RE: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Have other folks had good luck with this card? What sorts of configs are you >running? I'm in the position of needing more storage, and I'm a bit gun shy on >3ware at the moment... Does that drive have a jumper to slow it down to 1.5Gb transfer rate? Cheap controllers and drives just cant do it

[CentOS] problems installing samba

2008-06-21 Thread Rajeev R. Veedu
Dear all, I am trying to install Samba 3.0.30 on a new Centos 5 machine and I am getting following error. Samba has been downloaded form setnet. Could some please let me know how to fix this? rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version error: db4 error(-30974) from dben

[CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem to work. I have changed the comms

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server > that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) > hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread nate
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > periodically throwing errors like the following: > > sd 1:0:0:0: WARNING: (0x06:0x002C): Command (0x8a) timed out, resetting > card. Wondering if you have scheduled automatic media scans of all of the disks in the array? Perhaps you have a disk that is going bad causi

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 1:01am, Ruslan Sivak wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large raid-6. we usually don't m

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large raid-6. we usually don't make single raid sets much large than 7-8 drives,

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boi

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the card periodically throwing errors like

[CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-21 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the card periodically throwing errors like the following: sd 1:0:0:0

Re: [CentOS] Network FS w/o user setup

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Ted Miller wrote: Is samba running there? If so, you are mostly done. Yes, at the moment I have Samba running, but apparently not properly configured. I am also in the process of moving this machine from Centos 4 to Centos 5, and am trying to do it better this time. At the moment office2

Re: [CentOS] cannot unmount volume "xxx"

2008-06-21 Thread 李晖
Thank you for your help. I will try this when I mount the hard disk next time. Thanks again. 2008/6/22 nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ÀîêÍ wrote: > > > I googled this problem for many days and didn't find any way to solve > > this problem. Maybe it is a bug. I hope someone can help me. Thank you

Re: ****Re: [CentOS] Network FS w/o user setup

2008-06-21 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 21:48 -0400, Ted Miller wrote: > I have been using 'share' mode, but a little reading makes it sound like I > should switch to 'user' mode to make my life easier. I have been adding > various user permission lines to each share. Will they keep working if I > just comment

Re: [CentOS] Network FS w/o user setup

2008-06-21 Thread Ted Miller
Thanks for the reply. I think we are making progress, see comments/questions interspersed below. Les Mikesell wrote: Ted Miller wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Well ... you would need to Join the "Samba Server" to your "Windows Domain". If that domain is ADS (Active Directory Services) then i

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:33 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via > network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use > rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? At gigabit speeds, you're looking at over a week

[CentOS] wtmp binary is 5 times bigger than its equivalent text file

2008-06-21 Thread Centos
On one of our servers wtmp is growing very fast. The binary file is about 50M but when I change it to ascii with fwtmp command, The ascii file is only 10M. binary file is being 5 times bigger than text file ? Any suggestion ? ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Trouble brewing in dmesg... any ideas?

2008-06-21 Thread Ted Miller
Rob Townley wrote: dmesg > dmesg.log or cd /var/log/ ls -lat | more i liked the old days when dmesg, /var/log/messages and other syslog stuff was displayed automatically on a tty console. I tried a softlink from /var/log/messages to tty9, but didn't have any luck. Would it require a tee o

Re: [CentOS] Network FS w/o user setup

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Ted Miller wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Well ... you would need to Join the "Samba Server" to your "Windows Domain". If that domain is ADS (Active Directory Services) then it is a different procedure than if it is a WinNT type Windows Domain. This is getting well outside the range of comple

Re: [CentOS] Network FS w/o user setup

2008-06-21 Thread Ted Miller
Johnny Hughes wrote: Ted Miller wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Ted Miller wrote: Is there a file system + configuration that will let me share a directory, and anyone who has access to something in that directory on the server will also have access (and lack of access) to the same files from th

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 23:44 schrieb Matt Morgan: O Then if you get the network sorted out, the fastest & most reliable way I know to copy lots of files is star --copy You can get star with yum install star Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Matt Morgan
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM, nightduke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can add fiber network card to each server? fiber switch? if not try to > plugin to each server giga ethernet card put a crossover cable and > start rsync... i did that with 1tb of photos and takes a lot of > timekeep p

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread nightduke
Can add fiber network card to each server? fiber switch? if not try to plugin to each server giga ethernet card put a crossover cable and start rsync... i did that with 1tb of photos and takes a lot of timekeep power supply working and cross the fingers I hope this can help 2008/6/21

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Lanny Marcus wrote: On 6/21/08, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found their web support to be excellent if you can get past the place where they sort out the individual/small/large business users. Try to find support/downloads and the place where you put in the model number or t

