Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Christian Wahlgren >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:37 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors > >2009/4/1 Sorin Srbu : >> I've now updated a machine with CentOS v5.3 x86_64. On this first test, the >> glibc didn't update at all and threw up an dependency error. Running yum >> update; no yum clean all run first, upgraded everything with no errors. Go >> figure. > >I had the same problem with dependencies. I had to do ># yum update glibc glibc-devel > >But when I looked in the Release Notes for CentOS-5.3, it doesn't mention >"yum update glibc" at all, so maybe that upstream bug has been solved >for CentOS-5.3? Maybe, dunno'. At least it works with "yum update". I could reproduce this on all x64-machines I've got here. I don't see any problems though. All seems to work fine. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Mike A. Harris >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:31 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors > >I did the update by "yum -y update" and for whatever reasons did not run >into any issues with glibc. I just read about the problem for the first >time in this thread. Looks like it hits some people and not others >perhaps. I haven't noticed any issues so far at least. I've now updated a machine with CentOS v5.3 x86_64. On this first test, the glibc didn't update at all and threw up an dependency error. Running yum update; no yum clean all run first, upgraded everything with no errors. Go figure. I'll try another 64b-machine and see if it reproduces. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? Solved
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:03 PM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? > >I just now noticed that the Openoffice3 and a CenOS 5.2 torrent seed/upload >started again. So it seems both upload and download is actually working as >it should. > >The question still stands on why only the one 5.3 download works though. It >*might* be the thing that John R Pierce said previously about some >torrent-clients nedding and using one torrent per port only. In my case >that'd be port 80 I guess. If so, that's a problem with my Azureus-client >and probably not something that should be discussed on this list, unless the >moderators agree this is relevant in sharing the new CentOS-releases over >bittorrent. 8-) Problem seems to have been solved. I downloaded the 32/64b dvd and cd isos using ftp and added them to my bt-client. Now it's uploading like crazy. All is fine. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Thanks to CentOS-devs
I've now upgraded a server and a handful of clients with CentOS 5.2 i386. All is spiffy and works really good! Like the new theme too. Thanks guys, good work! It was well worth the wait. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: It's all about the community. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Timo Neuvonen >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:40 AM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrade > >In turn, I can see the release announcement, but no packages :-( > >A few more hours won't hurt me, but I'd be curious to know if I can force >yum to use certain mirror that seem to be in sync. >I'm located in Finland, and the two local mirros have ages of 1.8 and 1.9 >days now: >http://mirror-status.centos.org/ >However, I can see plenty of other mirrors in nearby countries that are 3-4 >hours old only. Did you try a "yum clean all"? It might also help using that yum fastest mirror plugin too. YMMV. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of John Doe >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:32 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? > > >> Thanks for the info. Checked the tracker in my torrent-client, and it's the >> same as yours. Seems I have a possible firewall-issue on my hands here. >> OTOH, it's weird, as the one torrent works fine. Strange... > >Maybe this would help: >http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#ports It does somewhat, thx. I just now noticed that the Openoffice3 and a CenOS 5.2 torrent seed/upload started again. So it seems both upload and download is actually working as it should. The question still stands on why only the one 5.3 download works though. It *might* be the thing that John R Pierce said previously about some torrent-clients nedding and using one torrent per port only. In my case that'd be port 80 I guess. If so, that's a problem with my Azureus-client and probably not something that should be discussed on this list, unless the moderators agree this is relevant in sharing the new CentOS-releases over bittorrent. 8-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of John R Pierce >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:23 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? > >Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Thanks for the info. Checked the tracker in my torrent-client, and it's the >> same as yours. Seems I have a possible firewall-issue on my hands here. >> OTOH, it's weird, as the one torrent works fine. Strange... >> >> Anyway, I've contacted the university-wide helpdesk for a possible solution. >> > >Torrent clients perform best if they can use a port which is reachable >from outside. it can be any port whatsoever, as the port your client is >using is announced via the trackers. > >some torrent clients seem to require a different port for each torrent, >while others can handle multiple torrents concurrently with a single >port. my favorite client is the MS Windows only uTorrent, 2nd favorite >is the portable java based Azureus. I've enabled http-seeding on port 80. Don't know for sure if this works and/or helpt anything, but since this port is probably the only one open to the outside at our university it might work. For incoming connections my client is set to the random port number 21815 which is likely blocked and outside of my permission to allow open. I use Azureus in WinXP for practical reasons, FWIW. Torrents are for me something of a hocus-pocus thing. Either it works or not... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of John R Pierce >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 10:23 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly? > >> Is the tracker for the 5.3-release working properly? >> >> The only torrent I see actually downloading is CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-1to6. The >> other three for the i386 DVD and ditto for x86_64 (cd+dvd) are just sitting >> there. The availability and the number of connected peers in the swarm for >> each torrent is rather high though. >> > >I just started the two DVD torrents, x86_64 and i386, using the links in >the announcement email from this evening, and both are running along as >fast as my wires will run. > >both of these two appear to be using >http://torrent.centos.org:6969/announce as their primary tracker, and >both [DHT], local peer discovery and peer exchange protocols are happy >too. I've bandwidth limited my torrent to 400kbyte/s in, 50kbyte/s out >and I'm sseeing just about exactly that (my ADSL is good for peak >500-600kbyte/sec in and 70kbyte/sec out, so if I don't restrict it, the >torrent activity just about shuts down my network) Thanks for the info. Checked the tracker in my torrent-client, and it's the same as yours. Seems I have a possible firewall-issue on my hands here. OTOH, it's weird, as the one torrent works fine. Strange... Anyway, I've contacted the university-wide helpdesk for a possible solution. Thanks for the feedback! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Torrent tracker for CentOS v5.3 working properly?
