[CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
What is an alternative X window manager, supported by CentOS, that has very small memory footprint? I want to avoid twm, because it defaults to interactive placement when not giving geometry options. No other requirements. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.

Re: [CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:01 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > What is an alternative X window manager, supported by CentOS, > that has very small memory footprint? > > I want to avoid twm, because it defaults to interactive placement when > not giving geometry options. No other requirements. Within C

Re: [CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Pintér Tibor
Paul Bijnens wrote: What is an alternative X window manager, supported by CentOS, that has very small memory footprint? I want to avoid twm, because it defaults to interactive placement when not giving geometry options. No other requirements. dwm, fwm, xfce, fluxbox? ps: your signature is

RE: [CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Geoff Galitz
I use XFCE for my resource starved environments (cluster simulations using virtualization environments). It works well and integrates nicely into the Centos deployments. -geoff Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Changing swap resume signature location

2008-09-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Patrice Guay wrote: I cannot find the /etc/initramfs-tools directory on my system. Which package provides it under CentOS 5? isnt that just mkinitrd on CentOS ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Unable to compile mod_jk on Centos 5.2 64-bit

2008-09-02 Thread ankush grover
Hi Friends, I am trying to compile mod_jk on Centos 5.2 64-bit but I am getting apxs not found. Whereas apxs is already there on the server type apxs apxs is /usr/sbin/apxs ./configure CFLAGS=' -arch x86_64 ' APXSLDFLAGS=' -arch x86_64 ' --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs checking build system type...

Re: [CentOS] Unable to compile mod_jk on Centos 5.2 64-bit

2008-09-02 Thread Farkas Levente
ankush grover wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I am trying to compile mod_jk on Centos 5.2 64-bit but I am getting > apxs not found. Whereas apxs is already there on the server why not use jpackage packages? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

[CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread josh donovan
I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've done e.g. the DNS Server is set to log queries (the default does

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Jussi Hirvi
josh donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribio (2.9.2008 13:42) > I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a > spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup > and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've > d

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Fretz
josh donovan wrote: > I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a > spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup > and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've > done e.g. the DNS Server is set to lo

Re: [CentOS] Re: Help me

2008-09-02 Thread andylockran
Karanbir Singh wrote: andylockran wrote: In thunderbird, it's very easy to change. Tools>Accounts>Composition>Automatically Start My Reply ABOVE/BELOW The Quote. While talking about Thunderbird, some of you might also want to look at : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Fretz
Jussi Hirvi wrote: > This may not be directly useful to you. > > As a general strategy, I have been thinking of making / and other important > partitions (if any) raid1 at system install - even when there is no second > disk. Someone just wrote that even the /boot partition can be raid1. Yes, the

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread Sergej Kandyla
Marco Fretz wrote: If you want to copy the whole server, use cpio. We use this to convert phys servers to virtual. find / | cpio -o -Hnewc | ssh -c blowfish "cpio -u -i -m -d -Hnewc" Also you could use dump\restore utilites mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 cd /mnt/hdb1 dump -0uan -f - /boot | re

RE: [CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread John Kordash
> What is an alternative X window manager, supported by CentOS, > that has very small memory footprint? > > I want to avoid twm, because it defaults to interactive placement when > not giving geometry options. No other requirements. You found twm's 'RandomPlacment' unsuitable? -John

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paolo Supino wrote: > > Hi Nate > > > > > 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup configuration screen > with > > the source website (in IP) and CentOS directory as I entered them in the > > pxeconfiguration file and as it

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Romeo Ninov
Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: > Hi Nate > > 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup configuration screen with > the source website (in IP) an

[CentOS] NFS static ports configuration

2008-09-02 Thread admin
A couple of RHEL5 books I'm reading at the moment suggest port numbers above 1024 for statd, lockd, mountd and rquotad (eg 38001-38006 or 32764-32767) when configuring NFS to work with a firewall. The default /etc/sysconfig/nfs on CentOS5 however has defaults under 1024, such as mountd 892

