Re: [CentOS-docs] new wiki article: How to repair a software RAID5 volume with more than one failed disk
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Lev Shamardin shamar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, So, would you place a link? Oh, ooops. Yeah, done. Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen runlevels 5.3 vs. 5.4
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: In the end, the important question is Do you run at Runlevel 2? Runlevel 2 and 4 are rarely used and each has different site definitions of what its being used for. Some sites use runlevel2 as multi-user/no-network, and other sites use it for multi-user/debugging (eg runlevel 3 but some changes to see what might have broken when we turned on X). Runlevel 4 is similarly used (eg its up to a site to define how they want to use it). I think Red Hat normally defines their runlevel 2 as multi-user/no-network which would mean xendomains should be off... however its probably a reset of a wireless modem and all things work better. that sentance should be: however its up to you in the end. sorry about that. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-es] Asterisk en Centos
Incluso en la pagina de elastix.org hay un script llamada Centos to elastix, si quieres lo puedes probar. Un cordial saludo, From: centos-es-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-es-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Krlos Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:26 PM To: centos-es@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-es] Asterisk en Centos Daniel, Hace ya un tiempo asistí a una conferencia sobre VoIP en Linux y el tema era sobre un software alternativo a Asterisk, se llama FreeSwitch y según el expositor es mejor que Asterisk en varios aspectos. Échale una ojeada aquí: http://www.freeswitch.org/ y existe un blog que al menos me parece bueno: http://www.freeswitch.es/ Salu2 Krlos --- El Vie 13/11/09, Daniel Ninacondor Narvaez danielnn_...@hotmail.com escribió: De: Daniel Ninacondor Narvaez danielnn_...@hotmail.com Asunto: [CentOS-es] Asterisk en Centos Para: centos-es@centos.org Fecha: Viernes 13 de Noviembre de 2009, 17:03 Hola amigos listeros, espero me puedan ayudar. El hecho es que necesito utilizar las comunicaciones basadas en voz – IP y he pensado en Asterisk, tengo una maquina recién instalada con Centos 4.5 (ahora no se si esta versión de Centos es la adecuado para lo que pretendo o ¿sugieren otra? ). Si tuvieran la información espero me la proporcionen. Gracias de adelantadamente Amigos. Atte. DanielNN __ Información de ESET Smart Security, versión de la base de firmas de virus 4604 (20091113) __ ESET Smart Security ha comprobado este mensaje. http://www.eset.com http://www.eset.com -Sigue archivo adjunto- ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es _ ¡Capacidad ilimitada de almacenamiento en tu correo! No te preocupes más por el espacio de tu cuenta con Correo Yahoo!: http://pe.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Backuppc en Centos 5.4
El 16 de noviembre de 2009 09:06, Fabricio Palacios V. fpalac...@puntonet.ec escribió: Buenos dias colegas, Debido a los cortes de luz en mi país se han perdido muchos datos en las maquinas que se han dañado, por lo que estoy tratando de implementar un sistema de backups de mis clientes Windows, al momento ya tengo instalado backuppc ... documentación en español hay poco o casi nada, ahora la pregunta del millón... ya lo tengo instalado y ahora como funciona??? backuppc no es un paquete soportado por CentOS, sin embargo estoy seguro que si alguien aquí lo usa, con gusto te ayudará. Por lo pronto puedo decirte que en CentOS se incluye Amanda que es también software para respaldos y se adapta bien para lo que quieres. Desafortunadamente el artículo en la wiki en español esta desactualizado, pero una búsqueda en google con las palabras amanda en centos regresa varios resultados en español. Gracias A todos por sus sugerencias Te sugiero aprender ingles, ese lenguaje es *básico* en este negocio. Max, Saludos Ernesto Celis (Usuario Linux #323140) irc.freenode.net #centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] PHP Add-on
Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:21:58 +0700: I want to install Magento Read the Magento PHP version requirements first. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with Yum on CentOS 5.4
Am 15.11.09 08:29, schrieb Niki Kovacs: After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is 'yum update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing happens. I stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... and then tells me : Could not retrieve mirrorlist... So can you get a mirrorlist by hand? Can you reach the mirrorlist.centos.org server? Are you behind a proxy? See CentOS-Base.repo for the mirrorhost url and replace $arch with your architecture and $releasever with 5 ... Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question
Jim Perrin wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a given user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please advise. Please stop being rude to the members of this list. This list is for people who are having trouble accomplishing a set task or have a question. It is not a 'system administration by proxy' tool because you can't be bothered to try on your own, or are to busy/lazy to read the documentation. When I started with Ameritech, in the mid-nineties, within two weeks my managers asked me to be the sysadmin. I'd worked in Unix for about four years, but had never done admin before. I went out and bought Frisch's Essential Systems Administration, and for the next year, along with my ...late... wife, I was sleeping with that book. When the corporate admins came in to the division, they told me there were two of the 27 teams whose servers looked normal (as opposed to a disaster), and mine was one. I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed you to stuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that every OS is different. I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have not yet taken enough time to actually learn how *nix works (Chapter 2 of Frisch's book). TAKE THE TIME. We are *NOT* paid support staff for this list, we're a community sharing knowledge. I read man pages, read scripts, ask others at work, and google for hours before posting questions here. mark -- When asked why the Constitution makes no mention whatever of God, Alexander Hamilton was reported to have flippantly replied the new nation was not in need of foreign aid ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum-changelog dependencies...
