Re: [CentOS] Linux ate my RAM...

2015-11-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: > try systemd-nspawn and use it instead of virtualizing, will save you some > bits of memory. Interesting.. Not an option for us currently but perhaps as an alternative to Docker it will come in handy. Thanks for the feedback. Kwan ___

Re: [CentOS] Linux ate my RAM...

2015-11-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
Warren: Thanks for the good info and link. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> >> Because of caching, from VMWare's perspective, all Linux memory is >> being "used”. > > Nope. VMware’

[CentOS] Linux ate my RAM...

2015-11-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello everyone, Excuse the title. I'm trying to do something very specific that goes against some common assumptions. I am aware of how Linux uses available memory to cache. This, in almost all cases, is desirable. I've spent years explaining to users how to properly read the free output. I'm no

Re: [CentOS] ERROR Installing Cisco AnyConnect on Centos 6x

2015-10-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:28 PM, CS DBA wrote: > I've downloaded the Cisco AnyConnect tar.gz file for one of our clients, > when I untar it and then run the vpn_install script in the vpnclient > directory I get the below error. > > I ended up getting the clients from the Nux repository instead o

Re: [CentOS] Wrapper script for shutdown, passwd, etc. commands

2015-07-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Are you saying that this is an interactive process on the system? I'd > suggest you make sure this isn't some sort of email ticket that stores > a password or emails it. > Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking that the password would on

[CentOS] Wrapper script for shutdown, passwd, etc. commands

2015-07-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
y entering your login password: xx Ticket number CHG-GL-102122 for user Kwan Lowe (klowe) has been logged at Sun Feb 4, 2001 at 14:23 (2:23PM). Ideally this would only kick in if the request is coming from an interactive session. Thinking about it, just replacing the command

Re: [CentOS] Effectiveness of CentOS vm.swappiness

2015-06-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Markus "Shorty" Uckelmann wrote: > I have lots of C6 & C7 machines in use and all of them have the default > swappiness of 60. The problem now is that a lot of those machines do > swap although there is no memory pressure. I'm now thinking about > lowering swappine

Re: [CentOS] NTLM Authentication ISA Server

2015-01-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Tim wrote: > Hello list, > > how can I get CentOS 7 to authenticate against a Microsoft ISA server for > package installations after the OS is installed. > > In Debian/Ubuntu apt.conf just needs to be edited and it works. How to do > so in CentOS? > I use a progr

Re: [CentOS] 2460x1440 video card recommendation

2015-01-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > Can someone recommend a video card that's capable of driving a monitor at > 2560x1600 or 2560x1440 and just works with Centos 7 without requiring any > outside video drivers? > > I would prefer to stay with the built-in video drivers that are i

Re: [CentOS] files mysteriously changing ownership

2014-05-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > We have a directory that holds the media for a website. We want that > directory owned by the apache user and group. But for some reason that > directory and all it's files keep reverting to being owned by a user > account and group. > > What ar

Re: [CentOS] Memory leak - how to investigate

2014-02-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:53 AM, sjt5atra wrote: > > > Others have mentioned tuning httpd.conf parameters. Problem is apache > doesn't give you the math to know what to set those without lots of > trial-and-error. The best guide for this math is from F5: > http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/

Re: [CentOS] Memory leak - how to investigate

2014-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:59 PM, wrote: > > We've got a number of websites on one of our production servers, and they > get hit moderately (it's not Amazon... but they are US gov't scientific > research sites), and I think we've got 25 threads running, total, to > server *all* of them. > If you d

Re: [CentOS] Memory leak - how to investigate

2014-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > Ah! I missed that. Is it actually the case that your server doesn't even > > have 2G of RAM? That's a *real* problem. > > Small RAM limits with strange values like 1.3 GB are normal for VMs. > > This is true. I can start up VMs with under 25

Re: [CentOS] Memory leak - how to investigate

2014-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > My web & name server runs out of memory from time to time, to the point > where it's completely unresponsive to anything. At that point reset is > the only alternative. (Or, as this is a virtual guest, I just say "virsh > destroy"). > > But why

Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2013-12-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
No consolation for CentOS 6, but Chrome does appear to work on the upstream 7 beta. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Google Chrome

2013-11-25 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > BTW, I like chrome, so that is why I am trying to maintain this ... but > it is GOOGLE who is not maintaining the code to work on EL. > [snip] I appreciate your efforts on getting it working previously. At my office there are a bunch o

Re: [CentOS] Crash and automatical reboot when using the NVIDIA card

2013-11-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Panruo Wu wrote: > > A few minutes after using the GPU for doing some HPC calculations, the > > server crashes and reboots itself. This is happening every time. I know > it > > will be rebooted but I don't know when. Sometimes it's 20 minutes after > > starting us

Re: [CentOS] What the heck is a "text/html decoder"

2013-11-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > My phone service provider offers a way to check my voicemail via a webpage. > However, when I go to that webpage with Firefox and try to play back a saved > message, a window pops up that says this: > > "The following plugin is required: text/h

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use > on your CentOS machines? Not which version of the CentOS kernel, but > which repository. Here are some examples I can think of off the top of > my head:

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: > Well, I think this is one of the big examples of what > we can do with LVM: http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html This is one of the top reasons that I use LVM on my home builds. I generally build with an SSD as the OS disk

Re: [CentOS] Chromium update

2013-09-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
If you keep on canceling the auth dialog it will eventually load from Google's cache, minus the images. The main download is a script that does the package copy. I'll have a chance to try it in about an hour. Johnny, thanks for your efforts in getting this to work. 2013/9/18 Darr247 : > On 2013-

Re: [CentOS] Evergreen ILS on CentOS?

2013-09-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM, wrote: > I've got two possible routes, here: a) I can try to build an older, > deprecated version of Evergreen, or I can try to build a newer libevent > and stuff - some of which, IIRC, kde wants. > > Opinions? Suggestions? And if anyone's worked with evergreen,

Re: [CentOS] X11partioning

2013-09-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
> I am searching for a way in X11 to "partition" or "divide" the screen. > For example the physical size of the screen may be 1920x1080 > but what if I want 3 sections like > > A > B C [snip] > Does something like that exist of X11? All this is on the same > physical screen. Just dividin

Re: [CentOS] RHEL Subscriptions

2013-08-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
> It says if you let "ALL your subscriptions expire". I read that to mean > after you have no active subscriptions, you can use the software. Seems > absolutely crazy, but that's what it says. It seems more clear to me in > the detailed contract version it says clearly 'use or execute': This

Re: [CentOS] minimal X applications needed to export to remote server?

2013-08-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > In the past, on previous installations, I could ssh to the bacula server with > the -X option, and run the application (called 'bat'), and it would display > back. I'd have to make sure the sshd_config permits Xforwarding, but that > wa

Re: [CentOS] Motherboard and chipset compatibility

2013-08-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote: [snip] > Third (more general) question: My requirements are (I believe) modest: > * 1U short-depth rackmount chassis OR Mini-ITX small-footprint chassis > * Dual GbE network ports > * Dual 1920x1200 monitor display > * One SSD drive > * 32-bi

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-08-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > Please submit a bug report on CentOS bugzilla site, against a kernel. > Thanks, have done so and referred this thread. I'm beginning to suspect this is an SSD related issue. My other system is otherwise identical except for a tradi

[CentOS] kio_http spawns multiple processes

2013-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I've narrowed an earlier issue down to a problem with kio_http. This one is much easier to reproduce: In a KDE session, open Konsole terminal. In the Konsole session, type a bogus web address. E.g.: http://magoo.ca Right click the link and select "Open Link" In a few seconds you sh

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > I just tried installing the upstream vendor's kernel and it works > fine. I just realized that the problem kernel is CentOS-Plus. I'm > uninstalling and trying the Centos updates version now... OK, same error with the CentO

