Re: [CentOS] Need help getting two NICs to work on CentOS 7

2016-11-08 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello there, What is the hypervisor that hosts the VM? What does ifconfig show on it? Boris. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/06/2016 11:00 PM, Sean Son wrote: > >> How do I >> configure the networking so that both IPs are pingable and the VM is >> reachable via bo

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-26 Thread Boris Epstein
I am sorry, I am stepping into the conversation late and may not fully understand all aspects of the situation but I wonder if it may make sense to set up a server process on the NFS server machine that simply listens for incoming requests to perform a file copy and then does so as requested - only

Re: [CentOS] IPMI ??

2016-09-18 Thread Boris Epstein
Keith, I am sorry, unfortunately I don't remember model numbers. Those were Dell boxes as far as I remember. Boris. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2016-09-18, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Is there a little setup

Re: [CentOS] IPMI ??

2016-09-18 Thread Boris Epstein
Is there a little setup display right on the box? Just asking because I have seen that on some boxes. Cheers, Boris. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2016-09-17, Alice Wonder wrote: > > > > Okay if it requires DHCP this might be o

Re: [CentOS] php55w-fpm on CentOS 7: settings location

2016-08-03 Thread Boris Epstein
OK, here's the PHP info: http://borisepstein.info/php.php Looks like it got the right php.ini but that is still not happening. Is there any chance something overwrote the variable settings after php.ini was read in? Boris. On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Wed, Aug

[CentOS] php55w-fpm on CentOS 7: settings location

2016-08-03 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Does anybody know where to enter settings for php-fpm? I have tried a number of things, including starting it with "-c /etc/php.ini" but that seemed to have any effect. Any idea on how to control it? What am I doing wrong? :) Thanks in advance. Cheers, Boris.

Re: [CentOS] Install C7 VM on C6 Host

2016-06-21 Thread Boris Epstein
I would think the same as Gordon that as long as your 64-bit VM virtualization is running properly there should be no problem running C7 on a VM running under C6. May I ask what the initial doubt was based upon? Has anybody out there had such an issue before? Cheers, Boris. On Tue, Jun 21, 2016

Re: [CentOS] Perl on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7

2016-03-14 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:47 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 3/14/2016 9:35 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> But packages aside, as Linux is UNIX-like system, you can always install >> it UNIX way: download tarball from perl site, compile and install it. You >> will have to do your own work maintain

[CentOS] Perl on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7

2016-03-14 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, What are the proven/tested version of Perl for CentOS 6 and 7? Is Perl 6 operational on either? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] OpenSSH security flaw

2016-01-16 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Does anybody know if this one has been patched? http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/openssh-vulnerability-cryptokeys.html Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-06 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Tris Hoar wrote: > >> On 04/11/2015 20:59, John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> On 11/4/2015 12:52 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >>> >>>> I don't ge

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-06 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Tris Hoar wrote: > On 04/11/2015 20:59, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 11/4/2015 12:52 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> >>> I don't get this for some reason... not even sure why. ESXi's default >>> behaviour seems to

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
>> > vmware esxi 5.5.0 (free, using vsphere client to manage), vm is minimal > centos 7 64bit. I added a 16gb vdisk and immediately see this in dmesg... > > [155484.386792] vmw_pvscsi: msg type: 0x0 - MSG RING: 1/0 (5) > [155484.386796] vmw_pvscsi: msg: device added at scsi0:1:0 > [155484.388250]

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:57 PM, wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: > >> > >> My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this > >> thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the > >> disk? If not, the guest'

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > My turn for a dumb question: from not paying a lot of attention to this > thread, the answer isn't clear to me: has the *host* recognized the disk? > If not, the guest's not going to see it. > > mark > > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > It usually works very nice here, > Have you added only the disk or by accident another scsi controller? > This happens (you probably know) if you select another bus while creating > the disc. > > VG Rainer > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > It should work fine. What esxi version you are using? > > Eero > 4.11.2015 6.27 ip. "Boris Epstein" kirjoitti: > > Eero, I know. It is EXSi 5.5 Thanks. Boris. __

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > > was the controller you added the virtual disk to an IDE or scsi controller? > > -- > public gpg key id: 1362BA1A > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > It was a SCSI controller. Bor

