[CentOS] Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 18

2007-08-21 Thread Sokol
Message: 26 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:56:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CentOS] Help with backups To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I've got a Redhat 5 server running

Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods

2007-08-21 Thread Bart
Thanks Karanbir! It's bug #0002284. I hope you can do a lot ;) - Original Message - From: Karanbir Singh To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:35:17 +0100 Bart wrote: What is it in the Plus kernel that you need and cant be

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 30, Issue 7

2007-08-21 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can

[CentOS] Re: Tracking how many open files a process has?

2007-08-21 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Nygaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a Too many open files on a fileserver. Is it possible to list how many open files each process has? If so how do you do that? Have a look at the lsof command. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: [EMAIL

[CentOS] How do I Get Notified of REPO Updates?

2007-08-21 Thread John Thomas
Anyone have a script to check a repo for updates and list the new files? -- Sincerely, John Thomas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How do I Get Notified of REPO Updates?

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:49 AM, John Thomas wrote: Anyone have a script to check a repo for updates and list the new files? `yum list updates` gives you a list of packages installed on your system for which updates are available. `yum list recent` gives you a list of packages that have

RE: [CentOS] How do I Get Notified of REPO Updates?

2007-08-21 Thread Lamar Owen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Thomas Anyone have a script to check a repo for updates and list the new files? yum check-update If you don't have the repo configured in yum, you can write a repo config, put it in /etc/yum.repos.d, and set enabled to 0.  Then use --enablerepo on it,

Re: [CentOS] GFS availability in Centos5

2007-08-21 Thread Tomas Ruprich
Hi, try http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Global_File_System/ and http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Global_File_System/s1-sysreq-rhcs.html regards - Tomáš Ruprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] OKV UIKT

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
So here we are, in the modern times with GNOME (I chose that over KDE, because), and Open Office, Thunderbird, and lots of other nice graphical apps. I want to run the apps on an app server and access them for a thin client. I am familiar with the K12TLSP project, but right now I want to

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Robert Moskowitz wrote: This is something that has been long overdue for me to set up, and how I am looking it hard in the face. Back in '94, I was doing REAL X-Terminals into UNIX systems. Watching simple mouse meanderings eat up all available bandwidth, and forget it if you resized a

RE: [CentOS] Tracking how many open files a process has?

2007-08-21 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Nygaard Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:59 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Tracking how many open files a process has? I'm getting a Too many open files on a fileserver. Is

Re: [CentOS] can't login to remote cvs server

2007-08-21 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:05 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: I'm stumped. I can't figure out why cvs keeps saying the repository doesn't exist. I'm missing something critical, obviously. Does anyone have any ideas about what I'm doing wrong? I figured it out. Since I setup a couple of

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Jim Perrin wrote: Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? It doesn't seem to work on my system. Removing an unmounted drive locked the system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices change names and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi drive that is shifted

[CentOS] High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

2007-08-21 Thread Yuji Tsuchimoto
Dear CentOS lovers, Could you consider to include a patch, http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ for openssh maybe as CentosPlus packages? It has great speed impact for long-distance ( high delay ) transfer. Regards, Yuji Tsuchimoto ___

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jeremy Gray wrote on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:31:15 -0400: FAQ, http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX I looked on that page and I see that it integrates with SSH and can use SSL natively. Does NX have any advantages beyond that over VNC? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

Re: [CentOS] High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

2007-08-21 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:28:10AM +0900, Yuji Tsuchimoto wrote: Dear CentOS lovers, Could you consider to include a patch, http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ for openssh maybe as CentosPlus packages? It has great speed impact for long-distance ( high delay ) transfer. This

Re: [CentOS] Diskless client from system-config-netboot doesn't boot.

2007-08-21 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:14:51AM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Sophana wrote: David Mackintosh a écrit : I've followed a set of instructions I found on http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos_linux_guides/centos_enterprise_linux_sysadmin_guide/ch-diskless.htmli

[CentOS] Re: Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Scott Silva
Kai Schaetzl spake the following on 8/21/2007 11:31 AM: Jeremy Gray wrote on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:31:15 -0400: FAQ, http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX I looked on that page and I see that it integrates with SSH and can use SSL natively. Does NX have any advantages beyond that over VNC?

[CentOS] Re: High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

2007-08-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:28:10AM +0900, Yuji Tsuchimoto wrote: Dear CentOS lovers, Could you consider to include a patch, http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ for openssh maybe as CentosPlus packages? It has great speed impact for long-distance ( high delay )

Re: [CentOS] Re: High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

2007-08-21 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:48:32PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: I know Fedora had a pretty good thread on the possibility of adding this, but I think it was sort of decided against. Felt it was more appropriate to push OpenSSH to add support for this type of thing. url to the thread please

Re: [CentOS] Re: High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

2007-08-21 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Also note that this: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311 Will be in OpenSSH 4.7. It's not HPN but appears to have some similar goals and approaches. Of course, unlikely that this would enter CentOS until 6.0. But perhaps the fact that's it's official might make it a little bit

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
Kai, I looked on that page and I see that it integrates with SSH and can use SSL natively. Does NX have any advantages beyond that over VNC? I'd say nx wins on security, speed, and admin hassle-factor, at least based on my limited experience and for my needs (small research lab in a

Re: [CentOS] RAID storage - SATA, SCSI, or Fibre Channel?