From: kalinix calin.kalinix.co...@gmail.com Actually you have to have python-dateutil installed (probably a missing dependency) and the command should be ran as: yum changelog date|number|all [PACKAGE|all|installed|updates|extras|obsoletes|recent] I saw this redhat bugfix: If yum changelog or yum update package --changelog was run without the Python dateutils module available, yum-changelog would exit with a Python traceback. This package includes a patch which causes yum-changelog to fail gracefully. So I guess it is not mandatory... But, while the yum-changelog is from centos, the python-dateutil is from rpmforge... Thx, JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question
mark wrote: I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed you to stuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that every OS is different. I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have not yet taken enough time to actually learn how *nix works (Chapter 2 of Frisch's book). I assumed that he meant some other flavor of unix, since in several decades they have not managed to set and follow a standard for administration and the particular things in question vary wildly across them. But if you've only used Red Hat style systems - or maybe even SysV it might not be obvious how quirky they are. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? Alternatively: Are there any linux-supported low-profile PCI SCSI cards with 50pin connector which are supported by CentOS 5.x and which you can recommend? Thanks in advance frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thom...@embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] bash variable expansion moment
ken wrote, On 11/14/2009 07:37 PM:
It's half a nice Saturday later and many attempts have brought no
satisfaction. Maybe this can't be done.
I'm trying to write a function which, when called from one function
execute in another. In itself, that's not the problem. Rather, there's
one built-in variable which is evaluated in the function definition and
it's value is then set (too early).
SNIP
I want the function Line to show the line number in the second file
where it's executed, not the line number from the sourced function.
Any mavens got the skinny on this?
As I understand the variable is interpreted from the perspective of the line of
the file, and bash
does not inline the function.
A trick around it can be gotten with the following modification of your scripts.
---func-file--
Line()
{
echo This is line $MyLN $@
}
#extra
#lines
#desired
#to
#show
#that
#execution
#not
#early, orig
#simply
#placed
#early
#in
#file
LineO()
{
echo This is line $LINENO $@
}
-
main-
#!/bin/bash
. ./func-file
MyLN=$LINENO Line ... it should be $LINENO
LineO ... it should be $LINENO
-
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question
mark wrote: I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed you to dtuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that every OS is different. I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have not yet taken enough time to actually learn how *nix works (Chapter 2 of Frisch's book). I assumed that he meant some other flavor of unix, since in several decades they have not managed to set and follow a standard for administration and the particular things in question vary wildly across them. But if you've only used Red Hat style systems - or maybe even SysV it might not be obvious how quirky they are. Don't consider them quirky - but then, I've worked in a number of *Nixes, and done admin on Sun, Sun Solaris and Tru64, as well as SuSE and RH, and found the differences relatively trivial, though Unbuntu's a little more irritating. Still, if you understand how it all works, it's more a difference in dialect, not a separate, unrelated language. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards) are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x): On my CentOS 4.8 box: sauron.deepsoft.com% strings /lib/modules/2.6.9-89.0.16.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko |grep 2930 Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter Adaptec 2930C Ultra SCSI adapter (VAR) Adaptec 2930 Ultra SCSI adapter Adaptec 2930 Ultra2 SCSI adapter And in a CentOS 5.2 install: sauron.deepsoft.com% strings /CentOS52/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko | grep 2930 Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter Adaptec 2930C Ultra SCSI adapter (VAR) Adaptec 2930 Ultra SCSI adapter Adaptec 2930 Ultra2 SCSI adapter It is supported. Alternatively: Are there any linux-supported low-profile PCI SCSI cards with 50pin connector which are supported by CentOS 5.x and which you can recommend? Go with the Adaptec card. Thanks in advance frank -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
Robert Heller schrieb: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards) are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x): Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604. So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people have problems like that. Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
- Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604. So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people have problems like that. Rainer I've actually found that even in some systems that can boot from addon cards properly, there are still some cards that are not bootable. In fact, I have a 29160LP that would not show up as a bootable option in a half dozen servers I tried. This includes anywhere from custom built boxes to nice upper end Dell units. YMMV... Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards) are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x): Great thanks sauron.deepsoft.com% strings /lib/modules/2.6.9-89.0.16.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko |grep 2930 [...] I'll use this string search next time I'm looking for device support. I didn't know I could do that. Greetings from my host (balrog) to your's :-) frank ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
Tim Nelson wrote: - Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604. So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people have problems like that. I've actually found that even in some systems that can boot from addon cards properly, there are still some cards that are not bootable. In fact, I have a 29160LP that would not show up as a bootable option in a half dozen servers I tried. This includes anywhere from custom built boxes to nice upper end Dell units. YMMV... Does it have an option to enable/disable bios in the card setup like other ataptec cards? If so it has to be enabled to boot. -- Les Mikesell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Nelson wrote: - Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604. So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people have problems like that. I've actually found that even in some systems that can boot from addon cards properly, there are still some cards that are not bootable. In fact, I have a 29160LP that would not show up as a bootable option in a half dozen servers I tried. This includes anywhere from custom built boxes to nice upper end Dell units. YMMV... Does it have an option to enable/disable bios in the card setup like other ataptec cards? If so it has to be enabled to boot. -- Les Mikesell I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the card doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual 'addon card' operation where the card detects drives, displays it on the screen, then continues to POST. The system simply boots like the card isn't there. As long as you can boot from another device, the card is happily recognized and works flawlessly once an OS is running. I've looked into resetting the configuration on the card, etc... I just think in this case the card may be a lower end card used for secondary addon storage only without the option to boot... --Tim ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark wrote: I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed you to dtuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that every OS is different. I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have not yet taken enough time to actually learn how *nix works (Chapter 2 of Frisch's book). I assumed that he meant some other flavor of unix, since in several decades they have not managed to set and follow a standard for administration and the particular things in question vary wildly across them. But if you've only used Red Hat style systems - or maybe even SysV it might not be obvious how quirky they are. Don't consider them quirky - but then, I've worked in a number of *Nixes, and done admin on Sun, Sun Solaris and Tru64, as well as SuSE and RH, and found the differences relatively trivial, though Unbuntu's a little more irritating. Still, if you understand how it all works, it's more a difference in dialect, not a separate, unrelated language. I'd consider starting things at boot time to be as unrelated as you can get. There's next to nothing in common between bsd and sysV oriented systems (I think the ones you mention are mostly sysV-ish). And the ftp config concepts go with the choice of the application, which varies even more wildly. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] php config security concern for c5
a recent post on bugtraq hilighted an issue with how upstream has configured apache to invoke php, namely using addhandler, which has the behavior of matching the extension anywhere in the file. this means that foo.php.jpg will be run as php. where this becomes an issue is web apps that allow uploads into the webspace for images, pdfs, etc. if the app assumes that anything.jpg is safe, this addhandler feature will surprise it. Hi Joe, Are you sure this is limited to just CentOS? I've seen that config used before on other distro's apache configs. i'm sure other distros use the same method, but i don't use any and this is the centos list, so that's all i'm talking about. From the Apache 2.x Docs: --- Care should be taken when a file with multiple extensions gets associated with both a MIME-type and a handler. This will usually result in the request being by the module associated with the handler. For example, if the .imap extension is mapped to the handler imap-file (from mod_imap) and the .html extension is mapped to the MIME-type text/html, then the file world.imap.html will be associated with both the imap-file handler and text/html MIME-type. When it is processed, the imap-file handler will be used, and so it will be treated as a mod_imap imagemap file. --- So if example.php.gif is read by apache, the AddHandler for php5-script (mod_php) will take precedence over the mime-type handler for .gif (image/gif) and the file will be treated as a php script. From that it almost sounds like it's not a bug, just apache's own rules of precedence for handling files that match multiple extensions/mime-types. i can understand why apache has this behaviour, but i think the bug is using it for handlers that can execute code. since the expected behaviour can be obtained more safely with the filesmatch mechanism, it sure seems like an obvious change. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] php config security concern for c5
I had both of these on my server, and just now replaced them with similar FilesMatch... sections. Just a comment about the FilesMatch thing. The proposed additional ForceType will not work in there according to the httpd docs. Not that this makes a big difference. what in the docs are you reading to indicate forcetype won't work? i just put that in to match the addtype clause i removed. i didn't even check to see if the php module sets the type to text/html by default already. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Tim Nelson wrote: I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the card doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual 'addon card' operation where the card detects drives, displays it on the screen, then continues to POST. The system simply boots like the card isn't there. As long as you can boot from another device, the card is happily recognized and works flawlessly once an OS is running. I've looked into resetting the configuration on the card, etc... I just think in this case the card may be a lower end card used for secondary addon storage only without the option to boot... Have you tried pressing ctrl-A when the Adaptec display appears in the boot process? It's been a while since I looked at the Adaptec SCSI BIOS settings, but I know there's an setting to suppress the ctrl-A prompt on booting. I never changed it, but always ass*u*me*d that turning this off would still allow one to enter the BIOS settings without the prompt. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Government is the great fiction, through which everbody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
- Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009, Tim Nelson wrote: I've never been able to get into the BIOS on it. It's almost like the card doesn't have one. When the system boots, there is not the usual 'addon card' operation where the card detects drives, displays it on the screen, then continues to POST. The system simply boots like the card isn't there. As long as you can boot from another device, the card is happily recognized and works flawlessly once an OS is running. I've looked into resetting the configuration on the card, etc... I just think in this case the card may be a lower end card used for secondary addon storage only without the option to boot... Have you tried pressing ctrl-A when the Adaptec display appears in the boot process? It's been a while since I looked at the Adaptec SCSI BIOS settings, but I know there's an setting to suppress the ctrl-A prompt on booting. I never changed it, but always ass*u*me*d that turning this off would still allow one to enter the BIOS settings without the prompt. Bill It was a while ago this happened so my brain might be fuzzy... but I believe I tried this also. I'll give it a shot when the card may be eligible for use again. Thanks for the tip! --Tim (And now returning to your regularly scheduled programming. Sorry for the unintentional thread hijack here...) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question
Les Mikesell wrote: I'd consider starting things at boot time to be as unrelated as you can get. There's next to nothing in common between bsd and sysV oriented systems (I think the ones you mention are mostly sysV-ish). And the ftp config concepts go with the choice of the application, which varies even more wildly. Indeed, when I had to set some stuff up on an AIX 5.3 server a few years back, the BSD style init scripts rather threw me. It was almost as if there was just an rc.local. And, going in the other direction, the Service Manager Facility in Solaris 10 is completely different, using XML service manifests, with monitor scripts, service properties, and a sophisticated dependency system so a service *can't* be started until all its dependencies are running. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
Rainer Duffner wrote: Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. I seriously doubt a SCSI card with a 50 pin (max 10 or 20MB/sec?) external connector is going to be used as a boot device. more likely, this is for some older tape class device like a DAT. btw, the original poster should know, you can convert wide (68 pin) SCSI to narrow (50 pin) SCSI with a 'half-terminator' cable adapter, such as http://www.ramelectronics.net/computer-parts/scsi/scsi-adapters/hd68/hd68-hd50-scsi-adapter-sm026a/prodSM026A.html (random google hit, I know nothing of this vendor)... this terminates the top half of the scsi BUS and passes the low half through. All SCSI controllers support narrow devices by design. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Question about the ahci kernel module: missing in the CentOS (4) Plus kernel