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:39:59PM +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > I think, this is possible with scsi disks > > > > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-add-a-new-hard-disk-without-rebooting-guest.html > > While I believe that this U

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
, zep wrote: > > > On 11/04/2015 10:27 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Boris Epstein > wrote: > >> Hello Julius, > >> > >> Thanks - but it doesn't seem to work. > >> > >> I installed sg3_utils and

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
n #if you have sg3_utils package > #lsscsi > Or > #echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host[n]/scan > > Julius > > > On Nov 4, 2015, at 15:31, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > Is there a way to recognize a hot-plugged disk (i.e.

[CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Is there a way to recognize a hot-plugged disk (i.e., to get the system to recognize it and build the appropriate /dev/sd* device for the new device) without a reboot? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] safest way to grow a LV under VMware ESXi5.5

2015-11-03 Thread Boris Epstein
> > > Ok, that *is* small. I'd worry about a logfile suddenly growing massively, > and freezing your system. (Yes, it has happened here, and then there was > the time a summer student ran something, wouldn't be back until Monday... > and got a 20G logfile, which blew out the NFS-mounted home direct

Re: [CentOS] safest way to grow a LV under VMware ESXi5.5

2015-10-30 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:57 PM, wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > In your view, what is the most reliable and safe way to increase an LV > > housing the root filesystem of a Centos 6 VM. I am thinking either > growing > > the virtual

[CentOS] safest way to grow a LV under VMware ESXi5.5

2015-10-30 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, In your view, what is the most reliable and safe way to increase an LV housing the root filesystem of a Centos 6 VM. I am thinking either growing the virtual HD virtual device, or creating a new device and adding it as a PV to the VM, or perhaps migrating the whole FS to a new virtual d

Re: [CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-27 Thread Boris Epstein
as a result of an update. I have not been able to see what the issue was with the original image. Cheers, Boris. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Leonard den Ottolander < leon...@den.ottolander.nl> wrote: > Hello Boris, > > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 15:59 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: &g

Re: [CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-25 Thread Boris Epstein
- potentially making the machine no longer bootable. I am going to investigate this angle. Boris. On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > I have encountered a rather peculiar situation. > > We have a Centos 6 VM (64 bit) running on a VMware vSp

[CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I have encountered a rather peculiar situation. We have a Centos 6 VM (64 bit) running on a VMware vSphere 5.5 server. It was running just fine until one day I decided to reboot it and it just would not boot up. Effectively, dracut failed to initialize the LVM, much like under th

[CentOS] unsetting/erasing an iptables mark

2015-04-03 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, iptables provides a way to mark/tag packets for future identification/accounting, etc. A brief discussion of it is offered here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_traffic_control Here is a more detailed description of the issue I am working on: http://lists.centos.org/pip

[CentOS] iptables marking and NAT issue

2015-04-03 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, It appears that, for some reason I have thus far failed to understand when you use marking in iptables you then run into troubles if you attempt to do NAT (MAQUERADE). Let me describe this in more detail. We are attempting to use a network test environment named ATCD running it on a C

[CentOS] tc seems to have no effect on the NIC's

2015-04-01 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, We have installed this network testing environment: https://github.com/facebook/augmented-traffic-control which seems pretty nice overall. It allows you to artificially degrade your network performance by issuing tc commands to directly affect your networking. I have it set up on tw

Re: [CentOS] headless VirtualBox on Centos

2015-03-30 Thread Boris Epstein
gt; > Cheers > Mal > > > On 27/03/15 13:33, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Hello listmates, >> >> I am wondering if there is a set of scripts/utilities for automatically >> starting and running headless (no X11) VM's using VirtualBox omn a CentOS >>

Re: [CentOS] headless VirtualBox on Centos

2015-03-27 Thread Boris Epstein
Awesome! Thanks for your replies everybody. I was looking more or less at the same options. Just was wondering if there was a ready-made set of scripts somewhere to set all of this in motion to save me a little time - but if not, I will just make one. Cheers, Boris. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:

[CentOS] headless VirtualBox on Centos

2015-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I am wondering if there is a set of scripts/utilities for automatically starting and running headless (no X11) VM's using VirtualBox omn a CentOS 6 server. VNC/RDP access to the VM's would be fine. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Boris. __

[CentOS] Linux client for Checkpoint VPN?

