Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Yes, though slammed hardware RAID a bit. Software RAID has it's place don't get me wrong, it's just knowing when and where. Now the problem I have with your approach under the OP's requirements is the only way to fit that kinda storage over that long a period is with

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: > > > > As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use > > 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: > > > > rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Yes, though slammed hardware RAID a bit. Software RAID has it's place don't get me wrong, it's just knowing when and where. Now the problem I have with your approach under the OP's requirements is the only way to fit that kinda storage over that long a period is with external enclosures and there

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: > As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use > 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: > > rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Mark: Syntax for the find comm

Re: [CentOS] Re: Subject: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:41 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-6-2008 2:49 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the > following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* > > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a > > Linux c

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Jason Clark
The point was, acceptable performance can be had without purchasing a hardware controller. And for archival purposes on a tight budget $500 bucks means one controller for 3 more drives. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > > T

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. and, more importantly, for the thread at hand, this guy wants an ARCHIVE server, where performance is quite secondary, reliablity and data retention are more important. If he had the budget, I'd be suggesting looking at

Re: [CentOS] Postfix+MySQL - how to create DB

2008-05-06 Thread Liam Kirsher
I used postfixadmin and it has been fine. (CentOS 5) I suggest redirecting (in the http server) all postfixadmin access to https for security. I found the db schema satisfactory for my needs. The point with postfixadmin is the PHP interface to the database. You /could/ just create whatever tabl

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. We don't know how these hardware controllers were setup and by the numbers posted, not very well, or they are not very good. A SATA and a SAS drive will have roughly the same sequential io performance. Where SAS shines is in random io. So if it's arc

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > How can I correct this, so the box > will boot the latest kernel? TIA! Lanny As root, go to the dire

[CentOS] Re: Subject: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-6-2008 2:49 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following: On 5/6/08, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread lannyma
On 5/6/08, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > > the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny > > rpm -qa ke

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Jason
I just posted this on my website, oddly enough. While you need to really understand your storage requirements to make an informed choice between hardware or software RAID, with quad core CPUs being as cheap as they are it's hard to not make the argument for software. This is just hdparm over an a

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ed Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Situation: > My current storage needs are approximately 1.5 TB annually. This will > increase to about 3.5 TB annually over the next 5 years (rough est.). This > box will just be a data archive and once it is full it will o

RE: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ed Morrison wrote: > > Hi: > > I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have > the $ to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking > trunning CentOS 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at > and concerned about. > > Situation: > My current s

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Jason
I just purchased an equallogic SAN with 16 1TB drives for 52k at work. Love it, scheduled snapshots, thin provisioning, iscsi only but fairly swift at 16 spindles in a RAID 50. Jason www.cyborgworkshop.org John R Pierce wrote: > Ed Morrison wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I need advice on implementing a sto

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: infrastructure to support lots of SATA drives isn't real cheap regardless. you really don't want to just bolt a bunch of drives up inside a jumbo desktop tower and call it a server. 5 years at that run rate is going to be something like 12TB total storage, which usi

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Ed Morrison wrote: I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have the $ to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking trunning CentOS 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at and concerned about. Situation: My current storage needs are appro

[CentOS] RE: Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-06 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > ext4 is being previewed in Fedora 9 this month, so add one more to > the list. btrfs looks interesting too, though I expect it will be some time before it is stable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs -- Jeremy Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.

[CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop - SOLVED

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
I can't think of a better word for this than "weird." I went back and reread most of the emails on the original thread, and both Ross and Bill suggested that something about "misc" might be off. So, I created a new mount point called "other," pointed fstab at it, modified my scripts and symlinks

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Thistle wrote: Actually, I am on rh436 course now. Why not set up centos51 as iscsi target itself? that just pushes the file management issues off to another system, where you still have to solve them he wants an archive server, which is more of a NAS device then a SAN. iSCSI add

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
Ed Morrison wrote: Hi: I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have the $ to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking trunning CentOS 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at and concerned about. Situation: My current storage needs are a

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Scott Thistle
Actually, I am on rh436 course now. Why not set up centos51 as iscsi target itself? On 5/6/08, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ed Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ed Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have the $ > to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking trunning CentOS > 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at and con

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 6 May 2008 at 12:11pm, Ed Morrison wrote Situation: My current storage needs are approximately 1.5 TB annually. This will increase to about 3.5 TB annually over the next 5 years (rough est.). This box will just be a data archive and once it is full it will only be used very infreque

[CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ed Morrison
Hi: I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have the $ to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking trunning CentOS 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at and concerned about. Situation: My current storage needs are approximately 1.5 TB