Is there some reason the ahci kernel module is *missing* from the 2.6.9-89.0.16.plus.c4 kernel? It is in the standard 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL kernel. Is this due to an oversight or is there some sort of conflict? I wanted to add IEEE1394 support to my system running CentOS 4.8. I *looks* like what I need to do is download the kernel SRPM and patch the config to include the IEEE1394 modules and re-build the kernel from source. Arg... -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problem with Yum on CentOS 5.4
Ralph Angenendt a écrit : So can you get a mirrorlist by hand? Can you reach the mirrorlist.centos.org server? Are you behind a proxy? See CentOS-Base.repo for the mirrorhost url and replace $arch with your architecture and $releasever with 5 ... I did quite some experimentation, and I think I found a regressive bug (well, sort of) in CentOS 5.4. I did this on three distinct machines, with the same result. Here goes. In previous versions of CentOS (that is, 5.0 to 5.3), it was possible to perform a very minimal install by deselecting [ ] GNOME, then selecting [*] Customize package selection, and then again, in the subsequent package selection window, unselect everything, even [ ] Base. That way, in 5.3, I got a system with about 160 packages, which I took as a starting point for both servers (install httpd, mysql-server, whatever is needed) and desktops (install X11, GNOME, apps as needed). But now, this functionality seems broken. If I do the same thing with a fresh CentOS 5.4 install DVD, I see I now have a minimal set of 191 packages (gtk2? What the ***!?!). On the other hand, neither SSH nor Yum nor even RPM don't work, as they all claim a missing libnss3.so. Now here's a Catch22, since I can't install it when RPM is not working (except by mounting the system with a LiveCD and jump through some burning loops). Of course, I took the pragmatic approach and just installed the whole load of base packages. rpm -qa | wc -l tells me I now have a minimal set of no less than 378 packages to have a coherent base system (without X). Any idea why the minimal install selection got broken, or some suggestions on how to solve that problem? Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question
John R Pierce wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I'd consider starting things at boot time to be as unrelated as you can get. There's next to nothing in common between bsd and sysV oriented systems (I think the ones you mention are mostly sysV-ish). And the ftp config concepts go with the choice of the application, which varies even more wildly. Indeed, when I had to set some stuff up on an AIX 5.3 server a few years back, the BSD style init scripts rather threw me. It was almost as if there was just an rc.local. And, going in the other direction, the Service Manager Facility in Solaris 10 is completely different, using XML service manifests, with monitor scripts, service properties, and a sophisticated dependency system so a service *can't* be started until all its dependencies are running. People who are hopelessly locked in to a single flavor by some earlier choice of tools or hardware may not even understand why and how much of a problem this lack of standardization is. Even though perl and bourne-compatible shell scripts may have matching syntax across these platforms, anything dealing with automating system administration is generally doomed to failure. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Question about the ahci kernel module: missing in the CentOS (4) Plus kernel
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Is there some reason the ahci kernel module is *missing* from the 2.6.9-89.0.16.plus.c4 kernel? It is in the standard 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL kernel. Is this due to an oversight or is there some sort of conflict? I wanted to add IEEE1394 support to my system running CentOS 4.8. I *looks* like what I need to do is download the kernel SRPM and patch the config to include the IEEE1394 modules and re-build the kernel from source. Arg... The centosplus kernel are supposed to have all modules that are included in the standard kernel. Could you please file a report at http://bugs.centos.org ? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:16:57 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Robert Heller schrieb: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards) are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x): Except that nowadays, some cheap desktop-motherboards may not know how to enable booting from such a card. It's years since I used SCSI-drives for desktop-use - and then it was a workstation-class Dual-Xeon board, Socket 604. So I can't say if this is still true today - but I've read that people have problems like that. I *suspect*, given the OP's specific request for a 50-pin external connection that this is for something like a scanner or tape drive, not an internal boot disk. Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Question about the ahci kernel module: missing in the CentOS (4) Plus kernel
At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:13:29 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Is there some reason the ahci kernel module is *missing* from the 2.6.9-89.0.16.plus.c4 kernel? It is in the standard 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL kernel. Is this due to an oversight or is there some sort of conflict? I wanted to add IEEE1394 support to my system running CentOS 4.8. I *looks* like what I need to do is download the kernel SRPM and patch the config to include the IEEE1394 modules and re-build the kernel from source. Arg... The centosplus kernel are supposed to have all modules that are included in the standard kernel. Could you please file a report at http://bugs.centos.org ? Done. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Question about the ahci kernel module: missing in the CentOS (4) Plus kernel
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:13:29 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: The centosplus kernel are supposed to have all modules that are included in the standard kernel. Could you please file a report at http://bugs.centos.org ? Done. Thanks. Responded. This should be resolved in the next kernel update. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4011 Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] openvpn for CentOS 5.4
Where can I get openvpn for Centos 5.4? yum list openvpn doesn't find it. Thanks, Mike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] 2 TB limit on USB drive
Hallo I submitted this as a bug several weeks ago, but I wanted to ask around see if anyone else has come across this I have a USB Buffalo Drivestation Quattro, with 4 1TB disks configured in raid5 as one 2.8TB (or so) disk, attached to a Cent 5.4 64 bit server (completely yum'd up to date) The disk is labeled as GPT, and formatted as a 2.8 TB ext3 partition (this issue also happens with xfs). I used a gparted boot disk to create the partition. When I attach the drive I see this in messages: Nov 2 14:26:55 kernel: usb 1-5.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb 1-5.2: configuration 001 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1 chosen from 1 choice Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7 Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Vendor: BUFFALO Model: HD-QSSU2/R5 1 Rev: 2.02 Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed. Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00 Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : use 0x as device size Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB) Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off After this failure, the disk is either a) inaccessible, or b) reports only a 2 TB partition. The latest Ubuntu can read the disk, presenting the full 2.8 TB just peachy. This server is up to date: uname -a: Linux myserver.mydomain.com 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:18:27 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux cat /etc/redhat-release: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) [r...@myserver ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name ... 8 32 2147483648 sdc the disk showing incorrectly with only 2TB of storage This bug seems very similar to a previous bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944 which was reported fixed in 5.4 Anyone seen this before, or have any ideas how I can get CentOS to see the disk? Cheers, Gareth ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] openvpn for CentOS 5.4
Mike - email ignored wrote: On the RPmforge repo (Dag Wieers) do a cd /tmp wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm for i386 or http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm for x86_64 then do: sudo rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm or rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm depending on your architecture and the file you just downloaded... Then install openvpn with yum install openvpn Where can I get openvpn for Centos 5.4? yum list openvpn doesn't find it. M$-Internet Exploder est le cancer de l'Internet, voyez pourquoi ici: http://www.aful.org/ressources/documentations/msie-problemes-securite -- (°- Bernard Lheureux Gestionnaire des MailingLists ML, TechML, LinuxML //\ http://www.bbsoft4.org/Mailinglists.htm ** MailTo:r...@bbsoft4.org v_/_ http://www.bbsoft4.org/ * http://www.portalinux.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 2 TB limit on USB drive
This bug seems very similar to a previous bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944 which was reported fixed in 5.4 Anyone seen this before, or have any ideas how I can get CentOS to see the disk? Centos is usually using old kernel, so if you want avoid this then possible you need to recompile your own kernel or patch current. Bugs on usb-disk are too common nowadays.. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] There isn't package for httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 [centos announce list from 12.11.2009]
Hi. There isn't a package httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 for centos4 in UPDATES repo. There is only a httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm in SRC [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D] This is probably a bug. Package httpd doesn't build ? Jancio Wodnik ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] There isn't package for httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 [centos announce list from 12.11.2009]
2009/11/16 Jancio Wodnik jancio_wod...@wp.pl: Hi. There isn't a package httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 for centos4 in UPDATES repo. There is only a httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm in SRC [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D] This is probably a bug. Package httpd doesn't build ? More likely a mirror is out of sync. My mirror has httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.i386.rpm12-Nov-2009 16:34 903K -- Jeff ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] There isn't package for httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 [centos announce list from 12.11.2009]
2009/11/16 Jancio Wodnik jancio_wod...@wp.pl Hi. There isn't a package httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 for centos4 in UPDATES repo. There is only a httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm in SRC [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D] This is probably a bug. Package httpd doesn't build ? maybe you are using out of sync mirror? or maybe yum config problems rpm -qi httpd Name: httpdRelocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.0.52Vendor: CentOS Release : 41.ent.6.centos4 Build Date: Thu 12 Nov 2009 01:56:19 PM EET Install Date: Fri 13 Nov 2009 09:19:43 AM EET Build Host: builder16.centos.org Group : System Environment/DaemonsSource RPM: httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm Size: 2453122 License: Apache Software License Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 12 Nov 2009 03:27:09 PM EET, Key ID a53d0bab443e1821 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
Ok, I'm back again... Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the list members is really appreciated. So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? I am trying find some examples online of people using this card with CentOS in a software RAID but nothing yet so wondered if anyone here has any input here? -- Regards, James ;) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachhttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marie_von_ebnereschenbac.html - Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
James Bensley wrote: Ok, I'm back again... Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the list members is really appreciated. So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? I am trying find some examples online of people using this card with CentOS in a software RAID but nothing yet so wondered if anyone here has any input here? how about: http://markmail.org/message/2odawealo6ktbz2b and: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-April/001565.html and: http://osdir.com/ml/linux-raid/2009-09/msg00340.html Maybe it works fine on Centos 5 with kernel drivers? -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 21:49 +, James Bensley wrote: Ok, I'm back again... Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the list members is really appreciated. So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? I am trying find some examples online of people using this card with CentOS in a software RAID but nothing yet so wondered if anyone here has any input here? -- Regards, James ;) If I am not mistaken that card uses the Marvell MV88SX5081 chipset and uses the sata_mv module (after a little googling). I have been reading around google and found that support for this was added in CentOS 4 (sata_mv). I also saw some posts regarding instability with this driver... sort of a use at own risk scenario. Some were saying disabling hw RAID helped, but I haven't used that card so I couldn't tell you. Maybe someone else on the list has used a card with the MV88SX5081 chipset? I have only played with the AOC-USAS-L8i card and that wasn't in Linux (it was for an Opensolaris build), we just needed to buy SFF-8087 to 4 x SATA cables to make it work. If you want to use SW raid, I might suggest going for a card that is just adds SATA ports and has no onboard RAID, but it is up to you. Tait signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
James Bensley wrote: So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? Do you feel lucky? To me seeing something that specifically calls out a version of a product tells me often times there is a binary driver behind it, so compatibility with CentOS 5.x is not a sure thing. I poked around quite a bit online but could not find any indication of this card/chipset's level of support in linux. Saw a few people asking about support but no replies to any of them. Myself I would skip this card and go for something that you can find that indicates it specifically supports Red Hat 5.x. Unless you can find something/someone that can tell you that this card has support for CentOS/RHEL 5.x. I use PCI-X 3Ware 8006-2 raid controllers in two of my own personal systems, they work pretty well. More recently I got an ATTO SAS HBA for a system for a tape drive, they have lots of SAS and SATA HBAs, and lots of linux support but I don't see anything that is PCI-X. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