2015-01-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Does anybody know if there is a modern Linux client compatible with the latest versions of Checkpoint VPN ( http://www.checkpoint.com/ )? They used to have a Linux client back in the day but that seems to have been discontinued. Is anybody able to connect to a Checkpoint VPN server fro

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Gordon, thanks! What sort of security implications did you have in mind? Just curious. Boris. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/25/2015 04:20 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> I have resolved this, finally. The problem was that I configured VLAN 48

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Boris Epstein
that works. Cheers, Boris. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > And additionally here are the detailed port configs on the switch end: > > hq>show interface Gi1/0/3 switchport > Name: Gi1/0/3 > Switchport: Enabled > Administrative Mode: trunk >

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Boris Epstein
1-3,7,48-50 hq> Boris. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Thank you everyone. > > OK, the mystery deepens, I guess. The machine does need to support several > VLAN's, it is currently on a trunkport (8021q encapsulated), it made it > into the ARP table

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Boris Epstein
2015 at 11:42 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Andrew Holway > wrote: > > On 25 January 2015 at 15:12, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > >> OK... but why does it need to be a trunk port? > >> > > > > Because a trunk port will &

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Stephen, That is right - it is not on a trunk port. I guess this must be it. Thanks. Boris. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:12:29AM -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > > OK... but why does it need to be a trunk port? > > If you

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Boris Epstein
OK... but why does it need to be a trunk port? Boris. On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:53 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > Andrew and Dennis are spot on. > Their conclusions about your server being connected to an access port and > not a trunk port would be my conclusion as well. > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-24 Thread Boris Epstein
hport? > > Regards, > Dennis > > On 24.01.2015 01:34, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Steve, > > > > Thanks, makes sense. > > > > I just don't see why I have to effectively waste an extra IP address to > get > > my connection established. > &

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Steve, Thanks, makes sense. I just don't see why I have to effectively waste an extra IP address to get my connection established. Boris. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:10:57PM -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > This make

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Boris Epstein > wrote: > > Less, > > > > You are 100% right. Of course I brought up my eth0 - but, like you said, > > with no IP. Meanwhile, I brought up eth0.48 with 192.168.48

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Boris. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Boris Epstein > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a machine running Centos 6.6 connected to a port on a Cisco > Catalyst > > 3750 series switch. That port is

[CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I have a machine running Centos 6.6 connected to a port on a Cisco Catalyst 3750 series switch. That port is part of VLAN 48. I have VLAN 48 on the CentOS machine too. The IP network on VLAN 48 is 192.168.48.0/255.255.255.0. The address on the CentOS side is 192.168.48.101, the address

Re: [CentOS] DJBDNS: very weird dnscache issue

2015-01-15 Thread Boris Epstein
agnating > since last year. :-) > > Lucian > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > - Original Message - > > From: "Boris Epstein" > > To: "CentOS mailing list" > > Sent: Wedn

Re: [CentOS] DJBDNS: very weird dnscache issue

2015-01-14 Thread Boris Epstein
I'm also curious for a solution.. for when djbnostalgia hits me. > > Lucian > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message - > > From: "Boris Epstein" > > To: "CentOS

[CentOS] DJBDNS: very weird dnscache issue

2015-01-13 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, We have put a DNS server online running DJBDNS v1.06 (ndjbdns-1.06-1.el6.x86_64) on a 64-bit CentOS 6.6 server. We have done some limited testing on the machine which it passed - i.e., dnscache was talking to tinydns, the queries went through fine, etc. As soon as we put it online sub

Re: [CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6

2014-11-07 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 07.11.2014 um 19:05 schrieb Boris Epstein: > > As far as which VMWare tools to use - the ones from VM Ware or the >> open-vm-tools available through the EPEL - is there any consensus on what >> is better? I kn

[CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6

2014-11-07 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, As far as which VMWare tools to use - the ones from VM Ware or the open-vm-tools available through the EPEL - is there any consensus on what is better? I know that for CentOS 7 you are told to use open-vm-tools but what is the situation with CentOS 6? Thanks. Boris. __

