Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 07/26/2011 02:07 PM, Mike Burger wrote: >> But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering >> effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new >> deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by >> NOT supporting such explicitly, the upstream avoids much >> sup

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 07/26/2011 01:32 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: > >> If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports >> such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to >> list additional repositories for remote installation as pa

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 07/25/2011 10:10 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it > and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. > > I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically > swapped and rotated offsite. The filesystem conta

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:07:36AM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: > > But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering > > effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new > > deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by >

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: > >> If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports >> such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to >> list additional repositories for remote installation as part of the >> process), they could certainl

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:05 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Craig White wrote: > > > you made a vacuous argument. > > Hunh. You are ** still ** trolling here [arguing against > package management] and on this thread [C 6 matters], Craig? > > I thot back on June 13 you said her

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: > If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports > such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to > list additional repositories for remote installation as part of the > process), they could certainly make i

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

> Am 24.07.2011 14:04, schrieb Always Learning: >> >> The challenge is how to do an easily transition from one major version >> to its successor version with the least physical, emotional, >> intellectual and time-consuming effort. > > Paul, > > as much as I understand your point of view, I must d

[CentOS] tabs in emacs fundamental mode?

I'm noticing that under CentOS 6, emacs fundamental mode is no longer inserting tabs at factor-of-8 tabstops, but rather is doing some funky guess-the-intended-tab-distance thing like text mode has done for a while, currently using three spaces per tab key. Has anyone tracked down where this was

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

On 07/25/11 4:41 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo. This > works just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being > ignored. I have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet > > zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/lib/zabbix/bi

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > > I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo.  This works > just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored.  I > have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet > zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/li

Re: [CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

Correction, seems to be broken in 5.6 as well...I also had this interesting argument with sudo... # visudo -c -f /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet >>> /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet: syntax error near line 0 <<< parse error in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet near line 0 (((NOTE: I made absolutely no change

[CentOS] Sudo #includedir function ignored CentOS 6

I am unable to get the #includedir function to work with sudo. This works just fine on all my CentOS 5.6 servers, but on 6 it is being ignored. I have this line in the file /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix-puppet zabbix ALL=NOPASSWD: /var/lib/zabbix/bin/start_puppet However sudo still requires a password.

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 07/25/11 3:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdh1 1 91201 732572001 fd Linux raid autodetect > > It doesn't need to boot. And the 3rd member doesn't need to > autodetect, although I do want to be able to mount it independ

[CentOS] CentOS6 on EC2

Anyone successfully got CentOS6 running on EC2. We have bundled a pvgrub image but get to "Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver." and the system stops outputting? -- Thanks, Richard Shade Integration Engineer RightScale - http://www.rightscale.com/ phone: 8055004164x1018

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 7/25/2011 5:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/25/11 2:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > where is your existing partition starting? > > if its on a track or cylinder boundary... then sure, you can m

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 07/25/11 2:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes where is your existing partition starting? if its on a track or cylinder boundary... then sure, you can move it forward by using something that will let you

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 07/25/2011 10:49 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > The context for the issue was someone moving from 5.x to 6.x. Still normal procedures apply: port to the new platform and/or rebuild for the new platform, test on the new platform, rinse & repeat, verify, give seal of approval, package and finally de

Re: [CentOS] nfsv4 and kerberos - fails to mount

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:58 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: > Rob Kampen wrote: > > On 07/19/2011 04:43 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: > >> Rob Kampen wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> nfs4 with kerberos works fine here on CentOS 5.6. > >> > >>> change exports to > >>> [...]gss/krb([...] > >>> [...]gss/krb([...

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 7/25/2011 4:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/25/11 2:17 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> The disk I want to add is the same size as the existing disks if >> expressed in 512 byte sectors - and they have one partition taking all >> of the disk space. If I add a leading offset to get the 4k alignmen

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 07/25/11 2:17 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > The disk I want to add is the same size as the existing disks if > expressed in 512 byte sectors - and they have one partition taking all > of the disk space. If I add a leading offset to get the 4k alignment, > there won't be enough room for the existing

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 7/25/2011 4:05 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >>> >>> I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with >>> hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with >>> a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved aro

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

Jerry Geis wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: >> Jerry Geis wrote: >> I finally see in /var/log/messages (which I looked at first) that the >> error. prefdm is respawning too fast... > WOW - after following the scripts prefdm -> gdm - somehow gdm was not > even installed. > Not sure how that can be with

