RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of nate > Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 2:46 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network. > > Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > > > I also got this type of

Re: [CentOS] Re: Disk partitions and LVM limits - SUMMARY

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Peter Blajev wrote: ... > - fdisk creates partitions up to 2.1TB in size. Use "parted" instead. The difference is not fdisk vs. parted. It's MSDOS-MBR vs. GPT (different types of partition tables). But since fdisk doesn't support GPT you'll have to use parted. No

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread nate
Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > I also got this type of probles once before. pls check initrd image. > pls performe below steps. > While it's always good to make sure your initrd is in a good state, the network drivers don't need to be in the initrd (unless your booting from NFS or something). They c

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
There are a number of differences in the initrd, although nothing that I would call obvious as causing an issue.. - # gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more 6097 blocks bin bin/modprobe bin/insmod bin/nash dev dev/tty6 dev/zero dev/tty5 dev/console dev/ram1

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
> After the latest lot of kernel security updates have come out, I updated one > of my colo boxes and rebooted. It didn't come back up and fails when booting > on: > * CPU Microcode update > * iptables > * eth0 > > The booting process completes, however as you can imagine, t

Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
On Feb 14, 2008 2:56 AM, Gregory P. Ennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice > that a keyboard was not found. All my CentOS firewalls run without keyboad and mouses. I think it is related to BIOS. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasoor

[CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi all, After the latest lot of kernel security updates have come out, I updated one of my colo boxes and rebooted. It didn't come back up and fails when booting on: * CPU Microcode update * iptables * eth0 The booting process completes, however as you can imagine, there i

[CentOS] vncviewer and opening mail attachemtns kills the login

2008-02-13 Thread Jerry Geis
I am running centos 5.1 I routinely vnc in from home (centos 5.1 NVIDA laptop) to work centos 5.1 NVIDIA based station. works fine 95% of the time. However, when I am running thunderbird mail client, and there is PDF attachment, clicking on the attachment it prompts to open with evince and I

[CentOS] using fping to find missing A records

2008-02-13 Thread Rogelio
I have a specific question on how to do something, and a larger question addressing other "better" ways to do the spirit of what I'm asking. I'm setting up Nagios, and am trying to make sure that all of the subnets have A records, as IP addresses will be changing very, very rapidly, and when that

Re: [CentOS] Kernel update for Centos 4

2008-02-13 Thread Barry Brimer
Hi, I've noticed that we already have an updated kernel for the Centos 5. Any idea of when the same thing will happen for Centos 4 386 ? If you're referring to a new kernel to handle the vmsplice vulnerability, it is not needed, as this vulnerability does not affect CentOS 4 (or below) kerne

RE: [CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Masters IT Gmail
Thanks again, i did the change, i follow this steps : http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/centos5/centos5_administration_guide/ centos5_s1-swap-adding.html#s2-swap-creating-file But I setup bs=1M count=1024 this I learn it from: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#head-75ffcb00cefe143fc3

[CentOS] Kernel update for Centos 4

2008-02-13 Thread mbneto
Hi, I've noticed that we already have an updated kernel for the Centos 5. Any idea of when the same thing will happen for Centos 4 386 ? Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Masters IT Gmail wrote: > > Sorry i miss that link that you give me i am reading now > thanks for the tip > i am going to try. Thanks for all! > > -Mensaje original- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre > de Michael A. Peters > Enviado el: Miércoles, 13 de Febre

RE: [CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Masters IT Gmail
Sorry i miss that link that you give me i am reading now thanks for the tip i am going to try. Thanks for all! -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Michael A. Peters Enviado el: Miércoles, 13 de Febrero de 2008 06:07 p.m. Para: CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Masters IT Gmail
I have a swap file of 512mb because i was using 256mb, now i already have 512mb ram installed and the swap continue on 512mb, the system is acting better now. System monitor says: CPU History 3.0 or 4.0 % User Memory: 224mb of 495mb Used swap: 0 bytes of 512mb I have running one windows of firef

[CentOS] RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] Performance Question