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > I'm going to reinstall and try a kernel from the testing repo.. Maybe > something is physically wrong with the SSD primary drive.. I just tried installing the upstream vendor's kernel and it works fine. I just realized that th

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > How about posting your boot line (from grub)? Maybe there is something > that has changed now. > > Btw, do you have GPT MBR on your HDD's? I had a boot problem on my > Samsung NP350e5x laptop when I formatted HDD with GPT. It confused

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > You haven't got an errored copy of the kernel by any chance?? I'd wipe it > and re-install. Rob, thanks for your reply. Just tried that. Uninstalled the latest kernel, reinstalled. Same issue. Also bumped my BIOS up to the latest... The last

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Mike McCarthy wrote: > Aha! non-CentOS drivers? Are these from the OEM? Theyprobably need to be > rebuilt to the new kernel. > Have you tried booting into "safe" mode or with video drivers disabled? > Just how you do that with CentOS I don't know but there should

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-27 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > I have a two ASUS "M5A99X EVO R2.0" motherboard based machines that I > use for testing CentOS and I have booted the 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 > and the 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 kernels on both machines > without any issues.

[CentOS] Kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6 boot fail

2013-07-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I installed 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64 today and had some boot issues. After rebooting, the system locked immediately after the Asus motherboard logo. I thought at first that it was a hardware issue because it didn't appear that grub even loaded. I wasn't even able to get i

Re: [CentOS] Can someone help confirm a bug? kio_http kdegraphics

2013-07-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: > I carried out the steps using the following > > Build: CentOS 6.4 x86_64 > Kernel: 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64 > > I only installed html2ps, everything else was installed using the > default Desktop installation together with the KDE GUI. > > W

Re: [CentOS] Can someone help confirm a bug? kio_http kdegraphics

2013-07-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Earl Ramirez wrote: > Hello Kwan, > > I will fire up a KVM vm and try to reproduce the problem/bug with the > steps provided, in what architect are you currently experiencing this > with? Thanks Earl... I am running on CentOS 6.4 64bit (x86_64). I'm spinning

[CentOS] Can someone help confirm a bug? kio_http kdegraphics

2013-07-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello: I'm trying to track down a kio_http problem using CentOS 6.4 with KDE. This causes multiple kio_http procs to spawn and lots of notifications. Several steps are needed: Create a foo.html with an href foo.html Testhttp://ovh.com>http://ovh.com [^] Use html2ps then ps2pdf to create a PDF d

[CentOS] Weird Okular/KDE error - thousand procs spawned

2013-07-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello all: I'm trying to troubleshoot a strange and repeatable error and not sure where to log the bug report. I subscribe to Linux Journal and download their PDF. The DLJ230.pdf opens in the Okular PDF reader from Konqueror. If I scroll down to the ad for some colo site (www.ovh.com) and click t

Re: [CentOS] Missing Chrome Dependency

2013-06-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
> OK, the latest stable version of Chromium is now posted here: > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/ :) A big thank you for this build. If I may, how difficult is to enable sandbox? As far as I can tell, it's the only Chrome feature that would be useful to me. __

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic after update

2013-03-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > Reported in the bug tracker: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6304 > Thanks for the quick reply and will follow that discussion. I'm still getting my head around netconsole... been a while :) ___

[CentOS] Kernel panic after update

2013-03-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello all: I just updated yesterday and rebooted when I received this error: compat: exports duplicate symbol pcmcia_loop_typle (owned by kernel) FATAL: Error inserting dm_mod (/lib/modules/2.6.32.-358.2.1.el6.centos.plus.x86_64/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko): Invalid module format compat: exports

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I updated my home server with the 6.4 CR packages, and I've experienced > 3 or 4 hard lockups since. The server is a fanless VIA C7 > "CentaurHauls" system with a 1GHz CPU underclocked to 800MHz and 1GB of > RAM. It has a dual-port Intel 8254

Re: [CentOS] cgroups not working?

