Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of "local" copy, > usually back-up related. I can't recall if the "cp -a" detects and > handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio Yes, it seems that "cp -a" is desi

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-07 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 23:06 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Assumptions: > > 1. 4GB Memory. > 2. Overhead. > 3. Compatibility. > 4. Desktop vs Servers. > Is my logic sound? Number 1 is a bit off. But just a bit. Number 2 is solid. Number 3 is... mostly irrelevant with CentOS. Number 4 is

Re: [CentOS] telnet isssue (SOLVED)

2008-12-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Hi everyone, By Now, I have solved this issue. yes, /etc/xinetd.conf is the file. Below Doc helped me http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/Reference_Guide/s2-tcpwrappers-xinetd-config-conf.html -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya __

Re: [CentOS] telnet isssue

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Blackwell
Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > When it reches about 60 > telnet users, the remaing users will NOT be able to login. > > Look at /etc/xinetd.conf. In this file, you will find an entry for "instances". On CentOS and RHEL, telnet is launched by xinetd and is governed by the instances limit in the /

[CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-07 Thread Kenneth Burgener
I am curious what should be the benchmark for making the choice of switching from 32bit to 64bit Linux? I have a few assumptions below. Is my logic sound? (This is a follow up to the "Adding RAM" thread) Assumptions: 1. 4GB Memory. The main benefit of 64bit mode is the ability to address m

Re: [CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : > Hi, > > Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login > (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): > > $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. > It should not be writable for other users, and permissions s

[CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. It should not be writable for other users, and permissions should be 644. Now I had a look at t

[CentOS] Any Alternative for X window System

2008-12-07 Thread karthikeyan subbannan
hi , I have one problem in centos4.4.That is when i run a java Swing Based application(non stop Application ie ,24/7) in centos4.4 the X Window system takes 100% of cpu usageWhen i restart the system it will come down.After few hours it will again go to 100%...please tell me solutio

Re: [CentOS] telnet isssue

2008-12-07 Thread Barry Brimer
> We are runnig a system on CentOS 4.5 where we use a testing ERP > system. Users have to login to it with telnet. When it reches about 60 > telnet users, the remaing users will NOT be able to login. > > Hardware is , HP Pentium 4 Server with 4 Gb RAM . > > Pls Note we used the same system on a lo

[CentOS] telnet isssue

2008-12-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
Hi team , We are runnig a system on CentOS 4.5 where we use a testing ERP system. Users have to login to it with telnet. When it reches about 60 telnet users, the remaing users will NOT be able to login. Hardware is , HP Pentium 4 Server with 4 Gb RAM . Pls Note we used the same system on a low

[CentOS] CentOS 5 Xen Dom0 Kernel doesn't see CDROM

2008-12-07 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi all, I have successfully got Xen virtualisation configured with CentOS 4 (64bit). However now that I am using the Xen Kernel my Dom0 doesn't seem to see the DVDROM device. Is this intentional in the kernel? Is there anything (apart from compiling my own kernel) that will enable the Dom0 to se

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> William L. Maltby wrote: >>> > >>> Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you >>> want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the >>> above dump/restore set I've

Re: [CentOS] Missing grub functionality on CentOS 5

2008-12-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Vandaman wrote on Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:22:03 + (GMT): > The CentOS 4 grub is not the same as the CentOS 5 grub. Right, I was on the wrong machine for checking the version. But this is not the point of my posting, it's irrelevant. ;-) Suggest reading full posting before replies. Kai -- Kai

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you > > want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the > > above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar equiva

Re: [CentOS] Missing grub functionality on CentOS 5

2008-12-07 Thread Vandaman
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > The CentOS 5 grub is the same as the CentOS 4 grub and I > would assume that > it's the latest "legacy" grub, so it should > include all that. The CentOS 4 grub is not the same as the CentOS 5 grub. :rolleyes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -q grub grub-0.95-3.8 [EMAIL PROTECT

[CentOS] Prelink woes: libs not found that are (apparently) present.

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Pursuing some rpm verify errors exposed while investigating my T'bird/FF problem, a prelink -am gives this, and other, error. prelink: /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin: Could not find one of the dependencies Ran # ldd /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin|grep 'not found'

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread Les Mikesell
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >> Matt wrote: > I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact > copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if > > >> no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storag

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Matt wrote: > >>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact > >>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if > >>> > no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually > r

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Morten Torstensen wrote: > Kevin Krieser wrote: > >> At least with regard to the upstream provider, on X86 the desktop >> version has a limit of 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much more memory >> you have. And they removed the hugemem version, so instead of up to >> 64

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The >> OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: >> >> http://atrpms.net/dist/e

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The > > OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: > > > > http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 on Vmware Server: Disk space not preallocated -> no disk found by installer

