[CentOS-docs] c6-testing in wiki

2012-01-17 Thread Jerry Amundson
Can someone add CentOS 6: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/testing/CentOS-Testing.repo; to the CentOS-Testing[1] section? [1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories thanks, jerry ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] c6-testing in wiki

2012-01-17 Thread Jerry Amundson
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Amundson jamun...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone add CentOS 6: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/testing/CentOS-Testing.repo; to the CentOS-Testing[1] section? [1]

Re: [CentOS-docs] c6-testing in wiki

2012-01-17 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Jerry Amundson jamun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Amundson jamun...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone add CentOS 6: 

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:0026 CentOS 5 busybox Update

2012-01-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:0026 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0026.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:0013 CentOS 6 libvirt Update

2012-01-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:0013 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0013.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

Re: [CentOS-virt] [CentOS] VirtIO disk 'leakage' across guests?

2012-01-17 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 16, 2012 17:01, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 01/16/2012 10:16 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: ... The xmldump for this guest instance contains this: ... Please post the xmldumps of the original guest and cloned guest right after cloning and without any modifications.

Re: [CentOS-virt] [CentOS] VirtIO disk 'leakage' across guests?

2012-01-17 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 01/17/2012 06:46 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, January 16, 2012 17:01, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 01/16/2012 10:16 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: ... The xmldump for this guest instance contains this: ... Please post the xmldumps of the original guest and cloned guest right after

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:18:26 -0600 Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com wrote: I would get a dell r210 from the outlet site and then load pfsense, been running in multiple locations, solid and works great. Do NOT use

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:02:01 +0200 schrieb Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com: Back to the topic though, how does one guarantee 100% uptime on the firewall level when you use a standard dedicated server? pfSense offers failover via CARP ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ia32-libs for 64 bit CentOS

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/16/12 11:05 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: If the script you are running is hardcoded to require ia32-libs, then that install method is not compatible with CentOS. You probably will have to read the script's code to see whether it fits CentOS. indeed, the install.pl in zdesktop seems to

Re: [CentOS] Error occurred when compiling Vim 7.3 with --enable-perlinterp specified.

2012-01-17 Thread Lenin
Thanks, I found the package perl-ExtUtils-Embed caused this problem. An Yang an.eurof...@gmail.com 於 2012年1月17日下午3:55 寫道: At 2012-01-17 Tue 15:42 +0800,Lenin wrote: Has anyone compiled Vim 7.3 on CentOS 6.2 64bit ? I got the following error after *configure --enable-perlinterp make*:

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/16/2012 12:34 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: With companies like Facebook and Google offering cash prizes for people who can find security holes in their products, has there ever been any consideration given to offering cash rewards to people finding security exploits in CentOS or in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Lars Hecking
Hugh E Cruickshank writes: Hi All: We have been looking at implementing deduplication on a backup server. From what I have been able to find the available documentation is pretty thin. I ended up trying to install LessFS on this CentOS 5.7 box but we have now encountered problems with fuse

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread Lars Hecking
Jason T. Slack-Moehrle writes: Hi All, I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I can host this in my garage. (Comcast offered me a 100 x 20 circuit for $99/mo with 5 statics) [...] Thoughts, opinions, suggestions are welcome as to what to do!

Re: [CentOS] Etherpad on CentOS 5

2012-01-17 Thread John Doe
From: Harold Pritchett har...@uga.edu I am attempting to install Etherpad on a CentOS 5.7 system. Maybe analyze the fedora srpm... http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/sdz/etherpad/fedora-13/SRPMS/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] A little confused with video drivers

2012-01-17 Thread Phil Savoie
Hello, I have an HP Pavilion g series laptop with an ATI vision A6 video chipset. I tried elrepos ati driver but found that the laptop would freeze intermittently and frequently. So I unloaded that driver and am running with nomodeset argument just to get a desktop. I went to the ATI site but

