Re: [CentOS] KVM Question

2011-03-04 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:05 AM, William Warren wrote: > I'm curious exactly how KVM works.  If i see things right it's > virtualization that's still within a full base operating system load > correct?  How does KVM perform against VMware which uses a much smaller > footprint?  Is KVM really a hype

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:11 AM -0500 Digimer > > wrote: > >> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in >> CentOS 6 >> when it is released? > > A new Ruby I just realized that the earth link I ref'd is dead. Here

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm >> particularly looking forward to the built-in chroot capabilities and >> GSSAPI support in OpenSSH, and the major release im

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 04.03.2011 13:50, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: > >> Re-install, not upgrade. Components with the same name compiled for >> different systems will occur, and may wind up presenting fascinating >> incompatibilities. > > Can you elaborate? > RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 17:50, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> I almost never log in >> directly at a linux console anymore and if I need to do something from >> home or remotely, I just pick the session that was my last desktop at work. > > I didn't k

[CentOS] bind 9.7.3 and libp11 engine_pkcs11 of fedoca core 14

2011-03-04 Thread fakessh @
hello list centos. I installed the packages libp11 and engine_pkcs11 of fedora core 14 on my centos 5.5 to allow me to compile the latest version of bind. this is the only way I found to compile bind 9.7.3. you know another way to compile bind 9.7.3 on centos 5.5 thanks for all your return --

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread compdoc
>yeah, definately, VM of any sort is a whole different beast, and >no way NTP should be run in a virtualized environment. The guests I run in KVM use ntp to keep their time accurate. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/4/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> I think you're fundamentally failing to understand my operating mode. >> >> Local system == Linux === my administrative center. >> >> Remote hosts.  May be a dozen.  May be 20,000.  Or some numb

Re: [CentOS] top and allocation issues

2011-03-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> It appears that option 2 would be the best for me, so I set: sysctl > vm.overcommit_memory=2 > > However, it resets to 0 on reboot, and only root can reset it. > It would be good if it would be set to 2 on reboot. Is there > a good way to do this? I suppose I could put something in > /etc/i

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Todd wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your > reply. >> >> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >> handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows >> dynamic ad

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 04, 2011 04:05:43 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Excuse me? The last time I was following this closely, and I think the > last time I looked, about a year ago, they said the opposite, that the > guest, if running Linux, should use ntp. > > Right: > NTP Recommendations > Note: In all

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-04 Thread compdoc
>If the Marvell drivers don't pan out, it looks like I'll have >to either spend money on a 3Ware|LSI|Promise controller The 3ware are excellent... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/04/11 12:59 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: >> just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, >> unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better >> to fix it than to continue to hack around like th

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I think you're fundamentally failing to understand my operating mode. > > Local system == Linux === my administrative center. > > Remote hosts. May be a dozen. May be 20,000. Or some number between > or beyond. After reading this again, I'm wonder

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: >> just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, >> unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better >> to fix it than to continue to hack around like this. > > For the sake o

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread John Hinton
On 3/4/2011 3:59 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: >> just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, >> unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better >> to fix it than to continue to hack around like thi

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: > just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, > unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better > to fix it than to continue to hack around like this. For the sake of the archives, VMware g

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/04/11 12:40 PM, Matt wrote: >> >> I add this to /etc/rc.local >> >> /usr/sbin/ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org >> >> Sets the clock on start up. Might run it by cron once a month or so >> too. > > thats just the wrong way to go about it. if your clock is running fast, > your c

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/04/11 12:40 PM, Matt wrote: > > I add this to /etc/rc.local > > /usr/sbin/ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org > > Sets the clock on start up. Might run it by cron once a month or so too. thats just the wrong way to go about it. if your clock is running fast, your cronjob will set it backwards, which

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-04 Thread Chuck Munro
On 03/04/2011 09:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 3/3/11 6:52 PM, Chuck Munro wrote: >> > >> > I've been on a real roller coaster ride getting a large virtual host up >> > and running. One troublesome thing I've discovered (the hard way) is >> > that the drivers for Marvell SAS/SATA chips st

