Re: [CentOS] COBOL

Michael wrote: Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? I think you would be better served looking for a flavour of COB

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting - PLEASE STOP THIS POINTLESS POST

With respect, there are such things as email filters. I encourage everybody to learn how to use their own particular MUA's filtering system. Secondly, posting a "PLEASE STOP THIS POINTLESS POST" message is futile in the extreme. If something is bothering you to the extent that the moderators nee

[CentOS] samba question

Hi, I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope help from the list. I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc >From the console, I log in and do a >smbclient -L localhost -U% Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-0.el5.4]

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

Shawn wrote: Realtek drivers can be found in the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList#head-851e245f4f537add3de9c3c6a6d686771fb01bfa Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel upgrade! ofcouse, you dont need

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

On 5/22/08, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity. > > If you wanted to bond do you have to ask your network admin to configure a > special switch setting for MAC addresses? > depends on the mode of bonding

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

Mag Gam wrote: Just out of curiosity. If you wanted to bond do you have to ask your network admin to configure a special switch setting for MAC addresses? AFAIK, only with 802.3ad The other Linux bonding modes don't require any switch settings James Pearson _

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

Karanbir Singh wrote: Shawn wrote: Realtek drivers can be found in the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList#head-851e245f4f537add3de9c3c6a6d686771fb01bfa Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel upgrade!

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 39, Issue 10

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Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

Farkas Levente wrote: Sweet thanks. Now I know about dkms-enabled driver package which rebuilds the driver automatically for each kernel upgrade! ofcouse, you dont need that on CentOS :D rhel 5.2 contains updated drivers. so as centos 5.2 will be release these problems will vanish. Perhaps

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

Thanks Jim. Since, 802.3ad requires switch settings does it perform better than other modes? Does anyone have any benchmarks? TIA On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:19 AM, James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity. >> >> If you wanted to bond do you have to ask

RE: [CentOS] samba question

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david chong Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:21 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] samba question Hi, I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope hel

[CentOS] question on minimal install using CF as /dev/sda

Hi all, We're attempting to use CentOS 5.1 on a test platform which uses a CF card as it's primary storage. (MB: ETX-LX) The BIOS supports booting from CD and/or the CF. Issues we've run into are: During installation of CentOS 5.1, it appears all goes well through partitioning, package selec

[CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

we have DELL 6800 server with 12 internal disks in it. O.S. is CENTOS 4.6 and SCSI control card is PERC 4e/di. We plan to configure 4 disks (5,8,9,10) as RAID5 or RAID50. This logical volume will be use as file systems and store database backup files. Can anyone tell me which one is better on

Re: [CentOS] Failed boot drive

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Dean Maluski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unclear on how to recover from failed boot drive? > SDA has failed but I'm still able to boot. > I need to replace primary boot drive. Upon initial build I created a > RAID 1 mirror of /boot dir/partition. > How do I get sys

Re: [CentOS] samba question

On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:11:31 John wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of david chong > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:21 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] samba question > > Hi, > > I am running Centos5.1, trying to

[CentOS] Failed boot drive

Unclear on how to recover from failed boot drive? SDA has failed but I'm still able to boot. I need to replace primary boot drive. Upon initial build I created a RAID 1 mirror of /boot dir/partition. How do I get system to boot off second or third drive so that I can replace /sda? I've successfully

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have DELL 6800 server with 12 internal disks in it. O.S. is CENTOS > 4.6 and SCSI control card is PERC 4e/di. > > We plan to configure 4 disks (5,8,9,10) as RAID5 or RAID50. This > logical volume will be use as file systems and store database backup > files. > > Can anyone te

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

You're going to need two RAID controllers and 6 drives to do RAID 50. RAID 50 will be faster, but costs more in drives and controllers. Jason www.cyborgworkshop.org mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have DELL 6800 server with 12 internal disks in it. O.S. is CENTOS > 4.6 and SCSI control card is PERC 4

RE: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

>We plan to configure 4 disks (5,8,9,10) as RAID5 or RAID50. This logical >volume will be use as file systems and store database backup files. I wouldn't use Raid 5 on a DB, the performance degradation during rebuild and low fault tolerance aren't appealing to me. jlc __

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

I'm still having this issue. Here is another update. I noticed that the drift file for the system with the problem contained "0.000". On most other systems this contains a positive number (and on two a negative number). I deleted the drift file, resynch'ed the time with "ntpdate ", rest

[CentOS] IPTables help

I have a dual homed server in an install for someone who is very cost sensitive. This server originally is being setup as an Asterisk server, but now the simplest thing for me to do is also set it up to provide internet access for the small shop as well. So it will have one external, WAN facing

