[CentOS] rebuilding firefox-2.0.0.16 from fc8

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Pryor
hello, I started with ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/SRPMS/firefox-2.0.0.16-1.fc8.src.rpm with the hope of rebuilding it for el5/centos. All of the dependencies were available (mostly from rpmforge) except one: something called system-bookmarks. I elected to comment

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread Gopinath Achari
thank u all On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 16:11 +0300, Javor Nikolov wrote: > Hi, > > If you you want a quicker execution - you could also run the pings to > separate hosts in parallel starting the jobs in background (&) and > waiting for them with "wait" after that. You'll have to be more > careful abo

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-28 Thread Kuang-Chun Cheng
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Victor Padro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Salvador Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to CentOS 5.2 and I want to know how can I change the >> /var/www/html directory to another disk. That disk is not e

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-28 Thread Victor Padro
Looking more closely on your apache issue, you can take a look in here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/s2-apache-tips.html -- "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." "Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente se

Re: [CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-28 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Salvador Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to CentOS 5.2 and I want to know how can I change the /var/www/html > directory to another disk. That disk is not even partitioned. I've googled > and even searched in centos.org forums and documentation

[CentOS] Change Web Server to another disk in Centos 5.2

2008-07-28 Thread Salvador Torres
Hi, I'm new to CentOS 5.2 and I want to know how can I change the /var/www/html directory to another disk. That disk is not even partitioned. I've googled and even searched in centos.org forums and documentation, and found nothing. I want to have in separate disks CentOS and my web server.

Re: [CentOS] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!

2008-07-28 Thread Ian jonhson
> When you use a custom kernel, you usually get to keep the pieces. > > Go buy a new car and change the engine and then see if they honor the > warranty. > > We stopped using Dell machines some time ago. For some reason there > reliability has been steadily falling. I don't know if they are doing >

RE: [CentOS] Cannot boot from DVD on an Intel Svr to install CentOS 5.2

2008-07-28 Thread saltorres
Finally after days of trial an error I got the origin of the problem and how to solve it. I'm working from a Vista computer, so what I say here is related to this environment. 1. You have to download images (iso files) using FireFox web browser. Internet Explorer does not download them complete.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Mark Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I'm doing. In the gui environment, gnome, there's a box in the > upper right corner that reports about updates available every once in a > while. I click on it and I get something called "Package Updater" that >

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed > CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, > and Apache (among other things). I noticed that PHP version is 5.1.6, the > MYS

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do want up-to-date applications that people here actually use, like > LaTeX, Emacs, R, Gnumeric, and the other ones I can provide. If I > can't get those from EPEL or rpmforge or wherever, I'm willing to > build those

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Walker
Here's what I'm doing. In the gui environment, gnome, there's a box in the upper right corner that reports about updates available every once in a while. I click on it and I get something called "Package Updater" that lists the packages that can be updated according to the server, I believe y

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:39 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I tried Scientific Linux and found I had to re-build the same things >> that I rebuild for CentOS, including R, because their versions lagged >> behind th

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread John R Pierce
Eduardo Silvestre wrote: howdy, did you tried lshw? have you? this package, available in rpmforge, shows considerably less than hal-device did, albeit in a somewhat cleaner output format... .. neither hal-device or lshw showed the serial of the optical devices on the 3 different r

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried Scientific Linux and found I had to re-build the same things > that I rebuild for CentOS, including R, because their versions lagged > behind the cutting edge. I switched to Centos hoping that the larger > user co

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Eduardo Silvestre
howdy, did you tried lshw? Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ - Original Message - From: "MHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Terça-feira, 29 de Julho de 2008

Re: [CentOS] You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.