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Matt
> Is there a package to do this? > > Normally the hardware clock is set during shutdown if one is running ntpd. > But if a long-running server shuts down unexpectedly, this isn't done, and > the hardware clock might be off by a lot when it comes back up. So setting > it periodically from a cron job

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Friday, March 04, 2011 09:48:03 am Simon Matter wrote: > I'm not sure that's true. You have to understand that at the same time > everybody should have worked on EL6.0, both EL5.6 and EL4.9 came out and > for very good reason those responsible for CentOS decided to build those > first. Just reme

[CentOS] KVM Question

2011-03-04 Thread William Warren
I'm curious exactly how KVM works. If i see things right it's virtualization that's still within a full base operating system load correct? How does KVM perform against VMware which uses a much smaller footprint? Is KVM really a hypervisor? I'm just trying figure out the basics of KVM..:)

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR.  LPAR can be > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU.   The software to manage this is > now called PowerVM (its b

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/04/11 11:59 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I'm looking forward to the new cgroups and KVM. This will give it >>> > some capabilities similar to AIX virtual partitions which can divvy >>> > up CPUs at a fine resolution. >> Really? So IBM ported VM into native AIX? I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) > have > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR. LPAR can be > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU. The software to manage this is > now called PowerVM (its b

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread compdoc
>the hardware clock might be off by a lot when it comes back up. If your server was set to use UTC time at install, the hardware clock will always be wrong. Check /etc/adjtime ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/04/11 11:59 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm looking forward to the new cgroups and KVM. This will give it >> > some capabilities similar to AIX virtual partitions which can divvy up >> > CPUs at a fine resolution. > Really? So IBM ported VM into native AIX? I missed that. IBM Power ser

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Kenneth Porter > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 14:15 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron > > Is there a package to do this? > > Normally the

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread James Nguyen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, wrote: > James Nguyen wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: >>> Brian, >>> Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your >>> reply. OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It > >> if th

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer wrote: > >> Personally, I'm really looking forward to Cluster 3 support. It will be >> fun to see how Pacemaker compares to rgmanager. >> >> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 >> when it is released? >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer wrote: > Personally, I'm really looking forward to Cluster 3 support. It will be > fun to see how Pacemaker compares to rgmanager. > > How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 > when it is released? I'm looking forward to the

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 1:18 PM, James Nguyen wrote: > > You want two boxes that run both haproxy + keepalived. This way you > get the load balancing (HAProxy) plus the high availability > (Keepalived) using a shared virtual IP for your two boxes. You can do > maintenance on either one while traffic still re

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM, James Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: >> Brian, >> Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your >> reply. >>> >>> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >>> handled sticky sessions

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
James Nguyen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: >> Brian, >> Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your >> reply. >>> >>> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It > if they think the solution requires a lot of CPU. Memory

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > But why do you need screen, then? >>> >>> Terminal multiplexing, session persistance, scrollback/logging, split >>> screen (top running in the top panel, shell underneath, etc.), workflow >>> organization (similar processes are grouped in a screen

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:12:45AM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Having issues installing Earth; /earth is 98% full ... please delete anyone you can. -- fortune file -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread James Nguyen
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Todd wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your > reply. >> >> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >> handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows >> dynamic add

[CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
Is there a package to do this? Normally the hardware clock is set during shutdown if one is running ntpd. But if a long-running server shuts down unexpectedly, this isn't done, and the hardware clock might be off by a lot when it comes back up. So setting it periodically from a cron job could b

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:11 AM -0500 Digimer > > wrote: > >> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in >> CentOS 6 >> when it is released? > > A new Ruby +1 Having issues installing Earth; http://open.rsp.com.au

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:11 AM -0500 Digimer wrote: > How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 > when it is released? A new Ruby so I can deploy a Diaspora "pod" for my friends, allowing them to escape Facebook. (I tried building Ruby from Rawhide but the

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-04 Thread David Sommerseth
On 03/03/11 00:41, Ross Walker wrote: [...snip...] > > This works with Xen or KVM, though the management and > compartmentalization of Xen helps. > > Does CentOS support the shared memory pages, memory dedup, in Xen? That > would allow for a lot more Linux VMs. I don't think the KSM support has b

