Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ned Slider wrote on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:34:57 +0100: quote # Frequency scaling on AMD rev F CPUs under Xen can result in # timekeeping problems for fully virtualized guests, so we disable # it by default. if [ -d /proc/xen ] [ $cpu_vendor == AuthenticAMD ] \ [

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:20 +0200: I disagree about the reason. I think they are actually not so efficient. At least not if I compare to a low-voltage CPU. Just checked how much that AMD 4850e CPU drains under various conditions. There are *huge* differences. I checked

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:08:55 +0200: Hm, it occurs to me now that the older cpu where the time warning doesn't appear runs already on Xen 3.2.1 which may already have some patch to avoid this bug. Or it simply doesn't report it anymore :-) The warning is gone after

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ned Slider wrote on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:51:41 +0100: Were you able to observe any drops in VCore voltage between load, idle (2500MHz) and 1000MHz with lm_sensors? I can't get any other sensor data than the core temperatures. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
S.Tindall wrote on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:08:03 -0400: http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUFilter.aspx Thanks, nice tool! Checking the cpuinfo on systems using a 4850e (G2) and a 4600+ EE (F2) both give cpu family: 15, so they have included the Gs in the excluded group, too. Yeah.

[CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I've been playing and comparing frequency scaling between AMD and Intel CPUs yesterday and there seem to be great differences between AMD and Intel and some gotchas. This is all on CentOS 5.2 with latest Xen kernels (which are supposed to be powersaving-enabled since 5.2). AMD: It seems once I

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:31:19 +0200: I have a somewhat related question. That very new AMD CPU mentioned above was not recognized by CentOS 5.2 and the current frequency was shown as 80 (instead of 250), although it was running in full speed. The latest kernel

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ned Slider wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:09:39 +0100: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15484forum=37 Thanks for the URL, see below! Bottom line - the power saving between having frequency scaling enabled or not was surprisingly small (only 2-3W). It would appear

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:31:19 +0200: Actually, not the latest kernel. The CentOS xen boot (hypervisor) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 (and maybe earlier) ones calculates the frequency correct, the Xen 3.2 boot kernel (xen.gz-3.2) from the Xen 3.2 package offered

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:59:49 +0200: 5 minutes later: oh, yes, it does! Now I got it to 0% idle and current frequency jumped to 2333000 (although current scaling frequency was still shown at 200, on AMDs both figures rise).Looks like a clear bug in the centrino kernel

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Admin Admin wrote on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:27:52 -0700 (PDT): Could I do it on any system or a system with similar architecture? I don't know. Is it possible to generate the initrd using a live CD? Probably. You may want to have a look at the jailtime.org images. They should have a complete

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
S.A. wrote on Sat, 2 Aug 2008 07:04:42 -0700 (PDT): Their image file seems to contain everything excepting for vmlinuz and initrd. Ah, well, could be so. I forgot about that. That's a dead end, then ;-) tried to go thru a different route to accomplish the above. I tried to use

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 triggers SE Linux denial

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:23:40 -0700: I don't know SE Linux touch /.autorelabel, reboot and wait. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I converted a physical maschine running CentOS 4.6 to a Xen VM on a CentOS 5 host. Almost everything was running when I decided to rsync /lib and /usr a while later in order to get updated files and get the one or two non-working programs to work. There are differences because of the xenU

[CentOS] Re: Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:46 +0200: Quation Question Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:46 +0200: Looking around I don't have this module for the old kernel (2.6.9-67) either. It's obviously in the initrd. But how do I create a new one if there is no ata_piix module coming with the kernel? Can I install the corresponding normal

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:45:38 +0300: I did it several times. You rebooted several times, you did not force a check I think. You have to boot with the rescue CD and then do a thorough fsck on the filesystem. Maybe on each one of the disks separately, don't know. The boot-up

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:45:43 -0500: maybe that modules.conf file came from a normal machine and not the xen machine. No, but it's not the problem anyway, I didn't think about the initrd at first. I used the last CentOS 4 image that jailtime.org distributed (CentoS 4.5)

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:52:09 +0300: The problem is there is a raid card kernel module loads during boot. If I boot the rescue disk, /mnt/raid will not be mounted. Ah, right, I read your device dm-0 as md0 and assumed a software RAID. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:34:49 +0200: Can I just copy it over from 2.6.9-67.0.22.EL to the 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELxenU tree and then build my new initrd? Answering myself: yes, I can. It's running with the nww kernel now. There's only a warning about non-matching symbols during

