[CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread henry ritzlmayr
Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2008, 22:54 -0700 schrieb John R Pierce: > Ruslan Sivak wrote: > > John R Pierce wrote: > >> > >> whats cat /proc/meminfo say? > >> > > # cat /proc/meminfo > > MemTotal: 6104064 kB > > ... > > HighTotal: 0 kB > > HighFree:0 kB > > LowTotal: 6

Re: [CentOS] top in xen

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Robert - elists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't setup a xen box yet > > Will try tonight. > > Was wondering, what does top look like on a dual processor xen box in a > virtual ? > > Do you see more than one processor or is it configurable from the xen master

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:04 AM, henry ritzlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How many VMs are running and how much memory do they consume? > > This memory is not shown in DOM0 any more. > > The total memory should be visible within xentop. Or with : # virsh nodeinfo CPU model: x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> Wonder if this is related to a known issue with the xen kernel. >> >> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12491&forum=38 >> >> Or >> >> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1905 >

[CentOS] RHEL/CentOS5.2 and rsyslogd

2008-06-11 Thread Laurence Alexander Hurst
Hi there, I am slightly confused by the RHEL release notes and an earlier thread here about rsyslogd, so I hope someone can clear this up for me; I see that rsyslog is included in RHEL as of 5.2 (and so will be available in CentOS when 5.2 is ready) however there is no indication of whether i

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS5.2 and rsyslogd

2008-06-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Laurence Alexander Hurst wrote: ... I see that rsyslog is included in RHEL as of 5.2 (and so will be available in CentOS when 5.2 is ready) however there is no indication of whether it has been made the default syslogger or not - is it an optional package or installed by default on a fresh inst

[CentOS] Could this be an advantage of CentOS over the PNAELV distribution?

2008-06-11 Thread Luigi Perroti
Hello all, I understand that when releasing updates the CentOS team strips logos and such things from the upstream sources. If I'm not mistaken there is also a certain QA process going on before the actual releases, at least for major updates like the upcoming 5.2 version. Does this happen also f

Re: [CentOS] RHEL/CentOS5.2 and rsyslogd

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Laurence Alexander Hurst wrote: > Hi there, > I am slightly confused by the RHEL release notes and an earlier thread > here about rsyslogd, so I hope someone can clear this up for me; > > I see that rsyslog is included in RHEL as of 5.2 (and so will be > available in CentOS when 5.2 is ready) h

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 40, Issue 5

2008-06-11 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-11 Thread Sam Drinkard
Lanny Marcus wrote: On 6/10/08, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with h

[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Alain Terriault
Hi Harry, Has much has I like Centos and RH for big sophisticated setup, it would not be my first choice for your project. For 25 systems and if you want this done without spending to much time, Clarkconnect would by my first choice for server side OS (#2 would be SME). For me CentOS x64 is

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Alain Terriault wrote: > For 25 systems and if you want this done without spending to much time, > Clarkconnect would by my first choice for server side OS (#2 would be > SME). [...] > For the clients side, my favorite flavor of Linux is Ubuntu. For trees my favourite color is green, while for

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alain Terriault <> scribbled on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:55 PM: How do you mean "big sophisticated setup"? I think CentOS is rather easy to setup, in fact CentOS was the OS of choice when I first started with linux. I'm not fishing for flaming or trolling, just curious on why you think like

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look that healthy > and who has ever heard of a yellow fire engine? > Not to pick nits, but in C

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look that healthy > > and who has ever heard of a yellow fire engine? >

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread David Williams
> > > > Not to pick nits, but in Columbus, OH, USA the fire trucks are (or were) > all > an awful shade of fluorescent yellow :-) > > Safty first... http://www.psychologymatters.org/solomon.html ...and not "all" trees are green in the spring and summer. ;) ___

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread John Plemons
Given the cost and ease of setup, CentOS is a great choice, using one of the machines as a server and the other as clients. CentOS is very robust, and can be configured for one machine to hundreds, so to ear mark it as only a Enterprise package is wrong, and no there isn't a great deal of setup

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:22:03PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > > > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > > > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall

[CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Mark Belanger
Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for) -Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:04 AM, henry ritzlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How many VMs are running and how much memory do they consume? This memory is not shown in DOM0 any more. The total memory should be visible within xentop. Or with : # virsh nodeinfo CPU

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread John Plemons
Why not setup a simple DB, or use a spread sheet... Open Office should have the tools you need john plemons Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While it seems to make sense (and both xentop and virsh nodeinfo) show the > right amount of memory, even when I shut down one of the VM's, free and top > still think I only have 6GB of ram. That is normal, the memory tha

