[CentOS] Perl Trouble

2008-11-07 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
I am running several CentOS 5.2 servers with similar configuration. On all of them I received the following error when using a certain perl module: Base class package "Class::Accessor::Fast" is empty. (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first.) On most of the

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread John R Pierce
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: While SATA and SAS are *supposed* to be able to be mixed freely, my vendor has warned me that it doesn't always work out that well. They have seen compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. So for applications where you want/need a SAS controller but

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 at 4:22pm, nate wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: While SATA and SAS are *supposed* to be able to be mixed freely, my vendor has warned me that it doesn't always work out that well. They have seen compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. So for application

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread John Thomas
Jay Leafey wrote: Open the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf with a text editor and go all the way to the bottom. You should see a section labeled "[servers]". Add the following lines after the [servers] header: 0=Standard 1=Standard Save the file, restart X ( telinit 3 ; telinit 5 ) and you should

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread nate
thad wrote: > HP-EVA controller runs on WIN2K, and you have all the inherent problems of > why we are staying away from winbloze... ssu scripting is a pain in the > neck On the topic of enterprise storage arrays I'm pretty excited today I'm having a 150TB 3PAR T400 virtualized storage array bein

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread nate
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > While SATA and SAS are *supposed* to be able to be mixed freely, my vendor > has warned me that it doesn't always work out that well. They have seen > compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. So for > applications where you want/need a SAS controlle

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread Jay Leafey
I had done this a LONG time ago, but the rules changed a bit since then. It turns out it's VERY easy, but note that this is a fully-updated CentOS 5 system. The method varies somewhat with v4. Open the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf with a text editor and go all the way to the bottom. You shoul

Re: [CentOS] updated Apache mod_expires?

2008-11-07 Thread John R Pierce
Jed Reynolds wrote: I noticed that the apache rpm httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3.src.rpm has a bug in mod_expires. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39774 Please forgive a dumb question: how risky would using a Fedora httpd RPM be on a CentOS5 install? it probably flat out

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread thad
> > > > If you have a "real" SAN (HP EVA), you can buy block-level > replication-software for that. > But the software is not exactly cheap (six-figure-sum budget expected). > What does downtime cost for you? HP-EVA controller runs on WIN2K, and you have all the inherent problems of why we are s

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.11.2008 um 23:35 schrieb nate: Gordon McLellan wrote: I guess I'm saying, if you interpret the name "Serial Attached Scsi" literally, then the Seagate ES.2 is not an SAS drive - it is not a scsi drive with a serial interface. However, if you interpret SAS as an interface standard, then

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:46:36PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 at 2:35pm, nate wrote > >> Gordon McLellan wrote: >> >>> I guess I'm saying, if you interpret the name "Serial Attached Scsi" >>> literally, then the Seagate ES.2 is not an SAS drive - it is not a >>> scsi dri

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 at 2:35pm, nate wrote Gordon McLellan wrote: I guess I'm saying, if you interpret the name "Serial Attached Scsi" literally, then the Seagate ES.2 is not an SAS drive - it is not a scsi drive with a serial interface. However, if you interpret SAS as an interface standard, t

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread nate
Gordon McLellan wrote: > I guess I'm saying, if you interpret the name "Serial Attached Scsi" > literally, then the Seagate ES.2 is not an SAS drive - it is not a > scsi drive with a serial interface. However, if you interpret SAS as > an interface standard, then the interface board determines wh

[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?]

2008-11-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Oops! Sent this to myself by mistake. --- Begin Message --- On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:15 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > You'll probably need to read the info or man pages for that (if any: > otherwise various local *docs* directories or the Xorg website or google > will be needed) and set up

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:59 -0800, John Thomas wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > I am running 5.x. I will test and if it works put it to run at boot. It won't. Check out /etc/inittab. Near the end is prefdm. That checks for preferences and starts it up. My 5.x has no xdm on it. I presume

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread John Thomas
William L. Maltby wrote: Do you mean you want to have another X session started and waiting for another login by another user ID? Yes You want it on boot or just under some circumstances? boot > I have this in my root user bin and run it when I want. This is on my CentOS 4.7. If you are on

Re: [CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:30 -0800, John Thomas wrote: > Ctrl-Alt-F7 automatically starts with a gdm greeter. I would like > Ctrl-Alt-F8 to be the same, but I cannot figure it out. Would you offer > some tips? > > The purpose is to allow others to simply switch over and log into a > machine w

[CentOS] updated Apache mod_expires?

