Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:08:55 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > > > - Original Message > > From: Robert Heller > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Cc: centos@centos.org > > Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 11:58:46 AM > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea? > > > > At

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
> >>Is the only reasonable solution to schedule a "human cron" once a week >to look > >> at needed updates? Ouch. > > > > A middle-of-the-road approach is to have a machine or VM where you can > > test things, perhaps the one you use as your own desktop or for > > development, where

Re: [CentOS] How to set the hostname alias in DNS server

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/11 8:43 PM, sync wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell > wrote: > > On 4/6/11 8:18 PM, sync wrote: > > Hi ,all: > > > > > > There has a problem which confused me for a long time . The problem is > the > > follow

Re: [CentOS] How to set the hostname alias in DNS server

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 6:43 PM, sync wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell > wrote: > > On 4/6/11 8:18 PM, sync wrote: > > Hi ,all: > > > > > > There has a problem which confused me for a long time . The > problem is the > > follow

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/04/11 05:34, Les Mikesell wrote: >>Is the only reasonable solution to schedule a "human cron" once a week to >> look >> at needed updates? Ouch. > > A middle-of-the-road approach is to have a machine or VM where you can > test things, perhaps the one you use as your own desktop or for

Re: [CentOS] How to set the hostname alias in DNS server

2011-04-06 Thread sync
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/6/11 8:18 PM, sync wrote: > > Hi ,all: > > > > > > There has a problem which confused me for a long time . The problem is > the > > following: > > > > Would I can set the hostname alias in DNS server? > > > > That's to say, for example ,

Re: [CentOS] Printers, aka an old time sysadmin

2011-04-06 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 16:22 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Where - the CentOS wiki? Sure , why not? It's as good a place as any, but since you're talking about your efforts in a CentOS mailing list, I think it's most fitting to post your experience on the CentOS wiki. :) Regards, Ranbir --

Re: [CentOS] How to set the hostname alias in DNS server

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/11 8:18 PM, sync wrote: > Hi ,all: > > > There has a problem which confused me for a long time . The problem is the > following: > > Would I can set the hostname alias in DNS server? > > That's to say, for example , if my hostname is called server, that it's ip > address is 127.0.0.1 > an

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/11 6:17 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS > on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear. > I thought I did that a long time ago. Put the small boot.img file that is in the /images on the CD or DVD isos on a USB drive

[CentOS] How to set the hostname alias in DNS server

2011-04-06 Thread sync
Hi ,all: There has a problem which confused me for a long time . The problem is the following: Would I can set the hostname alias in DNS server? That's to say, for example , if my hostname is called server, that it's ip address is 127.0.0.1 and I want to alias another name called aaa Gerne

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
- Original Message > From: Robert Heller > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: centos@centos.org > Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 11:58:46 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea? > > At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:35:47 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list > >wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Digimer
On 04/06/2011 05:59 PM, Hendrik wrote: > Do you notice nothing? Or is that the Indian mentality? What? Mods? Clean up in aisle 3. -- Digimer E-Mail: digi...@alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ian Murray wrote: > I'll help you out (and bring it back on topic), likewise: your Linux > distribution rebuild project is broken. Was that any help to you? Am I > pointing you in the right way? Please join the dots to figure where it is > going wrong...? Oh, you don't even see the problem, do you

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Hendrik wrote: > > Do you notice nothing? Or is that the Indian mentality? Take your racist crap elsewhere; it's unwanted here. John -- Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expedie

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
This whole thread is completely unnecessary, it's all on the net. And it's not the first time that you ask things here that you could have easily researched yourself within a few minutes. Please stop abusing this list for your lazyness. Kai ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live CD (on a USB stick), >>> and I don't see a Network Install option anywhere. > >> Try hitting the space bar during the Automatic boot countdown screen. >> That should give you the boot menu with the option to do the networ

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Hendrik wrote: > > Or is that the Indian mentality? I hope that you're banned for this racist comment. (And as an added bonus, we'll be rid of someone who's making a mess of message threading and the mail archive.) ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ian Murray wrote: >> On 04/06/2011 09:30 PM, Ian Murray wrote: >> >>> As previously stated, "in-reply-to" isn't a mandatory field as far as I can >>> tell, so it is a stretch to call it "broken". However, now that someone >>> actually stopped the time-wasting and told me the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 11:37 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >> And you do not seem to provide me with the answers. Same old, same old. > > Actually, i dont need to provide *you* with anything :) Correct, but if you claim I don't know anything about the issues, the probl

Re: [CentOS] File-system Corruption

2011-04-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 6, 2011, at 6:06 AM, James Bensley wrote: > Hi List, > > I suppose this isn't strictly CentOS but I'm talking about some 5.5 > servers so I thought someone else here may have had the same issues; > > We power on servers at night via IPMI and shut them down the same way > for automation.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
> > On 04/06/2011 09:30 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > > As previously stated, "in-reply-to" isn't a mandatory field as far as I can > > tell, so it is a stretch to call it "broken". However, now that someone >actually > > stopped the time-wasting and told me the issue precisely, I was able to >re

