for Pan that doesn't come up against dependency hell.)
On 06/29/2011 02:06 PM Giovanni Tirloni wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, ken geb...@mousecar.com
mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly:
[Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
I'm getting this on every
BeartoothHOS wrote:
Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6,
and would like to add one or more additional repositories for yum a/o
PackageKit to draw on. (In particular, at the moment, I can't seem to
find an rpm for Pan that doesn't come up against dependency
On 6/29/2011 3:35 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
BeartoothHOS wrote:
Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6,
and would like to add one or more additional repositories for yum a/o
PackageKit to draw on. (In particular, at the moment, I can't seem to
find an rpm
http://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/ is where you can sign up for
the various SL lists...
On 6/29/2011 3:35 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
BeartoothHOS wrote:
Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6,
and would like to add one or more additional
ken wrote:
Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
nothing blocking it.
So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years and
there's been no changes to yum.conf.
I've upped the
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
ken wrote:
Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
nothing blocking it.
So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years and
there's been no changes to
On 06/29/2011 03:42 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
ken wrote:
Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
nothing blocking it.
So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years and
Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:
Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely
access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a
solution that didn't involve somebody/something hitting the power
button?
Yes, it's called out of band
On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
ken wrote:
Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
nothing blocking it.
So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
on the problem machine. But it's been working
Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:
Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely
access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a
solution that didn't involve somebody/something hitting the power
button?
Yes, it's called out of
On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Yes, it's called out of band management.
Have dial-in access to IPMI/iLO interfaces or just an APC remote
controlled power-switch to power-off the server.
I don't want to reboot the server everytime something like that
happens. I'll
Am 29.06.2011 um 22:08 schrieb Max Pyziur:
Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:
Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely
access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a
solution that didn't involve somebody/something hitting the
Am 29.06.2011 um 22:15 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:
On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Yes, it's called out of band management.
Have dial-in access to IPMI/iLO interfaces or just an APC remote
controlled power-switch to power-off the server.
I don't want to reboot the
Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser? I just had
two users come begging me to install it instantly, and I can't find it.
mark
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On Wed, June 29, 2011 4:26 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser?
I use PDF::API2 and PDF::API2::Simple (from rpmforge).
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.comwrote:
I was having problems with the same server locking up to the point I
can't even get in via SSH. I've already used HTB/TC to reserve
bandwidth for my SSH port but the problem now isn't an attack on the
bandwidth.
On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have IPMI
on board.
Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define
server by purpose and not specifications. So very often they buy
servers based on
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Yes, it's called out of band management.
Have dial-in access to IPMI/iLO interfaces or just an APC remote
controlled power-switch to power-off the server.
On 6/29/2011 3:26 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffnerrai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have IPMI
on board.
Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define
server by purpose and not
At Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:08:02 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list
centos@centos.org wrote:
Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:
Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely
access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a
solution
Am 29.06.2011 um 22:26 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin:
On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have
IPMI
on board.
Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define
server by purpose and not
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:50:30AM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I was having problems with the same server locking up to the point I
can't even get in via SSH. I've already used HTB/TC to reserve
bandwidth for my SSH port but the problem now isn't an attack on the
bandwidth. So I'm trying
Marko A. Jennings wrote:
On Wed, June 29, 2011 4:26 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser?
I use PDF::API2 and PDF::API2::Simple (from rpmforge).
Thanks, guys. He came back to tell me he could try the former, and I'd
found it via rpmforge
On 6/29/2011 3:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O-
constrained anyway, virtualization won't help.
Everything will just be even slower.
That's sort-of true, but you don't have to manage the host through the
same interface the
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Keith Keller wrote:
In addition to the suggestions already made, one possibility is to
attach a serial console or IP KVM. Logging in may still be awful,
but at least you won't have to go through sshd. I've been able to
log in through a serial getty when sshd was not
Les Mikesell wrote:
You can buy add-on PCI-cards for OOB-management, though.
Thanks for the information, although unless they are really cheap...
The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on
hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need.
On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on
hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need.
Actually THAT is the fundamental problem ;)
The physical server is frankly much more powerful than
On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote:
I actually relied for a while on the last choice. I had a remotely
accessible root shell that never logged out. When things got sluggish,
I was able to /bin/kill to my heart's content. It wasn't a pretty
solution, but it kept me running
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.comwrote:
On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote:
I would approach this issue from another perspective: who's locking up
the
server (as in eating all resources) and how to stop/constrain it. You can
On 6/30/11, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
If the problem is excessive load because Sendmail / Mimedefang / spamd /
etc. is too busy handling tons of mail/spam being dumped on your server, you
might want to look at these sendmail options:
Mail was my first suspect because I had
Hello listmates,
Yes, I know - Macs and NFS do not co-exist easily. Still I've got to
make this happen somehow.
