Re: [CentOS] PXE Booting floppy image

2008-08-01 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Joseph L. Casale wrote: ... but this is a 2.88meg floppy and memdisk wont boot it? Strange; according to /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.70/memdisk.txt memdisk can handle 2.88M floppies. What is the exact size of the floppy image file? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gaml

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 triggers SE Linux denial

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:23:40 -0700: > I don't know SE Linux touch /.autorelabel, reboot and wait. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Login Feature

2008-08-01 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Tom Browder ha scritto: I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years. His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as him

Re: [CentOS] PXE Booting floppy image

2008-08-01 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 01 August 2008, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > ... > > but this is a 2.88meg floppy and memdisk wont boot it? > > Strange; according to /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.70/memdisk.txt > memdisk can handle 2.88M floppies. What is the exact size of > the floppy image file? I can

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Mufit Eribol wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> You have to unmount the filesystem in question. I think that's even >> recommended for a "do not repair" run. >> >> Kai > "shutdown -rF now" didn't fix the problem either. How should it? You have to *CHECK* the filesystem. touch /forcefsck and reboo

[CentOS] gnome-session missing "--silent" switch

2008-08-01 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Hi, following this documentation (http://tinyurl.com/66z6ly) I found that on the version currently shipped whith CentOS 5 (2.16.0) is missing the "--silent" switch for use with gnome-session-save Do you know a workaround to accomplish the same result of "gnome-session-save --kill --silent" wi

Re: [CentOS] DVD Burner

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
John R Pierce wrote: Mad Unix wrote: I've purchased an LG DVD Burner (GSA-E60L) External super Multi DVD Rewiter for my PE2950 Dell Server attached via USB. Can someone guide me to set up the DVD with Linux, and which tools should I use to burn DVD? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# cdrecord -scanbus ..

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 triggers SE Linux denial

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I've installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from Testing repository, to Cent OS 5.2 x86_64, and I am hitting an SE Linux denial - the httpd cannot talk to the BackupPC socket: type=AVC msg=audit(07/31/2008 17:18:53.623:410) : avc: denied { connectto } for pid=11767 comm=htt

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 triggers SE Linux denial

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote: Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I've installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from Testing repository, to Cent OS 5.2 x86_64, and I am hitting an SE Linux denial - the httpd cannot talk to the BackupPC socket: type=AVC msg=audit(07/31/2008 17:18:53.623:410) : avc: denied { connectto } f

Re: [CentOS] DVD Burner

2008-08-01 Thread Mad Unix
I want to use mondo to do full images of my system on DVD's ... On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >> Mad Unix wrote: >> >>> I've purchased an LG DVD Burner (GSA-E60L) External super Multi DVD >>> Rewiter for my PE2950 Dell Server att

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 triggers SE Linux denial

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I've installed BackupPC 3.1.0 from Testing repository, to Cent OS 5.2 x86_64, and I am hitting an SE Linux denial - the httpd cannot talk to the BackupPC socket: type=AVC msg=audit(07/31/2008 17:18:53.623:410) : avc: d

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2008-08-01 Thread Matt Shields
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Re: [CentOS] DVD Burner

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Mad Unix wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Mad Unix wrote: I've purchased an LG DVD Burner (GSA-E60L) External super Multi DVD Rewiter for my PE2950 Dell Server attached via USB. Can someone guide me to set up the DVD with L

RE: [CentOS] PXE Booting floppy image

2008-08-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I can confirm that the memdisk from the centos-5 pkg syslinux-3.11-4 does >indeed boot 2880K floppy >images. > >/Peter Yes, from what I have read it should even boot floppies of 8-9 meg. I found a script used to extend the size but nothing I do is working for some reason. I really only need abou

[CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I converted a physical maschine running CentOS 4.6 to a Xen VM on a CentOS 5 host. Almost everything was running when I decided to rsync /lib and /usr a while later in order to get updated files and get the one or two non-working programs to work. There are differences because of the xenU kerne

[CentOS] Re: Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:46 +0200: > Quation Question Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/m

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I converted a physical maschine running CentOS 4.6 to a Xen VM on a CentOS 5 host. Almost everything was running when I decided to rsync /lib and /usr a while later in order to get updated files and get the one or two non-working programs to work. There are differences becau

[CentOS] Lost Sound after Firefox crash

2008-08-01 Thread Ed Donahue
My Firefox crashed and I lost sound, is there a way to release the lock Firefox had on sound when it crashed? I was streaming sirius radio at the time of the crash. Is there a daemon I can restart? I could just reboot but I'm not windows admin :) I logged out of the GUI then back in, would restar

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:46 +0200: > Looking around I don't have this module for the old kernel (2.6.9-67) > either. It's obviously in the initrd. But how do I create a new one if there is no ata_piix module coming with the kernel? Can I install the corresponding normal ker

