Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon McLellan wrote: > I have a trio of servers that like to reboot during high disk / > network IO operations. They don't appear to panic, as I have > kernel.panic = 0 in sysctl.conf. The syslog just shows normal > messages, like samba complaining about browse master and then just > syslogd st

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread nate
Gordon McLellan wrote: > I'm really at a loss on what to do next... Any suggestions? Run hardware diagnostics? Run a burn in test? I use this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/ For burn-in. In my experience it takes less then 4 hours at high load with this app to turn up faulty hardware.

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread William Warren
Do you have a BBU on this card? Various sites report the controller has poor performance on writes without the bbu. On 12/19/2009 10:55 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote: > I'm really at a loss on what to do next... Any suggestions? > ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread William Warren
I'm looking at the controller myself. Have you tried updating either the firmware on the card the drivers or both? On 12/19/2009 10:55 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote: > The other variable is the two machines running drbd have promise raid > cards in them. I also have the same raid card in my persona

[CentOS] Evolution search menu

2009-12-19 Thread Frank Cox
When I switched my main desktop computer from Fedora to Centos, I moved my email from Sylpheed to Evolution. (Reason: Sylpheed for Centos doesn't boldface unread messages in the message list box and newer Sylpheed versions won't compile on Centos.) Evolution works fine, but I can't figure out ho

[CentOS] storage servers crashing, hair being pulled out!

2009-12-19 Thread Gordon McLellan
I have a trio of servers that like to reboot during high disk / network IO operations. They don't appear to panic, as I have kernel.panic = 0 in sysctl.conf. The syslog just shows normal messages, like samba complaining about browse master and then just syslogd starting up. The machines seem to

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > I like the carts on my Canon i9900 photo printer... they are simple > clear plastic carts, with a prism molded into the bottom of the ink > compartment...  the printer shines a laser up into the cart, and can > tell exactly when the ink is

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: > (I'd still stick with Brother or HP. If the Canon ink cartridges are > the newer, electronically aware/controlled kind, I'll be surprised if > you don't want to switch soon enough anyway.) > I like the carts on my Canon i9900 photo printer... they are simple clear plastic carts,

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:33:18PM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: >> Yes, I checked that site.  The printer is a USB Cannon IP1800. Chasing >> links I found at linuxprinting I had to go to Japan to get a driver, but >> it wouldn't work. Been

[CentOS] Cannot see samba in win Neighborhood

2009-12-19 Thread Matias Morawicki
Hello u all, sorry to bring this issue back again, but I´ve been searching and trying all the advices suggested in previous posts and I still can´t see the samba server in the win network neighborhood. I can see the samba shares from win via net view \\servername but if I issue a plain "net view"

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:33:18PM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: > Yes, I checked that site. The printer is a USB Cannon IP1800. Chasing > links I found at linuxprinting I had to go to Japan to get a driver, but > it wouldn't work. Try http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0027213.asp?model=

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread David McGuffey
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 10:52 +0100, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: > > Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell > > laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will > > upgrade it to 5.4 > > > > The

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 19 December 2009 06:57, Karanbir Singh wrote: > The simple answer to that is that we are not ( the CentOS Project ) > in a place where we can take on financial donations. Which > essentially boils down to the fact that if you were to contribute > some money as a financial donation, it

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-19 Thread Peter Serwe
I'd argue handling it at the layer 3 level to be preferable than splitting every customer into their own vlan. If you split into vlans like that, if you have single-box customers, you'll have to have subnet boundaries for every /30... OTOH, vlan isolation for customers is pretty much the norm, as

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 58, Issue 6

2009-12-19 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Peter Serwe wrote: > So basically, you're saying you'd want to allow or disallow traffic > based on mac address? Seems like you could put mac filters on a number > switches, Cisco being the most easily documented by Mr. Google. > > Be a lot faster than any kernel, and a total waste of BSD. If

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:28:24AM -0800, MHR wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: > > David McGuffey wrote: > >> > >> What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly B&W > >> papers.  On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color > >> photos/grap

Re: [CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-19 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Scott McClanahan wrote: > Would any of you be comfortable running the drbd packages from the > extras repo? If so, any particular version .. I notice 8.0, 8.2, 8.3. > I'll do my own due diligence but just curious if the list has any > implementation based feedback. Thanks. > I've used DRBD on s

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > The simple answer to that is that we are not ( the CentOS Project ) in a > place where we can take on financial donations. Which essentially boils > down to the fact that if you were to contribute some money as a > financial donation, it w

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: >> >> What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly B&W >> papers.  On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color >> photos/graphs embedded. Not looking to spend a lot, just enough to >> satisf

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Bob McConnell
Phil Savoie wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: >> Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell >> laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will >> upgrade it to 5.4 >> >> The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through >> the univer

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Phil Savoie
David McGuffey wrote: > Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell > laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will > upgrade it to 5.4 > > The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through > the university book store), doesn't

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:09:03 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly B&W > > papers. On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color > > photos/graphs embedded. Not looking to spend a lot, just enough to > > satisfy the

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/19/2009 02:02 AM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Is there any decision about the donation programme? > > The Web page still says: "If you are looking to make a cash dontation to > the CentOS Project, please check back here after August 15th, 2009." > > I assume that donations aren't refused, but

Re: [CentOS] google gears on 64 bit centos 5.4?

2009-12-19 Thread James Hogarth
XPI is the package format for firefox extensions http://pickup.nieir.com.au/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.34.0.xpi There's the one I'm using which works fine for all our stuff for native gears on 64bit firefox 3.5 ... The RPM I'm installing just includes a pretweaked FF profile that alrea

Re: [CentOS] Donation programme

2009-12-19 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Really funny, I was just thinking of this this morning as well! (Christmas spirit I guess, or the gratefulness for latest bunch of 5.4 updates...) I support the question and add: It there a way to get receipts, etc. in order to book such a donation as a company charge/expense? Is the target organi

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: > Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell > laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will > upgrade it to 5.4 > > The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through > t