Re: [CentOS] Graphical net install-OT

2008-09-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John, All the kickstart options are in the online RedHat docs either at redhat.com or CentOS.org. -Ross On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:38 AM, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JohnStanley Writes: Ross, Not to sound stupid or anything but where did you find all the options for building your ki

RE: [CentOS] Graphical net install

2008-09-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Test wrote: > > Is it at all possible to do a graphical netinstall ? > > I am using centos 5.2, and i have been doing net installs (pxe) for a > while in console mode... The pxeboot initrd and vmlinuz are in the boot directory on CD 1. Copy those to the tftpboot directory, along with your pxeli

RE: [CentOS] "Treason uncloaked!"

2008-09-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: > > got a centos5.2 web/database server thats on a public coloc, its dmesg > fills up with > > > TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window > 354477433:354478918. Repaired. > TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window >

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mike McCarty wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > [snip good advice] > > > Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning! > > > > VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're > > all good for learning! > &

RE: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: > > IMVMHO, having been brand new to CentOS but a long time Linux user and > sometimes administrator, delving into the depths of the kernel, > returning to the Linux email list world (as an idiot AND a newbie) and > now charged in part with porting a major real-life real-time app from >

RE: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? > > If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of > > such a process from bogging down a server to severely. > > There is ionice (assuming CentOS-5) i

RE: [CentOS] establish a 128 bit encrypted tunnel between centos 5.2boxes

2008-08-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jerry Geis wrote: > > Is there an easy way or anyway to establish a 128 bit > encrypted tunnel between a handful of centos 5.2 boxes? > > I am not familiar with this at all. If it's just shell access, then ssh of course! If it's HTTP use HTTPS! If it's SMTP use TLS. And so on... If it's for

RE: [CentOS] apache

2008-08-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jeff wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Mad Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I do the following > > > > vi /etc/sysconfig/httpd > > > > # Configuration file for the httpd service. > > > > # > > # The default processing model (MPM) is the process-based > > # 'prefork' model. A thread

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:25 PM, "Tom Lanyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a 5.0 DVD I think). The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm -- checksig' test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a large po

RE: [CentOS] Growing RAID5 on CentOS 4.6

2008-08-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:31:31PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > I wouldn't use Ubuntu or any Debian based distro cause it's EVMS just > > might bugger up the LVM config... > > Huh. Dunno what EVMS is, but thanks for the warning! EV

RE: [CentOS] Growing RAID5 on CentOS 4.6

2008-08-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:05:30PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Stephen Harris wrote: > > > Or you could just boot from a LiveCD of a distro that was this and > > run a conversion there, it would make it unavailable during the > > conv

RE: [CentOS] Growing RAID5 on CentOS 4.6

2008-08-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 02:50:29PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > It would probably be faster to backup, rebuild and restore too... > > The whole reason I need to extend like this is because I > don't have any > easy way of backing up 1.3

RE: [CentOS] Growing RAID5 on CentOS 4.6

2008-08-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > A RAID-5 set can be expanded by adding extra drives. This > > requires "restriping" the array which means (almost) every > > block must be written to a different place. > > > > This option allows such restripin

RE: [CentOS] Growing RAID5 on CentOS 4.6

2008-08-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:41:25PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > How about simply > > % mdadm --grow /dev/md3 > > % mdadm --grow /dev/md3 > mdadm: no changes to --grow > > > What do you get with > > % mdadm --detail /dev/md3 > > /dev/md3: > Number Major

RE: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: > > I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 running CentOS 5.0 > out-of-box and a Dell MD3000i. I am new to iscsi and, with > google and included documentation, am having a heck of a > time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created on the > 3000i to be seen by the OS as usuab

RE: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Nifty Cluster Mitch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:04:16PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> I downloaded the .pdf version of "Thinking in C++" and I've > >> begun to read that and I did > >> yum groupinstall 'Develop

RE: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 06.08.2008 um 01:00 schrieb Lanny Marcus: > > > > > John: Thank you. I'm not sure how we will capture the video from the > > camera. If it's > > via Firewire, I will need to buy something to install in one of our > > PCs Last resort is doing > > it on Windows XP, wit

RE: [CentOS] Port Closing Question..