Hi, Is the tracker for the 5.3-release working properly? The only torrent I see actually downloading is CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-1to6. The other three for the i386 DVD and ditto for x86_64 (cd+dvd) are just sitting there. The availability and the number of connected peers in the swarm for each torrent is rather high though. Do torrent downloads work from a single tracker at centos.org, or are those individual trackers depending on what mirror you download the torrent-file from? I've seen this behavior ever since CentOS v5.0. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: The enterprise OS with no borders ! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Michael A. Peters >Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:57 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors > >Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> Minor version upgrades (eg 5.2 > 5.3): yum update > >Not sure it matters but I usually do > >yum update yum rpm >yum clean all >yum update > >I heard elsewhere that there can be problems if you do not update glibc >before updating the rest of the OS. I heard that after two of my boxes >were already updated the above way and they didn't experience any >issues, so maybe it was bogus, but it certainly can't hurt to do > >yum update glibc > >first. > >remote server, be sure to do it inside of screen. I was a bit hasty there and didn't note the glibc needed to be updated first. On another note, on a few of my systems, yum didn't pick up the new packages unless I did a "yum clean all" first. "Yum upgrade" or "yum update"? What's the take on that one here on the list? Both seem to work. Superficially I don't see anything fishy doing either. Is it one of those zen-things the linux-community seems to be so much into? ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Gilbert Sebenste >Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:44 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors > >On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: > >> On one mirror that I tried, at least. >> >> So, is it live yet? :-) > >Almost. Another several more hours before they all sync, and then we're >good to go. Really?? Excellent, you rock guys! >BTW, how does this work? If I want to go from 5.2 to 5.3, can I just >type "yum upgrade"? If so, what /etc/yum.repos.d entry has to be active >for that? Minor version upgrades (eg 5.2 > 5.3): yum update Major version upgrades (eg 5.9 > 6.0): save conf-files, /home etc first, then complete reinstall with new release. Yum should take care of that for you. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Ray Van Dolson >Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:50 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4 > >Is there still no room for positive feedack and discussion from >developers and end users alike on how to approve things? I've recently migrated a dozen or so RHEL3-machines to CentOS5 for our university linux course-farm. The machines are used by students as I write this. Students use them, and knowing prying students, CentOS still works like a charm and so does the molecular modeling software running off of CentOS. The handful of new Intel i7-calculation machines we recently bought for our group of Ph. D.-Students are awesome and just hilariously fast with CentOS5. I'm very happy with CentOS! Good enough feedback? 8-} -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] date differs permanent some 3450 sec.
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Helmut Drodofsky >Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:25 AM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: [CentOS] date differs permanent some 3450 sec. > >Hi, > > > >the date jumps within 30 seconds to a wrong value. ntp service is stopped at >the >beginning. Daylight time savings in effect? The timeserver is incorrect (rather farfetched though)? "Ntpdate 0.centos.pool.ntp.org" seems awfully specific. Normally those time pools use geoip or some such mechanism to connect to the right pool and usually connect you to a close mirror, or at least on the same continent. Perhaps you're checking with the wrong time-server? Can you try some other ntp-server? Speculations, speculations... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Getting "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" from rsh - solved
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:36 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: [CentOS] Getting "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" from rsh > > I inherited a cpu-stats script from the previous *nixadmin at our > department. This script relies on a rsh-command to get the vmstats from the > remote machines and then using a perl script to push it to a web server. > >Now I've just added a new machine running CentOS 5.2 x64 to the script and I >get the error message in the subject line; "poll: protocol failure in >circuit setup". Replying on my own post for archival reasons: The error was in /etc/hosts.allow. I forgot to add a line "in.rshd: FQDN" in hosts.allow on the machine I imaged and then used to install to a bunch of other machines. Easy to miss though, there are a dozen or so other lines in there allowing other daemons and stuff. Fixing that, now "rsh remote-machine vmstat" works as expected. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] howto prevent gnome_panel from starting up one 5.2 x86_64
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Jerry Geis >Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:36 PM >To: CentOS ML >Subject: [CentOS] howto prevent gnome_panel from starting up one 5.2 x86_64 > >how do I prevent gnome_panel from starting up? > >once its started I can do "gnome-session-remove gnome_panel" >But I dont want it to startup at all. > >How can I do that? Check in gconf-editor in Panel/Global for some suitable preventive setting. HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Toby Bluhm >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:25 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 > >I never posted anything, but Steven Shiau, the maintainer, seems >responsive to questions on the mail list. Thx for the hint. I'll look there for more help if I need any. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Michael Peterson >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:17 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 > >> Thanks Les and Thomas. I appreciate the feedback. I'll look into installing >> this solution. >> >> I'm currently using a g4u-based routine with an ftp-server running of off a >> Win2k3-machine+dhcp. It works, but is slightly awkward to use. Clonezilla >> seems a bit more worked-on compared and more of a complete solution. > >Please let us know how it works for you. >I did not know that you could install it on CentOS. >I just started looking at it lately and can not get the live CD to work >on new or old hardware. >I have used PartImage and hoped it would be easier to use but no luck >even getting it up to test yet. >Glad to read that someone has gotten it to work. I will. I'm just about finished migrating RHEL3 to CentOS5 by way of g4u for a course-start and I'll start looking into Clonezilla afterwards, when I'm not deadlined anymore. This whole business with g4u made things pearshaped occasionally and also made me start looking for a more generalistic solution. Don't misunderstand me, g4u is not bad at all, but things are not ideal as it were. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Les Mikesell >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:50 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 > >> Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it >> in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, >> gotchas', warnings or whatever? > >I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a >2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side >in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a >clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. Thanks Les and Thomas. I appreciate the feedback. I'll look into installing this solution. I'm currently using a g4u-based routine with an ftp-server running of off a Win2k3-machine+dhcp. It works, but is slightly awkward to use. Clonezilla seems a bit more worked-on compared and more of a complete solution. Thanks. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: The OS Maker! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card
>-Original Message-
>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf
>Of Morten Torstensen
>Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:14 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card
>
>> Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not
>> work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in.
>
>So, either the memory sticks are bad (one or two of them), or the memory
>have bad timing in some way making them not compatible with the mobo.
That reminds me; some mobos have a default fail-safe settings option with
timings and stuff using very conservative numbers. If you haven't already
tried that, you might want to give that one a go as well.
NB! This default setting is usually not optimal ("turbo"), but rather settles
for stability. A working baseline kinda' thing, if you know what I mean.
If this doesn't work either, you're mem-sticks are as most here have pointed
out, bad in some way.
