Re: Borrowing an Ethernet Card
Hi, I'm not Tal, but I think that using a different distro can help as it operates using a different kernel (preferably a kernel from an enterprise distro). - Noam On Feb 2, 2008 9:48 AM, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tal! May you please answer my email? Regards, Shlomi Fish On Saturday 26 January 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2008, Tal Levy wrote: Shlomi, Have you tried using a livecd or another operating system and seeing if the problem persists? I'd rather not use a LiveCD for long periods because they tend to ruin the CD drive. I have several other distributions of Linux installed on different partitions on my hard disk - all sharing the same /home partition. Is a different Linux distribution OK as a different operating system? If I want to use BSD, then there may be more problems because my /home partition is an XFS one and I don't know how well the BSDs support it. At least then we know if it's hardware or router related. OK. Regards, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] Recommended filesystem for 6TB storage
[... Once upon a time I asked about Linux support of 2TB filesystems ...] Okay, task is over and we have a 2.5TB ext3 filesystem (eventually not 6TB), it looks stable also. Here are the findings: 1. For 2TB, one must use a gpt type partition table and not the default, msdos one. Same goes for MS-Windows, if I got it right. 1.1 fdisk doesn't support gpt, we used parted. 1.2 grub doesn't seem to either support gpt or such huge disk/partition. We could afford booting from another, small disk (/boot comes back to live? :) ), so that did it.. So we didn't research the grub thing too deep. 2. At the beginning we used an msdos partition for the big disk. It didn't give errors immediately! only when accessing the 2TB blocks problem occurred (i.e. when running fsck, or after few days of writing..). 3. CentOS5 (and thus RHEL5) partitioning config tool (disk druid, I think?) doesn't handle big disks/partition automatically: it created msdos partition table. Thanks again for your replies. - Oren = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Yum - installing 32 bit binaries on 64 bit CentOS
Thanks Oded. That sounds like it should work. I was just hoping there was some way to override $arch on the command line. Actually I now vaguely recall some command that temporaroly changes the architecture in your environment. has anyone else heard of it? About nspluginwrapper. It is available in CentOS4 and I tried it. It basically works, but not for all plugins. Also it has a bug which sometimes has it stay in memory after you exit and consume 100% of the CPU. It seems like 32 bit firfox is just a cleaner solution since here. Thanks, -tom On Jan 29, 2008 5:36 PM, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specifically for Firefox 32bit plugins, another option is to install nspluginwrapper (http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ ) that allows running 32 bit plugins under Firefox 64 bit. Its probably not available for CentOS4 (I haven't even bothered to check), but there is a source RPM from the site above that you can use. For other 32 bit software, CentOS does not package all 32 bit packages for x86_64 - only the really important stuff (do they offer mplayerplug-in in their 32bit repositories ? I'm not sure), but you can always add another repository that points directly to the 32 bit release: Go to /etc/yum.repos.d locate the CentOS repository file (probably called centos.repo or something) copy it to another file, let's call it centos-i386.repo open the new file for editing and replace every instance of $arch with i386. save and enjoy. On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:00 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: You guys have been so helpful, here is another yummy question. :-) I am running CentOS 4 64 bit, but sometimes i need to install 32 bit binaries. For example firefox, so that plugins work. Sometimes when I append .386 in my yum install commands it works and finds the 32 bit version. However, often it does not. For example: yum install mplayerplug-in.i386 replies No Match for argument: mplayerplug-in.i386 However we all know that mplayerplug-in.i386 does exist, but only in 32 bit repositories. Yum replaces $arch with x86_64 even when I explicitly ask for .i386. Any suggestions on how to get around this? Thanks, -- -tom 054-244-8025 -- Oded -- -tom 054-244-8025
Re: Recommended filesystem for 6TB storage
I hear ZFS is available on Linux. Anyone has any experience with it there? -tom On Jan 22, 2008 3:28 PM, Jacob Broido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Hetz, it really depends on the use scenario of the FS. On a side note, if its a viable platform(solaris), I'd consider seriously ZFS. ZFS IMHO is one of the best FS's today. I can say from a personal experience that ZFS works well with large volumes(10TB+) (both size wise and inode count wise). On Jan 22, 2008 3:05 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Oren, As far as I know, all the popular file-systems do support the sizes EXT3 supports. However, it really depends what are you going to store in your storage. if it's tiny files (few K's each file), and many other parameters do need to be considered before deciding what FS to use. Also, make sure your tools support the FS you choose. Good luck, Hetz On Jan 22, 2008 2:49 PM, Oren Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As far as I understand, ext3 on RHEL5 should support a single filesystem of 8TB or 16TB.. ( http://www.centos.org/product.html) Still, I wonder if it's smart to create a 6TB ext3 file system. In theory, filesystem size won't affect stability or performance (except for fsck speed I guess). But in practice? Anybody got experience with it? I like ext3 for its stability, nativity and popularity; do you think that I should still use something else for such huge disks? Thanks! - Oren = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Not gonna be king of the world if you're slave to the grind - Skid Row -- -tom 054-244-8025
Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?