2008-12-07 Thread Alexander Farber
CentOS 5.2 and 4.7 work for me at the latest VMWare Workstation, Server and ESX :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The > OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: > > http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/ > > If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the syst

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: >> Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, >> sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. >> >> I was able to download the latest version f

Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Ian Forde
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, > sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. > > I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, > and with some hacking/klduging of their insta

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread John R Pierce
Matt wrote: >>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact >>> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if >>> something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare >>> quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the >>>

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: > Also, if a package that is currently running has been updated, or that > package is currently using a package which has been updated and you want > the currently running things to start using the new stuff _now_, you'll > want to restart those packages. Until those packag

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-07 Thread John R Pierce
Morten Torstensen wrote: > With PAE you can access up to 64GB memory. It works much the same way as > XMS memory in DOS, where "high mem" is mapped to a low mem window. It is > just addresses that are mapped, there is no physical copying of memory > that you had with EMS memory. > thats not

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:42 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > I ran an rpm --verify, as root. I didn't see anything that _I_ could > relate to the problem, but my insight is limited here. I do note that > some errors have crept in over time that I will now need to pursue. Started checking some

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:21 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > > use Yum. Any help would be great. > > "yum update" will do it for you. Normally, you

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread Matt
>> I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact >> copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if >> something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare >> quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the >> entire OS and al

Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos

2008-12-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Vandaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> I do use different sets of numbers depending on what a >> given system >> runs. In addition to the priority scores, use of exclude= >> etc is also >> important if you aim at getting certain packages from a

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-07 Thread Morten Torstensen
Kevin Krieser wrote: > At least with regard to the upstream provider, on X86 the desktop > version has a limit of 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much more memory > you have. And they removed the hugemem version, so instead of up to > 64GB of RAM on 32 bit, you can only get to 16GB for server

Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos

2008-12-07 Thread Vandaman
Akemi Yagi wrote: > One of my systems have these entries: > > rpmforge.repo:priority=40 > kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo:priority=50 > kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo:priority=50 > atrpms.repo:priority=85 > epel.repo:priority=90 > CentOS-Testing.repo:priority=99 > > (not a complete list) > > I do use

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Vandaman
Darrell Betts wrote: > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to > fetch ,update > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I > would like to > use Yum. Any help would be great. > Try "yum --help" and "man yum" which have a lot of info. Also the CentOS docs on

[CentOS] Missing grub functionality on CentOS 5

2008-12-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
There's grub 0.97 on CentOS 5. The manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html says it is for 0.97. However, it mentions for instance a program grub-set-default that is not present in grub-0.97-13.2. It also mentions grub.conf options savedefault and fallback. Are the

[CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version o

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Darrell Betts a écrit : > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > use Yum. Any help would be great. > I wrote an abstract on basic Yum usage. It's in French, but it's not hard to guess

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Barry Brimer
> Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > use Yum. Any help would be great. Welcome Darrell. Here is the summary version: To install a specific package, such as postfix from a repository that

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Darrell Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that > wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway > with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. > portsn

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Tosh
Darrell Betts wrote: > I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that > wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway > with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. > portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees > portsna

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-5-2008 4:18 PM Rainer Duffner spake the following: > Am 06.12.2008 um 01:02 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: > >> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 23:57 +, Michael Holmes wrote: >>> 2008/12/5 Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a server running Centos 4.7 32bit. Will moving from 4Gig of RAM

Re: [CentOS] Web Filter

2008-12-07 Thread Tosh
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> I've also been using Untangle (untangle.com) and just love it. > > This machine is nearly stock with all the nat/firewall done in a simple > hand written script, it also serves as an Asterisk PBX so I couldnt use > an appliance. > >> I'm not sure if the latest has all th

[CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Darrell Betts
I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees portsnap update adds all the new p

Re: [CentOS] --=Getting OTer by the sec=-- Web Filter

2008-12-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 12-5-2008 2:15 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Hull PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've never used IPCop (opting for m0n0wall instead), but I was under the >> impression that IPCop lacked any content filtering features requested by >> the OP. >> >> A quic

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 46, Issue 5

2008-12-07 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos

2008-12-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Vandaman wrote on Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:47:28 + (GMT): > Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is > 10 and > based on your preference) > > If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't > those also potentially overwrite each other if the same package > exists in all of th

Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos

2008-12-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Vandaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > > [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 > > [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 > > Third Pa

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
Same _bad_ behavior occurs on first attempt after doing below! Details below. On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:58 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > > On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: > > >> I was able to _start_ a comparison process,

[CentOS] HAL automount luks device

2008-12-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have set up an encrypted partition on a usb key and can now successfully mount it using: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/DEVICENODE cryptousb mount /dev/mapper/cryptousb /mountpoint My aim is now to do this using HAL and GNOME's Luks integration. I am already asked for the pass phrase after p

[CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos

2008-12-07 Thread Vandaman
In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is > 10 and based on your preference) If y