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): > >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >>Paolo Supino wrote: >>> Hi Nate >>> >> >>> 3: After the error comes up

[CentOS] Re: small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is an alternative X window manager, supported by CentOS, > that has very small memory footprint? I'm not sure what your standard is for "supported by CentOS", but Window Maker works well and is available from EPEL. - Michael -- mouse, n: A device

Re: [CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread admin
Yes, the /boot partition can be md raid. But it can't be LVM. We're using md raid for all server that have no hardware raid controllers. GRUB can be installed on both drives at the same time, no problem. Good idea and I think it should be no performance problem. But use LVM! Don't do md raid f

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Romeo Ninov
Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2008-09-02 14:07, John Kordash wrote: What is an alternative X window manager, supported by CentOS, that has very small memory footprint? I want to avoid twm, because it defaults to interactive placement when not giving geometry options. No other requirements. You found twm's 'RandomPlacme

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Romeo Ninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): > >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> >> >>Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a): >> >> >> >>On Tue, Sep 2, 2

RE: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Network autoconfiguration failed, most likely there is not >a compatible driver for the network card in your system. Paolo, You are using multihomed systems, I remember a problem with pxe booting whereby the install switched to the wrong nic and setup may fail as a result. How are you statring t

[CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of such a process from bogging down a server to severely. Thanks, jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

[CentOS] CN=Nasreddine Kroun/OU=Benefits/O=Vitech is out of the office.

2008-09-02 Thread Nasreddine Kroun
I will be out of the office starting 09/02/2008 and will not return until 09/04/2008. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >Network autoconfiguration failed, most likely there is not > >a compatible driver for the network card in your system. > > Paolo, > You are using multihomed systems, I remember a problem with pxe booting > whereby the in

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Sun, August 31, 2008 04:03, Ric Moore wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:51 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I've also still got a laptop that's probably older than him. It runs >> CP/M. > > I once had a pretty large collection of CP/M machines. I had three > IMSAI's. a VDP-80 and two VDP-

RE: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>WHat do you mean? Do you boot from one of the NICS, or a CD, or what? If you boot from a NIC via a TFTP server, you may be encountering the issue I describe which simply needs a kernel arg to fix you up. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Joseph L. Casale ha scritto: > Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? > If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of > such a process from bogging down a server to severely. > As I was told few days ago you cold nice the whole process, eg. nice 19 if=/xxx of=/xxx bs=nnn

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini
Lorenzo Quatrini ha scritto: > Joseph L. Casale ha scritto: >> Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? >> If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of >> such a process from bogging down a server to severely. >> > > As I was told few days ago you cold nice the whole proces

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >WHat do you mean? > > Do you boot from one of the NICS, or a CD, or what? > If you boot from a NIC via a TFTP server, you may be encountering the issue > I describe which simply needs a kernel arg to fix you up. > jlc >

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread nate
Paolo Supino wrote: > I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: > pxe (for node3): Just to rule it out try plugging in all NICs to the same switch/VLAN and kickstart again and see if it works better. Sometimes the NIC detected as eth0 at PXE time is not the same NIC as at installati

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? > If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of > such a process from bogging down a server to severely. There is ionice (assuming CentOS-5) in the util-linux package. It's by no

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Sergej Kandyla
Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: Lorenzo Quatrini ha scritto: nice 19 dd if=/xxx of=/xxx bs=nnn ^^ probably - nice 19 dd if=/xxx of=/xxx bs=nnn + nice -n 19dd if=/xxx of=/xxx bs=nnn -- Best Wishes, PAIX-UANIC | SK3929-RIPE ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread nate
Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > As I was told few days ago you cold nice the whole process, eg. > > nice 19 if=/xxx of=/xxx bs=nnn > > This should give all the other process priority over dd nice doesn't really do anything with respect to I/O. The best way to control I/O in this manor is to physically

RE: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: Yeah, that's what I thought. Have a look at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/ch-pxe.html & http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_531.shtm The latter might shed some light. I am thinking you n