--
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Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Rick >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:10 AM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card > >>If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care >>how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks >>in bank 1 and 3 and the 4GB-sticks in banks 2 and 4. > >Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not >work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in. Well, in that case you may be SOL. 8-/ -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of MHR >Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:20 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card > >3) Some motherboards (many) will not accept different size DIMMs at >the same time. If yours works with the 2GB alone and the 4GB alone >but not both together, that's probably the problem and you can't do it >at all on your present hardware. If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks in bank 1 and 3 and the 4GB-sticks in banks 2 and 4. YMMV. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Social Security Changes
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Scott Silva >Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 5:20 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Social Security Changes > >>> Lemmings, all of em >> >> I don't get it... Is the petition CentOS-related?? >> >More like spam related IMHO! >Sometimes you just need to vent, and you hope the OP is still reading to get >the hint. Thx, didn't want to spam the list further with questions about this. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Social Security Changes
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Ross Walker >Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:45 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Social Security Changes > >Lemmings, all of em I don't get it... Is the petition CentOS-related?? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Robert Heller >Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:41 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions > >> What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? >> Do the repositories have decoders and such? > >Adobe has a repository for Linux RPMs (acrobat reader, flash player, >etc.). What software from Adobe does actually work with CentOS and/or linux in general except for Adobe Reader and Flash-player? I've tried installing Shockwave-player, but it's not supported. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Michael Klinosky >Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 5:02 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions > >What is the situation with multi-media additions (e.g. SWflash, mpeg)? >Do the repositories have decoders and such? For that stuff, I think rpmforge is a good place to start. http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B2 HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Getting "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" from rsh
Hi all, I inherited a cpu-stats script from the previous *nixadmin at our department. This script relies on a rsh-command to get the vmstats from the remote machines and then using a perl script to push it to a web server. Now I've just added a new machine running CentOS 5.2 x64 to the script and I get the error message in the subject line; "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup". What I've done so far is to check whether the command "rsh mach218 uptime" from m2 works with and w/o iptables running on mach218, checking that m2 is allowed to rlogin in m218 hosts.allow, hosts is properly setup, xinetd rsh and rlogin services are on and started AFAICT. In neither case does rsh work when run against m218, I still get the protocol failure-message. I have another machine, m14, that also runs CentOS 5.2 but the x86-flavour, and here rsh works. As far as I can tell, the machines are identically setup with respect to iptables, hosts and hosts.allow. Also the /etc/xinetd.conf are identical on both m14 and m218. Feels like I'm missing something obvious... Can you guys help? Thx. -- BW, Sorin ------- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # If it wasn't backed-up, then it wasn't important. -The sysadmin's motto. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 resolution?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Dick Holland >Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:45 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 >resolution? > > >Be gentle with me, I'm a bit of a noob. Do you mean add rpmforge as a >yum repository and do a "yum install 915resolution"? We all are at some point. ;-) The answer is yes. Go here for info on how to add the rpmforge repo: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B2 FYI, RHEL5 i386 reponds to CentOS5 i386 and so on. Then do a "yum install whateverpackageyouneed". HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 resolution?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:12 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 >resolution? > >>I'm trying to find a CentOS 5 x86_64 video driver for an Intel >>DG965WHMKR mobo to support 1680X1050 resolution. There appears to be >>nothing at Intel - or anywhere else that I can find. > >Is this an mobo-integrated gfx-card? Did you check Intels download site? Sorry, missed the line where you said you'd already checked Intels site. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 resolution?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Joseph L. Casale >Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:32 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 >resolution? > >That 965 mobo uses the X3000 IGA, so you can prolly add rpmforge and >install 915resolution. Pardon my intrusion, but what does packages like that add to the default from-the-box-install? I know we use Nvidias range of gfx-cards and the proprietary driver from Nvidia, because the stereo-capabilities of that driver is supported, and even required in some cases, by most 3rd party software. Generally speaking however, most gfx-cards work fine out-of-the-box, so why wanting to install another driver? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 resolution?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Dick Holland >Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:26 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 >resolution? > >I'm trying to find a CentOS 5 x86_64 video driver for an Intel >DG965WHMKR mobo to support 1680X1050 resolution. There appears to be >nothing at Intel - or anywhere else that I can find. Is this an mobo-integrated gfx-card? Did you check Intels download site? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated Authentication [Apache]
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Ross Walker >Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:36 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated >Authentication [Apache] > >In Firefox go to your about:config page and scroll down to: > >network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris > >and > >network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris > >and for their string values enter your DNS domain to allow kerberos >negotiation and delegation to occur. No way! This works in linux with Firefox?? I've only tried setting the string values to the Windows trivial names. Using the FQDN didn't even occur to me. I've got to try this. Thx for the hint. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated Authentication [Apache]
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Christopher Chan >Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:53 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated >Authentication [Apache] > > >>> No, NTLM auth works in Firefox (at least on Firefox on Windows, I >>> don't think it will work in other platforms though). >> >> It doesn't. NTLM auth to eg Sharepoint sites works fine with Firefox in >> Windows. Setting the same things in Firefox under linux and having it login >> to sharepoint doesn't. > >I don't think any other OS other than Windows has NTLM bindings. Probably not, but I was thinking there may be some obscure package somewhere on the 'net to do this. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated Authentication [Apache]
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Filipe Brandenburger >Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:58 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated >Authentication [Apache] > >No, NTLM auth works in Firefox (at least on Firefox on Windows, I >don't think it will work in other platforms though). It doesn't. NTLM auth to eg Sharepoint sites works fine with Firefox in Windows. Setting the same things in Firefox under linux and having it login to sharepoint doesn't. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Scott Silva >Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:01 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >Looking again at the incident report, I think the unit might have been even >older. It was the older Back-ups with the white metal case instead of black. >It could have been mid-90's. Before me no one kept track of a lot of that >stuff. Yupp, that's the ones we had, the beige-white models. Bought those in around 2002-2003. Looks like APC really did send us units from their really old batches... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Toby Bluhm >Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:44 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >Oh, there's lots of bad stuff that can happen to your home . . . > >http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/01/eastlake_city_and_state.html UFO:s blew up their house? I hear they are quite common in the US. ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Isaac Hailperin >Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:13 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network > > >> Especially since FDD aren't that common anymore... I'll see if I can't adapt >> my SOP:s to boot and install from network. > >The set up is actually not too complicated. I really recommend it, you just plug in >the computer and let it install. >There are various variants, you can either define what will be installed by naming the >pxe >controll file according to the mac address, or you can make a default boot menue. >Boot menues are described here: >http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX#Custom_Menu_Example_with_su >b-menus I've really not had any good experiences with pxe, but that was related to Windows-machines and RIS. Maybe this'll go better. Thx for the hint though, I'll check this out. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Scott Silva >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:45 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >I just had a Back-UPS of about 1998 vintage burst into flames about 6 months >ago. Luckily, someone was near it and grabbed a fire extinguisher. It was a >Saturday, and if this person hadn't been in on overtime, who knows what would >have happened. Geez... I have a UPS for my admin-workstation just under the desk on the floor in front of me. Suddenly I feel a bit anxious about that... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Les Mikesell >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:42 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >> hospital with power-backups up to yinyang. But it failed when we needed >> them... #=;-( > >It's a tough thing to get right. I've been involved with several >systems and they all failed a time or two in initial testing even after >everyone thought they should work. And then things break after that... The building was built in the 50s, so I guess it's not a testing thing, but rather the second thing you mention. Breakage due to not-too-frequent-use. >Another issue can be that you aren't backing up the air conditioner >power, so when the grid goes down your still-running equipment >overheats, damaging the electronics. This is particularly likely if >your servers are racked densely in a small space. Yeah, it got awfully hot in the basement server room... We don't don’t have any racks though, almost all servers are tower models not too densely packed. About 3-4 per shelf in two rows and two-three shelves in total. The AC is rather over-dimensioned, but when the power is out, it doesn't really matter... 8-/ The good part is that we haven't had any significant power-outs for over two years. Temporary dips and the occasional spike and flicker yes, but no total unplanned black-out. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Isaac Hailperin >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:56 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network > >Now in conjunction with the kernel parameter ksdevice=eth1 (thank you >Kai!) this works like a charm. >I seems that I misunderstood the use of "install" and "url". We all learn something at some point. Hopefully. 8-) Anyway, your method seems neater though, than mine with a floppy and booting from the first cd. Especially since FDD aren't that common anymore... I'll see if I can't adapt my SOP:s to boot and install from network. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Isaac Hailperin >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:46 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: [CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network > >What I did: >First a manual install form DVD. I then used the kickstart >file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg for a network installation. > >Now since I get asked all these questions at boot time, I suspect that >the kickstart file is not there to answer these questions. It does use it, it just doesn't find the network-block in ks.cfg. Does your ks.cfg contain some lines for the networking? You didn't modify the ks.cfg you mention above, did you? You can open the ks.cfg you already have and then tweak with the wizard. I used the kickstart wizard just yesterday to make my own ks.cfg, I suggest you do the same to add the network part in ks.cfg as well as other stuff. Then redo what you did before. FWIW, I also did a netinstall, like you but slightly different, with the ks.cfg on a floppy. The gotcha' here is that the netinstall iso doesn't acknowledge the "linux ks=floppy"-line when I boot with the netinstall-iso. Booting from cd1 from the regular 6cd-package and then adding "linux ks=floppy" does. From there I chose http-install and added mirror.centos.org and the proper path to the v5.2 i386. HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Spiro Harvey >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:47 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe > >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 > >Here's your problem. :) > >Microsoft do things their own way and assume that's how everybody likes >it. Inevitably, all their users have to conform, because they don't >have any other option. Might've been a joke from you side, I've used Outlook 11 and now 12 with this list. No problems, I see the footers. It might be a config-issue on the user's side though. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >John R Pierce >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:52 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >Sorin Srbu wrote: >> I've been buying from the Smart-UPS and Back-UPS range. Those should be ok, >> shouldn't they? > > >SmartUPS, OK. BackUPS, cheap consumer junk. > >I've had to toss out dozens of various BackUPS units, mostly in the >450-600VA range... They act like they have a dead/weak battery, so I >replace the battery with a brand new one, and the unit is dead. They >are typically 2-3 years old at this point, so hardly worth bothering with. The APC UPS we still have left is a smallish SmartUPS. I exchanged the battery a couple of months ago. UPS still working fine as far as I can tell. Guess you're right, I'll stay away from the BackUPS-range, if we ever buy APC again. 8-/ Reason for getting BackUPS at all, was that I got more VA's for the buck. The funding I had at the time was very low. Didn't pay off in the long run, which I pointed out to my boss... ;-) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >John R Pierce >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:49 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >> Oh, didn't know about Best Power. Is that something like Eatons budget-line >> brand or something? >> > >Best Power made the excellent midsized FerrUPS units 10+ years ago. >washing machine sized 7kva kinda stuff. built like a tank, very >serviceable. Ah, the other way around then. Not budget I guess. Thx for the info! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Les Mikesell >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:20 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >> I've been buying from the Smart-UPS and Back-UPS range. Those should be ok, >> shouldn't they? > >That depends on how important it is to never fail. If it is extremely >important, you might want something with redundant components like the >Symmetra line. These are designed to keep working with some failed >components and to allow you to replace parts with the equipment on >bypass but still running. The UPS-units serve group-server machines. If one or two should go down it's not really a biggie, although it's not good either. Not critical in any way. Still, one would expect the UPS-units to last more, or at least not fail due to the electronics. Besides, I'd never be able to get the funding for the Symmetra line UPS:es. 8-/ > > All in all about a handfull of them. They're quite pricey... 90% >> of them suffered some kind of a circuit board failure. Not what you'd usually >> expect from a UPS, rather you'd expect the battery to give up first. I bought >> them over a few years, so it shouldn't be a bad batch or something like that. > >You might blame one or two on bad components, but this sounds like >something is wrong with the input power at your location. I assume they >are lasting at least through the 2 year warranty period. We have at >least a few dozen of them and haven't noticed any pattern of problems >other than aging batteries. Are you tracking the in/out power levels on >the smart units to see what they have to deal with? The voltage has been fairly constant here over the years since I started using UPS and logging the voltage and stuff, 238V more or less constantly. It rarely drops below 236V or over 240V. We mainly use the UPS:es to have controlled shutdowns should the power fail entirely - We had some issues a few years back while they built a new school the other side of the road when the power went up and down for a uyear or so, and the diesel-generators didn't start up as expected. This whole building where I work is supposed to be a wartime hospital with power-backups up to yinyang. But it failed when we needed them... #=;-( It might be that the power is too high, although the standard is 240V in Europe AFAIK. Or the UPS-units *may* have been rated for the previous lower voltage-level at 220V, but that sounds a bit farfetched IMO. Unless the units were a (very much) older batch that APC dumped on us... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Les Mikesell >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:35 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >> Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? APC is >> apparantely not an option as they suck bigtime IMO, so what's? Powerware and >> APC are the two biggest and most wellknown UPS-manufacturers I know of. > >APC does make a full line of units. Perhaps you aren't buying the right >ones if they aren't serving you well. I've been buying from the Smart-UPS and Back-UPS range. Those should be ok, shouldn't they? All in all about a handfull of them. They're quite pricey... 90% of them suffered some kind of a circuit board failure. Not what you'd usually expect from a UPS, rather you'd expect the battery to give up first. I bought them over a few years, so it shouldn't be a bad batch or something like that. To APC's honour, I must say their support helped me quite a bit to get this working by sending me new cables to test with and at one occasion two brand new batteries free of charge. Unfortunately that didn't help... I wasn't too happy with the experience anyway, so I tried Eatons Powerware's 5xxx-series, which has worked w/o hitches ever since. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Toby Bluhm >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:28 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >>> Eaton Powerware used to be Best, they made the very good FerrUps series. >> >> Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? > >I think he meant the brand name "Best Power." Eaton owns both the Best >Power and Powerware brands. Oh, didn't know about Best Power. Is that something like Eatons budget-line brand or something? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >John R Pierce >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 6:49 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >Eaton Powerware used to be Best, they made the very good FerrUps series. Marking words: "used" to be best? Which is the best now then? APC is apparantely not an option as they suck bigtime IMO, so what's? Powerware and APC are the two biggest and most wellknown UPS-manufacturers I know of. >Re: batteries, most all UPS's I've seen use various standard VRLA >batteries (Valve Regulated Lead Acid, often mistakenly called Sealed >Lead Acid, or Gel Cells), readily obtainable from vendors like >www.digikey.com, assembled into packs... with a few exceptions, you >can use the generic equivalent battery, much much cheaper. I >resurrected a dead SmartUPS 2000 that was going to be tossed at work by >replacing the batteries with 4 x 12V20AH Panasonic VRLA, which happens >to be the same size my motorcycle uses. > >Now, battery prices have gone up considerably these last 2-3 years, lead >prices are very high, as are transportation costs. A motorcycle battery... Good one, thx for the hint! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Michael Simpson >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:45 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >[...snipped...] BT's response was to decrease the "fault report level". LOL! Good one! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Anne Wilson >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:21 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >> Anne, is your motherboard an oldish MSI (Microstar)? > >No. It's MSI, but only 12 months old - K9N SLi Platinum Heh! All, and I really mean all!, of our MSI-mobos have suffered bloated/leaking caps sooner or later. Even the newer ones! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Anne Wilson >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:20 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >> However, in some cases it's cheaper to just get a whole new UPS... 8-/ >> >I know I was shocked at the price I had to pay last time I replaced the APC >battery. My favourite vendor sells a lot of Liebert PowerSure UPSs, so I >presume they have had no problems with them, or they'd have given up by now. >There is a large range, and the prices are good, but the only thing I can say >is that I haven't heard anyone complain. I'd prefer to hear a positive report >before buying. Did you check Eaton Powerware? They are very competitively priced IMO. We bought APC's before as well, but I felt the controller software was not as smooth as it could've been and the battery replacement-programs very not that good as Powerware's variants. With UPS's I prefer a brand-name. If nothing else for the reason that they stock batteries even to older models. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Anne Wilson >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:15 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >Technicalities of power supply are not in any way my expertise. Are you >saying that it would be wise to change the battery? Three, four years is a normal lifespan for a UPS-battery IIRC. Less if the batteries are used often, ie you have plenty of brown- and/or powerouts. Most UPS-brands have a battery-exchange program. However, in some cases it's cheaper to just get a whole new UPS... 8-/ HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Bob Hoffman >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:10 PM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe > >But I never get any footers. >___ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This one has a footer... I use Outlook 2007. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Toby Bluhm >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:42 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague. Anne, is your motherboard an oldish MSI (Microstar)? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Anne Wilson >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:28 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged. The system is just >spontaneously rebooting or shutting down. Try another PSU. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Scott Silva >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:18 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >Are the failures power related, or is the system just shutting down on its own? I've had this happen on more than one occasion, that is to say when the motherboard didn't totally bail at the occasion. Anne, if you have a spare PSU, try your system with that one and see if the system is more stable. Brand-name PSU's is *not* a guarantee it will last and/or be resilient. I have experience with those as well... 8-/ >If the latter, I would suspect either a power supply or a processor fan. If >the former, maybe you need to invest in an inexpensive UPS. I second that. A UPS, as in prevention, is THE starting point for stability. At home I have a fairly big one, a Powerware 5115 rated at 1400VA. My two Windows DC's, another Windows intranet web portal, firewall-appliance, linux web server and switch, as well as one monitor are connected to it. The three workstations are not though, all docs and files are on the DC's. 8-} smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Scott Silva >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:37 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed > >If you had many power failures, the filesystem might just be severely trashed. >Journals and files out of sync, etc... If a good fsck didn't fix it, you might >just be in for a wipe-reinstall, or many hours of finding and fixing corrupted >files.. [...] A UPS hasn't previously been mentioned AFAICT, or possibly I missed it... You do have one connected, don't you? The controlled shutdown a UPS usually offers at power/brownouts, is a really good solution IMHO. /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Matt Shields >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:44 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe > >Who cares about the headers every single message from the list has a footer >appended to it with the information about the list. Click on the link and it tells you how >to unsubscribe. If an unsubscribe message sent to the list causes so much hiatus as now, why not make it simple for all involved and just add an unsubscribe link in the footer, as several subscribers have already mentioned, and be rid of all this... It's not completely obvious that all list-info, incl how to unsub, is available if you follow the link in the footer. At least not for a technology challenged CTO or whatever he/she was. ;-) Just my opinion... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >James Bensley >Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:28 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3? > >I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible >to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or >can you get update RPMs? It's generally considered that upgrading minor versions (eg from 5.2 to 5.3) is *usually* quite easy and harmless, and normally doesn't pose any problems. Upgrading from major versions (eg from 5.9 to 6.0) *is* possible but not recommended. If you chose this path you should expect major shindings, lib- and yum dependencies-mayhem and all sorts of weird things happening and/or a botched operating system which will require a complete reinstall anyway. It's your choice really, and depends on how brave and much fingerspitzgefühl you have, alternatively how much time you have on your hands. ;-) With that said, I once chose to upgrade a Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6. I went fine finally but took me a week or so to solve all the dependicies problems for yum. Since then I've never even considered upgrading major versions. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] where did all the nonfree rpms go? Nvidia? xine-lib-mp3?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Ralph Angenendt >Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:13 AM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] where did all the nonfree rpms go? Nvidia? xine-lib-mp3? > >Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Why don't you get your proprietary drivers from nvidia.com? Or do you need an >> actual rpm-package? Anyway, you're bound to get newest stuff from Nvidia.com. > >Yes, using an rpm package is better, as the packaged drivers do not >remove libGL.so, for example, like the nvidia driver does. You need those for a particular reason? Backward-compatibility maybe? Just curious. /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] where did all the nonfree rpms go? Nvidia? xine-lib-mp3?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Paul Johnson >Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:04 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: [CentOS] where did all the nonfree rpms go? Nvidia? xine-lib-mp3? > >Then I noticed there is a new Nvidia proprietary driver on >www.nvidia.org, and I can't find an rpm package for it, or for the >previous 2 releases of the nvidia driver. The place to get those >packages used to be rpm.livna.org, but that is now moved to rpmfusion, >but on the rpmfusion site, the nonfree folders are empty. Why don't you get your proprietary drivers from nvidia.com? Or do you need an actual rpm-package? Anyway, you're bound to get newest stuff from Nvidia.com. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)
