[CentOS] Failing Hard Disk?

2009-10-06 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi All, I am fairly certain that this disk is failing in my server, and I am replacing it straight away anyway. However, I'd appreciate the views of the list just to be sure as I value your opinion(s). I got these errors, once only so far, in /var/log/messages. This disk has / on it. Oct 5 08:

Re: [CentOS] problem with installing centos 5.3 on sata ahci

2009-10-04 Thread Stewart Williams
Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Centos on sata ahci. The installer first waits > few minutes while loading ahci module. Then, the installer cannot detect > any disk during the partitioning phase. What might be the problem? I > have switched to IDE in bios and it s

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-23 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: > Power condition - old version mode page: warning: mode page seems malformed >The page number field should be 0x0d, but is 0x05 > IDLE-OLD0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] > STBY-OLD0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] > ICT-OLD 272564736 [cha: y, def:272564

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-23 Thread Stewart Williams
Quoting Yves Bellefeuille : > On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:59, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: > >> > What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the >> > disk? >> >>

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-22 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: >> I have a usb hd that I use for backup. Occasionally it dies. >> >> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device >> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device >> scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device >> scsi 6:0:

Re: [CentOS] Can not remind my password for mailing list

2009-09-17 Thread Stewart Williams
Alexander Bykov wrote: > Password reminder dont work. No mail in my inbox:((( > Is there any other method to unsubscribe via email? Sending a message to centos-unsubscr...@centos.org should work. You should receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your request. Just reply to the message leaving th

Re: [CentOS] Slow network

2009-09-16 Thread Stewart Williams
nate wrote: > cen...@911networks.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have problem with a Centos 5.3 computer. The networking is very >> slow. The networking card is a RealTek 1GigE. > > Get a better NIC, Realtek is absolute crap. CentOS is an > "enterprise grade" OS, use an "enterprise grade" NIC such as >

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 17:10, Filipe Brandenburger > wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 16:59, Stewart Williams >> wrote: >>> command="rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key" /backup >>> stew...@

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
nate wrote: > Stewart Williams wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to backup from one machine to the other (automatically via >> cron) using rsync and ssh password-less public key authentication. >> >> I having been trying to set this up following an articl

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
Tom Brown wrote: >> command="rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key" /backup >> stew...@name.of.remote.server:/backup" ssh-dss ... key ... > > which user is doing this as maybe the env of that user in cron is not > the same as when logged in using a shell ? It's the same user, I haven't added t

[CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
ote box? Is the article wrong? Or am I doing something wrong? Should I use the $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND variable? Regards, Stewart Williams [1] http://www.linuxformat.com/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF105.tut_backup.pdf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

[CentOS] yum-updatesd no longer working

2009-05-15 Thread Stewart Williams
I recently enabled yum-updatesd on two identical servers and configured it to notify me of updates via e-mail. This worked fine to start with and it notified me on both machines when the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm update was released last week. However, today I realised that yum-update

Re: [CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-15 Thread Stewart Williams
John Doe wrote: > From: Stewart Williams >> Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console >> (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even >> if the shell is not doing anything. >> When this happens I can still switc

Re: [CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-15 Thread Stewart Williams
Richard Karhuse wrote: >> From: Stewart Williams >>> Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console >>> (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even >>> if the shell is not doing anything. >>> When thi

[CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-12 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi all, I have two servers both identical in hardware and I have just done a clean install of CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on both. Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even if the shell is not doing anythin

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-13 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: > Stewart Williams wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> Stewart Williams wrote: >>> >>>> The block I/O is the thing that concerns me as mostly I am serving a >>>> 650MB file via samba to 5 clients and I think

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi Rob, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi, I too run quickbooks (2007) and offer the following scenario - 5 > user licences (actually 2 times three user package were purchased). > Previously I used version 2004 and this allows much better sharing of > the data file, unfortunately I got sucked into an upgra

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> Stewart Williams wrote: >>> I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed >>> CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. >>> >>> It has the following spec: >>> >>> Intel(R) Xe

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: > Stewart Williams wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> Stewart Williams wrote: >>> >>>> The block I/O is the thing that concerns me as mostly I am serving a >>>> 650MB file via samba to 5 clients and I think

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Stewart Williams > wrote: > >> William Warren wrote: >>> Stewart Williams wrote: >>>> I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and >>>> install ed >>>>

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
William Warren wrote: > Stewart Williams wrote: >> I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed >> CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. >> >> It has the following spec: >> >> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz >> 4GB ECC memory &g

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: > Stewart Williams wrote: >> I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed >> CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. >> >> It has the following spec: >> >> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz >> 4GB ECC memory &g

[CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-10 Thread Stewart Williams
I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID controller is enabled but at the moment I have used mdadm to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS PPC architecture support

2008-12-15 Thread Stewart Williams
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Stewart Williams wrote: >> I have a system with a PowerPC cpu which I'd like to run CentOS on in a >> production environment (albeit for a home personal server.) >> >> Does anyone know if the CentOS team are actually going to support PPC? &g

[CentOS] CentOS PPC architecture support

2008-12-14 Thread Stewart Williams
I have a system with a PowerPC cpu which I'd like to run CentOS on in a production environment (albeit for a home personal server.) Does anyone know if the CentOS team are actually going to support PPC? I have found a page which states release 4 is in beta[1]. But little else. Is there lack of d

Re: [CentOS] reuse the history

2008-10-17 Thread Stewart Williams
ann kok wrote: Hi all I want to reuse command in the shell historys Which command I can only select "traceroute 192.168.0.5" to run? $ history |grep traceroute 26 traceroute 192.168.0.5 27 traceroute -n 192.168.0.5 28 traceroute 192.168.0.10 29 traceroute yahoo.com 46 tra

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-10-02 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. Coincidence? Update: I've Found the problem with this, it's a bug[1] in gnome-vfs.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-10-01 Thread Stewart Williams
MHR wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Stewart Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. This could be a synchroni

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. Coincidence? -- Regards, Stewart Williams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't know how or why. I think all I can conclude is that they are

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't know how or why. I think all I can conclude is that they are gone for good. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: ... and the missing files are now listed. Now or not? Not. Typo sorry. ... Last stab in the dark: any "undelete" capability on that file system? If the files are not found, I am guessing they have been deleted. Barring that facility, I hope you have a recent back

[CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread Stewart Williams
Thanks for both of your responses. Sorry for the non-threaded post, but I'm e-mailing from somewhere else. @ Mogens Kjaer I have tried this already @ William L. Maltby I have looked everywhere on the drive using programs such as 'find'. I have ran: $ find / -iname "*.jpg" -or "*.JPG" and

[CentOS] Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi all, Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the same filesystem (LVM ext3) with the mouse and as I dropped the folder into the ne

Re: [CentOS] yum provides on centos 5.2

2008-08-28 Thread Stewart Williams
Tony Schreiner wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying things like "yum provides alsamixer" on centox 5.2 i386 and x86_64 also "yum provides vi" "yum provides gvimdiff" "yum provides dumpiso" "yum provides uname" All of these return "no matches found" is something broke??? These are just exampl