Re: [CentOS] Strange NTP problem

I had a similar problem on a different server that I fixed last night. Evidently it had a BIOS level feature that tried to modify the CPU clock rate, much like cpu-freq does within the kernel, and was doing so by messing with the system clock impacting the RTC. I was drifting all over the place u

Re: [CentOS] samba question

david chong wrote: Hi, I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope help from the list. I could not connect to it from a windows xp pc From the console, I log in and do a smbclient -L localhost -U% Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

John R Pierce wrote: raid50 requires 2 or more raid 5 volumes. with 4 disks, thats just not an option. for file storage (including backup files from a database), raid5 is probably fine... for primary database tablespace storage, I'd only use raid1 or raid10. RAID-10 has only one perfect appli

Re: [CentOS] IPTables help

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have limited experience with iptables and would love some guidelines. Any > pointers > would be greatly appreciated! This CentOS wiki may help: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables Akemi _

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Warren Young wrote: John R Pierce wrote: raid50 requires 2 or more raid 5 volumes. with 4 disks, thats just not an option. for file storage (including backup files from a database), raid5 is probably fine... for primary database tablespace storage, I'd only use raid1 or raid10. RAID-10 has o

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Jason Clark wrote: > You're going to need two RAID controllers and 6 drives to do RAID 50. > RAID 50 will be faster, but costs more in drives and controllers. > > > > Jason > www.cyborgworkshop.org > > > mcclnx mcc wrote: >> we have DELL 6800 server with 12 internal disks in it. O.S. is CENT

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

On : Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:37 -0400, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well > for development and testing platform, but the production code should > be on fully supported RHEL. Having been on RHEL support, and havin

Re: [CentOS] 1333/8GB Intel motherboard for C5.1

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps I was not clear in my original email, the point being that you dont > need to rebuild drivers when kernels update ( in 99% of the cases ) Is that now true also of the nvidia driver(s)? I haven't seen anything s

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

James B. Byrne wrote: > On : Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:37 -0400, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well > > for development and testing platform, but the production code should > > be on fully supported RHEL. >

[CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

on 5-22-2008 9:12 AM Rudi Ahlers spake the following: Warren Young wrote: John R Pierce wrote: raid50 requires 2 or more raid 5 volumes. with 4 disks, thats just not an option. for file storage (including backup files from a database), raid5 is probably fine... for primary database tablespace

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Rudi Ahlers wrote: So, how does it perform with 6 discs for example? Say I have 3 HDD's in RAID-0, and another 3 in RAID-0, then RAID-1 the 2 RAID-0 stripes. There's actually two kinds of RAID-10. Some like to say RAID-01 or RAID-1+0 or things like that to distinguish them. It's a matter

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

I prefer raid level of ibm For Dell you can find more info about raid level at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/RAID/RAIDbk0.pdf But add hot spare disks Nightduke 2008/5/22, Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > > So, how does it perform with 6 disc

AW: [CentOS] question on minimal install using CF as /dev/sda

Hi all, We're attempting to use CentOS 5.1 on a test platform which uses a CF card as it's primary storage. (MB: ETX-LX) The BIOS supports booting from CD and/or the CF. Issues we've run into are: During installation of CentOS 5.1, it appears all goes well through partitioning, package select

Re: [CentOS] Re: Need help with rsync. [solved]

In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On: Wed, 21 May 2008 10:22:19 -0700, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 8:37 AM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> This indeed turned out to be an SELinux policy problem which I have since >> resolved. > > Whoa, whoa, whoa,

[CentOS] Current Chipset Compatibility

Can someone make a recommedation as far as best chipset for Centos 5.0 or 5..1 using a Q6600 series CPU with chipsets that have onboard VGA?  From poking around it looks like the G33 and P35 are not supported or have problems until the newer 2.6.22 kernel (the iso's appear to be earlier than th

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

We use COBOL on Unix. I have worked with NCR/AT&T Unix and since 1995 have been supporting COBOL on SCO Unix. I am in the process of porting to CentOS and RHEL. We use RM/COBOL. It is supported by Liant at www.liant.com We use it for internal and Internet programming. They also support Web Service

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? http://www.linux.com/feature/135980 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Current Chipset Compatibility

John Paulson wrote: Can someone make a recommedation as far as best chipset for Centos 5.0 or 5..1 using a Q6600 series CPU with chipsets that have onboard VGA? From poking around it looks like the G33 and P35 are not supported or have problems until the newer 2.6.22 kernel (the iso's appear to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2008, 12:03 -0700 schrieb Florin Andrei: > Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? > On 5.1 it took nearly 3 weeks so expect at least the same period of time for 5.2 - otherwise: it's done when it's done :D -- Heiko Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:03:23PM -0700, Florin Andrei enlightened us: > Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? > > http://www.linux.com/feature/135980 When it's done. For crying out loud, upstream has only released 5.2 less than 24 hours ago. It will be at least a couple of week

