Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Christopher Chan
OpenIndiana has all that builtin... /me ducks. - Original Message - From: "John R Pierce" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors st

[CentOS] 5.1.6 php to 5.3, a few questions

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Hoffman
Alright, looks like I have to do this (centos 5.x install). Some questions.. 1) I imagine I have to uninstall my current version of php...will yum remove want to take a ton of programs with it? Would I have to individually uninstall each package instead? 2) yum down the new version from some r

Re: [CentOS] Centos Gotcha: YUM Groupinstall

2011-08-16 Thread David
At 07:13 PM 8/16/2011, you wrote: >At Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:32:43 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > Folks > > > > I have encountered a situation with YUM that isn't what I expected. > > > > Let's suppose I want to install a group, call it G. My first > > question would be -- is the group

Re: [CentOS] Centos Gotcha: YUM Groupinstall

2011-08-16 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:32:43 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Folks > > I have encountered a situation with YUM that isn't what I expected. > > Let's suppose I want to install a group, call it G. My first > question would be -- is the group already installed. Realize all of > this is

[CentOS] Centos Gotcha: YUM Groupinstall

2011-08-16 Thread david
Folks I have encountered a situation with YUM that isn't what I expected. Let's suppose I want to install a group, call it G. My first question would be -- is the group already installed. Realize all of this is scripted. So, I use yum groupinfo and I see the list of installed groups, and

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:37, Tom H wrote: > If you mean during the install, add "--activate" to your kickstart > file's "network ..." line. That's good to know for the near future when I will be tweaking my existing kickstart files. > If you mean after the install, what's the output of "chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Aug 16, 2011, at 17:30, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Is you network card even loaded when you type "ifconfig -a" in the $hell? > Give us more details as to what you are doing to get the DHCP address. I'm away from the system now, so I can't post the output if ifconfig now, but basically I did a

Re: [CentOS] OT?

2011-08-16 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Ned Slider : > On 09/08/11 05:33, Dave Stevens wrote: >> I have a CentOS server with postfix running. A pop user's account was >> compromised and a lot of spam started being sent. My upstream ISP's >> mail program started refusing to talk to me because of the very high >> rate of mail, err

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step > did a basic > install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate > the > installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.c

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Is you network card even loaded when you type "ifconfig -a" in the $hell? Give us more details as to what you are doing to get the DHCP address. >>> Alfred von Campe 08/16/11 4:57 PM >>> I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Des

Re: [CentOS] Are file system mounts costly?

2011-08-16 Thread Marian Marinov
On Wednesday 03 August 2011 23:29:48 Reynolds McClatchey wrote: > I recall a kernel parameter on Unix System V of number > of mounted file systems. Max recommended was 8. > Larger numbers slowed down inode location and > impacted performance. > > Has Linux solved that bottleneck? Are 20 or 30 m

[CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-16 Thread Alfred von Campe
I'm just starting to test CentOS 6 in our environment, and as a first step did a basic install from DVD (Desktop target, all defaults). Next I will try to automate the installations as I did for CentOS 5 using the anakonda-ks.cfg file generated by the manual install. However, I can't wrap my b

Re: [CentOS] thunderbird cannot open attached pdf

2011-08-16 Thread Jerry Geis
> Hello Jerry. I don't use TB, but under Firefox you can set > which helper applications are associated with a particular > file type. Using Firefox will open the PDF for me with > evince. Maybe you need to set the helper application under > your TB preferences, so TB knows which program to use fo

Re: [CentOS] thunderbird cannot open attached pdf

2011-08-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > Odd, evince was installed, I then did a "yum reinstall evince" > and restarted thunderbird and clicked on the pdf attachment and same > message. Hello Jerry. I don't use TB, but under Firefox you can set which helper applications are associated with a par

Re: [CentOS] thunderbird cannot open attached pdf

2011-08-16 Thread Jerry Geis
> evince > > Regards, > Dennis Dennis, Odd, evince was installed, I then did a "yum reinstall evince" and restarted thunderbird and clicked on the pdf attachment and same message. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento

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Re: [CentOS] thunderbird cannot open attached pdf

2011-08-16 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/16/2011 05:48 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >I am using thunderbird on centos 6. > I get a message about cannot open the file as helper application > does not exist. > > Which package needs to be installed for the pdf helper application? evince Regards, Dennis ___

[CentOS] thunderbird cannot open attached pdf

2011-08-16 Thread Jerry Geis
I am using thunderbird on centos 6. I get a message about cannot open the file as helper application does not exist. Which package needs to be installed for the pdf helper application? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] ext4, 4k sector alignment

2011-08-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/26/2011 3:11 AM, Andrzej Szymanski wrote: > On 2011-07-25 19:10, 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 partit

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, >> and keeps the Linux disk<->  ses slot mapping up-to-date. > > i'm amazed this doesn't exist.   isn't this a really common problem wit

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/16/11 12:59 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > ie. you need a daemon/tool that monitors status of disks, > and keeps the Linux disk<-> ses slot mapping up-to-date. i'm amazed this doesn't exist. isn't this a really common problem with storage arrays? -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] cr repository when running your own mirror

2011-08-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/16/2011 11:30 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Is it really worth the hassle to add and remove the repo just to get the > packages a few days early? you need to add it in, one time. You wont need to remove anything. As long as you do not edit that file it will be managed by centos-releas

Re: [CentOS] How to open several tabs in a gnome-terminal window and run a command in each tab?

2011-08-16 Thread John Doe
From: Pete O\\\'Connell > Hi swapping out bash for tsch doen't work unfortunately. The window that > gets created when you do this only stays open for a split second. Works for me with:   $ cat test.sh   #!/bin/tcsh   ls $*   /bin/tcsh -i   $ gnome-terminal --tab -e "/path/to/test.sh AAA" --ta

Re: [CentOS] cr repository when running your own mirror

2011-08-16 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/16/2011 11:27 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/16/2011 08:45 AM, Christian Anthon wrote: >> what is the right way to deal with the new cr repository for centos 5 >> when you are running your own mirror. In particular the following >> statement I don't fully understand: > > The reason

Re: [CentOS] cr repository when running your own mirror

2011-08-16 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 08/16/2011 08:45 AM, Christian Anthon wrote: > what is the right way to deal with the new cr repository for centos 5 > when you are running your own mirror. In particular the following > statement I don't fully understand: The reason why we only have baseurl pointing to mirror.centos.org i

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:19:17AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. > > > > There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitoring disk status > > and lighting up SES LEDs accordingly.. > > yikes. tha

[CentOS] cr repository when running your own mirror

2011-08-16 Thread Christian Anthon
Hi, what is the right way to deal with the new cr repository for centos 5 when you are running your own mirror. In particular the following statement I don't fully understand: - Once 5.7 is released, the 5.6/cr/ repositories will be removed ( they will not be available on vault.centos.org ) C

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, John R Pierce wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce Subject: Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitori

Re: [CentOS] SAS storage arrays, C6, and SES lights

2011-08-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/15/11 3:31 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Afaik the LEDs won't work out-of-the-box. > > There's no daemon currently in Linux responsible for monitoring disk status > and lighting up SES LEDs accordingly.. yikes. thats pretty amateur. I thought Linux was better than that. I've found some m