James Bensley wrote: Ok, I'm back again... Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the list members is really appreciated. So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? I am trying find some examples online of people using this card with CentOS in a software RAID but nothing yet so wondered if anyone here has any input here? Yes, I have one and it works fine with the stock drivers in Centos. Most of the drives are in hot-swap trays and I don't have any trouble swapping them in and out of software raid1 sets. As long as you have a PCI-X slot it should work for you. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Why swap if there's still physical memory available
Dear CentOS people, This is just a general question related to memory management, and there may have been a thread or two about it before, but I'd like to post anyway. A user was looking at top, whereby he found out that his two processes were 10.2g and 4836m in VIRT. They were 6.4g and 4.6g in RES respectively. 3445964k was free still. He was wondering why the system didn't use all of the physical memory available (16300960k total) before swapping out parts of the processes. Over time, the 10.2g process had about 8g of it in SWAP. The 4836m process only had about 100m in SWAP. Much of the physical space is now used. I guess the answer may not be that simple and I most likely haven't described everything that could have influenced the kernel's decision-making, but how does Linux decide how much of a process to be swapped out? I guess I could read the documentations on the Linux kernel, but does anyone have more general answers ready to be dispensed? I haven't done anything with sysctl, if that comes into play at all. Thank you, --Koji ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 21:49 +, James Bensley wrote: So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? Supermicro has a good pre-sales team. I would call them and ask. They should be able to give you a definitive answer. -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://UnmeteredVPS.net CentOS 5.4 VPS with unmetered bandwidth only $25/month! 7 day no risk trial, Google Checkout accepted ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] There isn't package for httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 [centos announce list from 12.11.2009]
At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:37:47 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi. There isn't a package httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 for centos4 in UPDATES repo. There is only a httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm in SRC [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D] This is probably a bug. Package httpd doesn't build ? Strange... I just installed httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 this morning! Are you sure it wasn't some sort of network glitch? Maybe the mirror you used was having a bad day? Jancio Wodnik MIME-Version: 1.0 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Why swap if there's still physical memory available
yanagik317 wrote: I guess the answer may not be that simple and I most likely haven't described everything that could have influenced the kernel's decision-making, but how does Linux decide how much of a process to be swapped out? I guess I could read the documentations on the Linux kernel, but does anyone have more general answers ready to be dispensed? Linux by default will try to swap less accessed regions of memory when memory pressure starts to get tight(say less than 25% of memory is free), if you want to override this behavior look to the 'swappiness' setting I haven't done anything with sysctl, if that comes into play at all. It can if you want vm.swappiness = 0 To tell the kernel not to swap unless it *really* needs to nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
nate wrote: James Bensley wrote: So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? Do you feel lucky? To me seeing something that specifically calls out a version of a product tells me often times there is a binary driver behind it, so compatibility with CentOS 5.x is not a sure thing. I poked around quite a bit online but could not find any indication of this card/chipset's level of support in linux. Saw a few people asking about support but no replies to any of them. Myself I would skip this card and go for something that you can find that indicates it specifically supports Red Hat 5.x. Unless you can find something/someone that can tell you that this card has support for CentOS/RHEL 5.x. I use PCI-X 3Ware 8006-2 raid controllers in two of my own personal systems, they work pretty well. More recently I got an ATTO SAS HBA for a system for a tape drive, they have lots of SAS and SATA HBAs, and lots of linux support but I don't see anything that is PCI-X. I was having regular filesystem problems with an adaptec and promise card installed in the same box and they all went away when I swapped them out for the 8-port marvel card above - which I got because it was recommended for Solaris and I might eventually switch (especially if Nexenta releases a version that includes zfs de-dup soon). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
Thanks for the speedy replies guys, I had an itch, so I itched it; In the back of my head I couldn't help but think I had miss-read the details about my mobo and that it was PCI-E not PCI-X and I was right, so the previous card is no longer an option although I am not liking the look of it thanks to the list members finding various problems for me (thanks guys, saved me some time and hassle there!) so instead I am looking at one of these (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sataii/AAR-1430SA/). Its based on the Marvell 88SX7042 chipset which seems to work under CentOS 5, Hurray! -- Regards, James ;) Mike Ditka - If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Why swap if there's still physical memory available
nate wrote: yanagik317 wrote: I guess the answer may not be that simple and I most likely haven't described everything that could have influenced the kernel's decision-making, but how does Linux decide how much of a process to be swapped out? I guess I could read the documentations on the Linux kernel, but does anyone have more general answers ready to be dispensed? Linux by default will try to swap less accessed regions of memory when memory pressure starts to get tight(say less than 25% of memory is free), if you want to override this behavior look to the 'swappiness' setting I haven't done anything with sysctl, if that comes into play at all. It can if you want vm.swappiness = 0 To tell the kernel not to swap unless it *really* needs to Also, the top values may not tell the whole story - RES should include paged-in code plus memory allocated by the program. VIRT includes code not paged in yet and linked shared libraries, so the difference may not all be in swap. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] There isn't package for httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 [centos announce list from 12.11.2009]
W dniu 16.11.2009 23:37, Robert Heller pisze: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:37:47 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi. There isn't a package httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 for centos4 in UPDATES repo. There is only a httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm in SRC [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D] This is probably a bug. Package httpd doesn't build ? Strange... I just installed httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 this morning! Are you sure it wasn't some sort of network glitch? Maybe the mirror you used was having a bad day? Sorry for this noise. I have installed httpd from centos plus repo, so i don't see updates of httpd. I have httpd 2.0.63 Jancio Wodnik ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] bash variable expansion moment
On 11/15/2009 06:32 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:21:40PM -0500, ken wrote:
echo This is line ${BASH_LINENO[0]} $@
That's all I needed. Thanks.
