Re: [CentOS] Checking how many DIMM slots are in use

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:59 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:58:34PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng alleged: > > > > 2. I check the kernel and it seems like the 4G split is in effect so it > > should map / correctly recognise there's 1G of Mem there. > > Is there any way to check be

Re: [CentOS] Checking how many DIMM slots are in use

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:58:34PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng alleged: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there's a method for doing any of these > > 1. Check what's the physical memory available. > > free -m shows ~768 mem but I was sure that I had 1G of memory in there. > > 2. I check the kernel and it seems

[CentOS] Checking how many DIMM slots are in use

Hi, I'm wondering if there's a method for doing any of these 1. Check what's the physical memory available. free -m shows ~768 mem but I was sure that I had 1G of memory in there. 2. I check the kernel and it seems like the 4G split is in effect so it should map / correctly recognise there's 1G

Re: [CentOS] fstab problem after a failed drive

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 22:57 +0200, Alain Spineux wrote: > When your / is mounted ro, you can remount / in rw using this command > > # mount -o remount,rw / > > Then update your fstab and reboot > > Regards > > Alain > Thanks Alain, That worked perfectly Greg _

[CentOS] searching for yum packages necessary for mail gateway

I'm looking for the Red Hat equivalent of this Debian statement "apt-get –y install postfix mailscanner spamassassin bind9 clamav ssh webmin webmin-core logwatch libspf2-0 libmail-spf-query-perl" "yum search" can't find some of the packages. Is there some sort of online DB or something that I can

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

Karanbir Singh wrote: What sort of machines do you have that you could test on ? there is an ia64 distro spin running right now, so depending on how that works out there will be an installable tree ( but no isos ) available for testing shortly. SGI Altix 3700 64P x 64GB, SGI Prism 32P x 32GB S

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

William Warren wrote: actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. Used to (bar buggy firmware, incompatibilities). Most hardware raid cards nowadays not only have sufficient processing power, they also come with decent sizes of RAM cache which helps swing things a lot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 crash (cifs bug ?)

On 9/23/07, Kuang-Chun Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Akemi, > > I were expected that there may have a CentOS testing repository > which will offer the bug fixed kernel. But ... this should be > enough, I will try that. > Thanks > > Regards > KC CentOS cannot provide the bug-fixed kernel

RE: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > There exists a command-li

RE: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > > > > There exists a command-line command to do this as well, 'chvt' which > > is part o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 crash (cifs bug ?)

Hi Akemi, I were expected that there may have a CentOS testing repository which will offer the bug fixed kernel. But ... this should be enough, I will try that. Thanks Regards KC On 9/23/07, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/22/07, Kuang-Chun Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi

Re: [CentOS] question on "yum --enablerepo=centos "

First off ... the php in CentOSPlus is part of the CentOS Web Stack ... if you use that php, you will need to use all the things that go with it from the Stack. See this page: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/CentOSPlus/CentOSWebStack Wow, this looks perfect. Thanks, Johnny! (I will give

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

Mark Weaver wrote: umair shakil wrote: Dear Salam, Well i have used the command on shell "updatedb" it will allow you to make fast searching. Regards, Umair Shakil ETD um... what? Peace, peace. He appears to have read between the lines and come to conclusion the OP was trying to impr

Re: [CentOS] 3Ware 9550SX and latency/system responsiveness

Simon Banton wrote: At 17:34 +0800 14/9/07, Feizhou wrote: .ohdo you have a BBU for your write cache on your 3ware board? Not installed, but the machine's on a UPS. Ugh. The 3ware code will not give OK then until the stuff has hit disk. Having now installed BBUs, it's made no differenc

Re: [CentOS] question on "yum --enablerepo=centos "

Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm installing Fruity for Nagios using the 4.4 Single Server CD and want > to force upgrade PHP 4 to PHP 5 without having to upgrade everything on > CentOSplus. First off ... the php in CentOSPlus is part of the CentOS Web Stack ... if you use that php, you will need to u

[CentOS] question on "yum --enablerepo=centos "

