Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?

2011-05-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 2 May 2011 12:22, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2011, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the > > entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's > > servers through to building the entire distribution?

[CentOS] Rebuilding RHEL from source?

2011-05-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone have instructions on how to go through the entire process from downloading source RPM's from RedHat's servers through to building the entire distribution? I've searched through the web and CentOS' own web sites and couldn't find such instructions. Is it just a matter of downlo

Re: [CentOS] trouble shooting slow ssh logins

2010-01-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/22 : > The DNS server also behaved regarding name/ip addy lookups. > > This server is a Zimbra mail server which during install, checks for > proper DNS configs.  I usually check proper functioning DNS by hand > anyways. > > The ipv6 line was strange but I read a while back, some tech note

[CentOS] measuring iops on linux - numbers make sense?

2009-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, When approaching hosting providers for services, the first question many of them asked us was about the amount of IOPS the disk system should support. While we stress-tested our service, we recorded between 4000 and 6000 "merged io operations per second" as seen in "iostat -x" and collectd

Re: [CentOS] High load averages with latest kernel and USB drives?

2009-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Sorry can't suggest much about the usb issue but for such frequent backups, as well as to enable poin-in-time-recovery (PITR) you should consider log archiving. It should also save you heaps of load on cpu, disk, network and postgresql server. -Amos On 11/17/09, Benjamin Smith wrote: > I'm havin

[CentOS] Right way to set IO scheduler on CentOS

2009-11-05 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'd like to set the io scheduler on some of the disks on our Dom0 (CentOS 5) to "deadline". The way I found to do this is with "echo deadline > /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler". What is the Right Way(TM) to set this automatically during boot? I sort of expected to use sysctl but it appear

[CentOS] Rescan for new geometry without reboot?

2009-10-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, We just had our servers fitted with more disks. Most of the disks are growing existing RAID 1+0 channels, some are in new channels. Controllers and disks support live installation. I'd like to avoid a reboot just to let the system find that the disks are larger. All I can find so far sugg

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
While you take suggestions - look also for collecd. It's very easy to setup, customise and "interogate" graphs. Cheers, -Amos On 10/20/09, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Tait Clarridge a écrit : > >> >> You could try a local script that gets values from a server that you >> would like to monitor... I migh

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/19 Marko Vojinovic : > I've never had a case of deliberate network intrusion&misuse, since physical > access to the building is rather restricted. So far problems have occurred > exclusively because of user ignorance. Users don't bother to obey local policy > about p2p, antivirus and other

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/19 ken : > In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on > just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely > useless and a waste of time.  I don't know what Redhat charges us for The only guy I personally know who went with RedHat "because t

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/19 Marko Vojinovic : > with a form the user is supposed to fill in and send. After he does so, an > administrator does a sanity check of the data the user provided, and grants or > denies access. If access is granted, the user gets a new, unrestricted dhcp > lease, which provides him with a

Re: [CentOS] Passenger Best Practice

2009-10-18 Thread Amos Shapira
I think you can best help the project and the CentOS community by submitting a working .spec file to rpmforge-suggest mailing list. Cheers, -Amos On 10/19/09, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hi > , >> I used the guide found here >> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingPassenger on a RHE

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-13 Thread Amos Shapira
While you are at it, consider the packages from go-oo.org. They are supposed to include enhancements which didn't find their way to the official release yet. -Amos On 10/10/09, Ron Loftin wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:45 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Ge

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-12 Thread Amos Shapira
There is an iptables geoip module to allow you to specify countries. I never used it thought. The advantage of denyhosts is that it not only bans addresses but also shares banned hosts with a network of a few thousands of installations (an opt-in option), so you are not on your own. Moving ssh to

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/1/22 Ian Forde : > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:19 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm >> being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w

[CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi All, Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why we don't need to install an anti-virus or find an anti-virus to run on our CentOS 5 servers.

[CentOS] Yum-updatesd version in reports?

2009-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've just startted configuring yum-updatesd on all our servers to install updates automatically and it works great. But I don't see anywhere in its config or command line options a way to find which package version was replaced by which. Is this achieveable in any way or should I resort to

Re: [CentOS] Scriptable way to edit yum .repo files?