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Re: [CentOS] 2 TB limit on USB drive
Gareth Tupper wrote, On 11/16/2009 03:12 PM: Hallo I submitted this as a bug several weeks ago, but I wanted to ask around see if anyone else has come across this what BZ and #? (mainly out of curiosity, but not enough to override the laziness of not wanting to check 2 different BZs) I have a USB Buffalo Drivestation Quattro, with 4 1TB disks configured in raid5 as one 2.8TB (or so) disk, attached to a Cent 5.4 64 bit server (completely yum'd up to date) SNIP After this failure, the disk is either a) inaccessible, or b) reports only a 2 TB partition. SNIP [r...@myserver ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name ... 8 32 2147483648 sdc the disk showing incorrectly with only 2TB of storage This bug seems very similar to a previous bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944 which was reported fixed in 5.4 Anyone seen this before, or have any ideas how I can get CentOS to see the disk? ideas: A1) figure out how much more/less than http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/24/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c needs patched into the kernel source to make 2TB work. A2) get the CentOS kernel SRPM and patch it in, build, install and use. [considering the bz you point to points to (in Comment #7) a very small patch for the ipbvscsi devices, it is _probably_ just a simple patch from the 24 version of usb.c] B1) give a kernel dev at that prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor (who runs Enterprise Linux instead of Fedora) a 2.8TB USB disk to play with and B2) point them at http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/24/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c :) Alternatively we could find someone with a 2+TB USB disk and the ability to submit bugs on a subscription to that prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. (or see if a proven change could be put in a CentOS plus kernel[module]) -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] pan news reader
Mike - email ignored wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:41:47 -0500, Ron Loftin wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 03:38 +, MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: Does anyone know if the pan news reader works on CentOS 5.4? I am considering installing version 0.132 that I downloaded from pan.rebelbase.com . I'm using 0.133 from rpmforge. Seems to work fine. I just installed it. It runs. I don't want to use it, because I *always* type in my password, and do not want it stored... and pam will not let me do that, AFAIK. mark -- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt, 1783 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] errors on multimedia guidance for x86_64
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:24 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: David McGuffey wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 07:09 -0500, Steve Huff wrote: On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:43 PM, David McGuffey wrote: -- Finished Dependency Resolution gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) snip First question: Is the guidance for multimedia accurate for an 5.4 x86_64 load? Second question: is rpmforge fully ready for 5.4? this is a known issue; Dag has been working on fixing it over the weekend: http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2009-November/002797.html So...are the gstreamer-plugins in rpmforge ready for 5.4? i was just able to install gstreamer-plugins-bad on a 5.4 i386 host. -steve I'm running 5.4 x86_64, so maybe I'll have to wait for the rpmforge to catch up. everything seems fixed this morning (C5 x86_64), at least on the mirror I use. Try again, if it fails try a different mirror. I forced a re-install and all seems to be working, but I get an SELinux alert that tells me it is blocking /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so because it requires text location. I went ahead an used audit2allow to make an exception for this shared library. Not exactly what I wanted to do and I'm hoping that this gets fixed in the upstream work. Dave ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 23:32 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: David McGuffey wrote: I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed. Then I tried VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed. What did these fail to do? Sorry it has taken so long to get back. After screwing around for weeks trying to get a motherboard that at least was on the unofficial white list, I did get EXSi 4.0 to load. It was then that I realized I needed a separate Windoze workstation to load the vSphere to manage the VMs. I could only dedicate one machine to the virtualization testing. Then I tried VB on CentOS 5.3. For some reason, I couldn't get it to create a VM. So... I reloaded the machine with CentOS 5.4 (it had come out during my test), and selected 'kvm' during the install. That worked great. At work, I loaded VB onto a Windoze XP Pro load and it locked up the machine. Corporate IT had to re-image it...along with a warning to me about mucking with their standard load. Tonight, I just loaded VB onto Windoze XP 64. The load went OK, but when I created a VM for CentOS 5.4 (text mode), it hangs trying to bring up the network. That is the second failure I've had with VM. Tomorrow I'm going to remove VB from the XP 64 load and install VMWare Server. At this point in time, the only virtualization tool that loaded and 'just worked' has been kvm under CentOS 5.4. And...this is only a Technology Preview by Red Hat. For a TP, I'm impressed. Dave ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 10:18 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: I selected one virtual CPU for the XP load...primarily because I want to run a couple more VMs and the guidance was to allocate one real CPU per VM. My understanding is that Win XP will perform a fundamentally different install depending on whether it detects 1 or many CPU. So if you ever plan to reuse your VM with many CPUs, you should install it with many right away (and follow the tip above: install as Windows Vista, not XP). I had this problem with a Win XP VM that I installed with pre v3.0 versions of VirtualBox: after VBox introduced SMP I could not use the multi-processor feature since XP had been installed with one processor. Anyhow, now that I'm using KVM, for my test desktop VMs I tend to allocate a total of CPUs across the VMs higher than the number of my physical CPUs, since they rarely need CPU power at the same time but I want them to be able to run very smoothly if needed. run a couple more VMs and the guidance was to allocate one real CPU per Which guidance are you talking about? In the Red Hat 5 Virtualization documentation it seems to strongly recommends having at least one physical cpu per VM. Since I have a quad core and I want to run the host plus 2-3 VMs, I decided give each VM one virtual cpu. Maybe I was too cautious. Dave ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at firstinstall CentOS-5.4 x86_64
