Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 01/15/2014 06:17 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/14/2014 19:54, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: If you are old enough, you might remember unix versions that named disks by controller, bus, target numbers.

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/14/2014 08:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/14/2014 16:37, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Everyone, drop a tear for the dead eth0. sniff We will miss you, eth0! Haven't played much with it in CentOS. In Fedora, at present, it is a bit

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/14/2014 08:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count on the first network interface being

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/14/2014 09:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Darr247 darr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-14 8:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread mark
On 01/14/14 20:17, Warren Young wrote: On 1/14/2014 16:37, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Everyone, drop a tear for the dead eth0. sniff We will miss you, eth0! Haven't played much with it in CentOS. In Fedora, at present, it is a bit

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, mark wrote: What do you mean, slot? All of my servers, and our systems at home, the NIC's on the m/b. What slot is that? Is it labeled *anywhere*? No, of course not. Many servers have PCI cards for NICs in addition to those on the motherboard (if any). For example, most

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I run ifconfig unless I want to dig through the full listing. Yes, but that's

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 01/14/2014 08:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread JC Putter
How about using ethtool -p which causes the LED of the NIC to blink? On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 01/14/2014 08:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 01/14/2014 08:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:25:04 +0200 schrieb JC Putter jcput...@gmail.com: How about using ethtool -p which causes the LED of the NIC to blink? Very useful, unless the datacenter isn't in the basement ;-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread m . roth
Steve Thompson wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, mark wrote: What do you mean, slot? All of my servers, and our systems at home, the NIC's on the m/b. What slot is that? Is it labeled *anywhere*? No, of course not. Many servers have PCI cards for NICs in addition to those on the motherboard (if

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The problem is when you clone a disk and ship it to a location with 'hands-on' support that doesn't know linux to install in a new chassis that will arrive there at the same time. Somehow you have to get someone to put the 4 network

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:48 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The problem is when you clone a disk and ship it to a location with 'hands-on' support that doesn't know linux to install in a new chassis that will arrive there at the same time. Somehow you have to get someone

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:47 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The problem is when you clone a disk and ship it to a location with 'hands-on' support that doesn't know linux to install in a new chassis that will arrive there at the same time. Somehow you have to get someone to put the 4 network

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-15 Thread Warren Young
On 1/15/2014 05:41, mark wrote: On 01/14/14 20:17, Warren Young wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I run ifconfig unless I want to dig through the full listing. What do you mean, slot? All of my servers, and our systems at home, the NIC's on the m/b.

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/13/2014 07:33, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: is there a CentOS version of that beta? Not yet publicly available. I've heard they have something running in the development environment, but that they're still working on getting some of the RPMs to build. That's a prerequisite for generating

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: How bad is the worst case -- reinstall the OS and rebuild the software -- anyway? By doing your initial work on the RHEL 7 beta, you learn what you need to know to quickly redo the work on CentOS 7. Is there anything to

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7 - arm distro?

2014-01-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Since RH7 is built on Fedora 19 and f19 is available for arm boards, will we see a RH7 for arm boards? I would spend time on the beta if I could get an arm build for a reasonable arm board. Target application is a PBX. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: On 1/13/2014 07:33, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Reason for this: at one of my local sf clubs, I've been trying to install Evergreen, F/OSS library software, on a system, and it's a nightmare. They seem to have been building it for Ubuntu whateverthelatestanimalis. The

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: How bad is the worst case -- reinstall the OS and rebuild the software -- anyway? By doing your initial work on the RHEL 7 beta, you learn what you need to know to quickly redo the work on CentOS 7.

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 13:41, Les Mikesell wrote: It seems like taking the list from 'rpm -qa' on a running machine and feeding it to 'yum install ' I suspect it's not actually that simple. I think you'd need to do a fair bit of processing on the rpm -qa list to be able to build a yum command

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 14:32, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: configure can't find the interface, Were you aware that RHEL 7 now uses Consistent Network Device Naming (http://goo.gl/Z0ydDF) in more situations? It was optional in RHEL 6 (http://goo.gl/TiuTP9) but is all but enforced in RHEL 7. Everyone, drop

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread James Hogarth
On 14 January 2014 20:41, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything to simplify the process of duplicating the set of installed packages when you didn't pay that much attention the first time around? It seems like taking the list from 'rpm -qa' on a running machine and

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: On 1/14/2014 14:32, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: configure can't find the interface, Were you aware that RHEL 7 now uses Consistent Network Device Naming (http://goo.gl/Z0ydDF) in more situations? It was optional in RHEL 6