I run this on a centos-server I have. The machine comes to crawl when I open up the Symantec-GUI. I think the GUI is built on java, which might make the machine slower than necessary. Probably the CLI-interface is more responsive. -- /Sorin >-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Morten Torstensen >Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:18 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!) > >And just for completeness, Symantec has AV for Linux too... it is better >there than on the Windows platform, but that doesn't say much. The >advantage of Symantec is that it is a well-known brand, so in some cases >it can be a easy option to push through red-tape bureaucrats. > smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of >Marko Vojinovic >Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:36 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host > > >> ssh -L 3390:private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine:3389 >> usern...@ip-or-hostname-of-remote-nat-server > >Well, first, private-ip-of-remote-XP-machine is dynamic, given by my ISP's >dhcp server, so I cannot have 100% guarantee that it will always be the same. >And I have no easy way of finding it out if it does change. Can't you use one of those free dyndns-thingies? That way you'd always connect to my.homecomputer.com (or something) instead of an arbitrary ip. At least that's what I do when connecting from eg work to my homecomputers (linux and windows machines). HTH. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Kenneth Burgener >Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:06 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point? > >I am curious what should be the benchmark for making the choice of >switching from 32bit to 64bit Linux? I have a few assumptions below. >Is my logic sound? (This is a follow up to the "Adding RAM" thread) > >1. 4GB Memory. > >3. Compatibility. I've been mainly bitten by paragraphs 1 and 3 with respect to the server-side installations. I opted to run the x86 PAE-kernel instead of going with the 64b-OS, on my Dell PE (which has 4GB RAM). This coincidentally also solved issue #3, the compatibility concerns (as in software). Most everything will run fine on 32b, be it server or desktop. If you want to run really modern hardware you might have issues with either x86 or x64 OS:es. My Dell PE is a refurbished machine with a couple of years under the belt, so hardware incompatibilities shouldn't be a concern with eg CentOS 5.2. Software dittos is another matter though, especially if I'd opted with a x64 OS. This goes for both CentOS/linux and in my case Windows as well. I admin both camps. Your own personal mileage may vary though, as you may run different hardware and software than I do, so generalizing may be a bit difficult IMHO and filled with gotchas' as it were. HTH. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Solved: Yum weirdness
Sorin Srbu <> scribbled on Thursday, November 27, 2008 2:37 PM: > Tried to do a yum update on the command line a while ago and an error > stating "No module named yum" popped up. For archival purposes: Solved the problem by realising I had by mistake deployed a new /etc/bashrc-file to all RHEL-machines including my test-CentOS-computers. Copying back the pre-rollout bashrc-backups on the affected CentOS-workstations finxed the problem. Human error... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Yum weirdness
Hi all, Running CentOS 5.2 x86. Tried to do a yum update on the command line a while ago and an error stating "No module named yum" popped up. I then tried importing the yum module by first entering "python" in a terminal window and then "import yum", for which I was rewarded with a "ImportError: No module named yum". Then I downloaded a yum rpm-package via pbone.net. I got this one http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/8092652/com/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm.html and then did an rpm -Uvh on the rpm-file, then tried running yum again with no success. I still got the no module named yum-message. I further did a rpm -q yum* and was told that the above rpm wasn't installed, so I redid the install but added --force, but yum still gives the error message. Running rpm -V yum* rpm* python* gives package yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm is not installed package rpm* is not installed package python* is not installed Which is kinda weird, unless I'm missing something really obvious... On a hunch I ran yum extender from the startmenu, or whatever it's called in CentOS, and this works. It says yum v3.2.8 IIRC is invoked. I got a list of updated packages, the ones Karanbir announced recently and they installed fine w/o any problem. Yum has run fine when I used it about three-four weeks ago. Same problem is seen on three of my workstations. The fourth, a server running the latest x86-PAE kernel runs yum just fine on the command line. The answers I find searching the web more or less replicates the above steps I've already done, so I'm kind off at a loss here on what to do next to have yum on the command-line working. Can you guys help? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated
Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:20 PM: > It was a nearly-full install and I do connect periodically to do > updates. I did a yum clean all before writing to the list, with no > significant change to the disk usage. > > I will list packages next and see what can be removed safely. I truly > don't know what is filling the 130G...this should be more than > sufficient as I've loaded CentOS5.x on many systems without this issue. Ok, what about the /home-folder, did it reside on a different disk or on the same as where / is? If it's on /, take a look inside /home, your users may have started downloading pictures, mp3 and stuff. You know the drill. ;-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated
Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: > I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order > (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really > stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. Try a yum clean all. That might help. But if it's as you say, not connected to the internet, you probably are not running yum at all, so it might not help. Check your temp-directories and clean out as necessary. You still have 1gig free. Did you do a full install? If you can live with it, uninstall packages you don't need. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] bioinformatics repository?
Davide Cittaro <> scribbled on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:13 AM: > I'm googling a bit but I can't find a > valuable solution: which is (or which are) the best repository I should add > to have a satisfying list of bioinfo rpm? You could try rpmforge. I add and enable this repo routinely. I find it rather good generally speaking. FWIW, I haven't heard of any repos with specifically bioinfo rpms. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
MHR <> scribbled on Friday, November 21, 2008 7:01 PM: > So, your situation is the real determining factor. If it's important > enough to your place of employment, do a study to see what works best > for you and go with that. Otherwise, I'd say just stick with ext3 as > long as that works for you. No, no, this is directed purely at home use. I've been playing around with MythTV a bit, which usually sooner or later means big files-handling. Ext3 is not that good at that. At work, I wouldn't dream of exchanging ext3 in favour of anything else on our *nix servers and workstations. Ext3 is there and just works (good enough). -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Friday, November 21, 2008 3:50 PM: >> Vandaman <> scribbled on Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:31 PM: >> And I am sure there are usecase's where Jfs is a better option than Xfs. Does this help answer the question ? >> >> So which fs is preferred when, any rule of thumb one should know of? >> Pointers gratefully accepted. >> > > the fact that you are asking this question would indicate, to me, that > you dont need either of these. You should be sticking with ext3 as > shipped in the stock distro. The KISS-rule applies in my case, I know. 8-) Just thought I'd check with you guys if there's something else than the default ext3 one should look into. A friend of mine running mythtv, swears by ReiserFS, or if it was xfs, can't recall exactly. Anyway, one of those fs's is supposedly better with large files than ext3 is. That's what got me asking. You're right though, the best all-round solution is ext3. Like Toby said earlier, it's there and it works. Thanks for the feedback. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
Vandaman <> scribbled on Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:31 PM: >> And I am sure there >> are usecase's where Jfs is a better option than Xfs. >> >> Does this help answer the question ? So which fs is preferred when, any rule of thumb one should know of? Pointers gratefully accepted. TIA. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
Toby Bluhm <> scribbled on Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:23 PM: > If you use ext3 on lvm, you can do a background fsck. > > http://markmail.org/message/5ipnsva3xkdyzzfy Nice, thx for the hint! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?
Jiann-Ming Su <> scribbled on Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:59 PM: > The only thing I don't like about ext3 is the fsck. On relatively > small filesystems, it's an annoyance. But on huge filesystem, > 500-1000GB, a system may take a long, long time to come back up. Even on smaller 200GB-systems this takes annoyingly long time, but I see the need why one would occasionally want to run this anyway. Last time I rebooted one of our servers to get a new kernel loaded, I was told at boot that it'd been some 400days or so since the last fsck. After such a long time you might want to do the forced check anyway, just in case. It's for your own good. 8-) -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: [OT] Contents of CentOS digest...
William L. Maltby <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:45 AM: >>> Geez! You guys hammer on others all the time, but then you "forget" to >>> "edit the subject line" when replying to "digests", as requested by TPB. >> >> "TPB"?? The Pirate Bay? > > Arrrgh! I need two more cups of coffee. Should be TPTB. > > Anyway, for those poor folks that still have to work for a living and > have no time to google, here's one link. > > http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ Got your point; thanks! ;*) /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: [OT] Contents of CentOS digest...