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:46:05AM -0400, Mark Belanger enlightened us: > Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets > particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: > hostname > OS/arch > Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) > Function(i.e. what is the machine used for) > OCS might be a little

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Mark Belanger
John Plemons wrote: Why not setup a simple DB, or use a spread sheet... Open Office should have the tools you need Easily done of course. I was thinking a simple web based asset tracker may save a little wheel-reinvention and give me a few nice reports for the suits. -Mark __

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-11 Thread Ray Leventhal
I think the number of Packages being excluded (318) is in the ballpark. 73, Lanny ___ OT, but wow, Lanny. I haven't seen Phillips code in years :) Thanks for the nostalgia! 73/30 -R ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Belanger wrote: > Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets > particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: > hostname > OS/arch > Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) > Function(i.e. what is the machine used for) I use GLPI:

Re: [Fwd: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Hyclak wrote on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:18:25 -0400: > Not to pick nits, but in Columbus, OH, USA the fire trucks are (or were) all > an awful shade of fluorescent yellow :-) I'm sure that's why he wrote "*favorite* color" ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Inte

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While it seems to make sense (and both xentop and virsh nodeinfo) show the right amount of memory, even when I shut down one of the VM's, free and top still think I only have 6GB of ram. That

Re: [CentOS] Apache jserv monitoring?

2008-06-11 Thread Sean Carolan
> Sounds similar to the mod_jk connector in apache to connect to > tomcat. When I had to deal with this I setup a dedicated apache > instance on each system running tomcat whose sole purpose for > existence was for testing that connector. > > So say setup an apache instance on another port, and hav

[CentOS] Bind Standard Practise

2008-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In a chroot Bind installation, named.conf is located in /var/named/chroot/etc/. In that file, references to files for includes and other zones can be made as "filename" without a path. What is the expected location when no path is used, simply up one dir under chroot/? While moving a DNS from one

[CentOS] RE: Bind Standard Practise

2008-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>In a chroot Bind installation, named.conf is located in /var/named/chroot/etc/. >In that file, references to files for includes and other zones can be made as >"filename" >without a path. What is the expected location when no path is used, simply up >one dir >under chroot/? While moving a DNS fr

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/11/08, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think the number of Packages being excluded (318) is in the ballpark. >> 73, Lanny >> ___ >> > OT, but wow, Lanny. I haven't seen Phillips code in years :) Thanks > for the nostalgia! > > 73/30 >

Re: [CentOS] RE: Bind Standard Practise

2008-06-11 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:53 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >In a chroot Bind installation, named.conf is located in > >/var/named/chroot/etc/. > >In that file, references to files for includes and other zones can be made > >as "filename" > >without a path. What is the expected location when no

Re: [CentOS] Apache jserv monitoring?

2008-06-11 Thread Ray Leventhal
Sean Carolan wrote: In our environment we have many legacy application servers running apache/jserv. There is a web server front end, then a couple of load-balanced java servers on the backside. One of the problems we are faced with is hung or stuck jvms. I have looked at the java process with

[CentOS] Re: yum upgrade 4.3 -> current ?

2008-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-10-2008 11:10 PM Chris Boyd spake the following: On Jun 10, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Scott Silva wrote: python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64 ding ding ding! Scott Silva wins a Prize! That was the last key piece. You know... that was in the thread you linked to in your first message... Last pa

Re: [CentOS] Apache jserv monitoring?

2008-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Sean Carolan wrote: Sounds similar to the mod_jk connector in apache to connect to tomcat. When I had to deal with this I setup a dedicated apache instance on each system running tomcat whose sole purpose for existence was for testing that connector. So say setup an apache instance on another po

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for) How much of this could you get done with Smolt / Func ? The s/w is available in the

[CentOS] Re: Required for CentOS4.4 ia64 Clustersuite package

2008-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-10-2008 11:59 PM Balaji spake the following: Dear All, I am new in Itanium server Installation and I have installed all the CentOS4.4 ia64 CDs and kernel version is 2.6.9-42.EL and I need the Cluster Suite Package for the same. I tried to google-out and i can't find out the Clustersui

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For trees my favourite color is green, while for fire engines it is red. > > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look that health

[CentOS] Re: [Fwd: Re: School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-11-2008 7:07 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following: Alain Terriault wrote: For 25 systems and if you want this done without spending to much time, Clarkconnect would by my first choice for server side OS (#2 would be SME). I have to agree with Clarkconnect, except you can only have 10 ma

