Re: [CentOS] Keepalive...

Dag Wieers napsal(a): > I am not using it, so I find it too risky to do it myself. Time for > someone to step up and maintain it ? > I'm prepared to step in. See http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-fw/stable/i386/repodata/ http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el5/hrb-fw/stable/x86_64/repodata/ David Hrbáč

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Klinosky > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:33 PM > To: centos maillist > Subject: [CentOS] new user - with questions Maybe the best way to determine if CentOS is for y

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: > > Nope, CentOS 5 will probably have Firefox 3.0-0 for its lifetime. If you > want something newer, you can probably retro-fit it yourself. If you need > something newer, the stability of CentOS is probably not what you really > want. Applications will not b

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:32:42PM -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Is CentOS basically like Fedora? (Well, except for the updates every 6 > months!) As in 'look & feel', underlying operations, etc. (Btw, I know > about removing upstream branding.) Very basically. CentOS/RHEL 5 is loosely base

[CentOS] new user - with questions

Hello. I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the latest & greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. But, I have some questions. I found 2 centos websites (primary and wiki), and checked

[CentOS] What broke my box ??

CentOS 5.2 64-bit I needed some space. I have a hard drive that had an old Linux install I don't use anymore. So I edited /etc/fstab and removed the entries for it (entries I only needed so I could get data off it). Then I edited /boot/grub.conf and removed the lines to boot it. Then I reboot

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

Ian Forde wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:52 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > >> Bollocks. The only area in which hardware raid has a significant >> performance advantage over software raid is raid5/6 given sufficient >> cache memory and processing power. >> > > I'd have to s

Re: [CentOS] help with alternatives

> > But second, if I was to configure it myself, the syntax is > > alternatives --install link name path priority... and other > optional stuff > > > Looking at other examples, I'm not clear on the difference between > link and path in this command > > Thanks, > Tony Schreiner > Boston College

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Stephen Leonard Character wrote: >> So, to change my swap to raid1, I would need to unmount it, delete >> the >> md2 device, and rebuild it as a raid1 md2 device? >> > > swapoff /dev/md2 > # now delete the raid0 and build a raid1 > mkswap /de

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

John R Pierce wrote: > Dan Carl wrote: > >> I don't raid swap. >> As stated in the Software Raid How-To >> ||"There's no reason to use RAID for swap performance reasons. >> > > BP! > > you want to MIRROR swap for RELIABILITY reasons.if a swap device > fails, you're looking at a k

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

Dan Carl wrote: > I don't raid swap. > As stated in the Software Raid How-To > ||"There's no reason to use RAID for swap performance reasons. BP! you want to MIRROR swap for RELIABILITY reasons.if a swap device fails, you're looking at a kernel panic. ___

Re: [CentOS] Keepalive...

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:58 PM, John Doe wrote: >> >> I've been trying to setup keepalive (vrrp) with LVS in direct routing on >> Centos 5 and I am stuck... >> Installed ipvsadm from the repo (had to touch /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm because >> it complai

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

Stephen Leonard Character wrote: >> As posted early having swap on a raid zero is a bad idea . >> Dan >> > > > Yes I wasn't thinking too clearly when I made the swap raid0, well I did > think about performance, but not drive failure :( > > Thanks everyone for your help, > Stephen > > I did

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

Stephen Leonard Character wrote: > So, to change my swap to raid1, I would need to unmount it, delete the > md2 device, and rebuild it as a raid1 md2 device? > swapoff /dev/md2 # now delete the raid0 and build a raid1 mkswap /dev/md2 swapon /dev/md2 and you probably don't have to change your

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

>As posted early having swap on a raid zero is a bad idea . >Dan Yes I wasn't thinking too clearly when I made the swap raid0, well I did think about performance, but not drive failure :( Thanks everyone for your help, Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dan Carl Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:37 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery Stephen Leonard Character wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Step