Re: [CentOS] tinydns exceeds "holdoff time" on startup under CentOS 7

2014-10-27 Thread Boris Epstein
OK, on the second take, even 5 seconds has proved to be enough of a sleep period in my case. Just FYI. Boris. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello again, > > I think I have resolved this issue by adding the following line to my > relevant service s

Re: [CentOS] tinydns exceeds "holdoff time" on startup under CentOS 7

2014-10-27 Thread Boris Epstein
, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > Somehow or other my DNS services that are part of > the ndjbdns-1.06-1.el7.x86_64 package would not start properly at startup. > When I then start them up using systemctl: > > systemctl start dnscache > syste

[CentOS] tinydns exceeds "holdoff time" on startup under CentOS 7

2014-10-27 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Somehow or other my DNS services that are part of the ndjbdns-1.06-1.el7.x86_64 package would not start properly at startup. When I then start them up using systemctl: systemctl start dnscache systemctl start tinydns they start just fine. >From the log I got the following for t

Re: [CentOS] IP aliasing on CentOS 7

2014-10-21 Thread Boris Epstein
;ip a show" to see them. Once again, thank you all for responding. Cheers, Boris. On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > is there a good wirte-up on how edit script files in > the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory on Centos & to assign

Re: [CentOS] djbdns under CentOS7: startup and socket issues

2014-10-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:49 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 17 Oct 2014 23:32, "Boris Epstein" wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to get djbdns ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djbdns ) > running > > on CentOS 7. So far I have wirtten the d

Re: [CentOS] djbdns under CentOS7: startup and socket issues

2014-10-17 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Boris Epstein > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to get djbdns ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djbdns ) > running > > on CentOS 7. > > There's an n

[CentOS] djbdns under CentOS7: startup and socket issues

2014-10-17 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I am trying to get djbdns ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djbdns ) running on CentOS 7. So far I have wirtten the djbdns.service and djbdns.socket files. The sockets (TCP and UDP 53) for some reason would not start and I don't know how to debug that; the service does start but only when

[CentOS] IP aliasing on CentOS 7

2014-10-15 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, is there a good wirte-up on how edit script files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory on Centos & to assign multiple IP addresses to the same NIC on boot? Thanks for any and all help. Cheers, Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

[CentOS] CentOS 7 for i386/32-bit?

2014-10-15 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I can't find the 32 bit version of Centos 7. Would it be because I am not looking in the right place or does it not exist at all? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] patching bash 2.05b for Shellshock

2014-10-08 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Amongst a number of modern CentOS machines we have this one RHEL 3 machine (don't ask me why:) and on it we have bash 2.05b. I was trying to compile a version of bash for it that would be Shellshock-proofed. To do that, I downloaded a copy of the code from the GNU along with all the 13

Re: [CentOS] Centos box and Cisco 3750 VLAN's

2014-06-03 Thread Boris Epstein
exactly as expected, whether a VLAN is named or not! Problem solved! Thank you all very much again. This was an obscure one for sure. Cheers, Boris. On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Boris Epstein > wrote: > > He

Re: [CentOS] Centos box and Cisco 3750 VLAN's

2014-06-02 Thread Boris Epstein
nk ports. I'd also recommend turning off VTP and > setting all non-trunk ports to access mode > ( > http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750x_3560x/software/release/12-2_55_se/configuration/guide/3750xscg/swvlan.html#wp1150876 > ). > > --Blake > > >

[CentOS] Centos box and Cisco 3750 VLAN's

2014-05-30 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I have a CentOS box that has a NIC (eth0) on which I defined 4 VLAN's (counting the NIC itself): eth0, eth0.1, eth0.2 and eht0.3. Initially the Cisco switch was not partitioned into VLAN's which means that the only VLAN running on it was the default one (VLAN 1). I have then played wit

[CentOS] wpa_supplicant - an utter failure, for some reason

2014-05-19 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I feel a little embarrassed but I can not get through this one and any help will be much appreciated. I have a Broadcom WiFi adapter in a 64-bit CentOS 6.5 laptop. Trying to get it connect automatically - and it just would not - no error messages, nothing. With the same config Ne