Re: [CentOS] Remounting a USB flash drive

2008-08-01 Thread Sergey Podushkin
MHR wrote: I've noticed that once I right click on my flash drive icon and umount it, in order to remount it I have to unplug it and then plug it back in. Is there a command that will accomplish the same task without the unplug and plug back in physics? Yes. You should use $ gnome-mount -p YOUR

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Mufit Eribol
Ralph Angenendt wrote: touch /forcefsck and reboot. This will cause all filesystems to be checked with fsck after the reboot. I did it several times. Unfortunately, it couldn't fix the problem. I still get the following errors and the system goes "read only" after a couple of minutes. EXT3-f

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Toby Bluhm
Mufit Eribol wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: touch /forcefsck and reboot. This will cause all filesystems to be checked with fsck after the reboot. I did it several times. Unfortunately, it couldn't fix the problem. Does it say the fsck is a success or fails? I still get the following error

Re: [CentOS] enterprise backup solution (probably amanda?)

2008-08-01 Thread David Mackintosh
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:10:40AM -0700, Shawn Everett wrote: > I think backups are important and always on topic. > > You could always use Veritas Netbackup. That's what one of my clients uses > with great success. It backups up Windows, Linux and does full, > incremental, restores etc etc

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:45:38 +0300: > I did it several times. You rebooted several times, you did not force a check I think. You have to boot with the rescue CD and then do a thorough fsck on the filesystem. Maybe on each one of the disks separately, don't know. The boot-up c

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Toby Bluhm
Toby Bluhm wrote: . . . Boot the rescue disk. Mount the partitions someplace. Dump /old_var to /new_var. Also verify that fstab or symlinks is not going to keep using old_var. Also Also make sure you have enough space for the new_var location. -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems Americ

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:45:43 -0500: > maybe that modules.conf file came from a normal machine and not the xen > machine. No, but it's not the problem anyway, I didn't think about the initrd at first. I used the last CentOS 4 image that jailtime.org distributed (CentoS 4.5)

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Mufit Eribol
Toby Bluhm wrote: I did it several times. Unfortunately, it couldn't fix the problem. Does it say the fsck is a success or fails? How can I get this info? All I get dmesg and messages logs after the boot. Is there a log somewhere? If not, I think I have to watch the monitor on the server dur

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mufit Eribol wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:52:09 +0300: > The problem is there is a raid card kernel module loads during boot. If > I boot the rescue disk, /mnt/raid will not be mounted. Ah, right, I read your "device dm-0" as md0 and assumed a software RAID. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, German

Re: [CentOS] Quation about CentOS 4 xenU kernel

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:34:49 +0200: > Can I just copy it > over from 2.6.9-67.0.22.EL to the 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELxenU tree and then build > my new initrd? Answering myself: yes, I can. It's running with the nww kernel now. There's only a warning about non-matching symbols during

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Mufit Eribol
Kai Schaetzl wrote: You rebooted several times, you did not force a check I think. You have to boot with the rescue CD and then do a thorough fsck on the filesystem. Maybe on each one of the disks separately, don't know. The boot-up check might not be sufficient. There's probably some bad block

Re: [CentOS] enterprise backup solution (probably amanda?)

2008-08-01 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:19 PM, David Mackintosh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:10:40AM -0700, Shawn Everett wrote: > > I think backups are important and always on topic. > > > > You could always use Veritas Netbackup. That's what one of my clients > uses > > with great

[CentOS] SLightly OT - Seamonkey still crashes at random

2008-08-01 Thread MHR
I've noticed recently that even my 32-bit, formally release SM v 1.1.11 still crashes at random. It used to happen when I tried to access certain interesting websites (no, not THOSE, Yahoo moderation pages), but today it crashed when I was managing my bookmarks and tried to move on from one folder

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Toby Bluhm
Your first message says you have the problems on the lv mounted at /mnt/raid. >/dev/raid_vg0/raid_lv0 /mnt/raid ext3defaults0 0 then later >I am thinking about reformatting this volume, but /var is on that >volume as well. If you mean that /var is a separate lv in your r

Re: [CentOS] SLightly OT - Seamonkey still crashes at random

2008-08-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
MHR wrote: I've noticed recently that even my 32-bit, formally release SM v 1.1.11 still crashes at random. It used to happen when I tried to access certain interesting websites (no, not THOSE, Yahoo moderation pages), but today it crashed when I was managing my bookmarks and tried to move on fr

Re: [CentOS] SLightly OT - Seamonkey still crashes at random

2008-08-01 Thread Greg Bailey
MHR wrote: I've noticed recently that even my 32-bit, formally release SM v 1.1.11 still crashes at random. It used to happen when I tried to access certain interesting websites (no, not THOSE, Yahoo moderation pages), but today it crashed when I was managing my bookmarks and tried to move on fr