2007-08-21 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:23:49PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am looking to add more storage. I know a lot of factors can go into the type of answer given, but for present and future technology planning, should I look for a rack of SATA, SCSI, or fibre

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Jeremy Gray wrote: So here we are, in the modern times with GNOME (I chose that over KDE, because), and Open Office, Thunderbird, and lots of other nice graphical apps. I want to run the apps on an app server and access them for a thin client. I am familiar with the

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Alvin Chang
On 21/08/07, Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked on that page and I see that it integrates with SSH and can use SSL natively. Does NX have any advantages beyond that over VNC? NX is event-based; VNC is session-based in real-time. -- Alvin Chang Yu-Ming

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Alvin Chang
On 21/08/07, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you run the server in init 5? Or can it run in init 3? Trying to save memory on the server But wait, the client has even LESS memory :( The NX server is not a daemon. The NX client will ssh into the server as user nx with SSL

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
Do you run the server in init 5? Or can it run in init 3? Trying to save memory on the server I've only tried run level 5... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Diskless client from system-config-netboot doesn't boot.

2007-08-21 Thread Tomas Ruprich
Tue, Aug 21, 2007 ve 02:42:33PM -0400, David Mackintosh napsal: On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:14:51AM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Sophana wrote: David Mackintosh a écrit : I've followed a set of instructions I found on

Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patient records?

2007-08-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 8/20/07, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip To everyone who responded, thank you! I will be reading (and studying!) your replies and trying to come up with the best suggestion(s) for the doctor to consider. Lanny ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] dialog boxes on X

2007-08-21 Thread Jerry Geis
All, I have been looking at zenity to pop up messages on the X screen. Is there another alternative to zenity that I have not found? I need to be able to completely remove the OK button, I cannot find a way in zenity to do this. also It would be nice to have a --timeout 5 option on the command

Re: [CentOS] dialog boxes on X

2007-08-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On 8/21/07, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have been looking at zenity to pop up messages on the X screen. Is there another alternative to zenity that I have not found? I need to be able to completely remove the OK button, I cannot find a way in zenity to do this. also It

Re: [CentOS] dialog boxes on X

2007-08-21 Thread Jim Perrin
On 8/21/07, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something in your mail client seems to really hate threading properly. Jim - on my 4.5 system this is what gdialog says... gdialog --help gdialog is a compatibility wrapper around zenity, provided to hopefully allow older scripts to run. If

Re: [CentOS] Using HTTP proxy for yum

2007-08-21 Thread Dogsbody
Is there a way to use an HTTP proxy (with a user/pass) with yum? Or at least a way to pass a user/pass through yum? I have a situation with a CentOS server behind a web filter appliance. Add the following to /etc/wgetrc http_proxy = http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080/ ftp_proxy =

[CentOS] Re: Using HTTP proxy for yum

2007-08-21 Thread Scott Moseman
On 8/21/07, Scott Moseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: proxy=http://hostname.domain.com/ proxy_username=domain\myusername proxy_password=mypassword Oh, sure, the moment I sent the email, it started working... LOL Thanks, Scott ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patient records?

2007-08-21 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/07, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip To everyone who responded, thank you! I will be reading (and studying!) your replies and trying to come up with the best suggestion(s) for the doctor to consider. Lanny

[CentOS] simplest boot to set hardware clock

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well I found a significant source of my problems with these decTOPs. Hardware clock is back at Jan 2006. And many things fail. And there is no way to access the bios from a boot sequence. On the one I discovered this, I watched everything get errors during all the reboots a Trixbox

Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for database for physicians patient records?

2007-08-21 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:51 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote: --- Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/07, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip To everyone who responded, thank you! I will be reading (and studying!) your replies and trying to come up with the best

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-21 Thread Feizhou
Les Mikesell wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? It doesn't seem to work on my system. Removing an unmounted drive locked the system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices change names and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-21 Thread Gordon McLellan
Just to add my 5 cents (centos 5 cents that is har har)... I have several plain jane seagate sata drives, connected mostly to nforce4 sata (module sata_nv) controller, and a few connected to a silicon image controller (sata_sil) ... hot swap is a non issue for me. All my drives are part of MD

Re: [CentOS] simplest boot to set hardware clock

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Got it. D''nSmallLinux CD and boot with DSL 2 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I found a significant source of my problems with these decTOPs. Hardware clock is back at Jan 2006. And many things fail. And there is no way to access the bios from a boot sequence. On the one I discovered

[CentOS] Progress on the decTOP

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The unit has two sets of two USB ports. Each port is marked. One for the keyboard, another for the mouse, a third for the ethernet, and the forth for the printer. If I put the USB DVD/CDRW in the mouse port, and the keyboard in the printer port, I see the USB driver loading, and the CD is

RE: [CentOS] High Performance SSH/SCP - HPN-SSH

2007-08-21 Thread Yuji Tsuchimoto
Dear Ray and all, Thanks for your reply! This would be pretty cool. Would it be appropriate for CentOS Plus? Yes, you are right. It is better to merge it into mainstream. And also you informed us another similar development will be included in the next OpenSSH. That sounds nice. We will

[CentOS] Parallel port is busy; retry in 30 seconds...

2007-08-21 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
How do I clear this condition? Must I reboot, or is there a less drastic action? Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-21 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Feizhou wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you can hotswap sata drives. How are the names supposed to work when one may

Re: [CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

2007-08-21 Thread Feizhou
Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Feizhou wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you can hotswap sata drives. How are the names supposed to