[CentOS] VZFS issues

2013-07-12 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Normally whenever I needed to grab the contents of a disk/partition in its entirety I would just use dd to pipe it wherever I wanted and that would just work. However, with a VZFS partition on a Parallels VM itdoes not seem to work: root@nei [~]# dd if=/dev/vzfs of=/dev/null bs=

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN routing question

2013-04-14 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 09:00:16AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Let's say I have an OpenVPN (v2) server sitting on a Linux machine with > the > > IP address of, say, 192.168.10.1o. We are talking real address, ass

[CentOS] OpenVPN routing question

2013-04-14 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Let's say I have an OpenVPN (v2) server sitting on a Linux machine with the IP address of, say, 192.168.10.1o. We are talking real address, assigned to a NIC on the machine. Now let us say the OpenVPN server hands out IP's in the 192.168.20.0/24range. And let us say that I want the mac

[CentOS] ACL/permissions question

2013-01-31 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, If I have a regular, ACL-capable filesystem on Linux (say, ext4 or xfs) is there a way for me to establish the following: 1) There is a directory, say, /home/joe . It is owned by user joe . No one but joe (and root, of course) can read or write anything in this directory. 2) No

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-24 Thread Boris Epstein
I have, thanks! That one works just fine. Unfortunately, it does load balancing - and that is all. ClearOS, for instance, does a myriad of things but the kind of load balancer I want. And I would like to have it all in one machine. That is another challenge I face. Boris. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Many thanks to everyone who responded with extremely helpful tips. Reporting back that I implemented HAProxy on CentOS 6.3 and this works like a charm - after I worked out a couple of HAProxy kinks. Boris. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, >

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-19 Thread Boris Epstein
: > From: Boris Epstein > > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 5:10 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations > > Joseph, > > Thanks! > > Did you mean this: > > https://www.barracudanetworks.com/products/loadbalance

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-19 Thread Boris Epstein
:35 schrieb Boris Epstein : > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > The question is not necessarily CentOS-specific - but there are lots of > > > bright people on here, and - quite possibly - the final implementation > > will > > > be on CentOS hence I figu

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-19 Thread Boris Epstein
Leon, Thanks! Looks good - though seems to be highly specific. I will check it out. Boris. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 19.01.2013 um 21:35 schrieb Boris Epstein : > > Hello all, > > > > The question is not necessarily CentOS-specific -

[CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-19 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, The question is not necessarily CentOS-specific - but there are lots of bright people on here, and - quite possibly - the final implementation will be on CentOS hence I figured I'd ask it here. Here is the situation. I need to configure a Linux-based network load balancer (NLB) solutio

Re: [CentOS] two IP addresses on the same NIC: one via DHCP, one fixed

2012-10-01 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 01.10.2012 um 22:53 schrieb Boris Epstein: > > Hello listmates, > > > > If I have a NIC on my CentOS 6.2 machine two which I want to assign to IP > > addresses: one acquired via DHCP, the other one fixed - is ther

[CentOS] two IP addresses on the same NIC: one via DHCP, one fixed

2012-10-01 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, If I have a NIC on my CentOS 6.2 machine two which I want to assign to IP addresses: one acquired via DHCP, the other one fixed - is there a way to do that? How do I do that? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

[CentOS] netcat issue: no UDP transmission

2012-09-28 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listamtes, Here's is a curious issue: netcat (nc) seems to not do UDP for me, even though TCP works flawlessly. Not even on the local host. Here's the "server session" I am running: cat test.dd | nc -l -u -n -k -v 2456 (test.dd is just a large file with random data) Here's the client: n

[CentOS] load balancer recommendation

2012-09-28 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, If I were looking for a load balancer to run on a Linux - specifically, CentOS - machine - what would you recommend? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] default gateway outside of the LAN

2012-08-16 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, We have a somewhat unique setup whereby our default router is outside of the local network. Let us say our network is 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0 So we have a route-eth0 file that looks something like this: 10.1.1.1 via 192.168.10.1 dev eth0 default 10.1.1.1 dev eth0 The last definit