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: >> > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a >> > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall)

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alain Terriault <> scribbled on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:55 PM: > > How do you mean "big sophisticated setup"? > > I think CentOS is rather easy to setup, in fact CentOS was the OS of choice > when I first started wi

Re: [CentOS] Re: [Fwd: Re: School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here in California we have green fire engines (US Forestry) and red > (burning) trees! > At least in the summer. ;-P > Really? Our trees burn yellow and black. Of course, I'm in OC, which is just too conservative to do

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Max Hetrick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for) I use GLPI:

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess it has something to do with the ballooning driver for Dom0. It > looks like I just tried to allocation too much memory to DomU and the box > went down hard. I think there's a setting in xen to the min amount of >

Re: [CentOS] Re: Required for CentOS4.4 ia64 Clustersuite package

2008-06-11 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Silva wrote: on 6-10-2008 11:59 PM Balaji spake the following: Dear All, I am new in Itanium server Installation and I have installed all the CentOS4.4 ia64 CDs and kernel version is 2.6.9-42.EL and I need the Cluster Suite Package for the same. I do believe that CentOS only builds the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: Well, actually, there was an experiment out here in the wild woolly west of California where, for a year or so, new (?) fire engines were, in fact, painted yellow. It was a kind of dull yellow, not as bright as a school bus, but my family always used to joke about the school buses wit

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Alain Terriault, Mr.
Little substance .. I have live and still working system with .. - Centos with +100 users, ldap (LAM), sendmail (or postfix), web, samba, netatalk, dhcp .. all with certificates on a bunch of dell 1950 and MD1000. Because it is scalable, stable 24/7 and for 100 users+ worth all the time spending

Re: [CentOS] Could this be an advantage of CentOS over the PNAELV distribution?

2008-06-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
Luigi Perroti wrote: Hello all, I understand that when releasing updates the CentOS team strips logos and such things from the upstream sources. If I'm not mistaken there is also a certain QA process going on before the actual releases, at least for major updates like the upcoming 5.2 version.

[CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Henry Ritzlmayr
Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 11:36 -0400 schrieb Ruslan Sivak: > Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> While it seems to make sense (and both xentop and virsh nodeinfo) show the > >> right amount of memory, even when I shut dow

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:53:29AM -0700, MHR enlightened us: > > Matt Hyclak wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > >> > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > >> > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn

Re: [CentOS] [Off Topic, kind of] eMachine model T5254

2008-06-11 Thread Bob Taylor
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:41 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 6/10/08, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 > > without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on [snip] > HW guru I am not. Linux guru I am not. I have a sugge

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Ruslan Sivak
MHR wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess it has something to do with the ballooning driver for Dom0. It looks like I just tried to allocation too much memory to DomU and the box went down hard. I think there's a setting in xen to the min am

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:22 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: > > > This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a > > > non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look t

[CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread henry ritzlmayr
Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 10:06 -0700 schrieb MHR: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I guess it has something to do with the ballooning driver for Dom0. It > > looks like I just tried to allocation too much memory to DomU and the box > > went dow

Re: [CentOS] OT - host/asset tracking

2008-06-11 Thread Max Hetrick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > > Someone else mentioned ocsinventory-ng > (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), but to complete the picture, > ocsinventory-ng includes agents for windows and linux that will > automatically send each machine's hardware and softwa

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Ruslan Sivak
henry ritzlmayr wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 10:06 -0700 schrieb MHR: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess it has something to do with the ballooning driver for Dom0. It looks like I just tried to allocation too much memory to DomU and

Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the mirrored partitions? you can 'dd' the MBR and then re

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
I realise linux distros are rather a "religious" matter where each individual/user/sysadmin/whatever think that "their" particular distro is the best. 8-) With that said, in my case, chosing CentOS was actually a no-brainer, as our department had already settled with RHEL3/4 for application rea

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 7:11 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup] MHR wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:31 PM, henry ritzlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.06.2008, 10:06 -0700 schrieb MHR: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I guess it has something to do with the ballooning driver for Dom0. It > >

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) > God, and that included my kitchen floor! -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) n

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, henry ritzlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I evaluated VMware Server myself (v1.0.3) and at that time, Disk I/O was > pretty bad within a virtual machine. The only solution I found was XEN > with paravirtualization. Has there been any progress on that with late

