Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gordon McLellan wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> Can anyone recommend some sites regarding building high-availability >> storage networks using centos (or the upstream providers brand name)? >> I need to have approx 2-3 tb of storage avai

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 and Bacula

2008-11-06 Thread Jun Salen
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 21:26, Jun Salen wrote: > > Between Bacula and Backuppc, based on list users experience, which is better > to use? I intend > > to backup both Windows and Linux server. Can I use this to backup my linux > mail server with > > Zimbra services shutdown? Can I use this to back

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-06 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 14:32 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Or phones that work with Centos. > > I am making headway on my SIP testing, but I need a a couple (or 3) USB > headphones or phones. > > I remember back quite at time ago I had problems with one with volume > control (ie none!). > >

Re: [CentOS] windows auth in linux world

2008-11-06 Thread Christopher Chan
RobertH wrote: it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one. looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to ge

RE: [CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas

2008-11-06 Thread John
>>The critical components were the most frequent access/update patterns >>versus the physical organization of the primary table(s) and their >>_primary_ indexes, or hashes. Do DBMs still use those things? Prmary Indexes have a lot more to do with I/O than most people think. You really have to unde

Re: [CentOS] Check my math please

2008-11-06 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:59:34PM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: > > > Don't forget that the data speed != line speed. > > A line will only carry about 70% of the line > > speed as data because of packet overheads. > > Thanks for pointing this out. I believe I have enough information to > make my c

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am making headway on my SIP testing, but I need a a couple (or 3) USB headphones or phones. these devices: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 047f:0ca1 Plantronics, Inc. USB DSP v4 Audio Interface Work for me, out of the box, on C4 and C5 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.

[CentOS] Re: mapserver experience?

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-6-2008 3:35 PM Dave Stevens spake the following: > I have Centos 5.2 and want to install mapserver. On my Fedora 7 box it is in > the repo. Should I just enable that repo? Anyone done this? Tips/warnings? > > Dave > Here is a warning... Don't enable a Fedora 7 repo on CentOS. It is better

Re: [CentOS] OTR plugin for Pidgin?

2008-11-06 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, fred smith wrote: > > >Looking for the OTR plugin for Pidgin. > > > >We can get libotr from rpmforge, but I can't find the actual OTR plugin > >anywhere. > > > >Can't compile it on centos 5.2 because it wants a bunch

[CentOS] mapserver experience?

2008-11-06 Thread Dave Stevens
I have Centos 5.2 and want to install mapserver. On my Fedora 7 box it is in the repo. Should I just enable that repo? Anyone done this? Tips/warnings? Dave -- Canada must refuse to be entangled in any more wars fought to make the world safe for capitalism. -- The Regina Manifesto, 1933 _

RE: [CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas

2008-11-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 16:32 -0500, David Ross wrote: > > There many factors which impact database i/o performance. You are comparing > two probably dissimilar i/o paths. Configuration differences (disk, > controller, connection, kernel parameters) may be part of the problem. > > Physical vs.

Re: [CentOS] OTR plugin for Pidgin?

2008-11-06 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, fred smith wrote: Looking for the OTR plugin for Pidgin. We can get libotr from rpmforge, but I can't find the actual OTR plugin anywhere. Can't compile it on centos 5.2 because it wants a bunch of newer libraries than we have (GTK+ and others). Guidance? I packaged pidg

[CentOS] OTR plugin for Pidgin?

2008-11-06 Thread fred smith
Looking for the OTR plugin for Pidgin. We can get libotr from rpmforge, but I can't find the actual OTR plugin anywhere. Can't compile it on centos 5.2 because it wants a bunch of newer libraries than we have (GTK+ and others). Guidance? -- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas

2008-11-06 Thread David Ross
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mindaugas Riauba > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CentOS@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas > > We have long running problem with NetAp

Re: [CentOS] yum and /etc/redhat-release

2008-11-06 Thread Agile Aspect
Vandaman wrote: Agile Aspect wrote: Hi - I used yum to update CentOS 4.6. After the reboot after the upgrade, the file /etc/redhat-release still indicates I'm at CentOS 4.6. The lastest release of CentOS 4 is CentOS 4.7. So how do I use yum to upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7? Any help would be gr

