Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread m . roth
Kay Schenk wrote: On 06/07/2015 10:11 PM, Peter wrote: On 06/08/2015 12:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: My situation is I have 7 separate Linux partitions and a swap area. One of the partitions is /home, so it's already in its own partition. I want to keep the partitions for CentOS exactly as I

[CentOS] Unable to install Centos 7 64 bit

2015-06-08 Thread JD
Greetings... What is the fastest site for downloading CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso ? Thanx ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-08 Thread Darr247
On Monday, 08 June 2015 at @07:06 zulu, Gordon Messmer wrote: Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system will chkdsk on the next boot. No such requirement exists with Microsoft's tools That's not been my experience... gparted does use ntfs-3g to work on NTFS

Re: [CentOS-virt] Question Kernel / KVM; Update Centos 7(.1)

2015-06-08 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 08.06.2015 um 14:25 schrieb Günther J. Niederwimmer: Hello, Have Centos a Repository with corrected or newer Packages for KVM. To which bugs do you refer? On my brand new System ;-), but also with my older System. I have big problems with KVM guests slow slow slow, the DomU's are also

Re: [CentOS] Effectiveness of CentOS vm.swappiness

2015-06-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Markus Shorty Uckelmann sho...@koeln.de wrote: I have lots of C6 C7 machines in use and all of them have the default swappiness of 60. The problem now is that a lot of those machines do swap although there is no memory pressure. I'm now thinking about lowering

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install Centos 7 64 bit

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 1:04 PM, JD wrote: Greetings... What is the fastest site for downloading CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso ? I almost always download the -minimal- version, and then install the specific packages I need with yum. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

[CentOS] Does CentOS7 targetcli work to serve out to XEN hosts?

2015-06-08 Thread Rob Townley
I have been successful at getting one XEN host to initiate a iSCSI connection to a target served by CentOS7, but not a second XEN host. xe sr-create complains the StorageRepository is in use. Is there a configuration change? Another iSCSI target server to use?

Re: [CentOS] less for CentOS6 with POSIX regex?

2015-06-08 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article ml1jnh$afr$1...@softins.softins.co.uk, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote: When I started using CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5, I discovered that less no longer understood \ and \, which I had been used to using since almost forever. Eventually research revealed that in the

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install Centos 7 64 bit

2015-06-08 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 08.06.2015 um 22:04 schrieb JD: Greetings... What is the fastest site for downloading CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso ? Thanx Choose a fast mirror server close to your location. Alexander ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] less for CentOS6 with POSIX regex?

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 06/09/2015 12:33 AM, t...@softins.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) wrote: In article ml1jnh$afr$1...@softins.softins.co.uk, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote: When I started using CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5, I discovered that less no longer understood \ and \, which I had been used to

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install Centos 7 64 bit

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
Try bittorrent. Really. Try it. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:04 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings... What is the fastest site for downloading CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1503-01.iso ? Thanx ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install Centos 7 64 bit

2015-06-08 Thread JD
Thanx to all who replied. I downloaded using torrent and that was indeed fast. However after I made sure it had the correct sha256sum, and after I burned it to DVD, and and dd'd the DVD back to a temp file and again checked the sha256sum of the temp file, all was OK. Same sha256sum. So, I

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/08/2015 11:34 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 06/07/2015 11:05 PM, g wrote: On 06/07/2015 07:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: So, I'm not sure how to interpret what you said. Can I get the same results from a CentOS install using some combination of options? because your are playing with multi

Re: [CentOS] less for CentOS6 with POSIX regex?

2015-06-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 06/09/2015 12:48 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: On 06/09/2015 12:33 AM, t...@softins.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) wrote: In article ml1jnh$afr$1...@softins.softins.co.uk, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.co.uk wrote: When I started using CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5, I discovered that less no

Re: [CentOS-docs] Update for FAQ - q.15 q.31 update merge

2015-06-08 Thread Karsten Wade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/05/2015 01:52 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 06/05/2015 08:30 PM, Karsten Wade wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks: A few of us (KB, Johnny, myself) have begun work on updating the main FAQs on the CentOS wiki.