[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-11-2008 10:41 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Ruslan Sivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you talking about VMware Server 1? Yes. > Isn't there an issue with only being > able to allocate 3.4GB of ram or something to that point? I guess it > wouldn't be an issue since I only have 8GB of ram on this box,

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >> Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) > > God, and that included my kitchen floor! > Okay, where did you get those AWESOME drugs? I want some mhr

[CentOS] Re: [Fwd: Re: School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-11-2008 10:45 AM Sorin Srbu spake the following: Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) I think you took some of the bad acid! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Descripti

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, henry ritzlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I evaluated VMware Server myself (v1.0.3) and at that time, Disk I/O was >> pretty bad within a virtual machine. The only solution I found was XEN >> with paravirtualization. Has there been any progress

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Toby Bluhm
Sorin Srbu wrote: Everything was orangy, yellow or weird green in the 70s... ;-) Throw in a little brown and you've described a tie-dyed shirt I wore in high school. Just the other day my wife and I were looking at our old neighborhood with google street view. Unfortunately, some places

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I came across this a couple days ago > > http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/ > > May 22, 2008 > 100,000 I/O Operations Per Second, One ESX Host > > Maxing out 500 15k RPM spindles with a single host. I didn't think > that was ev

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-06-11 Thread Ruslan Sivak
nate wrote: MHR wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, henry ritzlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I evaluated VMware Server myself (v1.0.3) and at that time, Disk I/O was pretty bad within a virtual machine. The only solution I found was XEN with paravirtualization. Has there been any

[CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread centos
Hi, 1. I am NOT asking when it will be out. It will be when it's ready, very soon. 2. Is there a good tutorial on how to use Xen with Windows? I have googled and have not found some nice clear such as step 1,2,3... and why use this configuration. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the net

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > > 'mdadm' writes a listing of the devices in the array to the md > > superblock and orders them by number,major,minor. You cannot add > > another device to the array with the same tuple. > > Isn't this updated at detect time so the device minor's > should always be > dif

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 1. I am NOT asking when it will be out. It will be when it's ready, very > soon. Yep, completly correct :-) > 2. Is there a good tutorial on how to use Xen with Windows? I have googled > and have not found some nice clear such

[CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Brett Serkez
All, After many hours of research I have found there is a incompatibility between OpenLDAP V2.3.x and V2.2.x, or atleast between V2.3.27 the current version on CentOS V5 and V2.2.13 the current version on CentOS V4. The syncrepl feature of OpenLDAP, to keep multiple slapd servers sync'd, was work

RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Robert - elists
> > It is actually pretty simple. Only hardware requirement, your CPU > needs to support the hadware virtualization extensions (recent Intel > and AMD cpu's have that). If you have that you start the > virtualization manager point it to a .iso image of a Windows install > CD and you are ready. Th

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Robert - elists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When you talk about recent processors in the Intel or AMD realm, do you, or > does anyone else on this list, have practical experience with the > virtualization extentions on HP or Dell or other Quad Xeon or Multi-CPU A

RE: [CentOS] Re: [Fwd: Re: School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
Nah, I'm not that old (I'm the so-called Generation X, born in '72), but I remember how the wallpapers looked, as well as the clothes... X-} -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:07 PM To: centos@ce

RE: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Sorin Srbu
Geez, what did I start with my comment... ;-) FWIW (and if the moderator doesn't mind) I'd like to add I'm from Sweden. I think the 70s were little different here than in the US of A, mostly in the sense that everything was supposed to be mellow and brownish, when it wasn't orange or green and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Robert - elists wrote: Tim When you talk about recent processors in the Intel or AMD realm, do you, or does anyone else on this list, have practical experience with the virtualization extentions on HP or Dell or other Quad Xeon or Multi-CPU AMD boxes ? I don't know exactly what to ask in terms

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread nate
Brett Serkez wrote: > Has anyone else seen this issue? Is anyone aware of a fix in the > pipeline or a work around? Compile the source rpm from centos 5.x on a 4.x system and upgrade the 4.x systems to it ? (short of upgrading the entire OS to 5.x if you don't want to do that it can be a major c

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread nate
Tim Verhoeven wrote: > It is actually pretty simple. Only hardware requirement, your CPU > needs to support the hadware virtualization extensions (recent Intel > and AMD cpu's have that). If you have that you start the > virtualization manager point it to a .iso image of a Windows install > CD and

[CentOS] Re: Doubt about Ubuntu Server

2008-06-11 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-11-2008 2:46 PM Masters IT Gmail spake the following: Sorry if I offend someone by sending this mail that is not related to Centos, but I am installing Ubuntu in a VM (Vmware) and after I installed Ubuntu when is booting it freezes and I can write commands but I don't know what to do to view

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:22 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > I now officially hate you, because you broke my brilliantly laid out > > retort. > > Retort? I could've sworn it was a troll. ;-> Na, no troll. > The reply stating a favorite was an opinion, possibly usefu

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Alain Terriault, Mr. wrote: Okay, I can see where you are getting with Clarkconnect and SME. That really might be easier for people who aren't into administrating servers. > - Workstations, Fedora or Ubuntu .. because I like having the most > up2date versions and goodies on my desktop for free.