Re: [CentOS] Check my math please

2008-11-06 Thread Warren Young
Sean Carolan wrote: For a back-of-the napkin calculation can we not assume that data equal to the entire size of the file will be streamed to the client during playback? You can if you're using some of the fudge factors others have mentioned here. The headers for IP + UDP + RTP take at lea

[CentOS] Re: yum and /etc/redhat-release

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-6-2008 11:03 AM Agile Aspect spake the following: > Hi - I used yum to update CentOS 4.6. > After the reboot after the upgrade, the file > /etc/redhat-release still indicates I'm at > CentOS 4.6. > > The lastest release of CentOS 4 is CentOS 4.7. > > So how do I use yum to upgrade from 4.6

[CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Or phones that work with Centos. I am making headway on my SIP testing, but I need a a couple (or 3) USB headphones or phones. I remember back quite at time ago I had problems with one with volume control (ie none!). So I am looking for a cheap USB headphone or 'real' VoIP phone. I am us

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-06 Thread nate
Gordon McLellan wrote: > Hello List, > > Can anyone recommend some sites regarding building high-availability > storage networks using centos (or the upstream providers brand name)? > I need to have approx 2-3 tb of storage available via iscsi and smb, > but worry about having it all on a single se

Re: [CentOS] yum and /etc/redhat-release

2008-11-06 Thread Vandaman
Agile Aspect wrote: > Hi - I used yum to update CentOS 4.6. > After the reboot after the upgrade, the file > /etc/redhat-release still indicates I'm at > CentOS 4.6. > > The lastest release of CentOS 4 is CentOS 4.7. > > So how do I use yum to upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7? > > Any help would be grea

[CentOS] yum and /etc/redhat-release

2008-11-06 Thread Agile Aspect
Hi - I used yum to update CentOS 4.6. After the reboot after the upgrade, the file /etc/redhat-release still indicates I'm at CentOS 4.6. The lastest release of CentOS 4 is CentOS 4.7. So how do I use yum to upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ken -- Article. VI

[CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-06 Thread Gordon McLellan
Hello List, Can anyone recommend some sites regarding building high-availability storage networks using centos (or the upstream providers brand name)? I need to have approx 2-3 tb of storage available via iscsi and smb, but worry about having it all on a single server. Most of the HA articles I'm

Re: [CentOS] iptables starts blocking outbound http traffic

2008-11-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:42, Neil Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is the source of the problem, how would restarting > httpd and tomcat help? I did not restart the machine nor > reset iptables. Because this might potentially close several connections and free slots in the conn

RE: [CentOS] iptables starts blocking outbound http traffic

2008-11-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Why do you try to filter outbound connections at all? If "something" makes >it on your machine the first thing they will do is drop your rules. You imply the *only* reason for outbound filtering is stop a hacker. In some environments it serves as an additional layer of protection against other

Re: [CentOS] External ext3 USB Hard drive and selinux

2008-11-06 Thread Al Freundorfer
Ok I did as you suggested and my output after a sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log > /root/mylogfile.txt was found 2 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log ---

[CentOS] Sync of csgfs and current centos 4 updates

2008-11-06 Thread Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes
Hi list, I've been trying to update my csgfs stuff to 4.7 this week but I notice that current csgfs is built against kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1 and is required as a dependence, right now current kernel is 2.6.9-78.0.5 it would be great if csgfs can be rebuilt or updated to this, so dependences works ok???

