You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well
(provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown)
Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to
help if your PS fails.
That's a very good point never thought of that. Acrtually this
You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well
(provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown)
Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to
help if your PS fails.
redundant power supplies connected to redundant UPS's.
That is true, buy high quality stuff up front for fewer problems down
the road. Not a sure bet, but a better one. In the half dozen systems
I've been running at home for the past several years none of them
have suffered a hardware failure of any kind(fortunately). I've been
running PC Power
That's a very good point never thought of that. Acrtually this RAID 1 setup
I'm planning
is for my desktop machine, problem is is's not built like a server so there
is not the traditional
slid in bay for a second PS as do many 1 and 2u rack servers have. Unless
there is some
You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well
(provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown)
Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to
help if your PS fails.
That's a very good point never thought of that.
This is getting OT and you are going to end up spending more on redundancy
then if you just called Dell and ordered another computer.
I agree with you in that it's cheaper to buy another home computer than to
design a system with redundancy.
However that new conputer I would order from Dell
This is getting OT and you are going to end up spending
more on redundancy then if you just called Dell and ordered
another computer.
I agree with you in that it's cheaper to buy another home
computer than to design a system with redundancy.
However that new conputer I would order
You are definitely making your life more difficult then is needed for a
desktop machine.
You said you have 4 hard disks. Make a software RAID1 out of the first two.
Make a software RAID1 out of the second two and your good to go.
You can use dump/restore to backup the logical volumes
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:33:29 -0400
You are definitely making your life more difficult then is needed for a
desktop machine.
You said you have 4 hard disks. Make a software RAID1 out of the first two.
Make a software RAID1 out of the second two and your good to go.
You can use
No, read this:
my previous thread...
Sorry, I can't access your Windows Live Hotmail inbox . . .
Ah haha sorry was not paying attention, it's here: :)
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/096054.html
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Sorry, I can't access your Windows Live Hotmail inbox . . .
Ah haha sorry was not paying attention, it's here: :)
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/096054.html
OOPS - I need some more coffee this am - HERE is the correct thread:
I have two home workstation machines.
One is Centos, and one is Windows (the one I use Adobe on). I'd prefer if
possible
to have the same type of RAID cards on both machines, because easier to
manage and if I ever decide to sell or give away one machine, I can pull
the raid card and use
Explain your definition of a mission critical desktop. Does the entire
enterprise stop functioning if this desktop stops?
I am THE tech support for my company, but my desktop could die right now, and
although I would be heartbroken and a little peeved, I could just fire up my
lappy and
You are definitely making your life more difficult then is needed for a
desktop machine.
You said you have 4 hard disks. Make a software RAID1 out of the first two.
Make a software RAID1 out of the second two and your good to go.
You can use dump/restore to backup the logical volumes on
Unfortunately I can't use software RAID1 because of this:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/096063.html
First, you should probably get your applications from a company that
doesn't hate its customers... But aside from that, this restriction
should only apply to the
Ah I figured someone would ask that. I use pretty much all
major adobe products, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, just
about the entire suite.
I have two home workstation machines. One is Centos, and one
is Windows (the one I use Adobe on). I'd prefer if possible
to have the same type
Don't bother. If you are a serious Adobe designer get
yourself a Mac and dual boot it between OS X and CentOS or
triple with Windows.
Or use parallels or vmware and run all 3 at once when you want... and
let the built in time machine tool do backups to an external firewire or
network
If you are a graphic designer, I'm curious what you use the
CentOS box for (or why you use Windows and not Mac :-)
Good question when I started out I had windows so that's
what I bought - Adobe windows versions. I'm considering
migrating to Mac though because Adobe just started a
new
It *is* possible to do this with the OOo Calc in centos, but it takes a bit of
muscle to get working...
You'll also need jta, which unfortunately is non-free, and only available as
an srpm from jpackage
( in the 1.6 non-free tree. I haven't seen it appear yet in 1.7).
You talking about two
Sounds like an OOo problem, then. When I briefly tried testing it, there was
a couple of driver options to connect to MySQL, you might try using the one
you're not (IIRC one was ODBC and the other was JDBC).
Ah HA! That might be the problem, I'm using the JDBC driver and I don't have
the
yum search odbc
What you're looking for is the unixODBC package. In CentOS it includes
an ODBC driver for MySQL as well.
Or, is the ODBC driver the same as the sql-connector-java-5.0.8 driver?
That one
I do have; I set up OpenOffice to point to that one too as I did for the
JDBC
I'm trying to find a way to get remote connections from my Linux Desktop
machine to a remote Linux box which is hosting a MySQL database, via SSH port
22, and then once connection is established, log in to the database port 3306
and have either an SSH and or SCP connection established so I can
I can connect to the remote database via Linux desktop, it's just via an un
encrypted connection through port 3306. For obvious reasons I don't want to
do it that way.