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Admin Admin wrote on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT): What is the best way to get the xen enabled CentOS 5.2 vmlinuz and initrd images for use as a guest domain (domU) on Ubuntu host domain (dom0). virt-install on a CentOS 5.2 system and transfer the image over to Ubuntu. Admin Admin

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-07-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:08:48 +0300: But, file system of this volume once in a while goes read only mode. there will be log entries about this. Do a *forced* fsck. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] stale NFS locks

2008-07-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Nate wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:36:18 -0700 (PDT): -l -f Ah, well, good to know. I did it the last few times by editing mtab. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-07-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:34:00 +0300: I am not sure which other log file has entries about this problem messages will have the warning from when it goes in read-only mode, that's the important one! EXT3-fs warning (device dm-0): ext3_clear_journal_err: Filesystem error

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org Lanny Marcus wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:51:12 -0500: https://rpmrepo.org/FrontPage/People Just to remind again, there is no need to use https here ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:30:11 +0200: Why are you interested in the SMART information? Curiousity ;-) I'm not familiar with RAID controllers, so I don't know yet what they might do or not. Thanks for the info! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:01 +0100: I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... If this is an XP system and the MBR set

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:51:49 +0100: I mean, who carries such a CD with them to a week-long meeting? Well, I used to take my setup CD with me for a while when I took the laptop with me. It should even suffice if you can get a time-bombed demo CD. It can also be Win2k

Re: [CentOS] Wiki updates needed for rpmrepo.org when it's up running

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:11:08 -0500: The change from RPMForge to rpmrepo.org requires some minor updates to several Wiki pages. There is no change yet. Just use rpmforge or ATrpms like you used to use it. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS 6's upstream be based on Fedora 10?

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:50 -0400: RHEL is based on Fedora: hence, my question... then you would want to ask at RH. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Wiki updates needed for rpmrepo.org when it's up running

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:01:27 -0500: when I tried: rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm I got an error back. because this won't work. Download and install. You should do this *always* when you get an error remote

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Scott Silva wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:49:42 -0700: I am wondering if any standard Microsoft boot sector might work. I could probably e-mail you a CD image of a dos 7.1 bootdisk if fdisk /mbr would work. I have never tried it, and maybe I'll quickly fire up a VM image of XP and try it.

Re: [CentOS] Wiki updates needed for rpmrepo.org when it's up running

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:08:54 -0500: https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using which includes this: You will find I already quoted this link. And remove the s! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Mounting File Share Using CIFS ?'s

2008-07-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
TechGuy wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:04:27 -0500: I know with most mailing lists its common practice to flame every newbie with read something emails. this was not a flame at all. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mark Walker wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:37 -0700: When I get the list of packages to be updated, there are things that I don't recognize having installed. Nevertheless, they probably *are* installed. There's a lot been installed during setup and because of dependencies. rpm -q

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Duffner wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:46:58 +0200: It's know for consuming some CPU. A-h-a. But taking a quick look on the support site (HP.com - Support/Drivers- Servers-Proliant-DL140G3), tried that, I just reach the same arena Download drivers and software - HP ProLiant DL140 G3

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mogens Kjaer wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:14:16 +0200: BigBrother is watching the machines, using /sbin/hplog from hpasm to query the state of the fans, powersupplies and temperatures. Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, that hangs like hpasmcli is hanging. I may be missing something (kernel

[CentOS] securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I want to secure some remote rsyncs over ssh by using the command= option in .authorized_keys. As I understand I can use only the full command there, as it is not a list of allowed commands but the command that will be executed when logging in with this key. Now, I'm running several rsync

Re: [CentOS] securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mike wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:43:09 -0700 (MST): By 'secure some remote rsyncs' do you mean only allow rsync but not interactive login? If so perhaps this will meet your needs: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html This looks good. It uses a script on the remote side that checks the

Re: [CentOS] securing rsync over ssh

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Glenn wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:17:08 -0400: I wanted to reply with a solution, but I did not quite understand the problem. The problem is that if you use a forced command in authorized_keys that is the only command that runs with this key. If you want to use a few more, even if they