RE: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>nice doesn't really do anything with respect to I/O. Yes I tried it and it never made a diff from one end of the spectrum to the other:) >The best way to control I/O in this manor is to physically >isolate it from the rest of the system(be it on a different >controller connected to different dis

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:28 +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > Joseph L. Casale ha scritto: > > Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? > > If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of > > such a process from bogging down a server to severely. > > > > As I was told few day

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:04 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paolo Supino wrote: > > > I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: > > pxe (for node3): > > Just to rule it out try plugging in all NICs to the same > switch/VLAN and kickstart again and see if it works better. > Some

[CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to replace a slow HP MSA20 that's a bottleneck right now (We are an HP shop). HP's only option with 3.5" SATA drives is stuck at SATA I behind a SAS controller. Dell makes an MD1000 that claims SATA II speeds behind a SAS Perc 5/E (Don't know anything about dell). Anyone got any real wor

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: > > Yeah, that's what I thought. > Have a look at: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/ch-pxe.html > & > http://

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Joseph L. Casale schrieb: I need to replace a slow HP MSA20 that’s a bottleneck right now (We are an HP shop). HP’s only option with 3.5” SATA drives is stuck at SATA I behind a SAS controller. Dell makes an MD1000 that claims SATA II speeds behind a SAS Perc 5/E (Don’t know anything about

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread nate
Paolo Supino wrote: > It's a nice thing and I thought of doing it, but it's impractical and here > is why: I have 42 systems in this cabinet. Each system as 4 NICs and I only > have 1 48 port switch. If I had the additional switches to stack I would > have done it a long time ago (and I would ha

[CentOS] Re: Help me

2008-09-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 9-1-2008 10:36 AM Martyn Hare spake the following: Top is preferred, it's a standard just like it's a standard to put: " -- [signature here] " And which "standard" is that? Is it in the RFC's? I would "prefer" to *not* give a quarter of my income to the government, but then they would

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Supino
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >I boot via NIC0 and my configurations are as follows: > > Yeah, that's what I thought. > Have a look at: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/ch-pxe.html > & > http://

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Scott Silva
This discussion really should be on the classic computers mail list. Hmmm 2Mhz 8080a vs 3.0Ghz Core 2 duo ... things have changed a bit on the personal computer side. But Windows for Workgroups 3.1 really screams on the newer hardware! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope eve

RE: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? > > If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of > > such a process from bogging down a server to severely. > > There is ionice (assuming CentOS-5) i

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread John R Pierce
Ric Moore wrote: I once had a pretty large collection of CP/M machines. I had three IMSAI's ok, now you've done it. lets play "Name that old computer!" http://hogranch.com/digital.research/My_office_upstairs_at_734_Lighthouse.jpg (my office circa 1979) __

[CentOS] vtun -- no IPv6 support?

2008-09-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Reading many comments about vtun available through google searchs seems to imply it supports IPv6. When I install it (v 3.0.2-1) and bind it to an interface that does NOT have IPv4 defined (only v6), start the service, and do a 'netstat -nat|grep 5000', I see it bound to 0.0.0.0:5000, not to t

RE: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If that doesn't do it for you then maybe choosing a different >scheduler then cfq can help. Something like 'deadline' may >work better for the workload. > >AFAIK ionice will only work with the cfq scheduler for now. Appreciate that info, I have just been reading about the difference but cant say

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread MHR
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Appreciate that info, I have just been reading about the difference but > cant say I understand in real life what the difference between deadline > versus cfq is. I will try changing it on the fly and running my tests.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread MHR
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But Windows for Workgroups 3.1 really screams on the newer hardware! ;-P > For shame! WfW was 3.11, and it just screams, or did, or so I heard - never used it. I stuck with 3.1 until 98 was due out and then, finally, cav

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Arremann
Hi, I assume you're talking about the MSA60? We have several of those installed and haven't seen any bottle necks there. Even the fastest SATA drives fall short of the 150MB/sec max SATA I throughput. And if you could push the 1.5Gb/sec on the SATA side, then the SAS side with a 4x port (4x3Gb/