2009-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/1/8 R P Herrold : > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Amos Shapira wrote: > >> I found Perl's Conf::INI module but it expects comments beginning with >> ";", not "#". > > and > | sed -e 's...@^#@;@g' > cannot cure that bad habit on g

Re: [CentOS] Scriptable way to edit yum .repo files?

2009-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/1/8 Filipe Brandenburger : > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 19:11, Amos Shapira wrote: >> I found Perl's Conf::INI module but it expects comments beginning with >> ";", not "#". > > Why don't you use Python's ConfigParser? That's what

Re: [CentOS] Scriptable way to edit yum .repo files?

2009-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/1/8 Karanbir Singh : > Amos Shapira wrote: >> Is there a standard programmatic way to manipulate yum configuration >> files, particularly the .repo files? > > Puppet has a yum module, which is quite capable and what I use. Thanks to both of you. We don't use Pu

[CentOS] Scriptable way to edit yum .repo files?

2009-01-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Is there a standard programmatic way to manipulate yum configuration files, particularly the .repo files? I want to add things like "priority=..." per repo, or "check_obsoletes=1" to the priorities plugin config. I can cook specific search/append using perl or sed but was wondering whethe

Re: [CentOS] Problem setting up diskless boot.

2009-01-05 Thread Amos Shapira
From: Sent: 6.1.'09, 8:17 > You must enter directory of the Operating System Software > This directory must include the images/pxeboot directories > [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. > > Now there is nowhere to ENTER the directory of the OS Software, > th

Re: [CentOS] Proxy password questions

2009-01-01 Thread Amos Shapira
--- Original message --- From: Kwan Lowe Sent: 1.1.'09, 4:30 > Hello All: > I'm having a strange issue with the yum proxy settings. It is > directly related to passwords containing exclamation points. It's a long shot but try maybe replacing the ! By %21. -Amos ___

Re: [CentOS] Any idea when we will have updated kmod-drbd82 rpm for the latest kernel?

2009-01-01 Thread Amos Shapira
--- Original message --- From: Alan Sparks Sent: 1.1.'09, 9:01 > How is this statement justified? The RPM dependencies do not indicate this: > > $ rpm -qRp kmod-drbd82-smp-8.2.6-2.2.6.9_78.0.5.plus.c4.x86_64.rpm > /bin/sh > /bin/sh > /sbin/depmod > /sbin/depmod > drbd82 >= 8.2.6 > kern

Re: [CentOS] Linux backup help

2008-12-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks! (and sorry for the late response). On 12/19/08, Patrice Guay wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote : >> 2008/11/16 Ian Forde : >>> Actually, that's the problem that Red Hat Satellite Server can solve. >>> You can approve packages for deployment. Thus, when provis

Re: [CentOS] Watchdog process?

2008-12-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/11 Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Amos Shapira wrote: >> Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific >> process is alive and re-spawn it (or just run a configured command) >> when it dies? > > Monit > > works well f

[CentOS] Watchdog process?

2008-12-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Is there a generic built-in way on CentOS to overlook that a specific process is alive and re-spawn it (or just run a configured command) when it dies? I know how to script things so a parent will watch its child, but was wondering whether there is something more readily available instead

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command You probably mean "telinit 3" and "telinit 5". But we are talking to a veteran of FreeBSD so he probably knows such stuff already, shouldn't he? Cheers, --Amos _

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In reality, being raised on real UNIX(TM) systems from long ago and far > away, it was just one of the things we wanted left unchanged when we did > backups or shipped tapes to the outside world (one of my many jobs back > then). There is the possi

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of "local" copy, > usually back-up related. I can't recall if the "cp -a" detects and > handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio Yes, it seems that "cp -a" is desi

Re: [CentOS] PPTP VPN server

2008-11-25 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/25 Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Microsoft has updated PPTP since the only paper I know about was written. > Does anyone know if there are still problems with it or if the linux > version is updated to match? In addition to Filipe's detailed reply - when I was looking at details for

Re: [CentOS] XFS or JFS on CentOS 5?