Re: [CentOS] missing V4L or related dependencies

2012-07-24 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:48 PM, wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:41 PM, wrote: > >> Boris Epstein wrote: > >> > Hello again, > >> > > >> > Looks like the functions I need - at least some of them - are defined >

Re: [CentOS] missing V4L or related dependencies

2012-07-24 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:41 PM, wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: > > Hello again, > > > > Looks like the functions I need - at least some of them - are defined in > > > > videobuf-vmalloc.h > > > > I still have no idea where to find them - i.e., what

Re: [CentOS] missing V4L or related dependencies

2012-07-24 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello again, Looks like the functions I need - at least some of them - are defined in videobuf-vmalloc.h I still have no idea where to find them - i.e., what to include/install to make them resolve. Boris. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello all, > > I am

[CentOS] missing V4L or related dependencies

2012-07-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I am trying to install Epiphan's ( http://www.epiphan.com/ ) VGA2USB device on a Centos 6 machine and when I am trying to compile and install the driver for it I get the following errors: WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64/extra/vga2usb.ko needs unknown symbol videobuf_str

Re: [CentOS] FreeIPA on Centos 6

2012-06-27 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:39 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > Named segfaulted here and there, and when the master instance failed, > > takeover didn't work for whatever reason. > > > > I have four IPAs replicating together across two DCs with full DNS and CA > integration plus using it for sudo manag

[CentOS] XFS-in-a-file

2012-06-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Has anybody attempted to run an XFS in a file mounted via -o loop? The file size is about 20 TB and it resides in a larger XFS filesystem residing on a disk. That filesystem's size is about 25 TB. What sort of degradation should one expect under that sort of scenario? The reason

[CentOS] FreeIPA on Centos 6

2012-06-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Is anybody using http://freeipa.org on a CentOS 6 server? Is it working well? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-17 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, wrote: > >> Boris Epstein wrote: >> > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, John R. Dennison >> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Boris

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-14 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, wrote: > Boris Epstein wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, John R. Dennison > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > To be specific, I use UNFSD to export a MooseFS file syste

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > > A process implemented in the userland may not be as efficient as one > > implemented as part of the kernel - but that doesn't mean it can

Re: [CentOS] working dhcpd.conf with routes

2012-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 06/12/2012 10:05 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Rob >> Kampen >> >wrote: >> >> On 06/12/2012 09:14 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >>> >>> Hello listm

Re: [CentOS] working dhcpd.conf with routes

2012-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 06/12/2012 09:14 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> Hello listmates, >> >> I am running DHCPD for IPv4 on a Centos 5 machine. I am wondering if >> anyone >> has got a functional dhcpd.conf configuration serving

[CentOS] working dhcpd.conf with routes

2012-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I am running DHCPD for IPv4 on a Centos 5 machine. I am wondering if anyone has got a functional dhcpd.conf configuration serving static routes to Linux, Mac OS X and Windows clients. I tried a couple of variations of static-routes options - but have yet to create something that

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-02 Thread Boris Epstein
> A process implemented in the userland may not be as efficient as one > > implemented as part of the kernel - but that doesn't mean it can't scale > > well, does it? > > Anything that needs atomic operations is difficult to scale. Throw in > distributed components and an extra user/kernel layer a

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-02 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:46 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 03:36:09PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > > > maybe in 2003, when Linux NFS was sketchy, this made sense. > > Unlikely back then, either. It's a userland implementation, subject to > all the same scheduling issues

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-02 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 06/02/2012 02:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >> On 06/01/2012 10:26 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 a

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-02 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 06/02/2012 02:16 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > >> On 06/01/2012 10:26 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 a

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-02 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 06/01/2012 10:26 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:36 PM, John R Pierce > wrote: > > > >> On 06/01/12 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > >>> I believe that unfsd (http://

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-01 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 06/01/12 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > I believe that unfsd (http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/ ) now does have > > multi-threaded capability and as such should be fairly well scalable. I > am > > using it on Ce

[CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-01 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello there, I believe that unfsd ( http://unfs3.sourceforge.net/ ) now does have multi-threaded capability and as such should be fairly well scalable. I am using it on CentOS 6.2 and it seems to become all but unusable when more then 3-4 users connect to it. Is that normal? What sort of experienc

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