[CentOS] can't get KRDC to connect to remove Windows server - how to make it work?

2008-09-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, I'm trying to connect to a remote Widnows server from my CentOS 5.2 / KDE 3.5.4-11, but everytime I try and connect I get the following error: Could not start rdesktop: make sure rdesktop is properly installed And I connect using krdc rdp:/remote.host.name - but I also tried krdc rdp:/ 1

Re: [CentOS] can't get KRDC to connect to remove Windows server - how to make it work?

2008-09-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:31, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could not start rdesktop: make sure rdesktop is properly installed krdc is just a front-end to several different tools (rdesktop, vncviewer, etc.), it will call rdesktop to effectively open the connection, so you will hav

Re: [CentOS] can't get KRDC to connect to remove Windows server - how to make it work? [SOLVED]

2008-09-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:31, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could not start rdesktop: make sure rdesktop is properly installed > > krdc is just a front-end to several different tools (rdesktop,

[CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Peter Duffy
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else was trying to get Centos 5.2 onto an EeePC 1000H? My EeePC came with XP, and I planned to put Centos on it in a dual-boot config. I've been struggling with this for a few evenings now, with some success (the wired ethernet is atl1e (gigabit rather than 10/100) -

[CentOS] Re: Need help transfering CentOS5 from desktop to laptop

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Arkiletian
I gave up. I tried everything. Don't know what the problem was (buggy bios/corrupt fs ) and don't care now. Taking too much time to simply re-install grub (6hrs). I'm doing a complete re-install on the laptop. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http:/

[CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Nataraj
Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would be detected by the raid 1 software. Thanks, Nataraj ___

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
Nataraj wrote: Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would be detected by the raid 1 software. under normal operation,

Re: [CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:05:44 +0100 Peter Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But at the moment I'm stuck on the audio card. The system seems to > detect it happily enough as Intel HDA, with a Realtek ALC269 chip, but > there's no sound. I'm sure I've hit a similar problem in the past with > the snd

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Nataraj
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 11:12 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Nataraj wrote: > > Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same > > bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, > > is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware wou

Re: [CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : Not that it matters, but "model=toshiba" is the one that eventually worked. Which is interesting because it's not a toshiba laptop. The lesson here is, don't eliminate any entries as not relevant because your machine isn't that model. Same here. My wife has an ASUS laptop w

[CentOS] Re: question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Kay Diederichs
Nataraj wrote: Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware would be detected by the raid 1 software. Thanks, Nataraj I've been

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
Nataraj wrote: Thank you John. I'm pretty sure that raid 5 or 6 would be safe, since there is parity checking, however it sounds like this may not be the case for raid 1. the parity on raid5/6 is only checked if you run some sort of scrub, and its used to regenerate a failed drive onto a s

Re: [CentOS] Re: question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
Kay Diederichs wrote: BTW, there is - even with current kernels - no speed gain in using RAID1 - see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/Raid1ReadBalancing . except, thats wrong. I unwrapped a recent kernel source tarball from kernel.org and found... static struct mirror *choose_mirror(s

Re: [CentOS] Re: question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Nataraj
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 21:01 +0200, Kay Diederichs wrote: > Nataraj wrote: > > Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same > > bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, > > is whether bit errors that were somehow undetected by the hardware wo

Re: [CentOS] Re: question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Nataraj
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 12:53 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Kay Diederichs wrote: > > BTW, there is - even with current kernels - no speed gain in using > > RAID1 - see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/Raid1ReadBalancing . > > except, thats wrong. I unwrapped a recent kernel source tarball f

[CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux
Hi all, I just received a SunFire 880 machine and would like to install CentOS on it I think it is possible but should be very interested on advices and tips & tricks on how to do it the best way... Thanks for your help... M$-Internet Exploder est le cancer de l'Internet, voyez pourquoi ici : ht

Re: [CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Peter Duffy
In my efforts to get the sound hardware working, I eventually decided to try the latest vanilla kernel (2.6.27-rc6). I had a bit of a battle to get it to work (it kept detecting the SATA disk as standard IDE, so blocking the SATA drivers, and making the system run like a dog: I finally fixed this b

Re: [CentOS] question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Nataraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does software raid 1 compare checksums or otherwise verify that the same > bits are coming from both disks during reads? What I'm interested in, No. Reads are distributed over disks to increase performance. > is whether bit e

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.09.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux: Hi all, I just received a SunFire 880 machine and would like to install CentOS on it I think it is possible but should be very interested on advices and tips & tricks on how to do it the best way... Thanks for your help... Does CentOS a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 21.09.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux: > >> Hi all, >> >> I just received a SunFire 880 machine and would like to install CentOS >> on it I think it is possible but should be very interested on advices >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Peter Arremann
On Sunday 21 September 2008 06:23:54 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Well having spent a week on Solaris 10.. I can understand why. Most of > the tools I am used to getting in a base install of CentOS are not > there.. and I will be spending most of this week getting various tools > installed so t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Peter Arremann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 06:23:54 pm Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> Well having spent a week on Solaris 10.. I can understand why. Most of >> the tools I am used to getting in a base install of CentOS are not >> there..

Re: [CentOS] Re: Need help transfering CentOS5 from desktop to laptop

2008-09-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Robert Arkiletian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I gave up. I tried everything. Don't know what the problem was (buggy > bios/corrupt fs ) and don't care now. Taking too much time to > simply re-install grub (6hrs). I'm doing a complete re-install on the > laptop

Re: [CentOS] Re: Need help transfering CentOS5 from desktop to laptop

2008-09-21 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Robert Arkiletian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I gave up. I tried everything. Don't know what the problem was (buggy >> bios/corrupt fs ) and don't care now. Taking too much time to >>

Re: [CentOS] Re: question about software Raid 1

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
This makes sense. I'm pretty sure that tests that I've run in the past using bonnie++ or iozone showed faster reads with raid1 than with a single drive. I would think that if the drives are on seperate controllers (and depending upon the performance/capacity of the drives and controllers), the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on a Sunfire 880

2008-09-21 Thread John R Pierce
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Hmmm that might be my problem. I had not looked at what additional paths were there. The boxes I am supposed to support are 2.7,2.8,2.9 and 2.10 so I am going to have to figure out a way to 'unify' them as much as possible without breaking the core application's needs.

Re: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7?

2008-09-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
Jason Pyeron wrote: The mirrors are missing the headers folders which prevents up2date from working. did you file an issue report for this ( http://bugs.centos.org ) ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing

RE: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7?

2008-09-21 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 8:14 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7? > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > The mirrors are missing the headers folders whic

[CentOS] RHEL RPC Automatic multithreading

2008-09-21 Thread lingu
Hi; I am porting my POSIX multithreaded application from SOLARIS to RHEL. My application uses Sun RPC(with Automatic multithreading option). In RHEL RPC I could not find any option for Automatic multithreading. Please help me. Regards, Lingu ___ Cen