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 8:15 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>> I do like the way gnome collapses the icons in the task bar when you >>> have enough of them - and pops up the list so you can see it. It >>> makes it easy to find the terminal session connected to some >>> particular remote host. >> >> WindowMaker ha

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:10 Fri 04 Mar, Sean Carolan (scaro...@gmail.com) wrote: > > In this case, you might want to conditionally assign some reasonable > > value on failure.  Say: > > > >    tput -T $TERM init >/dev/null 2>&1 || export TERM=xterm > > > > 'tset -q' is another test which can be used. > > The remote

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 08:15 Fri 04 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote: > On 3/4/11 12:15 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >> But why do you need screen, then? > > > > Terminal multiplexing, session persistance, scrollback/logging, split > > screen (top running in the top panel, shell underneath, etc.), workf

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
> > On Wed, March 2, 2011 20:43, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast >> as we possibly can? >> >> What, exactly, is the problem here? > > The problem here is fear. > > I am not now asking, nor to the best of my ability to recall have I > ever a

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread Digimer
On 03/04/2011 12:40 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > mark, *not* looking forward to a major upgrade of all these > machines Heh, neither am I. 5.5 is trucking along just fine on many though, so I don't expect to actually rebuild many. I'll probably roll out new machines as CentOS 6 once I f

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
David Sommerseth wrote: > On 04/03/11 16:59, Digimer wrote: >> On 03/04/2011 07:35 AM, carlopmart wrote: >>> On 03/04/2011 01:33 PM, Arun Khan wrote: I know this is the CentOS list. However, as there has been some interest in CentOS 6.0 (RHEL 6), I thought I'd share the news here. >

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Todd
Brian, Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your reply. OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It > handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows > dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes. >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > On Wed, March 2, 2011 20:43, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast >> as we possibly can? >> >> What, exactly, is the problem here? > > The problem here is fear. Your fear is not shared by me, in the least.

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread compdoc
>What part of KVM seems immature to you? I deploy public-facing >machines using both it and Xen, and I can't really speak to any >difference in performance or small-scall management. I like kvm - no issues ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > I need to restructure my server farm from tower PC:s to a minimal > amount of 1U rack servers. I am going to rely on xen virtualization, > as KVM seems not to be very mature yet. What part of KVM seems immature to you? I deploy public-facing machines us

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread David Sommerseth
On 04/03/11 16:59, Digimer wrote: > On 03/04/2011 07:35 AM, carlopmart wrote: >> On 03/04/2011 01:33 PM, Arun Khan wrote: >>> I know this is the CentOS list. However, as there has been some >>> interest in CentOS 6.0 (RHEL 6), I thought I'd share the news here. >>> >>> Scientific Linux 6 is based

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2

2011-03-04 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] HOW to REDIRECT to HTTPS?

2011-03-04 Thread James B. Byrne
> erikmccaskey64 wrote: >> I'm searching for a method [on client side] to redirect to HTTPS >> in a few given domains. Is this a browser issue? If so then I know that Firefox has at least two plugins that can be configured to force https on links to certain domains or subdomains. On is NoScrip

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
also I forgot to mention for heartbeat I use keepalived http://www.keepalived.org/ I found hearbeat a little difficult to implement but keepalived by comparison is a breeze to setup. Forget about multiple A records. That's a naive approach and entirely unnecessary. As other's have pointed out ju

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
>OK, so what's good? For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent. It > handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows > dynamic adding/removing of servers, as well as maintenance modes. > It's very easy to install and configure. I'm using is as the backend > to apache that

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 8:51 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 17:50, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> I almost never log in >> directly at a linux console anymore and if I need to do something from >> home or remotely, I just pick the session that was my last desktop at work. > > I didn't know you coul

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread Digimer
On 03/04/2011 07:35 AM, carlopmart wrote: > On 03/04/2011 01:33 PM, Arun Khan wrote: >> I know this is the CentOS list. However, as there has been some >> interest in CentOS 6.0 (RHEL 6), I thought I'd share the news here. >> >> Scientific Linux 6 is based on RHEL 6 with add-ons for scientific com