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 4:46 PM, michael wright wrote: Hello my name is Michael I am new to (CENTOS) what I would like to do is run the software as a dual boot how can I do this I have a 2TB Harddrive with 4GB DDR3 Memory Intel Core i5 processor 2300. you would need unpartitioned space on the drive to

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:46 PM, michael wright michael_j@hotmail.com wrote: Hello my name is Michael I am new to (CENTOS) what I would like to do is run the software as a dual boot how can I do this I have a 2TB Harddrive with 4GB DDR3 Memory Intel Core i5 processor 2300. I assume you’re

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 5:08 PM, g wrote: ie, partition for boot, partition for swap, partition for /, partition home, partition for usr, partition for var, partition for home2, partition for what ever. that model is not generally recommended anymore, at least not putting /usr on its own partition,

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 5:21 PM, michael wright wrote: Hi I am running windows 7 professional and the lastest centos7 x86 now if I wish to partition the hard since I have 2TB harddrive what volume would I need to set that at many thanks mike windows 7 defaults to creating a partition on the entire

[CentOS] centos 7 will not install :(

2015-06-08 Thread JD
Please ... any info on how to proceed??? After I made sure it had the correct sha256sum, and after I burned it to DVD, and and dd'd the DVD back to a temp file and again checked the sha256sum of the temp file, all was OK. Same sha256sum. So, I rebooted the machine and it booted up from the DVD.

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Peter
On 06/09/2015 01:31 PM, g wrote: /home in a dedicated partition, sure. only way i have done it from many years back. /var/lib/${DATABASE_OR_WEB_SERVER}, ditto... if/when i set up a server. Servers are better off without a separate partition for /home. Unlike desktop installs which

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Peter
On 06/09/2015 02:13 PM, John R Pierce wrote: I tend to install my virtual host websites under /home/someuser/public_html where there's a someuser for each vhost. the default /var/www website is generally completely stubbed off and not even used. That was actually one of the scenarios that I

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/08/2015 08:29 PM, Peter wrote: The real issue is that you cannot put /usr on a dedicated partition anymore as of CentOS 7. This is because /bin, /lib and /lib64 are symbolic linked in the /usr equivalents now. The (previous) purposes of having a separate /bin and /lib was so that

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 6:35 PM, Peter wrote: On 06/09/2015 01:31 PM, g wrote: /home in a dedicated partition, sure. only way i have done it from many years back. /var/lib/${DATABASE_OR_WEB_SERVER}, ditto... if/when i set up a server. Servers are better off without a separate partition for /home.

Re: [CentOS] CEntos6.6 doesn't install Glusterfs-server?

2015-06-08 Thread yoshihome
Really, I could install glusterfs-server successfully last year. I heard problems come from priority in Cents-Base.repo. On 2015年06月08日 17:45, Nux! wrote: I believe CentOS Base only ships the glusterfs client. AFAIK the recommended way to install a full blown gluster solution is to use their

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:32:05PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/8/2015 5:21 PM, michael wright wrote: Hi I am running windows 7 professional and the lastest centos7 x86 now if I wish to partition the hard since I have 2TB harddrive what volume would I need to set that at many thanks mike

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/08/2015 08:35 PM, Peter wrote: On 06/09/2015 01:31 PM, g wrote: /home in a dedicated partition, sure. only way i have done it from many years back. /var/lib/${DATABASE_OR_WEB_SERVER}, ditto... if/when i set up a server. Servers are better off without a separate partition for

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:03:29PM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:46 PM, michael wright michael_j@hotmail.com wrote: Hello my name is Michael I am new to (CENTOS) what I would like to do is run the software as a dual boot how can I do this I have a 2TB Harddrive

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/08/2015 02:00 PM, g wrote: On 06/08/2015 11:34 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 06/07/2015 11:05 PM, g wrote: On 06/07/2015 07:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: So, I'm not sure how to interpret what you said. Can I get the same results from a CentOS install using some combination of options?

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread michael wright
Hi I am running windows 7 professional and the lastest centos7 x86 now if I wish to partition the hard since I have 2TB harddrive what volume would I need to set that at many thanks mike Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 17:02:34 -0700 From: pie...@hogranch.com To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re:

Re: [CentOS] how do I make my headset work

2015-06-08 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, g wrote: On 06/05/2015 04:16 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, g wrote: As I understand it, GFI sums the currents going into each prong. If the sum is not close enough to zero, it breaks the circuit. not quite. see;

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install Centos 7 64 bit

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
This might help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Optical_disc_drive#Burning It's a little technical, but it does work. I have had the Brasero program do bad cd/dvd burns, that were not obvious, even after more than one attempt, and then lie to me about it. This does the job. It's a

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Peter
On 06/09/2015 12:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/8/2015 5:08 PM, g wrote: ie, partition for boot, partition for swap, partition for /, partition home, partition for usr, partition for var, partition for home2, partition for what ever. that model is not generally recommended anymore, at