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Lol, sorry guys :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] Performance Question

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >Yes, jumbo frames, no irq coalescence, blockio and see if > >you can get Backup Exec to use large io request sizes when > >reading and writing the data. The larger the better. > > Ok, Jumbo's enabled on the switch and media server. For the > sake of our sanity jumpin

[CentOS] RE: [Iscsitarget-devel] Performance Question

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Yes, jumbo frames, no irq coalescence, blockio and see if >you can get Backup Exec to use large io request sizes when >reading and writing the data. The larger the better. Ok, Jumbo's enabled on the switch and media server. For the sake of our sanity jumping back and forth, I am trying to enable

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Bell wrote: > > "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I agree whole heartily. It would go a long way though if Redhat > provided independent certification of their products under these > compliance banners. > << > > RHEL 5 is Common Criteria certified against the Controlled

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Good suggestion, no it's not ESX, but it does do snapshots. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'CentOS mailing list' Sent: Wed Feb 13 17:30:39 2008 Subject: RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed >I am facing the same issue with a migration of our VM machine

Re: [CentOS] upgrade from Fedora Core 5

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Horst
Garrick Staples wrote: I guess this implies that you don't currently have a regular backup system in place? When you say "load", you mean a giant 'cp'? That technically works, but is not the ideal. When you mount it in the new install, you'll find a bunch of broken uid/gids. Best is an archiv

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I am facing the same issue with a migration of our VM machines >to a new iSCSI setup this year, around 1TB of VMs need to be >fork lifted over and I thought about exotic ways to move it >over, but I think in the end it will be by good ole backup exec >and tape. You're not running esx are you? Heh

Re: [CentOS] upgrade from Fedora Core 5

2008-02-13 Thread Garrick Staples
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:18:12PM -0600, Peter Horst alleged: > Hi - > > It was recommended to me on the Fedora list that I consider upgrading to > CentOS 5 from my present FC5 - the machine is used only as a light-duty > CLI-only server. I have a couple of quick questions in that regard: > >

RE: [CentOS] fsck

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Centos wrote: > > Hello > > our server is crashed and now some files are missing. > when I do ls, I can see the file but when I do ls -la, file does not > show up. > > I am going to do fsck, but was wondering if there is any > other quick fix > rather > than umount and do fsck. Fsck is a nec

RE: [CentOS] Re: Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:37, Scott Silva wrote: > > > I didn't see it but did you do a 'uname-a" on both systems to see > > if one is running a PAE kernel? > > No, that was not it. But I did finally track it down. There > was one > additional difference in the so

[CentOS] upgrade from Fedora Core 5

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Horst
Hi - It was recommended to me on the Fedora list that I consider upgrading to CentOS 5 from my present FC5 - the machine is used only as a light-duty CLI-only server. I have a couple of quick questions in that regard: 1. Is now a bad time to install CentOS 5, what with the root exploit out a

[CentOS] fsck

2008-02-13 Thread Centos
Hello our server is crashed and now some files are missing. when I do ls, I can see the file but when I do ls -la, file does not show up. I am going to do fsck, but was wondering if there is any other quick fix rather than umount and do fsck. Thanks _

Re: [CentOS] Re: Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:37, Scott Silva wrote: I didn't see it but did you do a 'uname-a" on both systems to see if one is running a PAE kernel? No, that was not it. But I did finally track it down. There was one additional difference in the software configuration that I had forgotten ab

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >Since your moving the data over to a new server/array combo have > >you thought about using LTO tapes to back it up and restore it > >on the new server? > > > >I know it isn't as sexy as LVM pv duplication and such, but it > >works... > > We have an HP Autoloader, I t

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Thanks everyone. > > > Sure appreciate your suggestions!! > > I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything > like that. I think it needs more then resistance like a gate 20 emulator in a dongle. Easier to just have the BIOS ignore i

Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Brian
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is there a way to have C

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Dennis McLeod
I have a Dell Inspiron 521 WITHOUT a PS2 port and IT squawks.. I had to plug in a USB Keyboard. It's up in a rack in my garage, so I don't care. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 20