2008-11-25 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/25 Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > MHR <> scribbled on Friday, November 21, 2008 7:01 PM: > >> So, your situation is the real determining factor. If it's important >> enough to your place of employment, do a study to see what works best >> for you and go with that. Otherwise, I'd say ju

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/25 Kurt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Really? That's very interesting. Was his attempt via the centos.org website > or elsewhere? Another web site (he didn't give details). --Amos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/24 Kurt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by > PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. I told my boss about this (our company is mainly in the online anti-fraud domain) and he said that it happened to him in the

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/24 Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rob Townley a écrit : >>> >> >> Don't use skype, but r u sure your firewall is not blocking outgoing >> sound? > > Funny, I never gave that a thought. Any idea which port I would have to > open? You generally don't need to: 1. Skype is smart enough to

Re: [CentOS] Forward all traffic from public IP A to public IP B?

2008-11-22 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/4 Morten Sundstrøm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No nothing will go back from B through A, traffic from B vil go directly to > the quering host. Sort of like manipulate the header of every packet Sounds like what LVS (Linux Virtual Server) ldirectord does in "DR" setup - host "A" publishes virtua

Re: [CentOS] howto transfer all configuration between 2 remote dedicated servers?

2008-11-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Before you chroot, do "mount -bind..." of /sys, /dev, /proc and maybe /boot under the chroot dir to make chroot more useful. Cheers, Amos On 11/22/08, Joe Barjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. > I did the rpm -Va but have quite a lot of prelink warnings. But filtering > t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-16 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/16 Ian Forde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, that's the problem that Red Hat Satellite Server can solve. > You can approve packages for deployment. Thus, when provisioning new > servers, they get updates from the approved list. And servers are > grouped by class. For the free version, o

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/16 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> I'll try to try to find or build something based on "rpm -qa" and "yum". > > no reason to use yum: it's for resolving dependencies, but in your

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/15 Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [ long rant in favor of keeping the entire yum cache instead of a list of package versions deleted ] >> move around entire cache backups across continents. > > Continents?? What, now we're worried about protecting against total > continental destructi

Re: [CentOS] Terminal emulation scripting

2008-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
I'm not near a computer to dig this but there should be a way to tell unix telnet to change the chars it sends for enter, read telnet(1). Hope this helps. --Amos On 11/15/08, Frank M. Ramaekers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, here are some things I found out. > > 1)Linux telnet is sending

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
ierry-Mieg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: >> What about disaster recovery? >> Assuming I take the approach you suggest and have to restore the cache >> (with the tested versions) after it's lost in a disaster, is there a >> way to do that (sho

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
ove around entire cache backups across continents. Thanks, --Amos On 11/15/08, Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: >> Is there a way to "freeze" a list of installed packages and exact >> versions, then tell yum (or any other tool/script) t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

2008-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Is there a way to "freeze" a list of installed packages and exact versions, then tell yum (or any other tool/script) to install exactly these verions either on the same or another systme? I'm asking from perspective of being able to update and test in my test or staging environment then when tests

Re: [CentOS] Setting up eth0 with address 0.0.0.0

2008-11-13 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/11 Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try this in ifcfg-eth0: > > DEVICE=eth0 > ONBOOT=yes > TYPE=Ethernet > IPADDR= > > Yes, that's an empty IPADDR variable, that is how you should configure Hi Filipe, It worked on the test server but on other servers were we tried it, it turned

Re: [CentOS] Timeout for a script

2008-11-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Or maybe the next script that cron executes can kill the previous one as a first step before doing anything else. --Amos On 11/13/08, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:39, Jussi Hirvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks - but I couldn't make tha

[CentOS] Setting up eth0 with address 0.0.0.0

2008-11-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm following instructions in http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.LVS-DR.html#route_on_non_ip_interface to allow my xen guest real hosts to serve virtual IP's behind LVS without having to allocate real public IP addresses for each such xen guest. I have eth1 connected vi

Re: [CentOS] strict memory

2008-10-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/10/17 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi John: > > Well, we run a lot of statistical analysis and our code loads a lot of > data into a vector for fast calculations. I am not sure how else to do > these calculations fast without loading it into memory. Thats why we > have to do it this way. Ab

Re: [CentOS] script

2008-09-30 Thread Amos Shapira
Except that you better quote the dots in the search string and put word boundary match around it or you'll end up replacing too much. See sed's -r switch for more. On 10/1/08, Chris Geldenhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mad Unix wrote: >> Dear ALL, >> >> I need some help with bash scripting, a s