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/08/2015 07:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/8/2015 5:08 PM, g wrote: ie, partition for boot, partition for swap, partition for /, partition home, partition for usr, partition for var, partition for home2, partition for what ever. that model is not generally recommended anymore, at

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 6:29 PM, Peter wrote: You can thank Fedora for making that rather pointless change and breaking that capability. that 'capability' was a holdover of the 1980s when disks were measured in megabytes, and memory in kilobytes, so large file systems were impractical. -- john r

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/08/2015 09:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/8/2015 6:29 PM, Peter wrote: You can thank Fedora for making that rather pointless change and breaking that capability. that 'capability' was a holdover of the 1980s when disks were measured in megabytes, and memory in kilobytes, so large

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/08/2015 06:12 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 06/08/2015 02:00 PM, g wrote: just what do you want for a 1st choice? I think Peter addressed my concern and responded in a way that leads me to believe a /home2 as you suggest is not necessary since it will be bypassed in terms of any

[CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread michael wright
Hello my name is Michael I am new to (CENTOS) what I would like to do is run the software as a dual boot how can I do this I have a 2TB Harddrive with 4GB DDR3 Memory Intel Core i5 processor 2300. I would like to setup a shared hosting site I no I need to install php and MySQL as such I also

Re: [CentOS] centos 7 will not install :(

2015-06-08 Thread Francis Gerund
See my second reply to your earlier message. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:47 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote: Please ... any info on how to proceed??? After I made sure it had the correct sha256sum, and after I burned it to DVD, and and dd'd the DVD back to a temp file and again checked the

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2015-06-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jun 8, 2015, at 8:21 PM, michael wright michael_j@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I am running windows 7 professional and the lastest centos7 x86 now if I wish to partition the hard since I have 2TB harddrive what volume would I need to set that at many thanks mike How much space you need is

Re: [CentOS] exclude directory from rsync

2015-06-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 6/8/2015 10:12 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: rsync -avzp --exclude-from=/var/www/var/ /mnt/var/ rsync -avzp --exclude=/var/www/var/ /mnt/var/ But neither has worked. Can I get a suggestion on how to get this to happen? how about... cd /var rsync -avzp --exclude=www/\* . /mnt/var

Re: [CentOS] exclude directory from rsync

2015-06-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/08/2015 10:12 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: I'm trying to do an rsync of the entire /var directory, but exclude just the /var/www directory. ... rsync -avzp --exclude-from=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/ --exclude-from takes a filename as an argument. That filename is expected to contain a list of

[CentOS] exclude directory from rsync

2015-06-08 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, I'm trying to do an rsync of the entire /var directory, but exclude just the /var/www directory. So far I've tried these approaches: rsync -avzp --exclude-from=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/ rsync -avzp --exclude=/var/www /var/ /mnt/var/ But neither has worked. Can I get a suggestion on

Re: [CentOS] How to install clang on CentOS 7?

2015-06-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
I think that EPEL repository provides clang compiler? -- Eero 2015-06-08 10:30 GMT+03:00 Nan Xiao xiaonan830...@gmail.com: Hi all, I want to install clang on CentOS 7. After executing yum install clang, it outputs: [root@hp ~]# yum install clang Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading

Re: [CentOS] How to install clang on CentOS 7?

2015-06-08 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Le 08/06/2015 09:30, Nan Xiao a écrit : Hi all, I want to install clang on CentOS 7. After executing yum install clang, it outputs: [root@hp ~]# yum install clang Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.mia.host-engine.com * elrepo:

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread g
On 06/07/2015 07:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: So, I'm not sure how to interpret what you said. Can I get the same results from a CentOS install using some combination of options? because your are playing with multi flavors, [i bet you like going to baskin-robbins for ice cream ;-) ] a solution

[CentOS] How to install clang on CentOS 7?

2015-06-08 Thread Nan Xiao
Hi all, I want to install clang on CentOS 7. After executing yum install clang, it outputs: [root@hp ~]# yum install clang Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.mia.host-engine.com * elrepo: elrepo.mirrors.arminco.com * extras:

Re: [CentOS] How to install clang on CentOS 7?

2015-06-08 Thread Nan Xiao
Hi Eero, Laurent, Yes, it worked! Thanks very much! Best Regards Nan Xiao On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@quelquesmots.fr wrote: Le 08/06/2015 09:30, Nan Xiao a écrit : Hi all, I want to install clang on CentOS 7. After executing yum install clang, it

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/07/2015 09:01 PM, Darr247 wrote: I tend to disagree with that advice... I would recommend http://gparted.org/livecd.php over the microsoft-supplied tools, in a heartbeat. Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system will chkdsk on the next boot. No such

Re: [CentOS] CEntos6.6 doesn't install Glusterfs-server?

2015-06-08 Thread Nux!
I believe CentOS Base only ships the glusterfs client. AFAIK the recommended way to install a full blown gluster solution is to use their own repos at http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/CentOS/epel-6/ HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux!

[CentOS] Spamassassin: last step

2015-06-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running CentOS-7 on my home server, and have setup postfix + dovecot + spamassassin. Everything seems to be working fine, except that while spam is being marked as ***Spam***, it is ending up in ~/Maildir/cur/ . I'd like to divert it to ~/Maildir/.Spam/ (where I can examine it with

[CentOS] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-08 Thread Zeev Pekar
Dear CentOS community, we would like to announce the recent open-source release of our GPU-enabled multiphysics software - Advanced Simulation Library. http://asl.org.il/ Here are some remarkable benchmarks: http://asl.org.il/benchmarks/multicomponent_flow/ I hope that it will be included in

[CentOS] kvm machine type pc-i440fx-2.1

2015-06-08 Thread Marius Vaitiekunas
Hi, Could anybody give me some advice, how to define virtual machine type pc-i440fx-2.1 on latest centos 7.1? I need to live migrate vms from debian based hypervisor and I get an error about unsupported machine types, because on centos there are different naming pc-i440fx-rhel7.1.0. -- Marius

Re: [CentOS] could not insert 'fuse' error on CentOS 7.1

2015-06-08 Thread Tim Dunphy
Cool! Thanks Eero. I'll check this out. Best regards, Tim Sent from my iPhone On Jun 8, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: This looka good: https://github.com/juliogonzalez/s3fs-fuse-rpm Eero 7.6.2015 4.23 ip. Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com kirjoitti:

Re: [CentOS] Effectiveness of CentOS vm.swappiness

2015-06-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 08:40:27AM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: Linux does not treat various kinds of memory pages differently. If you want a daemon to be fully in core, call mlockall(). Here's one way to do that without changing the daemon's source: Another way to do this is to put the services

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin: last step

2015-06-08 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net said: I'd like to divert it to ~/Maildir/.Spam/ (where I can examine it with sa-learn). What is the simplest way to do this? I do that with sieve. Install dovecot-pigeonhole, add sieve to the Dovecot lda/lmtp protocol list (this assumes

Re: [CentOS] Migration to centos 7 and program seg faulting [solved]

2015-06-08 Thread Jerry Geis
Thanks for the suggestions. My case ended up being a large local variable (stack data)that was fine before and not fine on CentOS 7. If found it by #ifdef entire main function, my program then ran. I then just started letting in chunks of code to narrow it down. jerry

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 07 Jun 2015 15:16:45 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: If I choose to do a fresh install of CentOS 6 with replace existing Linux systems, will it also wipe out my /home directory? In the past when I've done this with another Linux distro, /home was not affected.

[CentOS-virt] Question Kernel / KVM; Update Centos 7(.1)

2015-06-08 Thread Günther J . Niederwimmer
Hello, Have Centos a Repository with corrected or newer Packages for KVM. On my brand new System ;-), but also with my older System. I have big problems with KVM guests slow slow slow, the DomU's are also CentOS 7 virt-manager is also broken with the 7.1 The old Bug in the Kernel is really

[CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 x86_64 Vagrant Box

2015-06-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability for CentOS Linux 7 x86_64 images for Vagrant. This image represents a minimal install set, that lines up with the user expectation for our Cloud Images, our ISO based Minimal installer and the default minimal install profile from the in-distro

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/07/2015 10:11 PM, Peter wrote: On 06/08/2015 12:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: My situation is I have 7 separate Linux partitions and a swap area. One of the partitions is /home, so it's already in its own partition. I want to keep the partitions for CentOS exactly as I have them in terms

Re: [CentOS] newbie question on installation over existing Linux

2015-06-08 Thread Kay Schenk
On 06/07/2015 11:05 PM, g wrote: On 06/07/2015 07:25 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: So, I'm not sure how to interpret what you said. Can I get the same results from a CentOS install using some combination of options? because your are playing with multi flavors, [i bet you like going to