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Thanks everyone. Sure appreciate your suggestions!! I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything like that. I really should have checked the bios, but I've never had this circumstance before. Thanks again!!! Greg On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:33 -0500, Steve Thom

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present. That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc... Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which have keyboards attached. E

Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:26:04 -0600 "Gregory P. Ennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice > that a keyboard was not found. That's a bios issue, not an operating system issue. Check your computer's bios and see if it has an "ignore key

RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present. That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present. I have a firewall and another mail server that would fit into a closet a little better without a keyboard. I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice that a keyboard was not found. Greg Ennis __

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Les Bell
"Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I agree whole heartily. It would go a long way though if Redhat provided independent certification of their products under these compliance banners. << RHEL 5 is Common Criteria certified against the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP), L

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Since your moving the data over to a new server/array combo have >you thought about using LTO tapes to back it up and restore it >on the new server? > >I know it isn't as sexy as LVM pv duplication and such, but it >works... We have an HP Autoloader, I thought of doing that actually, and I think

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >Ah, well you are using SAS drives, so there is some cash there... > > My bad, SAS controller with SATA II drives :( > > >What industry do you work in? > > All sorts, odd company: We do everything from automotive > accessories to home building! > > >That's not true

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Ah, well you are using SAS drives, so there is some cash there... My bad, SAS controller with SATA II drives :( >What industry do you work in? All sorts, odd company: We do everything from automotive accessories to home building! >That's not true! I'm unimpressed now ;-) > >-Ross Love your h

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale > > >Don't know? Where are you pvmoving everything now? > > Where do I begin... Scenario is "No cash to do it right" so > the interim step involves migration to a non fault tolerant > setup temporarily. Server is a 1u HP and I don't have another > controller that matches the r

RE: [CentOS] Re: Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Instead of downloading the srpm why not just run rpm -q --changelog postfix | >less and read that? Nice, it looks like it's not backported. I looked at an rpm I _know_ is backported (xen 303) and it's easy to grep for the possibility as they call it out! I guess I don't have Postfix 2.4x :(

Re: [CentOS] How can I stop the eject of the DVD after install?

2008-02-13 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:21:09PM -0700, Lundgren, Andrew wrote: > I have created my own install DVD with a custom kickstart file and modified > the isolinux.cfg file to allow the system to boot off of the hard disk as the > default mode. It will also use my kickstart file if I select it. > > No

RE: [CentOS] Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Erek Dyskant wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh > > version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an > > errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it

[CentOS] How can I stop the eject of the DVD after install?

2008-02-13 Thread Lundgren, Andrew
I have created my own install DVD with a custom kickstart file and modified the isolinux.cfg file to allow the system to boot off of the hard disk as the default mode. It will also use my kickstart file if I select it. Now I would like to make the system not eject the DVD after reboot. The mach

RE: [CentOS] Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The way that I'd do it is download the srpm, and read the spec file's >changelog. Didn’t think of that! >Also, looking at the upstream's errata for postfix may tell you. I tried searching errata for postfix and turned up only old results. I will rip that srpm down shortly! Thanks for the tip!

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Don't know? Where are you pvmoving everything now? Where do I begin... Scenario is "No cash to do it right" so the interim step involves migration to a non fault tolerant setup temporarily. Server is a 1u HP and I don't have another controller that matches the remaining interface in that small

[CentOS] Re: Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Diehl
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Erek Dyskant wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers donÿÿt really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real ver

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >What are you pvmoving again? > > > >-Ross > > Ok, here is what happened: I have a box running iet exporting > an LV that started out as two 750 gig HD's mirrored off an 8 > channel LSI SAS controller. I needed more space, and added 3 > 400 gig HD's in a r5 vd to th

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
Masters IT Gmail wrote: Now that I understand that i need more ram after i add this ram to my centos, what I need to do in order to increase my swap partition, thanks in advance. How much swap do you currently have? You may not need to increase swap at all. If you do - I haven't tried this met