Re: [CentOS] A little confused with video drivers

2012-01-17 Thread Markku Kolkka
17.1.2012 13:11, Phil Savoie kirjoitti: I have an HP Pavilion g series laptop with an ATI vision A6 video chipset. I tried elrepos ati driver but found that the laptop would freeze intermittently and frequently. So I unloaded that driver and am running with nomodeset argument just to get a

Re: [CentOS] A little confused with video drivers

2012-01-17 Thread Phil Savoie
On 01/17/2012 07:00 AM, Markku Kolkka wrote: 17.1.2012 13:11, Phil Savoie kirjoitti: I have an HP Pavilion g series laptop with an ATI vision A6 video chipset. I tried elrepos ati driver but found that the laptop would freeze intermittently and frequently. So I unloaded that driver and am

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread Steve Thompson
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I can host this in my garage. (Comcast offered me a 100 x 20 circuit for $99/mo with 5 statics) I use two Dell R310's in a master/backup setup with shorewall and

[CentOS] Errors in /var/spool/mail/root

2012-01-17 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Experts, I am receiving the following in /var/spool/mail/root. I cleaned out the file and then rebooted and the same errors came back. Is it possible to analyze the data and advise if there is an issue with my system? This is a completely fresh install. From u...@localhost.srv.net

Re: [CentOS] LVM question

2012-01-17 Thread Steve Thompson
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be placed on LVM and should be a physical partition on the hard drives (or on top of a RAID array). Is this an accurate statement? /boot on LVM is quite safe as long as it is below

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
CentOS Linux + Fwbuilder FTW! El 17/01/12 14:38, Steve Thompson escribió: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I can host this in my garage. (Comcast offered me a 100 x 20 circuit for $99/mo with 5

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: If not LessFS can you suggest an alternate deduplication software? Backuppc dedups (and compresses) at the file level using hardlinks. Trust you to always come up with an interesting suggestion or two. I will have

Re: [CentOS] LVM question

2012-01-17 Thread Aslan Carlos
On 01/17/2012 11:40 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: on LVM is quite safe as long as it is below 2GB It's not possible put /boot on LVM when you working with GRUB. Grub works with 2 stages: 1º - MBR ( Master Boot Record ) , with instruction to access the partition where store kernel , initrd and

Re: [CentOS] Errors in /var/spool/mail/root

2012-01-17 Thread Aslan Carlos
On 01/17/2012 11:38 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: CentOS Experts, I am receiving the following in /var/spool/mail/root. I cleaned out the file and then rebooted and the same errors came back. Is it possible to analyze the data and advise if there is an issue with my system? This is a

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 1/16/2012 3:13 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Well I wasn't necessarily advocating it here, just asking whether people would feel more or less secure using CentOS if such a prize program existed (whether run by CentOS or RHEL), and why or why not. Well, no. Usually attacks to system are caused

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Eero Volotinen
Well one of the lessons of the recent threads seems to be that there is a lot of disagreement over what constitutes a misconfigured server. Some people consider a server misconfigured if it doesn't use a firewall to limit access to sshd, some people consider it misconfigured if sshd uses

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Bennett Haselton benn...@peacefire.org wrote: But there seems to be some consensus, at least, that exploits do get found which allow apache to run arbitrary code (even under its unprivileged account), Web servers are particularly prone to this because webapps

[CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread P J
I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that have this enabled. Are any of you doing automatic yum updates on production servers in CentOS 5 via yum-updatesd? Have you experienced any negative side

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread Aslan Carlos
On 01/17/2012 02:30 PM, P J wrote: I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that have this enabled. Are any of you doing automatic yum updates on production servers in CentOS 5 via yum-updatesd?