Re: [CentOS] Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

Eon Strife wrote: Hi, Thanks, it's Gnome, and I'm stuck when I login as root. By using Putty, I managed to create a new user, and then I tried to login to desktop(using nomachine) as that user, and yes, it works. The problem now is that I stuck when I login as the root. NX> 596 Session star

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Guy Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do not need two (2) raid controllers unless you want to have > redundancy at the controller level. Adaptec, 3Ware, etc do RAID 50. > For RAID 50, you need at least 6 disks. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID > > > Fo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

Matt Hyclak wrote: For crying out loud, upstream has only released 5.2 less than 24 hours ago. I was just curious, I was not "demanding it right now" or anything like that. Sorry if my inquiry seemed inconsiderate. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ _

RE: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

>And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is >much more intelligently designed than any >closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. Pretty strong opinion that would be disputed by many don't you think? I would venture to say that any large system involved in SLA's with 5 9's

Re: [CentOS] samba question

david chong wrote: Hi, I am running Centos5.1, trying to configure samba now. I am quite new in this area and hope help from the list. Have you ever tried going through the Samba Howto or the Using Samba book material that comes free with samba in html format? If you want help, then you nee

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At any rate, RAID-10 shouldn't be *slower*. I've actually seen equipments where RAID-10 was slower for reading than RAID-5 with the same number of disks. RAID-10 depends on the ability of the controller of balancing reads

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Your way has the advantage of letting you add disks in pairs, but to get that you get only single-disk redundancy: if a second disk goes out, your array is gone, no matter which disk it is. Nah, if you lose both disks that belong to the same stripe array, the other stripe array is still arou

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is much more intelligently designed than any closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. This was valid until...quite a few years ago. Nowadays hardware raid frightens me because of the need to have spare raid-controllers for ev

Re: [CentOS] samba question

> Have you ever tried going through the Samba Howto or the Using Samba book > material that comes free with samba in html format? > > If you want help, then you need to tell us also what you have done...why > should we try to walk you through each and every step? > Hi All, Thanks for all your sug

Re: [CentOS] samba question

I notice in the example running "smbclient -L localhost -U%" will output the line below: ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.20) but from my C5.1, I don't have this line, other lines are the same, can anyone explain this line, wondering if this is where the problem lies. Run testparm and tell u

RE: [CentOS] IPTables help

>This CentOS wiki may help: > >http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables > >Akemi Akemi, That was helpful (I should have checked the wiki:>). After reading that and the RH related links, I think I have what I need but I am unclear about one aspect. What is the correlation between filtering

RE: [CentOS] samba question

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david chong Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:19 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] samba question > Have you ever tried going through the Samba Howto or the Using Samba > book material that co

[CentOS] How to move my MBR

I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can move (or make a copy) onto

[CentOS] Re: How to move my MBR

Just in case this makes any difference... # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.6 (Final) Thanks, Scott On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Scott Moseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would > not boot. I'm guessing that it put the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:42 -0400, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:03:23PM -0700, Florin Andrei enlightened us: > > Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? > > > > http://www.linux.com/feature/135980 > > When it's done. For crying out loud, upstream has only released

Re: [CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Linux wrote: And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is much more intelligently designed than any closed-source-embedded-raid-controller. "More intelligently designed" -> Could you please tell us more on this one? i Nowadays hardware raid frightens me because of t

[CentOS] Re:Re:Re:Can't get past the splash screen

Hi, Thanks, I check those folders, and they are already empty. Now, I tried to remove the freenx by using yum, and then I removed the files it left behind manually in: /usr/bin/nxserver /usr/lib/nx /var/lib/nxserver /etc/nxserver along with the nx user and group and reinstall. The problem worsen

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

Scott Moseman wrote: I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can mov

[CentOS] kaffeine installation

Anyone got kaffeine installed. When I do a #yum install kaffeine I get a transaction check error with kde-libs. Is this a known issue and is their a workaround? regards, secrookie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mail

Re: [CentOS] centos sparc distro?

John R Pierce escribió: tblader wrote: Hello All. I've a couple Sun SPARC Ultra 60 machines I'd like to install Linux on. Is the Centos 4.2 Beta distro* still in development? Looks like 2005 was the last beta release. I'd put Solaris 10 on those. __