2008-11-07 Thread Jed Reynolds
I noticed that the apache rpm httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3.src.rpm has a bug in mod_expires. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39774 Please forgive a dumb question: how risky would using a Fedora httpd RPM be on a CentOS5 install? Jed _

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread nate
Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> http://www.openfiler.com/products >> >> For me I would just buy a real storage array, better reliability >> generally. Though entry level pricing is around $20k. > 2x machines to give a network RAID setup. What would you recommend > using? The idea is to serve to servers whic

[CentOS] How Auto Start Greeter on Ctrl-Alt-F8?

2008-11-07 Thread John Thomas
Ctrl-Alt-F7 automatically starts with a gdm greeter. I would like Ctrl-Alt-F8 to be the same, but I cannot figure it out. Would you offer some tips? The purpose is to allow others to simply switch over and log into a machine without bothering the current X session and/or leaving me logged i

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Vandaman wrote: Milton Calnek wrote: Sorry, I missed the question. I'm severely confused and I don't know what I'm talking about. My friend, stop misquoting me. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067393.html Are you leading by example here? -- Les Mikesell [EM

[CentOS] Re: Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-7-2008 12:09 PM Vandaman spake the following: > Milton Calnek wrote: > >> Sorry, I missed the question. I'm severely confused >> and I don't know what I'm talking about. > Talk about misquoting ... The second sentence above doesn't seem to be in the original posting > My friend, stop misquo

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Vandaman
Milton Calnek wrote: > Sorry, I missed the question. I'm severely confused > and I don't know what I'm talking about. My friend, stop misquoting me. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067393.html Regards, Vandaman. ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vandaman wrote: >> I'm listening if you have any other comments or advice >> on my situation. >> Sorry, I missed the question. - -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

[CentOS] Re: correct way to set centos 5 amd64 to performance mode

2008-11-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-7-2008 6:03 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: > what is the correct way to set an AMD64 CPU into performance mode at > boot time? > > I have tried doing service network cpuspeed start, then killall -SIGUSR1 > cpuspeed > and this works but I cant get it working this way at boot. I have set >

[CentOS] Re: HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 11-7-2008 7:18 AM Gordon McLellan spake the following: > So the short answers are: > > 1) centos/redhat possess no built-in means of block-level replication > via GFS / RHCS > 2) openfiler provides some manor of block-level replication > 3) there's "beta" software out there that can do it, but

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon McLellan wrote: Les, That's pretty much my problem. I was hoping to kill two birds with one stone here. First order of business is to replace the single drive with a raid array. Second order was to replace a single iscsi server with duo of machines. If one machine had some sort of non

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread John R Pierce
Jerry Franz wrote: Indeed. They're not SAS either. From the manufacturer's page: "Barracuda ES.2 SAS 3.0-Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive" Sure sounds like SAS to me. What leads you to believe they are not being truthful? its a typo on that page, probably. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon McLellan
Reading the datasheet, my interpretation is Seagate has taken a ide drive chassis (7200rpm, PMR, slow seek times, etc) and added a SAS interface board. They mention the sas version offers improved performance over the sata version, and also the sas version supports a dual-port interface. Other mo

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Gordon McLellan schrieb: > Les, > > That's pretty much my problem. I was hoping to kill two birds with > one stone here. First order of business is to replace the single > drive with a raid array. Second order was to replace a single iscsi > server with duo of machines. If one machine had some

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon McLellan
Les, That's pretty much my problem. I was hoping to kill two birds with one stone here. First order of business is to replace the single drive with a raid array. Second order was to replace a single iscsi server with duo of machines. If one machine had some sort of non-recoverable problem, the

Re: [CentOS] Re: mapserver experience?

2008-11-07 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 07 November 2008 12:39:50 am Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > 2008/11/7 Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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? A

Re: [CentOS] OTR plugin for Pidgin?

2008-11-07 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

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Jerry Franz
Steve Thompson wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Gordon McLellan wrote: I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a tiny version of their huge url: http://tiny.cc/3X9fI No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives. Indeed. They're not SAS either. Fro

[CentOS] adding perl modules

2008-11-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have some pm files I want to add, these seem to be custom modules delivered with a package I am trying to install. I don't want to run its script as it manually installs many modules available in base so I will simply yum those in. How can I add the pm files, I assume I have to update something i

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Gordon McLellan wrote: I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a tiny version of their huge url: http://tiny.cc/3X9fI No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives. Indeed. They're not SAS either. Steve

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Gordon McLellan wrote: Ray, I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a tiny version of their huge url: http://tiny.cc/3X9fI No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives. -Gordon

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon McLellan wrote: Ray, I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a tiny version of their huge url: http://tiny.cc/3X9fI No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives. But, I think the OP's real problem is that everything is tied to one sin