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:52 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Bollocks. The only area in which hardware raid has a significant > performance advantage over software raid is raid5/6 given sufficient > cache memory and processing power. I'd have to say no on the processing power for RAID

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

Stephen Leonard Character wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen Leonard Character > wrote: > >> I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on >> > a > >> raid1 on md0 , / on raid5 on md1, and swap on raid0 on md2. If one of >> > my > >> drives

Re: [CentOS] Is the NFS lockd bug fixed ? (update)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Alain Terriault wrote: > problematic setup : > nfs server was running 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus > clients where running 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64 > > healty setup : > nfs server is running 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.x86_64 + kmod-xfs-0.4-2 > clients are still on

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have two servers in the same subnet, one has this arrangement: > > BOX A [3 ips, one real two vips] > > BOX B [1 ip] > > I need to redirect input from one of the vips (192.168.0.1:8080) on BOX > A to BOX B (192.168.0.2:8080) and I'm about to pull my

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen Leonard Character wrote: > I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on a > raid1 on md0 , / on raid5 on md1, and swap on raid0 on md2. If one of my > drives die, how to I recover? >First, put the swap also on RAID1, you don't want

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen Leonard Character wrote: > I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on a > raid1 on md0 , / on raid5 on md1, and swap on raid0 on md2. If one of my > drives die, how to I recover? >First, put the swap also on RAID1, you don't wan

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Re: [CentOS] Samba Permissions - Sanity check

> I've always 'enjoyed' the solutions the samba team found for > interoperability. > Here's a good reference that provides the juicy details: > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/AccessControls.html > > Makes me shudder just to read it again . . . > > A > == > Ugh.

Re: [CentOS] Is the NFS lockd bug fixed ? (update)

Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Do you mean you replaced the CentOS-Plus kernel with a kernel from RedHat? > no > Or are you using a CentOS-Base (instead of Plus) kernel now? > yes .. apologies for the confusion > When you replaced it, did you upgrade it as well? What was the version > of the

Re: [CentOS] Keepalive...

From: Tim Verhoeven > Install keepalived from rpmforge instead of compiling your own. > Because mostlikely your build of keepalived is without LVS support. > (Check the output of the ./configure command to verify). > > I've always used the rpmforge package and it works for me. > > Regards, > Ti

Re: [CentOS] Keepalive...

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:58 PM, John Doe wrote: > > I've been trying to setup keepalive (vrrp) with LVS in direct routing on > Centos 5 and I am stuck... > Installed ipvsadm from the repo (had to touch /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm because > it complained it was missing) > Compiled keepalived-1.1.16.t

Re: [CentOS] Keepalive...

> vrrp_instance VI_1 { > state MASTER ### BACKUP on the backup ### > interface eth0 > lvs_sync_daemon_interface eth1 > virtual_router_id 51 > priority 100 ### 99 on the backup ### > advert_int 1 > smtp_alert > virtual_ipaddress { > 1

Re: [CentOS] Keepalive...

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, John Doe wrote: > I've been trying to setup keepalive (vrrp) with LVS in direct routing on > Centos 5 and I am stuck... Installed ipvsadm from the repo (had to touch > /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm because it complained it was missing) Compiled > keepalived-1.1.16.tar.gz [...] I

[CentOS] Keepalive...

Hi, I've been trying to setup keepalive (vrrp) with LVS in direct routing on Centos 5 and I am stuck... Installed ipvsadm from the repo (had to touch /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm because it complained it was missing) Compiled keepalived-1.1.16.tar.gz Test setup: main switch (192.168.16

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:36 +0100, Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi All > > Thanks for all your answers, I agree it would be better with heartbeat then > to mock around with dns and a very slow update time. > > Regards > Per Qvindesland > Another benefit is that failover occurs much more quickly whe

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

> "md1 will read from both disk" is not true in general. > RAID1 md reads from one disk only; it uses the other one in case the > first one fails. No performance gain from multiple copies. > I beg to differ. I have disks in a raid1 md array and iostat -x 1 will show reads coming off both disk