Re: [CentOS] iptables starts blocking outbound http traffic

2008-11-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Neil Aggarwal wrote on Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:33:59 -0600: > /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -s $ETH0_IP -p tcp --sport http --dport > 1024: -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Why do you try to filter outbound connections at all? If "something" makes it on your machine the first thing they will

Re: [CentOS] windows auth in linux world

2008-11-06 Thread Fabian Arrotin
RobertH wrote: it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one. looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to ge

Re: [CentOS] windows auth in linux world

2008-11-06 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 09:07 -0800, RobertH wrote: > it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can > google better on this one. > > looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. > > for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the >

RE: [CentOS] Cluster Heart Beat Using Cross Over Cable

2008-11-06 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
> I am running two node active/passive cluster running Centos3 update > 8 64 bit on Hp Box with external hp storage connected via scsi. My > cluster was running fine for last 3 years.But all of a sudden cluster > service keep on shifting (atleast one time in a day )form one node to > another. >

[CentOS] windows auth in linux world

2008-11-06 Thread RobertH
it is not my expertise so i need to get some direction please so i can google better on this one. looks like to many choices and i am sure some are time wasters. for those of you that have done it, what is your recommendation on the absolute easiest / fastest implementation to get a centos file

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Heart Beat Using Cross Over Cable

2008-11-06 Thread John R Pierce
Morten Torstensen wrote: lingu wrote: Since it is a very critical and busy server may be due to heavy network load some hear beat signal is getting missed resulting in shifting of service from one node to another. For automated takeover systems, especially critical ones (tho you can argue

RE: [CentOS] iptables starts blocking outbound http traffic

2008-11-06 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Filipe: Thanks for the information. If I do: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max on each of my servers, they all report 65536 which seems like a pretty high limit. If I do: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_count on each of my servers, the highest number is just over 11

Re: [CentOS] iptables starts blocking outbound http traffic

2008-11-06 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 09:33, Neil Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # Allow http connections from the outside world > /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d $ETH0_IP -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport > http -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT > /sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -s $ETH0_IP -

[CentOS] iptables starts blocking outbound http traffic

2008-11-06 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: I have a machine running CentOS 5 x86_64. It is running apache httpd and tomcat. For some reason, after running for a few days, web requests stop responding. It happened again this morning. I check the syslog and see a HUGE number of logs like this: OUTPUT IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=[MyIP] DST=[

[CentOS] apache content rewriting?

2008-11-06 Thread Les Mikesell
I'm using apache with mod_proxy to make the server appear at a different location and port and need to tweak some absolute references in the content as it goes by. mod_proxy_html looked promising - and appears to work - but seems to be making the httpd process consume a lot of CPU on occasion.

Re: [CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas

2008-11-06 Thread nate
Mindaugas Riauba wrote: > NetApp support is claiming that such performance is normal. Somehow > I do not believe that 2007 model should deliver such XXth century > performance levels. :) How many disks, what RPM are they running at, what I/O block size is being used and what protocol (NFS/iSCSI

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Heart Beat Using Cross Over Cable

2008-11-06 Thread Morten Torstensen
lingu wrote: Since it is a very critical and busy server may be due to heavy network load some hear beat signal is getting missed resulting in shifting of service from one node to another. For automated takeover systems, especially critical ones (tho you can argue that any system setup with

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 3

2008-11-06 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Yum loses memory when kernel is upgraded

2008-11-06 Thread Jussi Hirvi
Phil Schaffner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) kirjoitteli (5.11.2008 15:09): > Sounds like your RPM database was corrupted. If so, there may well be > other problems lurking. I'd try: > > rm /var/lib/rpm/__* > rpm --rebuilddb > yum update > > Should not hurt, and may well help avoid other problems. You'r

[CentOS] Painfully slow NetApp with databas

2008-11-06 Thread Mindaugas Riauba
Hello, We have long running problem with NetApp filers. When we connect server to the filer sequential read performance is ~70MB/s. But once we run database on the server seq read performance drops to ~11MB/s. That's happening with two servers. One is running Oracle another - MySQL. During spe

[CentOS] Cluster Heart Beat Using Cross Over Cable

2008-11-06 Thread lingu
Hi, I am running two node active/passive cluster running Centos3 update 8 64 bit on Hp Box with external hp storage connected via scsi. My cluster was running fine for last 3 years.But all of a sudden cluster service keep on shifting (atleast one time in a day )form one node to another. Afte