Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Christopher Chan wrote: > Keith Keller wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:07:17AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux > >> kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case. > >> > >> http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not- > >>so.html > > > > I can't speak to this, except to point out that it is almost 18 months > > old, which is quite a long time in kernel development space. > > Which is why I am asking. > > > With the right incantation, one can call smartctl directly on a drive > > connected to a 3ware controller, no matter what kind of array it is in. > > (I believe you can even call it on a drive assigned as a hot spare.) > > Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I > don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? Enjoying the fact that "show diag" gives you a cyclic text buffer without references? etc. ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply sucks ;-( /Peter > >> Any comments? With 3ware lately not looking so good from comments I have > >> heard on the list over the past few years performance wise, I wonder how > >> Adaptec and Areca look now? > > > > I've run an exclusively 3ware shop since I ditched my last aacraid > > machines a few years back. But with all their issues, I am definitely > > considering trying Areca on my next server that's not planned to be > > immediately mission-critical. (I wouldn't switch back to Adaptec unless > > I knew their interface tools, and especially their cli, had improved > > dramatically; the aaccli/afacli interfaces were simply atrocious.) > > What issues are you having with 3ware? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?
hadi motamedi wrote: > > Thank you for your reply . Can you please help me on the real scenario > , as the followings? if you can't figure it out from the man pages and the hints I gave, hire someone who can ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] digikam and mp3 sound on RHEL
On 01/12/2010 07:28 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi All; > > after years of running free Linux distros I've finally come to a place where I > must have solid stability for my work laptop so I've purchased RHEL > Workstation. > > I like it well enough - however I'd like to install digikam and get my system > to play mp3's. I'm thinking I could get both of these from a centos > repository. What do you'all think? > > If so, could someone point me to the correct repo(s) and the packages I'd need > for playing mp3's? > Start here: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge and please make sure you read up on using 'priorities' before enabling 3rd party repos: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities That should hopefully get you going :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] update of openssh-server i386 4.3p2-36.el5, dependencies
>On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Akemi Yagi >>On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Filipe Brandenburger >> wrote: >> >> This ecryptfs-utils 75-5.el5 is actually a backport of a RHEL 5.4 >> package that was released early for being a "critical" security >> update. I have no idea if the issue will be fixed when CentOS 5.4 is >> released (maybe libtspi.so.1 will be owned by another package that >> obsoletes trousers? maybe trousers will no longer contain binaries >> that use GUI libraries and those will be moved to a separate >> package?), if someone has a RHEL 5.4 around they could maybe try to >> confirm that. > >I'm afraid the situation is the same with RHEL 5.4. trousers >(0.3.1-4.el5) has no update in 5.4. > >Akemi Have anyone got this solved yet? I've googled and googled and no solution. I've got 6 CentOS 5.3 servers I'd like to update, but I've put it off since ecryptfs-utils wants to install a bunch of packages when I do a 'yum update'. A 'yum update' gives me this summary, with 61 new packages to install: Transaction Summary = Install 61 Package(s) Update 110 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 192 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Just checking 'yum update ecryptfs-utils' gives me alone 54 packages to install: Transaction Summary = Install 54 Package(s) Update 5 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 25 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Is there no way out of getting all these extra packages? A list of all the packets can be found listed in this forumthread: http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?session=&showtopic=1167172&view=findpost&p=15008636 -Christopher Thorjussen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: >> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running > Centos 5.4 on it... I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail >>> >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running >> Centos 5.4 on it... >> > > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. > > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 > just curious, which storage controllers in those DL380/360 servers? each of those numbes describes like 6 generations of x86 servers. if I want a lots-of-2.5" SAS dual e5500 kinda server, where should I go if HP's storage is so broken? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] VMWare server 2
Hi All, I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. Everything appears to work fine. I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. [r...@panda]# uname -a Linux Panda 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jan 7 19:54:26 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Does anybody know if there is a compatibility problem with the new kernel 2.6.180164.10.1 ? [r...@panda vmware-server-distrib]# /usr/bin/vmware @@PRODUCT_NAME@@ is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so have you found a fix? Thx, A. * This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. France Telecom Group shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2
Quoting attila.ma...@orange-ftgroup.com: > Hi All, > > > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware > web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. > > [r...@panda]# uname -a > Linux Panda 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jan 7 19:54:26 EST 2010 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > Does anybody know if there is a compatibility problem with the new > kernel 2.6.180164.10.1 ? > > [r...@panda vmware-server-distrib]# /usr/bin/vmware > @@PRODUCT_NAME@@ is installed, but it has not been (correctly) > configured > for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the > following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. > > > Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so have you found a fix? did you run the command /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ? -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2
Yep, here's the output: [r...@panda vmware-server-distrib]# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped. Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines: Virtual machines[FAILED] Stopping VMware management services: VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access VMware Server Host Agent[FAILED] Stopping VMware services: VMware Authentication Daemon[ OK ] VM communication interface socket family: [ OK ] Virtual machine communication interface [ OK ] Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ OK ] Host network detection [ OK ] DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1 [ OK ] Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 [ OK ] DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ] NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ] Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 [ OK ] Virtual ethernet[FAILED] Unable to stop services for VMware Server Execution aborted. I'm not able to stop the vm machines or restart the web access, just by killing all vmware related pid's. A -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:31 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2 Quoting attila.ma...@orange-ftgroup.com: > Hi All, > > > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware > web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. > > [r...@panda]# uname -a > Linux Panda 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jan 7 19:54:26 EST 2010 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > Does anybody know if there is a compatibility problem with the new > kernel 2.6.180164.10.1 ? > > [r...@panda vmware-server-distrib]# /usr/bin/vmware > @@PRODUCT_NAME@@ is installed, but it has not been (correctly) > configured > for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the > following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. > > > Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so have you found a fix? did you run the command /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ? -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos * This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. France Telecom Group shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the > >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > >> > >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running > >> Centos 5.4 on it... > > > > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at > > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the > > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate > > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. > > > > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 > > just curious, which storage controllers in those DL380/360 servers? > each of those numbes describes like 6 generations of x86 servers. > > if I want a lots-of-2.5" SAS dual e5500 kinda server, where should I go > if HP's storage is so broken? As I replied to another post, I think it's unfair to say that HP storage is broken. We have roughly: 30 p400 (mostly 2x raid1) 50 p800 (mostly 12x1T raid6) <10 other cciss and the only problems we really suffer is: * performance is not great * /dev/cciss is not a scsi dev (which is a minor annoyance in linux at times) * 1T seagate drives fail at many times the rate of hitachi /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