2013-03-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use cgroups to limit the apache webserver but this doesn't > seem to work as far as I can tell. > I modified cgconfig.conf like this: > > group webserver { > cpu { > cpu.shares="250"; >

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > Just a wild idea: is the NIC in the system that freezes a Broadcom and in > the other system something else? If so, disable_msi=1 may help. NICs are now both ThinkPenguin cards with an Atheros chipset.. At this point, the systems are iden

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I will try your suggestion of trying a separate set of banks in the >> off chance that those slots are faulty. > > I had one a few years ago where it took about 3 days for memtest to > catch the bad RAM but even after fixing that there were r

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > If it's not memory related (test this memory in another system) then it is > probably a motherboard failure. I've seen weird symptoms where the system > will boot fine, but once the Linux kernel begins to build its cache it > triggers a lock

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:34 AM, wrote: > Ok, so there was nothing in /var/log/dmesg? Have you tried running mcelogd? Nothing in dmesg, but I have not run mcelogd. I will try that tonight. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:25 AM, wrote: > > Right, but I've always *seen* error messages, dmesg, and, if mcelogd is > actually working (I can't figure out why it seems to on some machines, and > not on others, or why it doesn't keep running), it's in there. The times > we've had lockups, there's

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Gerry Reno wrote: > > Nearly every time we've had lockup problems it has come down to bad or > failing memory. > > I've even had memory cause problems where it would pass a quick memtest but > ultimately would fail if you left it running > the tests overnight. T

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I have 2 of these motherboards (ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0) that I am using in > CentOS development and testing. I am not seeing this issue .. I have > "M5A99X EVO R2.0 BIOS 1503" dated "2013/01/31 update". > > Do you have the latest BIOS? Thank

Re: [CentOS] Lockups with kernel-2.6.32-358.0.1.el6.i686

2013-03-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > > I updated my home server with the 6.4 CR packages, and I've experienced > 3 or 4 hard lockups since. The server is a fanless VIA C7 > "CentaurHauls" system with a 1GHz CPU underclocked to 800MHz and 1GB of > RAM. It has a dual-port Intel 82

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
Doesn't meet all your needs, but you can find old netbooks for $200 or less. I've taken a couple from the laptop case and put it in a box. It accepts a laptop drive (I'm using a 90G SSD). You can add a separate NIC via USB. I'm running RedHat on them at the moment, but I assume CentOS would work ju

Re: [CentOS] PCI/DSS compliance on CentOS

2012-05-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
Rui: On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2012 22:52:13 +0530 > Arun Khan wrote: > > > I have a client project to implement PCI/DSS compliance. > > Some advice from my practical professional knowledge... > > Excellent post... > > The PCI/DSS auditor

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Tom H wrote: > Hi CentOS experts,* > > Short Version* > > I would like to produce a weekly report in HTML for each CentOS 5.x > server we have indicating configuration compliance with some industry > benchmark. I am looking for a tool or tools to implement this, I

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: [snip] > folder and the folder itself. This I cannot do.  I have > tried deleting using rm -rf ./.Trash-root but the command Try deleting with the -f option. I.e., rm -r .Trash-root. This will at least tell you what the issue is. Once you f

Re: [CentOS] Tool to track files

2011-10-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > Due to some reason, I will have to stop using Samba as our fileserver, > and instead replace it with SSH access only. > Users will be able to use WinSCP for it. > > The question is, is there any tool to track files (what is new fil

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: First Time KVM and LVM on Centos

2011-06-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> There is no reason that should be true.  Copying 20GB out of an LV >> should take exactly the same amount of time as copying 20GB out of a file. > > What about the destination?  Wouldn't it likely be harder to find a place to > put > the L

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:55 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > I have a RHEL system and I'm thinking of changing to CentOW. How can > this be done most easily. It is important that the e-mail setup not be > disturbed, since it was crafted to work with an  IP that requires > authentication. > Not sure if