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
Mag Gam wrote: Network is a 10/100 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD assuming 100baseT wire speed of about 10Mbyte/sec, moving 100TB will take a minimum of 100TB/10MB/s = 10,000,000 seconds or 2900 hours, or about 4 months. even on a gigE network, this would still take about 2 weeks or mo

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 21:51 schrieb Mag Gam: Network is a 10/100 You're kidding? 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD Move the data by moving the storage itself. It will take months to transfer 100 TB via FastEthernet. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Mag Gam
Network is a 10/100 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 21.06.2008 um 15:33 schrieb Mag Gam: > > > I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. >> What is the best option to do this? I

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-21 Thread Johnny Hughes
nate wrote: Scott Silva wrote: I still think Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, or one of the BSD's will be your best option on that hardware. But Gentoo would take forever to compile/install on that hardware. I thought I read at some point that Debian etch dropped 486 support. Another option may be Ce

Re: [CentOS] cannot unmount volume "xxx"

2008-06-21 Thread nate
ÀîêÍ wrote: > I googled this problem for many days and didn't find any way to solve > this problem. Maybe it is a bug. I hope someone can help me. Thank you. You may lose data doing this but at least for NFS volumes if something is stuck I umount the file systems with the "-l -f" options. I'

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-21 Thread nate
Scott Silva wrote: > I still think Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, or one of the BSD's will be your best > option on that hardware. But Gentoo would take forever to compile/install on > that hardware. I thought I read at some point that Debian etch dropped 486 support. Another option may be CentOS 3.x o

[CentOS] Re: centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2008 6:17 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: Sorry, I have no clue about your question. However, I have several AMD K6 chips (pentium-equivalent) lying around should you trip over a motherboard that'll run them. That would solve your 486 problem, I think, so let me know if such a chip wo

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 15:33 schrieb Mag Gam: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetf

[CentOS] cannot unmount volume "xxx"

2008-06-21 Thread 李晖
Hi all: I am using Centos 5.1. But now I have a problem when unmount a removable usb hard disk with right click and choose unmount volume command. When I did that, system reminds me with a message like this:Cannot unmount volume "xxx", Detail: Cannot remove directory, "xxx" represents a tempora

Re: [CentOS] Pulling Hair Out - TWiki 4.2 on CentOS 5

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
MHR wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Once I build a system and bring it to our defined baseline, I rarely use rpm from that point forward...I custom roll almost everything -- especially apache. (red hat's layout makes my skin crawl) When did CPAN become so

RE: [CentOS] centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-21 Thread Kevin K
I tried RHEL 3 (I believe) on a Pentium class system, and that did not work well. For everything but the kernel, there was a 386 version available (glibc, ssl, etc), so we recompiled the kernel for the 586. Unfortunately, glibc, when you compile it for anything below a 686, did not support NTPL t

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS mounted f

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/21/08, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found their web support to be excellent if you can get past the > place where they sort out the individual/small/large business users. > Try to find support/downloads and the place where you put in the model > number or their tag number wh

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > So, how do I actually access these servers remotely? If possible, I'd like todo it via another CentOS server at the DC using SSH. Dell's usually come with their openmange suite, so you might google for that. I think a java-enabled browser should connect and get an apple

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS mounted

[CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Mag Gam
I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? For example, I plan on doing rsync -azv /largefs /targetfs /targetfs is a NFS mounted filesystem. Any t

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-21 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: Some management systems have additional options which include full VGA KVM abilities, I have a demo Dell box with DRAC 5 which has this ability though I haven't been able to get it to work. HP systems have this ability as well but require an additional ~$300 license add on(iLO Advance

[CentOS] Re: centos 4.6 - 586 install - how to get that to a 486 level if possible

2008-06-21 Thread Jerry Geis
Sorry, I have no clue about your question. However, I have several AMD K6 chips (pentium-equivalent) lying around should you trip over a motherboard that'll run them. That would solve your 486 problem, I think, so let me know if such a chip would help you out. Fred - thanks for the offer - how

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 40, Issue 9

2008-06-21 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reac

Re: [CentOS] error

2008-06-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: hi this is my named.conf // // named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver // options { directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; /* * If there is a fir

Re: [CentOS] how do I manage a Dell PE 860 server via IPMI?

2008-06-21 Thread nate
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Cool, this worked from my Windows Laptop to the Dell server, but I see > it's only a very basic info type setup. Do you run any specific software > on your Linux server to give you more control? > > I was actually hoping that I could use this as a KVM over IP type thing > to m

Re: [CentOS] ClamAV help needed - Related problem

2008-06-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 June 2008 09:45:16 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2008 06:13, Martin Garcia wrote: > > Hi Anne, I have many servers running clamav, simply use the dag repos > > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ and install it via yum "yum install clamav > > clamd" then run freshclam, thats it. I pres