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

> On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> >> I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with >> hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with >> a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed >> without running into hard-link

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

On 2011-07-25 22:37, Jerry Geis wrote: > prefdm is respawning too fast Most likely Xorg is crashing. You are in runlevel 5, therefor prefdm continues to try and respawn. Check the log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and then correct what's wrong. Could be dr5iver issue. __

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

Jerry Geis wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: >> >>> >>> actually i tried that. it does start. >>> it just doesnt start automatically. >>> i can start it manually jerry >>> >> >> One centos 6 >> I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf >> >> In it there is "exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" >> >> When I run this by han

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 7/25/2011 3:34 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > >> My condition in that case was that you couldn't count on the RPM to work >> anyway once the distribution changes. So you'll likely be repeating >> that extra effort anyway. > > Not sure what you mean with "once the distribution changes" but within a

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

Jerry Geis wrote: > >> >> actually i tried that. it does start. >> it just doesnt start automatically. >> i can start it manually jerry >> > > One centos 6 > I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf > > In it there is "exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" > > When I run this by hand all it does is log me out - no

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 07/25/2011 07:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: [snip] > My condition in that case was that you couldn't count on the RPM to work > anyway once the distribution changes. So you'll likely be repeating > that extra effort anyway. Not sure what you mean with "once the distribution changes" but within a

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS 6] what really starts x11

> > actually i tried that. it does start. > it just doesnt start automatically. > i can start it manually > jerry > One centos 6 I found /etc/init/prefdm.conf In it there is "exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" When I run this by hand all it does is log me out - no X windows starting up. This is

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On 7/25/2011 1:42 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > > I've wondered many times, though haven't tried it, if the issues with > hard links and backuppc could be solved by using a container file with > a loopback mount, and then that file could be moved around as needed > without running into hard-link issues

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it > and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. > > I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically > swapped and rotated offsite.  The filesyst

Re: [CentOS] what really starts x11

lists-centos wrote: > switch inittab to 3. that will get you a line-mode login. after > logging in, issue the command "startx" and debug from there. > > - Richard > > > Original Message > >> Date: Monday, July 25, 2011 02:36:02 PM -0400 >> From: Jerry Geis >> To: C

Re: [CentOS] what really starts x11

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > To: CentOS ML > From: Jerry Geis > Subject: [CentOS] what really starts x11 > > my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 > however x is not starting > > what do i look for as why x is not starting ? > it doesnt even attempt to start that i can te

[CentOS] what really starts x11

my inittab file has 5 for starting x on centos 6 however x is not starting what do i look for as why x is not starting ? it doesnt even attempt to start that i can tell no screen flashing or anything jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

--On Monday, July 25, 2011 02:19:16 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > No joy - I think I have to use parted - the drive was too big for fdisk. I should have mentioned that this was with 1.5TB disks. I think there's a limit somewhere beyond 2TB for fdisk. Devin

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

Devin Reade wrote: > --On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd >> partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, >> and I played with it several times, and it absolutely

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

--On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd > partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, > and I played with it several times, and it absolutely would NOT align it, > no

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Devin Reade wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Devin Reade > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail > > It's not in any centos-related repos, but I'd highly recommend > horde: (IMP is the subsystem that is > the webmail portion.) +1 that's w

Re: [CentOS] Package: virt-goodies - partly solved

Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2011, 13:37:08 schrieb Timothy Kesten: > Hi Folks, > > is here someone who knows where to get the package "virt-goodies" for > CentOS6 64bit? > > I'd like to convert VMWare-images to KVM. No answers :-( I've found the sourcecode of "vmware2libvirt" (part of virt-goodies - a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

It's not in any centos-related repos, but I'd highly recommend horde: (IMP is the subsystem that is the webmail portion.) Devin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

John Austin wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> > My questions for any filesystem experts are: >> > >> > Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right >> > alignment for 4k sectors without having to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

On 07/25/2011 06:30 PM, John Hinton wrote: > I see that SquirrelMail is gone from 6. Is there a package in here > somewhere that is a webmail system? Otherwise, I suppose it lives in one > of the repos like sourceforge. I just wanted to check if something new > existed before doing that. > Upstrea

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:23 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > My questions for any filesystem experts are: > > > > Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right > > alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Webmail