William L. Maltby <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:13 PM: > Geez! You guys hammer on others all the time, but then you "forget" to > "edit the subject line" when replying to "digests", as requested by TPB. "TPB"?? The Pirate Bay? /Sorin (Who would go googling to find a site with listing obscure acronyms, but opts to work instead... ;-) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Creating a controlled local repo
Mogens Kjaer <> scribbled on Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:13 PM: >>> Use nvidia-x11-drv from rpmforge to get updated nvidia drivers. >> >> Are they any good? I inherited this linux-farm from the previous *nixadmin, >> and the way it's setup assumes we use the proprietary drivers from nvidia, >> as that's what the molecular modeling software company says'll work. We >> need the fancy 3D-stuff and whatnot. > > nvidia-x11-drv is the proprietary drivers from Nvidia, just packaged > so that you (normally) don't have to worry about kernel upgrades. > > We use this on a CentOS machine running molecular modelling software > without problems. That's good info, I'll look into this. Thx! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Creating a controlled local repo
Mogens Kjaer <> scribbled on Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:32 AM: >> Therefore I've planned to create a local repo on one of our servers, share >> /var/cache/yum, set keepcache to 1 on that server and have it reposync >> periodically (like once a week) with CentOS Base, Extras, rpmforge and so >> on. > > Why not make a "real" mirror using rsync, test new updates on a test > test machine, and run "yum update" on the clients when the test > machine is ok? Ok, that's a point I guess. Although, I don't quite see why this is different from the setup I mentioned though, could you elaborate a bit? What would the advantage be with your suggestion? Also, how can I let all the clients automatically update from the server, when the updates have been okayed? Yum-nightly maybe? > You could risk getting into trouble updating via a shared > /var/cache/yum when CentOS 5.3, 5.4, etc. comes out. I'd use repomanage to weed out old stuff, maybe with a cronjob, and only keep the latest versions. Also, there's always some hub-bub on this list, so I can preemtively disable the reposync, until the new version's been tested. > Use nvidia-x11-drv from rpmforge to get updated nvidia drivers. Are they any good? I inherited this linux-farm from the previous *nixadmin, and the way it's setup assumes we use the proprietary drivers from nvidia, as that's what the molecular modeling software company says'll work. We need the fancy 3D-stuff and whatnot. TIA. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Creating a controlled local repo
Hi all, I've been thinking about creating a local repo for our to-be CentOS-park (we're currently in the process of migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS5). As we need to control all updates being applied (think WUS, Windows Update Server) because of special software being run on servers and clients, we must check first that our molecular modeling software doesn't bite the grass should eg X, the kernel (and breaking the proprietary nvidia gfx-drivers in the process) etc be updated in a "non-approved" way. Therefore I've planned to create a local repo on one of our servers, share /var/cache/yum, set keepcache to 1 on that server and have it reposync periodically (like once a week) with CentOS Base, Extras, rpmforge and so on. On the clients I'd disable all standard repos, and only have the clients yum update from the aforementioned local repo server. Would this work? Or is there a cleaner/nicer/better/simpler way to do this? Gotchas' maybe? Any feedback is appreciated. Thx in advance. -- BW, Sorin ------- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # Wit levels low. Attempting to compensate. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?
Michael H. Warfield <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:53 PM: >> The setterm-command I tried yesterday didn't work. I'll give your setting >> a go. > > Make sure you ran it from a VC. It won't work remotely or in an X > windows terminal window. I've got to read the posts better... Thx for the heads-up. 8-} /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?
Robert Spangler <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:03 AM: >> > It was thinking it is logged through klogd, and can be suppressed by >> > starting klogd with the e.g. "-c 3" option. >> > Change the bootoption of klogd in: /etc/sysconfig/syslog : > >> >KLOGD_OPTIONS="-x -c 3" >> >> Sounds vaguely like something my google-searches turned, but didn't quite >> get/understand. I'll look into this again. Thx. > > I have the following in my /etc/sysctl.conf file; > > # Stop logging to console > kernel.printk = 3 4 1 7 The setterm-command I tried yesterday didn't work. I'll give your setting a go. Thx. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?
Paul Bijnens <> scribbled on Monday, October 20, 2008 4:36 PM: > It was thinking it is logged through klogd, and can be suppressed by > starting klogd with the e.g. "-c 3" option. > Change the bootoption of klogd in: /etc/sysconfig/syslog : > >KLOGD_OPTIONS="-x -c 3" Sounds vaguely like something my google-searches turned, but didn't quite get/understand. I'll look into this again. Thx. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?
Michael H. Warfield <> scribbled on Monday, October 20, 2008 4:23 PM: >>> setterm --msg off > >> Is it possible to get rid of the iptables messages on the console as well, >> with the above tweak, or is it specifically and only for the kernel? > > iptables is in the kernel. > > AFAIK, it's either via syslog or via printk. If you've shut them both > down, it should be gone. >From what I found with google it didn't help if you turn it off with syslog, >so I'd assume the setterm-thingie should help. Thx! /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] What keeps logging to my console?
Michael H. Warfield <> scribbled on Friday, October 17, 2008 4:45 PM: > setterm --msg off > > man setterm: > >-msg [on|off] (virtual consoles only) > Enables or disables the sending of kernel printk() > messages to the console. Is it possible to get rid of the iptables messages on the console as well, with the above tweak, or is it specifically and only for the kernel? /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] new list proposal
Craig White <> scribbled on Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:24 PM: > If you are going to go to multiple lists, might I suggest that you have > 1 system-admins list and 1 general-users list and you can tightly > control the system-admins list. I think you're on to something here. I assume you mean the general-users list would have a higher roof, correct? /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] new list proposal
Michael Semcheski <> scribbled on Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:17 AM: > This may sound crazy, but maybe the thing to do is let the main list > continue the way it is, but update the guidelines for this list to > explicitly allow the things that Karanbir mentioned in the OP. Then, > and this is the crazy part, set up a new list called centos-terse or > centos-hardcore or centos-list-of-last-resort. Let that one be the > new BS-not-tolerated, no noise, all Centos all the time list. I second that! CentOS-Discussion should continue to be the general entrance to anything CentOS but updated as to topics, while there could also be more specific lists that are hardcore etc. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] new list proposal
Karanbir Singh <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:55 PM: >> And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further encourage >> such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' list. > > Also, all comments are welcome! Sounds like a plan. How would a newbie know what list to ask on though? I think this might be a crucial point. You'll need to specify pretty hard what is and what is not a proper topic on the lists respectively. Splitting it up *might* make the list more, well split, causing confusion where to post what and so on, and you'd still get the noise on both lists, only double the amount. On a personal note, I'm already subscribed to thirtysome lists now. One more won't matter much. If I find the techie-list isn't for me, I can unsub. -- BW, Sorin ------- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines
Scott Silva <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:35 PM: > You just need to read this list to see people having hardware troubles, > mostly with SATA and/or network, but those are pretty important to a PC. I did have troubles with wifi, but that is kind off a specialty thing. It most probably was me screwing things up anyway. 8-/ Everything else has been good so far. I can also see SATA being a problem. I have had them myself, although not when using CentOS; mostly with Red Hat... 8-) Your mileage may vary I guess, as always. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines
Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:31 PM: >> Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? > > Because other distributions have better support for brand-new consumer > hardware. Especially, if you consider the lifetime cycle of CentOS which > spans to 2014. Look at this not from the viewpoint of your mom, but from > the computershop that wants to sell lots of PCs to very different people > (which will expect to see *recent* software) and with (over the years) > quite differing hardware. I see. Good point. However, brand-new hardware support would mean something like the bleeding edge Fedora (any other distro?). The disadvantage IMHO with eg Fedora is it's short life-cycle though. What is it, a year or so now? FWIW, I've installed CentOS on pretty new stuff, like dual core-mobos with SATA etc, Broadcom integrated and Intel Desktop Pro/1000 NICs and so on. Works fine, so I still don't quite see why it'd not be suitable with settling on eg CentOS, especially if it's set up properly from the beginning by the shop. Did you maybe have some special hardware in mind? Maybe I'm blinded by CentOS running fine on whatever I throw at it so far... /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines
Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:21 PM: > I wouldn't be so sure that CentOS would be the best choice for a > brand-new consumer desktop, though. Any particular reason why not, if I may ask? It works fine for my computer-ignorant 50+ mom. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Mass installs of desktop systems on identical machines
Niki Kovacs <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:44 PM: >How > would it *technically* be possible to replicate these installs as easily > as possible? G4u (Ghost for unix) is your solution. It's free. Have a ftp-and dhcp server available on your network. Install one machine with your preferred linux distro and tweak it as you want it. Boot from the g4u-cd and ghost it to your ftp-server. Boot from the g4u-cd on your next machine and dump the image from your ftp-server to the new machine. Kudzu will take care of everything else. You can do this with several machines at once. The nice thing with kudzu is that your image will work even with a computer that does not have the same hardware. Awesome is just scraping the surface. I use this approach at our department. Works excellent. HTH. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Squid Number of hits
lingu <> scribbled on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:24 PM: > I am running squid on centos 5.Is there is any tool to calculate > number of ip's hit the server for month wise. > Even any command to find out the number of hits is also ok. http://www.google.se/linux?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&q=squid+report+generator&btnG =Search HTH. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Good [L]AMP tutorial for CentOS 5.2 ?