Re: [CentOS] nfs webroot 403's

2011-06-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > hello list!! > > the reason I'm writing you guys today is that I'm looking to solve an issue I > am having with apache on a centos 5.5 box. > > The situation is this.. I am sharing the webroot for a few sites in a test > environment on an NFS

Re: [CentOS] OT LVM question

2011-03-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Steve Campbell wrote: > I've got a situation here where my LVM is showing the following problem: > > Found duplicate PV xx: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2 > > Not sure what causes this and I really don't have a clue as to what the > consequences

Re: [CentOS] Swap space for kvm virtual host

2011-03-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nataraj wrote: [snip] >  In recent years people seem to configure a wide range of different swap > allocations.  I was thinking initially to spread swap across seperate > non-raid partitions on 4 of these disks, but the downside of that is if I > put 2gb on each di

Re: [CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

2011-03-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/03/2011 05:57 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat >> has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to >> extend the CentOS 4 support wi

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: [snip] > If your hwclock is off by a lot when it comes up I believe it is from > one of the following: > A) bad cmos battery. > B) poor cmos clock > C) confusing info in /etc/adjtime due to using both hwclock --adj

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR.  LPAR can be > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU.   The software to manage this is > now called PowerVM (its b

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer wrote: > Personally, I'm really looking forward to Cluster 3 support. It will be > fun to see how Pacemaker compares to rgmanager. > > How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 > when it is released? I'm looking forward to the

[CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

2011-03-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to extend the CentOS 4 support window? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: > I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing > that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and > terminal size issues that seem to pop up.  The problem crops up when I > type or paste a really long command

Re: [CentOS] RFC: video call recommendations

2011-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: [snip] > > I believe google chat aka google talk works on linux too, and it has a > video option.   can't say I've tried it. > It works for me on Ubuntu/Fedora. Apparently some have gotten it to work on RHEL5/CentOS5 but I have not tried. _

Re: [CentOS] fast processing and buffering

2011-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Michael D. Berger wrote: > I have a C++ program that opens, gets a little data from, and closes > about 5000 files.  Now if I run the program when I first boot up, > the running time is from about 10 seconds to a minute.  Subsequently, > the program runs in well in

Re: [CentOS] Canon MX870

2011-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOjRQhj5A4 > > HP has its own "realities".  It is supported well under CentOS. In general, yes, HPs are pretty well supported. However, they have shipped non-standard printers that don't work so well. Fo

Re: [CentOS] Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi [snip] > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top? If this is a text file, you can

Re: [CentOS] ls returns file doesn't exist, find finds it??

2011-02-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:54 PM, neubyr wrote: > Howdy, > > I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is > able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I > was trying find and ls together as: > # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls > Instead of p

Re: [CentOS] Looping Device unmounting problem

2011-02-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, dixan rodriges wrote: > Dear All, > > > > I have created  252 loop devices in my system and i mounted few iso filses > into loop devices .when i rebooting the system error showing "faild to > umount " > > > how can forcefully umount the loop device Not specific to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as > a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. > > My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and > above all well compatible w

Re: [CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, James Pearson wrote: > Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as > above as a non-root user: > >  mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 :: >  mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg Well, hey now! That works nicely. Thank you! ___

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:28 AM, James Bensley wrote: > [root@server ~]# su - webdevuser > [webdevuser@server ~]# passwd > Changing password for user webdevuser. > Changing password for webdevuser. > (current) UNIX password: > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error A lot of things can c

[CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I've recently had to provision some RHEL and CentOS VMWare instances. There was no network connectivity so I had to use a kickstart floppy and DVD iso rather than installing from our repository. To create the floppy I used the following: As root: dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
There used to be this farmer, Red, that sold the most delicious fruit. They were very good fruits. Many people liked them and bought them for their families. The farmer would make the fruit seeds available, as was the custom in the land. Another farmer, Fred, decided to take the seeds and start

Re: [CentOS] Server Specs..

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Drew wrote: >> Recently a discussion around server >> specifications were floated with mention >> of routines to stress the configurations. >> >> Do these stress suites exist for server >> testing? > > http://www.stresslinux.org/ > > IMHO, contains one of the best

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
>> It's certainly possible that the error I was receiving was a different >> reason, though similar symptoms. We started seeing filesystems go >> read-only, and only rebooting would clear it up. > > I use that setting on the "Host OS" for VMWare to prevent a whole vm > from getting killed. > > That

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +, Keith Beeby wrote: >> Hi, >> So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, > > no, to the *guest* OS instances.  [please, do not top-post]. > >> is this the correct thing to do? >> sysctl -w vm.min_

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: em and force a check with "fsck -f" and >> > occasionally find errors. >> http://communities.vmware.com/message/245983 >> The setting we used to resolve was vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192 >> Previous to this we were seeing the error pop up eve

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment > using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts > resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other filesystem > issues - I can

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment > using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts > resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other filesystem > issues - I can

Re: [CentOS] yum is b0rked

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* > > I have tried rm -rf rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* and rebuilt my rpm > package database but that didn't move the needle on this problem > That actually won't do anything for yum. Try: yum clean headers If that

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > My grub.conf is pointing to sdb1 for /. I've corrected to use > /dev/vg0/lv1. But after rebooting, I am getting the same error. I guess > I need to rebuild initrd.img file. How do I rebuild that file? You'd use the mkinitrd utility and specif

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > > · * switching / to /sysroot > > · Switch_root: bad newroot /sysroot > > · Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > > > I’ve changed the recovery system fstab to use the correct devices. I deleted > reco

Re: [CentOS] Configuring a cluster

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Johnny H wrote: [snip] > > The cluster is medium performance for something called bioinformatics; > we are looking at next generation sequence data. This sounds fascinating... Would very much like to hear how you proceed and pitfalls/successes you encounter. _

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Buz Davis wrote: > I am running CntOS 5 with Gnome.  Every  now and then I have noticed > that the computer will somehow get the time wrong by several hours.  Is > there a simple way to adjust the time?  So far the only way I have found > is to boot into windows (it

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, kellyremo wrote: > > https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg > > "SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network > performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. > These buffers often en

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:18 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > kernel is: > > 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:20 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > What sort of application? Is it 64-bit aware? What is the monitor checking? Also, there are some things to keep in mind if it's a Java-b

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM, wrote: > > Well, if you could get on the system at all, and had sudo privileges, no > problem. Well, the point was actually if you did not have sudo access to change the password, what else could you do. I.e., you had sudo to edit a particular file or do someth

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > We have DELL R900 server with 128GB RAM (CENTOS 5.5)in it.  This server only > have one application running and few people use it. > > Every week I ata least get one or two messages from monitor tool mail to me > say: > > Message=Memory Utiliza

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Larry Vaden wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >> you mean like the bind97 available in c5-testing right now, that should >> be in 5.6 soon ? > > Karanbir, > > WIth a lot of due respect, no, not exactly, since 9.7.0-P2 (if I'm > read

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Bensley wrote: > So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in > I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither > of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to > correct this so I'm wonderin

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, mahmoud mansy wrote: > hey guys, > i wanna update the kernel of thw centos 5.5,to the 2.6.32 version! > is there any compatablity issues with stuff like glibc or otheres! Someone suggested Fedora on the hardware and CentOS in a VM.. That works best if you're doing

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> This page might help: >> http://pikawarp.org/?p=139 >> >> >> Talks about setting entries in /sys/class/leds. > > > That's exactly what I want todo, but with drive cage LED's. Most hot > swap drive cages have 2 LED's, so I need a more unive

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm > building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I > need an easy way for the engineers to see which HDD has gone bad. > > Most of our NAS devic

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > May I say "no"? You looked for help when you needed it, you provided > the relevant information, and you provided more data when asked to > solve the issue. And you understood the answer. > > I've *met* lamerz. You are merely a person w

  1   2   3   4   >