Re: [CentOS] xen on CentOS 4.7

2009-02-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Agile Aspect wrote: > Hi - has anyone gotten Xen on CentOS 4.7 to run successfully > using Windows XP as the guest OS? Xen cannot be run as a host domain (dom0) on CentOS 4.x, but only as a guest domain. You'd need CentOS 5 as a host. Ralph pgpchDjNn2gXZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [CentOS] (off-topic)Update sii-3512A serial ata controller - which flash memory?

2009-02-26 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-25-2009 11:06 AM Marcelo M. Garcia spake the following: >> Scott Silva wrote: >>> on 2-25-2009 7:33 AM Marcelo M. Garcia spake the following: Hi. I had to update the BIOS of a Silicon Image 3512A Serial ATA controller. I'm not using RAID. Whe

[CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor it. Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to testing the connection, which failed. There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to monitor /dev/ttyS0. Either that is wr

Re: [CentOS] Firefox plugins gone (but only for one user)

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:17 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi gurus > I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox > working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for > my account. > I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum) and re-installed -

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor it. > Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to > testing the connection, which failed. > > There is just one serial connector on the c

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 06:14 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to > > monitor /dev/ttyS0. Either that is wrong, or communication is failing. > > I've been told to try min

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:14:06 Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor > > it. Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it > > came to testing the connectio

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 06:34 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > As to the OP original question, check BIOS settings and make sure your > serial is enabled. Set it to COM 3 and IRQ 4 should work. This would s/COM 3/COM 1/ # Drat! More JAVA, more JAVA! > equate to "0" in an *IX system. > > Lo

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:34, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 06:14 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:17 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > > > There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to > > > monitor /dev/ttyS0. Either t

Re: [CentOS] Firefox plugins gone (but only for one user)

2009-02-26 Thread Rob Kampen
Noob Centos Admin wrote: 2009/2/26 Rob Kampen : Hi gurus I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account. Have you tried creating a new profile (not new Linux account) in Firefox and

Re: [CentOS] Firefox plugins gone (but only for one user)

2009-02-26 Thread Rob Kampen
William L. Maltby wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 23:17 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi gurus I have a CentOS 5.2 current x86_64 that has Thunderbird and Firefox working well for one user account (my wife) but will not play nice for my account. I have uninstalled thunderbird and firefox (via yum)

[CentOS] Create a Debian Repo Mirror

2009-02-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know how I can do this w/o rsync? We have a large mirror we made with wget, but I don't see how to prevent wget from fetching anything it has already? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [CentOS] Create a Debian Repo Mirror

2009-02-26 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone know how I can do this w/o rsync? We have a large > mirror we made with wget, but I don't see how to prevent > wget from fetching anything it has already? > wget -N compares local/remote timestamps before downloading. Only download

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 12:31 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:34, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > As to the OP original question, check BIOS settings and make sure your > > serial is enabled. Set it to COM 3 and IRQ 4 should work. This would > > equate to "0" in an *IX

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread John Doe
From: Anne Wilson > I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to monitor it. > Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to > testing the connection, which failed. > There is just one serial connector on the computer, so I set it to > monitor /d

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:37 AM, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 12:31 +, Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:34, William L. Maltby wrote: >> > >> > As to the OP original question, check BIOS settings and make sure your >> > serial is enabled. Set it to COM 3

[CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread chloe K
Hi all ks there iptables rules to limit attack? Thank you - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread Bo Lynch
On Thu, February 26, 2009 10:52 am, chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > ks there iptables rules to limit attack? > > Thank you > > > - Could you give a little more info? Bo Lynch ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Hull
chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > ks there iptables rules to limit attack? > > Thank you > Hi, Below is an example that I use to limit the rate of new connections to a particular port/service. You should be able to mold this to work with whatever service you would like to protect. Add the first

[CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to setup HylaFax which leads to my first question, anyone got an opinion on whether or not to use HylaFax or HylaFax+? Also, I have to setup a Digi serial port server for an external fax modem. Any reco's on a robust unit that won't need to be reset often? Thanks! jlc

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > Look in your /var/log/messages file. At boot, you should see the device > > > recognized. > > > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is > > a 16550A > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: t

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread nate
Anne Wilson wrote: > It's a Liebert Personal XT 700. The cable is supplied with the unit. According to the NUT docs this UPS is supported by the usb driver, are you connecting the USB cable with it or using a serial cable? http://eu1.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html Getting USB UPSs to w

[CentOS] Anyone successfully using CentOS 5 and a Keyspan USA-19HS USB-Serial Adapter?

