Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.5 on Vmware

2018-07-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 29/06/18 07:03, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I am in the initial study phase of putting together a larger virtual > server while using Centos 7.5 as the operating system of choice for the >  individual virtual machines. > > How do you all like VMware for this, or what other software

[CentOS] kernel: blk_cloned_rq_check_limits: over max segments limit., Device Mapper Multipath, iBFT, iSCSI COMSTAR

2017-12-18 Thread Tom Robinson
idying up SAN storage looks to have solved some issues. I still get the errors on boot. The inconsistencies in max_hw_sectors_kb for each path before and after starting multipathd (both in initramfs and during/after boot) still baffle me. All comments welcome. Any clues appreciated. Kind regards,

Re: [CentOS] KVM HA

2016-06-21 Thread Tom Robinson
Hi Digimer, Thanks for your reply. On 22/06/16 15:20, Digimer wrote: > On 22/06/16 01:01 AM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have two KVM hosts (CentOS 7) and would like them to operate as High >> Availability servers, >> automatically migrating guest

[CentOS] KVM HA

2016-06-21 Thread Tom Robinson
grate a guest, I can all too easily start it up on both hosts! There must be some way to fence these off but I'm just not sure how to do this. Any help is appreciated. Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 313

[CentOS] CentOS 7 magically rebooted!

2016-01-21 Thread Tom Robinson
: it reverts to UTC and then back to our local timezone at the end of the boot cycle. Is that normal and can it be configured otherwise? Any help is appreciated. Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 31

[CentOS] amanda-client does not recognise 'dump'

2015-09-23 Thread Tom Robinson
p' installed. Please see http://archives.zmanda.com/amanda-archives/viewtopic.php?t=7390 for more details Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5

Re: [CentOS] bind chroot, bind mounts and selinux

2015-09-09 Thread Tom Robinson
d be enough security. Anyone else care to comment? > > On 09/09/2015 09:09 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm migrating a CentOS 6 bind instance (chrooted) to a CentOS 7 box and am >> curious of people's >> opinions on chrooting vs selinux as a wa

[CentOS] bind chroot, bind mounts and selinux

2015-09-09 Thread Tom Robinson
security? Also, would I bother with chrooting at all if selinux can secure the environment for me? My own opinions aside what do others think and has anyone had experience with this? Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Cro

Re: [CentOS] HBA enumeration and multipath configuration

2015-04-13 Thread Tom Robinson
Sorry, I'm posting this question again as my original post go abducted by a different thread due to stupid way I replied to that thread and changed the subject as a new post. My apologies if there's any confusion. On 14/04/15 10:05, Tom Robinson wrote: > # cat /etc/redhat-release &

[CentOS] HBA enumeration and multipath configuration

2015-04-13 Thread Tom Robinson
igure HBAs to stay on a fixed enumeration at boot? Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au sig

[CentOS] HBA enumeration and multipath configuration

2015-04-13 Thread Tom Robinson
igure HBAs to stay on a fixed enumeration at boot? Kind regards, Tom Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au sig

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Robinson
On 02/04/14 20:17, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: > On 04/02/2014 01:00 AM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> On 01/04/14 17:49, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: >>> On 04/01/2014 06:27 AM, Keith Keller wrote: >>>> On 2014-04-01, Tom Robinson wrote: >>>>> Now, I understand

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 02/04/14 11:16, Bennett Haselton wrote: > I understand (I think), but is it easy to tell me, or is there a > *reliable*, *vetted* source, describing for intermediate users how to > actually do this? i.e.: > 1) When you say "Try just core and EPEL packages to start with", are you > talking ab

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au On 01/04/14 19:04, Bennett Haselton wrote: > On 3/31/2014 10:42 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> On 01

Re: [CentOS] Adding a new disk to an existing raid 10

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 19:21, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > Dear all, > I'm not used to handling software raid. > I've inherited a server which has raid 10 set. > one of our disks failed, and it's to be replaced today. > My question is; any hint how to add this new disk to the existing raid array ? > first thought i

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 17:29, John R Pierce wrote: > On 3/31/2014 11:13 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> I used to stick to the packages only approach but came up against more >> issues that way. I also spent >> a lot of time compiling and build packages. At the end of the day, CPAN >>

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 17:49, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: > On 04/01/2014 06:27 AM, Keith Keller wrote: >> On 2014-04-01, Tom Robinson wrote: >>> Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many upstr= >>> eam features into the stock >>> kernel so

Re: [CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 14:27, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-04-01, Tom Robinson wrote: >> Now, I understand that Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) backport many upstr= >> eam features into the stock >> kernel so how can I be sure that kernel 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6 has write bar= >> ri

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:57, John R Pierce wrote: > On 3/31/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> Others may see it differently but personally I would install packages only >> from CentOS and the rest >> from CPAN > If possible, I would install ONLY packages from Centos and EPEL an

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:43, John R Pierce wrote: > On 3/31/2014 10:20 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: >> On 3/31/2014 8:10 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >>>> Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? >>>> >>&g

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
On 01/04/14 16:19, Bennett Haselton wrote: > On 3/31/2014 7:56 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: >> Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? >> >> Try using RPM: >> >> rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm > On the old machine: > perl-Net-IP-1

Re: [CentOS] trouble installing Math::BigInt module

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
Can you verify to which packages thefiles belong? Try using RPM: rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Net/IP.pm and rpm -qf /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Crypt/DSA/KeyChain.pm Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria

[CentOS] write barrier support in CentOS 6

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Robinson
es, anyone? Kind regards, Tom -- Tom Robinson IT Manager/System Administrator MoTeC Pty Ltd 121 Merrindale Drive Croydon South 3136 Victoria Australia T: +61 3 9761 5050 F: +61 3 9761 5051 E: tom.robin...@motec.com.au signature.asc Description: