[CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-23 Thread Todd Cary
I plan to make my current Centos 4 HD a slave and install Centos 5.5 on a new HD (master). Then comes the challenge of of moving all of my /home/"user" data to the new master. I have some preliminary questions: Is this a good strategy for installing Centos 5.5: keep the Centos 4 on a slave d

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Kampen
Sam Trenholme wrote: * As mentioned before, Scientific Linux 6.0 is out. What hasn't been mentioned here is that while SL 5.6 hasn't come out, 5.6 security updates are being backported to SL 5.5. Ditto with SL 4 (no 4.9 but security patches look current) And we try very hard not to rel

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Sam Trenholme
>> * As mentioned before, Scientific Linux 6.0 is out.  What hasn't been >> mentioned here is that while SL 5.6 hasn't come out, 5.6 security >> updates are being backported to SL 5.5.  Ditto with SL 4 (no 4.9 but >> security patches look current) >> > And we try very hard not to release things unt

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 23.03.2011 19:33, schrieb admin lewis: > Thanks very much to all, now I have understood.. > anyway it's a perc s300.. I see I can make a virtual disk read-only... > very interesting.. well .. to have a /boot partition read-only is a > non-sense... > thanks to all again... someone has told "goog

Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Todd Cary wrote: > Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my Centos 4 box up and > working, however I do have a question on how the repair actually worked. > > After starting the Linux Repair, the process "found my installed Linux". > Some of you wil

Re: [CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

2011-03-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Use fence_manual ... but it is not supported officially by TUV in >production environments ... Do not use that... How does that actually fence the offending node when it needs to? The concept of fencing is for the preservation of data integrity, circumventing it with a manual fence is useful on

[CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-23 Thread Todd Cary
Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my Centos 4 box up and working, however I do have a question on how the repair actually worked. After starting the Linux Repair, the process "found my installed Linux". Some of you will remember that I had accidentally erased the /boot an

Re: [CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

2011-03-23 Thread carlopmart
On 03/23/2011 11:19 PM, Machin, Greg wrote: > Hi. > > I’m new to configuring Clustering . > > The CentOS 5.5 guest machines will be running on ESXi 4.1 . I’m > configuring the clustering using “Conga” . I see that there is support > for using ESX to do the fencing. The problem I have is that the gu

[CentOS] ESXi 4.1 and Cluster Fencing

2011-03-23 Thread Machin, Greg
Hi. I'm new to configuring Clustering . The CentOS 5.5 guest machines will be running on ESXi 4.1 . I'm configuring the clustering using "Conga" . I see that there is support for using ESX to do the fencing. The problem I have is that the guest machines are not allowed to have access the "manag

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Ok, I won't argue with that; a "it fails in this scenario" overrides > a "it works for me". I will add though, that were it got into the state > described above was where I was able to recover it by using the reset > button. You might want to try that next time instead of the cable > disconnec

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-23 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 03:19:49 AM + Miguel Medalha > wrote: > >> The D-Links are NOT suitable for professional use. I used one of their >> models and it hanged on me multiple times. Because it is powered by the >> keyboard/mouse/

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Active Directory authentication

2011-03-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Michael B Allen wrote: Yes, but using the machine principal you're able to request any number of service principals that are SERVICENAME/.  For this to work in a virtual hosting environment, you need multiple machine names (since we're talking about making a number of HTTP/

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread admin lewis
2011/3/23 John R Pierce : > On 03/23/11 10:40 AM, admin lewis wrote: >> Hi, >> this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I >> booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there >> something I miss ? > > does that system have some form of PERC raid controller?

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > It is just hard for an outsider to reconcile the statements about the > build process not needing any changes or more resources with the lack of > a target time. Or that binary compatibility is the critical thing with > the distribution becoming incompat

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/23/2011 10:40 AM, R P Herrold wrote: > > Sometimes looking at the list and the posts, I feel like I am > watching a group of nuns, talking (speculating) about the life > issues of Las Vegas showgirls The showgirls are picky about who they let under the covers. So I suppose we have to wait f

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/23/11 10:40 AM, admin lewis wrote: > Hi, > this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I > booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there > something I miss ? does that system have some form of PERC raid controller? you need to go into the PERC Bio

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread Alain Péan
Le 23/03/2011 18:40, admin lewis a écrit : > Hi, > this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I > booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there > something I miss ? > thanks very much for any help > luigi What have you as Raid Controller ? H200, H700, so

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 18:40 Wed 23 Mar, admin lewis (adminle...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I > booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there > something I miss ? > thanks very much for any help 1: Comfirm your boot menu settings 2:

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Kampen
admin lewis wrote: Hi, this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there something I miss ? Have you configured any raid disk controllers in the bios first? This is a very common question - servers with RAID

[CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011-03-23 Thread admin lewis
Hi, this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there something I miss ? thanks very much for any help luigi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 09:56:34 am Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> Understood. I'd like to replicate or examine the error. "Building it >> yourself", without that access to your unique build environment or a >> way to gracefully replicate it,

Re: [CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:34:10 +0530 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Am trying to build SMP kernel. You do know that the *stock* CentOS 5.x kernels (2.6.18-...) are already built as SMP kernels? That is, under RHEL 5/CentOS 5 you don't even get uniprocessor kernels, unless you bui

[CentOS] how can we help? was: Re: The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, cornel panceac wrote: > 2011/3/23 R P Herrold > >> This comes and goes, and really there is no substitute for actually >> 'doing' rather than >> talking in the cloister > as i see it, the problem is while the users expectation has grown, the work > became harder. ehhh? It

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-23 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 03:19:49 AM + Miguel Medalha wrote: > The D-Links are NOT suitable for professional use. I used one of their > models and it hanged on me multiple times. Because it is powered by the > keyboard/mouse/video connectors, the only way to recover it is to > physicall

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 09:56:34 am Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Understood. I'd like to replicate or examine the error. "Building it > yourself", without that access to your unique build environment or a > way to gracefully replicate it, represents dozens or hundreds of > man-hours for each con

[CentOS] how can we help? was: Re: The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread cornel panceac
2011/3/23 R P Herrold > This comes and goes, and really there is no substitute for actually > 'doing' rather than > talking in the cloister > > as i see it, the problem is while the users expectation has grown, the work became harder. so i believe the real question is: how can we help the CentOS

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 73, Issue 4

2011-03-23 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] OFFTOPIC :: IB hardware choice

2011-03-23 Thread Tony Placilla
Hi! I would need an advice from those that use IB (as admins :) ) i have a choice between : 1. Mellanox InfiniHost(r) III Lx HCA card, single-port CX4, DDR, PCIe x8, mem-free, tall bracket, RoHS R5 2. QLogic Single Port 20 Gb InfiniBand to x16 PCI Express Adapter (Single Pack) aside the price

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: > It takes hours to analyze all the packages in a build ... I do not have > hours to spend on doing it for SL ... but here is another error that I > found in the SL tree when figuring out build issues in the CentOS 5.6 tree: Which is why opening the proce

[CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > Building the kernel shouldn't be an issue - but look at the > SL notes on the srpms that don't build with the listed > dependencies as shipped - and they aren't being picky about > the library linkages matching the RH binaries like CentOS > is. > If

Re: [CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > sri wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am trying to build SMP kernel. >> Took kernel-2.6.18-194.src.rpm, extracted, rpmbuilded with SMP option. >> Successfully compile the new kernel and when using that kernel to boot >> up, following errors were sh

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, March 21, 2011 07:53:04 pm Max Hetrick wrote: > If anyone is using Thunderbird, there's a handy add-on called Remove > Duplicate Messages on Mozilla's add-on site. As a pointer, the kmail I'm using, from within Kontact, also can do de-duplication; click 'Folder' then 'Remove Duplicate

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:22:36AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: >> >> CentOS 4.8 (95 days late) and CentOS 5.3 (69 days late) have been the worst >> delays. But now CentOS 5.6 is already at 69 days and CentOS 6.0 is past >> 133 days delay, an all time rec