Re: [CentOS] httpd reverse proxy

2008-05-06 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 11:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote on Mon, 05 May 2008 23:49:11 -0500: > > > Its actually very useful to access backend hosts on private networks or > > to transparently spread the load across several machines. > > If you proxy it, not with a Redirect, y

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Bob Taylor
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:25 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > > > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > >

[CentOS] SELinux, postfix and milters

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Saavedra
Hi all, I'm trying to add some milters (particularly spamass-milter and clamav-milter, which I acquired through rpmforge) to my postfix configuration on Centos5 with the targeted SELinux policy.. I'm running into difficulty getting postfix to communicate through the unix domain sockets creat

RE: [CentOS] Port forwarding "File" ?

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Andrew @ ATM Logic wrote: > > Can someone tell me what, and where the file that contains > the port forwarding info is on a standard install? I had a > server fail, I have mounted the drive and need to get this info back. /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables -Ross ___

[CentOS] Port forwarding "File" ?

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew @ ATM Logic
Can someone tell me what, and where the file that contains the port forwarding info is on a standard install? I had a server fail, I have mounted the drive and need to get this info back. Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.c

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > > the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks muc

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Lanny Marcus wrote: > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny rpm -qa kernel* And: pup is a frontend to yum is a fron

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Message: 9 ?Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 >Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. >Just a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5.1 PHP 5.2 RPMs?

2008-05-06 Thread James Fidell
David Williams wrote: James Fidell wrote: Is there a PHP 5.2 build for CentOS5.1 anywhere? Unfortunately I need a fix for a SOAP bug that is present in the current 5.1.6 release. Tske a look at Jason Litka's site: http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/ That's what I'm using at the mom

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5.1 PHP 5.2 RPMs?

2008-05-06 Thread David Williams
> > > James Fidell wrote: > > > > > > > > > Is there a PHP 5.2 build for CentOS5.1 anywhere? Unfortunately I > > > > > need a > > > > > fix for a SOAP bug that is present in the current 5.1.6 release. > > > > > > > > > Tske a look at Jason Litka's site: http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/

Re: [CentOS] images gone after yum update

2008-05-06 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:48:01PM +0200, Geert Batsleer wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I upgraded a centos 4.6 box via yum and now it seems that > certain pages, especially swf files stopped working. > > Does anyone know if ImageMagick got broken on x64? I don't see any > other package wich could h

[CentOS] images gone after yum update

2008-05-06 Thread Geert Batsleer
Hi, yesterday I upgraded a centos 4.6 box via yum and now it seems that certain pages, especially swf files stopped working. Does anyone know if ImageMagick got broken on x64? I don't see any other package wich could have caused this problem. kind regards, Geert PS Below is the output of my y

[CentOS] Tunning EAP-TTLS with PAP

2008-05-06 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I have a freeradius server that is working well in university. We use EAP-TTLS and PAP protocols. Users from Windows can use Securew2. Users from Linux and Mac OS X luckily have native support for EAP-TTLS and PAP. (if you think is Off Topic, keep reading on). On Ubuntu I can use the nm-applet

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5.1 PHP 5.2 RPMs?

2008-05-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
James Fidell wrote: It will definitely be a part of the centosplus repo ( to ensure we get some upgrade path sanity from centos-4 ), however it might also be available as a separate repo itself. What's the status of this now? I don't see it in the centosplus repo yet. there are a few things

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5.1 PHP 5.2 RPMs?

2008-05-06 Thread James Fidell
Karanbir Singh wrote: James Fidell wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: James Fidell wrote: Is there a PHP 5.2 build for CentOS5.1 anywhere? Unfortunately I need a fix for a SOAP bug that is present in the current 5.1.6 release. Not yet, but we are working on it - there should be something there i

Re: [CentOS] httpd reverse proxy

2008-05-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Les Mikesell wrote on Mon, 05 May 2008 23:49:11 -0500: > Its actually very useful to access backend hosts on private networks or > to transparently spread the load across several machines. If you proxy it, not with a Redirect, yes. It seemed he wanted just a redirect. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Ber

Re: [CentOS] httpd reverse proxy

2008-05-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Craig White wrote on Mon, 05 May 2008 16:38:00 -0700: > that's what I ended up doing...you took the first message in the thread I see. That message wasn't here when I wrote that. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] Postfix+MySQL - how to create DB

2008-05-06 Thread kalinix
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:31 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm toying around with Postfix and MySQL on a CentOS 4 server (no longer > using stock postfix and mysql rpms, obviously). I've read several > "How-TOs", and it all looks fairly easy to do. > > The one thing that puzzl