Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > Crystal clear! > thank yo..!! > > Though another Q if possible.. > > i've done the following: > > yum install kernel-pae > > vim /etc/grub.conf > #outputs the following: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do no

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> >> What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in >> the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use >> clonezilla is a l

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:16 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in > the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use > clonezilla is a live cd . dd only works IFF (!) the new drive is exactly the

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread m . roth
Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>Is there a document with instructions for this? >>I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, >>so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). >> >>I was thinking of copying the old root partition

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >Is there a document with instructions for this? >I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, >so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > >I was thinking of copying the old root partition with > sudo cp -a -P /*

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Gabriel Rosca
What about doing all with dd ... If you have the second disk installed in the same machine you can do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" ort you can use clonezilla is a live cd . Gabe On 9/14/10 8:12 AM, "Timothy Murphy" wrote: > > Is there a document with instructions for this? > I've had smartd w

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:13:53 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > >> At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Is there a document

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread m . roth
Rob Del Vecchio wrote: >> yum check-update does not report that there is a more recent openssh >> available. Odd. > > Clear your yum cache? Since you used yum to update the package in the > first place, yum may have stored that "I already downloaded this" data > somewhere. I agree - yum clean a

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread Rob Del Vecchio
> yum check-update does not report that there is a more recent openssh > available. Odd. Clear your yum cache? Since you used yum to update the package in the first place, yum may have stored that "I already downloaded this" data somewhere. FYI, I am not experienced in yum specifically (debian

[CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Problem with SSHD update.]

2010-09-14 Thread James B. Byrne
On Tue, September 14, 2010 02:30, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> So, I'm quite keen on finding out what is it that is causing >> the breakage for you > > Karanbir, in the middle of the thread from the archive: > > James B. Byrne at Mon Sep 13 12:59:25 EDT 20

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, September 13, 2010 19:23, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >>> This matter is somewhat urgent. >> >> Totally! broken sshd could cause non-trivial issues for a lot of >> people. >> >> However, I can confirm that: >> >> * prov-kickstart-c5.5-i386 : sshd

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: >> At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> > >> > Is there a document with instructions for this? >> > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in m

Re: [CentOS] cron breaking when enabling ldap

2010-09-14 Thread Gerrard Geldenhuis
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Gerrard Geldenhuis > Sent: 14 September 2010 16:28 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] cron breaking when enabling ldap > > Hi > When I enable a box to do authentication using L

[CentOS] cron breaking when enabling ldap

2010-09-14 Thread Gerrard Geldenhuis
Hi When I enable a box to do authentication using LDAP it breaks cron for users like jboss. I get the following in /var/log/secure Sep 14 15:25:01 exoipatest01 crond[7214]: pam_access(crond:account): access denied for user `jboss' from `cron' I have the following in /etc/ldap.conf nss_initgrou

[CentOS] using NUT on centos 5

2010-09-14 Thread fred smith
Hi! Trying to set up NUT on Centos 5 to monitor a CyberPower 1500AVR UPS. There seem to be many documents, all of which seem to be not fully consistent with each other, and most of them aren't up to date. I'm guessing I should be using udev rather than hal, but I'm somewhat stumped on how to fig

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:49:28 -0400 JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:19 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0200 > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > > > Even so, most machines today performs multiple tasks, so 3GB limit per > > > process isn't really that big an

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Crystal clear! thank yo..!! Though another Q if possible.. i've done the following: yum install kernel-pae vim /etc/grub.conf #outputs the following: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:19 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0200 > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > Even so, most machines today performs multiple tasks, so 3GB limit per > > process isn't really that big an issue, unless you render graphics > > with a mono-threaded appl

Re: [CentOS] TCP flow latency graphs

2010-09-14 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 15:28 +0200, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > Hello, > > we have one application which gets some data from our database but > to print just one result it connects many times to the database over WAN. > Of course there are some performance related problems with this type of work

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:53:42AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:39:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list > > > wrote: > > > > > > Here

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0200 Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Even so, most machines today performs multiple tasks, so 3GB limit per > process isn't really that big an issue, unless you render graphics > with a mono-threaded application. Depends the domain :) We work in satellite images processing here

Re: [CentOS] Help! Help ! i done centos upgrade

2010-09-14 Thread Ernatalo su Gmail
Thank so much! i try your hint I'll ggive you novice Best regards Ernatalo Il 14/09/2010 15.39, m.r...@5-cent.us ha scritto: > Theo Band wrote: >> On 09/13/10 17:48, Ernatalo su Gmail wrote: >>>i know that this is a good thing, but i've only 1 partition. >>> /boot and /root are in the sam

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:45:50 +0300 > Roland RoLaNd wrote: > >> >> Thanks for your feedback.. >> >> So if i set my VM to 8 GB, each proccess would use a max of 3 GB (even with >> PAE  installed and selected on boot)? > PAE allows a 32 b