[CentOS] Re: Disk partitions and LVM limits - SUMMARY

2008-02-13 Thread Peter Blajev
Thank you all for the help. I'm writing this summary message because of people requests. I haven't tried all of this. I just collected it and organized it. You've got a big storage. Now what? The short answer is: "Just connect it. It should work." I'll play safe by saying that the following appl

Re: [CentOS] Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh > version numbers don’t really tell you much I was trying to find an > errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it. For the most part if it's a

[CentOS] Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it. How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info? T

Re: [CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

2008-02-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit : use gnome-terminal in XFCE? Just found the answer, and it's called luit. It's even on your system, a little utility that's part of the xorg-x11-apps package. I tried this: $ luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 ssh databaseserver And it works like a charm. From the luit

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What are you pvmoving again? > >-Ross Ok, here is what happened: I have a box running iet exporting an LV that started out as two 750 gig HD's mirrored off an 8 channel LSI SAS controller. I needed more space, and added 3 400 gig HD's in a r5 vd to this VG. Yes, I now need even more space, but

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >I don't believe pvmove actually does any of the lifting. Pvmove > >merely creates a mirrored pv area in dev-mapper and then hangs > >around monitoring it's progress until the mirror is sync'd up > >then it throws a couple of barriers and removes the original > >pv from

RE: [CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Niki Kovacs wrote: > > Hi, > > Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our > public library database server and working in it. Until > recently, I've > been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. > Since all > the systems, both server and clients, def

RE: [CentOS] Re: pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Funny, your choice of language. /me wiping frantic look off face Hilarious... But you had me going for a moment, I thought I slipped and spoke like I would if asking a buddy for a moment. I can't tell you how many times I needed that, I always searched the net until I came up with someone else

[CentOS] Upgrade ram and what to do with SWAP PARTITION ?

2008-02-13 Thread Masters IT Gmail
Now that I understand that i need more ram after i add this ram to my centos, what I need to do in order to increase my swap partition, thanks in advance. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de nate Enviado el: Miércoles, 13 de Febrero de 2008 02:54

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I don't believe pvmove actually does any of the lifting. Pvmove >merely creates a mirrored pv area in dev-mapper and then hangs >around monitoring it's progress until the mirror is sync'd up >then it throws a couple of barriers and removes the original >pv from the mirror leaving the new pv as the

Re: [CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

2008-02-13 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF

Re: Octave support (was Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS 5 Plus be available?)

2008-02-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Feb 13, 2008 10:26 AM, Primorec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 13, 2008 12:16 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Primorec wrote: > > > Not the best solution... but it works (as of Feb 12 2008) > > > wget > > > > ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extra

Re: Octave support (was Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS 5 Plus be available?)

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:26:09AM -0800, Primorec enlightened us: > > Primorec wrote: > > > Not the best solution... but it works (as of Feb 12 2008) > > > wget > > > > > ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ufsparse-2.1.1-1.el5.kb.i386.rpm > > > wget > > >

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Are there any ways to improve/manage the speed of pvmove? Man > doesn't show any documented switches for priority scheduling. > Iostat shows the system way underutilized even though the lv > whose pe's are being migrated is continuously being written > (slowly) to.

Re: Octave support (was Re: [CentOS] When will CentOS 5 Plus be available?)

2008-02-13 Thread Primorec
On Feb 13, 2008 12:16 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Primorec wrote: > > Not the best solution... but it works (as of Feb 12 2008) > > wget > > > ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/centos.karan.org/el5/extras/testing/i386/RPMS/ufsparse-2.1.1-1.el5.kb.i386.rpm > > wget > > > ftp://ftp.