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Gordon McLellan wrote: > Ray, > > I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a > tiny version of their huge url: > > http://tiny.cc/3X9fI > > No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives. > > -Gordon Ah. S

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon McLellan
So the short answers are: 1) centos/redhat possess no built-in means of block-level replication via GFS / RHCS 2) openfiler provides some manor of block-level replication 3) there's "beta" software out there that can do it, but it might not be a good idea for production (drbd) Just for reference;

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Gordon McLellan
Ray, I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a tiny version of their huge url: http://tiny.cc/3X9fI No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives. -Gordon On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guessing

RE: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
> >>> 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

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Gordon McLellan schrieb: > So the short answers are: > > 1) centos/redhat possess no built-in means of block-level replication > via GFS / RHCS > 2) openfiler provides some manor of block-level replication > 3) there's "beta" software out there that can do it, but it might not > be a good idea for

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:18:02AM -0500, Gordon McLellan wrote: > So the short answers are: > > 1) centos/redhat possess no built-in means of block-level replication > via GFS / RHCS > 2) openfiler provides some manor of block-level replication > 3) there's "beta" software out there that can do i

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 07:56 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > Cheap USB sound cards tend to not have any volume control. The good news > > is that you can take the money you save and buy a good 1/8" headset that > > does have one. > > hmmm. Rereading your note. A

[CentOS] CEntOS-5.2 & php-mssql

2008-11-07 Thread Adriano dos Santos Vieira (Hapia IN)
Hi, guys! I'm trying to use php-mssql and I've tested the same php program on two servers (CEntOS-5 and Debian). CEntOS-5.2 (final) - php 5.1.6-20 - php-mssql 5.1.6-15 (from "extras" repository). - freetds 0.64-11 --- php test code --

[CentOS] correct way to set centos 5 amd64 to performance mode

2008-11-07 Thread Jerry Geis
what is the correct way to set an AMD64 CPU into performance mode at boot time? I have tried doing service network cpuspeed start, then killall -SIGUSR1 cpuspeed and this works but I cant get it working this way at boot. I have set chkconfig cpuspeed on but that didnt seem to help. I just wa

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 047f:0ca1 Plantronics, Inc. USB DSP v4 Audio Interface Where did you get this info? I just plugged the DSP-400 in; LED is on on the vol control. No entry for it in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf that I can see... its a usb device... lsusb hwconf is onl

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: 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 Where did you get this info? I just plugged the DSP-40

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Karanbir Singh wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Cheap USB sound cards tend to not have any volume control. The good news is that you can take the money you save and buy a good 1/8" headset that does have one. I have to go with USB headphones. This is for notebooks. The Plantronics headset tha

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: 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 co

RE: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Andrew Cotter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:34 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook? Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Cheap USB sound cards tend to not have any volume control. The good news is that you can take the money you save and buy a good 1/8" headset that does have one. I have to go with USB headphones. This is for notebooks. The Plantronics headset that I use ( and posted det

Re: [CentOS] Can you recommend some USB headphones

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: 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 co

Re: [CentOS] Problem building kernel (gpg problem) - 2.6.18-92.1.17

2008-11-07 Thread Ned Slider
ArcosCom Linux User wrote: With new kernel, appeared some problems with build proccess here. After many minutes waiting for rpmbuild were over, a gpg problem appears!!: ... scripts/modsign/mod-extract.c:311: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'Elf64_

Re: [CentOS] Problem building kernel (gpg problem) - 2.6.18-92.1.17

2008-11-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:09 AM, ArcosCom Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With new kernel, appeared some problems with build proccess here. > > After many minutes waiting for rpmbuild were over, a gpg problem appears!!: > gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `..' > gpg: no default se

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 4

2008-11-07 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] Cluster Broken pipe Error & node Reboot

2008-11-07 Thread lingu
Hi all, I am running two node RHEL3U8 cluster of below cluster version on HP servers connected via scsi channel to HP Storage (SAN) for oracle database server. Kernel & Cluster Version Kernel-2.4.21-47.EL #1 SMP redhat-config-cluster-1.0.7-1-noarch clumanager-1.2.26.1-1-x86_64 Suddenly m

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > 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

[CentOS] Problem building kernel (gpg problem) - 2.6.18-92.1.17

2008-11-07 Thread ArcosCom Linux User
With new kernel, appeared some problems with build proccess here. After many minutes waiting for rpmbuild were over, a gpg problem appears!!: ... scripts/modsign/mod-extract.c:311: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'Elf64_Xword' + KEYFLAGS='--no-defau

Re: [CentOS] Re: mapserver experience?

2008-11-07 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2008/11/7 Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 I have some home build (x86_64