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Rcpt-To: centos@centos.org Paul Johnson wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:29:13 -0500: People keep sending me to RPMforge, but apparently you don't go there yourselves to see you are sending me nowhere. Nobody could be aware that you do not know about rpmforge and know your

Re: [CentOS] Extended characters not working on CentOS

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:49:36 -0700: What's going on? You need a font that supports this character-set: big5. (View Source, see meta tags.) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John R Pierce wrote on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:18:29 -0700: thats great, but they really ought to fix the certificates on that rpmrepo.org site, or stop using https Nobody's forced to use that: http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using Somebody started using an https URL in this thread and so this

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200: For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager agents. I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- hour searching on the site I finally found an hpasm package that seems to be it. They

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700: Or maybe it makes the machine feel good Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down the daemon (with all of its agents) the core

[CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when starting up smartd: Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Configuration file

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Perrin wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:07:19 -0400: This depends on the raid controller. Ah, I see. I listed them in the reply to Rainer. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Duffner wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:39:34 +0200: What controller would that be? It's Dell SAS 6iR and HP 8 Port HBA Host Controller (as they call it). Both are LSI 1068-based, not sure if exactly the same chip. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert - elists wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:24 -0700: /dev/ida/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0 I looked around, but none of these :-( /dev/disk points to pci ids and then to /dev/sda etc. It's a PCI-based controller that HP calls HP 8 Port HBA Controller or so. In a DL140 G3. Kai -- Kai

Re: [CentOS] looking for Ubuntu config for Dag Wieers' mrepo

2008-07-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:48:41 +0200: Where did u get that? I don't see it on my side? It's in the mail that was distributed to the list. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:19:14 +0200: I've never used labels before CentOS uses labels in grub.conf and fstab by default if you do a standard installation (no mdraid devices), I wasn't aware that you can use labels in connection with md devices. I'd be interested in that as

Re: [CentOS] yum search prints 13 times the same package results

2008-07-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sven wrote on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:20:09 +0200: Why yum search prints 13 times the same results? It's not the same package, just the same output. Functionality of search has been reduced in 5.2. Use yum list. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tony Mountifield wrote on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:47:04 + (UTC): Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? AFAIK, VMWare uses vmnet32 drivers for ethernet and possibly others for other devices as

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:49 +0100: I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies. Ah, thanks, I thought I had installed an rpm earlier that didn't have dependencies, but I couldn't find the machine I did it on. I disabled the kbs repo and I'm now getting it.

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:05 +0100: you can specify noarch on the install line. that's what I did, I was just curious. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [Fwd: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?]

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Andylockran wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:43:45 +0100: If you do have an issue with fail2ban, it does pretty much the same thing. fail2ban from rpmforge works fine. It's missing the filter for dovecot, though, and got wrong filters for many other services. Here are some that I just figured

Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tim Verhoeven wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:15:49 +0200: For restricting traffic at the dom0 level I use ebtables (it's like iptables but on a bridge level). It allows you to to basic filtering between the real interfaces (from the dom0) and virtual interfaces (from the domU's). This off

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot from DVD on an Intel Svr to install CentOS 5.2

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William Warren wrote on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:04:43 -0400: checkout the bugtracker..this is a long running issue. The issue stems from newer servers/computers using sata optical drives. Looks like you mean: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2622 I think I have the same issue. I want to boot

[CentOS] moving software RAIDed disks to other machine

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I just replaced two md-raided (RAID1) disks with bigger ones and decided to check out how far I get with them when I put them in another machine. The kernel boots and then panics when it wants to mount the root filesystem on the disk. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays md: autorun md: autorun DONE

Re: [CentOS] moving software RAIDed disks to other machine

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:14:25 -0400: Most likely different controller, Ah, well, right. I'm used from Windows that it doesn't matter much. ;-) The rescue system seems to use ata_piix. Unfortunately, I'm now getting a weird Error: 0 with all of my last boots once it looks

Re: [CentOS] Personal Wiki for CentOS

2008-07-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
And it's got a lot of helpful plugins. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:48 +0200: /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. leave /dev/sdb1 the same size as /dev/sda1 and call it /boot2 and try to remember to copy /boot to /boot2 each time you update the kernel. I understand this, but how

Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John Thomas wrote on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:44:14 -0700: but I think everything is the same, as if you have physical machines. It's not, see my remark about forwarding ;-) Maybe you need forwarding on your physical machines, I do not ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

[CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I took over a custom firewall script from my older Suse machines to my Dom-Us and it works just fine. Doing the same for Dom-0 immediately killed all traffic for the VMs. As there was no need before I had been dropping everything on the FORWARD chain. After ACCEPTing all for FORWARD my VMs are

Re: [CentOS] looking for motherboard / temp / hdd monitor, other than lmsensors

2008-07-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:47:28 -0400: I don't know if it's good or what you want, but I use gkrellm relies on lm_sensors according to the homepage. (and sys_fs, AFAIK lm_sensors picks up sys_fs if it's available.) I'm having the same problems with lm_sensors with newer

Re: [CentOS] using new sysconfig file

2008-07-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ian Blackwell wrote on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:34:51 +0930: I got similar errors by corrupting my /etc/sysconfig/postgrey file, by putting text into the delay value - i.e. I replaced 660 with 66O. I suggest you recreate the file (from scratch) to make sure you haven't got some odd binary data

Re: [CentOS] looking for motherboard / temp / hdd monitor, other than lmsensors

2008-07-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jarmo wrote on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:49:50 +0300: Look mbmon/xmbon at http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/mbmon/ It seems the current version of this software (http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/download.html) is older than anything I get with CentOS. I found an interesting

[CentOS] using new sysconfig file

2008-07-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I installed postgrey from rpmforge and wanted to use sysconfig to change options instead of overwriting the init file. However, I get a weird warning from postgrey. I'm not sure if this is a postgrey quirk or I use sysconfig the wrong way. /etc/sysconfig/postgrey:

Re: [CentOS] /etc/pam.d/system-auth changes in update

2008-07-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 23:08:44 -0400: The exact same question came up two weeks ago. And the answers were confusing at least me ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] UTF-8 support in PCRE

2008-07-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Amitava Shee wrote on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:27:35 -0400: PCRE in CentOS does not have unicode properties enabled. But that's different from what you claimed earlier! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] UTF-8 support in PCRE

2008-07-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Hyclak wrote on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:59:51 -0400: What should I do instead, if I can't return to insanity? go forward to it! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and 2.6.18-92 Kernel backported SATA fixes?

2008-07-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Rock wrote on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:35:38 -0700 (PDT): it showed this model tested ok with Redhat Redhat is not a distribution, what exactly got it tested with? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Can't run a bash script from USB drive

2008-07-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
MHR, this has been asked already yesterday. *Please* do read other posts! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jim Perrin wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:47:03 -0400: This is a known issue with rpm's http code. It doesn't do cookies. It can't really follow redirects (302 or otherwise) well, and generally it's a hack. Ah, well, now I understand. Yes, there occurs a redirect. It once used to work, with

Re: [CentOS] Anaconda ignores cmdline directive

2008-07-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Amos Shapira wrote on Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:12:41 +1000: For a start, the cmdline directive in the kickstart seems to be ignored and it stays in text (ncurses) mode. I'm using cmdline all the time and there *is* a difference to text. The output is b/w and if it has to fallback to the gui that

Re: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kevin Thorpe wrote on Fri, 4 Jul 2008 15:29:40 +0100: I'm not bothered about an odd 45GB, it's that df says it's only 94GB in total that worries me. There's no chance you or the software somehow confuses that 100GB partition with the big one? I mean 94 GB ~ 100 GB. Kai -- Kai Schätzl,

Re: [CentOS] Can't run a bash script from USB drive

2008-07-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:47:39 -0700: I ran a search for usb script in the archives and did not find anything - pray tell, where was I so blind? It's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running shell scripts from external media. Maybe it got lost in your spam filter? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin,

Re: [CentOS] INIT 5 and system is gone

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:54:11 -0400: Is this formatted better? Were you referring to my remark about unreadability? I replied to John. Your's are always good to read, although you could trim a bit ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:46:12 -0400: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error unknown url type: media Searching the local folder of this list reveals two older postings from you about this (one from December, one a few days ago). It seems to indicate that your repo is not

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Moskowitz wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:49:47 -0400: I should also mention that right now, I have a fresh install foranother system running off this repo. Then, as Toby says, there might be something wrong with your local yum/repo config. If I recall right you have a few (5.1, 5.2)

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
And both repos are synced and correct version, base and updates? I would check their content (including repodata.xml etc.) against the CentOS mirrors for 5. I would expect an error like this when the repodata.xml contains the file, but it isn't on the repo (which could happen if one excludes

[CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I wanted to install the rpmforge-release package on a new install and get the following. Do others have the same problem? b51:~ rpm -ivvvh http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge- release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm Retrieving

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge-release install/rpm problem

2008-07-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Karanbir Singh wrote on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:22:21 +0100: go look at the http code in rpm :D do you get the same result? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] INIT 5 and system is gone

2008-07-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You do realize that it's almost impossible to recognize what it is that you answered? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild of kernel 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL failure

2008-07-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Next time you want to present such a massive amount of logs put them up on the web and warn people ;-) Thanks. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.co ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] New open-vm-tools available

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:07:04 -0500: open-vm-tools Just read up on them here: http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Question: do they already provide any value to non-VMWare vm's, like Xen? They just mention that for the future. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:09:17 -0400: IMO, it's never OK w/o first examining the effects. The rpmnew is provided specifically because replacing the previous one may be highly destructive to the aims of that system's users/admins. I've not looked, but I suspect the

Re: [CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Toby Bluhm wrote on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:54:29 -0400: rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/pam.d/system-auth pam-0.99.6.2-3.27.el5 rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac authconfig-5.3.21-3.el5 So, possible conclusion: they want to make pam self-sufficient, thus replacing the symlink to a

Re: [CentOS] Problem with Sendmail + Apache

2008-06-30 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Daniel Bruno wrote on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:01:06 -0400: and in other server works fine with the permissions 770. Probably, on that other server you don't have a web application that wants to access the local client queue directly. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

Re: [CentOS] New yum search behavior is awful/useless

2008-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Brian wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:48:09 -0400 (EDT): yum provides how does this provide any old functionality of search? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] spam filtering with centos 5.2

2008-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John R Pierce wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:59:38 -0700: In the past I've used a combination of spamhaus combined RBL's and Spamassassin with Mailscanner as my spam recipe, but this stopped working very well for me well over a year ago. How come? I have several MailScanner machines with

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail with Google Apps SMTP

2008-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
AnneWilson wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:04:53 +0100: I use sendmail.postfix, simply setting KMail with the settings listed in http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799. Doesn't that supply what you want? He wants to use sendmail with Google as a smarthost, you are not using

Re: [CentOS] Copy of own messages

2008-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sorin Srbu wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:37:37 +0200: I use Gmail too. What is it that Gmail does that might cause this behaviour?? They probably skip duplicate message-ids. Some mail clients allow this to be configurable, maybe there's an option at Gmail as well? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin,

[CentOS] system-auth.rpmnew

2008-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
The upgrade to 5.2 creates /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew. I see that /etc/pam.d/system-auth actually is a symlink to system-auth-ac. Is it recommended to replace that symlink with the rpmnew file? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS-virt] gnome desktop XDMCP in domU

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Why did this go to virt? Just because you run Xen, not every problem belongs here. Anyway, I would like to ask you not to cross-post. I hope that request sounds reasonable. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Clamd not working

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anne Wilson wrote on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:43:06 +0100: I'm guessing that daily.cld main.cld and mirrors.dat are being sought somewhere other than /var/clamav. did you test if clamscan works? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

[CentOS] chkconfig update fails

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
My update to 5.2 fails on one machine because of this error: Transaction Check Error: file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2 conflicts with file from package AcronisAgentLinux-9.5.8076-1 file /etc/init.d from install of chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2 conflicts with file from package

Re: [CentOS] chkconfig update fails

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Shade-GE wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:50:15 +0200: I had similar problems, the only way i found out quick and dirty was to remove the acronis packages and install it again after yum finished. Doesn't the removal create dependency problems as it should try to remove /etc/init.d? I forced the

Re: [CentOS] chkconfig update fails

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:58:49 -0500: Install that single file via rpm with force? rpm -Uvh --force pkg_name That's what I was asking ;-) have done so in the meantime after I had confirmed that yum really doesn't have it. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web

Re: [CentOS] Kernel - pata_via

2008-06-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Grzesiek wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:21:14 +0200: Why standard Centos 5.2 kernel does not have a module pata_via. I have an old motherboard and IDE drive. FYI: I just upgraded a machine with old motherboard (VIA KT400 chipset), Athlon XP and IDE drives with no problems and no pata_via driver

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