Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-02 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
On 04/03/2014 06:25 AM, Tom Robinson wrote: > On 02/04/14 20:17, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: >> On 04/02/2014 01:00 AM, Tom Robinson wrote: >>> 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 wrote: >> Now, I understan

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
"Frank M. Ramaekers" a écrit : > rm: unrecognized option `--backup=numbered' > Try `rm ./'--backup=numbered'' to remove the file `--backup=numbered'. > Try `rm --help' for more information. > > Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. > Damn, tested it with a path/file before sending a mail, didn’t think it wou

[CentOS] cachefs efficiency

2014-04-02 Thread Grant Street
Hi We are testing out the efficiency of cachefs and I was wondering what values other people use to decide if * cachefs is providing value? * cache size is the right/best/optimal size? * There is enough cache hits to make it worth while? * what files are being re-used(read from cache) the most? *

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Robinson
On 02/04/14 20:17, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: > On 04/02/2014 01:00 AM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> 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 wrote: > Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many

Re: [CentOS] cachefs

2014-04-02 Thread Grant Street
I don't know why they weren't in the release notesmaybe because it's a preview release? They were issues in the Kernel. If you have a look at the output of rpm -q kernel -changelog|less you can see a whole swag of changes in 2.6.32-405.el6 On 03/04/14 12:34, Rita wrote: > thanks for your

Re: [CentOS] cachefs

2014-04-02 Thread Rita
thanks for your response. How come I don't see any changes in the Centos 6.{3,4,5} release which mention updates to cachefs? On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:22 PM, grants wrote: > We are using CentOS 6.5 and it has been very stable. > we were hit with bugs in 6.2 6.3 and 6.4. > > > > -- > View this

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:13:05PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > I don't know. I couldn't reproduce the behavior today: If you are able to duplicate the original behavior please let us, or at least me, know. I am curious as to what may have transpired that caused the initial problem.

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread benfell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:59:28PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:46:51PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > > > > This issue is all about shell interpretation--before the command > > string even gets to the command. > > Apparently zsh handles this differently

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:46:51PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > > This issue is all about shell interpretation--before the command > string even gets to the command. Actually, yes and no. Some commands, notably those using the GNU getopt() family, understand the concept of "--" endi

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:59:26PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:17:02PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > WTF - there is a reason the "-f" flag exists - RTFM > > > I don't know what manual you're reading. But -f has a specific > function and *this* *isn't

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

2014-04-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:52 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: >> >> Pretty much everyone needs EPEL for something - so it is not enough to >> not break anything in CentOS base, but you also need to not >> break/conflict with/replace anything in EPEL.So really, the best >> approach would just be to ad

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread benfell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:04:00PM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > > Don't feed the trolls, and be careful of the CC. He's not on the > mailing list proper for a reason. > My apologies. I did not realize. But of course you're right. This issue is all about shell interpretation--before the command str

Re: [CentOS] cachefs

2014-04-02 Thread grants
We are using CentOS 6.5 and it has been very stable. we were hit with bugs in 6.2 6.3 and 6.4. -- View this message in context: http://centos.1050465.n5.nabble.com/CentOS-cachefs-tp5724928p5725725.html Sent from the CentOS mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Perrin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2014 05:59 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:17:02PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> WTF - there is a reason the "-f" flag exists - RTFM >> > I don't know what manual you're reading. But -f has a specific

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread benfell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:17:02PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > WTF - there is a reason the "-f" flag exists - RTFM > I don't know what manual you're reading. But -f has a specific function and *this* *isn't* *it*. -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understan

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:23:07PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:16:51PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > > > > What shell are you using? Perhaps that is interfering. > > > Ah. Good point. I've been using zsh for so long I forget it's even an > issue. ;-)

Re: [CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Akemi Yagi wrote: First off, it is ELRepo ( http://elrepo.org ), not EPEL. :) What Akemi said. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread benfell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:16:51PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > > What shell are you using? Perhaps that is interfering. > Ah. Good point. I've been using zsh for so long I forget it's even an issue. ;-) -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the att