Re: [CentOS] selinux & httpd & portmap

2008-08-01 Thread Toby Bluhm
Just to follow up with a summary on this . . . Followed the email HowTo on the Centos wiki by installing postfix, dovecot, postgrey, amavisd and setting up SSL/TLS. Set selinux to permissive, targeted. Sent many, many emails with attachments, spam, etc. to & from the box. Removed previous s

[CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-01 Thread Admin Admin
Hello, What is the best way to get the xen enabled CentOS 5.2 vmlinuz and initrd images for use as a guest domain (domU) on Ubuntu host domain (dom0). Is there a site where these are available? I am hoping that I could use the vmlinuz from the latest kernel rpm, if I go that route, how could I

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Mufit Eribol
I think I found the culprit albeit I still don't know how to fix. 1. During boot the screen prints the following errors "no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults ... No devices found Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock: mkdir failed: No such file or directory" I have a LV on RAID m

[CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Matt
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the entire OS and all the little tw

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread John R Pierce
Matt wrote: I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the entire OS and all

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Tom Bishop
Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is not in use and mount both drives and do a: mkdir /mnt/org mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org mkdir /mnt/bckup mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/. umount both drives then copy mbr dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx bs

RE: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>brute force approach... > >dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384 That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before you boot if you use lvm right? Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy actual data which should be quick in your case? jlc ___

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread Toby Bluhm
Mufit Eribol wrote: I think I found the culprit albeit I still don't know how to fix. 1. During boot the screen prints the following errors "no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults ... No devices found Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock: mkdir failed: No such file or directory"

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Joseph L. Casale wrote: brute force approach... dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384 That's probably the most safest, but you'll have to remove it before you boot if you use lvm right? Doesn't clonzilla support lvm? Could you boot off a live cd to only copy actual data which should be quick

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-01 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:14 -0700, Admin Admin wrote: > Hello, > > What is the best way to get the xen enabled CentOS 5.2 > vmlinuz and initrd images for use as a guest domain > (domU) on Ubuntu host domain (dom0). Look in images/xen/. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PLEASE don

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Admin Admin wrote on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:14:19 -0700 (PDT): > What is the best way to get the xen enabled CentOS 5.2 > vmlinuz and initrd images for use as a guest domain > (domU) on Ubuntu host domain (dom0). virt-install on a CentOS 5.2 system and transfer the image over to Ubuntu. > Admin Admi

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:13 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Mufit Eribol wrote: > > I see in your other post that you need to do some studying. *After* umount of /mnt/raid, there is *no* device on /mnt/raid anymore. In my original reply, I presumed (shame on me) that you would correctly try to fsck the

Re: [CentOS] Lost Sound after Firefox crash

2008-08-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ed Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Firefox crashed and I lost sound, is there a way to release the lock > Firefox had on sound when it crashed? > I was streaming sirius radio at the time of the crash. > > Is there a daemon I can restart? I could just reboot

Re: [CentOS] Lost Sound after Firefox crash

2008-08-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ed Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Firefox crashed and I lost sound, is there a way to release the lock > Firefox had on sound when it crashed? > I was streaming sirius radio at the time of the crash. > > Is there a daemon I can restart? I could just reboot

Re: [CentOS] OT: backup media options

2008-08-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:23 AM -0500 Monty Shinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, I'm sorry for the OT, but I figured I'd get knowledgeable responses from this list instead of sales pitches... Check out this thread. It's from a Windows perspective, but there's a lot of info in the thr

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-01 Thread Admin Admin
> > What is the best way to get the xen enabled CentOS > 5.2 > > vmlinuz and initrd images for use as a guest > domain > > (domU) on Ubuntu host domain (dom0). > > Look in images/xen/. > > -- > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you sure I could use those? Are n't they used for

Re: [CentOS] 'initrd' image of CentOS (domU) on Ubuntu (dom0)

2008-08-01 Thread Admin Admin
> > What is the best way to get the xen enabled CentOS > 5.2 > > vmlinuz and initrd images for use as a guest > domain > > (domU) on Ubuntu host domain (dom0). > > virt-install on a CentOS 5.2 system and transfer the > image over to Ubuntu. > Could I do it on any system or a system with similar

Re: [CentOS] File system goes read-only once in a while

2008-08-01 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:43 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:13 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: >> Mufit Eribol wrote: >> > >. . that you would correctly try to > fsck the *device*. > First backup data... It is possible to run "fsck" with a media test fl

Re: [CentOS] Port Closing Question..

2008-08-01 Thread NiftyClusters Mitch
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Ryan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a software avail or a process that will monitor two ports and if > there is no traffic close them so the program that is using them can reuse > them? I talked to the vendor and they told me I needed to do this on t

RE: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Dan Carl
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:16 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive > > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> brute force approach... > >> > >>dd if=/d

RE: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If you wanted to keep the drives in the same box I'm sure theres a way, with >linux there always is :) >Anyone? Well, if the disc used LVM, you would obviously have to rename the VG/LV's or there would be duplicates. How about the GUID? At any rate, I think the OP didnt have this in mind so now

[CentOS] DVI + VGA?

2008-08-01 Thread MHR
I have an LCD monitor with both VGA and DVI connectors on it, and a video card to match (both connectors). If I want to switch from the VGA (currently in use) to the DVI, do I need to do anything special other than switch wires? I didn't see anything in google that was helpful (though I may not h

Re: [CentOS] DVI + VGA?

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Brentano
If they're both the same output (i.e. not individual outputs, but just different media options) then I'd say yes. But if they are distinct outputs (say for a multi-monitor setup) then one may be display #1 and the other #2. If it's integrated video on your motherboard there may be options i

Re: [CentOS] DVI + VGA?

2008-08-01 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 15:40 -0700, MHR wrote: > I have an LCD monitor with both VGA and DVI connectors on it, and a > video card to match (both connectors). If I want to switch from the > VGA (currently in use) to the DVI, do I need to do anything special > other than switch wires? I didn't see a

Re: [CentOS] DVI + VGA?

2008-08-01 Thread Victor Padro
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 15:40 -0700, MHR wrote: > > I have an LCD monitor with both VGA and DVI connectors on it, and a > > video card to match (both connectors). If I want to switch from the > > VGA (currently in

Re: [CentOS] DVI + VGA?

2008-08-01 Thread Sergey Podushkin
MHR wrote: I have an LCD monitor with both VGA and DVI connectors on it, and a video card to match (both connectors). If I want to switch from the VGA (currently in use) to the DVI, do I need to do anything special other than switch wires? I didn't see anything in google that was helpful (thoug

[CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Ryan Dunn
I've got a server running CentOS 5.2 and has a working NFSv4 server. I've been looking for some help on this on the net, but haven't come across anything that looks like it would pertain to my situation. Basically, I've got a mixed distro environment (CentOS, Fedora, openSuSE, Ubuntu, Puppy, and

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:27 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: > I've got a server running CentOS 5.2 and has a working NFSv4 server. > I've been looking for some help on this on the net, but haven't come > across anything that looks like it would pertain to my situation. > > Basically, I've got a mixed dist

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Ryan Dunn
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You seem to be afraid of changing id's but that really isn't that > difficult - especially considering that it's a one time process... > > http://docsrv.sco.com/UG_admin/uaT.chguid.html > > next - you really should consider

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 20:04 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: > If I were to use LDAP, what would happen if I tried to use the laptop > in the absence of the server? Is a local copy stored, ala how my work > windows network works? If you have nscd (Name Services Caching Daemon) enabled, yes. However, tha

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Ryan Dunn
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Timothy Selivanow < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 20:04 -0400, Ryan Dunn wrote: > > ... > > If you have nscd (Name Services Caching Daemon) enabled, yes. However, > that will only cache the UID/GID lookups, and not authentication. If > you are

Re: [CentOS] Load Average ~0.40 when idle

2008-08-01 Thread listmail
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:48:55 -0700, I wrote > I am running CentOS 5 on a dual-dual-core Intel machine, and I am seeing > a load average of between 0.35 and 0.50 while the machine is idle, i.e. > no processes appear to be running. > > Both top and uptime report the same thing. Looking at top, I can

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread nate
Ryan Dunn wrote: > Thanks for the input. What would you recommend as a home file server > instead? Samba? Also, I just got the RHCE book and am just testing things > out, so it has been a nice learning experience for me. Depends on what clients you have, if there is a chance there will be windo

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 17:33 -0700, nate wrote: > I personally don't like LDAP(after having used it for many years now). > I do use it at home, though only two of the 6 systems I have are > actually using it(I also use it for mail routing but that is a > legacy thing I setup 7 years ago that I have

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread Chris Brentano
I would second OpenLDAP, having used it in production at two different employers. It's always been stable and reliable. If you're restarting slapd every 15 minutes I'd take a good hard look at the problem versus just migrating away from it. On that note, we recently migrated to Active Direc

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread nate
Chris Brentano wrote: > I would second OpenLDAP, having used it in production at two different > employers. It's always been stable and reliable. If you're restarting > slapd every 15 minutes I'd take a good hard look at the problem versus > just migrating away from it. I've been using LDAP for qu

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS 5 as server; best way to setup NFSv4?

2008-08-01 Thread MJT
On Friday 01 August 2008 5:27:50 pm Ryan Dunn wrote: If you are running your lan as a lab to learn, I would suggest one thing. From what I have read, it seems you just want to have everything work together in a simple manor. Since you have windows involved, you might consider having everything