Re: [CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-23 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
sri wrote: > Hi, > > Am trying to build SMP kernel. > Took kernel-2.6.18-194.src.rpm, extracted, rpmbuilded with SMP option. > Successfully compile the new kernel and when using that kernel to boot > up, following errors were shown up(highlighted in bold & red color): > My kernel config file has AC

[CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-23 Thread sri
Hi, Am trying to build SMP kernel. Took kernel-2.6.18-194.src.rpm, extracted, rpmbuilded with SMP option. Successfully compile the new kernel and when using that kernel to boot up, following errors were shown up(highlighted in bold & red color): My kernel config file has ACPI and PCI configs enabl

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Balaji > wrote: > Dear All, > > Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is > 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 > > DRBD is build from source and Configured DRBD with 2 > Finally found that

[CentOS] OFFTOPIC :: IB hardware choice

2011-03-23 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Hi! I would need an advice from those that use IB (as admins :) ) i have a choice between : 1. Mellanox InfiniHost® III Lx HCA card, single-port CX4, DDR, PCIe x8, mem-free, tall bracket, RoHS R5 2. QLogic Single Port 20 Gb InfiniBand to x16 PCI Express Adapter (Single Pack) aside the price is t

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/23/2011 07:53 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> Ouch. Johnny, I'd really like to replicate this error, but I just >> don't have the visibility into your build configurations. Saying "it's >> easy to do yourself" doesn't work, because the

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: block count)

2011-03-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Balaji wrote: > Dear All, > > Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD > Version is 8.3.10 > > DRBD is build from source and Configured DRBD with 2 Node testing with > Simplex Setup > Server 1 : 192.168.13.131 IP Address and h

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is > 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 We're pretty much unable to help because yours is a RHEL6 system, we're stuck at RHEL5.5 until our team gets R

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >> On 3/22/11 7:38 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> You missed my point to the poster.  While Centos is my defacto >>> production OS, he mentioned switching to Ubuntu which is nothing >>> like RHEL.

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > On 3/22/11 7:38 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> You missed my point to the poster. While Centos is my defacto >> production OS, he mentioned switching to Ubuntu which is nothing >> like RHEL. >> >> So I thought instead of going with such a diff paradigm,

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/23/2011 07:53 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> >> And then looking at the reason for the fails: >> >> Differing package requirements certmonger-0.30-4.el5.x86_64.rpm.out: >> --- work/SL-req 2011-03-23 02:53:25.0 -0500

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sam Trenholme > wrote: >> >> As an open-source developer, I understand the frustration of working >> hard and having a lot of freeloaders not appreciating my work. I feel >> people posting here talking about how unpr

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > And then looking at the reason for the fails: > > Differing package requirements certmonger-0.30-4.el5.x86_64.rpm.out: > --- work/SL-req         2011-03-23 02:53:25.0 -0500 > +++ work/RHEL-req       2011-03-23 02:53:25.0 -0

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: block count)

2011-03-23 Thread Lucian
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:07 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and >> DRBD Version is 8.3.10 >> >> I don't know what is the problem and Can some one throw light on this >> peculia

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: block count)

2011-03-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: > Dear All, > > Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD > Version is 8.3.10 > > I don't know what is the problem and Can some one throw light on this > peculiar problem > > Please replay me ASAP. the problem is, thats a RED

Re: [CentOS] Some relevant information

2011-03-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/22/2011 08:37 AM, Sam Trenholme wrote: > Hello everyone: > > * DNS does not have a "refresh rate". In DNS, the person running the > domain determines what the "refresh rate" (it's called TTL in DNS) for > their records is; for example, Google has a TTL of "once per hour" and > my domains (m

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sam Trenholme wrote: > > As an open-source developer, I understand the frustration of working > hard and having a lot of freeloaders not appreciating my work. I feel > people posting here talking about how unprofessional CentOS is acting > are completely missing th

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 06:45:46AM +, Ned Slider wrote: > > I see time-lines clearly published in this FAQ on the CentOS website: Trimmed for brevity. > "This will normally be within 2 weeks of the Update Set release." > > The above FAQ creates an expectation of 2 weeks being the no