Ralph Angenendt <> scribbled on Saturday, October 11, 2008 2:16 PM: > Rene Fournier wrote: >> Being slightly familiar with BSD, I'm trying to get my feet wet with >> Linux, and was wondering if anyone can suggest a good walkthrough of >> setting up a CentOS server with Apache, PHP, and MySQL... I recently discovered howtoforge.com. Great site I think. The below might be of interest for your specific case. Quick 'n' Easy LAMP Server For CentOS/RHEL: http://www.howtoforge.com/quick-n-easy-lamp-server-centos-rhel The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2 x86_64: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-5.2-x86_64 The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.2: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-5.2 HTH. /S smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Installing rsh-server weirdness
Toby Bluhm <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 3:18 PM: >> Currently working with migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS 5.2 x86 on test >> computer. When I tried to run "yum install rsh*" in order to install the >> rsh-server > > > Try > > yum install rsh\* > > or > > yum install "rsh*" > > > This allows "*" to be passed on to yum unmolested by the shell. That's a new one. I'll keep this one in mind. Thx. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Installing rsh-server weirdness
Kai Schaetzl <> scribbled on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:36 PM: > First: please do not hijack threads. If you want to send a new question > then hit "new message" and not "reply"! Sorry, didn't realise. Won't happen again. > Second: This can occur if you use a non-default repo and yum wants to use > it for an rpm that is unsigned. It would have been more helpful to quote > the exact yum output. I'll see if I can reproduce this problem on a third test-machine, and get the complete error message for you. FWIW, I got the error message with a clean and updated CentOS 5.2 x86-install, with only the standard base, extras etc-repos enabled. I then added the rpmforge-repo to get some other software, and then tried the rsh-server installation again with the same error. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Installing rsh-server weirdness
Hi all, Currently working with migrating from RHEL3 to CentOS 5.2 x86 on test computer. When I tried to run "yum install rsh*" in order to install the rsh-server package, yum jumped out to the CLI stating there was "no key for this package" or something o that effect. I then used the Add/remove applet on the same machine and searched for rsh-server, found it and installed it. No problems. Then I went over to my other migration test-machine and did the same from the CLI, there it worked flawlessly. Why did the latter installation work and the CLI-install didn't? I'm at a loss here, possibly forgetting something really trivial... Obviously some keys seem to be missing on the former machine, but which and why? TIA. -- BW, Sorin --- # Sorin Srbu[Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem,Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se --- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # Geeky it-haiku #08: Support-queues are empty/Users behaving nicely/CPU-fans whir silently in the night. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Solved: Dell PE2850 with 4GB RAM - Get a hold of yourself
Vandaman <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:46 PM: >>> Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode >> on" reveals it's not only having >>> had >>> this problem. ;-) >> >> Very helpful indeed. Not! >> >> http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=u >> s&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&dn=1082724 > > > My friend you are on a public mailing list and are conducting > conversations with yourself saying basically nothing. > Dell have forums for users too. I thought I'd share my findings. I'm done now, so you won't have to listen to me anymore. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Solved: Dell PE2850 with 4GB RAM (Was Slightly OT: DellPoweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM)
Daniel Bird <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:37 PM: >> What is that "install mode" for anyway?? > According to my Dell docs, some OS's had/have trouble with >2GB RAM > during install, so this was the recommended setting for new installs. Ok, fair enough. Thx for the info. >> You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? > I have a hunch that you willbut I'm not promising anything! ;-) I just finished the bios update a few minutes ago, it worked. I'm happy. 8-) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Solved: Dell PE2850 with 4GB RAM (Was Slightly OT: DellPoweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM)
Sorin Srbu <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:32 PM: >>>>> However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. >>>> Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this >>>> sets the memory limit to 256Mb >>> >>> It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB. >> >> Hot diggety, that did it!! 4GB RAM available now. You guys are just >> golden, thx a bunch! >> >> What is that "install mode" for anyway?? As I said earlier, this is my >> first Dell-server ever and as it's a refurbished machine, I didn't get any >> manuals and stuff... Probably will need to visit support.dell.com in a >> near future. >> >> You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? Figuring >> it might have been a deficient RAM-issue, with 4GB RAM it might work >> now...? > > Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode on" reveals it's not only having > had > this problem. ;-) Very helpful indeed. Not! http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=u s&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&dn=1082724 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Solved: Dell PE2850 with 4GB RAM (Was Slightly OT: DellPoweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM)
Sorin Srbu <> scribbled on Friday, October 03, 2008 12:22 PM: >>>> However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. >>> Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this >>> sets the memory limit to 256Mb >> >> It is in fact. Lemme' check. BRB. > > Hot diggety, that did it!! 4GB RAM available now. You guys are just golden, > thx a bunch! > > What is that "install mode" for anyway?? As I said earlier, this is my first > Dell-server ever and as it's a refurbished machine, I didn't get any manuals > and stuff... Probably will need to visit support.dell.com in a near future. > > You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? Figuring > it might have been a deficient RAM-issue, with 4GB RAM it might work now...? Heh, googling for "poweredge install mode on" reveals it's not only having had this problem. ;-) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