I see that SquirrelMail is gone from 6. Is there a package in here somewhere that is a webmail system? Otherwise, I suppose it lives in one of the repos like sourceforge. I just wanted to check if something new existed before doing that. John ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> > Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned > upon. That is the worst way to do it. why? >> In the RHEL environments where I have worked, installing non RPM >> software was more th

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 7/25/2011 12:05 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > >> else has already done it. That is, building an RPM is always more work >> than doing a source install and often imposes inconvenient restraints >> like only permitting a single version to be running at once, and doesn't >> give you any guarantee that

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > My questions for any filesystem experts are: > > Is there a way to adjust the existing md partitions to get the right > alignment for 4k sectors without having to do a file-oriented copy to > new partitions? A resize + a dd copy to shift the position mig

[CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

I've mentioned this problem before but put off doing anything about it and maybe now someone can suggest the best solution. I have a 3-member RAID1 set where one of the members is periodically swapped and rotated offsite. The filesystem contains a backuppc archive which has millions of hardlin

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> > Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned > upon. That is the worst way to do it. > else has already done it. That is, building an RPM is always more work > than doing a

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned upon. That is the worst way to do it. >>> >>> why? >>> >>> you made a vacuous argument. >>> >> @Craig: I retract that. Probably something that is discouraged, >> rathe

Re: [CentOS] nfsv4 and kerberos - fails to mount

Rob Kampen wrote: On 07/19/2011 04:43 PM, Olaf Mueller wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Hello, nfs4 with kerberos works fine here on CentOS 5.6. change exports to [...]gss/krb([...] [...]gss/krb([...] My /etc/exports says '... gss/krb5(...'. Got this already And 'SECURE_NFS="yes"' is set in /etc

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On 07/25/2011 06:07 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Craig White wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 19:51 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>> Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned >>> upon. That is the worst way to do it. >> >> why? >> >> you m

Re: [CentOS] Updated Kernel sensors modules

On 25/07/11 17:04, Dejan wrote: > Last week I upgraded my box to CentOS 6 and I'm very impressed so far with it. > > The only small issue so far is that it doesn't seem to recognize the > new Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU that I have and you can't monitor its > temperature. > > I recompiled the latest c

[CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Marc Deop wrote: > It's more than twice as fast than the previous sh script. In part this is /bin/sh v /bin/bash and using 'bashisms' matter, but yes, I did not seek to optimize a teaching throwaway > 1- m5sum the file we need ... actually the NAME of the file, to make i

[CentOS] Centos 6.0 Live CD Now Available

Detailed Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD6.0 "Special thanks to Fabian Arrotin for taking up the LiveCD and LiveDVD efforts, and to everyone on the QA team who worked through the issues and helped build, test and release these images." Thank

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 19:51 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned >> upon. That is the worst way to do it. > > why? > > you made a vacuous argument. > @Craig: I retract that.

[CentOS] Updated Kernel sensors modules

Last week I upgraded my box to CentOS 6 and I'm very impressed so far with it. The only small issue so far is that it doesn't seem to recognize the new Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU that I have and you can't monitor its temperature. I recompiled the latest coretemp module from the latest 2.6.39 kernel

[CentOS] /dev/dsp

Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

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Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Monday, July 25, 2011 11:22:37 AM R P Herrold wrote: > 1.24 looks 'doable', although perhaps not without some C6 > libraries -- I see it in rawhide, and in F, after F13, as I > recall I managed to get 1.24.x (VM is shut down right now due to VMware update 'things' going on, so can't check sp

[CentOS] centos 6 and mingetty for /dev/ttyS1

I've been playing with centos 6. Sometimes it gets into a mode when it "seems" like it hangs at boot. At reboot I hit ALT-D for details and the last thing printed is Starting atd. No I can press alt-f2 to get a login. Doing ps ax does not show a mingetty tty1, What might be going on here. What

Re: [CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

On Sunday, July 24, 2011 05:29:23 AM yonatan pingle wrote: ... > lately the server is under-preforming and load averages are high, > mysql service keeps crashing and the server is hitting max memory > usage ( so i added ram .. ) , > after looking into the website folders, i have found one folder wh

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

The list-harddrives results change on CentOS 6. It show all disks and partition. In C5, it only show all drives. On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:06:50 +0200, Kevin C wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT), John Doe wrote: >> From: Kevin C >> >>> if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat << EOF >> /tmp/par

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: > The specific example of zoneminder is particularly > insidious. On our zoneminder systems, even point updates to > certain libraries has created problems. A good, modern, > package of zoneminder in a repo somewhere would save a lot > of grief in that