2008-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Brent L. Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to check out Scientific Linux: > >https://www.scientificlinux.org/ > > They include a number of things that CentOS doesn't, like `R'. I don't know > if or how many of the other items you

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
2008/7/28 thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > dmidecode should work in any Linux: > > As was discussed earlier in this thread, dmidecode mainly reports on motherboard components and does not address peripheral devices. Also, please do not top post. Thanks. mhr __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Mark Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this the standard behavior? Is there a way to only update the packages I > installed without deselecting the ones I don't want? > That depends on what you are updating and what you want. Could you be a little (no, a lot

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread thad
dmidecode should work in any Linux: man dmidecode DMIDECODE(8) DMIDECODE(8) NAME dmidecode - DMI table decoder SYNOPSIS dmidecode [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) t

[CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Walker
Is this the standard behavior? Is there a way to only update the packages I installed without deselecting the ones I don't want? Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-28-2008 4:16 PM Justin spake the following: Hey everyone, This is the first time I've ever used a mailing-list so bear with me :-) I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, and Apache

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm

2008-07-28 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > This is the first time I've ever used a mailing-list so bear with me :-) > > I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed > CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed wit

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 yum repos old rpm

2008-07-28 Thread Justin
Hey everyone, This is the first time I've ever used a mailing-list so bear with me :-) I've just got a new dedicated server from Hostik and they've installed CentOS 5.2 on the system (awesome!) and came pre-installed with PHP, MySQL, and Apache (among other things). I noticed that PHP version is

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.07.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700: Or maybe it makes the machine feel good Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down the

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700: > Or maybe it makes the machine feel good Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down the daemon (with all of its agents) the core temperature

RE: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-28-2008 2:30 PM D Steward spake the following: > >> Re-install with software RAID1. > >> > >> RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works > >> well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets > >> degraded! > > > > I agree with you re. CPU load, b

[CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-28-2008 2:30 PM D Steward spake the following: Re-install with software RAID1. RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded! I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arra

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

2008-07-28 Thread Bill Campbell
Following up, info below. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Bill Campbell wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reas

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
D Steward wrote: > > Re-install with software RAID1. > > > > RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works > > well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets > > degraded! > > I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto > rebuilding of arrays? Does sof

Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu

2008-07-28 Thread Dan Halbert
Thanks to all for the suggestions. I did do lsof on the process and saw nothing interesting (just libraries). Attaching gdb to the process showed that it appeared to be looping inside getservbyname(). However, after a little more thought, I "rm -rf"d /var/spool/cups/ (which had some stuff from

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread D Steward
> Re-install with software RAID1. > > RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works > well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets > degraded! I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arrays? Does software RAID give you this? __

[CentOS] sys-unconfig

2008-07-28 Thread Mark Belanger
Does sys-unconfig work as advertised in 4.x? Meaning that if I have a fully configured box on my internal net and run sys-unconfig, will I be able to power up the node on a totally different network and have things work providing I answer the questions properly. Most typically this will mean tak

[CentOS] Re: Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-28-2008 12:10 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burn

[CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
-> unpartitioned space These shouldn't be appearing as two discs in the first place-- but anaconda said I only had one unit... Anyway, why the asymmetry? Did I screw the RAID volume somehow? Or did I install plain on sda and this RAID never worked as such? :P The machine BIOS correctly d

Re: [CentOS] script

2008-07-28 Thread Sergey Podushkin
Mad Unix wrote: I suggest make it a little bit lighter: inline corrections: #!/bin/sh # Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space # It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free avilable) percentage # of space is >= 90% #

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Sean Carolan
> > /dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it > with hdparm. > Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it > impossible to smart monitor "thru" a RAID controller? You probably will want to install the "HP Proliant Support Pack" as it will inc

[CentOS] Re: selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
Is there a recommended limit on email size posted somewhere? 1 byte less than what triggers a spanking! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature __

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
Ralph Angenendt wrote: MHR wrote: Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Maybe that would have broken the list limit ... Not sure of your meaning - by being 53k or

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Toby Bluhm > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > > > Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response > > > > Toby > > Ouch! Excuse me plz > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:09 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DVD burners, at $39 or so new, are pretty much disposable. i find most > burners are good for a few 100 disks then become less reliable. > True, but it's still a PITA to install and remove them, and external drives cos