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, March 2, 2011 20:43, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast > as we possibly can? > > What, exactly, is the problem here? The problem here is fear. I am not now asking, nor to the best of my ability to recall have I ever asked, for when

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 06:55:56 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I thought a bit about that when posting earlier. I still disagree WRT > dual-booting. And no, virtualization doesn't need twice the hardware by > a long shot (aggregated load averaging, shared componentry, and a host > of other savin

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Sean Carolan
> In this case, you might want to conditionally assign some reasonable > value on failure.  Say: > >    tput -T $TERM init >/dev/null 2>&1 || export TERM=xterm > > 'tset -q' is another test which can be used. The remote host's $TERM variable is in fact xterm. When I connect to the screen session

Re: [CentOS] RFC: video call recommendations

2011-03-04 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, March 2, 2011 17:57, b.j. mcclure wrote: > +1 for Skype on CentOS 5.5, RHEL 6, and various flavors of Ubuntu. > > B.J. > CentOS 5.5, Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 athlon 17:56:31 up 13 days, > 22:24, > 1 user, load average: 0.67, 0.53, 0.43 > > So, how did you install Skype on CentOS-5.5? I

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Todd wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is > getting considerable traffic?  In the past I only have experience with BigIP > where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to > the best ser

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:33:20AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > > I do have one question about Cent OS 6. > > Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's > > over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 3, 2011, at 17:50, Les Mikesell wrote: > I almost never log in > directly at a linux console anymore and if I need to do something from > home or remotely, I just pick the session that was my last desktop at work. I didn't know you could do this with NX. I've been using VNC to connect t

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anyway, this was an information by the OP and by itself ok, although I guess everybody already knew it. But please try to refrain from making it another longwinding thread. Not aimed at anyone particular, you are just the last in the thread I have here. Thanks :-) Kai

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
Jason Brown wrote: > On 03/04/2011 08:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> robert mena wrote: >>> Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no >>> plans to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this >>> as personal project etc) the best way to simply for

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Jason Brown wrote: On 03/04/2011 08:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: robert mena wrote: Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no plans to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this as personal project etc) the best way to simply forget a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
> On 03/04/2011 08:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> robert mena wrote: >>> Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no >>> plans >>> to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this >>> as >>> personal project etc) the best way to simply forget about i

Re: [CentOS] kernel NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Friday, March 04, 2011 10:18:53 am sync wrote: > Hi , all : > > > Sometimes my server network connection on Linux goes down with short > message in syslog saying: "[localhost kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out" (or similar). > > By the way , I installed the CentOS 5.4 x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/11 12:15 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > >> I do like the way gnome collapses the icons in the task bar when you >> have enough of them - and pops up the list so you can see it. It >> makes it easy to find the terminal session connected to some >> particular remote host. > > WindowMaker has a

Re: [CentOS] kernel NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
sync wrote: > > Sometimes my server network connection on Linux goes down with short > message in syslog saying: "[localhost kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: > transmit timed out" (or similar). > > By the way , I installed the CentOS 5.4 x86_64 bit and the kernel version > was 2.6.18-164. > > Has a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
> On 3/4/11 5:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >>> I do have one question about Cent OS 6. >>> Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the >>> iso's >>> over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the >>>

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Todd wrote: >> >> Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that >> is getting considerable traffic? In the past I only have experience >> with BigIP where you have a load balancing device that keeps track >> and send tr

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 3/4/11, Les Mikesell wrote: > > I always liked the way you could NFS-install from a directory containing the > downloaded CD iso images but I could never get that to work with a dvd iso. > Is > there an equally easy way to install from a DVD image on a box without a DVD > drive? >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Jason Brown
On 03/04/2011 08:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > robert mena wrote: >> Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no plans >> to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this as >> personal project etc) the best way to simply forget about it. >> >> The s

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/11 5:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >> I do have one question about Cent OS 6. >> Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's >> over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the >> plan? As fa

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread m . roth
robert mena wrote: > Well, I am just telling that since there is no actual schedule, no plans > to change the way things are handled (lack of communication, treat this as > personal project etc) the best way to simply forget about it. > > The solution is good now and will be good whenever it appear