My question is, is OpenOffice Calc able to connect to remote databases via
SSH and or SCP? If so, do I need a plug in
I can connect to the remote database via Linux desktop, it's just via an
un encrypted connection through port 3306. For obvious reasons I don't
want to do it that way.
My question is, is OpenOffice Calc able to connect to remote databases
via SSH and or SCP? If so, do I need a plug in
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:27:28 -0400
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To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH,SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using
OpenOffice Possible?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:38:34PM -0400, Therese Trudeau
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:12:31 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH,SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using
OpenOffice Possible?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Therese Trudeau
2008 15:12:31 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH, SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using
OpenOffice Possible?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Therese Trudeau enlightened us:
Date: Mon
To: centos@centos.org
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:43:00 -0700
Subject: [CentOS] Re: SSH, SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using
OpenOffice Possible?
on 3-10-2008 1:33 PM Therese Trudeau spake the following
Please edit your quotes, no need to quote the entire thread back in
every email - just trim down to the required bits.
OK Sorry :)
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Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star
power.
Sounds like an OOo problem, then. When I briefly tried testing it, there was
a couple of driver options to connect to MySQL, you might try using the one
you're not (IIRC one was ODBC and the other was JDBC).
I'm using both the Java Runtime Environment jre1.6.0_05 and the
Sure I'll give that a try. I thought I had the latest
release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just
come out with a new one?
If I install the latest, does the script un-install the
previous version I just installed?
I'm also wondering if I got the correct JRE? I
I'll study up on it. Can you reccomend a good URL or reading material for
setroubleshoot?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux
Thanks, I'll check it out.
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So is there a way I can set SELinux to permissive, and still
be secure while using Calc to connect remotely to a MySQL
database? Or is there a way to
leave SELinux enforced while also using Calc to connect
remotely to a MySQL database?
Sure, there is iptables (firewall).
selinux,
Therese, the setroubleshoot package mentioned here was installed by
default on my system. If you go to that after you have had a failure it
generally tells you what it saw as a threat, and what to do about it if
it should be allowed. Usually it's just a matter of copy and paste a line
of
Hi,
I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1. I read a lot
of good info at this
site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about
differences in fakeraid and real raid cards.
The hardware I plan on installing this RAID card into is an Intel DP35DP
Do such cards exist? If so which model /manufacturers do you recommend?
Any experiences/info/insights on hardware RAID cards good or bad on centos
boxes would be appreciated.
3Ware 8000-series cards are probably the most compatible going back
at least 3 years. 9000-series cards are
So these cards are just plug n play? Just plug them in, no software or
drivers required,
all mirroring is managed by firmware built into the card RAID card itself?
Drivers are required for all storage adapters(RAID or not). 3Ware
handles raid in hardware, not in software, it has a bios
I would'nt bother with a 3ware 8000 or a 3ware 9000 card these days, if
you really do want to get 3ware, get atleast a 9650. And anything less
than a 9550 should be considered only if you get a really good deal off
ebay. And remember that battery backup unit.
I'm just really looking for a
I'm just really looking for a RAID card that will do RAID 1, with four drive
capacity, i.e.,
a master drive with the OS and applications installed and mirrored, and a
slave drive for data and
photos, graphic design, video, etc also mirrored. What would battery built
into a RAID card
I'm considering setting up my Centos Desktop machine for RAID 1. I
read a lot of good info at this site:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/
Hardware/sata.html#intel-vitesse about differences in fakeraid and
real raid cards.
Discontinued chipset but works fine:
the whole point of a BBU is that you can turn on write back caching -
and get a fair win in write performance on regular tasks.
Pardon my ignorance, what is write back caching and BBU?
Write Back Caching means the card will cache writes in its onboard
storage, and let the OS
Ah that makes total sense now, thanks. Do the 3wire and the Areca cards
allow you to remove battery/cache/disk and install into similar motherboard?
Also
when you say remove battery and cache, do you mean remove the entire RAID
card with battery attached to it as complete assembly with
That's highly unusual, because I have never seen that error caused by anything
other than selinux.
What does this tell you when you type it at a command line:
/usr/sbin/sestatus
I get - SELinux status: disabled
Well, I have. For third-party applications installed to some obscure
places in opt/, and not included in the PATH :oD
I bet my whole Aretha Franklin CD collection that adding the correct
path will solve the problem.
Therese: open a Terminal, su - to root (which means: type 'su -' and
Suggestion for future faster finds:
After installing/removing components, run updatedb. Then instead of
find, you can locate swriter. You'll probably need to filter the
output as locate's match seems to be very regex-generalized.