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:09 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >> Follow on: When I had a problem with the Teac CD-RW drive in my daughters >> box, >> I sent an email to Teac Tech Support, asking if they had Diagnostics >> for it. ... >> > DVD burners, at $39 or

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PITA. You will probably need to open the box and look at the label on > the drive. > I'll have to do that anyway - they said it was probably defective and I should send it back for an exchange. Foo. mhr __

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > > 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now "Duplicate PV" > shows at boot. Honestly >

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MHR wrote: >> Tony, >> >> 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. >> >> 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please >> include it in an attachment. > > Maybe that would have b

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700 > MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > >> Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one >> of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message >> men

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread John R Pierce
Lanny Marcus wrote: Follow on: When I had a problem with the Teac CD-RW drive in my daughters box, I sent an email to Teac Tech Support, asking if they had Diagnostics for it. ... DVD burners, at $39 or so new, are pretty much disposable. i find most burners are good for a few 100 disks t

RE: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: > Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my > DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should > have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that > from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't > rem

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my > DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should > have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that > from at least one

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:26 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my > DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should > have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that > from at least one

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Alex
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0700 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one > of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message > mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there > was a way

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > Tony, > > 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. > > 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please > include it in an attachment. Maybe that would have broken the list limit ... 53k * several thousand mails ... Cheers, Ralph pgpfGtywm

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200: > >> For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager >> agents. > > I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- > hour s

[CentOS] fetchmail from a server and delete spam messages

2008-07-28 Thread nightduke
Hi i have an old account on a pop3 server... i don't use for a long time...but i want to receive the emails from there sometimes... but i have a problem...this email has a lot of spam emails... I wish to know if there's a way to check all the emails and those emails that match at spamhaus or spamc

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a Dell, "dmidecode" will give you the serial number of the system. > (I can see motherboard, chasis, memory sticks on my machine). > I did that. The only item of real interest (i.e., surprise) was that the CPU was l

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > >> >> Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response >> > > Toby Ouch! Excuse me plz If it were me & I was just starting out on a new setup, I'd blow it all away > and start from scratch. I h

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- > hour searching on the site I finally found an "hpasm" package that seems > to be it. They make it really hard to find it as it doesn't appear when

Re: [CentOS] Re: IPCop updates, Evolution Calendar rarely crashes now

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I usually have to do updates like that on the weekends, as I can't depend >>> on >>> a 3AM reboot to be up in the morning when Exec's are in. A reboot I >>> trust, >>> but not the first one after a kernel change. On a wee

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response Toby On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: snip Oops... system-config-lvm shows under 'Uninitialized entities': /dev/s

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Toby Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was waiting for you :) > I knew it! Furses! Coiled again! > BTW - my name is Toby. > Then I wasn't talking to you! Either that, or it was a typo - the n and the b are right next to each other on my keyboard, and I do

Re: [CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:26:30AM -0700, MHR wrote: > Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my > DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should > have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that > from at least one piece of so

[CentOS] Re: PF_RING crashed the CentOS5 - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-27-2008 10:19 PM Ian jonhson spake the following: Hi all, The PF_RING seems not to work smoothly in CentOS 5. Several day before, I patched the kernel 2.6.25.3 and installed the PF_RING-patched kernel in my CentOS5. Based on the PF_RING, I developed my program to capture the network package

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rainer Duffner wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:22:03 +0200: > For HP, you should get the data if you install the Insight Manager > agents. I didn't install any software from HP on the HP machine. After half-an- hour searching on the site I finally found an "hpasm" package that seems to be it. The

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
Ross, Nate, Tony, thanks for your promptly response On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:51 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > > 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now "Duplicate PV" shows at boot. > Honestly > > To me it sounds likely that the raid controller is shitty and >