howdie gang! I have two clients with a similar problem: the run a job dispatcher that sends their requests to a free node in a compute cluster to run a compilation or simulation of the system. Some of those jobs are supposed to open an interactive X connection. the display is set right but of course one needs authority to access the user's display. right now it means the user has to run it with xhost + and that's just too permissive. The users run with vnc clients to Xvnc servers, that don't seem to support secure-RPC either, so looks like xhost +nis:[EMAIL PROTECTED] can't work either. is the RHEL-supplied Xvnc ignoring MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE because of configuration, or something missing at compile time? the Xsecurity manpage is not giving too many hints... Thanks, Ira. -- All your base are belong to us Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?
On Feb 2, 2008 11:49 PM, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: howdie gang! I have two clients with a similar problem: the run a job dispatcher that sends their requests to a free node in a compute cluster to run a compilation or simulation of the system. Some of those jobs are supposed to open an interactive X connection. the display is set right but of course one needs authority to access the user's display. right now it means the user has to run it with xhost + and that's just too permissive. How about copying over the cookie using xauth nextract ... | ssh ... xauth nmerge ... (or whatever is required to pass over the cookie, you get the idea)? Also try setting up the XAUTHORITY envariable to point to a .Xauthority file with the right cookies in it. --Amos
Re: Recommended filesystem for 6TB storage
On Feb 2, 2008 9:01 PM, Tom Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hear ZFS is available on Linux. Anyone has any experience with it there? Last time I heard it was implemented as a FUSE module (User-level file system), both because this is ideal for development and because its license doesn't allow it to be merged with the Linux kernel (GPL incompatibility). It is claimed to work well but the developer is still in the make it rock solid stage and not in the make it bloody fast stage yet. Didn't give an impression to be production-ready. --Amos
Re: Xsecurity - how do I turn on MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and .Xauthority support?
Ira Abramov wrote: is the RHEL-supplied Xvnc ignoring MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE because of configuration, or something missing at compile time? I believe they ignore it because their X server doesn't support it. A VNC server is also an X server, which means that you are NOT using a X.org or XFree86 based server. If the server does not support an extension, then nothing you will do with the files will make it. Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Yum - installing 32 bit binaries on 64 bit CentOS
--- Tom Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Oded. That sounds like it should work. I was just hoping there was some way to override $arch on the command line. Actually I now vaguely recall some command that temporaroly changes the architecture in your environment. has anyone else heard of it? setarch ? Valery. About nspluginwrapper. It is available in CentOS4 and I tried it. It basically works, but not for all plugins. Also it has a bug which sometimes has it stay in memory after you exit and consume 100% of the CPU. It seems like 32 bit firfox is just a cleaner solution since here. Thanks, -tom On Jan 29, 2008 5:36 PM, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specifically for Firefox 32bit plugins, another option is to install nspluginwrapper (http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ ) that allows running 32 bit plugins under Firefox 64 bit. Its probably not available for CentOS4 (I haven't even bothered to check), but there is a source RPM from the site above that you can use. For other 32 bit software, CentOS does not package all 32 bit packages for x86_64 - only the really important stuff (do they offer mplayerplug-in in their 32bit repositories ? I'm not sure), but you can always add another repository that points directly to the 32 bit release: Go to /etc/yum.repos.d locate the CentOS repository file (probably called centos.repo or something) copy it to another file, let's call it centos-i386.repo open the new file for editing and replace every instance of $arch with i386. save and enjoy. On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:00 +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: You guys have been so helpful, here is another yummy question. :-) I am running CentOS 4 64 bit, but sometimes i need to install 32 bit binaries. For example firefox, so that plugins work. Sometimes when I append .386 in my yum install commands it works and finds the 32 bit version. However, often it does not. For example: yum install mplayerplug-in.i386 replies No Match for argument: mplayerplug-in.i386 However we all know that mplayerplug-in.i386 does exist, but only in 32 bit repositories. Yum replaces $arch with x86_64 even when I explicitly ask for .i386. Any suggestions on how to get around this? Thanks, -- -tom 054-244-8025 -- Oded -- -tom 054-244-8025 Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