RE: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I assume you're talking about the MSA60? Yup >We have several of those installed >and haven't seen any bottle necks there. Even the fastest SATA drives fall >short of the 150MB/sec max SATA I throughput. And if you could push the >1.5Gb/sec on the SATA side, then the SAS side with a 4x port (4x3

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems

2008-09-02 Thread Richard Karhuse
On 9/2/08, Paolo Supino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > : > > Hi Joseph > >After sending the last reply I fixed the kickstart config files and > added --boot=yes to the network statement of eth0, but going through the > consoles of each of the systems to see if the installation completed > suc

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 18:25:10 MHR wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But Windows for Workgroups 3.1 really screams on the newer hardware! ;-P > > For shame! WfW was 3.11, 3.1.1, IIRC > and it just screams, or did, or so I heard - > neve

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread MHR
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3.1.1, IIRC > Nope, 3.11. > I did. It was better than 95, and better than 98 first edition. > I was making a joke about WfW screaming. > USB drives should work without any problem at all, assuming he is using 98SE. > No

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread John R Pierce
For shame! WfW was 3.11, 3.1.1, IIRC actually, there was a 3.10 and 3.11 release of Windows for Workgroups. The 3.11 release introduced the use of 32 bit protected mode implementation of the network stack and file system via extensive use of VxD drivers, and set the stage for

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone got any real world info they can share? I need 3.5" SATA II at least > 12 drives behind SAS, > I am not concerned about space and could use multiple 1u chassis if I had > to. What about this? http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13045_na/13045_na.html T

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 19:10:32 MHR wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3.1.1, IIRC > > Nope, 3.11. > You could be right. > > I did. It was better than 95, and better than 98 first edition. > > I was making a joke about WfW screaming. > > >

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread MHR
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fair enough. Out of curiosity - do they work in W2K out of the box, or > require some update? I ask because I'm considering W2K as a > VM. > Ya got me there - I /think/ so, but am not sure. mhr _

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Martyn Hare
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:21:31 -0700 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Joseph L. Casale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Appreciate that info, I have just been reading about the difference but > > cant say I understand in real life what the difference between deadli

[CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Scott Silva
Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until relatively recently. I remember when 1 GB *hard* drives didn't exist! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you no

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:26 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > > > > Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't > > have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until > > relatively recently. > > > I remember when 1 GB *hard* drives didn't exist!

[CentOS] Re: Anti Virus and Anti Spam

2008-09-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 8-29-2008 7:55 PM horas simalango spake the following: New be in linux! Currently I have Install DNS, Email and Web server using centos 4.3. All functions are running properly! What anti virus and anti spam recomended for me to install to my server? What I have to configure after installing an

RE: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Here's a decent, short write up on them: >http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ Yup, I found that but I remember stumbling across this issue when reading about Xen in Todd Deshane's book and finally found the article I came across. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6931

[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 8-30-2008 6:37 PM Adrian Sevcenco spake the following: Hi, i was wondering what is the status of 4.7 Thank you, Best regards, Adrian 4.7 was delayed so the buildservers could get 5.2 ready. 4.7 is probably in the queue now, but it takes a while because CentOS doesn't have a million dollar h

Re: [CentOS] CN=Nasreddine Kroun/OU=Benefits/O=Vitech is out of the office.

2008-09-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Nasreddine Kroun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will be out of the office starting 09/02/2008 and will not return until > 09/04/2008. Cool. Please do not put an auto responder on an email address where you receive mailing lists.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:32 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: >> I once had a pretty large collection of CP/M machines. I had three >> IMSAI's > ok, now you've done it. > lets play "Name that old computer!" > http://hogranch.com/digital.research/My_office_upstairs

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread MHR
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember when 1 GB *hard* drives didn't exist! > I still have a few - a 20MB Tulin TL225 that was HUGE when it first came out, and a couple of Seagates, one is 120MB and one is 512MB. Oh, and I almost forgot my Priam 780

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, September 2, 2008 14:31, William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:26 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: >> >> >> > Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives >> wouldn't >> > have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until >> > relatively

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:44 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > > Anyone got any real world info they can share? I need 3.5" SATA II at > least > > 12 drives behind SAS, > > I am not concerned about space and could use multiple 1u chassis if I had > > to. > > What abo

RE: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the >difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? SAS is more enterprise geared, relating to speed and MTBU (probably a load of crap on that point) and SATA is cheaper and does not perform as well, supposedly

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: > >On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:26 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: >> >> >> > Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives >> > wouldn't >> > have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until >> > relatively recentl

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread John R Pierce
> > >Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the > >difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? > > SAS is more enterprise geared, relating to speed and MTBU (probably a load of > crap on that point) > and SATA is cheaper and does not perform as we

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread Mag Gam
where can we get ISOs? I can test for VirtualBox atleast. If there is a problem I will submit a bug. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 8-30-2008 6:37 PM Adrian Sevcenco spake the following: >> >> Hi, >> i was wondering what is the status of 4.7 >> Thank

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread Matt
> 4.7 was delayed so the buildservers could get 5.2 ready. 4.7 is probably in > the queue now, but it takes a while because CentOS doesn't have a million > dollar hardware budget, and has to schedule things to best use the hardware > available. What changes will be in CentOS 4.7 vs. 4.6? I would

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the >>difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? > > SAS is more enterprise geared, relating to speed and MTBU (probably a load of

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Bill Campbell wrote: Anyway, 5 and 10 MB HDs were the common PC drives back in the 80s and 90s. 20MB was a *big* one. Seek (average) of > 60ms was usual and fast ones were less than that. The first HDs that Radio Shack sold for their Model 16s were 8in 8MB units and the primary HD which came

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Matt wrote: > What changes will be in CentOS 4.7 vs. 4.6? http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS4.7 Cheers, Ralph pgpINMiAVvyBg.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

RE: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>There was a thread about the MTBF of various types of drives, linking >to articles about the experiences of Google.com, here in this mailing >list, probably 1 or 2 years ago. As I recall, they found the MTBF >between different types of drives to be about the same? That's exactly what I was refer

Re: [CentOS] SAS/SATA DAS

2008-09-02 Thread nate
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the > difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? On the most basic level I think of SAS as basically the new SCSI, and SATA II as the new PATA. SCSI = smaller, faster SATA II = bigger, sl

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin Krieser
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:32 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rather than guessing, why not look at the output from the rpm command he ran, which gives the name of th

Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB

2008-09-02 Thread Al Sparks
--- On Mon, 9/1/08, Sadaruwan Samaraweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Sadaruwan Samaraweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] I need help with GRUB > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 9:36 PM > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Al Sparks > <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [CentOS] how can I get the kernel source codes of CentOS5.2

2008-09-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Kevin Krieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> Alan and I are now talking about this so we can amend the Wiki article >> appropriately. According to him, unifdef is not required on his >> 32-bit system. I will upd

Re: [CentOS] Re: Curmudgeoning (was Re: Problems with writing Dual Layer DVD)

2008-09-02 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 19:55 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2008 19:10:32 MHR wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 3.1.1, IIRC > > > > Nope, 3.11. > > > You could be right. He is, we had a PC running it (WfW 3.11) till ju

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread David Hrbáč
Scott Silva napsal(a): > 4.7 was delayed so the buildservers could get 5.2 ready. 4.7 is probably > in the queue now, but it takes a while because CentOS doesn't have a > million dollar hardware budget, and has to schedule things to best use > the hardware available. > > When it is ready and synce

Re: [CentOS] postfix mysql_pgsql update?

2008-09-02 Thread <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Duncan napsal(a): > Another humble request here :) > > thanks > Any progress? D. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread nate
David Hrbáè wrote: > Glad to see some info and not only typical "when it's done it's done". > We are enterprise distro, so I guess we should inform the community on We = RHEL? Last I checked CentOS wasn't supported by most of the enterprise things out there(though sometimes you can get lucky).