Re: [CentOS] Mediatomb under CentOS-6

2012-01-17 Thread Mikael Fridh
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Is anyone running mediatomb under CentOS-6? I've installed it from rpmforge.repo (I think it used to be in the epel repository under CentOS-5) but I don't know how to configure it. I'm trying to use it to see photos

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread Giles Coochey
Best reason I can think of is application feature deprecation. If an update contains changes to the default configuration file then the file will normally be installed with the '.rpmnew' extension. If an application decides to deprecate and phase out options which you actually use in the current

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread John Doe
From: P J pauljfli...@gmail.com I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that have this enabled. Some parameters/configurations/functionalities might change/appear/disappear, depending on the

Re: [CentOS] Mediatomb under CentOS-6

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: For example, I want to access a directory /Photos/ on my TV, but I've no idea how to add this to the sqlite database, if indeed one has to do this. I can access the local web-page at 192.168.2.2:50500 but this does

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 1/17/2012 8:11 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Bennett Haseltonbenn...@peacefire.org wrote: But there seems to be some consensus, at least, that exploits do get found which allow apache to run arbitrary code (even under its unprivileged account), Web servers are

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bennett Haselton benn...@peacefire.org wrote: Pretty much all software testing is predicated on this notion -- that as you find and fix more bugs (of any kind, not just security bugs), eventually the mean time to find the next bug should get larger.

Re: [CentOS] LVM question

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2012 07:26 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be placed on LVM and should be a physical partition on the hard drives (or on top of a RAID array). Is this an accurate statement? Not necessarily never but not if your boot loader

Re: [CentOS] LVM question

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2012 07:38 PM, Muhammad Panji wrote: even if you need more swap you can make (additional) swap file. Swap files are just *awful*. Performance when swapping is bad enough, but going through the filesystem layer means updating atime and mtime on reads and writes. Things get real ugly

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine Manager error

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/16/2012 09:48 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: I am getting the following error when I start the Virtual machine manager ... Error polling connection 'qemu:///system': internal error Cannot find suitable emulator for x86_64 Install libvirt and run the libvirtd service.

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/17/2012 10:30 AM, P J wrote: I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that have this enabled. Are any of you doing automatic yum updates on production servers in CentOS 5 via yum-updatesd?

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 1/17/2012 9:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bennett Haselton benn...@peacefire.org wrote: Pretty much all software testing is predicated on this notion -- that as you find and fix more bugs (of any kind, not just security bugs), eventually the mean time to

Re: [CentOS] bounties for exploits against CentOS?

2012-01-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/17/2012 12:13 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 1/17/2012 9:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Bennett Haselton benn...@peacefire.org wrote: Pretty much all software testing is predicated on this notion -- that as you find and fix more bugs (of any kind, not just

Re: [CentOS] what to do about [abrt] full crash report kernel taint?

2012-01-17 Thread Thomas Burns
Are we sure this is the same problem? On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Peter Brady pdbr...@ans.com.au wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 14.01.2012 00:16, schrieb Thomas Burns: don't know how to investigate this.  What should I do?

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread P J
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 01/17/2012 10:30 AM, P J wrote: I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that have this enabled. Are any of you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: John R Pierce Sent: January 16, 2012 21:45 I hope you know, dedup systems rarely scale well, as the corpus of files get bigger and bigger, they can really grind to a halt. Thanks, I have read that but I have not seen any quantitative qualifications on this so I was planning on doing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Nataraj Sent: January 16, 2012 23:56 The ZFSonlinux project from LLNL looks promising (native mode kernel implementation, pool version 28), although the version that supports mountable filesystems is still in the RC stage. I would want some solid testing before deploying in a backup

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: David Hrbác Sent: January 16, 2012 22:55 I've got something in my repo http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb/stable/i386/repoview/fuse-les sfs.html. Might be somewhat outdated. You can try it and we can build new versions. As to alternatives I'm happy with rdiff-backup. Hi David: Both

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Lars Hecking Sent: January 17, 2012 01:51 Maybe try CentOS6. We've had numerous fuse issues with other software on CentOS5 and one recommendation was to use a newer kernel, which essentially means a newer distro. I had considered this but I have been avoiding it. All our production

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Later this year or early next year we will replacing all our production servers and use the latest RHEL available at the time (probably RHEL6). We will then look at upgrading all the backup and development servers to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Les Mikesell Sent: January 17, 2012 05:56 Big disks are cheap these days - I wouldn't worry that much about the total space that much and you'll still be able to keep a lot online. This is true for current hardware however I am attempting to reuse our existing hardware that has been

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/17/12 1:00 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Les Mikesell Sent: January 17, 2012 05:56 Big disks are cheap these days - I wouldn't worry that much about the total space that much and you'll still be able to keep a lot online. This is true for current hardware however I am

[CentOS] Transition to CentOS - RAID HELP!