From: Karanbir Singh > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the > >> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > > Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running > > Centos 5.4 on it... > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. > > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 On the other hand, here, we have around 30 HP servers. Some DL360/380/180 G5/G6 with CentOS 4/5 and, in 2 years, only 3 drives failed... That's it; no other problems... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running >> Centos 5.4 on it... > > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. > > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 > Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better memorize the after hours password for HP support. What problems did you have? Do they occur mostly when the boxes are under high I/O load? This is really new to me as I had no problems with a DL360 G3 box that ran Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 with regards to disk problems in my previous job. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Hi Appologies I have not been following the thread here so am just wondering if you have a MSA, EVA, XP left hand san or if this is just storage that sits on the server with samba share? also what link is between fc or ethernet. Regards Per Qvindesland At Tisdag, 12-01-2010 on 11:57 "Chan Chung Hang Christopher" wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running >> Centos 5.4 on it... > > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. > > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 > Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better memorize the after hours password for HP support. What problems did you have? Do they occur mostly when the boxes are under high I/O load? This is really new to me as I had no problems with a DL360 G3 box that ran Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 with regards to disk problems in my previous job. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher : > Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better > memorize the after hours password for HP support. I have had lots[1] of problems lately with DIMMs becoming defective in six month old G5 HPs. Could just be bad luck or maybe just put together by someone wearing a shell suit. Ben [1] Okay, three or four defective modules all in the space of a month. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM, wrote: > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. What does that mean? Does it work fine or does it only pretend to work (fine)? > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware > web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. SELinux is in which state? Regards, Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
>> Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I >> don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? > Enjoying the fact that "show diag" gives you a cyclic text buffer without > references? etc. Oh, I did not hear of those and my last experience with 3ware was up to the 95xx series. I did hear of horror stories of Mylex but I myself never got to see one of those where the raid configuration would completely disappear. Most of my experience with 3ware is with the 75xx and 85xx cards which are only good for raid1+0 unless you can afford the major performance hit with raid5. > > ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply > sucks ;-( So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? That the software raid people were and have always been right? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher : >> Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better >> memorize the after hours password for HP support. > > I have had lots[1] of problems lately with DIMMs becoming defective in > six month old G5 HPs. Could just be bad luck or maybe just put > together by someone wearing a shell suit. Boy, a Tyan or Supermicro solution is looking better by the minute for the new server I plan to get the school for its library server and other uses. If only Supermicro had a local distributor...I have not had a good look at their solutions yet because of that but their 45 disk case has got my attention. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Am 12.01.2010 09:01, schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? > Enjoying the fact that "show diag" gives you a cyclic text buffer without > references? etc. > > ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply > sucks ;-( > > Which is probably the reason why the ZFS-folks are trying to move as much intelligence out of the HBA into the OS. Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi > > Appologies I have not been following the thread here so am just > wondering if you have a MSA, EVA, XP left hand san or if this is just > storage that sits on the server with samba share? also what link is > between fc or ethernet. If you are asking me, then there is no external direct attach storage. HQ (Bradbury School is an ESF school) provided the thing and it has two disks in mirror mode for a db and four disks in raid5 mode for system and the vle (customized moodle) with a 512 MB BBU module for the P410i controller. They added a 4-port Intel Gigabit adapter too but that is of no consequence with storage right now. > > Regards > Per Qvindesland > > At Tisdag, 12-01-2010 on 11:57 "Chan Chung Hang Christopher" wrote: > > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. > the world is littered with stores of cciss fail >>> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and > running >>> Centos 5.4 on it... >> I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at >> another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all > the >> machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident > rate >> has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. >> >> all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 >> > > Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better > > memorize the after hours password for HP support. > > What problems did you have? Do they occur mostly when the boxes are > under high I/O load? > > This is really new to me as I had no problems with a DL360 G3 box that > > ran Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 with regards to disk problems in my > > previous job. > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
Hi, we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two different types of server by a provider: - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_best_of.xml The target infrastructure will host: - a few public web sites (PHP / MySQL) - a development infrastructure (subversion, bugzilla, automated builds) This will use KVM virtualization with Cent OS 5.4 hosts and guests. On the long run we will probably rent quite a few of type B depending on our needs of space and computing power. My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services should be fast, always available, and the related data as safe as possible). This critical server will be more read oriented than write. We will probably use a hardware RAID 1 with battery backed unit on it. My understanding is that SSD are much much faster. Is it really true in the real world? Are SSD drives also safer? (that is, less likely to crash under load) Or to the contrary? I have read/heard conflicting opinions so far and I'll be happy to hear opinions/experiences on SSD drives in a server settings from people on the list. More general comments about our plans are always welcome of course! Cheers, Mathieu PS: we will actually rent them in France, but I put links to the equivalent in Britain in order to have the description in English. For reference and for the French-speaking people, here are the actual servers we consider: http://www.ovh.com/fr/produits/eg_ssd.xml http://www.ovh.com/fr/produits/eg_best_of.xml (they are exactly the same) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download
>From where can I download Centos5.4 Thanks Anas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download
Anas Alnaffar wrote: > From where can I download Centos5.4 > > Thanks http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:27 AM, wrote: > Hi All, > > > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware > web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. There is a known issue with VMware Server 2.0.x and CentOS 5.4 as reported here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884 A workaround can be found there. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download
Thanks a lot Anas -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Pintér Tibor Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download Anas Alnaffar wrote: > From where can I download Centos5.4 > > Thanks http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. >> Everything appears to work fine. >> I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware >> web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. > > There is a known issue with VMware Server 2.0.x and CentOS 5.4 as reported > here: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884 > > A workaround can be found there. The workaround resolved a similar issue on my system.. BTW, you may also need to configure the firewall to allow 8222/8333 through via system-config-securitylevel ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] digikam and mp3 sound on RHEL
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I like it well enough - however I'd like to install digikam and get my system > to play mp3's. I'm thinking I could get both of these from a centos > repository. What do you'all think? There is a known issue (and a workaround) with digikam at the moment. You can find more details here: http://lists.rpmforge.net/pipermail/users/2010-January/002854.html Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Setup multiple bridges for use with KVM
Jacob Hydeman wrote on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:50:17 -0800: > I've setup just the IPADDR= and NETMASK= to have different static IPs in > different subnets and changed to the BOOTPROTO=static in each of the > ifcfg-brX scripts. > > This hasn't fixed my issue. Perhaps it's because of the way I'm trying to > use it (or I don't get it). Does each VM that is using a specific bridged > device need to have the same IP subnet as that of the static brX address? No. But you have to tell via config (I don't know how KVM does this) which bridge the VM is going to use. And if you want it to be reachable via two bridges you have to set it up for two bridges and give it two IP numbers. And the packet then has to come in thru the correct interface/bridge, there is no "bridging" between the bridges. You would need to set up some additional routing to work around this (probably, I'm not a routing expert). Is that possibly not the case? e.g. your VMs are still setup to use only one bridge? Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher : > Boy, a Tyan or Supermicro solution is looking better by the minute for > the new server I plan to get the school for its library server and other > uses. If only Supermicro had a local distributor...I have not had a good > look at their solutions yet because of that but their 45 disk case has > got my attention. To HP's credit, I had replacements within hours but we are on their 24x7x4 support contract. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Strange problem updating machine
