Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-23 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Try this > http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade. Would excluding everything up to the 5.4

[CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-22 Thread Jonathan Moore
Good afternoon folks. Earlier today, I started upgrading a few of our servers to 5.4 based on input from the list. So far, all has gone well. I have about 6 servers (not very many, but still) that need to be upgraded. Instead of taking precious bits from the mirrors for each upgrade, I was cur

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matt wrote: > Just curious, why the move from Debian to CentOS? There is very little in the way of technical reasoning for it. Mostly it was a call by those in charge. We still have several servers running Debian doing various network related tasks. DNS and mai

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Thanks for the input folks. I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes. Very good to know. -jonathan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > But the latency over the net is much higher. > Who knows if the kernel can handle this in all situations? I could see it taking longer to notice a failed disk then it normally *should*. I wonder what type of impact this would have. -jonat

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can > combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and > export via nfs and/or smb to the systems that want shared space.  However, the If you did

[CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending "CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN?" threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Daniel Bird wrote: > > Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: >> List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ >> > Thanks for not reading my post. See "I can't find it in the archives or > via Google" in the text below. Spent a few minutes looking at the the arc

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

2009-10-18 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: ---8< > I imagine the following scenario: someone walks into my office building with a > laptop (a colleague, a visitor, a guest, whoever), and hooks up onto the local > net (wired or wireless). The server detects an unknown MAC address,

Re: [CentOS] LF examples - using site-specific RPMs for config

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 09/14/2009 05:35 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> A week or two ago someone mentioned something about using their own >> home-grown RPMs for managing config info on their boxes. > > this is a really really bad idea. I'd suggest you dont waste yo

Re: [CentOS] Opinions on bonding modes?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Rick Barnes wrote: 8< > Since my switch *does* support 802.3ad, including layers 2,3 and 4 > hashing, should I use mode=4? Or would one of the other modes be > "better" for providing fail-over and link-aggregation, specifically > balance-tlb or balance-alb. Are y