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Sunday, July 24, 2011 10:20:07 PM Thomas Dukes wrote: > I'll be moving to Ubunto. Never heard of Ubunto > They have a 3 year window for support on a > distribution unlike CentOS/RHEL. Right; RHEL has a seven year window, four years longer. > They seem to be more user friendly for a > h

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Saturday, July 23, 2011 10:25:56 PM Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 24.07.2011 02:00, schrieb Thomas Dukes: > > > When I say non-rpm, I mean source packages I compiled such as zoneminder. > > And even *if* you would be able to upgrade from CentOS 5.x to 6 - > technically and by personal skills -

[CentOS] /dev/dsp

Hey guys, If I needed to get /dev/dsp back on centos 6, how would I go about doing that. Note, I've already uninstalled pulseaudio. I've also edited /etc/modprobe.d/dist-oss.conf and uncommented: /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss && /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-device

[CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Craig White wrote: > you made a vacuous argument. Hunh. You are ** still ** trolling here [arguing against package management] and on this thread [C 6 matters], Craig? I thot back on June 13 you said here: > easier just to give up - I moved my new servers to ubuntu - > n

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Sat, July 23, 2011 19:36, R P Herrold wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Thomas Dukes wrote: > >> I use to be able to upgrade by doing a 'yum update'. That doesn't >> work either. > > CentOS ships no non-RPM packaged packages -- look to whoever > put those packages on your box without using the pack

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

On Sat, July 23, 2011 15:02, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/23/11 10:22 AM, Kristopher Kane wrote: >> > this sort of thing really belongs on an iproute2/netfilter mail >> > list, however, as its not at all centos specific. >> > >> So John, exactly what is CentOS specific? Should I only read the emai

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT), John Doe wrote: > From: Kevin C > >> if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo > > Did you check the partinfo file to see if the variables are correctly > replaced? > You're right, I have an error is this file, with /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/s

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

From: Kevin C > if [ $numd -ge 2 ]; then cat << EOF >> /tmp/partinfo Did you check the partinfo file to see if the variables are correctly replaced? > In Python,Perl or Shell? I'm searching how to wipe all drives with > parted or fdisk. In an external shell script. I just do a simple dd (I st

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:33:41AM -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote: > > Huh?? RHEL/CentOS are supported 7 years from date of release to EOL date. RHEL has an optional extended support plan that you can purchase if you are a RHEL subscriber; CentOS does not offer this extended support as upstream does n

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 1:52 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0 > > > I'll be moving to Ubunto. They have a 3

[CentOS] pxe booting questions

hello, I have a situation where I am using PXE and kickstart to install my machines. My set up is as follows: i have a cobbler server which is also an mrepo mirror doing the booting. my mrepo tree has both disc1 and disc2 loop mounted, and RPMS.os symlinks both the discs contens to generate the

Re: [CentOS] Keyboards

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, John Doe wrote: > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >> On my new Dell system, it's got a cardreader. More to the point, it's >> got an idiot menu key... *right* next to the right control key, and just >> where the annoying keyboard design has it cut down from the >> oversize space b

Re: [CentOS] lots of small files in a folder on Linux centos

On Sunday 24 July 2011 10:13:30 R P Herrold wrote: > #!/bin/sh > # > CANDIDATES="pix1.jpg pix2.jpg pix3.jpg" > for i in `echo "${CANDIDATES}"`; do > HASH=`echo "$i" | md5sum - | awk {'print $1'}` > echo "$i${HASH}" > done I know it absolutelly has nothing to d

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:18:53 -0700 (PDT), John Doe wrote: > Which clearpart parameters do you use? > Something like that? >   clearpart --drives=sda --all I used this on CentOS 5 without any problems : clearpart --all --initlabel I also use an pre script to detect the number of drives on the s

Re: [CentOS] Keyboards

From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > On my new Dell system, it's got a cardreader. More to the point, it's > got an idiot menu key... *right* next to the right control key, and just > where the annoying keyboard design has it cut down from the > oversize space bar > The result is that just trying to typ

Re: [CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

From: Kevin C > I use a kickstart file to install my operating systems. In the > kickstart file, I put the clearpart options to erase all my partition. > But the install failed because the partition aren't erased. Does someone > have the same issue ? Which clearpart parameters do you use? So

Re: [CentOS] VLAN's

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[CentOS] cleartpart in kickstart on CentOS 6

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