Dave: In the Red Hat 5 Virtualization documentation it seems to strongly recommends having at least one physical cpu per VM. Since I have a quad core and I want to run the host plus 2-3 VMs, I decided give each VM one virtual cpu. Maybe I was too cautious. In section 28.4 of the RHEL 5.4 Virtualization Guide, they state: Virtualized CPUs are overcommitted best when each virtualized guest only has a single VCPU. The Linux scheduler is very efficient with this type of load. KVM should safely support guests with loads under 100% at a ratio of 5 VCPUs Overcommitting single VCPU virtualized guests is not an issue. So, if you are going to overcommit CPUs, make sure each one of the guests has a single VCPU. If you want to allocate multiple VCPUs to the guests, do not overcommit the CPUs. I hope this helps, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://UnmeteredVPS.net CentOS 5.4 VPS with unmetered bandwidth only $25/month! 7 day no risk trial, Google Checkout accepted ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] High load averages with latest kernel and USB drives?
I'm having a server report a high load average when backing up Postgres database files to an external USB drive. This is driving my loadbalancers all out of kilter and causing a large volume of network monitor alerts. I have a 1TB USB drive plugged into a USB2 port that I use to back up the production drives (which are SCSI). It's working fine, but while doing backups (hourly) the load average on the server shoots up from the normal 0.5 - 1.5 or so up to a high between 10 and 30. Strangely, even though the load is high the server is completely responsive, even the USB drives being accessed are! Backup script is really simple, run via cron, pretty much just: #! /bin/sh hour=`date +%k`; pg_dump options mydatabase /media/backups/mydatabase.$hour.pgsql; where /media/backups is the mount point for the USB drive. Using top to diagnose, nothing seems to be particularly high! IoWait seems reasonable (10-30%) and CPUs are 0.5%, Idle is 70-90%. Even accessing the USB partition while the load is high is responsive! I'm guessing that something changed in how load average is counted? Server Stats: Late model 8-way Xeon, SuperMicro brand. CentOS 4.x / 64 (all updates applied, booted after last kernel update) Kernel 2.6.9-89.0.16.ELsmp 4 GB ECC RAM 300 GB SCSI HDD. Standard Apache/PHP, Postgres 8.4. Any idea how to revert to the old load average tracking behavior short of using a stale and potentially insecure kernel? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64
David McGuffey wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 23:32 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: David McGuffey wrote: I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed. Then I tried VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed. What did these fail to do? Sorry it has taken so long to get back. After screwing around for weeks trying to get a motherboard that at least was on the unofficial white list, I did get EXSi 4.0 to load. It was then that I realized I needed a separate Windoze workstation to load the vSphere to manage the VMs. I could only dedicate one machine to the virtualization testing. If you set the VM's up with their own remote access (remote X, freenx, vnc, remote desktop, etc.) you only need the vSphere console to do the initial installs to the point where networking is up on the VM. Then I tried VB on CentOS 5.3. For some reason, I couldn't get it to create a VM. So... That doesn't make much sense. I reloaded the machine with CentOS 5.4 (it had come out during my test), and selected 'kvm' during the install. That worked great. At work, I loaded VB onto a Windoze XP Pro load and it locked up the machine. Corporate IT had to re-image it...along with a warning to me about mucking with their standard load. It works OK on XP for me - but wouldn't that box have been a suitable place for the vSphere client? Tonight, I just loaded VB onto Windoze XP 64. The load went OK, but when I created a VM for CentOS 5.4 (text mode), it hangs trying to bring up the network. That is the second failure I've had with VM. There are several options for the network - are you using bridged or NAT? And does the console show it as connected? Tomorrow I'm going to remove VB from the XP 64 load and install VMWare Server. That should work too - although if you only plan to run one VM at a time and view its console locally you might as well use VMware player. At this point in time, the only virtualization tool that loaded and 'just worked' has been kvm under CentOS 5.4. And...this is only a Technology Preview by Red Hat. For a TP, I'm impressed. I don't think you can blame the other products for 'not working'. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:53 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the speedy replies guys, I had an itch, so I itched it; In the back of my head I couldn't help but think I had miss-read the details about my mobo and that it was PCI-E not PCI-X and I was right, so the previous card is no longer an option although I am not liking the look of it thanks to the list members finding various problems for me (thanks guys, saved me some time and hassle there!) so instead I am looking at one of these (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sataii/AAR-1430SA/). Its based on the Marvell 88SX7042 chipset which seems to work under CentOS 5, Hurray! I have card MV88SX6081 and can confirm that it works... but not with in stock kernel, you have to build module on your own. so if you are planning to have system in hard drives which are conected to motherboard it can be just fine. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