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
nate wrote: > Brett Serkez wrote: > > > Has anyone else seen this issue? Is anyone aware of a fix in the > > pipeline or a work around? > > Compile the source rpm from centos 5.x on a 4.x system and upgrade the > 4.x systems to it ? (short of upgrading the entire OS to 5.x if you > don't want to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Robert - elists wrote: Using XEN or Vmware or Both? Thanks! - rh I've run VMware Server (free, as in cost, not as in open source) on CentOS to host WinXP VMs since it was in beta and have no complaints. There is an RPM package available on VMware's site: $ rpm -q VMware-server VMware-se

Re: [CentOS] Doubt about Ubuntu Server

2008-06-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/11/08, Masters IT Gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if I offend someone by sending this mail that is not related to > Centos, but I am installing Ubuntu in a VM (Vmware) and after I installed > Ubuntu when is booting it freezes and I can write commands but I don't know > what to do to v

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/11/08, Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run VMware Server (free, as in cost, not as in open source) on > CentOS to host WinXP VMs since it was in beta and have no complaints. > There is an RPM package available on VMware's site: > > $ rpm -q VMware-server > VMware-server-1.0.6-918

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > nate wrote: > > Brett Serkez wrote: > > > > > Has anyone else seen this issue? Is anyone aware of a fix in the > > > pipeline or a work around? > > > > Compile the source rpm from centos 5.x on a 4.x system and upgrade the > > 4.x syste

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > I tried to do that, as I wanted to have LDAP overlays (hey, anyone who > > wants to test those on CentOS 5 - there are packages in the testing > > repository). > > > > And I found out that you don't want to do that.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Lanny Marcus wrote: Ned: I was very interested to read that you've run VMWare Server on systems with only 512 MB of RAM. I haven't tried it, because the box I can use only has 512 MB of RAM. Yes, assuming you give 256MB to a single VM guest and allow the CentOS host 256MB, you'll get abou

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ned: I was very interested to read that you've run VMWare Server on > systems with only 512 MB of RAM. I haven't tried it, because the box > I can use only has 512 MB of RAM. > > My impression is that Xen is much more de

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:36 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > I tried to do that, as I wanted to have LDAP overlays (hey, anyone who > > > wants to test those on CentOS 5 - there are packages in the testing > > > r

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Brett Serkez
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, I don't recall syncrepl ever working in 2.2.x and have used > slurpd for replicating with 2.2 but if the OP says he thinks he had it > running, well, I'm not gonna argue with him. syncrepl 2.2.x works fine between

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread russ
If you only have 512mb of ram, there's almost no reason to virtualize. Windows needs a minimum of 128-512MB to run stable. I highly suggest that you get more RAM - its very cheap these days. If you want to dedicate a box to virtualization, and won't be using more then 4GB of ram for your vir

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:36 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:08 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > > I tried to do that, as I wanted to have LDAP overlays (hey, anyone who > > > wants to test those on CentOS 5 - there are packages in the testing > > > r

[CentOS] Bind acl statement issue

2008-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>From the manual, localnets matches hosts belonging to a network for which the >server has an interface in. I have a dns server in a dmz with an ip of 192.168.2.2 in /24. Named.conf has 3 views, localhost_resolver -> localhost, internal -> localnets, and external -> !localnets; !localhost. I ha

Re: [CentOS] LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x

2008-06-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
Brett Serkez wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That said, I don't recall syncrepl ever working in 2.2.x and have used slurpd for replicating with 2.2 but if the OP says he thinks he had it running, well, I'm not gonna argue with him. syncrepl 2.2.x

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Luke S Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If you only have 512mb of ram, there's almost no reason to virtualize. > Windows needs a minimum of 128-512MB to run stable. I highly suggest that > you get more RAM - its very cheap these days. seconded. my standard server has 8G unbuffered ecc. Newegg sells 2x

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