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:05:08PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:51:41AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > > rm: unrecognized option `--backup=numbered' > > Try `rm ./'--backup=numbered'' to remove the file `--backup=numbered'. > > This is what's worked for

Re: [CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/2/2014 1:19 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> Er, kmod-e1000e. >> >> Some background links, just in case this happens to others: >> >> * All the issues I mentioned above, in longer form: >> http://ww

Re: [CentOS] OT: trac problems

2014-04-02 Thread m . roth
Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 16:38:32 -0400 > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Clues? Clues for the poor? > > As this Agilo For Trac thing appears to be commercial software, have you > tried asking their technical support department for assistance? There's a free version, which I installed vi

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread benfell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:51:41AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > rm: unrecognized option `--backup=numbered' > Try `rm ./'--backup=numbered'' to remove the file `--backup=numbered'. This is what's worked for me. I know the double dash is supposed to stop interpretation of arguments, but it ha

Re: [CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/2/2014 1:19 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> The lovely Supermicro 82574L bug! There was a similar thread about a >> month ago: >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-March/141348.html >> >> The short answer that's worked for me: Add pcie_a

Re: [CentOS] OT: trac problems

2014-04-02 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 16:38:32 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Clues? Clues for the poor? As this Agilo For Trac thing appears to be commercial software, have you tried asking their technical support department for assistance? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.c

[CentOS] OT: trac problems

2014-04-02 Thread m . roth
I installed trac. I installed trac-agilo-plugin. Set it up (allegedly). I've made myself an admin. But: I can search in trac for agilo, I find a quick start guide... and it tells me to click the admin button on the toolbar. I don't see any. If I click the admin in the upper right, I get a file not

Re: [CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > I have a server thats been running fine for a year or two lock up a few > times recently, requiring power cycling. > > The /var/log/messages after a lockup last night is appended to this > message. > > hardware is a pretty typical server, Supermicro X8DTE-F motherboard, > du

Re: [CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Paul Heinlein wrote: The lovely Supermicro 82574L bug! There was a similar thread about a month ago: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-March/141348.html The short answer that's worked for me: Add pcie_aspm=off to your boot-time kernel options. I've also starte

Re: [CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, John R Pierce wrote: I have a server thats been running fine for a year or two lock up a few times recently, requiring power cycling. The /var/log/messages after a lockup last night is appended to this message. hardware is a pretty typical server, Supermicro X8DTE-F moth

[CentOS] random crashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R Pierce
I have a server thats been running fine for a year or two lock up a few times recently, requiring power cycling. The /var/log/messages after a lockup last night is appended to this message. hardware is a pretty typical server, Supermicro X8DTE-F motherboard, dual Xeon X5650, 48GB ECC memory, L

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: > > Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. > > I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is > nothing on centos.org for complete beginners to Linux or for children. Here's another idea: if they have, or have access to a compute

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Pete Geenhuizen
On 04/02/14 10:51, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Method 1: try rm \-\-backup\=numbered > Method 2, that will *ALWAYS* work: > ls -i > then, using the inode number > find . -inum -exec rm {} \; > > The latter method is the one guaranteed to take care of all kinds of > filen

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > If anyone has the time, energy and interest, perhaps a basic technical > introduction to the Centos version of Linux would be a good long-term > objective. Thank you for stepping up and taking this on.

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread zGreenfelder
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. > > I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is > nothing on centos.org for complete beginners to Linux or for children. > > If anyone has the time, en

[CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread Always Learning
Today, an enthusiastic 10 year old boy asked me about Linux. I thought of telling me to go to centos.org but then realised there is nothing on centos.org for complete beginners to Linux or for children. If anyone has the time, energy and interest, perhaps a basic technical introduction to the Ce

Re: [CentOS] Chromium 31.0.1650.63-2.el6 for CentOS 6

2014-04-02 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 13.03.2014 um 20:05 schrieb Johnny Hughes : > On 03/13/2014 12:43 PM, teltel wrote: >> Johnny, >> Thanks for the Chromium 31 build; it works great. >> Are you planning on continuing support for Chromium-32 for CentOS and >> beyond? >> Stable release seems to be at 33 now for Chrome. > > If we c