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Toby Bluhm wrote: > Toby Bluhm wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >> Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > >>> Hello, My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says > > > Never mind, mdadm don't apply with HW raid. Ah, but it would if a hardware RAID1 mirror were broken, a new disk stuck in, the

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
MHR wrote: Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Thanks. I was waiting for you :) BTW - my name is Toby. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 308

[CentOS] Hardware serial number access from (a) command(s)

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
Over the weekend, I had to make a technical support call on one of my DVD burners, and at one point the recorded message mentioned I should have my serial number handy. I thought there was a way to read that from at least one piece of software on the system, but I couldn't remember one and man -k

[CentOS] Re: Now you did it Olly

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-27-2008 7:14 PM D Steward spake the following: Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the hard drive. If the purpose of the encrypted bootloader was to load an encrypted filesystem/s, then there must be a spare MBR on your drive somewhere. Its not standard to h

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
Toby Bluhm wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says Never mind, mdadm don't apply with HW raid. mdadm --examine will tell if there's raid metadata there, --zero-superblock will erase it. -- Toby Bluhm A

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
Tony, 1) Please edit your replies to remove unnecessary information. 2) If you need to present this large of an amount of data, please include it in an attachment. Thanks. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Hello, My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says "duplicate PV" while booting, I don't think I was reading Could just be that lvm is finding your pv through another path - lvm.conf can be setup to only scan specific devices.

Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu

2008-07-28 Thread Eduardo Silvestre
Hey, lsof -p 2232 and show the output. --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/ - Original Message - From: "MHR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15:09 P

Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu

2008-07-28 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is that a problem with the 64 bit version of CUPS? There is no problem > with the 32 bit version of CUPS. I have it > running on my desktop, without any problems. And, it runs on GNOME > without any problems. Will the 32

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: I just want to point out that the issue isn't with postfix but rather amavisd and how/where amavisd connects/communicates with the various parts and pieces. I'm afraid that I can't be too much help here because I u

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread nate
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > 4) Rebooted the installed system. Now "Duplicate PV" shows at boot. Honestly To me it sounds likely that the raid controller is shitty and is presenting two sets of devices to the OS, one likely being the "RAID" device and the other a more generic device(s). What does

RE: [CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > > Hello, > My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says > "duplicate PV" while booting, I don't think I was reading > them before. Any clues will be appreciated. > From what I recall: > 1) RAID 1 was setup (using firmware setup program) on a > machine with

[CentOS] Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-28 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
Hello, My "hardware" (?) RAID system seems to work but says "duplicate PV" while booting, I don't think I was reading them before. Any clues will be appreciated. >From what I recall: 1) RAID 1 was setup (using firmware setup program) on a machine with Intel S3200 SHV Server Board. 2) Installed Cent

[CentOS] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
I choose CentOS because I believe it is the most stable OS in commodity machines. But I don't know how to do when facing the trouble. The difference lies in that I patched a PF_RING patch in original kernel and recompiled the kernel to run my machines. I wonder whether the patched kernel crash

[CentOS] Re: Centos 5.1 NFS problems

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-26-2008 9:54 AM Mag Gam spake the following: Thankyou everyone. I updated the 5.2 kernel onto 5.1 and everything seems to work fine. Thanks for all of your help and wisdom. You still are at risk by not updating. The kernels are a small part of the security updates that came in 5.2. --

Re: [CentOS] Re: Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread kapil singh
Hello, This is a running shell script for ping multiple host it provides result directly: if host is successfully ping then it returns Host is alive. otherwise Host is not alive Try this i am working with that in my local n/w. #/bin/bash for n in {1..5}; do host=192.168.1.$n ping -c2 $host &> /de

[CentOS] Re: IPCop updates, Evolution Calendar rarely crashes now

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-26-2008 1:05 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Scott Silva wrote: on 7-24-2008 5:36 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: At work, you do the reboot at 3 A.M. or you have users who are furious, or you send them a message the network is going down t

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
Bill Campbell escribió: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008, Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas If your goal is to test connectivity, you might look at the