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 11:37 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > And you do not seem to provide me with the answers. Same old, same old. Actually, i dont need to provide *you* with anything :) But i disagree on the same old. Its definitely the same old from you. On the other hand, how many qa tests have you written

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
yOn Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 09:53 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >>> That's not hard to do - stop reading them then. >> >> And once again we are avoiding a proper solution. > > No, once again you dont understand the issues, the problem or the > efforts going into the solution

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 09:30 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > As previously stated, "in-reply-to" isn't a mandatory field as far as I can > tell, so it is a stretch to call it "broken". However, now that someone > actually > stopped the time-wasting and told me the issue precisely, I was able to > rectify > it rat

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 10:59 PM, Hendrik wrote: > Do you notice nothing? Or is that the Indian mentality? > I could try and explain, but its beyond your ability to comprehend. And I have better things to do with my time than blow fresh air at morons. Also, your email client is broken - get something whi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Hendrik
2011/4/6 Karanbir Singh : > On 04/06/2011 09:53 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >>> That's not hard to do - stop reading them then. >> >> And once again we are avoiding a proper solution. >> > > No, once again you dont understand the issues, the problem or the > efforts going into the solution. > > Really, t

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 2:07 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: > Ridiculous is you answer suggesting you read the documentation is ridiculous? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/05/2011 08:47 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > > "What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?" For me, that would be kernel version 2.6.32. I have hardware and software that needs a kernel a lot newer than the 2.6.18 kernel in CentOS 5.6. I would dearly love to get off the Fedora roller coaster

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 09:53 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >> That's not hard to do - stop reading them then. > > And once again we are avoiding a proper solution. > No, once again you dont understand the issues, the problem or the efforts going into the solution. Really, try stopping reading for a few weeks. Yo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 09:57 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > But there's no problem with all of these things where people can help > already. The wiki is working fine, the mailinglist is helping people, I > never heard anyone complain about this. There is no problem that people can help there, sure - but how many

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:17 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > On 6.4.2011 22:03, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:58 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero > >> wrote: > - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? > >>> I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 07:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? >> I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping >> by at the -devel list. > > Thats a very good questi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/2011 3:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a >>> backend to have an ac

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
yOn Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/04/2011 11:14 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: >> Nobody else really can give an update, the process is pretty much closed >> to the general public. So if the only person why can provide information >> is off by 2 months, I'd rather have no information at al

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all >>> that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a >> backend to >>> have an actual DB, scripting backend and such... >> >> Ah, yes,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
> On 04/06/2011 03:19 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > >> firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. > > Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. > > mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use > mailclients that can honour that. If yours cant and you p

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Markus Falb
On 6.4.2011 22:03, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:58 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero >> wrote: - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? >>> I'm using vsftpd >> >> Just edit vsftpd.conf and restart ftp >> # Allow a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message > From: Kai Schaetzl > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Wed, 6 April, 2011 17:15:27 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update? > > Your mail is broken because it doesn't contain correct threading headers > (In-Reply-To). Because of that it just threads "everywhere" in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all >> that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a > backend to >> have an actual DB, scripting backend and such... > > Ah, yes, sort of like, well, a real v

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
[Ah! Peter! Back from the loonybin I see we're still using the sun QFE boards and the Ex500 CPU cards, thanks again] On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:48:14 PM Peter A wrote: > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > > Pipe dream: MultiVersion Concurrency Control, like

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/6/2011 1:16 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > There are other issues with XFS and 32-bit; see: > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3364 > and > http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov/msg05347.html > and google for 'XFS 32-bit 4K stacks' for more of the gory details. Tha

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 01:27:10 PM Warren Young wrote: > Legacy is hard. Next time someone tells you they can't use the latest > and greatest for some reason, you might take them at their word. Yes, it is. To give another for instance, we do work with some interfaces for telescopes (opti

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:58 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero > wrote: > >> - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? > > I'm using vsftpd > > Just edit vsftpd.conf and restart ftp > # Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default) > anonymous_enable=NO >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
instead, what I think would make more sense would be a modified repo architecture where the current repoinfo file is versioned, and there's a master file which refers to the name of the 'current' version. so, to update the repo, you first copy all the new packages, and the new versioned repoinf

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread m . roth
Peter A wrote: > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: >> > On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> > > I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. >> > >> > I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd d

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potentialdisaster

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/6/2011 12:25 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > Don't scream: I'm using RedHat 7.3 for related reasons. Yep, we've still got a bunch of those running in the field, too, and many older besides. We still build new boxes using CentOS 3, also for legacy compatibility reasons. > can a 64-bit sys

