[CentOS] RAID support in kernel?

2011-01-29 Thread Michael Klinosky
Hello. I'm setting up a computer that will run 'CentOS 6 server'. The MB is an Asus with a hw raid controller (Promise PDC-20276), which I want to use in RAID-1 mode. I noted (from a MB website) that it also needs a driver - which is probably why it's called a 'fakeraid'. So, I've been trying t

[CentOS] py-yaml complaints from yum

2011-01-29 Thread Tim Dunphy
hello list!! I'm having a curious issue.. if I type yum update -y the system complains of a PyYAML dependency: --> Finished Dependency Resolution PyYAML-3.08-4.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libyaml-0.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package PyYAML-3.08-4.e

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/29/11 11:42 AM, carlopmart wrote: > All OS will be UNix based: linux, BSD or Solaris ... Solaris is by design quite memory intensive, since on modern servers, memory is cheap. ZFS in particular is designed to use large amounts of memory to optimize storage performance. _

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/29/11 5:05 AM, carlopmart wrote: >> >> |> It is very important that the virtual machine consumes the least >> |> resources >> |> possible (host has 5GB RAM and i need to run three virtual machines >> |> minimum, >> |> including this storage server as a virtual machine). >> | >>

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread carlopmart
On 01/29/2011 08:24 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 29, 2011, at 6:04 AM, carlopmart wrote: > >> On 01/28/2011 03:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:55 AM, carlopmart wrote: >>> Hi all, I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 29, 2011, at 6:04 AM, carlopmart wrote: > On 01/28/2011 03:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:55 AM, carlopmart wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server >>> under >>> CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or v

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 15:27, schrieb Tony Mountifield: > In article<4d44212c.6050...@gmx.de>, Rainer Traut wrote: >> I had to use this cmdline to make the initrd: >> KVER=$(uname -a|awk '{print $3}')xen > > Don't need awk: KVER=$(uname -r)xen Thx, Tony. I wrote it at 3am for a presentation that day... :)

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 16:32, schrieb Sanjay Arora: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: >> >> To get an image into the cloud I did: >> - format a 10GiB file with ext3 >> - install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option) >> - put this into S3 as an AMI >> - start an instanc

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: > > To get an image into the cloud I did: > - format a 10GiB file with ext3 > - install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option) > - put this into S3 as an AMI > - start an instance of it > - clone this to an EBS file with rsync >

Re: [CentOS] httpd LDAP auth module

2011-01-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Carlos S wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: >Look inside your httpd.conf file, it will answer that one for you. RHEL's >httpd >supports ldap auth as shipped. >> >> /snip >> See the line: LoadModule authnz_ld

Re: [CentOS] offsite encrypted backups?

2011-01-29 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Friday, January 28, 2011 07:51:53 pm Eero Volotinen wrote: > Hi List, > > Any idea for remote encrypted backup system? files must be encrypted > on local side ? duplicity? any better ideas? I use duplicity and like it. /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message par

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <4d44212c.6050...@gmx.de>, Rainer Traut wrote: > I had to use this cmdline to make the initrd: > KVER=$(uname -a|awk '{print $3}')xen Don't need awk: KVER=$(uname -r)xen Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: t...@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: t...@mountifield.org - h

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 09:36, schrieb Sanjay Arora: > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > want. > > Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from > scratch or an existing minimal

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:53:45AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/29/11 12:36 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > Hello > > > > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > > want. > > > > Despite loo

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5: iptables: module recent

2011-01-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Why not give the link to the bugzilla report? I'm sure I read postings about problems with the recent module still in 2010. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > good luck with the persistence part in a cloud.  the whole idea of > clouds is to distribute your services and separate them from the > physical instances.   EC2 is *not* a replacement for a conventional > static server. > Well, Data/OS File

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Basically what Mathieu is wishing me luck for ;-) > Sorry, it was John! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread carlopmart
On 01/28/2011 07:14 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/28/11 1:55 AM, carlopmart wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server >> under >> CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage >> machine >> needs to server stora

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread carlopmart
On 01/28/2011 06:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > - Original Message - > | On 1/28/2011 3:55 AM, carlopmart wrote: > |> Hi all, > |> > |> I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage > |> server under > |> CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-29 Thread carlopmart
On 01/28/2011 03:21 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:55 AM, carlopmart wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to install a virtual machine acting as a virtual storage server >> under >> CentOS 5.x (using kvm, xen, virtualbox or vmware). This virtual storage >> machine >> needs to serve

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
Basically what Mathieu is wishing me luck for ;-) I want to create a server which I can use while in development stage, use as a main image, copy of which I can instantiate as a base image, build a apache webserver app image or a qmail mail-server image or a workgroup /db / crm image etc..upgr

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> physical instances.   EC2 is *not* a replacement for a conventional > static server. Could you please elaborate a bit? What do you think should be left on the physical servers? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/29/11 12:36 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Hello > > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > want. > > Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from > scratch or an existin

[CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Sanjay Arora
Hello Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I want. Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from scratch or an existing minimal CentOS image that is bootable from EBS. My ser