Re: [CentOS] apcupsd, APC UPSs, and batteries, resolved

On 27 March 2010 04:47, wrote: > Well, here's the tale: we got a "replacement kit" for some APC SmartUPS > 3000 - rackmount UPSs. The "kit", costing about half of what APC is > asking, is just the batteries, and you pull the tray out, open it up, and > swap out the batteries. Except, I did this o

Re: [CentOS] Can't create partition even though free space is available

I'd say fdisk bug... d On 30 March 2010 09:24, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm working with XenServer 5.5u2, which is basically CentOS 5. I'm > having trouble creating a partition. I should still have free space in > the extended partition, but it

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009/4/28 James Bensley > Hi there, > > Just to clarify; You have two 1TB disk that are mirrored (raid 1)? > > Normally a mirror can't be extended as the mirror is between block 0 > to 100 (for example if 100 was the end of the drive) on one > drive with block 0 to 100 on the other (i

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding woes

2009/4/28 Filipe Brandenburger > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 16:01, Bo Lynch wrote: > > I think I found the culprit but not sure if by taking this out it will be > > a risk. When I remove this statement things work > > iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m state --state NEW, INVALID -j DROP > >

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009/4/25 dnk > Hi there, I have a system with the following: > > > Disk /dev/md0: 1000.2 GB, 1000202174464 bytes > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 244189984 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes > > Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > Now I just added a new ha

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding woes

2009/4/28 Bo Lynch > On Mon, April 27, 2009 12:01 pm, Dan Carl wrote: > > Bo Lynch wrote: > >> I'm having some port forwarding issues issues with iptables. > >> We are using iptables as a firewall with 2 nics and on ip alias. > >> I'm trying to port forward on the alias ip > >> eth0 = 65.x.x.1 >

Re: [CentOS] Problems eith yum (wrong releasever)

2009/4/26 Sam Piippo > After installing clean Centos 5.3 and updating with "yum update" yum starts > to fail. I get the following error message > > > YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. > Eg. 7 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/ > removing mirrorlis

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009/4/22 Mangesh S. Umbarje > >The machine has a static IP. If I try to change speed or > autoneg or both the network completely stops. It starts working only after > I issue service network restart. > You can't have a gigabit connection with autoneg off and to manually set the spee

Re: [CentOS] OT Question about raid 5

2009/4/22 Jerry Franz > > Per Qvindesland wrote: > > Hi List > > > > I am hoping that someone here could perhaps give me a straight answer > > on a question that someone asked me today > > > > I have always belived that if you have 5 hard drives 1 50gb second > > 50gb third 20gb fourth 60gb firth

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009/4/21 Mangesh S. Umbarje > > I have checked the physical connectivity which is perfectly fine. > This machine is very critical which we need to keep running as much as > possible. So I had gone to older kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5. But along with > this kernel, I had added one more Dli

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009/4/21 Mangesh S. Umbarje > Dear All, > > I am having a HP xw4400 with following ethernet controller > as reported by lspci > > Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev > 02) > > This machine was running CentOS 5.2 without any problem. Af

Re: [CentOS] Local root vulnerability in udev

2009/4/19 Lanny Marcus > I just saw this thread in the OLM forum. Possibly of interest, since > they say it includes CentOS 5, if the update hasn't been released yet. > Always good to keep boxes updated, for security and stability > reasons. > > > F

Re: [CentOS] re-install package

2009/4/16 John Thomas > Scott Silva wrote: > > And the right repositories have to be online! > > Finally, a successful commercial repository. > It's not without it's problems though, especially when using yum... Blindly playing with this repository can be bad for your system's health, plenty of

Re: [CentOS] Odd SELinux messages during+after 5.3 upgrade (system_mail_t and postfix_postdrop_t access rpm_var_lib_t)

2009/4/14 D Tucny > 2009/4/14 Dan Mensom > >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I've been getting some strange selinux messages after the 5.3 upgrade. >> It appears as though my mail system (postfix) is constantly trying to >> access the rpm database? Here's

Re: [CentOS] Odd SELinux messages during+after 5.3 upgrade (system_mail_t and postfix_postdrop_t access rpm_var_lib_t)

2009/4/14 Dan Mensom > > Hey guys, > > I've been getting some strange selinux messages after the 5.3 upgrade. > It appears as though my mail system (postfix) is constantly trying to > access the rpm database? Here's the audit messages (I tend to look at > my selinux messages using audit2allow < /

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.8 released, but not showing up in mirrors?

2009/4/12 Gilbert Sebenste > Hello all, > > Several days ago, I noticed Firefox 3.0.8 was released for i386, > but I haven't seen it on any of the mirrors. I know it can take a few days > for mirrors to sync, but I think it's been 5 days now. Anyone see this > package out there yet? > 3 days ago

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009/4/10 Mike A. Harris > Jerry Geis wrote: > > What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... > > I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that > you'll likely get quite the variety of different responses. ;o) > > > Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reb

Re: [CentOS] What is writing to my filesystem

all iotop.i386 I believe. > > On 4/9/09, D Tucny wrote: > > >From the iotop site at http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ - Iotop is a > Python > > program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the > > I/O going on. It requires Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux

Re: [CentOS] What is writing to my filesystem

>From the iotop site at http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ - Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on. It requires Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20. Neither of which are standard in CentOS... d 2009/4/10 David Lemcoe > Oh my. I

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.3 upgrade and duplicate processes running

2009/4/10 Melinda Odom > Hi, > I have a P4 3.2 linux server. > > Every since I upgrade to centos 5.3 I see duplicates when running top -c > like: > > 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 [ksoftirqd/0] > 4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [watchdog/0] > 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 [migr

Re: [CentOS] xview not in 5.3

2009/4/6 Jerry Geis > I used xview in 5.2 from package xloadimage. > > This doesnt seem to be present in 5.3 > Has it moved to a different package? > yum provides "*/xview" didnt return anything. > The xloadimage package is not in 5.3, but, it is in the Fedora EPEL repository... According to yo

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009/4/6 Ron Blizzard > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> >> Oh, that is surely a ground-breaking feature that no mail program has >> implemented for umpteen years. ;-) >> > > A bit of sarcasm, perhaps? :~) > > What I meant is that it keeps all messages on one subject in a

Re: [CentOS] what requires lm_sensors?

2009/4/4 Kai Schaetzl > I found that lm_sensors got installed because of a dependency on my first > Xen VM that I updated to 5.3. lm_sensors doesn't make sense in a VM. I > thought, ok let's check after the update who wants it. However: > > rpm -q --whatrequires lm_sensors > no package requires l

Re: [CentOS] Yum trying to install both i386 and x64 binaries

2009/4/3 James Matthews > Hi, > > I am trying to install lighttpd and yum wants to install both versions. > > == > PackageArch >

Re: [CentOS] Out of sync mirror / nss error

2009/4/2 Karanbir Singh > Kingsly John wrote: > > centos.mirror.nac.net is out of sync (at least for updates) > > > > http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ > > > > > > you should really be getting in touch with the admin of that mirror - > almost none of the mirrors admins will be

Re: [CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009/4/1 Rob Kampen > Scott Silva wrote: > >> What are you attempting to achieve? Having both nics on the same subnet >> doesn't make a lot of sense to me. >> >> > Scott > Good point, I guess I'm suffering from incremental additions over the last > 4 years and no real look at the overall architec

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009/3/26 nate > Luke S Crawford wrote: > > Les Mikesell writes: > >> If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you > >> typically get download access to all of the firmware updates. > > > > Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend network, 100M is > just > > fin

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009/3/27 RedShift > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > RedShift wrote: > > ... > >> Not only do you > >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 > >> arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during > >> reconstruction. > > > > Is this right? > > > > When I h