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/15/2014 12:37 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: On 1/14/2014 14:32, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: configure can't find the interface, Were you aware that RHEL 7 now uses Consistent Network Device Naming (http://goo.gl/Z0ydDF) in more

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 16:37, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Everyone, drop a tear for the dead eth0. sniff We will miss you, eth0! Haven't played much with it in CentOS. In Fedora, at present, it is a bit of pain as both biosdevname and systemd

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 17:33, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: If the system's BIOS does not have SMBIOS version 2.6 or higher and this data, the new naming convention will not be used. Apparently VirtualBox emulates SMBIOS, since my RHEL 7 VM uses this new scheme.

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/14/2014 5:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count on the first network interface being eth0. BSD and big iron Unix named the interface after the Ethernet driver, as

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count on the first network interface being eth0. What does 'first' mean? And the same one

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Peter
On 01/15/2014 10:57 AM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/14/2014 14:32, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Everyone, drop a tear for the dead eth0. sniff We will miss you, eth0! Not as dead as you may think, there are still situations where eth0 will be used, even by default: [root@el7-test ~]# ip a ... 2:

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Peter
On 01/15/2014 02:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count on the first network interface being eth0. BSD and big iron Unix named the interface after the Ethernet

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 18:23, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/14/2014 5:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: I don't know about less consistent, but I always considered it a feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count on the first network interface being eth0. BSD and big iron Unix named

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Darr247
On 2014-01-14 8:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I run ifconfig unless I want to dig through the full listing. Yes, but that's something you _can_ know. So...

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/14/2014 5:55 PM, Warren Young wrote: I know the problem you mean, but doesn't the HWADDR setting in the ifcfg-ethX file fix the problem? Doesn't that force ifup eth0 to bind that file's settings to the right physical interface? In the old days, ifcfg-ethX didn't have HWADDR, so first

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 18:34, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I run ifconfig unless I want to dig through the full listing. Yes, but that's something you _can_ know. How

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Darr247 darr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2014-01-14 8:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I run ifconfig unless I want to dig through

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 19:10, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/14/2014 5:55 PM, Warren Young wrote: I know the problem you mean, but doesn't the HWADDR setting in the ifcfg-ethX file fix the problem? Doesn't that force ifup eth0 to bind that file's settings to the right physical interface? In the old days,

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Thomas Eriksson
On 1/14/2014 18:34, Les Mikesell wrote: Puzzle for ya: What PCI slot is the Intel e1000e MAC chip in on a Supermicro X9SCA-F motherboard? It isn't called out in the mobo manual. I just looked. (For that matter, the actual PCI slots don't have their numbers documented in the manual,

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I run ifconfig unless I want to dig through the full listing. Yes, but that's something you _can_ know. How much time and resources do you need to

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Thomas Eriksson thomas.eriks...@slac.stanford.edu wrote: Puzzle for ya: What PCI slot is the Intel e1000e MAC chip in on a Supermicro X9SCA-F motherboard? It isn't called out in the mobo manual. I just looked. (For that matter, the actual PCI slots don't

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:35:06PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Let anaconda figure it out. I don't care what it is, just that it is repeatable. Awooga! Awoooga! Awooga! Here's the fun part; devices discovered by Anaconda may not match the devices disovered during the production boot. Device

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: Ultimately what we have is a situation similar to hard disks. We've got used to sd devices changing depending on the order disks are discovered in, which is why we use LABEL or UUID. But those don't work until something

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:54:33PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: Ultimately what we have is a situation similar to hard disks. We've got used to sd devices changing depending on the order disks are discovered in, which

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-14 Thread Warren Young
On 1/14/2014 19:54, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: If you are old enough, you might remember unix versions that named disks by controller, bus, target numbers. /dev/rdsk/c0t0n0q0w0e0p1k5n8 :) It's another reason I took to Linux

[CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-13 Thread m . roth
I've seen that RHEL 7 beta is out for some time now: is there a CentOS version of that beta? If not, is it likely to be a real pain, once CentOS 7 is released, to upgrade from RHEL 7 beta to CentOS 7? Reason for this: at one of my local sf clubs, I've been trying to install Evergreen, F/OSS

Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

2014-01-13 Thread James Hogarth
On 13 January 2014 14:33, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've seen that RHEL 7 beta is out for some time now: is there a CentOS version of that beta? If not, is it likely to be a real pain, once CentOS 7 is released, to upgrade from RHEL 7 beta to CentOS 7? Check the progress on