Re: [CentOS-docs] HOWTO VNC

2008-06-22 Thread Ralph Angenendt
glc wrote: I have agreed to write a HOWTO for VNC using service vncserver. Please register an account on the wiki (FirstnameLastname) and tell us what it is - you'll get access to the pages then. Cheers, Ralph pgpFNAiCL27l2.pgp Description: PGP signature

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0558-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 freetype security update

2008-06-22 Thread John Newbigin
The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2008:0558-01 Important: freetype security update Files available: freetype-utils-0-2.0.3-10.el21.i386 freetype-devel-0-2.0.3-10.el21.i386 freetype-0-2.0.3-10.el21.i386 More details are available from the

[CentOS-es] Consulta de PHP

2008-06-22 Thread Luis Huacho Lazo
Holas amigos Una consulta alguien sabe cuando sale php 5.2 para CentOS ne los repos oficiales Ah y queria saber si alguien ha usado estos RPMs http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/ Gracias por su tiempo. -- Saludos Cordiales Luis Huacho Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.innovatech-peru.com

[CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem to work. I have changed the

[CentOS] problems installing samba

2008-06-22 Thread Rajeev R. Veedu
Dear all, I am trying to install Samba 3.0.30 on a new Centos 5 machine and I am getting following error. Samba has been downloaded form setnet. Could some please let me know how to fix this? rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version error: db4 error(-30974) from

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread John R Pierce
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem to work. I

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Bent Terp
I have changed the comms in minincom to use /dev/tty0 the baud rate to 9600, yet I can't seem to connect with minicom. Does anyone know how to connect to a serial device from the console? This works for me with our Cisco console cables: sudo yum install picocom sudo picocom /dev/ttyS0 BR

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Bent Terp wrote: I have changed the comms in minincom to use /dev/tty0 the baud rate to 9600, yet I can't seem to connect with minicom. Does anyone know how to connect to a serial device from the console? This works for me with our Cisco console cables: sudo yum install picocom sudo

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
John R Pierce wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Bent Terp wrote: I have changed the comms in minincom to use /dev/tty0 the baud rate to 9600, yet I can't seem to connect with minicom. Does anyone know how to connect to a serial device from the console? This works for me with our Cisco console cables: sudo yum install picocom sudo

[CentOS] backup question

2008-06-22 Thread Gergely Buday
Dear CentOs users, I have a centos server with nothing important at the moment, but I would like to install some web-based project management tool (trac for the curious) that would contain important data. And, as my network is growing the configuration of the server is becoming complex. I would

Re: [CentOS] lvm with iscsi devices on boot

2008-06-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the key here is to add the _netdev option in fstab for those filesystems over iSCSI, even using LVM. I got a chance to reboot the server this weekend and happy to report that my iscsi/multipath/lvm volumes are

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-22 Thread admin
I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. It backs up entire disks/partitions, so includes everything including configuration files, tweaks etc. It is fast compared to something like Ghost, and can backup to devices (USB stick or external HDD) or a network

[CentOS] OT: Making BT/Yahoo account accessible to plain router

2008-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
My daughter has a BT account, with a BT supplied single-port router. I'd like to replace it with a standard router, but the settings appear to be totally hidden. If anyone reading uses BT, could you please tell me where to find the info? Maybe off-list, to save bandwidth for others/ Thanks

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:37:38 admin wrote: I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Rsync + crontab centos5.1

2008-06-22 Thread Frank Murphy
Just looking at the man rsync. Might as well be duagnosing a plattypus. I have made a dir on my Cent samba shares to setup a local fedora.repo (1) How do I get it to run weekly at a certain time. is this correct? crontab -e 22 7 0 0 /usr/bin/rsync -va /Fedora-Mirror /local samba share. (2)

RE: [CentOS] Rsync + crontab centos5.1

2008-06-22 Thread Anthony Kamau
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Murphy Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2008 9:38 PM To: CentOS User-List Subject: [CentOS] Rsync + crontab centos5.1 Just looking at the man rsync. Might as well be duagnosing a plattypus. I have

Re: [CentOS] problems installing samba

2008-06-22 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/22/08, Rajeev R. Veedu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Samba 3.0.30 on a new Centos 5 machine and I am getting following error. Samba has been downloaded form setnet. Could some please let me know how to fix this? rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-22 Thread nightduke
http://www.rsnapshot.org/ 2008/6/22 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:37:38 admin wrote: I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? Anne

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Anne Wilson wrote: I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? It does an image copy and knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the used portions of the disk. Yes it compresses, no

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem to work. I

[CentOS] random file

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
Is it possible to create a file on a random inode on a file system? I am trying to simulate a random read and write for testing purposes. TIA ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 June 2008 15:27:34 Les Mikesell wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data. Is there any compression? Does it span multiple CDs if necessary? It does an image copy and knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the

[CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-21-2008 9:04 PM Joshua Baker-LePain spake the following: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues boil down to the

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB. Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1 million files? rsync always broke on my

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-22 Thread Peter Arremann
On Sunday 22 June 2008 12:04:47 am Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. What size power supply do you