2012-01-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Hi Folks, I've inherited an old RH7 system that I'd like to upgrade to CentOS6.1 by means of wiping it clean and doing a fresh install. However, the system has a software raid setup that I wish to keep untouched as it has data on that I must keep. Or at the very least, TRY to

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread dnk
On Tuesday, January 17, 2012, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez lore...@lorenzomartinez.es wrote: CentOS Linux + Fwbuilder FTW! El 17/01/12 14:38, Steve Thompson escribió: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread William Hooper
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I would always say it is best practice to manually install updates on at least one machine of a specific type and make sure everything is OK ... then automatically machines that are like that one after you are happy. I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: John R Pierce Sent: January 17, 2012 13:17 penny wise, and pound foolish comes to mind here. that older server probably has 1-2 single core processors, too, right? a 2 socket modern 2U could virtualize a dozen of those and outperform each one. This may be true in your

Re: [CentOS] Transition to CentOS - RAID HELP!

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/17/12 1:30 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Hi Folks, I've inherited an old RH7 system that I'd like to upgrade to CentOS6.1 by means of wiping it clean and doing a fresh install. However, the system has a software raid setup that I wish to keep untouched as it has data on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/17/2012 09:29 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Nataraj Sent: January 16, 2012 23:56 The ZFSonlinux project from LLNL looks promising (native mode kernel implementation, pool version 28), although the version that supports mountable filesystems is still in the RC stage. I would want

[CentOS] Java+Tomcat on CentOS 6.x

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
So whats good practice for installing Java/JDK and Tomcat for EL6 these days? The base repository included Tomcat6.6 is built with GCJ which I'd rather avoid. I'm fine with using OpenJDK ... Do most folks just use the Apache tarball for Tomcat and install it in a user directory or

[CentOS] Theoretical Firewall Specs?

2012-01-17 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
So, the more I look at various ways to lay out my infrastructure, the more I am thinking about specs for hardware. Starting with firewalling. How does one determine the specs for a firewall? What I mean is: 1. motherboard/CPU - p4? Dual-Core? Intel i3, i5, i7? 2. RAM? 4gb? 8gb? More? 32gb?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Big disks are cheap these days - I wouldn't worry that much about the total space that much and you'll still be able to keep a lot online. This is true for current hardware however I am attempting to reuse our

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM, P J pauljfli...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree about best practices but it's nice to get direct feedback from your peers. In general it is very, very rare for an update to break anything - after all that is the whole point of the

Re: [CentOS] Theoretical Firewall Specs?

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/17/12 3:36 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: So, the more I look at various ways to lay out my infrastructure, the more I am thinking about specs for hardware. Starting with firewalling. How does one determine the specs for a firewall? What I mean is: 1. motherboard/CPU - p4?

Re: [CentOS] Java+Tomcat on CentOS 6.x

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:40 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: So whats good practice for installing Java/JDK and Tomcat for EL6 these days?   The base repository included Tomcat6.6 is built with GCJ which I'd rather avoid. I'm fine with using OpenJDK ... Do most folks just use the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Nataraj
On 01/17/2012 03:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: I wouldn't trust any of the software block-dedup systems with my only copy of something important - plus they need a lot of RAM which your old systems probably don't have either. I am interested in backuppc, however from what I read online it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Nataraj
On 01/17/2012 02:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 01/17/2012 09:29 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Nataraj Sent: January 16, 2012 23:56 The ZFSonlinux project from LLNL looks promising (native mode kernel implementation, pool version 28), although the version that supports mountable