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:51:41AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > rm: unrecognized option `--backup=numbered' > Try `rm ./'--backup=numbered'' to remove the file `--backup=numbered'. > Try `rm --help' for more information. This is one of the oldest of oldest of Unix FAQs eg http://fisica.e

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
rm: unrecognized option `--backup=numbered' Try `rm ./'--backup=numbered'' to remove the file `--backup=numbered'. Try `rm --help' for more information. Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Laurent

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread m . roth
Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > How can I remove this file? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered > > I've tried a few different methods, but most attempts interprets the > file name as a switch (which it doesn't understand). Method 1: try rm \-\-backup\=numbered Met

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
Ahhh...that's the ticket! Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. > -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R. Dennison > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:48 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Hal Wigoda
It is possible. Mask the - by putting a \ or / in front ot it. Or try: rm ./-filename On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > How can I remove this file? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered > > > > I've tried a few different methods, but

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Roberto Alvarado
rm -f "\--backup=numered" Regards Roberto -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: miércoles, 02 de abril de 2014 11:45 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes How c

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
"Frank M. Ramaekers" a écrit : > How can I remove this file? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered rm "--backup=numbered" HTH, Laurent. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:44:57AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > How can I remove this file? > > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered > > > > I've tried a few different methods, but most attempts interprets the > file name as a switch (which it doesn't unde

[CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
How can I remove this file? -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered I've tried a few different methods, but most attempts interprets the file name as a switch (which it doesn't understand). TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. | Systems Programmer | Information Technol

Re: [CentOS] Booting OpenBSD with pxelinux

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 03/28/2014 06:39 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > My question: Does anyone else know a better way? Can I pass an > alternative kernel path or boot.conf to pxeboot? You might try using a tftp map file to mangle the location it wants to be the real location. I do this when pxebooting windows system

Re: [CentOS] RHEL7 beta discussions?

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Perrin
On 04/01/2014 11:23 AM, Digimer wrote: > On 01/04/14 12:15 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Johnny Hughes 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

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

2014-04-02 Thread Dave Cross
On 1 April 2014 07:50, C. L. Martinez wrote: > But, anyone knows if it is possible to build a confident devel > environment under CentOS with some tool to build rpm's perl modules > without breaking anything in CentOS systems?? This is now rather out of date. But it will give you a start. htt

Re: [CentOS] possible kernel bug?

2014-04-02 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 13:52 +0200, Fabian Zimmermann wrote: > Hello, > > i'm using centos 6.5. It was running fine for months. 2-3 days ago I > updated the system incl. kernel, but now the system is restarting once a > day caused by a panic. > > -- > <1>BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

Re: [CentOS] possible kernel bug?

2014-04-02 Thread Fabian Zimmermann
Hi, thanks for the fast reply, but I didn't compile any modules myself. it's a plain/minimal centos kvm-hostsystem - just libvirt/kvm/lvm. Which module do you blame? Fabian 2014-04-02 13:55 GMT+02:00 Mike McCarthy : > My guess would be the video driver needs to be rebuilt to match the kernel

Re: [CentOS] possible kernel bug?

2014-04-02 Thread Mike McCarthy
My guess would be the video driver needs to be rebuilt to match the kernel. Mike On 04/02/2014 07:52 AM, Fabian Zimmermann wrote: > Hello, > > i'm using centos 6.5. It was running fine for months. 2-3 days ago I > updated the system incl. kernel, but now the system is restarting once a > day caus

[CentOS] possible kernel bug?

2014-04-02 Thread Fabian Zimmermann
Hello, i'm using centos 6.5. It was running fine for months. 2-3 days ago I updated the system incl. kernel, but now the system is restarting once a day caused by a panic. -- <1>BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 4d01 <1>IP: [] load_balance_fair+0x2a3/0x300 <4>PGD 0 <4>Oop

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-02 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
On 04/02/2014 01:00 AM, Tom Robinson wrote: > 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 wrote: Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many upstr= eam features into the stock kern