Re: [CentOS-docs] Proposed change to HowTos/Skype

2011-07-25 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 20.07.11 16:10, schrieb John Fettig: If you want me to change this directly, my login is JohnFettig. I would be happy if e.g. Akemi Yagi (amy...@gmail.com) would add this info. You can change that yourself. Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing list

[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-6.0 LiveCD i386 and x86_64

2011-07-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.0 LiveCD for i386 and x86_64 architectures. Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.0 +++ Overview The CentOS-6.0 LiveCD is meant to be a Linux

Re: [CentOS-es] Disco usb en Centos 6

2011-07-25 Thread José Roberto Alas
2011/7/24 Cesar Augusto Martinez Cobo cmc...@ciencias.udea.edu.co: Buenas tardes Compañeros; tengo el siguiente inconveniente con un disco externo con conexion USB, lo tengo conectado para hacer nackup de el sistema pero cuando lo realiza sale el siguiente error: end_request: I/O error,

Re: [CentOS-es] Disco usb en Centos 6

2011-07-25 Thread Ricardo David Carrillo Sanchez
En efecto, como comenta Carlos, El disco contiene sectores dañados, en estos casos solamente lo que queda es realizar un fsck y tratar de recuperar la la información lo antes posible. Suerte. Saludos -- Ricardo David Carrillo Sánchez Administrador de Sistemas Analista de Seguridad Informática

[CentOS-es] Openvpn Centos 4.8

2011-07-25 Thread Alexander Rojas Garcia
Hola, Tengo problemas con la instalación del OpenVPN, quisiera saber cómo lo desinstalo correctamente, actualmente seguí una guía pero cuando cargo el servicio me da error, revise el error en el registro “/var/log/openvpn.log”, pero no entiendo mucho la causa. Espero su ayuda y si algo una

Re: [CentOS-es] Openvpn Centos 4.8

2011-07-25 Thread Ricardo Martinez
Hola Alexander, podrías dar un poco más de información, si es posible algún log etc. Qué versión has de OpenVpn has instalado ¿? que manual has seguido ¿? etc... saludos!!! 2011/7/25 Alexander Rojas Garcia siste...@tehindu.com Hola, Tengo problemas con la instalación del OpenVPN,

[CentOS-es] Problema con el home de un usuario

2011-07-25 Thread Luciano Andrés Chiarotto
Hola a todos. Mi consulta es la siguiente ... El año pasado agregamos un Disco Rígido nuevo al Server del Cluster (/dev/sdb1 montado en /home1). Para probar, cambie la dirección de almacenamiento a un solo usuario y cambie el archivo /etc/passwd. Ejemplo:

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file

2011-07-25 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: | We have CentOS 6 manual installation working by PXE booting from a | RHEL5.6 | PXE/TFTP server. However, when we add a Kickstart file in the PXE | configuration: | | kernel CentOS-6-i386/vmlinuz | append load_ramdisk=1

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-25 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in | /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as | | [server-Standard] | name=Standard server | command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 | chooser=false | handled=true | flexible=true | priority=0 | | After this change, Xorg

[CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin C
Hi List, I use a kickstart file to install my operating systems. In the kickstart file, I put the clearpart options to erase all my partition. But the install failed because the partition aren't erased. Does someone have the same issue ? Regards Kevin C

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

2011-07-25 Thread Jennifer Botten
Hi All, Thanks for everyone's feedback. The issues was related to our SIP provider routing private IP's to get the SIP to work (we were not aware of this). We configured VLAN's and put the SIP phones on a different range that the SIP provider did not route. However all your advice and assistance

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: Kevin C li...@tuxalafenetre.net I use a kickstart file to install my operating systems. In the kickstart file, I put the clearpart options to erase all my partition. But the install failed because the partition aren't erased. Does someone have the same issue ? Which clearpart

Re: [CentOS] Keyboards

2011-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us On my new Dell system, it's got a cardreader. More to the point, it's got an idiot menu key... *right* next to the right control key, and just where the annoying keyboard design has it cut down from the oversize space bar The result is that just

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin C
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:18:53 -0700 (PDT), John Doe wrote: Which clearpart parameters do you use? Something like that?   clearpart --drives=sda --all I used this on CentOS 5 without any problems : clearpart --all --initlabel I also use an pre script to detect the number of drives on the

Re: [CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-25 Thread Marc Deop
On Sunday 24 July 2011 10:13:30 R P Herrold wrote: #!/bin/sh # CANDIDATES=pix1.jpg pix2.jpg pix3.jpg for i in `echo ${CANDIDATES}`; do HASH=`echo $i | md5sum - | awk {'print $1'}` echo $i${HASH} done I know it absolutelly has nothing to do with

