Re: [CentOS] OT: Why VM?

2011-05-27 Thread Rob Lines
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I have been working off and on with Xen and KVM on a couple of test hosts for that past year or so and while now everything seems to function as expected, more or less, I find myself asking the question: Why? We run

Re: [CentOS] how to debug hardware lockups?

2008-11-18 Thread Rob Lines
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you leave memtest86+ running for 2 days? I thought 1 or 2 cycles would be good enough? I'm hoping to pick-up the server in the next 2 hours then I can see what happens when I run memtest86+ or other tests Yes,

[CentOS] Re: pam max locked memory issue after updating to 5.2 and rebooting

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Lines
It has been a few days so I am sending this again incase someone has seen this issue and might have a seen this problem or has a suggestion of where to look and why it might not be taking these settings with 5.2 when it did with 5.1 On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Rob Lines [EMAIL PROTECTED

[CentOS] pam max locked memory issue after updating to 5.2 and rebooting

2008-08-04 Thread Rob Lines
We were previously running 5.1 x86_64 and recently updated to 5.2 using yum. Under 5.1 we were having problems when running jobs using torque and the solution had been to add the following items to the files noted * softmemlock unlimited in /etc/security/limits.conf session

[CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Lines
I am looking for an app that would run from the terminal and would emulate a bash shell (or pass everything to the shell) that would allow me to set a log file and then record all my input and the output to the screen from the commands. As an added bonus if it would allow me to run it from two

[CentOS] Autofs and mount/umount entries in the nfs server logs

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Lines
I am using autofs for a number of machines connecting nfs shares. All the mount and unmount log entries on the server are being saved to /var/log/messages currently. This is becoming a bit of a pain because as the number of hosts increase and various monitoring scripts check to be sure that they

Re: [CentOS] connect to novell 6.5 server

2008-02-22 Thread Rob Lines
I had a thread on this a bit back here is the set of instructions that I ended up using: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-January/074771.html Here is my follow up to it with additions as we were not using IPX: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/078492.html The

Re: [CentOS] Cluster fun

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Lines
On Feb 4, 2008 10:38 PM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've priced some 1 and 2U Dell servers. Now, I'd like to perform a price comparison of COTS hardware for 1 and 2U servers. What VAR companies do people recommend I check out for putting machines together? I'm perfectly

[CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Rob Lines
I have just finished creating an array on our new enclosure and our CentOS 5 server has recognized it. It shows as the full 6tb in the LSI configuration utility as well as when I ran fdisk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]# fdisk /dev/sdb Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512) The number of cylinders for

Re: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Rob Lines
On Feb 4, 2008 3:34 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Lines wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with LVM, you could join several smaller logical drives, maybe 1TB each, into a single volume set, which could then contain

Re: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Rob Lines
On Feb 4, 2008 3:16 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with LVM, you could join several smaller logical drives, maybe 1TB each, into a single volume set, which could then contain various file systems. That looks like it may be the result. The main reason was to keep the amount of

Re: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Rob Lines
This would appear to be your problem. Unless you have strong reasons to use 2K sectors, I'd change them to the much more standard 512. After that, parted should have no issues whatsoever. In looking back through the configuration. The 2kb sectors were set in the Array in the Variable

Re: [CentOS] Large RAID volume issues

2008-02-04 Thread Rob Lines
On Feb 4, 2008 4:49 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:To move an external array to a new server is as easy as plugging it in and importing the volume group (vgimport). Typically I name my OS volume groups CentOS and give semi-descriptive names to my external array volume groups,

[CentOS] Interesting PXE server setup question

2008-01-24 Thread Rob Lines
While this is not a problem with CentOS I am hoping to solve the situation using a CentOS machine. For anyone not interested I am sorry to clutter your mail box. For everyone else any ideas or suggestions are welcome. A bit of background: We have an application that runs only in DOS 6.22 at

Re: [CentOS] SCSI controller suggestions for a 5.x server?

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lines
Sorry for the delay. I have been out of the office for a few days. On Dec 5, 2007 10:11 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Lines wrote: We are preparing for a new file server (Dell 2970) with an external disk array with integrated RAID (raidking.com http://raidking.com

Re: [CentOS] monitoring rsync backups on centos

2007-08-30 Thread Rob Lines
We went really simple with all the rsync commands being run from the same machine. We point all the output from the rsync to a log file in /var/log and then I usually just tail the file on a daily basis. Also if it runs into actual errors cron ends up mailing directly. We use this on our

Re: [CentOS] CentOS based router dropping connections

2007-07-26 Thread Rob Lines
On 7/24/07, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jesse Cantara wrote: So basically, what I can figure from all of the evidence at this point is the problem is either: default configuration of the network in CentOS isn't proper for what I'm doing (can't handle the traffic or number of