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.03.2011 13:50, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: > Re-install, not upgrade. Components with the same name compiled for > different systems will occur, and may wind up presenting fascinating > incompatibilities. Can you elaborate? RHEL5's and C5's packages were known to be interchangeable. Without

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Greg Bailey
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer wrote: > >> How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 >> when it is released? >> > > Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm > particularly looking forward to the bu

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:44:46AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Now, now, be nice. It's nice to know if another open source knowledge > has achieved a goal. It also provides an early testing platform for > people who want to run some behavior comparisons. For example, the > format of the "k

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Simon Matter > wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 systems to xen virtual stacks? Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm > particularly looking forward to the built-in chroot capabilities and > GSSAPI support in OpenSSH, and the major release improvements to git > and subversion. What does the new GSSA

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:35 AM, carlopmart wrote: >>> >> And?? Why do you want to start a new flame?? That was certainly not the intent. Pls. see below. > Now, now, be nice. It's nice to know if another open source knowledge > has achi

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: >>> Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 >>> systems to xen virtual stacks? >>> >>> Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine would tak

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2011/2/28 JD : >> Any word on approximate release date of Centos 6? >> >> Cheers, > > Scientific Linux already released version 6. take it and then upgrade > to centos, when it is available .. Re-install, not upgrade. Components with the sa

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >>     I do have one question about Cent OS 6. >> Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's >> over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the >

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:35 AM, carlopmart wrote: > On 03/04/2011 01:33 PM, Arun Khan wrote: >> I know this is the CentOS list.  However, as there has been some >> interest in CentOS 6.0 (RHEL 6), I thought I'd share the news here. >> >> Scientific Linux 6 is based on RHEL 6 with add-ons for scien

Re: [CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread carlopmart
On 03/04/2011 01:33 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > I know this is the CentOS list. However, as there has been some > interest in CentOS 6.0 (RHEL 6), I thought I'd share the news here. > > Scientific Linux 6 is based on RHEL 6 with add-ons for scientific computing. > > FWIW, the Admin tools etc. are prett

[CentOS] Scientific Linux 6.0 released (based on RHEL 6.0)

2011-03-04 Thread Arun Khan
I know this is the CentOS list. However, as there has been some interest in CentOS 6.0 (RHEL 6), I thought I'd share the news here. Scientific Linux 6 is based on RHEL 6 with add-ons for scientific computing. FWIW, the Admin tools etc. are pretty much the same as in RHEL, so are the base package

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Keith Keller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:49:37PM -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> I meant to note earlier:  the upstream NX developers have gone non-free, >> no? > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NX_technology#License Version 4, which is

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/04/2011 02:31 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 > systems to xen virtual stacks? > > Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine would take > plenty of work. I think I would use KVM guests and not Xen guests ... but

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > I do have one question about Cent OS 6. > Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's > over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the > plan? As far as when it's released, I say take all the tim

Re: [CentOS] Xen stack scheme

2011-03-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:37:08AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > On 4.3.2011 10.52, Simon Matter wrote: > > > I don't know if it's recommended that way but at least it works fine. > > > > Hm, that is kind of the only important thin

Re: [CentOS] kernel vulnerabilities

2011-03-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
the archive would have told you. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 4.3.2011 11.42, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > is pretty much like this: > > - ssh into the standalone system. Ok, thanks - that looks like a real how-to already. I will have to consider if I want to take the risk. With name server I would not bother, but with mail server maybe. - Jussi __

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 4.3.2011 11.42, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > is pretty much like this: > > - ssh into the standalone system. Ok, thanks - that looks like a real how-to already. I will have to consider if I want to take the risk. With name server I would not bother, but with mail server maybe. - Jussi __

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Matter
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 >> systems to xen virtual stacks? >> >> Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine would take >> plenty of work. >> > > If you're talking about Xen PV

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to xen guests

2011-03-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:31:18AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Is there any (easy?) way to migrate running standalone CentOS 4 or 5 > systems to xen virtual stacks? > > Rebuilding those systems from scratch on the xen machine would take > plenty of work. > If you're talking about Xen PV domUs,

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