Re: [CentOS] random file

2008-06-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:20:22 -0400 Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a file on a random inode on a file system? Wouldn't it be easier (and safer) to create a large file, then seek within it? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] random file

2008-06-22 Thread Mag Gam
even seeking thru it requires a sequential scan, right? On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:20:22 -0400 Mag Gam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a file on a random inode on a file system? Wouldn't it be easier (and

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread nightduke
stops sync? 2008/6/22 Raja Subramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB. Can anybody comment on the feasibility of

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Les Mikesell wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just

Re: [CentOS] OT: Making BT/Yahoo account accessible to plain router

2008-06-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: My daughter has a BT account, with a BT supplied single-port router. I'd like to replace it with a standard router, but the settings appear to be totally hidden. If anyone reading uses BT, could you please tell me where to find the info? Maybe off-list, to save bandwidth

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I know the details - I don' think this is going to work. Not with 100 TB of data. It kind-of-works with 1 TB. Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 09:57:08PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office,

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem to work.

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Bent Terp wrote: I have changed the comms in minincom to use /dev/tty0 the baud rate to 9600, yet I can't seem to connect with minicom. Does anyone know how to connect to a serial device from the console? This works for me with our Cisco console cables: sudo yum install picocom sudo

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Karanbir Singh wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread Barry Brimer
I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem to work. I have not been following this

Re: [CentOS] random file

2008-06-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 14:14 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: even seeking thru it requires a sequential scan, right? If Linux FS systems work like real *IX, it depends. The underlying C/system calls should be smart enough to calculate an offset that traverses inode information to cause a direct access

Re: [CentOS] cannot unmount volume xxx

2008-06-22 Thread Rob Townley
2008/6/21 李晖 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all: I am using Centos 5.1. But now I have a problem when unmount a removable usb hard disk with right click and choose unmount volume command. When I did that, system reminds me with a message like this:Cannot unmount volume xxx, Detail: Cannot remove

[CentOS] Directory compare

2008-06-22 Thread centos
Hi, I have 2 drive sets that are supposed to be identical [I use CentOS 5]: A: 1.6Tb B: 1.49Tb I need to find the differences, any suggestion? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Directory compare

2008-06-22 Thread Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd
I have 2 drive sets that are supposed to be identical [I use CentOS 5]: A: 1.6Tb B: 1.49Tb I need to find the differences, any suggestion? diff will do it. diff -q /dir-a/ /dir-b/ the -q will just tell you what files are different, not what's different inside the files. -- Spiro Harvey

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Dag Wieers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done 700k and 800k files transfers (including hardlinks), but indeed it could take a while to compute the transferlist. Newer rsync versions bring down the amount of memory needed drastically. That is one of the

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Erek Dyskant
If you do end up using rsync for something like this via ssh, you might want to look at some of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's patches. The high-performance patches can allow you to see dramatic increases in throughput. Or, if it's over a secure network, drop ssh entirely and use

Re: [CentOS] Directory compare

2008-06-22 Thread Walid
2008/6/23 Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have 2 drive sets that are supposed to be identical [I use CentOS 5]: A: 1.6Tb B: 1.49Tb I need to find the differences, any suggestion? diff will do it. diff -q /dir-a/ /dir-b/ the -q will just tell you what files are

Re: [CentOS] Directory compare

2008-06-22 Thread Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd
I would like to do the same among two, several boxes, that is take thier dir listing to a certain depth, and compare it for differences as an integrity check that they have the same installation files? then, maybe run a find to extract all filenames, then feed each one into sha1sum or md5sum

[CentOS] Could not start X window

2008-06-22 Thread hce
Hi, I've just installed CentOS version 5 on a laptop Acer ASPIRE 5920. But could not start X window. It got following error message: Using confi file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes (EE) Screens(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fetal server error: no screens found

Re: [CentOS] Could not start X window

2008-06-22 Thread Ross Cavanagh
hce wrote: Hi, I've just installed CentOS version 5 on a laptop Acer ASPIRE 5920. But could not start X window. It got following error message: Using confi file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes (EE) Screens(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fetal server error: no

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-22 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: I have a problem switch in our data centre, which is connected to a linux server via a serial cable. I know I can / could access the switch from my Windows PC back at the office, using hyperterm, but trying to access it using minicom just doesn't seem

Re: [CentOS] Directory compare

2008-06-22 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to do the same among two, several boxes, that is take thier dir listing to a certain depth, and compare it for differences as an integrity check that they have the same installation

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Rainer Duffner wrote: ... Can anybody comment on the feasibility of rsync on 1 million files? I rsync 2.6M files daily. No problem. It takes 15 minutes, if there's only a few changes. For fast transfer of files between two machines I usually use ttcp: From machine: tar cf - .|ttcp -l5120

Re: [CentOS] Directory compare

2008-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Walid wrote: 2008/6/23 Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have 2 drive sets that are supposed to be identical [I use CentOS 5]: A: 1.6Tb B: 1.49Tb I need to find the differences, any suggestion? diff will do it. diff -q /dir-a/ /dir-b/ the -q will just tell you what