2008-07-31 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ryan Nichols wrote: > > Is there a software avail or a process that will monitor two ports and > if there is no traffic close them so the program that is using them can > reuse them? I talked to the vendor and they told me I needed to do this > on the NAT/Firewall , but I dont see anything lik

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

2008-07-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I have always wanted a distro in-between long term support and cutting edge. Say one that uses the kernel/command line part of a long term distro and the gui and gui apps of a cutting edge distro (maybe 1 back from the cutting edge). An kernel upgrade cycle of say 3 years, but a GUI that stays

RE: [CentOS] slow NFS speed

2008-07-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Marc Grimme wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 20:52:07 John R Pierce wrote: > > Mag Gam wrote: > > >> 70-80Mb/sec. > > > > > > MB, sorry :-) > > > > thats on the order of 700-800Mbit/sec, which is quite good for a single > > session on GigE. as others have said, the sort of bonding you're doing

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

2008-07-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:58 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Try Fedora 8, I know it doesn't have much life in it for updates, but > > it is the most solid Fedora out there right now, and it still is > > getting updates until Christmas. &g

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

2008-07-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > Hi All, > > The subject says it all. I'm asking because I've found Fedora 9 to be > buggy as hell - it is one of the worst Fedora releases I've ever used > (and I've been using it since Fedora Core 1). I'm putting up with it > for my work laptop, but it's not fun

Re: [CentOS] slow NFS speed

2008-07-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
70-80MB/s is good for NFS/CIFS networking given the 4k block size and network latency. It's not the MB/s driven by your storage system that get you it's the IOPS throttled by the network latency and two-way communication over it. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[E

RE: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-28-2008 2:30 PM D Steward spake the following: > >> Re-install with software RAID1. > >> > >> RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works > >> well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets > >> degraded! > > > > I agree with you re. CPU load, b

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
D Steward wrote: > > Re-install with software RAID1. > > > > RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works > > well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets > > degraded! > > I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto > rebuilding of arrays? Does sof

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Toby Bluhm > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > > > Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response > > > > Toby > > Ouch! Excuse me plz > > > >

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > > 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now "Duplicate PV" > shows at boot. Honestly >

RE: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: > Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my > DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should > have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that > from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't > rem

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Toby Bluhm wrote: > Toby Bluhm wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >> Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > >>> Hello, My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says > > > Never mind, mdadm don't apply with HW raid. Ah, but it would if a

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > Hello, > My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says > "duplicate PV" while booting, I don't think I was reading > them before. Any clues will be appreciated. > From what I recall: > 1) RAID 1 was setup (using firmware setup program) on a > machine with

RE: [CentOS] Re: preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > > > > > Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a > > performance boost? > > > Not a performance boost, but if the drive that swap is on fails while the OS > has data there the system can choke horribly or even die. Swap on raid can > sometimes be sli

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> 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. > >>>> le

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >>> Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi all > >>>> > >>>> I'm looking at setting up software RAID

Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos

2008-07-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
There is another way too, make the disk a raw PV (no partition table) and use LVM. LVM can handle PVs up to 2^64 in size. Then when creating LVs you only have to worry about what the max file system size is. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

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

2008-07-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 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 array

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > >> John R Pierce wrote: > >> > >>> Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>> > >>>> And then, how do I setup the partitioning? Do I setup /boot on a &g

RE: [CentOS] lvm errors after replacing drive in raid 10 array

2008-07-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mike wrote: > I thought I'd test replacing a failed drive in a 4 drive raid 10 array on > a CentOS 5.2 box before it goes online and before a drive really fails. > > I 'mdadm failed, removed', powered off, replaced drive, partitioned with > sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb, and finally 'mdad

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 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 k

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> And then, how do I setup the partitioning? Do I setup /boot on a > >> separate RAID "partition"? If so, what happens if I want to replace > >> the 1st 2 HDD's with bigger ones? > > > > > > each partition is raided seperately wi

RE: [CentOS] Need help with awk one-liner

2008-07-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sean Carolan wrote: > those are supposed to be tab-separated urls, all on one line. If 'ajpv12://' and ':8008/root' are always going to be the same: awk '/:8008\/root/ {printf $3 "\t"}' $x | sed 's/ajpv12:\/\///g' | sed 's/:8008\/root//g' If these change then your going to need either a more c