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen Leonard Character wrote: > I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on a > raid1 on md0 , / on raid5 on md1, and swap on raid0 on md2. If one of my > drives die, how to I recover? First, put the swap also on RAID1, you don't want

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

Hi All Thanks for all your answers, I agree it would be better with heartbeat then to mock around with dns and a very slow update time. Regards Per Qvindesland On 2/20/09 2:08 PM, "Tim Verhoeven" wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Per Qvindesland wrote: >> >> I've two servers running

Re: [CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

I am not sure but since you have a softraid I would think that if your os gives you trouble your raid also goes the same way as the famous chicken. Regards Per On 2/20/09 3:15 PM, "Stephen Leonard Character" wrote: > I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on a raid1

[CentOS] Software Raid Recovery

I have a server set up with 4hdd using software raid. I have /boot on a raid1 on md0 , / on raid5 on md1, and swap on raid0 on md2. If one of my drives die, how to I recover? Thanks in advance, scharacter ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard

hmm... that'll work.. thanks... -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org]on Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:24 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard From: bruce > go

Re: [CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard

You should use double quotes ("). A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/muhammad_ali.html http://www.brainyquote.com

Re: [CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard

From: bruce > goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces > 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog > 2foo_aa__cc.dog > 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog > 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog > 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog > 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog > i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with > *foo*dog > s

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Per Qvindesland wrote: > > I've two servers running the same ldap service. A is primary server and B is > simply a mirror, and accounts from server A are constantly synchronized with > B. > > Now I don't have a automatic failover solution, whenever server A goes do

[CentOS] listing files with spaces, using wildcard

hey... here's one i can't see.. goat a bunch of files in different dirs.. the files might have spaces 1foo_ aa_bb_cc.dog 2foo_aa__cc.dog 3foo_aa_bb _ccc.dog 4foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 5foo_aa_bb_cc.dog 6foo_aa_bb_cc.dog i'm trying to figure out how i can do a complete list of all files with *

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

Hi, If it is a mission critical system, check out http://www.linux-ha.org/ I have that managing a cluster of servers for HA SQL. In your case you may get away with just using a floating IP. Have the DNS pointing to that. Then no matter what server the IP is on the DNS doesn't need to be updated.

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi list, > > > I've two servers running the same ldap service. A is primary server and B is > simply a mirror, and accounts from server A are constantly synchronized with > B. > > Now I don't have a automatic failover solution, whenever server A goes down, > I have to point

[CentOS] BiND Failover

Hi list, I've two servers running the same ldap service. A is primary server and B is simply a mirror, and accounts from server A are constantly synchronized with B. Now I don't have a automatic failover solution, whenever server A goes down, I have to point the domain's A record to server B and

Re: [CentOS] question on hwclock

> > Jerry Geis wrote: > > >/ after running "hwclock --debug" the two files you mentioned above > />/ did not have anything extra added. > / > Just curious, you are running this on real hardware right not > a virtual machine? > > nate > Nate, Your - correct - real hardware... Jerry

[CentOS] Getting "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" from rsh

Hi all, I inherited a cpu-stats script from the previous *nixadmin at our department. This script relies on a rsh-command to get the vmstats from the remote machines and then using a perl script to push it to a web server. Now I've just added a new machine running CentOS 5.2 x64 to the script and

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

Noob Centos Admin schrieb: > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Ray Van Dolson > wrote: > > The other side of the coin (as I think you mentioned) is that many are > not comfortable having LVM handle the mirroring. Are its mirroring > abilities as mature

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 resolution?

Dick Holland wrote: > Yes, it is integrated graphics and I checked Intel and could find > nothing. > You missed this? http://intellinuxgraphics.org/ but, I think the ghist of the apostrophe is that the core drivers are pretty much built into the kernel, and these drivers here are newer sou

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 resolution?

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Dick Holland >Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:45 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 video driver for Intel DG965WHMKR at 1680X1050 >resolution? > > >Be gentle wit