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Peter A
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: > > On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. > > > > I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some us

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/2011 1:35 PM, email builder wrote: > Hello, > >As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my > system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of "yum-cron", but > I'd > like to know what people feel about the use of automatic updates. > >That is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. > > I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some users will be > in process with an update under 1 state while the repo

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 01:16:19 PM Warren Young wrote: > I expect they added some checks for this since you last tried XFS on 32-bit. > > Perhaps it wasn't clear from what I wrote, but the big partition on this > system is actually 15.9mumble TB, just to be sure we don't even get 1 > byte

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 email builder said the following on 06/04/11 20:35: > Is the only reasonable solution to schedule a "human cron" once a week to > look > at needed updates? Ouch. I use "human cron". I have a CenOS server at home and I follow CentOS and other so

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:35:47 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hello, > > As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my > system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of "yum-cron", but > I'd > like to know what people feel about the use of

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Baird, Josh
If you don't want your system to break unexpectedly, do not enable automatic updates; especially if you are running any packages with non-standard configurations. In some cases, with bare packages and stock configurations, automatic updates may prove to be a viable and SEMI-safe solution. But, if

[CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
Hello, As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of "yum-cron", but I'd like to know what people feel about the use of automatic updates. That is, for a server (non-desktop) system, automatic updates co

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some users will be in process with an update under 1 state while the repo switches to the new state, even if that state switch is instantaneous.

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 11:08 AM, Warren Young wrote: > I already ran the two-server idea past the decision makers. It was > rejected, even though this server I just built is going to replace an > existing one purely to add the extra storage, and so it could have just > acted as a storage side-car to the exis

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potentialdisaster

2011-04-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > On 6.4.2011 17:27, Warren Young wrote: >> On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: >>> Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat >>> libraries exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you >>> really *really* need 32-bit. >> >> Yes, thank

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
> > It does look like updates are happening, but it's not clear to me by > > whom. > > do_update is set to "no", but notification is by "dbus", so I assumed > > that > > "dbus" is notifying another process to do the actual updates. Is > there > > a way I > > can track that down? > > > > > A

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
> > then the outstanding question is how to figure out why certain > > packages are not being updated. > > Well, first action: did you actually check with the repo that there is a > newer package? Yes. I'm not sure why would you think otherwise...? > Just because a package isn't updated

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/6/2011 11:40 AM, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: > > Just a shot in the darkbut can't you have a x86_64 NFS server export > a fs larger then 16TB and mount that on your x86 machine for use with > your application? I already ran the two-server idea past the decision makers. It was rejected

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
> > Do you know how to determine which repo a particular package is from? For > > example, when I do "yum info" against clamav (which isn't receiving >automatic > > > updates), it just says "Repo: installed". I don't know what repo it comes >from. > > > "yum list clamav --showduplicate

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
On 6.4.2011 17:27, Warren Young wrote: > On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: >> Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries >> exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really* >> need 32-bit. > Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talk

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: > > Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries > exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really* > need 32-bit. Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talking about when I wrote that we had a hard

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/5/2011 11:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> Dropping to 16.37 TB on the RAID configuration by switching to >> RAID-6 let us put almost the entire array under a single 16 TB XFS >> filesystem. > > You really, really, really don't want to do this. Actually, it seems that you can't do it any more. I

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Hecking
> This does not mean it's not supported it's just not in the pci-id database. > You could try to update just the pci-db with: > # update-pciids Cool! 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection (rev 01) > We've used 82599 on the normal 5.5 kernel

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 06:04:15 pm Lars Hecking wrote: > Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all > the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was > updated, not which devices was added. > > This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Lars Hecking wrote: > >> Looking at the 5.6 kernel source (2.6.18-238), the file >> drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h has the line: >> >> #define IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_T3_LOM        0x151C >> >> which part of the patch: >> >> linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-update-to-upstream-version

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Hecking
> Looking at the 5.6 kernel source (2.6.18-238), the file > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h has the line: > > #define IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_T3_LOM0x151C > > which part of the patch: > > linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-update-to-upstream-version-2-0-84-k2.patch I'll need to test it once available, b

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread James Pearson
Lars Hecking wrote: > Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the > RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, > not which devices was added. > > This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest > driver

Re: [CentOS] [OT: threading] WAS: Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 03:52 PM, Trutwin, Joshua wrote: > Says the guy sending this email in Outhouse > yes your mail client is broken too. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/thread.html to see what that does. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] [OT: threading] WAS: Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joshua Trutwin wrote on Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:52:23 +: > Some clients also thread by subject by default, I usually use claws > mail for ML stuff as it's threading is excellent. Threading by subject works only in small threads with few people. The client doesn't know to which message the reply b

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Your mail is broken because it doesn't contain correct threading headers (In-Reply-To). Because of that it just threads "everywhere" in this thread. For instance, for me, your message was threaded to Russell Jones' because it came in after his mail. Use a decent email program and the problem is

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Simon Matter
> > Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all > the > RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was > updated, > not which devices was added. > > This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest > driver from the Intel

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 05:04 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: > > Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the > RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, > not which devices was added. In about 4 hrs time you should be able to check for yoursel

Re: [CentOS] OFFTOPIC :: IB hardware choice

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 03:02:16 pm Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > 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 G

[CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Hecking
Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest driver from the Intel web site works

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 09:47:49 AM Mister IT Guru wrote: > I agree people > should stop asking about when 6 will be ready. Also, stop asking about > 5.6 and 4.9? *please correct my post if I'm wrong* Yeah, no reason at all to ask about 4.9, since it's already released. And reports show that 5

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:06:54 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 03:02 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay! But, I cannot > > get it to install. A "yum update" and a "yum --skip-broken" > > yields me this: > you need to wait for 5.6 to actua

Re: [CentOS] [OT: threading] WAS: Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
> > >> firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. > > > Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. > > > > mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people > > use mailclients that can honour that. If yours cant and you prefer not > > to change it- perhaps consi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:22:33 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 03:19 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > >> firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. > > Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. > > mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 03:19 PM, Ian Murray wrote: >> firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. > Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use mailclients that can honour that. If yours cant and you prefer not to cha

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
> > firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. Aside from that, if you tell me what you perceive to be the problem, perhaps stand a chance to fix the issue. If it is genuinely a client issue, then please give me something to send bac

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
KB, please don't top post. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > > you need to wait for 5.6 to actually be released > > - KB > > On 04/06/2011 03:02 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay! But, I cannot >> get it to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Gilbert Sebenste >Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:03 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error > >Any ideas? All the packages seem to b

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
you need to wait for 5.6 to actually be released - KB On 04/06/2011 03:02 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello all, > > Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay! But, I cannot > get it to install. A "yum update" and a "yum --skip-broken" > yields me this: > > --> Processing Conflict: firef

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of email builder > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 19:41 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades > > > It does look like updates are happeni

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
Hello all, Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay! But, I cannot get it to install. A "yum update" and a "yum --skip-broken" yields me this: --> Processing Conflict: firefox conflicts xulrunner >= 1.9.2.14 --> Finished Dependency Resolution firefox-3.6.13-2.el5.centos.i386 from installed h

Re: [CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Michael Zoet wrote: > > Am Mi, 6.04.2011, 14:51 schrieb Markus Falb: >> On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote: >>> Hi to all, >>> >>> I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu >>> 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso i

Re: [CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Zoet
Am Mi, 6.04.2011, 14:51 schrieb Markus Falb: > On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote: >> Hi to all, >> >> I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu >> 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct >> copy from website downlod.) I can start Cent

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Russell Jones
A bigger number? :-) On 4/6/2011 7:52 AM, compdoc wrote: >> "What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?" > indeed > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread compdoc
>"What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?" indeed ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Markus Falb
On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote: > Hi to all, > > I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu > 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct > copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even > do some disk checks.

[CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Zoet
Hi to all, I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says "no CDROm

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. On 04/06/2011 12:55 PM, Ian Murray wrote: >> Its easy to fixate on the idea of CentOS being the distro and the distro >> alone - however, a very large part of what the users see value in is the >> user base around CentOS - and focuse

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 5.4.2011 21.49, compdoc wrote: >> For reasons of speed and ease of maintenance and backups, what I've settled >> on is: a small separate drive for the host to boot from, a small separate >> drive for the guest OSes (I like using qcow2 on WD Raptors), and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
> Thats a very good question, and something more people should be asking > : here is a terse reply : adopt a part of the distro, contribute tests > and take ownership of driving support for those components forward ( so, > wiki content, support in irc channels and support for users on those >

Re: [CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD ( Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - > From:Kai Schaetzl > > > This thread or others like it will continue > > wrong. It will continue as long people bite. Stop biting the bait! > > Kai Oh, the irony Likewise. Somebody will still keep coming onto ask the questions, esp. non-regular list use

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
William Hooper wrote: >> I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live CD (on a USB stick), >> and I don't see a Network Install option anywhere. > Try hitting the space bar during the Automatic boot countdown screen. > That should give you the boot menu with the option to do the network > ins

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 10:57 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Ah! I like the sound of this. This can be a start. What I understand by > this, is adopt a package, test it out, and update the community via > wiki, hanging in the IRC channels and answering questions on the mailing > list. ... amongst other things.

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/6 Tracy Reed : > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:13:01PM -0700, John R Pierce spake thusly: >> ZFS isn't GPL, therefore can't be integrated into the kernel where a >> file system belongs, therefore is pretty much relegated to user space > > It can be patched in by the end user. So if someone were

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