Re: [CentOS] Shared object packaging in rpm

2011-06-24 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I whipped up a quick spec to package Zenoss' wmi client and noticed it > creates a > libasync_wmi_lib.so.0 and libasync_wmi_lib.so.0.0.1 that their python script > would > otherwise copy during its install routine (obviously I wrote a native rpm > section for > installa

[CentOS] Good Centos Security Advice & Gnome Thumbnails

2011-06-24 Thread Always Learning
Browsing the net for one thing unexpectedly brought me to two good and useful documents: (1) Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf Revision 4.1 February 28, 2011 (2) Hardening Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 http:/

[CentOS] Shared object packaging in rpm

2011-06-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I whipped up a quick spec to package Zenoss' wmi client and noticed it creates a libasync_wmi_lib.so.0 and libasync_wmi_lib.so.0.0.1 that their python script would otherwise copy during its install routine (obviously I wrote a native rpm section for installation). Anyone know the naming conventi

[CentOS] Quota (and disk usage) is incorrectly reported on nfs client mounting XFS filesystem

2011-06-24 Thread Julie Ashworth
hi all, I hope you can help me with a strange quota/nfs/XFS behavior... I'm using Centos 5.6 on both a nfs server and client. Both are 64-bit, and using a recent kernel: NFS server: Linux fs2.priv 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 31 13:22:04 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux NFS clien

Re: [CentOS] Using umask

2011-06-24 Thread Todd Cary
On 6/24/2011 6:51 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: > On 2011-06-21 17:22, Todd Cary wrote: >> Grasping a full understanding of setting default Users, Groups >> and Masks has alluded me over the years, but now I find myself in >> a situation where manually "setting" the file/directory >> attributes is beco

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Marian Marinov wrote: > On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: >> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP >> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's >> used as scratch space so not too conc

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

2011-06-24 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Daniel De Marco wrote: > * Keith Roberts [06/24/2011 15:06]: >> So has anyone actually got FF 5 working OK on CentOS 5.6 >> i686 32 bit yet? >> >> If so, is it actually worth taking the trouble to upgrade to >> FF 5, and what is the recommended way to do this upgrade >> please? > > it seems to

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel De Marco
* Keith Roberts [06/24/2011 15:06]: > So has anyone actually got FF 5 working OK on CentOS 5.6 > i686 32 bit yet? > > If so, is it actually worth taking the trouble to upgrade to > FF 5, and what is the recommended way to do this upgrade > please? it seems to work fine here. Just get the binar

[CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

2011-06-24 Thread Keith Roberts
So has anyone actually got FF 5 working OK on CentOS 5.6 i686 32 bit yet? If so, is it actually worth taking the trouble to upgrade to FF 5, and what is the recommended way to do this upgrade please? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts -

Re: [CentOS] Exporting /dev/shm as NFS share?

2011-06-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:17:19 +0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 6/24/11, John Hodrien wrote: > > /dev/shm's how I would do it. > > > > Make a file on /dev/shm and the format it, mount it, export it. > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/export bs=1M count=1000 > > mke2fs -j /dev/shm/export

Re: [CentOS] Exporting /dev/shm as NFS share?

2011-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/24/11, John Hodrien wrote: > /dev/shm's how I would do it. > > Make a file on /dev/shm and the format it, mount it, export it. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/shm/export bs=1M count=1000 > mke2fs -j /dev/shm/export > mount -o loop /dev/shm/export /mnt/foo > > Then export /mnt/foo Thanks for this

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone using dm-cache?

2011-06-24 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:40 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Has, or does, anyone use dm-cache - specifically for caching SAN based > > storage locally? > > hmmm > > >From another list > > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:38:29 +0200 > From: Rudi Ahlers

[CentOS] Does anyone using dm-cache?

2011-06-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi, > > Has, or does, anyone use dm-cache - specifically for caching SAN based > storage locally? hmmm >From another list Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:38:29 +0200 From: Rudi Ahlers To: xen-users Subject: xen-u] anyone using dm-cache?

Re: [CentOS] /dev/sd and /dev/mapper

2011-06-24 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 24.06.2011 14:24, schrieb Steve Campbell: >> I've done a little research, and can't really find out why it happens, >> but on one server I have built, I get the old fashion /dev/sda1, >> /dev/sda2 type partitions and on another server I get the /dev/mapper >> style p

[CentOS] Does anyone using dm-cache?

2011-06-24 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, Has, or does, anyone use dm-cache - specifically for caching SAN based storage locally? I'm looking for a way to speed up SAN based storage on a CentOS 5.6 + XEN Hypervisor which uses iSCSI mounted SAN storage. dm-cache seems like it do the trick, but I've never heard of it before until someo

Re: [CentOS] /dev/sd and /dev/mapper

2011-06-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:24:57 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I've done a little research, and can't really find out why it happens, > but on one server I have built, I get the old fashion /dev/sda1, > /dev/sda2 type partitions and on another server I get the /dev/mapper > style partitio

Re: [CentOS] Using umask

2011-06-24 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2011-06-21 17:22, Todd Cary wrote: > Grasping a full understanding of setting default Users, Groups > and Masks has alluded me over the years, but now I find myself in > a situation where manually "setting" the file/directory > attributes is becoming a pain. > > I understand the fundamentals

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue's with LDAP and too many open files

2011-06-24 Thread Sebastiaan Koetsier | proserve
Hi Steve, The change of /etc/sysconfig/ldap did the trick, thanks for your help! Cheers, Sebastiaan. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue's with LDAP and too many open files

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Sebastiaan Koetsier | proserve wrote: > I've changed the settings and I'm waiting until the sessions to ldap > grow, I will keep you posted on this. You can: cat /proc//limits to check what the actual open file limit is in the running server. Steve ___

Re: [CentOS] No DVD Mirrors - Only Torrent

2011-06-24 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 10:02 +0100, Colin Coles wrote: > University of Kent mirror has DVD isos: > ftp://mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.6/isos/x86_64 > ftp://mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/5.6/isos/i386 Brilliant. Thank you very Colin. Much appreciated. -- With best r

Re: [CentOS] /dev/sd and /dev/mapper

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 24.06.2011 14:24, schrieb Steve Campbell: > I've done a little research, and can't really find out why it happens, > but on one server I have built, I get the old fashion /dev/sda1, > /dev/sda2 type partitions and on another server I get the /dev/mapper > style partitions. Both machines are h

[CentOS] /dev/sd and /dev/mapper

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Campbell
I've done a little research, and can't really find out why it happens, but on one server I have built, I get the old fashion /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 type partitions and on another server I get the /dev/mapper style partitions. Both machines are hardware raided (before the install) and both machine

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue's with LDAP and too many open files

2011-06-24 Thread Sebastiaan Koetsier | proserve
Hi Steve, > Setting it for the ldap user in /etc/security/limits.conf will not have any > effect, since it is root that starts the ldap server (so, the setting should > be >for root, not ldap). I've changed the settings and I'm waiting until the sessions to ldap grow, I will keep you posted on

Re: [CentOS] Chicken and egg question: passwd and cronjob

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 08:54:21 Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > AFAIK, account does not need to have a password at all for cron to work. > > > > Apart from that if you're going to automatically reset root's password > > you may as well just avoid expiring it at all. > > In /var/log/cron I see this whe

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue's with LDAP and too many open files

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Sebastiaan Koetsier | proserve wrote: > I've been growing a large headache on this one, i have a number of LDAP > servers behind loadbalancing, since 2 days i constantly get the error: > Too many open files. Although I'm not a newbie with linux I'm unable to > resolve this,

[CentOS] Strange issue's with LDAP and too many open files

2011-06-24 Thread Sebastiaan Koetsier | proserve
Hi All, I've been growing a large headache on this one, i have a number of LDAP servers behind loadbalancing, since 2 days i constantly get the error: Too many open files. Although I'm not a newbie with linux I'm unable to resolve this, I have took the following stept: Changed the /proc/sys/fs

Re: [CentOS] Exporting /dev/shm as NFS share?

2011-06-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I'm trying to do some network transfer test using NFS. The problem is > when I try to eliminate the possibility of the hard disks being the > bottleneck. I am unable to export /dev/shm as a NFS share. Initially > there was an error about fsid or wro

[CentOS] Exporting /dev/shm as NFS share?

2011-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
I'm trying to do some network transfer test using NFS. The problem is when I try to eliminate the possibility of the hard disks being the bottleneck. I am unable to export /dev/shm as a NFS share. Initially there was an error about fsid or wrong filesystem. If I use a symbolic such as /home/test -

Re: [CentOS] Jumbo frames problem with Realtek NICs?

2011-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/24/11, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Try ElRepo driver and please report if that helps. I would like to know > your experience with ElRepo driver. The ElRepo driver appears to work, I don't get an error when increasing the MTU but I'll need to solve another problem before I can really test a

Re: [CentOS] Jumbo frames problem with Realtek NICs?

2011-06-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, June 24, 2011 05:06 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Friday, June 24, 2011 02:33 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >>> On 6/24/11, Christopher Chan wrote: On Friday, June 24, 2011 01:20 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > First bottleneck was discovering

Re: [CentOS] Jumbo frames problem with Realtek NICs?

2011-06-24 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Christopher Chan wrote: > On Friday, June 24, 2011 02:33 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> On 6/24/11, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> On Friday, June 24, 2011 01:20 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: First bottleneck was discovering the max MTU allowed on these is 7K instead of 9K but googling se

Re: [CentOS] No DVD Mirrors - Only Torrent

2011-06-24 Thread Colin Coles
On Friday 24 June 2011 01:23, Always Learning wrote: > Currently running 5.6 and would like a two set DVD of that version. > However none of the mirrors offer pure DVDs only Torrent versions which > involve the possibility of bits being tampered with and things leaving > my servers without explicit

Re: [CentOS] Jumbo frames problem with Realtek NICs?

2011-06-24 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, June 24, 2011 02:33 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/24/11, Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Friday, June 24, 2011 01:20 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >>> First bottleneck was discovering the max MTU allowed on these is 7K >>> instead of 9K but googling seems to indicate that the RTL81

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Lucian
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alain Péan wrote: > Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit : >> On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: >>> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP >>> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Alain Péan
Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit : > On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: >> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP >> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's >> used as scratch space so not too concerned a