I'm installing Fruity for Nagios using the 4.4 Single Server CD and want to force upgrade PHP 4 to PHP 5 without having to upgrade everything on CentOSplus. In order to install Nagios, I have to first enable RPMforge. However, to use Fruity, I have to use PHP 5, which isn't included in the RP

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

William L. Maltby wrote: IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware level(used to be set with jumpers and/or low-level format programs?). I seem to recall that new drives don't really have "sectors" anymore, but have supporting circuits/(EE)proms that emulate that? no, sectors are still

Re: [CentOS] fstab problem after a failed drive

When your / is mounted ro, you can remount / in rw using this command # mount -o remount,rw / Then update your fstab and reboot Regards Alain On 9/22/07, Gregory P. Ennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone, > > I installed a sata drive on a SuperMicro with SCSI drives. No problem > with th

Re: [CentOS] (gnome-session:5212) error

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:46:08 -0700 Todd Cary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. > The error states that "Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission > denied" and > "Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied" It looks to me like

Re: [CentOS] (gnome-session:5212) error

Todd Cary wrote: > One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The > error states that "Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied" and > "Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied" > > Any suggestions are welcomed.. Wrongly set home directory in /etc/passw

[CentOS] (gnome-session:5212) error

One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that "Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied" and "Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied" Any suggestions are welcomed.. Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (7

Re: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

William L. Maltby wrote: I'm not sure when this next thing would be useful, but another thing that I think has a high degree of "coolity" is that I can "openvt" from an X terminal and work in the standard (usually 80x25) console screen. ... Oh wait! When my old eyes get tired of squinting (some

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

I had this same issue with 'fdisk' when I installed it on a server with 12TB of space RAID'd down to 6TB. Just use 'parted' and it will solve your problems. On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: I need to install Centos on a machin

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

Gparted and partion magic will do it. Windows will do it if you format via the disk management console. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Message- From: "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:43:48 To:CentOS General List Subject: R

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > > increase the block size above 512 > > Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block".

RE: [CentOS] X11 virtual screens on centos 5

On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:48 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:40 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > There exists a command-line command to do this as well, 'chvt' which > is part of the kbd package. I want to add openvt, just for completene

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > increase the block size above 512 Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block". ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On 9/23/07, Rajeev R Veedu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) > Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. We recently installed CentOS 5 on a pair of machines with 2.5TB RAIDs and the only way we co

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

As William mentioned the easiest way is to format the drive after the fact. Create an LVM and write it directly onto the drive. Things work great that way. I haven't tried formatting a raw device. Shawn - Original Message - From: Rajeev R Veedu To: centos@centos.org Sent: Su

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default p

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:43 +0400, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: > I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid > card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this > disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it > for ext3. The default p

[CentOS] Formatting a large disk

I need to install Centos on a machine with 3tb raid disk. (3 ware raid card) Could someone in the list suggest a utility for partition this disk. I would like to have the whole disk in 1 partition and format it for ext3. The default partitioning utility doesn't do this. The OS sits on another SATA

Re: [CentOS] chmod / chown settings on /var/www/html

I can't answer all your questions, but I can answer a little. Ideally your should have everything from the html dir on down owned by root (or the account of whoever is going to be maintaining the html pages), but with a group of www. The permissions for everything should have the group and oth

[CentOS] chmod / chown settings on /var/www/html

I'm setting up a new CentOS 4.4 server to work with Fruity (a frontend program that operates Nagios). For security purposes, what chmod and chown settings do you put on the /var/www/html folders? Also, can anyone recommend any good LAMP hardening guides? While I'm not planning on putting this into

Re: [CentOS] install freezes at partition layout

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 14:22 -0700, Barry Schiffman wrote: > I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a > Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm > using the DVD image. > > The media check said the DVD was OK. > > Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text > modes), un

Re: [CentOS] install freezes at partition layout

On 22 September 2007, Barry Schiffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT) > I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a > Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm > using the DVD image. Barry: Possibly the small amount of RAM is

Re: [CentOS] Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and, stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email, reporting

"Alexander Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr and stdin, which is easy: backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1 However, I would like to propagate only s

Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please

On Saturday 22 September 2007 15:12:23 Paul wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:53 +0100, John Bowden wrote: > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:39:03 Jim Wildman wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, John Bowden wrote: > > > > (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two > > > > i