Re: [CentOS] Keyboards

2011-07-25 Thread Steve Brooks
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, John Doe wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us On my new Dell system, it's got a cardreader. More to the point, it's got an idiot menu key... *right* next to the right control key, and just where the annoying keyboard design has it cut down from the oversize

[CentOS] pxe booting questions

2011-07-25 Thread Nathan
hello, I have a situation where I am using PXE and kickstart to install my machines. My set up is as follows: i have a cobbler server which is also an mrepo mirror doing the booting. my mrepo tree has both disc1 and disc2 loop mounted, and RPMS.os symlinks both the discs contens to generate

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Dukes
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 1:52 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0 I'll be moving to Ubunto. They have a 3 year

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:33:41AM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: Huh?? RHEL/CentOS are supported 7 years from date of release to EOL date. RHEL has an optional extended support plan that you can purchase if you are a RHEL subscriber; CentOS does not offer this extended support as upstream does

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread John Doe
From: Kevin C li...@tuxalafenetre.net if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat EOF /tmp/partinfo Did you check the partinfo file to see if the variables are correctly replaced? In Python,Perl or Shell? I'm searching how to wipe all drives with parted or fdisk. In an external shell script. I just do

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin C
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT), John Doe wrote: From: Kevin C li...@tuxalafenetre.net if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat EOF /tmp/partinfo Did you check the partinfo file to see if the variables are correctly replaced? You're right, I have an error is this file, with /dev/sda1

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

2011-07-25 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sat, July 23, 2011 15:02, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/23/11 10:22 AM, Kristopher Kane wrote: this sort of thing really belongs on an iproute2/netfilter mail list, however, as its not at all centos specific. So John, exactly what is CentOS specific? Should I only read the emails with

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sat, July 23, 2011 19:36, R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't work either. CentOS ships no non-RPM packaged packages -- look to whoever put those packages on your box without using the packaging

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Craig White wrote: you made a vacuous argument. Hunh. You are ** still ** trolling here [arguing against package management] and on this thread [C 6 matters], Craig? I thot back on June 13 you said here: easier just to give up - I moved my new servers to ubuntu - no

[CentOS] /dev/dsp

2011-07-25 Thread David Bunt
Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, July 23, 2011 10:25:56 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 24.07.2011 02:00, schrieb Thomas Dukes: When I say non-rpm, I mean source packages I compiled such as zoneminder. And even *if* you would be able to upgrade from CentOS 5.x to 6 - technically and by personal skills - what

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:20:07 PM Thomas Dukes wrote: I'll be moving to Ubunto. Never heard of Ubunto They have a 3 year window for support on a distribution unlike CentOS/RHEL. Right; RHEL has a seven year window, four years longer. They seem to be more user friendly for a home

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: The specific example of zoneminder is particularly insidious. On our zoneminder systems, even point updates to certain libraries has created problems. A good, modern, package of zoneminder in a repo somewhere would save a lot of grief in that

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin C
The list-harddrives results change on CentOS 6. It show all disks and partition. In C5, it only show all drives. On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:06:50 +0200, Kevin C wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT), John Doe wrote: From: Kevin C li...@tuxalafenetre.net if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat

Re: [CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, July 24, 2011 05:29:23 AM yonatan pingle wrote: ... lately the server is under-preforming and load averages are high, mysql service keeps crashing and the server is hitting max memory usage ( so i added ram .. ) , after looking into the website folders, i have found one folder which

[CentOS] centos 6 and mingetty for /dev/ttyS1

2011-07-25 Thread Jerry Geis
I've been playing with centos 6. Sometimes it gets into a mode when it seems like it hangs at boot. At reboot I hit ALT-D for details and the last thing printed is Starting atd. No I can press alt-f2 to get a login. Doing ps ax does not show a mingetty tty1, What might be going on here. What

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:22:37 AM R P Herrold wrote: 1.24 looks 'doable', although perhaps not without some C6 libraries -- I see it in rawhide, and in F, after F13, as I recall I managed to get 1.24.x (VM is shut down right now due to VMware update 'things' going on, so can't check

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

2011-07-25 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

[CentOS] /dev/dsp

2011-07-25 Thread NfoCipher
Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device

[CentOS] Updated Kernel sensors modules

2011-07-25 Thread Dejan
Last week I upgraded my box to CentOS 6 and I'm very impressed so far with it. The only small issue so far is that it doesn't seem to recognize the new Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU that I have and you can't monitor its temperature. I recompiled the latest coretemp module from the latest 2.6.39