RE: [CentOS] Need help with awk one-liner

2008-07-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sean Carolan wrote: > This awk command pulls URLs from an apache config file, where $x is > the config filename. > > awk '/:8008\/root/ {printf $3 "\t"}' $x > > The URL that is output by the script looks something like this: > > ajpv12://hostname.network.company.com:8008/root > > Is there a wa

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

2008-07-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Sorin Srbu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And who might this "revered" Jim Perrin be? Obviously he seems to be some > > kind > > of big cheese, but what does he do etc? > > He certainly is. Jim sweeps the floors for CentOS. Known as "l

RE: [CentOS] Re: is CentOS an LSB certified product?

2008-07-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Sorry to ask this, but what exactly is the LSB? What will CentOS (and > probably) the community gain from it? I mean, apart from RedHat > Enterprise, Suse Enterpise and the other commercial Linux's, most other > linuxes are not certified AFAIK. > > I know CentOS stands out

RE: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

2008-06-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
David Mackintosh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:08:15AM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I want to look at setting up a simple / cheap SAN / NAS server using > > normal PIV motherboard, 2GB (or even more) RAM, Core 2 Duo CPU (probably > > a Intel 6700 / 6750 / 6800) & some SATA

RE: Yogunluk: Re: [CentOS] 5.1 to 5.2 upgrade - perfectly smoothe

2008-06-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Craig White wrote: > > Turkish vacation message > It looks like somebody randomly typed some words on a keyboard. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein an

[CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Somebody needs to remove this guy from the list. There is some dumb auto-reply rule either him or one of his sophomoric co-workers setup on his mail client. -Ross > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday,

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-06-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > > > /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. > > Wait. I thought mirror RAID is the same on-disk format like a plain > partition, so therefore a mirrored /boot will always boot. At > least, it always did for me. Yes, d

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-06-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > >> Hi all > >> > >> I'm looking at setting up software RAID 10, using CentOS 5.1 x64 - what > >> is the best way todo this? > >> > >

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-06-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all > > I'm looking at setting up software RAID 10, using CentOS 5.1 x64 - what > is the best way todo this? > > I'm reading some sources on the internet, and get a lot of different > "suggestions" > > 1 suggestion says to boot up with a Live CD like Knoppix or > Syst

RE: [CentOS] how to downgrade from CentOS 5.2 to CentOS 5.1?

2008-06-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>> Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I've run into some trouble with a new cPanel VPS, and noticed that > it's running CentOS by default, installed via the CentOS http server. > > My question is,

RE: [CentOS] centos 5.2 for real this time

2008-06-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Donald Buchan wrote: > Just reread your message. > > I was still having problems with the 2.0 centos version > coming back even > though I'd removed it. > > I tried Ross' suggesting, it removed things successfully (for both > 2.0.whatever and 2.4.1.) But the new 2.4.1 won't install because > "

RE: [CentOS] centos 5.2 for real this time

2008-06-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Donald Buchan wrote: > I did a yum update last night at about 23h15 EDT (-4). No upgrade. > > I just did a yum update this morning at about 08h45 (-4). for my system > there's about 348 megs of updates. > > Now all I have to do is figure out how to remove OO.o 2.0.whatever which > is being upgr

Re: [CentOS] lvm with iscsi devices on boot

2008-06-23 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Excellent! Glad it's working for you. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Sun Jun 22 04:09:59 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] lvm with iscsi devices on boot On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ross S. W. Wal

RE: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > > > of course, XFS can also fail spectacularly.ext3fs fully journals all > > metadata updates. I'm sure this is a major portion of the performance > > differences on writes. > > Actually, I've used XFS since the days it was released as a po

RE: [CentOS] need advise on protect base and priorities plugin

2008-06-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
D Steward wrote: > > Just for the record, basically protectbase is priorities with only 2 > > settings (0 and 1) > > Thanks for this. I was wondering if you could tell me the default > priority for the 'priorities' plugin? > I've made a point of ensuring that *every* repo gets a priority > even

RE: [CentOS] lvm with iscsi devices on boot

2008-06-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Raja Subramanian wrote: > Hi All, > > My CentOS 5.1 server is using iSCSI attached disks connecting > to a dual controller storage array. I have also configured multipathd > to manage the multiple paths. Everything works well, and on > boot the dev nodes are automatically created in /dev/mapper

RE: [CentOS] need advise on protect base and priorities plugin

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Ross S. W. Walker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Use priorities (newer) as it allows more flexible control > > over protectbase (older). > > > > Should we then uninstall the protectbase plugin

RE: [CentOS] need advise on protect base and priorities plugin

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
ceejay cervantes wrote: > Is it not ok to use both plugins at the same time? No it isn't. Use priorities (newer) as it allows more flexible control over protectbase (older). Other then that your configs look fine. -Ross __ Th

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I > > would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. > > Assuming that all software ever

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >> You need to go back and workout what a real resourceful repo should / > >> could / would have. If EPEL gives you all that, your' done. For a vast > >> majority of the rest of us, it doesnt and the way

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > If they manage to port all the Fedora extras over for EL then I > > would say that is pretty darn close to one-stop shop for RPMs. Of > > course no repo can have it all. There are always the questionable > > items lik

RE: [CentOS] RE: rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > > Not to start a repo flame war, > > > > nice try. > > Nice catch =:D I had to preface it with that, so I wouldn't seem like a total troll! Now if you excuse me,

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Not to start a repo flame war, but for CentOS/RHEL, the repo that aims to > > be a one-stop rpm shop is EPEL. Of course it needs more contributors, but > > it has already ported a significant amount of FC6's old &

RE: [CentOS] rpmfusion status?

2008-06-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Frank Cox wrote: > Unless I've missed something (which is possible) there hasn't been any "public > progress announcements" regarding rpmfusion in the past several weeks. > > Is there anything new to report? My ulterior motive is that I would love to > have the convenience of a one-stop rpm shop

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > You can't beat dd for getting everything exactly the same regardless of > what you changed - or just splitting the mirrors and letting each sync > to new partners but then you have to reinstall grub. I prefer > clonezilla for non-raid configurations but most of the machin

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > > 'mdadm' writes a listing of the devices in the array to the md > > superblock and orders them by number,major,minor. You cannot add > > another device to the array with the same tuple. > > Isn't this updated at detect time so the device minor's > should always be > dif

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) > God, and that included my kitchen floor! -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) n

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > > > >>> If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a > >>> raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its > >>> matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences > >>> between the mirrored par

RE: [CentOS] raid1 disk format?

2008-06-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 > md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching > drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the > mirrored partitions? you can 'dd' the MBR and then r

RE: [CentOS] Re: isolinux on a pendrive from disk 1

2008-06-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jerry Geis wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > > Jerry Geis wrote: > > Jerry Geis wrote: > > Hi > > > > I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 > centos 4 i386, > > copied the

RE: [CentOS] Re: kernels and irc

2008-06-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 6-5-2008 8:30 AM James Bunnell spake the following: > > > > i do pay for rhel. i made the mistake of converting to centos. damage is > > done. on the next major upgrade, i will return to rhel and will not > > professionally recommend centos either privately,personally, o

RE: [CentOS] kernels and irc

2008-06-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jim Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >> 2. You can not be a ass on our IRC channels, or on our mailing lists. > > > > I object to your language on the lis

RE: [CentOS] kernels and irc

2008-06-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: > 2. You can not be a ass on our IRC channels, or on our mailing lists. I object to your language on the list! You MUST use the word "an" as a preposition to a noun beginning with a vowel! What is this world coming to! -Ross __

RE: [CentOS] kernels and irc

2008-06-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
James Bunnell wrote: > i do pay for rhel. i made the mistake of converting to > centos. damage is done. on the next major upgrade, i will > return to rhel and will not professionally recommend centos > either privately,personally, or in the realm of a business. > thanks for seeing my side of t

RE: [CentOS] Blocking external usb storage

2008-06-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kevin Faulkner wrote: > Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > On Friday 23 May 2008 14:16:45 whoami i wrote: > >> This is my first mail to this mailing list.I want to block external usb > >> storage completly on my server running on centos 5 having confidiential > >> data. > > > > 1. unplug any usb storag

RE: [CentOS] Live CD?

