Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only from CentOS and the rest from CPAN If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and EPEL and avoid CPAN entirely. if you

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 14:27, Keith Keller wrote: On 2014-04-01, Tom Robinson tom.robin...@motec.com.au wrote: Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many upstr= eam features into the stock kernel so how can I be sure that kernel 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6 has write bar= rier support?

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN consistently built a very tidy environment the problem with CPAN is its

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-01 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
On 04/01/2014 06:27 AM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2014-04-01, Tom Robinson tom.robin...@motec.com.au wrote: Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many upstr= eam features into the stock kernel so how can I be sure that kernel 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6 has write bar= rier

[CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, This is an interesting thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html about the problems you can find building perl modules for CentOS releases (new or old). I agree with John R. Pierce: cpan is very very bad tool ( in fact, I hate it) to build perl modules

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 3/31/2014 10:42 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: On 01/04/14 16:19, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm On the old machine: perl-Net-IP-1.25-2.fc6

[CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Dear all, I'm not used to handling software raid. I've inherited a server which has raid 10 set. one of our disks failed, and it's to be replaced today. My question is; any hint how to add this new disk to the existing raid array ? first thought is :- Create identical partitions as other disks in

Re: [CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread JC Putter
Hi, I had to do this a while ago, basically you have to mark the disk as failed (if not already) and than remove it from the array mark as failed mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdaX remove from array madmad --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sdaX Partition your new disk to your needs and then add it to the

[CentOS] Q2ask4Centos6

2014-04-01 Thread alex43210
On my computer with dual systems(win7+centos6.4(now 6.5), after I do something, problems came out: when I plug portable hard disk into my computer, It is not mounted successfully. SO I do as the suggestions from URL 'http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS' with the following block:

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread mark
On 04/01/14 02:13, Tom Robinson wrote: On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only from CentOS and the rest from CPAN If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 110, Issue 1

2014-04-01 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL7 beta discussions?

2014-04-01 Thread Alan McKay
Hey all, just checking in here after downloading the RHEL7 beta yesterday and installing it. I guess there won't be a CentOS7 until after RHEL7 is released, is that right? You guys don't do beta? I'm already frustrated by the Red-Hat-isms in the beta, like all the subscription stuff. thanks,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL7 beta discussions?

2014-04-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 04/01/2014 09:55 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Hey all, just checking in here after downloading the RHEL7 beta yesterday and installing it. I guess there won't be a CentOS7 until after RHEL7 is released, is that right? You guys don't do beta? I'm already frustrated by the Red-Hat-isms in the

Re: [CentOS] RHEL7 beta discussions?

2014-04-01 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Just remove all the subscription-manager and rhn packages .. H, you crazy nut :-) So I'll still be able to yum OK? -- Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV - Michael Pollan, author of In

Re: [CentOS] RHEL7 beta discussions?

2014-04-01 Thread Digimer
On 01/04/14 12:15 PM, Alan McKay wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Just remove all the subscription-manager and rhn packages .. H, you crazy nut :-) So I'll still be able to yum OK? I have to add the DVD as a repo. Here's what I do: These

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:29 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:50 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html about the problems you can find building perl modules for CentOS releases (new or old). I agree with John R. Pierce: cpan is very very bad tool ( in

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:50 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This is an interesting thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html about the problems you can find building perl modules for CentOS releases (new or old). I agree with John

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread m . roth
Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:50 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html about the problems you can find building perl modules for CentOS releases (new or old). I

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:27 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I ran into an issue with the setup script from the web site, and this seems to have worked around it: snip Right. And, um, don't forget to update that local userspace perl, and its modules regularly. And don't wait for the notice of

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 17:49, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: On 04/01/2014 06:27 AM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2014-04-01, Tom Robinson tom.robin...@motec.com.au wrote: Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many upstr= eam features into the stock kernel so how can I be sure that kernel

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 17:29, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more issues that way. I also spent a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN consistently built a very tidy

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:27 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:50 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html about the problems you can find

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread Gary Greene
On Apr 1, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:27 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I ran into an issue with the setup script from the web site, and this seems to have worked around it: snip Right. And, um, don't forget to update that local

Re: [CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 19:21, Roland RoLaNd wrote: Dear all, I'm not used to handling software raid. I've inherited a server which has raid 10 set. one of our disks failed, and it's to be replaced today. My question is; any hint how to add this new disk to the existing raid array ? first thought is :-

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au On 01/04/14 19:04, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014 10:42 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: On 01/04/14

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Cliff Pratt
Another approach used by people who want to use CPAN a lot, is to download and install Perl from source to say /usr/local, and point CPAN at that. That way you get the benefits of the latest Perl and CPAN without it fighting with yum/rpm. Your hashbang line in each Perl script that uses the

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Daniel Condomitti
Have you thought of doing this in a Linux container to avoid tainting the base install? On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: Another approach used by people who want to use CPAN a lot, is to download and install Perl from source to say /usr/local, and point CPAN at that.

Re: [CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread SilverTip257
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:58 AM, JC Putter jcput...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I had to do this a while ago, basically you have to mark the disk as failed (if not already) and than remove it from the array mark as failed mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdaX remove from array madmad --remove

Re: [CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/1/2014 5:03 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: You can clone the partition layout from an existing healthy disk and write it to the new disk with sfdisk.*As always, be very careful* what disk you're dumping the partition layout from and which one is the target destination. sfdisk -d /dev/sdX |

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Bennett Haselton
On 4/1/2014 4:10 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au On 01/04/14 19:04, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 3/31/2014

Re: [CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread SilverTip257
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:08 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 4/1/2014 5:03 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: You can clone the partition layout from an existing healthy disk and write it to the new disk with sfdisk.*As always, be very careful* what disk you're dumping the partition

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 02/04/14 11:16, Bennett Haselton wrote: I understand (I think), but is it easy to tell me, or is there a *reliable*, *vetted* source, describing for intermediate users how to actually do this? i.e.: 1) When you say Try just core and EPEL packages to start with, are you talking about

[CentOS] Q2ask about dual systems booting failure!

2014-04-01 Thread alex43210
On my computer with dual systems(win7+centos6.4(now 6.5), after I do something, problems came out: when I plug portable hard disk into my computer, It is not mounted successfully. SO I do as the suggestions from URL 'http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS' with the following block:

Re: [CentOS] Setup a devel environment for perl modules

2014-04-01 Thread C. L. Martinez
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:50 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/141871.html about the problems you can find building perl modules for CentOS releases