[CentOS] perl bless/overload performance problem

2008-07-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, How do people here handle the situation mentioned in RH bug #379791 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379791)? We have a web site built using Perl Catalyst which warns about this issue. So far we managed to avoid this by not upgrading the perl package handed to us as part of an

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-09 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/7/9 Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I believe this is completely OT, but I want to be positive. I have a fully > up to date CentOS 5.2 box. During the past week, when surfing with Firefox > (and today, while testing with Konqueror), frequently, especially when DNS > is slow, I am seeing r

[CentOS] Anaconda ignores "cmdline" directive

2008-07-03 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Our environment: CentOS 5.2 (updated over time with "yum update", current "yum update" lists about 7 packages out of date), x86_64. Running Xen, building Xen DomU's with kickstart. We are trying to debug the %post part of the kickstart process for DomU and are hitting difficulties in acces

[CentOS] Anyone using TCP Connection Passing?

2008-07-03 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, We are looking at ways to improve our cluster fail-over and one thing that we wonder about is the possibility of passing tcp connections from the primary server to the secondary when the primary dies. I found tcpcp (http://tcpcp.sourceforge.net/) and tcpcp2 (http://tcpcp2.sourceforge.net/)

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

2008-07-01 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/7/1 Tom Lanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 01/07/2008, at 2:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > 2008/6/30 Bazy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is anyone using Spacewalk (http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/) on CentOS 5 >>> o

Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

2008-06-30 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/6/30 Bazy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Is anyone using Spacewalk (http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/) on CentOS 5 or > 4? What kind of hardware are you useing it on? Do I read it right that it requires Oracle 9?? (http://tinyurl.com/6rff8l) or am I missing something? --Amos _

[CentOS] missing depdency: drbd >= 8.0.12 is needed by package kmod-drbd-xen

2008-06-26 Thread Amos Shapira
When I execute "yum upgrade" on both CentOS 5.0 Xen DomU and CentTOS 5.1 Xen Dom0 I get: --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: drbd >= 8.0.12 is needed by package kmod-drbd-xen "yum list drbd\*" gives: Available Packages drbd.x86_64 8.0.12-1.e

Re: [CentOS] simple load balancing/failover for OWA

2008-05-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> David Hrbác wrote: >> >> > Ruslan Sivak napsal(a): >> > >> > > We are building an exchange cluster with two front end Outlook Web >> Access servers.

Re: [CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

2008-03-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not in CentOS ... centos is running the drbd82 branch, it is an update > for drbd-8 and I won't be puttin gany more drbd-8 stuff in centos-5 > extras. > > > So now - more of a "yum" question - what can I put in some file t

Re: [CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

2008-03-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Joseph L. Casale < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So now - more of a "yum" question - what can I put in some file to > prevent yum from trying to upgrade drbd8 to drbd82 for now? > > Edit your /etc/yum.conf and add the following: > exclude=drbd* kmod-drbd* Thanks.

Re: [CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

2008-03-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > As far as I'm aware DRBD works fine for me. Is there a way I can find > out > > about the new release and weather I should upgrade? > > Basically, see the

[CentOS] Should I update to DRBD 82?

2008-03-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, This morning I noticed the following output from "yum update": Installing: drbd82 x86_64 8.2.5-1.el5.centos extras 209 k replacing drbd.x86_64 8.0.11-1.el5.centos As far as I'm aware DRBD works fine for me. Is there a way I can find out about the new release a

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Sean Carolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dont really think you can get much easier than CVS if you need > > centralized management over a network. If it never gets off the > > machine then there is RCS. If those aren't simple enough... I don't > > think an

Re: [CentOS] recompiled mod_perl insists on old perl dependency

2008-03-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Tim Verhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recompile the mod_perl package with after you installed the new perl. > It looks like the mod_perl was build against the base CentOS perl > version and not the one you build. That's what I suspected so I re-compiled mod_

[CentOS] recompiled mod_perl insists on old perl dependency

2008-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, In order to overcome a known performance bug in perl-5.8.8-10 in centos 5 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=196836) I downloaded the perl package from fedora 8 (http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/source/SRPMS/perl-5.8.8-30.fc8.src.rpm) and mod_p

Re: [CentOS] 32bit support in 64bit environment (CentOS and Debian)

2008-03-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Tim Verhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know how Debian does it. But this is how CentOS does it. > Basically all libraries are available in 32 and 64 bit versions and To complement this with experience with Debian - current Debian stable release (Etch)

Re: [CentOS] LVM VG disappears after kernel upgrade on 5.1

2008-03-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ted Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally got 5.1 to boot after install (install couldn't keep the disk IDs > from getting crossed up, so at reboot partitions were not where install > said they would be). > > I needed to compile vmware and nvidia modules,

[CentOS] Perl-5.8.8-10 "use overload" backport breaks performance?

2008-03-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, There is text in the documentation of Class::DBIx as follows: There is a problem with slow performance of certain DBIx::Class operations in perl-5.8.8-10 and later on RedHat and related systems, due to a bad backport of a "use overload" related bug. The problem is in the Perl binary itself

Re: [CentOS] kiskstart question

2008-02-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On Feb 3, 2008 12:41 AM, Gary Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add this to the end of your kickstart file: > = > %post > > yum -y update > = > > In fact, you can do all sorts of things, like configure services using > chkconfig. You have a bash interp

Re: [CentOS] ssh terminal froze once in a while

2007-12-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/12/2007, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I have to take that back. After I made the sshd config > changes: > > ClientAliveInterval 30 > ClientAliveCountMax 5 > > it did hang on me once, but I'm looking at Konsole rigth now, Let me guess - you did "service sshd reload" but di

Re: [CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/12/2007, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > I'll just try to avoid updates for now. > > Why? It is *highly* unlikely that 5.1 will break *anything* for you. I > mean: Those are still the *SAME* software versions as in 5.0. And

Re: [CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/12/2007, Clint Dilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Amos > > My understanding is that unless you choose not to update your system at > all you can not freeze on a point release. So install from any 5.* > media and when you update you will go to the latest point release. > > What I would sug

Re: [CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/12/2007, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > Context - I'd like to stick to 5.0 at least for a while until the dust > > around 5.1 settles down (and I'm back from holidays). > > ok, so what do you mean by sticking to 5.0 ?

Re: [CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/12/2007, David Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > >> 1. If I read the FAQ correctly, in order to force yum to stay with 5.0 > >> should I j

[CentOS] "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

2007-12-11 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, So I've watched a few threads about the new 5.0 vs. 5.1 upgrade and have a couple of (hopefully) practical questions about this: Context - I'd like to stick to 5.0 at least for a while until the dust around 5.1 settles down (and I'm back from holidays). As an example - In Debian, as long a

Re: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

2007-12-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/12/2007, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a good link: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide Ah and forgot to say "thank you" for the link. Looks useful. Cheers, --Amos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

2007-12-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/12/2007, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Tan wrote: > > > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could > > follow more or > > > less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48

Re: [CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

2007-12-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/12/2007, Johnny Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or > > less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the > > advantage of this approach is that it allow

[CentOS] building a Xen guest image on straight LVM partitions?

2007-12-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, When I needed to build Xen guests under Debian I could follow more or less the instructions in http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oc48r and the advantage of this approach is that it allows me to setup the Xen guest directly on the LVM partition without making it consider the LVM partition as an en

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/12/2007, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not doubting that -X will mostly work, but perhaps we should be > promoting the idea of -Y a bit more. I'm totally with you about promoting security, but I got the impression it's the other way around and -X is the more secure one:

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/12/2007, Ross Cavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > Jerry Geis wrote: > >> I can ssh into a remote machine. > >> I can start X on that machine with startx > >> > >> How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and > >> have it display on my machin

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/12/2007, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Jerry Geis wrote: > > >/ I can ssh into a remote machine. > > />/ I can start X on that machine with startx > > />/ > > />/ How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and > > />/ have it display on my machine i

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/12/2007, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > > > > ssh -X firefox > > you prolly meant -Y :D Why? It's less secure and -X is good enough 99% of the time (I always use -X). --Amos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/12/2007, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jerry Geis wrote: > > I can ssh into a remote machine. > > I can start X on that machine with startx > > > > How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and > > have it display on my machine in my office. > > > > So I

[CentOS] re-installing a package without removing it?