Also, if updating components that have control files,
Therese: open a Terminal, su - to root (which means: type 'su -' and
then enter your root password) and type:
# find / -name 'swriter'
On my 4.0 CentOS, OO 2.0, swriter is a lib component. Try oowriter. WFM.
OK, for output of find / -name 'oowriter', I get no output.
Well, I have. For third-party applications installed to some obscure
places in opt/, and not included in the PATH :oD
I bet my whole Aretha Franklin CD collection that adding the correct
path will solve the problem.
Therese: open a Terminal, su - to root (which means: type 'su -' and
Well, I have. For third-party applications installed to some obscure
places in opt/, and not included in the PATH :oD
I bet my whole Aretha Franklin CD collection that adding the correct
path will solve the problem.
Therese: open a Terminal, su - to root (which means: type 'su -' and
I tried re enabling SELinux and OO won't start, so I assume that
I must have SE Linux disabled in order for OpenOffice to run - is
this correct?
if correct, is there a way I can still keep my system secure and
run OpenOffice 2.3?
You do not have to keep selinux disabled. You can
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting my new install of OpenOffice 2.31 to find my newly
installed Java Runtime Environment version jre1.6.0_04 (downloaded from Sun).
I tried installing it via ToolsOptionsJava (am using OpenOffice Calc to try
to set it up). The options dialog box is finding the
Look at the thread from today about Firefox and Java plugin.
In particular the posts concerning the use of 'alternatives'
Hi, Thanks Ross,
OK I ran your commands:
# Remove Sun added links
rm -f /usr/bin/javaws
rm -f /usr/bin/jcontrol
# Add Sun Java to alternatives
alternatives --install
Therese, the setroubleshoot package mentioned here was installed by default
on
my system. If you go to that after you have had a failure it generally tells
you what it saw as a threat, and what to do about it if it should be allowed.
Usually it's just a matter of copy and paste a
What's the output of:
# ls -l /usr/java
Lets see if it is installed and where it is installed,
maybe it's installing in /opt now.
-Ross
Thanks for your assistance Ross I really appreciate it!
Output of ls -l /usr/java is:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 4 07:46 default -
Will setting to permissive prevent real time threats, or just tell me what
happened after the fact of a failure?
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/095637.html
Thanks on that Frank.
So is there a way I can set SELinux to permissive, and still be secure while
using Calc
Directory structure looks good, what does:
# java -version
Give you?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version
java version 1.6.0_04
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)
So is there a way I can set SELinux to permissive, and still be secure while
using Calc to connect remotely to a MySQL database?
There is a difference between running selinux in enforcing mode and being
secure. The second does not necessarily require or originate from the first.
Or is
Directory structure looks good, what does:
# java -version
Give you?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version
java version 1.6.0_04
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)
Problem is, when I find
Directory structure looks good, what does:
# java -version
Give you?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version
java version 1.6.0_04
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)
Problem is, when I find
Directory structure looks good, what does:
# java -version
Give you?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version
java version 1.6.0_04
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)
Problem is, when I find
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: centos@centos.org
Subject: RE: [CentOS] Problem getting JavaRuntime Environment installed
intoOpenOffice
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:44:34 -0500
Directory structure looks good, what does:
# java -version
Sure I'll give that a try. I thought I had the latest
release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just
come out with a new one?
If I install the latest, does the script un-install the
previous version I just installed?
I'm also wondering if I got the correct JRE? I
Sure I'll give that a try. I thought I had the latest
release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just
come out with a new one?
If I install the latest, does the script un-install the
previous version I just installed?
I'm also wondering if I got the correct JRE? I
Sure I'll give that a try. I thought I had the latest
release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just
come out with a new one?
If I install the latest, does the script un-install the
previous version I just installed?
I'm also wondering if I got the correct JRE? I
Hi,
I just ran an install of OpenOffice 2.31 on Centos 5.1 using these instructions
- http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/openoffice-fedora/index.html
Install seemed to go fine until I finished and then tried to start up K writer
and none of the OO apps will start up from the menu. even
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice won't start up
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:10:48 -0500
K Writer? That sounds very much like Koffice, which is a completely
different
program than OpenOffice. You
When I type in ooffice I get command not found, and when I type soffice I
get no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
Disable selinux, as the article tells you to.
Oh...I must not be seeing that in the article, I searched it and could not find
that anywhere - seaarched for disable
http://sysdigg.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-disable-selinux-in-centos-5.html
OK I just disabled SeLinux and rebooted, still none of the OpenOffice
applications will start.
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Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need
What happens when you type ooffice or soffice at a terminal window prompt?
Same as before - command not found and no suitable windowing system found,
exiting.
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