Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-27 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Tennant, Jacob wrote: > > were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server. > > Any advise or suggestions would be very helpful. > That is a choice of course. Have you looked into Samba 4 which provides build for Centos and it seems it does suppor

[CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-27 Thread Tennant, Jacob
I am the IT Development Specialist for a small community college and our CIO has asked me to explore an alternative to Microsoft Active Directory as we are separating from our parent university and funding is tight so we were looking into CentOS with 389 Directory Server. Any advise or suggestions

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and syslog errors in CentOS 6.4 on Dell R720 server

2013-09-27 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Kaushal Shriyan > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have updated the firmware for perc raid controller card, network card, >> IDRAC firmware and the BIOS version on Dell R720 server. I have installed >> CentOS

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/27/2013 7:05 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> At a former place of employment we would simply not leave hard drives in >> >servers or desktops that were intended to be recycled or junked. The hard >> >drives got disposed of separately (in this case crushed with a hydraulic >> >wedge). > Hah! Wh

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/27/2013 9:39 AM, Phil Gardner wrote: > So we can generally say that LVM offers no real drawbacks in terms of > flexibility, but it seems like we are mostly talking about homebrew setups. > > What about in a high iops situation? Is there any evidence/testing out > there that might show that the

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 09/27/2013 11:25 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: | > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior | > wrote: | >> Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what | >> we can do with LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html | > | > This is one of th

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread Phil Gardner
On 09/27/2013 11:25 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior > wrote: >> Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what >> we can do with LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html > > This is one of the top reasons that I use LVM on my home bui

Re: [CentOS] scanner only works in su mode

2013-09-27 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Robert Heller wrote: > OK, this is what you need to do: > > Create a file named /lib/udev/rules.d/90-local.rules containing this line: > > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03f0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5611", > GROUP="scanner", MODE="0660" > > > (This means: on the USB subsys

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote the following on 9/26/2013 3:28 | PM: | > Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what we can do | > with | > LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html | | This seems like a great example of how LVM complicates the pr

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread Blake Hudson
Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote the following on 9/26/2013 3:28 PM: > Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what we can do with > LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html This seems like a great example of how LVM complicates the process of moving to a new disk. Without LVM,

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread John Doe
From: Steve Thompson > On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Bret Taylor wrote: > I usually hit the disk with a hammer. Satisfying :-) I disassemble the drives... I keep the shiny platters to scare birds or make sculptures, and I play with the magnets! JD ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Intel 10G X520-2 and iscsi storage poor performance

2013-09-27 Thread John Doe
From: Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator > we have a storageserver (Centos 6.4) with a dualport Intel 10G X520-2 > Adapter. > > A QSan P600Q-D316 Storage is configured with 8*SATA Drives raid 5 for > test, connected trought a Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric > Interconnect 10G Switch. > > I formated th

[CentOS] erasing an hdd - forensics of hard disk drives, dban, destroying hdd

2013-09-27 Thread g
greetings list, i am creating a new thread because of comment made by; From: Nicolas Thierry-Mieg in thread "Subject: [CentOS] erase disk". in past readings about; erasing an hdd, forensics of hard disk drives, dban, destroying hdd i submit these links for those who may wish to furthe

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: > Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what > we can do with LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html This is one of the top reasons that I use LVM on my home builds. I generally build with an SSD as the OS disk

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread m . roth
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > mark wrote: >> On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote: >>> Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: > Eh, I don't really think dban is necessary. Probably more than an > fdisk and creating a file system is overkill. My p

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread m . roth
SilverTip257 wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:11 AM, mark wrote: >> On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote: >> > Paul Heinlein wrote: >> >> >> I've never seen the need for a seven-pass randomization. If pressed, >> >> I'd probably agree that a one-pass zeroing is good enough for just >> >> about

[CentOS] Intel 10G X520-2 and iscsi storage poor performance

2013-09-27 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, we have a storageserver (Centos 6.4) with a dualport Intel 10G X520-2 Adapter. A QSan P600Q-D316 Storage is configured with 8*SATA Drives raid 5 for test, connected trought a Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect 10G Switch. I formated the storage with ext4 defaults, one volume and got r

Re: [CentOS] Importing md5 encrypted passwords for el6

2013-09-27 Thread Carl T. Miller
Carl T. Miller wrote: > A couple of hours of reading man pages and Internet > searches has left me clueless. Is there a way to > keep sha512 as the default and to enable usage of > md5 in addition to sha512? Yes, I'm embarrassed. After asking for help, I double-checked the shadow file and discov

[CentOS] Importing md5 encrypted passwords for el6

2013-09-27 Thread Carl T. Miller
In the process of replacing an el5 server, I have installed el6 and scripted the creation of the users. That worked flawlessly. I then imported all the md5 encrypted passwords, and users cannot log in. I see that the new default encryption is sha512, but I thought that only applied to creating ne

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
mark wrote: > On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote: >> Paul Heinlein wrote: >>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: >>> Eh, I don't really think dban is necessary. Probably more than an fdisk and creating a file system is overkill. >>> >>> My policies are work are simple: >>> >>>

Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:11 AM, mark wrote: > On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote: > > Paul Heinlein wrote: > > >> I've never seen the need for a seven-pass randomization. If pressed, > >> I'd probably agree that a one-pass zeroing is good enough for just > >> about any situation. Asset retire

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Re: [CentOS] erase disk

2013-09-27 Thread mark
On 09/26/13 18:32, Bret Taylor wrote: > Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: >> >>> Eh, I don't really think dban is necessary. Probably more than an >>> fdisk and creating a file system is overkill. >> >> My policies are work are simple: >> >> 1. Re-use by same empl

Re: [CentOS] Creating 38TB ext4 FS

2013-09-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/26/2013 10:53 PM, g wrote: >> its an xfs specific mount option. see the man pages for mount (8), >> >under*Mount options for xfs*... >> > >> > > yes, as stated above; > >i understand_mount_options_. i do not find it in "man fstab". from man fstab, The fourth field, (fs_mntops)