2007-12-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just noticed that the file /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk, which belongs to package drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos, is missing from one of my test machines: # rpm --verify drbd S.5T c /etc/drbd.conf missing /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk I'm looking at this as an opporunity to learn s

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-12-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/12/2007, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could probably bet you that you doing this on VM's is what's causing > the problem. Grab some cheap old hardware and try setting this up on > real machines. It will work. The problem is that we don't have spare hardware lying around (we

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-12-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/12/2007, Ross Cavanagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure you've done this, but did you install kmod-drbd-xen ? I had > missed installing this when trying to run drbd with heartbeat v2 under > xen the first time I was testing it. Yes it's installed :) I got DRBD up and running in no time

Re: [CentOS] Re: perl-libnet on CentOS 5?

2007-12-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/12/2007, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yum search "name", but it will only look in enabled repos. Are you sure about that? The description of "yum search" in the manual says: search Is used to find any packages matching a string in the descrip- tion, summa

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-12-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/12/2007, Dave Augustus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can try with non-Xen kernels, you should get better results. Does this mean that you tried Xen kernels and DomU and it failed, then switched to non-Xen kernels on the same setup and it succeeded? Thanks, --Amos

[CentOS] perl-libnet on CentOS 5?

2007-12-05 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Is there any package on CentOS 5 which provides perl-libnet? Beartbeat 1 depends on it but so far I couldn't find a package. Also - is there a way to find which non-installed package contains files with matching names (a-la Debian's apt-file)? I know about "rpm -qf" but it only works on pa

Re: [CentOS] heartbeat 1.2.5 on CentOS 5?

2007-12-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/12/2007, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 6:32 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Has anyone got Heartbeat 1.2.5 (latest Heartbeat 1 version) to compile > &g

[CentOS] heartbeat 1.2.5 on CentOS 5?

2007-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Has anyone got Heartbeat 1.2.5 (latest Heartbeat 1 version) to compile and run on CentOS 5? I downloaded the source but hit difficulties compiling it, presumebly because it was never quite tweaked to run on the latest version. Thanks, --Amos __

Re: [CentOS] Sharing Partitions between Linux and Windows

2007-12-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 02/12/2007, Saurabh Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I worked with it, > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions much > before i posted this mail,but all in vain.The system shows messages about > the failure of loading the partition file system at the boot time. What does googl'

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-12-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 02/12/2007, Dave Augustus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are in the middle of migrating to a new colo and I first heard about > Cluster Suite with the release of 5. > > Our old colo used 2 different 2-node clusters using hearbeat version 1. We had > a 2-node cluster in Active/passive for the LV

[CentOS] Deleting a user?

2007-12-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've compiled linux-ha heartbeat into an RPM but when I try to install it (after "yum erase heartbeat*") it complains that the user hacluster still exists: # rpm -ivh heartbeat-2.1.2-1.x86_64.rpm Preparing...### [100%] useradd: user h

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-11-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/11/2007, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take Xen out of the picture until you learn how heartbeat and > ipvsadm/ldirectord actually work. You could be having network issues > because you are hosting it on a virtual server instead of on a real > server. So it's kinda hard to troub

Re: [CentOS] CleanLog.h

2007-11-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/11/2007, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Furthermore, this question is for the list > > I have a Centos 5 server running sshd > for me to signon and check my emails. > > I use denyhosts to protect port 22. > > Is there anyother software you people use > to protect your servers. Th

Re: [CentOS] CleanLog.h

2007-11-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/11/2007, Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / AFA2TH / WQFK-894 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By any chances, have you ran 'ps ax' from root and looked > to see what does not look like it should be there?? > > IF you are willing, paste your 'ps' output for us to > help you find the program that is runni

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-11-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/11/2007, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What isn't working with heartbeat? Basically it just doesn't start properly on the secondary node. I describe all my trials and tribulations in the following thread on Linux-HA Users: http://lists.linux-ha.org/pipermail/linux-ha/2007-N

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-11-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/11/2007, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LVS is a group of tools that do a lot of different things, the two > that you are interested in are: > > - heartbeat - provides failover if you have two nodes (active/active > or active/passive) > - ipvsadm/ldirectord - provides load balancin

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-11-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/11/2007, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Shields wrote: > > With a GUI that actually makes it more difficult to manage. Learn to > use the command line tools and config files, it's so much easier. > > > > > then why in Gaea's name did they make the heartbeat config files

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