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 19:51 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. why? you made a vacuous argument. @Craig: I

[CentOS] Centos 6.0 Live CD Now Available

2011-07-25 Thread Always Learning
Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.0 Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues and helped build, test and release these images. Thank

[CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Marc Deop wrote: It's more than twice as fast than the previous sh script. In part this is /bin/sh v /bin/bash and using 'bashisms' matter, but yes, I did not seek to optimize a teaching throwaway 1- m5sum the file we need ... actually the NAME of the file, to make it

Re: [CentOS] Updated Kernel sensors modules

2011-07-25 Thread Ned Slider
On 25/07/11 17:04, Dejan wrote: Last week I upgraded my box to CentOS 6 and I'm very impressed so far with it. The only small issue so far is that it doesn't seem to recognize the new Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU that I have and you can't monitor its temperature. I recompiled the latest

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/25/2011 06:07 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Craig Whitecraigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 19:51 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. why?

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. why? you made a vacuous argument. @Craig: I retract that. Probably something that is discouraged, rather than frowned upon Lanny

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. else has already done it. That is, building an RPM is always more work than doing a source install

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated offsite. The filesystem contains a backuppc archive which has millions of

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new partitions? A resize + a dd copy to shift the position might

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 12:05 PM, R P Herrold wrote: else has already done it. That is, building an RPM is always more work than doing a source install and often imposes inconvenient restraints like only permitting a single version to be running at once, and doesn't give you any guarantee that you

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. why? snip In the RHEL environments where I have worked, installing non RPM software was more than frowned upon. It

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

2011-07-25 Thread John Hinton
I see that SquirrelMail is gone from 6. Is there a package in here somewhere that is a webmail system? Otherwise, I suppose it lives in one of the repos like sourceforge. I just wanted to check if something new existed before doing that. John ___

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to new

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

2011-07-25 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 07/25/2011 06:30 PM, John Hinton wrote: I see that SquirrelMail is gone from 6. Is there a package in here somewhere that is a webmail system? Otherwise, I suppose it lives in one of the repos like sourceforge. I just wanted to check if something new existed before doing that. Upstream

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread m . roth
John Austin wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: My questions for any filesystem experts are: Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

2011-07-25 Thread Devin Reade
It's not in any centos-related repos, but I'd highly recommend horde: http://www.horde.org/ (IMP is the subsystem that is the webmail portion.) Devin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Package: virt-goodies - partly solved

2011-07-25 Thread Timothy Kesten
Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2011, 13:37:08 schrieb Timothy Kesten: Hi Folks, is here someone who knows where to get the package virt-goodies for CentOS6 64bit? I'd like to convert VMWare-images to KVM. No answers :-( I've found the sourcecode of vmware2libvirt (part of virt-goodies - a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

2011-07-25 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Devin Reade wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Devin Reade g...@gno.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail It's not in any centos-related repos, but I'd highly recommend horde: http://www.horde.org/ (IMP is the subsystem that is the webmail

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Devin Reade
--On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, and I played with it several times, and it absolutely would NOT align it, nor

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread m . roth
Devin Reade wrote: --On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, and I played with it several times, and it absolutely would

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Devin Reade
--On Monday, July 25, 2011 02:19:16 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: No joy - I think I have to use parted - the drive was too big for fdisk. I should have mentioned that this was with 1.5TB disks. I think there's a limit somewhere beyond 2TB for fdisk. Devin

[CentOS] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Jerry Geis
my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 however x is not starting what do i look for as why x is not starting ? it doesnt even attempt to start that i can tell no screen flashing or anything jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com Subject: [CentOS] what really starts x11 my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 however x is not starting what do i look for as why x is not starting ? it doesnt even

Re: [CentOS] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Jerry Geis
lists-centos wrote: switch inittab to 3. that will get you a line-mode login. after logging in, issue the command startx and debug from there. - Richard Original Message Date: Monday, July 25, 2011 02:36:02 PM -0400 From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed without running into hard-link issues.

