Re: [CentOS] packages in "base" that are not in "nobase"

2007-10-24 Thread Johnn Tan
Centos wrote: Not sure if I understand want you mean, but... You can do a nobase install, list all installed packages (rpm -qa), and save this to a file. Then install the base, en list all installed packages again. Export again to a file en diff those two files... Ah, I should've thought of

Re: [CentOS] packages in "base" that are not in "nobase"

2007-10-24 Thread Johnn Tan
Johnny Hughes wrote: Probably the easiest way to do what you want is to look at the comps.xml file directly. Awesome! A bit hard to read, but it was exactly what I was looking for. It actually has the "core" group and the "base" group separate! Thanks Johnny. johnn

[CentOS] packages in "base" that are not in "nobase"

2007-10-23 Thread Johnn Tan
Is there a way to list the packages that are in a "base" install, but that are not in a "nobase" (core) install? I did a nobase install, then ran "yum groupinstall Base", but this just lists everything in base, including the core packages. Mainly, I'm just looking to audit the packages, and

Re: [CentOS] mdadm exim mysql

2007-10-15 Thread Johnn Tan
Jim Perrin wrote: This is an odd dep chain. It would seem that exim requires mysql for some odd reason. mdadm doesn't, but does require that the system have an smtp-daemon, which is a dep satisfied by exim, postfix, or sendmail. mostly, install sendmail or postfix, and you can then remove exim a

[CentOS] mdadm exim mysql

2007-10-15 Thread Johnn Tan
I installed a CentOS-5 core OS (using --nobase in my kickstart). For some reason, it included mysql-5.0.22. When I do "yum remove mysql", it says it will also remove exim and mdadm for dependencies. I don't care that exim will be removed, but I need mdadm as I'm doing software RAID. But wh

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-07 Thread Johnn Tan
semi linux wrote: > The only thin I can think of is that maybe my crypted password > contains an escape sequence that might not be properly handled in > anaconda? The crypted password might end on a character like '/' or '.' -- are you grabbing the complete string? johnn ___

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-06 Thread Johnn Tan
semi linux wrote: Here is the relevant section of the kickstart: (does prompt for pw): lang en_US keyboard us timezone America/Los_Angeles --utc rootpw textpw # rootpw --iscrypted *** reboot logging --level=debug graphical # text install autostep --autoscreenshot driverdisk -

Re: [CentOS] Chrooting SFTP over SSH2

2007-09-05 Thread Johnn Tan
Nigel Kendrick wrote: As per the subject line - if I look up setting up chroot jails for SFTP over SSH2 I'm led to various Web sites and patches and also to a CentOS wiki page dated 2005, but what's the 'best' or 'correct' way to set this up for Centos 4.5 and 5? Yeah, it's going to be a patch/

Re: [CentOS] Re: rootpw and graphical mode?

2007-09-05 Thread Johnn Tan
semi linux wrote: Sorry, should have specified - I'm using kickstart to load my machine(s). On 9/4/07, semi linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there some kind of caveat to using the rootpw --iscrypted directive and then specifying a graphical install? I'm able to do this with no prompts. I

Re: [CentOS] nfs installation

2007-08-15 Thread Johnn Tan
ok i got the nfs-utils installed how do i start the daemon? im install nfs-server on centos 4.5 by the way. I don't know if 4.5 is radically different, but on 5.0, nfs came with the base install. I simply added my directory-to-share & permissions in /etc/exports then did a "service nfs start

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-07 Thread Johnn Tan
Daniel de Kok wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:54 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: What error messages are you seeing? On one of my machines, I have four domU's (kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen), each with 4 VCPUs. I don't see any errors in any of the domU's dmesg. But /proc/cpuinfo show

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Johnn Tan
Daniel de Kok wrote: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:55 -0400, Johnn Tan wrote: Assigning all the VCPUs. Having more than one vcpu currently emits non-fatal error messages, at least with the C5 domU kernel. I didn't have time to look into that yet. What error messages are you seeing? On one

Re: [CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Johnn Tan
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Of course you need physical volumes but look for a storage solution that will also run as direct to disk as possible, maybe something based on the newer SATA/SAS where the RAID logic is built into the enclosure and a plain SATA/SAS card is in the server which can be activ

[CentOS] "near native" performance with xen?

2007-08-06 Thread Johnn Tan
Just wondering if there was a howto or other URL that explains what is needed to achieve "near native" performance on a xen domU -- for this purpose, I am thinking about a single domU running on a physical server, in comparison to that same physical server running the same kernel but non-xenif

[CentOS] tomcat error on x86_64 with 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen & jre 1.6.*

2007-08-03 Thread Johnn Tan
I get the same error as this person: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9349 Like the poster, I get the error with tomcat 6.0.13 on x86_64, kernel 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5xen and both jre 1.6.0_01 and 1.6.0_02 When I revert to jre 5u12 on the same kernel, I don't get the prob