Hi Today I updated one machine with CentOS-5.4 (2.6.18-164.6.1.el5) x86_64 (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz) to "2.6.18-164.10.1.el5", but in some places, like /boot[1] and in the menu /boot/grub/menu.lst[2], appeared as 2.6.18-164.1.10 - the "1" and the "10" swapped. Did anybody else had similar problems? The update worked fine in i686 workstation and x86_64 xen kernels. Thanks Marcelo [1] config-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 initrd-2.6.18-128.10.1.el5.img vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 System.map-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 [2] title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
> Hi, > > we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two > different types of server by a provider: > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_best_of.xml > My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD > drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and > the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services > should be fast, always available, and the related data as safe as > possible). The real question is how many hits/hour you expect. I interviewed last year at a major advertiser... but (and I'm trying to remember from last May) they were getting hundreds of millions of hits per day. For tens or hundreds of thousands, the normal drives are more than fine. That, of course, also depends on the sites: in early '03, I looked at a small site, and the guy's web pages took *forever* to load... but that was because he'd taken photos of his work, and each page had something like four or six photos, each of which was 1.5M-4M. > My understanding is that SSD are much much faster. > Is it really true in the real world? > > Are SSD drives also safer? > (that is, less likely to crash under load) > Or to the contrary? The enterprise grade ones. And, if they're not enterprise grade, and the provider's cheaping out and using the kind sold in stores, they're not as reliable. If this is that important, I trust you're looking at SLA in the contract. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 2.0.2 and Centos 5.4
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: >> I know of the issue using vmware server 2.0.2 and centos 5.4, but is their >> any reason not to use the .rpm install of for centos? I have always used >> the .tar file but this time used the rpm and it appeared to install and not >> crash. I went ahead and did the glib correction but I was wondering if >> using the rpm was not the rght thing to do, Thanks. > > I personally do not see anything wrong with using the rpm to install > VMware Server. > > Akemi Installing things from RPM is half the point of running an enterprise OS. If you install from TAR, the package system cannot track it. Installing from PRM is not "lazy", it is in fact what you're supposed to be doing. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange problem updating machine
those are 128 figures, a 5.3 kernel. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS
I have just installed an SVN server on a CentOS 5.4 machine. how I can start the SVN server automatically at the boot of the machine. Anas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hi, > > we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two > different types of server by a provider: > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_best_of.xml > > The target infrastructure will host: > - a few public web sites (PHP / MySQL) > - a development infrastructure (subversion, bugzilla, automated builds) > > This will use KVM virtualization with Cent OS 5.4 hosts and guests. > > On the long run we will probably rent quite a few of type B depending > on our needs of space and computing power. > > My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD > drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and > the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services > should be fast, always available, and the related data as safe as > possible). > > This critical server will be more read oriented than write. > We will probably use a hardware RAID 1 with battery backed unit on it. > > My understanding is that SSD are much much faster. > Is it really true in the real world? > > Are SSD drives also safer? > (that is, less likely to crash under load) > Or to the contrary? > > I have read/heard conflicting opinions so far and I'll be happy to > hear opinions/experiences on SSD drives in a server settings from > people on the list. > More general comments about our plans are always welcome of course! > > Cheers, > > Mathieu > > PS: we will actually rent them in France, but I put links to the > equivalent in Britain in order to have the description in English. > For reference and for the French-speaking people, here are the actual > servers we consider: > http://www.ovh.com/fr/produits/eg_ssd.xml > http://www.ovh.com/fr/produits/eg_best_of.xml > (they are exactly the same) It's too early to start putting Flash-based SSDs in servers unless you have a really specific need. Based on you description above, this does not sound like a hugely high-performance I/O server. I suggest you look into 15k RPM disk drives setup in a RAID10 configuration. That will get you the most speed. Additionally, the Linux IO system uses RAM extensively for caching, so you'll be getting the benefit of that anyway. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS
> I have just installed an SVN server on a CentOS 5.4 machine. Did you install mod_dav_svn (Apach httpd module) or the standalone svnserve? > how I can start the SVN server automatically at the boot of the machine. If it is mod_dav_svn, just make sure that Apache httpd is started automatically: sudo /sbin/chkconfig httpd on (or via System > Administration > Services if you have the UI). I never used seriously the the standalone svnserve, but I guess you would have to start it explicitly either by: - adding the command in /etc/rc.local (called by each reboot, but may be not so clean?) - write your own script under /etc/init.d I would definitely suggest to use it as an httpd module (much easier and flexible). It requires a little Apache config though: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html (note that this link is for SVN 1.5, but the config is the same for SVN 1.4, which is the one provided by CentOS base) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] KVM management tools.....
Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. Running Centos 5.4 and have several machines and want to migrate off of vmware server 2.x. So far it appears that the management tools haven't quite cought up to Vmware but are gaining and closing. I have been looking at convirt, and others. I like what I see in Ovirt but I'm not sure it is available for centos 5.4, or is it? Is there anyone running ovirt in centos? Also, what are folks using for their management tools for KVM, Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS
From: Anas Alnaffar >I have just installed an SVN >server on a CentOS 5.4 machine. >how I can start the SVN server >automatically at the boot of the machine. How did you install it... from rpm? source? Using builtin auth or ssh? What does the documentation say? Does it provide an init.rd script? If so, check 'chkconfig' JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 09:13 -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: > Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. Running > Centos 5.4 and have several machines and want to migrate off of vmware > server 2.x. So far it appears that the management tools haven't quite > cought up to Vmware but are gaining and closing. I have been looking > at convirt, and others. I like what I see in Ovirt but I'm not sure > it is available for centos 5.4, or is it? Is there anyone running > ovirt in centos? Also, what are folks using for their management > tools for KVM, Thanks. > __ For GUI I use virt-manager from my Fedora laptop connected to the KVM host. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....
On 12/01/10 15:13, Tom Bishop wrote: > Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. consider posting to the centos-virt list ? -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....
Thanks and will do... On 1/12/10, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 15:13, Tom Bishop wrote: >> Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. > > consider posting to the centos-virt list ? > > -- > Karanbir Singh > kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:41:19AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the > >> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > > Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running > > Centos 5.4 on it... > > I've got a couple of DL380's at one setup and another 12 DL360's at > another place. We have had enough problems with interfaces that all the > machines are now running off remote-storage. Our storage incident rate > has gone from 1/day average to under 2/month since then. > > all of these machines are G4 and G5's running CentOS-5/x86_64 > And I've been running DL380 and DL360 G3/G4 servers for years without problems.. with CentOS and Xen.. using cciss local storage. :) -- Pasi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > And I've been running DL380 and DL360 G3/G4 servers for years without > problems.. with CentOS and Xen.. using cciss local storage. :) I've used HP/cciss on a couple hundred systems over the past 7 years, can only recall 2 issues, both around a drive failing the controller didn't force the drive off line, and there was no way to force it off line using the command line tool, so had to go on site and physically yank the drive. With the failing drive still in the array performance tanked. I've never used SATA on cciss, that could be a cause of issues. Used several hundred 3ware controllers too, only a few issues. My own opinion is I use proper storage arrays for storage, and only use server-based controllers for the OS and basic stuff. And for my VMware systems they are all boot from SAN. Will be trying boot from SAN on CentOS 5.4 again soon, it didn't work properly on 5.2. I feel much more comfortable with separation of storage from the server for my important data. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On 12/01/10 12:22, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Which is probably the reason why the ZFS-folks are trying to move as > much intelligence out of the HBA into the OS. not something that is really working - given that I've seen centos stock with a few hba's easily our perform raid-z - with better reliability and lower latency. -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
Mathieu Baudier wrote: > My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD > drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and > the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services > should be fast, always available, and the related data as safe as > possible). Go with 10/15k RPM SAS, not Intel SSD or SATA if you want best availability. Intel SSDs have had firmware issues since they came out, I doubt we've seen the end of firmware changes on them. If you want even higher availability go with a better provider, this is a good cloud hosting provider which uses VMware and high availability storage - http://www.terremark.com/technology-platform/nap-data-centers.aspx http://vcloudexpress.terremark.com/ Looks like they have 4 locations in Europe, I haven't used them myself but went through a presentation for them last year very impressive, though they are pricey. If you have simple requirements it's probably not bad though(will be a few times more $ than the hosting provider your looking at, but hey you wanted fast, always available, and safe, those aren't cheap). You can provision machines yourself, manage a remote firewall, and load balancers from their web UI. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
> Mathieu Baudier wrote: > >> My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD >> drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and >> the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services >> should be fast, always available, and the related data as safe as >> possible). > > Go with 10/15k RPM SAS, not Intel SSD or SATA if you want best > availability. Intel SSDs have had firmware issues since they came > out, I doubt we've seen the end of firmware changes on them. When I intereviewed last May with folks who did use them, I mentioned that, and was told that the high-priced, er, quality enterprise grade don't have the issues that the commercial grade sold to consumers do. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multipath
Upgrding the kernel to 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5xen brought back /dev/dm-* and now multipath -ll has the ouput. I am curious about what has caused the lost of /dev/dm* in my previous kernel. Any ideas? Paras. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Yes every thing's loaded. > > Here is the output: > > [r...@cvprd1 ~]# lsmod | grep dm > dm_round_robin 36801 0 > rdma_cm68565 1 ib_iser > ib_cm 73449 1 rdma_cm > iw_cm 43465 1 rdma_cm > ib_sa 75209 2 rdma_cm,ib_cm > ib_core 105157 6 ib_iser,rdma_cm,ib_cm,iw_cm,ib_sa,ib_mad > ib_addr41929 1 rdma_cm > dm_multipath 56153 1 dm_round_robin > scsi_dh41665 1 dm_multipath > dm_raid45 99401 0 > dm_message 36289 1 dm_raid45 > dm_region_hash 46273 1 dm_raid45 > dm_mem_cache 39489 1 dm_raid45 > dm_snapshot52105 0 > dm_zero35265 0 > dm_mirror 54737 0 > dm_log 44993 3 dm_raid45,dm_region_hash,dm_mirror > dm_mod101521 11 > dm_multipath,dm_raid45,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_log > > > > Thanks > Paras. > > > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:33 PM, nate wrote: > >> Paras pradhan wrote: >> > Hi. >> > >> > Somehow I do not see any out put using multipath -l or multipath -ll . >> But I >> > can see using dry run ie multipath -d. >> > >> > Also I do not see /dev/dm-* >> > >> > It was there before. How do I re claim it. >> >> Are the modules loaded? >> >> [r...@dc1-mysql001a:~]# lsmod | grep dm >> dm_zero35265 0 >> dm_mirror 60617 0 >> dm_round_robin 36801 1 >> dm_multipath 52945 2 dm_round_robin >> dm_mod 99737 17 dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_multipath >> [r...@dc1-mysql001a:~]# multipath -l >> 350002ac0006a0714dm-1 3PARdata,VV >> [size=1.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0] >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active] >> \_ 1:0:0:3 sdc 8:32 [active][undef] >> \_ 1:0:1:3 sde 8:64 [active][undef] >> \_ 2:0:0:3 sdg 8:96 [active][undef] >> \_ 2:0:1:3 sdi 8:128 [active][undef] >> 350002ac000790714dm-0 3PARdata,VV >> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0] >> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active] >> \_ 1:0:0:2 sdb 8:16 [active][undef] >> \_ 1:0:1:2 sdd 8:48 [active][undef] >> \_ 2:0:0:2 sdf 8:80 [active][undef] >> \_ 2:0:1:2 sdh 8:112 [active][undef] >> >> >> >> nate >> >> >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > >> Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I > >> don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring > >> wise. > > > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share > > of stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? > > Enjoying the fact that "show diag" gives you a cyclic text buffer without > > references? etc. > > Oh, I did not hear of those and my last experience with 3ware was up to > the 95xx series. I did hear of horror stories of Mylex but I myself > never got to see one of those where the raid configuration would > completely disappear. Most of my experience with 3ware is with the 75xx > and 85xx cards which are only good for raid1+0 unless you can afford the > major performance hit with raid5. > > > ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply > > sucks ;-( > > So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? > That the software raid people were and have always been right? Nope, storage sucks, that includes the software ;-) /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On 1/12/2010 10:39 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. >>> >>> Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share >>> of stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent >>> behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? >>> Enjoying the fact that "show diag" gives you a cyclic text buffer without >>> references? etc. >> >> Oh, I did not hear of those and my last experience with 3ware was up to >> the 95xx series. I did hear of horror stories of Mylex but I myself >> never got to see one of those where the raid configuration would >> completely disappear. Most of my experience with 3ware is with the 75xx >> and 85xx cards which are only good for raid1+0 unless you can afford the >> major performance hit with raid5. >> >>> ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply >>> sucks ;-( >> >> So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? >> That the software raid people were and have always been right? > > Nope, storage sucks, that includes the software ;-) If you can split the storage up into 2TB or smaller volumes that you can mount into sensible locations to spread the load and avoid contention you can always use software RAID1. That at least has the advantage of being able to recover the data from any single drive that might still work after a problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
> impressive, though they are pricey. If you have simple requirements > it's probably not bad though(will be a few times more $ than the > hosting provider your looking at, but hey you wanted fast, always > available, and safe, those aren't cheap). You can provision machines We don't have extremely high load requirements. This is first and foremost a development infrastructure with a public part for our free software products. So we don't expect very high volume on it in the foreseeable future. Our idea is more that we are ready to invest a bit more in the hardware to be on the safe side. We have been running our infrastructure for the last three years on a cheap server with 1GB memory and on a Linux so old that I cannot even tell here for security reasons (and a bit shame as well probably...) We had one single crash during the three years (probably because I kept everything very simple) and it is only for a few months that we start feeling that the development of our activity requires something bigger. I would also say that it is more important for us to have control over the whole stack than to have optimal performance. And this whole stack has to be free software (which excludes VMware I guess). But I really appreciate your suggestions, and if anybody has ideas of other good providers in the European Union, I'm very interested!! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:16 -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > CentOS 5.4 x86_64 works fine on the x4540s, I've installed it myself and > didn't have to do anything special to see and use all of the disks. > > In my testing, the IO was faster and the storage easier to administer > with when using Solaris and ZFS rather than with CentOS and software > raid. That kind of box is just made for ZFS. > > Tom --- Interesting, was the CentOS Box Tuned in any way? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
Quoting Mathieu Baudier : >> impressive, though they are pricey. If you have simple requirements >> it's probably not bad though(will be a few times more $ than the >> hosting provider your looking at, but hey you wanted fast, always >> available, and safe, those aren't cheap). You can provision machines > > We don't have extremely high load requirements. > This is first and foremost a development infrastructure with a public > part for our free software products. > So we don't expect very high volume on it in the foreseeable future. > Our idea is more that we are ready to invest a bit more in the > hardware to be on the safe side. > > We have been running our infrastructure for the last three years on a > cheap server with 1GB memory and on a Linux so old that I cannot even > tell here for security reasons (and a bit shame as well probably...) > We had one single crash during the three years (probably because I > kept everything very simple) and it is only for a few months that we > start feeling that the development of our activity requires something > bigger. > > I would also say that it is more important for us to have control over > the whole stack than to have optimal performance. > And this whole stack has to be free software (which excludes VMware I guess). > > But I really appreciate your suggestions, and if anybody has ideas of > other good providers in the European Union, I'm very interested!! Well, if you really want to buy fast and expensive ssd from intel then just do it, but do not go with cheap ssds. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
> Well, if you really want to buy fast and expensive ssd from intel then > just do it, but do not go with cheap ssds. Ok, I see your point (also putting it in relation with other helpful comments from this thread): you mean that the SSD drives that this provider offers: http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm are mainstream SSD (not enterprise) and thus are likely to bring me problems. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?
Mathieu Baudier wrote: > http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm > are mainstream SSD (not enterprise) and thus are likely to bring me > problems. At this point I would say any SSD that is not from STEC is not "enterprise", it seems most vendors at least for the moment have partnered with STEC for their enterprise SSD needs. http://www.stec-inc.com/ While I don't think you can boot from it, FusionIO is probably decent quality as well, and screaming performance. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On 01/12/2010 12:20 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:16 -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: >> CentOS 5.4 x86_64 works fine on the x4540s, I've installed it myself and >> didn't have to do anything special to see and use all of the disks. >> >> In my testing, the IO was faster and the storage easier to administer >> with when using Solaris and ZFS rather than with CentOS and software >> raid. That kind of box is just made for ZFS. > Interesting, was the CentOS Box Tuned in any way? Not really, everything was just setup using the defaults. I had a x4540 with 48 1TB drives and tried to recreate the raidz2 setup that I had tested with Solaris/zfs. I created six 6-disk RAID6 md devices, then added them into a single volume group and created a huge (5TB) logical volume with an XFS filesystem. I tried use one disk from each controller in each md device (as indicated by the hdtool that sun provides). I ran a variety of tests using tools like dd, iozone, tiobench, and sysbench and just watched how the server behaved. From what I could tell, the IO wasn't evenly spread across the disks in the md devices, just a subset. I probably could've tweaked it some more, but I didn't have too much time to spend on it at the time. The Sun Storage 7000 series servers were a better fit for that project anyway. Tom ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multipath
Can anybody tell me if my multipath o/p is fine?
I have a active/active setup and when I unplug the FC SAN cable on one of
the ports of my HBA my host is being un responsive and need to reboot it.
When I do
multipath -ll
I can see:
[r...@cvprd2 etc]# multipath -ll
mpath2 (360060e8004770d00770d018c) dm-1 HITACHI,OPEN-V*10
[size=335G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=8][active]
\_ 6:0:0:1 sdc 8:32 [active][ready]
\_ 6:0:0:16385 sde 8:64 [active][ready]
\_ 6:0:0:32769 sdg 8:96 [active][ready]
\_ 6:0:0:49153 sdi 8:128 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:1 sdk 8:160 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:16385 sdm 8:192 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:32769 sdo 8:224 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:49153 sdq 65:0 [active][ready]
mpath1 (360060e8004770d00770d0154) dm-0 HITACHI,OPEN-V*9
[size=301G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
\_ round-robin 0 [prio=8][active]
\_ 6:0:0:0 sdb 8:16 [active][ready]
\_ 6:0:0:16384 sdd 8:48 [active][ready]
\_ 6:0:0:32768 sdf 8:80 [active][ready]
\_ 6:0:0:49152 sdh 8:112 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:0 sdj 8:144 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:16384 sdl 8:176 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:32768 sdn 8:208 [active][ready]
\_ 5:0:0:49152 sdp 8:240 [active][ready]
[r...@cvprd2 etc]#
--
But when I do "multipath -v2" i donot see anything..
[r...@cvprd2 etc]# multipath -v2
[r...@cvprd2 etc]#
--
My multipath.conf is as below:
[r...@cvprd1 etc]# more multipath.conf
# This is a basic configuration file with some examples, for device mapper
# multipath.
# For a complete list of the default configuration values, see
# /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7/multipath.conf.defaults
# For a list of configuration options with descriptions, see
# /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7/multipath.conf.annotated
# Blacklist all devices by default. Remove this to enable multipathing
# on the default devices.
blacklist {
devnode "^sda"
}
## Use user friendly names, instead of using WWIDs as names.
defaults {
user_friendly_names yes
polling_interval 5
no_path_retry 3
failover immediate
path_grouping_policy multibus
rr_weight priorities
path_checker readsector0
}
devices {
device {
vendor "HITACHI"
product "OPEN-V"
path_grouping_policymultibus
path_checkerreadsector0
getuid_callout "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -p0x80 -s
/block/%n"
}
}
[r...@cvprd1 etc]#
Thanks !
Paras
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Paras pradhan wrote:
> Upgrding the kernel to 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5xen brought back /dev/dm-* and
> now multipath -ll has the ouput.
>
> I am curious about what has caused the lost of /dev/dm* in my previous
> kernel.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paras.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Paras pradhan wrote:
>
>> Yes every thing's loaded.
>>
>> Here is the output:
>>
>> [r...@cvprd1 ~]# lsmod | grep dm
>> dm_round_robin 36801 0
>> rdma_cm68565 1 ib_iser
>> ib_cm 73449 1 rdma_cm
>> iw_cm 43465 1 rdma_cm
>> ib_sa 75209 2 rdma_cm,ib_cm
>> ib_core 105157 6 ib_iser,rdma_cm,ib_cm,iw_cm,ib_sa,ib_mad
>> ib_addr41929 1 rdma_cm
>> dm_multipath 56153 1 dm_round_robin
>> scsi_dh41665 1 dm_multipath
>> dm_raid45 99401 0
>> dm_message 36289 1 dm_raid45
>> dm_region_hash 46273 1 dm_raid45
>> dm_mem_cache 39489 1 dm_raid45
>> dm_snapshot52105 0
>> dm_zero35265 0
>> dm_mirror 54737 0
>> dm_log 44993 3 dm_raid45,dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
>> dm_mod101521 11
>> dm_multipath,dm_raid45,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_log
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Paras.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:33 PM, nate wrote:
>>
>>> Paras pradhan wrote:
>>> > Hi.
>>> >
>>> > Somehow I do not see any out put using multipath -l or multipath -ll .
>>> But I
>>> > can see using dry run ie multipath -d.
>>> >
>>> > Also I do not see /dev/dm-*
>>> >
>>> > It was there before. How do I re claim it.
>>>
>>> Are the modules loaded?
>>>
>>> [r...@dc1-mysql001a:~]# lsmod | grep dm
>>> dm_zero35265 0
>>> dm_mirror 60617 0
>>> dm_round_robin 36801 1
>>> dm_multipath 52945 2 dm_round_robin
>>> dm_mod 99737 17 dm_zero,dm_mirror,dm_multipath
>>> [r...@dc1-mysql001a:~]# multipath -l
>>> 350002ac0006a0714dm-1 3PARdata,VV
>>> [size=1.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
>>> \_ 1:0:0:3 sdc 8:32 [active][undef]
>>> \_ 1:0:1:3 sde 8:64 [active][undef]
>>> \_ 2:0:0:3 sdg 8:96 [active][undef]
>>> \_ 2:0:1:3 sdi 8:128 [active][undef]
>>> 350002ac000790714dm-0 3PARdata,VV
>>> [size=2.0T][features=0][hwhandler=0]
>>> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
>>> \_ 1:0:0:2 sdb 8:16 [active]
[CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
Hey folks! I'm doing some %pre work for the first time in a very long time, and have been at this all day so far and still don't have anything sorted out properly. First I tried just doing some simple bash stuff like this %pre #!/bin/bash # stuff I reduced "stuff" down to basically a simple "select" statement to echo and read input, just for the sake of debugging. My first problem is that when running the kickstart, the little box would come up saying it is running the pre scripts, but my scripts would never actually run. No output, no prompts, nothing. So after some muddling I tried this : %pre #!/bin/bash exec 1>&3 exec > /dev/tty chvt 3 exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 clear # stuff I cannot say I really understand this - it is just something I came across. in any case, now my script seems to run fine, but after it finishes it does not appear to go back to my install. I get messages like : date INFO all kickstart %%pre script(s) have been run date WARNING resolution and depth not specified, try to be sane and that is it - it stops there. I've also tried just : %pre #!/bin/bash chvt 3 clear # stuff With the same results as above. This is all running within VMWare ESXi 4.0 if that matters. What am I missing here? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] multipath
Paras pradhan wrote: > Can anybody tell me if my multipath o/p is fine? Hitachi support should be able to > I have a active/active setup and when I unplug the FC SAN cable on one of > the ports of my HBA my host is being un responsive and need to reboot it. Sounds like it is mis configured, doing some searches I found several references to the "/sbin/pp_hds_modular" command, which you may need, in this situation it's best to deal with your vendor support they should have instructions for supported MPIO configurations(whether or not linux device mapper is supported I don't know). Also double/triple check that your array is truely active-active, from what I recall you had a really old HDS system, I don't recall many of them being active-active(in the sense that you can access the same volume over multiple controllers simultaneously vs having different volumes exported over different controllers). For modular active-active I was in a presentation last year by HDS for their new AMS2k line up and they claimed that was the first modular active-active array(at least from them), others have had modular active-active for a few years now, they tried to claim they were the first despite that not being true. http://www.hds.com/products/storage-systems/adaptable-modular-storage-2000-family/index.html For me if I yank a cable within a couple seconds the system recovers, my vendor provides extremely specific step-by-step instructions for configuring, including modifications to the multipath init script for proper operation(7 pages in a PDF just for MPIO configuration and examples). nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
Alan McKay wrote:
> What am I missing here?
Is /bin/bash even available during %pre ?
I just started testing CentOS 5.4 yesterday w/kickstart, currently
all of my systems are 5.2. Tested this under ESX 4.0 this morning.
This is what my %pre looks like now, I consolidated all configs
into a single script that is called
# Note: there doesn't seem to be any way to log stuff that occurs in %pre as
# it occurs outside of the chroot before kickstart loads.
%pre
export KICKSTART_IP=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed s'/.*http:\/\///'g | sed
s'/\/config.*//'g`
wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/kickstart-postinstall/bin/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh
-O /tmp/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh
chmod 755 /tmp/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh
/tmp/kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh
then the kickstart-pre-install-generic.sh script contains
#!/bin/sh
export KICKSTART_IP=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed s'/.*http:\/\///'g | sed
s'/\/config.*//'g`
export KERNEL_VERSION=`uname -r`
# No /etc/redhat-release during pre, so guessing based on kernel version
echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && export CURRENT_OS="RHEL4"
echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" || export CURRENT_OS="RHEL5"
###
## Attempt to auto detect console device ##
###
grep -q "ttyS0,9600" /proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS0_9600.cfg
-O /tmp/console.config
grep -q "ttyS0,57600" /proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS0_57600.cfg
-O /tmp/console.config
grep -q "ttyS0,115200" /proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS0_115200.cfg
-O /tmp/console.config
grep -q "ttyS1,9600" /proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS1_9600.cfg
-O /tmp/console.config
grep -q "ttyS1,57600" /proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS1_57600.cfg
-O /tmp/console.config
grep -q "ttyS1,115200" /proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/console_ttyS1_115200.cfg
-O /tmp/console.config
# Default to VGA if we can't find a serial console defined
[ ! -f "/tmp/console.config" ] && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/console/vga.cfg -O
/tmp/console.config
###
## Attempt to auto detect network device ##
###
[ "$CURRENT_OS" == "RHEL5" ] && grep -q "ksdevice=eth0" /proc/cmdline &&
wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O
/tmp/network.config
[ "$CURRENT_OS" == "RHEL5" ] && grep -q "ksdevice=eth1" /proc/cmdline &&
wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/network/ksdevice_eth1.config -O
/tmp/network.config
echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && grep -q "ksdevice=eth0" /proc/cmdline
&& wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_4/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O
/tmp/network.config
echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && grep -q "ksdevice=eth1"
/proc/cmdline && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_4/network/ksdevice_eth1.config -O
/tmp/network.config
# Default to eth0 if we don't see anything specified
[ "$CURRENT_OS" == "RHEL5" ] && [ ! -f "/tmp/network.config" ] && wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_5/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O
/tmp/network.config
echo $KERNEL_VERSION | grep "2.6.9" && [ ! -f "/tmp/network.config" ] &&
wget
http://${KICKSTART_IP}/config/common/rhel_4/network/ksdevice_eth0.config -O
/tmp/network.config
###
## Attempt to auto detect custom swap size ##
###
grep -qi "swapsize" /proc/cmdline && export SWAPSIZE=`cat /proc/cmdline |
sed s'/ /\n/'g | grep swapsize | sed s'/swapsize=//'g`
[ -z "$SWAPSIZE" ] && export SWAPSIZE="4096"
echo "part swap --size=${SWAPSIZE}" >/tmp/swap.config
-- end script --
nate
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Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, nate wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: > >> What am I missing here? > > Is /bin/bash even available during %pre ? I was wondering that myself, but it did not complain, and seems to run, and it is given as an example here : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs there %pre #!/bin/sh # exec 1>&3 # exec > /dev/tty # chvt 3 # exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 # clear SAVEPS3=$PS3 PS3="Use standard disk partitioning? " STDISK="" select STDISK in yes no do [ "$STDISK" != "" ] && break done PS3=$SAVEPS3 echo "# nothing" > /tmp/part-include -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
Alan McKay wrote: > The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window > that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs > there Maybe a different approach? I set variables on the kickstart command line for custom options and have the installer evaluate those options. For example, by default all systems get a swap partition of 4GB. If I specify "swapsize=1024" as part of the install command line then that system gets a 1GB swap partition. I think your %pre command is hanging because it's waiting for input. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, nate wrote: > Maybe a different approach? But this should work ... > I think your %pre command is hanging because it's waiting for > input. I think you are right, but I just don't get why it is behaving the way it is. Either hangs up front, or at the back end, depending on what I am doing. There have to be people out there doing this. We always did it in my old job - that was with FC going on up to FC9 -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:01:42AM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? I don't dislike tw_cli. At least, I like it much better than the old afacli/aaccli, and I also like having 3dm2 send out email alerts in addition to monitoring using tw_cli. (I have a short nagios plugin I've written to parse the tw_cli output, as well; it's not all that great, but if others are interested I will send it offlist.) I have seen some of the other issues you mentioned, which is one reason I have been considering other vendors (and, I suppose, software RAID, though less seriously). --keith -- kkel...@speakeasy.net pgpb13XnHWqtW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window
> that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs
> there
[snip]
> select STDISK in yes no
> do
> [ "$STDISK" != "" ] && break
> done
> PS3=$SAVEPS3
> echo "# nothing" > /tmp/part-include
I'm not using any %pre, but have lots of %post scripts. None seem to
work unless I put it all on one line. Even using the line continuation
character fails.
For example, this fails:
DISABLE_LIST="pcscd sendmail bluetooth"
for item in ${DISABLE_LIST}; do
chkconfig ${item} off
done
But this works:
..
for item in ${DISABLE_LIST}; do chkconfig ${item} off; done
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Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> But this works:
> ..
> for item in ${DISABLE_LIST}; do chkconfig ${item} off; done
Mine is working fine when I do this first :
chvt 3
But then when I get to the end it hangs.I am now trying to figure
out what my console number was before that, so I can change back. I
guess I could use trial and error. Unfortunately "fgconsole" does not
seem to be present.
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Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
OK, at the end of my %pre I do chvt 1 and it at least goes further and says it is starting the X server 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... (etc) started successfully But it does not switch to it. Which just reminded me that I could just run this in text mode! That would probably solve the problem, but now I'm being stubborn and want to get it going in X :-) I'm just going to try chvt up to 10 and see if any of those works. If not, I'll switch to text mode. Will report back ... -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
Hi All, I have a CentOS 5.4 web server. I have some stuff that runs on 443. When I hit https:// The user gets a warning saying that site identity could not be verified and the user can add an exception if they want. How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do this too. Can anyone provide advice? -Jason ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
> The user gets a warning saying that site identity could not > be verified and the user can add an exception if they want. Those are SSL Cert warnings. You will get to get a signed cert to avoid them. SSL Certs are pretty cheap now. http://startssl.org will generate certs for free but you have to register and jump through a few hoops. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos CentOS 5.4 VPS with unmetered bandwidth only $25/month! No overage charges, 7 day free trial, PayPal, Google Checkout ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
Hi all; I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the following: yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install xmms which installed these: xmms gdk-pixbuf glib gtk+ mikmod yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install gstreamer gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-tools which installed these: gstreamer-plugins-ugly a52dec amrnb lame libcdio libdvdcss libdvdread libid3tag libmad libsidplay libsndfile mpeg2dec twolame Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? Thanks in advance. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
> Hi All, > > I have a CentOS 5.4 web server. I have some stuff that runs on 443. > > When I hit https:// > > The user gets a warning saying that site identity could not be verified > and the user can add an exception if they want. > > How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't > these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do > this too. > The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And you'll have to answer a *lot* of questions Security's cranking up, esp. if you're accepting credit cards, in which case it's *really* ratcheted up. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
Slack-Moehrle wrote on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:18:15 -0800 (PST): > How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Either that or allow the exception or import the CA cert to the browser. This is not a CentOS issue at all. Folks, please keep off-topic questions off the list. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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chvt 2 takes me to a root command prompt! from there I tried manually "chvt 3" which took me back where I was chvt 4 does not seem to do me any good 5 ... nada 6 ... now we're somewhere! It is coming back for me and giving me errors in my disk partitioning. Within the X GUI! I think I have something to work with here ... -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
Hi, >> How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't >> these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do >> this too. >The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And >you'll have to answer a *lot* of questions Security's cranking up, >esp. if you're accepting credit cards, in which case it's *really* >ratcheted up. What are the organizations that do this properly and inexpensively. One for each domain name, correct? -Jason ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
Le 10-01-12 à 15:32, Slack-Moehrle a écrit : Hi, How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do this too. The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And you'll have to answer a *lot* of questions Security's cranking up, esp. if you're accepting credit cards, in which case it's *really* ratcheted up. What are the organizations that do this properly and inexpensively. One for each domain name, correct? You can buy wildcard certificates if all of your servers are running under the same TLD. Pascal Robert prob...@macti.ca AIM: MacTICanada Twitter : MacTICanada LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/macti ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > Hi, > >>> How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't >>> these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do >>> this too. > >>The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And >>you'll have to answer a *lot* of questions Security's cranking up, >>esp. if you're accepting credit cards, in which case it's *really* >>ratcheted up. > > What are the organizations that do this properly and inexpensively. > > One for each domain name, correct? > > -Jason > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Have a look at Godaddy's SSL certs. They are around $30 per domain. You need one IP per domain with SSL cert as well. Ryan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:23 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav > lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin > gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime > > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install xmms > > which installed these: > > xmms > gdk-pixbuf > glib > gtk+ > mikmod > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install gstreamer gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base > gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-tools > > > which installed these: > > gstreamer-plugins-ugly > a52dec > amrnb > lame > libcdio > libdvdcss > libdvdread > libid3tag > libmad > libsidplay > libsndfile > mpeg2dec > twolame > > > Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? --- I have no idea if rythem box will even play them. Mine want. yum install xmms-mp3 from rpmforge will though through xmms John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue
Jason wrote: > mark wrote: >> Jason wrote: >>> How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't >>> these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to >>> do >>> this too. > >>The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And >>you'll have to answer a *lot* of questions Security's cranking up, >>esp. if you're accepting credit cards, in which case it's *really* >>ratcheted up. > > What are the organizations that do this properly and inexpensively. No idea. > > One for each domain name, correct? > Yep. Webservers will compare the name and the sitename. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:23 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav > lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin > gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime > > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install xmms > > which installed these: > > xmms > gdk-pixbuf > glib > gtk+ > mikmod > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install gstreamer gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base > gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-tools > > > which installed these: > > gstreamer-plugins-ugly > a52dec > amrnb > lame > libcdio > libdvdcss > libdvdread > libid3tag > libmad > libsidplay > libsndfile > mpeg2dec > twolame > > > Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? > > Thanks in advance. > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Use the rpmfusion repo then do a yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad And now Rhythmbox will play mp3's without a hitch. also if your going for the media stuff add a yum install mplayer mplayer-gui and this will pull all the extra media codecs and mplayer as well. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - Its not just for servers ya know... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? i have the following packages installed: rhythmbox-0.11.6-4.el5 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf and my RHEL 5.4 system plays MP3s. -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v http://five.sentenc.es PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. > Use the rpmfusion repo then do a I can't say that I've ever had a single system every trashed by using RPMForge. This is why the yum-priorities package exists for any repo you want to use, so you don't overwrite system RPMs. Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:47 -0600, lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Discussion on that for us? > Use the rpmfusion repo then do a > > yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad > > And now Rhythmbox will play mp3's without a hitch. also if your going > for the media stuff add a > > yum install mplayer mplayer-gui > > and this will pull all the extra media codecs and mplayer as well. > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: Before you get your system all hosed using ANY third-party repos, I suggest you read these two pages first. This explains the priorities plugin. It's very important if you're going to use any third-party repos. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities Then here's the repos page with information. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories?highlight=(third-party) Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? I don't know about rhythmbox - but fluendo has a free mp3 plugin that works extremely well for other GStreamer apps. http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ It won't allow you to use GStreamer apps to encode mp3's - but I always do that with lame anyway. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files
> Kevin Kempter wrote: > >> Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? > > I don't know about rhythmbox - but fluendo has a free mp3 plugin that > works extremely well for other GStreamer apps. > > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ > > It won't allow you to use GStreamer apps to encode mp3's - but I always > do that with lame anyway. Ok, *someone's* got to say it: what's wrong with mplayer? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Vmware server 1.x
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[CentOS] directory permissions
Hi, I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new file the default permissions are again username:username. How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so that any files created in that directory will always have specifc username:groupname permissions? Also is there any option that would allow only owner to delete files, even though group has rwx permissions? Thanks, CS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Trip to FOSDEM from London
Hello We are organizing a trip to Brussels for Fosdem in February starting from London. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Development European Meeting) is a European event centered around Free and Open Source software development. It is aimed at developers and all interested in the Free and Open Source news in the world. Its goals are to enable developers to meet and to promote the awareness and use of free and open source software. It is said to be the biggest gathering of Open Source interested people in Europe and the speaker list is quite impressive. We will be leaving London on Friday (5. Feb) evening and returning on Sunday (7. Feb). One of our goals is it to keep the total cost for the weekend under 200 Pounds, which is quite cheep for a weekend in Brussels. People who are interested can look at the wiki [1] or drop me a mail. Everyone is welcome. Cheers Didi [1] http://www.bunix.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/events:fosdem2010 -- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: riba...@gmail.com Skype : ribalba ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] directory permissions
Carlos Santana wrote: > How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so > that any files created in that directory will always have specifc > username:groupname permissions? make the directory setgid chmod g+s > Also is there any option that would allow only owner to delete files, > even though group has rwx permissions? Perhaps via ACLs.. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Trip to FOSDEM from London
On 12/01/10 21:36, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > We will be leaving London on Friday (5. Feb) evening and returning on > Sunday (7. Feb). One of our goals is it to keep the total cost for the > weekend under 200 Pounds, which is quite cheep for a weekend in > Brussels. I'll see you guys at the other end, am heading out early friday morning via eurostar ( the 11:45am / 9:45am from London and the 6:45 from ebbsfleet are mostly linux people! ). Looking at your timescale, it looks like you might be cutting it fine for the beer event. -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] directory permissions
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: > Hi, > > I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that > it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the > default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new > file the default permissions are again username:username. > > How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so > that any files created in that directory will always have specifc > username:groupname permissions? chmod 2775 /your/directory This will assign group ownership of any files created in /your/directory to the group that owns that directory. It won't, however, change user ownership. Allowing that sort of operation would be a great avenue for a denial-of-service attach on any filesystem with quotas. > Also is there any option that would allow only owner to delete > files, even though group has rwx permissions? chmod 3775 /your/directory This combines the 2775 trick mentioned above with an o+s operation. Setting the "sticky bit" on the all-users permissions allows only owners to dispose of files. See the permissions on /tmp or /var/tmp for an example. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x
On 12/01/10 21:34, mattias wrote: > Anyone running centos 1.x on centos 5.3? > Do you have something to talk about or are you just conducting a survey ? hint: email and mailing lists are not IM or SMS style interactive to-fro media! -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Trip to FOSDEM from London
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 21:36, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: >> We will be leaving London on Friday (5. Feb) evening and returning on >> Sunday (7. Feb). One of our goals is it to keep the total cost for the >> weekend under 200 Pounds, which is quite cheep for a weekend in >> Brussels. > > I'll see you guys at the other end, am heading out early friday morning > via eurostar ( the 11:45am / 9:45am from London and the 6:45 from > ebbsfleet are mostly linux people! ). > > Looking at your timescale, it looks like you might be cutting it fine > for the beer event. True, but a lot of us are working or are coming to London from all over the UK. So that was the earliest we could make it. As we will be a bus full of people I suppose we will not have to do a lot of catching up for the beer event :) -- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: riba...@gmail.com Skype : ribalba ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x
On 1/12/2010 3:34 PM, mattias wrote: > Anyone running centos 1.x on centos 5.3? > If you mean vmware 1.x, I have a few of them - or did, the Centos servers may all be updated to 5.4 now.. Starting over, I'd probably run ESXi on the hardware and Centos as one or more of the guests, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4
Just to confirm - working great! Just have to do "chvt 2" at the beginning of the %pre to get into text mode, and then "chvt 6" at the end to flip back to X mode. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] directory permissions
Thanks nate and Paul.. Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you mentioned? - CS. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that >> it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the >> default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new >> file the default permissions are again username:username. >> >> How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so >> that any files created in that directory will always have specifc >> username:groupname permissions? > > chmod 2775 /your/directory > > This will assign group ownership of any files created in > /your/directory to the group that owns that directory. > > It won't, however, change user ownership. Allowing that sort of > operation would be a great avenue for a denial-of-service attach on > any filesystem with quotas. > >> Also is there any option that would allow only owner to delete >> files, even though group has rwx permissions? > > chmod 3775 /your/directory > > This combines the 2775 trick mentioned above with an o+s operation. > Setting the "sticky bit" on the all-users permissions allows only > owners to dispose of files. See the permissions on /tmp or /var/tmp > for an example. > > -- > Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x
Les Mikesell wrote: > If you mean vmware 1.x, I have a few of them - or did, the Centos > servers may all be updated to 5.4 now.. Starting over, I'd probably run > ESXi on the hardware and Centos as one or more of the guests, though. Agreed. That's exactly what I started to do too. You get a lot better performance out of ESXi than VMware Server on CentOS, or whatever Linux flavor. Regards, Max ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] offtopic repo's further discussion
Hello All I may have ruffled some feathers with a comment i made earlier about rpmforge. This was posted back on the ML. On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:47 -0600, lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Discussion on that for us? So to oblige here is a further discussion on this subject. The reason I say this about rpmforge is because if you install this repo and then do a yum update watch what it will install a huge amount of packages, which 9 times out of 10 is gonna get messy.(which can happen with any repo) And yes I know all about yum-pritorities another plugin that you can install to control the various repo's that one would like to add. I have no problems with this either. Here is my issue the simple joy of playing a mp3 on rhythmbox or amarok should not be a test of one's admin skills or repo knowledge to get it to play. But it is, it is always "here read these 2 pages about yum-priorities plugin and repo's" I mean cmon really? There are 2 repo's CentOS Extras and CentOS Plus could this functionality be placed in here ? Where is the repo I read about months ago that was gonna be available for users to submit packages to ? These are all questions that should be getting asked. Another point to make is on the list forums and other places we are seeing a influx of new users, coming from all sorts of other distro's and to make this simple instance so damn hard and having to pull from outside sources or repo's seems silly to me. Should CentOS not provide a simple and easy solution for some of these things ? I mean standard music and movie playback should be an easy one to get. There seems to be some areas where this is taking place for instance I know there is kmods for alot of things, but I am looking at the plain ol home user who wants to listen to music email basic desktop stuff. And yes I know all about the patent encumbered bs that everyone spouts all the time and i today's times this is just a moot point now. Lets face it some of the other distro's are starting to show their true colors and are often too concerned with updates and the latest and greatest packages. Which is breaking more things than anything else. So people are coming to try out CentOS because of the stability and lets face it one of the best and helpful communities out there right now. And yes I know CentOS is mainly known for the RHEL compatibility and more server usage than anything else and that is the main goal, but why can the project not cater to the home user and tinkerer and developer as well ? All in all I should not of called out rpmforge on such a short straw the work they do is excellent and any 3rd party repo you use has the potential to hose a machine no doubt about it. All in all I'm not saying I want Cent to become one of the "other" distros here I'm just saying is there room for improvement ? To make things easier for the average user at home. We see it all the time on the lists and IRC and I'm thinking a more straightforward approach to the situation and keeping some things not all of course, but the simple ones inhouse and in Cent repo's instead of having to go outside the box just for simple things. Oh well all in all this is just my humble opinion and I'm sure I will get ravaged and picked apart at the seams for this but hey that's me so fire away!! -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS - Its not just for servers ya know... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] directory permissions
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote:
> Thanks nate and Paul..
>
> Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you
> mentioned?
I'd be leery of doing that unless the only items below the top
directory are other directories (i.e., no regular files).
If you have subdirectories you want to alter, but you also have
regular files sprinkled through the tree, it'd be best to run find
instead, e.g.,
find /your/directory -type d -exec chmod 3775 {} \;
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Re: [CentOS] directory permissions
Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks nate and Paul.. Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you mentioned? - CS. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new file the default permissions are again username:username. How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so that any files created in that directory will always have specifc username:groupname permissions? chmod 2775 /your/directory This will assign group ownership of any files created in /your/directory to the group that owns that directory. It won't, however, change user ownership. Allowing that sort of operation would be a great avenue for a denial-of-service attach on any filesystem with quotas. If you need to sort out sub-directories try - where tld is top level directory $ find tld -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 2775 if you need to clean up files (ie not directory) $ find tld -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 664 I find that openoffice chokes on files with the sticky bit set - it will not save! Also is there any option that would allow only owner to delete files, even though group has rwx permissions? chmod 3775 /your/directory This combines the 2775 trick mentioned above with an o+s operation. Setting the "sticky bit" on the all-users permissions allows only owners to dispose of files. See the permissions on /tmp or /var/tmp for an example. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos <>___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?
>> ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply >> sucks ;-( > > So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? > That the software raid people were and have always been right? Depends what the software raid people were saying. :) Hardware & Software RAID have their places. We use HW RAID exclusively in our shop (SMB w/ multiple sites and I'm the sole tech.) but that's because I can't always be on-site when drives die so it's nice to know I can be out of town for a few days and if a drive packs it in the RAID system in our IBM servers is plug & play. I get the alert, call our vendor, and he shows up 9am next morning with a replacement drive. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