Re: [CentOS] Re: pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:18:10AM -0700, Joseph L. Casale enlightened us: > >I know it is too late for this one, but I usually run long running remote > >commands in a screen session just in case I lose the session. > > > What provides 'screen' in CentOS? Also, is there a resource for finding o

RE: [CentOS] Re: pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I know it is too late for this one, but I usually run long running remote >commands in a screen session just in case I lose the session. What provides 'screen' in CentOS? Also, is there a resource for finding out what yum packages provide when searching for a util? Thanks! jlc ___

[CentOS] XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding

2008-02-13 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, and MySQL uses a

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem after Up2date

2008-02-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Dago Pacheco wrote: another detail. When i try this command " smbclient //192.168.0.10/informatica -Uinformatica" and i give the correct password i get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# smbclient //192.168.0.10/informatica -Uinformatica Unknown parameter encountered: "hosts equiv" Ignoring unknown p

RE: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Masters IT Gmail
Thanks nate! Know I really understand how this Works, okay maybe a little more than yesterday, hehe. So I am going to buy some extra memory in order to keep with my Linux study, thanks for all I really appreciate you help. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] Re: Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread nate
Scott Silva wrote: > Wasn't the samba issue something that was fairly critical, but just couldn't > be backported? Could be, I didn't catch the whole thread just a portion that talked about compatibility issues with win2k3 and vista that were too invasive to be back ported. Not sure about securit

RE: [CentOS] Re: Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > > on 2/13/2008 7:44 AM nate spake the following: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > >> The agencies don't know what security backports vendor XYZ > >> has implemented and frankly they don't care. All they have > >> is a list of minimum version numbers that software must be >

RE: [CentOS] Re: local root exploit

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > > on 2/13/2008 6:52 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: > > Each person who wants to use this needs to test it first > for themselves > > ... if it breaks your machine you get to keep all pieces :D > > > I soo love that last line! I could just imagine someone like > Jack

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
nate wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > Then there is the whole convincing these firms and agencies that > > since CentOS is a duplication of Redhat's system it is therefore > > certified by the laws of transitivity, but who knows if they will > > buy it... > > Well I wouldn't be surprise

[CentOS] Re: Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2008 7:44 AM nate spake the following: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The agencies don't know what security backports vendor XYZ has implemented and frankly they don't care. All they have is a list of minimum version numbers that software must be at in order for it to be deemed "compliant".

RE: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread nate
Masters IT Gmail wrote: > I am having the same problem about performance issue, well perhaps it is > because I have slow memory, I have a P4 HT with 256mb DDR 400 and HD 40 gb, > today I reinstalled the -OS Centos 5.1 final with gnome. I don´t know if it > is okay to have only 4 megs of ram free.

Re: [CentOS] Re: local root exploit

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:28:12 -0800 Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Each person who wants to use this needs to test it first for themselves > > ... if it breaks your machine you get to keep all pieces :D > > > I soo love that last line! I could just imagine someone like Jack Nicholson

[CentOS] Re: Recall: VMWare Server Install Problem

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/12/2008 7:27 PM Harry Sukumar spake the following: Harry Sukumar would like to recall the message, "[CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem". Just like harsh words and racial slurs, you "can't take it back"! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice q

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread nate
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Then there is the whole convincing these firms and agencies that > since CentOS is a duplication of Redhat's system it is therefore > certified by the laws of transitivity, but who knows if they will > buy it... Well I wouldn't be surprised if a agency/certification thi

Re: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sahlqvist
On Feb 13, 2008 5:35 PM, Masters IT Gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having the same problem about performance issue, well perhaps it is > because I have slow memory, I have a P4 HT with 256mb DDR 400 and HD 40 > gb, > today I reinstalled the -OS Centos 5.1 final with gnome. I don´t know i

[CentOS] Re: pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/12/2008 9:24 PM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: But I really have a hunch that it is just a lot of I/O wait time due to either metadata maintenance and checkpointing and/or I/O failures, which have very long timeouts before failure is recognized and *then* alternate block assignment an

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Tony Placilla
Tony Placilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University >>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> Bob Boilard wrote

Re: [CentOS] Re: system gets suspended automatically!

2008-02-13 Thread John R Pierce
Chandra wrote: Well, I don't have much idea but when the kernel detects multiple cpus, the "irq=poll" entry should be added by default. It may be useful in solving a lot of such problems (well, just a thought) (-__^) I'm not familiar with the actual impact of that option, but I'm guessing

[CentOS] Re: Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2008 5:59 AM Alfred von Campe spake the following: On Feb 12, 2008, at 21:57, William L. Maltby wrote: Check BIOS settings? For memory, CAS etc. the same? Disk hardware the same and specified identically? Pretty much all the same. They are standard Lenovo desktops, with a 3.4 GHz Co

RE: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Masters IT Gmail
I am having the same problem about performance issue, well perhaps it is because I have slow memory, I have a P4 HT with 256mb DDR 400 and HD 40 gb, today I reinstalled the -OS Centos 5.1 final with gnome. I don´t know if it is okay to have only 4 megs of ram free. Perhaps I need more ram because

[CentOS] Re: local root exploit

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/13/2008 6:52 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 10:52 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: We have to wait and see, but my impression is that the nfs fix would not be in the updated ker

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
nate wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > The agencies don't know what security backports vendor XYZ > > has implemented and frankly they don't care. All they have > > is a list of minimum version numbers that software must be > > at in order for it to be deemed "compliant". > > So check the a

[CentOS] Re: system gets suspended automatically!

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/12/2008 9:13 PM Chandra spake the following: 2008/2/6 Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I don't think that is the "harmless" error message mentioned in the release notes as that had to do with the "crash kernel". I saw this same error on a Dell AMD system. It seems the motherboard in

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem after Up2date

2008-02-13 Thread Dago Pacheco
another detail. When i try this command " smbclient //192.168.0.10/informatica -Uinformatica" and i give the correct password i get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# smbclient //192.168.0.10/informatica -Uinformatica Unknown parameter encountered: "hosts equiv" Ignoring unknown parameter "hosts equiv

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread nate
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > The agencies don't know what security backports vendor XYZ > has implemented and frankly they don't care. All they have > is a list of minimum version numbers that software must be > at in order for it to be deemed "compliant". So check the actual version number of the

Re: [CentOS] Root exploit in the wild

2008-02-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Christopher Chan wrote: Frank Cox wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251 Mentioned on Slashdot here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/10/2011257 Fedora bug report here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229 Fix right here: http://git.kernel.org/

Re: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Boilard wrote: Hello all, I love CentOS, but I am seriously regretting selecting Centos 4.4 for my production hosting servers. The current situation with CentOS 4.4 and being stuck at Apache 2.0.52 is a huge problem because of the new re

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Running iostat like this will give you utilisation statistics since boot, >which will not be inidicative of what's happening now. If you give it a >reporting interval, say 10 seconds (iostat -m -x >10), I am guessing you will >see very different data (likely high r/s, w/s, await, and derived va

RE: [CentOS] Apache RPM's

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Bob Boilard wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I love CentOS, but I am seriously regretting selecting > Centos 4.4 for my > > production hosting servers. The current situation with > CentOS 4.4 and being > > stuck at Apache 2.0.52 is a huge problem because of the new > req

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 10:52 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: We have to wait and see, but my impression is that the nfs fix would not be in the updated kernel (I hope I am wrong). They are talking about getting

RE: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Not very impressive :) Two different SATA II based arrays on an LSI > controller, 5% complete in ~7 hours == a week to complete! I ran this > command from an ssh session from my workstation (That was clearly a > dumb move). Given the robustness of the pvmove command I h

Re: [CentOS] Strange performance issues under CentOS 5.1

2008-02-13 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Feb 12, 2008, at 21:57, William L. Maltby wrote: Check BIOS settings? For memory, CAS etc. the same? Disk hardware the same and specified identically? Pretty much all the same. They are standard Lenovo desktops, with a 3.4 GHz Core 2 Duo and 3 GB of memory (the BIOS doesn't let the OS

Re: [CentOS] pvmove speed

2008-02-13 Thread Luke Dudney
On 13/02/2008 05:24, Joseph L. Casale wrote: But I really have a hunch that it is just a lot of I/O wait time due to either metadata maintenance and checkpointing and/or I/O failures, which have very long timeouts before failure is recognized and *then* alternate block assignment and mapping is d

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