RE: [CentOS] Re: preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > > > > > Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a > > performance boost? > > > Not a performance boost, but if the drive that swap is on fails while the OS > has data there the system can choke horribly or even die. Swap on raid can > sometimes be sli

Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Dan Halbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never been able to get cups to work properly since CentOS 4.x (and am > now on 5.2). > > When I try to "service start cups", cupsd immediately starts taking 100% of > the cpu. Attaching strace to it shows no system ca

[CentOS] Re: preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Scott Silva
Does swap need to be part of the RAID set? Is there actually a performance boost? Not a performance boost, but if the drive that swap is on fails while the OS has data there the system can choke horribly or even die. Swap on raid can sometimes be slightly slower. If you think your system w

Re: [CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu

2008-07-28 Thread kapil singh
Hello, have you installed fresh centos 5.2 or upgraded it from previous one ? it creates a problem in some services if any one upgrading the OS from old version to new version. well according to my opinion you should uninstall cupsd with their dependencies and reinstall it. well i am also workin

[CentOS] Re: Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread Mike
I really like 'fping' for use in shell scripts. See: http://www.fping.com/ and http://fping.sourceforge.net/man/ It can be 'yum installed' from the CentOS RPMforge repo. So in your script you can just do fping -c 10 ... I don't understand exactly what 'scripts which launches 10 pings' and

[CentOS] cupsd takes 100% of cpu

2008-07-28 Thread Dan Halbert
I have never been able to get cups to work properly since CentOS 4.x (and am now on 5.2). When I try to "service start cups", cupsd immediately starts taking 100% of the cpu. Attaching strace to it shows no system calls happening. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling cups to get fresh co

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > >> SO - is it normal to have to update policies on basic services? Am I > >> missing an rpm? > > > > those aren't basic services but are packages that are supplied by > > postfix is centos, the rest are from rpmforge > > > repositories

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008, Gopinath Achari wrote: >hi, > > how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different >destinations at execution of single shell scripts > >please help me any ideas If your goal is to test connectivity, you might look at the perl Net::Ping module. ``perld

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Summary: > > SELinux is preventing clamd (clamd_t) "read" to ./daily.cld (var_t). > > Detailed Description: > > [SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied > but was > permitted due to permissive mode.] > > SELinux

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:24 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to > restore > the default system file context for ./kernel, > > restorecon -v './kernel' did you try this? > > If this does not work, there is currently no auto

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Good luck with that! Have you tried it on a VMWare Server? > > No, why would I do that? > > I uninstalled nspluginwrapper and mplayerplug-in reinstalled

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> Rudi Ahlers wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:10:48 +0200: > >> > /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. > leave /dev/sdb1 the same size as /dev/sda1 and call it /boot2 and try >

RE: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-07-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >>> Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>> > Hi all > > I'm looking at setting up software RAID 10, using CentOS 5.1 x64 - what > is the best way todo this? > > I'm reading s

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-07-28 Thread Toby Bluhm
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:36 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: Ian Blackwell wrote: Craig White wrote: Suggest that you make sure you are fully updated, then 'touch /.autorelabel' then reboot (reboot at a time you choose because it may take a long time to relabel every file on your sy

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread Javor Nikolov
Hi, If you you want a quicker execution - you could also run the pings to separate hosts in parallel starting the jobs in background (&) and waiting for them with "wait" after that. You'll have to be more careful about the outputs in that case - e.g. redirect them to separate files. Regards, Javo

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

2008-07-28 Thread Laurence Alexander Hurst
Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different destinations at execution of single shell scripts please help me any ideas regards, Gopinath Do you mean something like: ping -c10 host1 ping -c10 host2 which will ping host1 10 times,

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-28 Thread D Steward
Ah sorry, you meant bootloader not MBR. You'll probably have to reinstall grub. Have you been using this guide? http://www.ubuntugeek.com/a-much-easier-way-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-usb-device-stick-or-hd.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

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