2008-06-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: > I just used a Live CD for the first time today, in part to show what > CentOS can do for a co-worker who is looking at using it at work and > home, but I got the strangest result. > > We booted the CD and let the centos user log in. It took a really > long time to load the desktop a

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for file systems there is only really one for that scenario, > > GFS, as OCFSv1 only goes up to 8TB and OCFSv2 is still a > > technology preview. Besides GF

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If there was a way to create a Linux (Centos) 100TB - > 500TB or larger clustered file system with the nodes > connected via infiniband that was easily manageable with > throughput that can support multiple 10Gbps Ethernet > connections I would be very interested. C

RE: [CentOS] Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Johnny Hughes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would also not use XFS in production ... but that is just me. > > Interesting, I thought that XFS was fairly safe for use. What would > you recommend for filesystems in the 50-500 terabyte range?

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Answer: When it's ready. > >> Suits me - I have a different question (and it's probably up s

[CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic {Scanned}

2008-05-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-27-2008 10:16 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > > sbeam wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 11:39, Scott Silva wrote: > > > > > > > > Running memtest for 24 hours should be enough to test the ram. > > >

RE: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

2008-05-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
sbeam wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 11:39, Scott Silva wrote: > > Running memtest for 24 hours should be enough to test the ram. > > A 3ware 7006 is a fairly old card. Does it have the latest bios available > > from 3ware? > > You could always eliminate the 3ware controller by installing a drive

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: May 25, 2008 08:56 > > > > Typically most vendors recommend a two-prong approach, keep the > > database data files on a RAID5/RAID6 type array and keep the > > log files on a RAID10 array. > > > >

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Christopher Chan wrote: > William Warren wrote: > > I'm not a fan of RAID 5 at all since it can only tolerate one failure at > > all. Go with raid 10 or something like that which is able to handle > > more than one failure. Intermittent, uncorrectable sector failures > > during rebuilds are b

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
James B. Byrne wrote: > On : Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:37 -0400, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well > > for development and testing platform, but the production code

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Michael wrote: > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? > > Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol o

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Probably already answered, but kermit isn't open source. You can get it from Columbia University's kermit site though. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Wed May 14 10:58:43 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentO

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wed May 14 06:48:50 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sorry for the top post. Your mailer breaking references and thus destroying threading for others is worse than top posting &g

RE: [CentOS] GFS + quotas

2008-05-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
What you need is a GFS version of rquotad. Don't know if it exists or not, but that's what you need. -Ross > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Tucker > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:25 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sorry for the top post. Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex. It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc. My big problem with nagios is when I used it last it didn't keep moni

RE: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume > > group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical > > frontend for LVM in your desktop). > > > > From your grub.conf we know

RE: [CentOS] cups causing segfault

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > Everyone, > > > > > > > > I hav

RE: [CentOS] cups causing segfault

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > > > I have a new installation of Centos 5.1 that I am using on a gateway > > server that also has dhcp, named servers. I also have cups set up to > > function as a print server, and sendmail

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: > > On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. > > > > Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. > > First, thanks for the detai

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
er advice The point was, acceptable performance can be had without purchasing a hardware controller. And for archival purposes on a tight budget $500 bucks means one controller for 3 more drives. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. We don't know how these hardware controllers were setup and by the numbers posted, not very well, or they are not very good. A SATA and a SAS drive will have roughly the same sequential io performance. Where SAS shines is in random io. So if it's arc

RE: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ed Morrison wrote: > > Hi: > > I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have > the $ to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking > trunning CentOS 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at > and concerned about. > > Situation: > My current s

RE: [CentOS] Port forwarding "File" ?

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Andrew @ ATM Logic wrote: > > Can someone tell me what, and where the file that contains > the port forwarding info is on a standard install? I had a > server fail, I have mounted the drive and need to get this info back. /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables -Ross ___

Re: [CentOS] Way OT Re: OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
ECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Mon May 05 18:41:10 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Way OT Re: OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB on 5-5-2008 3:24 PM John R Pierce spake the following: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> No doubt! >> >> The worse part is I don&

Re: [CentOS] OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
ental manslaughter that was attempted to be covered up. Is there a court tv mailing list out there? -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Mon May 05 18:24:40 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >