[CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:0737 Moderate CentOS 5 subversion Update

2013-04-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:0737 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0737.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:0737 Moderate CentOS 6 subversion Update

2013-04-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:0737 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0737.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS] NFS client caching

2013-04-11 Thread Bazy
Hello, I've just read how GoDaddy upgraded its servers to CentOS6 and in the article they wrote about NFS client caching. Can anyone point me to documentation they used to implement NFS client caching? Tips and tricks are welcome :-) Cheers! ___

Re: [CentOS] NFS client caching

2013-04-11 Thread James Pearson
Bazy [baz...@gmail.com] wrote: I've just read how GoDaddy upgraded its servers to CentOS6 and in the article they wrote about NFS client caching. Can anyone point me to documentation they used to implement NFS client caching? Tips and tricks are welcome :-) I guess they are using FS-Cache -

[CentOS] Cluster SW

2013-04-11 Thread santosh venkataswamy
 Hi,  How to download  Cluster SW and how to configure clustering in CentOS. With Regards and  good wishes. V.SANTOSH ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] centos 6.3 ipv6 default gateway

2013-04-11 Thread Jaze Lee
hello, i met a problem in configuratiion of ipv6 gw in my box i install centos 6.3 (64 bit) on my boxs, which have four netcard. i use a straight-through cable to connect centosv0:netcard-2 and centosv1:netcard2 the topology is this: client c(windows xp) --centosv0:netcard-3 --

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a USB Drive

2013-04-11 Thread John Doe
From: Jason T. Slack-Moehrle slackmoeh...@gmail.com So I run: # parted GNU Parted 2.1 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) select /dev/sdg Using /dev/sdg (parted) print Model: DROBO DroboPro (scsi) Disk /dev/sdg: 17.6TB Sector size

Re: [CentOS] Cluster SW

2013-04-11 Thread Woehrle Hartmut SBB CFF FFS (Extern)
 Hi,  How to download  Cluster SW and how to configure clustering in CentOS. With Regards and  good wishes. V.SANTOSH What do you want to cluster (disks, services, data,...) How (failover, loadbalancing, master-slave,...) Hartmut ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] web collaboration packages.

2013-04-11 Thread John Doe
From: Jason T. Slack-Moehrle slackmoeh...@gmail.com I can get through the install but Zimbra wont start. It says it started, but didn't I get LDAP errors, Sasl errors, AV and antispam. I worked though them a lot yesterday but I still can not get the mta started and nothing starts listening on

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 98, Issue 5

2013-04-11 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [CentOS] floppy drives

2013-04-11 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
-Original Message- From: m.r...@5-cent.us [mailto:m.r...@5-cent.us] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:21 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] floppy drives Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:19:33 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hmmm... didn't see it mounted, but

Re: [CentOS] floppy drives

2013-04-11 Thread m . roth
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us [mailto:m.r...@5-cent.us] Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:19:33 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hmmm... didn't see it mounted, but I'll try more tonight. Last night included a) playing with system, and b)

Re: [CentOS] web collaboration packages.

2013-04-11 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
Thanks for the notes John, let me go through this process again. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:37 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jason T. Slack-Moehrle slackmoeh...@gmail.com I can get through the install but Zimbra wont start. It says it started, but didn't I get LDAP errors,

[CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread nan del bosc
Hi to all! We're using CentOS 5.5 64bits for our Plesk 11. This week we had the following problem 3 times... Suddenly, the server stops responding in all services (SSH, Apache, Postfix, ...) but ping works! After wait a few minutes (or 2 hours some times) the server continues unresponsive

[CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread m . roth
I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot spare to RAID 6, implying that the latter doesn't need one. I *certainly* have enough drives to spare in this RAID box: 42 of 'em, so two questions: should I assign

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread m . roth
nan del bosc wrote: Hi to all! We're using CentOS 5.5 64bits for our Plesk 11. This week we had the following problem 3 times... Suddenly, the server stops responding in all services (SSH, Apache, Postfix, ...) but ping works! After wait a few minutes (or 2 hours some times) the server