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/18/2012 01:46 AM, Nataraj wrote: On 01/17/2012 02:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 01/17/2012 09:29 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Nataraj Sent: January 16, 2012 23:56 The ZFSonlinux project from LLNL looks promising (native mode kernel implementation, pool version 28),

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/17/12 4:41 PM, Nataraj wrote: On 01/17/2012 03:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: I wouldn't trust any of the software block-dedup systems with my only copy of something important - plus they need a lot of RAM which your old systems probably don't have either. I am interested in

Re: [CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

2012-01-17 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 1/17/2012 3:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM, P Jpauljfli...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree about best practices but it's nice to get direct feedback from your peers. In general it is very, very rare for an update to break anything - after

Re: [CentOS] A little confused with video drivers

2012-01-17 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/17/2012 02:35 PM, Phil Savoie wrote: Thank you for this. Guess I'm stuck then. Great... No wireless and limited video. I guess I really know how to pick 'em. Again, thank you for your time. Go to ElRepo site, or ElRepo mailing list and report a problem. As for wireless, use Elrepo

Re: [CentOS] Mic Plugged into sound card not working

2012-01-17 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 01/16/2012 07:11 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: Hey guys, I have a mic plugged into my sound card. It worked late last night but not today. When I try to select the mic using System/Preferences/Sound I'm provided with several options to choose from. On the Hardware tab I choose the Internal

Re: [CentOS] Theoretical Firewall Specs?

2012-01-17 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:52 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: a pure firewall at gigE speeds really doesn't need that much ram and only a fair-to-middling processor. more than 2 cores would likely be wasted. Its when you start layering other server functionality on top of the

Re: [CentOS] Theoretical Firewall Specs?

2012-01-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:24 -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set something to keep in mind... wikipedia will be dark Wednesday, Jan 18th on account of their joining the stop SOPA protest. http://sopastrike.com/ for the next 32 hours, linky goodness

Re: [CentOS] Transition to CentOS - RAID HELP!

2012-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/17/2012 01:30 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I've inherited an old RH7 system that I'd like to upgrade to CentOS6.1 by means of wiping it clean and doing a fresh install. However, the system has a software raid setup that I wish to keep untouched as it has data on that I must keep.

Re: [CentOS] Java+Tomcat on CentOS 6.x

2012-01-17 Thread John Kienitz
From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: [CentOS] Java+Tomcat on CentOS 6.x So whats good practice for installing Java/JDK and Tomcat for EL6 these days?  The base repository included Tomcat6.6 is built

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Nataraj
On 01/17/2012 04:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 01/17/12 4:41 PM, Nataraj wrote: On 01/17/2012 03:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: I wouldn't trust any of the software block-dedup systems with my only copy of something important - plus they need a lot of RAM which your old systems probably don't

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: I wouldn't trust any of the software block-dedup systems with my only copy of something important - plus they need a lot of RAM which your old systems probably don't have either. I am interested in backuppc, however

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Nataraj
On 01/17/2012 07:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Nothing will fix a file if the disk underneath goes bad and you aren't running raid. And in my case I run raid1 and regularly swap disks out for offsite copies and resync. But, backuppc makes the links based on an actual comparison, so if an old

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: At this point I am only reading the experience of others, but I am inclined to try it.  I backup a mediawiki/mysql database and the new records are added to the database largely by appending.  Even with compression, it's

Re: [CentOS] Transition to CentOS - RAID HELP!

2012-01-17 Thread Raymond Lillard
Just make sure you have a verified backup before you do anything !! If it's not backed up data, it's not important data. I don't remember what version of the ext filesystem was current during the RH7 days, but I would seriously consider dumping the raid and reloading in onto a newly formatted

Re: [CentOS] Theoretical Firewall Specs?

2012-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/17/12 6:38 PM, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:24 -0500, Ryan Wagoner wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set something to keep in mind... wikipedia will be dark Wednesday, Jan 18th on account of their joining the stop SOPA protest.