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:45:50 +0300 Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > Thanks for your feedback.. > > So if i set my VM to 8 GB, each proccess would use a max of 3 GB (even with > PAE installed and selected on boot)? PAE allows a 32 bits host to see more than 4GB of ram. but each process is still limite

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:39:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a document with instructions for this? > > > I've had smartd

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Thanks for your feedback.. So if i set my VM to 8 GB, each proccess would use a max of 3 GB (even with PAE installed and selected on boot)? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:50:18 +0200 From: l.wandreb...@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org CC: r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtua

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Is there a document with instructions for this? > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > > I was thinking of copying the old root partition with >      

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread m . roth
R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Could you offer a precise command for copying the system >> from / to /mnt/hd , say? >> Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example? > > I've not updated this in years nor for a 2.6 kernel and > grub, but the process is basicall

[CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Could you offer a precise command for copying the system > from / to /mnt/hd , say? > Would one exclude /dev or /proc , for example? I've not updated this in years nor for a 2.6 kernel and grub, but the process is basically unchanged: http://w

Re: [CentOS] Help! Help ! i done centos upgrade

2010-09-14 Thread m . roth
Theo Band wrote: > On 09/13/10 17:48, Ernatalo su Gmail wrote: >> i know that this is a good thing, but i've only 1 partition. >> /boot and /root are in the same partition that i convert from ext3 ti >> ext4. >> everything works fine until this morning. I "rebooted" the server many >> time from

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a document with instructions for this? > > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > > so I am installing a new drive

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/14/10 6:24 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > rsync -HPavxz --exclude /mnt /. /mnt/. > > how does rsync handle links? not symlinks, but actual file links? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Help! Help ! i done centos upgrade

2010-09-14 Thread Theo Band
On 09/13/10 17:48, Ernatalo su Gmail wrote: > i know that this is a good thing, but i've only 1 partition. > /boot and /root are in the same partition that i convert from ext3 ti ext4. > everything works fine until this morning. I "rebooted" the server many > time from the "convertion" > but i

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/14/10 7:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >> Is there a document with instructions for this? I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). >> >>> I generally use d

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/14/10 5:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >>> Is there a document with instructions for this? >>> I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, >>> so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). >> I generally use dump ... | restore ... to

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:54:38 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > John R Pierce wrote: > > >> Is there a document with instructions for this? > >> I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > >> so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > > > I generally us

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/14/10 7:54 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >>> Is there a document with instructions for this? >>> I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, >>> so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > >> I generally use dump ... | restore ... to

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Terry Polzin
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:12 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a document with instructions for this? > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > > I was thinking of copying the old root partition with >

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
kalinix wrote: >> I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has >> much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files. > In offline mode is even better How exactly? This is my server, so if I stopped it I would not have access from any other machine. -- Timot

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:12:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > Is there a document with instructions for this? > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > > I was thinking of copying the old root partition

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: >> I was thinking of copying the old root partition with >> sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd > I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has > much more features, for example, you can exclude certain files. Thanks for the suggestion. Could you offer a prec

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
John R Pierce wrote: >> Is there a document with instructions for this? >> I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, >> so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > I generally use dump ... | restore ... to clone a complete e2fs/e3fs > volume. it copies ev

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 UPS EATON/MGE

2010-09-14 Thread burnbrain
Hi Guys, I have a couple of servers which runs CentOS 5.5 and CentOS 5.4. We have decided to buy a UPS and we choose Eaton EX RT 11 plus eaton network management card minislot. I have read on the site of Eaton that they have two applications which could gracefully shutdown my servers - LanSafe and

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/14/10 5:12 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a document with instructions for this? > I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, > so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). > > I was thinking of copying the old root partition with > sudo cp -a -P

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread kalinix
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 13:16 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I was thinking of copying the old root partition with > > sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd > > (after mounting the prospective new root partition). > > Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab . > > Hi > > I th

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was thinking of copying the old root partition with > sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd > (after mounting the prospective new root partition). > Then I'd have to modify the new /etc/fstab . Hi I think the command rsync is a better approach for this task. It has much more f

[CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

2010-09-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is there a document with instructions for this? I've had smartd warnings that a hard disk in my server is sick, so I am installing a new drive (in addition to the old). I was thinking of copying the old root partition with sudo cp -a -P /* /mnt/hd (after mounting the prospective new root

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-14 Thread John Doe
From: James B. Byrne > Starting sshd: Auto configuration failed > 6486:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable > has no value:conf_def.c:629:line 207 > [FAILED] Maybe did you check line 207 of sshd_config...? JD ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:01:52 +0100 Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > Strange. 64 bits is here for years, 64 runs 32 bits code perfectly. > > Not always. 32 bit support is good but we had a program here which I > couldn't get to work any way up. Oh ? which one ? We've switched to 64 during C4.0 days, ne

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread Kevin Thorpe
> Strange. 64 bits is here for years, 64 runs 32 bits code perfectly. Not always. 32 bit support is good but we had a program here which I couldn't get to work any way up. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi