Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DRAFT of a RAID recovery HOWTO

2001-09-14 Thread Filippo Carletti
> Have you confirmed the hdd must be prepared with fdisk prior to running > the raidhotadd command? I can confirm that you must partition the new hard disk like the other disk in the array. Linux soft raid works at partition level, you could mirror two partition on the same disk (only for test pu

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Make Utils & E-Smith.

2001-09-14 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:04:18PM -0400, Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > But I do not know that we have anything about using "make" in > a specific HOWTO document. > [...] However, we do have a FAQ item about development tools: http://www.e-smith.org/faq/#8q7 Gordon -- Gordon R

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] RAID 1

2001-09-14 Thread Trevor Ouellette
I will try it out this weekend. Trev. > -Original Message- > From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RAID 1 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > In case of a dri

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Failover for Mission Critical Enviroment

2001-09-14 Thread Darrell May
Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I am looking to have 2 identical servers, runing insync - if one fails > the other will take over until the second server is restored! Ok, I'm curious. Where may I find info on insync? -- Darrell May DMC NETSOURCED.COM http://netsourced.com

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Failover for Mission Critical Enviroment

2001-09-14 Thread Womack, Eric
My colleagues and I have been looking at this for a while and have yet to find an automated solution. At the moment (on one location) we are running a ESSG in server/gateway mode and using the built in RAID1 option. For bulk data, a separate machine with a RAID5 array (using a 3ware 6800) is mou

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Failover for Mission Critical Enviroment

2001-09-14 Thread Brandon Friedman
I am looking to have 2 identical servers, runing insync - if one fails the other will take over until the second server is restored! jose velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I was looking for a cluster solution to e-smith. There is an article in Sys Admin Sept 2001 issue about a High Availabi

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Make Utils & E-Smith.

2001-09-14 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
> -Original Message- > From: Dan York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Make Utils & E-Smith. > > > But I do not know that we have anything about using "make" in > a specific HOWTO document. > > If you want to install

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Program on startup

2001-09-14 Thread Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)
> -Original Message- > From: Jaime Nebrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 12:28 PM > Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Program on startup > > > > >You create an e-smith-3dm RPM which contains a > conf-3dm-startup script, > >which is linked into the post-upgr

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DRAFT of a RAID recovery HOWTO

2001-09-14 Thread Dan York
Darrell, > > http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/RAID-recovery-howto.html > > Hi Dan. Thanks for rushing ths HowTo. No problem... I had it here almost ready to go. It literally only took me about 15 minutes to finish up. > Have you confirmed the hdd must be prepared with fdisk prior to runni

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Make Utils & E-Smith.

2001-09-14 Thread Dan York
Hazen, > I've seen many a site stating that you can make Perl packages. > however there aren't any make utils installed. I remember Dan York > was kind enough to provide me with a link to the appropriate how-to. Well, there is a HOWTO on building contrib modules: http://www.e-smith.o

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Program on startup

2001-09-14 Thread Jaime Nebrera
Hi all, I respond myself :) I searched the list database before posting the question but now a colister has sent me part of the solution :) that was in a email I didn't see. >You create an e-smith-3dm RPM which contains a conf-3dm-startup script, >which is linked into the post-upgrade and po

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DRAFT of a RAID recovery HOWTO

2001-09-14 Thread Darrell May
Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > devinfo folks, > > As I mentioned, Peter Samuel sent me some instructions some time > ago for a RAID recovery HOWTO... I just took a quick look at them > and posted the info with a note that it is a draft form (i.e. the > development team has not had a chanc

[e-smith-devinfo] DRAFT of a RAID recovery HOWTO

2001-09-14 Thread Dan York
devinfo folks, As I mentioned, Peter Samuel sent me some instructions some time ago for a RAID recovery HOWTO... I just took a quick look at them and posted the info with a note that it is a draft form (i.e. the development team has not had a chance to verify this process and will not have a chan

[e-smith-devinfo] Make Utils & E-Smith.

2001-09-14 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I've seen many a site stating that you can make Perl packages. however there aren't any make utils installed. I remember Dan York was kind enough to provide me with a link to the appropriate how-to. I've been searching e-smith and I ha

[e-smith-devinfo] Failover for Mission Critical Enviroment

2001-09-14 Thread Brandon Friedman
I have a client looking to setup a mission critical email server (SME server of course!) with failover support (extended mirroring). Has anybody setup a SME server like this? Using what software (Veritas, Legato etc???) -- Regards Brandon Friedman Product Manager Tech-Knowledgy Advantage Ph:

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RAID 1

2001-09-14 Thread Dan York
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In case of a drive failure in e-smith software raid 1 what would be the > procedure to restore the system back to normal. Anybody has a How to? I have a HOWTO in the queue on precisely this subject. I have been working on getting V5 docs out the door, and post-V5 am

[e-smith-devinfo] Program on startup

2001-09-14 Thread Jaime Nebrera
Hi all, We have finished e-smith monitor 2.0-00 but have found a couple of problems that retain us from releasing the code. As I have said, this new version runs as a daeom and we want to add it in the startup process. We have added the corresponding link in /etc/init.d/rc7.d but we have b

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] RAID 1

2001-09-14 Thread Graeme Robinson
With software RAID (or indeed any RAID formation) I strongly recommend you break the RAID and re-add it at install time (both disks for thoroughness) so you know what to do when it happens. Just power down and disconnect power and cable from one of the disks, reconnect power & make sure it bo

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] iwill SIDE-RAID controller

2001-09-14 Thread Graeme Robinson
Sasha - this is an experienced user forum question, not a development question. A number of IDE RAID controllers are supported by e-smith. I have had great success with the 3ware Escalade 6400 which is recognised by the kernel at install time, and has an excellent monitoring tool that emails

[e-smith-devinfo] [draft] RAID monitor HowTo

2001-09-14 Thread Darrell May
Here is a simple script I found for monitoring changes to a RAID array. Checks every 15 minutes (user defined) and e-mails the root user if any change occurs. http://myezserver.com/docs/mitel/raid-monitor-howto.html Anyone with a RAID array on a test server want to give this a try? If I un