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:36 AM Subject: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread nan del bosc
Thank's for your quick answer! I can't use ipmi in this machine... # ipmitool sel Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory Get SEL Info command failed # modprobe ipmi_si FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM, nan del bosc nandelb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all! We're using CentOS 5.5 64bits for our Plesk 11. This week we had the following problem 3 times... Suddenly, the server stops responding in all services (SSH, Apache, Postfix, ...) but ping works! After

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread John Doe
From: Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com A RAID5 with a hot spare isn't really the same as a RAID6.  For those not familiar with this, a RAID5 in degraded mode (after it lost a disk) will suffer a performance hit, as well as while it rebuilds from a hot spare.  A RAID6 after losing a

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread Александр Кириллов
We're using CentOS 5.5 64bits for our Plesk 11. This week we had the following problem 3 times... Suddenly, the server stops responding in all services (SSH, Apache, Postfix, ...) but ping works! After wait a few minutes (or 2 hours some times) the server continues unresponsive until

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 11.04.2013 17:36, schrieb nan del bosc: Hi to all! We're using CentOS 5.5 64bits for our Plesk 11. That's insane! Why on earth do you run a 2,5 years old unpatched public system? You are asking for trouble and innocent third will be the victims of your hacked system. This week we had the

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread m . roth
nan del bosc wrote: Thank's for your quick answer! I can't use ipmi in this machine... snip # modprobe ipmi_si FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si (/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5xen/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): No such device Um, no: yum install OpenIPMI service ipmi start ll

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Nan del bosc wrote on Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:59:58 +0200: This is a Virtual Server from 1and1, You should have said this in the beginning! Can you be sure that this is a standard CentOS and not a version catered by the provider? It may just be a problem with the virtualizing software. You should

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Digimer
On 04/11/2013 11:36 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot spare to RAID 6, implying that the latter doesn't need one. I *certainly* have enough drives to spare in this RAID

Re: [CentOS] How to determine why a server is not responding

2013-04-11 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, nan del bosc nandelb...@gmail.com wrote: ... This is a Virtual Server from 1and1, I cannot access the BIOS... any other idea? If this is a virtual server, the actual hardware may just be running other virtual servers and you're not getting any resources.

Re: [CentOS] Cluster SW

2013-04-11 Thread Digimer
On 04/11/2013 06:35 AM, Woehrle Hartmut SBB CFF FFS (Extern) wrote: Hi, How to download Cluster SW and how to configure clustering in CentOS. With Regards and good wishes. V.SANTOSH What do you want to cluster (disks, services, data,...) How (failover, loadbalancing,

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2013 8:36 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot spare to RAID 6, implying that the latter doesn't need one. I*certainly* have enough drives to spare in this RAID

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-04-11, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:36 AM Subject: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 4/11/2013 8:36 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot spare to RAID 6, implying that the latter doesn't need one. I*certainly* have enough drives

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 ipv6 default gateway

2013-04-11 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Hello, I may be totally off base here but... On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:06 +0800, Jaze Lee wrote: hello, i met a problem in configuratiion of ipv6 gw in my box i install centos 6.3 (64 bit) on my boxs, which have four netcard. i use a straight-through cable to connect centosv0:netcard-2 and

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 ipv6 default gateway

2013-04-11 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Slight Clarification on v6 addressing... On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 15:38 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: Those may be routed between your machines but may not be routed on the global net either as a source or destination address. Your machines should also be given link local addresses which

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, listening to all of this, I've also been in touch with a tech from the vendor*, who had a couple of suggestions: first, two RAID sets with two global hot spares. I've just spoken with my manager, and we're going with that, then one of the tech's other

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2013 12:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ok, listening to all of this, I've also been in touch with a tech from the vendor*, who had a couple of suggestions: first, two RAID sets with two global hot spares. I would test how long a drive rebuild takes on a 20 disk RAID6.I suspect,

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions On 4/11/2013 12:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ok, listening to all of this, I've also been in touch with a tech

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2013 1:36 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: But isn't that one of the benefits of RAID6? (not much degraded/latency effect during a rebuild, less impact on performance during rebuild, so longer times are acceptable?) trouble comes in 3s. -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2013 1:20 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Followup comment: I created the two RAID sets, then started to create the volume sets... and realized I didn't know if it was*possible*, much less desirable, to have a volume set that spanned two RAID sets. Talked it over with my manager, and I

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - From: Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:36:29 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To:

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Cc: David C. Miller mille...@fusion.gat.com Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:17:18 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions Am 12.04.2013 01:13, schrieb David C. Miller:

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-04-11, David C. Miller mille...@fusion.gat.com wrote: Just for reference, I have a 24 x 2TB SATAIII using CentOS 6.4 Linux MD RAID6 with two of those 24 disks as hotspares. The drives are in a Supermicro external SAS/SATA box connected to another Supermicro 1U computer with an

[CentOS] How to change 'fstab' when you cannot boot the machine?

2013-04-11 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
Hello All, So My Drobo finished formatting and I added an entry to fstab for it and now I cannot boot the machine. I get an error about fsck.ext3: is a directory while trying to open /drobo and then a mention of a valid super block I had mounted the Drobo as /drobo and in 'fstab' I copied the

Re: [CentOS] How to change 'fstab' when you cannot boot the machine?

2013-04-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:36:44 -0700 Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I have made a mistake I cannot fix it because trying to edit fstab results in a read only file system message Can anyone help me learn how to recover? Boot from a recovery disk (live CD, whatever) and fix the problem. --

Re: [CentOS] How to change 'fstab' when you cannot boot the machine?

2013-04-11 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
why not try it out? as said: ANY linux with a terminal is enough to mount the rootfs and edit /ect/fstab with vi or whatever P.S: use the mailing-list instead off-list replies Am 12.04.2013 01:42, schrieb Jason T. Slack-Moehrle: If I have a CentOS 6.4 DVD is that the 'Rescue installed

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - From: Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:34:20 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions On 2013-04-11, David C. Miller mille...@fusion.gat.com wrote: Just for reference, I have a 24 x

Re: [CentOS] How to change 'fstab' when you cannot boot the machine?

2013-04-11 Thread zGreenfelder
or while it's in single user mode with the read only /; do a mount -o remount / to get the filesystem into read write, edit your fstab file and reboot. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle slackmoeh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, So My Drobo finished formatting and I added

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/11/2013 5:04 PM, David C. Miller wrote: The LSI 9200's I use are nothing more than a dumb $300 host bus adapter. No RAID levels or special features. I prefer to NOT use hardware RAID controllers when I can. With a generic HBA the hard drives are seen raw to the OS. You can use smartctl

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 ipv6 default gateway

2013-04-11 Thread Jaze Lee
2013/4/12 Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com Hello, I may be totally off base here but... On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:06 +0800, Jaze Lee wrote: hello, i met a problem in configuratiion of ipv6 gw in my box i install centos 6.3 (64 bit) on my boxs, which have four netcard. i use a

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
On 2013/04/11 10:36 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions On 4/11/2013 12:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ok, listening to

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 ipv6 default gateway

2013-04-11 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 09:28 +0800, Jaze Lee wrote: 2013/4/12 Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com Hello, I may be totally off base here but... On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:06 +0800, Jaze Lee wrote: hello, i met a problem in configuratiion of ipv6 gw in my box i install centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-04-12, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata hawar...@ifa.hawaii.edu wrote: RAID6 means you can handle 2 disk failures, but the third one will drop your array, if I'm remembering correctly. And the larger the number of disks, the higher the chance that you'll have disk failures... Yes, and yes.

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 ipv6 default gateway

2013-04-11 Thread Jaze Lee
2013/4/12 Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 09:28 +0800, Jaze Lee wrote: 2013/4/12 Michael H. Warfield m...@wittsend.com Hello, I may be totally off base here but... On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 18:06 +0800, Jaze Lee wrote: hello, i met a problem

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread David Miller
On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:25 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 4/11/2013 5:04 PM, David C. Miller wrote: The LSI 9200's I use are nothing more than a dumb $300 host bus adapter. No RAID levels or special features. I prefer to NOT use hardware RAID controllers when I can. With a

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 04/11/2013 06:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm setting up this huge RAID 6 box. I've always thought of hot spares, but I'm reading things that are comparing RAID 5 with a hot spare to RAID 6, implying that the latter doesn't need one. I *certainly* have enough drives to spare in this RAID

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-04-12, David Miller mille...@fusion.gat.com wrote: On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:25 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: yeah, until a disk fails on a 40 disk array and the chassis LEDs on the backplane don't light up to indicate which disk it is and your operations monkey pulls