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Jerry Geis
actually i tried that. it does start. it just doesnt start automatically. i can start it manually jerry One centos 6 I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf In it there is exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon When I run this by hand all it does is log me out - no X windows starting up. This is what is

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/25/2011 07:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: [snip] My condition in that case was that you couldn't count on the RPM to work anyway once the distribution changes. So you'll likely be repeating that extra effort anyway. Not sure what you mean with once the distribution changes but within a

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: actually i tried that. it does start. it just doesnt start automatically. i can start it manually jerry One centos 6 I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf In it there is exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon When I run this by hand all it does is log me out - no X windows

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 3:34 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: My condition in that case was that you couldn't count on the RPM to work anyway once the distribution changes. So you'll likely be repeating that extra effort anyway. Not sure what you mean with once the distribution changes but within a major

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Jerry Geis
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: actually i tried that. it does start. it just doesnt start automatically. i can start it manually jerry One centos 6 I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf In it there is exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon When I run this by hand all it does is log me out - no

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2011-07-25 22:37, Jerry Geis wrote: prefdm is respawning too fast Most likely Xorg is crashing. You are in runlevel 5, therefor prefdm continues to try and respawn. Check the log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and then correct what's wrong. Could be dr5iver issue.

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed without running into hard-link issues.

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

2011-07-25 Thread m . roth
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: snip I finally see in /var/log/messages (which I looked at first) that the error. prefdm is respawning too fast... snip WOW - after following the scripts prefdm - gdm - somehow gdm was not even installed. Not sure how that can be with a

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 4:05 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 2:17 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: The disk I want to add is the same size as the existing disks if expressed in 512 byte sectors - and they have one partition taking all of the disk space. If I add a leading offset to get the 4k alignment, there won't be enough room for the existing

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 4:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/25/11 2:17 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: The disk I want to add is the same size as the existing disks if expressed in 512 byte sectors - and they have one partition taking all of the disk space. If I add a leading offset to get the 4k alignment,

Re: [CentOS] nfsv4 and kerberos - fails to mount

2011-07-25 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:58 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: On 07/19/2011 04:43 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Hello, nfs4 with kerberos works fine here on CentOS 5.6. change exports to [...]gss/krb([...] [...]gss/krb([...] My /etc/exports says '...

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Patrick Lists
On 07/25/2011 10:49 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: The context for the issue was someone moving from 5.x to 6.x. Still normal procedures apply: port to the new platform and/or rebuild for the new platform, test on the new platform, rinse repeat, verify, give seal of approval, package and finally

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 2:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes where is your existing partition starting? if its on a track or cylinder boundary... then sure, you can move it forward by using something that will let you

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/25/2011 5:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/25/11 2:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes where is your existing partition starting? if its on a track or cylinder boundary... then sure, you can move it

[CentOS] CentOS6 on EC2

2011-07-25 Thread Richard Shade
Anyone successfully got CentOS6 running on EC2. We have bundled a pvgrub image but get to Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver. and the system stops outputting? -- Thanks, Richard Shade Integration Engineer RightScale - http://www.rightscale.com/ phone: 8055004164x1018

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 3:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 1 91201 732572001 fd Linux raid autodetect It doesn't need to boot. And the 3rd member doesn't need to autodetect, although I do want to be able to mount it

[CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Trey Dockendorf
I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo. This works just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored. I have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/lib/zabbix/bin/start_puppet However sudo still requires a

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Trey Dockendorf
Correction, seems to be broken in 5.6 as well...I also had this interesting argument with sudo... # visudo -c -f /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet: syntax error near line 0 parse error in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet near line 0 (((NOTE: I made absolutely no changes ,

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Trey Dockendorf treyd...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo.  This works just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored.  I have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet zabbix

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

2011-07-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/25/11 4:41 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo. This works just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored. I have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD:

[CentOS] tabs in emacs fundamental mode?

2011-07-25 Thread Devin Reade
I'm noticing that under CentOS 6, emacs fundamental mode is no longer inserting tabs at factor-of-8 tabstops, but rather is doing some funky guess-the-intended-tab-distance thing like text mode has done for a while, currently using three spaces per tab key. Has anyone tracked down where this was

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Mike Burger
Am 24.07.2011 14:04, schrieb Always Learning: The challenge is how to do an easily transition from one major version to its successor version with the least physical, emotional, intellectual and time-consuming effort. Paul, as much as I understand your point of view, I must disagree

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to list additional repositories for remote installation as part of the process), they could certainly make it a

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:05 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Craig White wrote: you made a vacuous argument. Hunh. You are ** still ** trolling here [arguing against package management] and on this thread [C 6 matters], Craig? I thot back on June 13 you said here:

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to list additional repositories for remote installation as part of the process), they could certainly make it

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:07:36AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by NOT

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-07-25 Thread Nataraj
On 07/25/2011 10:10 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated offsite. The filesystem contains

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/26/2011 01:32 PM, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to list additional repositories for remote installation as part of

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/26/2011 02:07 PM, Mike Burger wrote: But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by NOT supporting such explicitly, the upstream avoids much support and