In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e.,
On 6/29/2011 4:04 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/11, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on
hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need.
Actually THAT is the fundamental problem ;)
The
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 04:43:09 PM Rainer Duffner wrote:
Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O-
constrained anyway, virtualization won't help.
Everything will just be even slower.
That depends. More expensive servers that would be suitable for
Am 29.06.2011 um 23:17 schrieb Lamar Owen:
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 04:43:09 PM Rainer Duffner wrote:
Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/
O-
constrained anyway, virtualization won't help.
Everything will just be even slower.
That depends. More
Les Mikesell wrote:
On 6/29/2011 4:04 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/11, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on
hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need.
Actually THAT is the
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:
In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain
yet reads nothing over the NFS.
I have
On 6/29/2011 4:12 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/11, Robert Hellerhel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
If the problem is excessive load because Sendmail / Mimedefang / spamd /
etc. is too busy handling tons of mail/spam being dumped on your server, you
might want to look at these sendmail
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:
In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote:
In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a
variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X
10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain
yet
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote:
I actually relied for a while on the last choice. I had a remotely
accessible root shell that never logged out. When things got
sluggish, I was able to /bin/kill to my heart's content. It
On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote:
Linux includes I/O in how it calculates the load average so you're not
measuring CPU alone.
On the host, it's expected, I've got two qemu-kvm process loading up
100% cpu. Within the guest VM, top looks like this, high load but low
cpu %.
On 6/30/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: watch
out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've assigned
4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 virtual CPUs.
As of '09, VMware
On 6/29/2011 4:22 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: watch
out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've assigned
4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 virtual CPUs.
As of '09, VMware was
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:
Thanks. I am only doing NFS over TCP and still no dice. Any special
options you use either on the client or on the server side?
As Tom mentioned, you need the insecure exports option on the NFS server
side, otherwise I don't do anything special on the
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On 6/29/2011 4:04 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/30/11, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on
hardware slightly better than one of the
On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, but without knowing the cause, you already know the cure. Make the
virtual servers not share physical disks - they will always want a
single head to be in different places at the same time.
Same old problem: budget :D
Also, I expect
Brian Mathis wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
snip
Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware:
watch out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've
assigned 4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4
--On Thursday, June 30, 2011 04:15:07 AM +0800 Emmanuel Noobadmin
centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
Would ILO work on a server that's unresponsive due to heavy load?
ILO or any other OOB solution gives you the functionality of sitting
at the console. So if the problem is one that would cause the
Alexander Farber wrote on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:47:05 +0200:
First I tried adding that file name to /etc/php.ini:
error_log = /var/log/httpd/php_log
I can assure you that you don't have to go the syslog way. Logging to a
php errorlog file of your choice works just fine. Check the file
On 6/29/2011 4:47 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
OK, but without knowing the cause, you already know the cure. Make the
virtual servers not share physical disks - they will always want a
single head to be in different places at the same time.
Same old problem: budget :D
If an extra SATA
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:30:02PM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
Thanks. I am only doing NFS over TCP and still no dice. Any special
options you use either on the client or on the server side?
Two things to be aware of on a Mac
1) default mounts are from a non-privileged port. So your exports on
At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:12:12 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On 6/30/11, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote:
If the problem is excessive load because Sendmail / Mimedefang / spamd /
etc. is too busy handling tons of mail/spam being dumped on your server, you
At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:31:05 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote:
Linux includes I/O in how it calculates the load average so you're not
measuring CPU alone.
On the host, it's expected, I've got two qemu-kvm
This may be more of a general linux question but is there a simple way of
preventing users from creating symlinks to or from certain directories?
I have a /scratch dir that's a single 27TB volume and I don't want users
linking their home dirs as there's a chance it will screw up our external
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 05:20:26 PM Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 29.06.2011 um 23:17 schrieb Lamar Owen:
More expensive servers that would be suitable for
virtualization host use also tend to have better I/O subsystems and
faster disks. Relative to a 'cheap' system with much poorer
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:56:07AM +1200, Smithies, Russell wrote:
This may be more of a general linux question but is there a simple way of
preventing users from creating symlinks to or from certain directories?
I have a /scratch dir that's a single 27TB volume and I don't want users
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