2009-02-26 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I occasionally need to connect to a serial device and in the past have used minicom and the Keyspan USA-19HS adapter. It has worked flawlessly. Once I upgraded, I could never seem to make this work. The kernel recognizes the adapter, it gets properl

Re: [CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-26 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >I need to setup HylaFax which leads to my first question, anyone >got an opinion on whether or not to use HylaFax or HylaFax+? We have been using HylaFAX for years (we hosted the mailing list back when it was still called flexfax :-). >Also, I have t

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:55:16PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > Look in your /var/log/messages file. At boot, you should see the device > > > > recognized. > > > > > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (i

Re: [CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:46 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > > We use Multitech modems exclusively, having tried many different > manufacturer's modems over the years, they have consistently > proved reliable, and rarely give problems. The MT5634ZBA has +1 Having used many brands, Multitech has

Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread chloe K
Thank you Can I know how to define the "SSH_CHECK" and white list? I only know to use iptables -A Thank you Andrew Hull wrote: chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > ks there iptables rules to limit attack? > > Thank you > Hi, Below is an example that I use to limit the rate of new

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:55 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is > > > a 16550A > > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is >

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 13:02 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > Let me just throw out one caveat here: Many UPSes that use a serial > port don't really utilize it to transfer serial data, but rather just > raise/lower some of the signal lines to let the software on the host > know something has changed

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 17:20:50 nate wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > It's a Liebert Personal XT 700. The cable is supplied with the unit. > > According to the NUT docs this UPS is supported by the usb driver, > are you connecting the USB cable with it or using a serial cable? > > http://eu1.

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:55:16 Anne Wilson wrote: > However, I realise that I need to check the hardware situation first. Since I wrote that I've remembered that up to a couple of weeks ago an APC unit was connected to that serial port, and communicated correctly. That's one more piece o

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:55:22 William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:55 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = > > > > 4) is a 16550A > > > >

Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Hull
chloe K wrote: > Thank you > > Can I know how to define the "SSH_CHECK" > and white list? > > I only know to use iptables -A > > Thank you > Hello, When you're entering the rules from the CLI, the first time you reference a chain, you need to use -N (for "new") instead of -A (for "append"

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Silva
on 2-26-2009 8:55 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: Look in your /var/log/messages file. At boot, you should see the device recognized. >>> Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is >>> a 1655

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:55:22 William L. Maltby wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:55 +, Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: >> > >> > > > Feb 26 12:12:25 borg2 kernel: serial8250: t

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Robert
Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm not often beaten by things, but sometimes I have to fight them on and off > for quite a while before they are resolved. I'm grateful for all the help > I'm > getting here. I shan't be giving up for a good while yet :-) if at all. > > Anne RS232C is enough to kick a

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Silva
(BTW, I have no idea what > language some of the stuff on that page is in. It is not Spanish Kinda looks like Italian, or Portuguese. Maybe online translated if the syntax or usage looks wierd. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they do

Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Chloe K wrote on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:45:55 -0500 (EST): > Can I know how to define the "SSH_CHECK" > and white list? There are numerous tutorials out there how to use ratelimiting. Just google. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conac

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 20:09:46 Lanny Marcus wrote: > http://www.ups-software-download.com/winpower.htm > > As you can see, their SW is available for a variety of OS, including > Linux (although not an .RPM). I am willing to bet the SW for your UPS > is also available for Linux. Check it out!

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 20:29:01 Robert wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm not often beaten by things, but sometimes I have to fight them on and > > off for quite a while before they are resolved. I'm grateful for all the > > help I'm getting here. I shan't be giving up for a good while yet

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 26 February 2009 19:50:16 Scott Silva wrote: > on 2-26-2009 8:55 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > > On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:37, William L. Maltby wrote: > Look in your /var/log/messages file. At boot, you should see the > device recognized. > >>> > >>> Feb 26 12:1

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:29 -0600, Robert wrote: > > breakout box. Lacking one of those, you might find the statserial > program to be of some use in figuring out what the control lines are doing. > # yum --enablerepo=dag install statserial > will install it. It has a short man page. Run w

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 20:36 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 20:09:46 Lanny Marcus wrote: > > http://www.ups-software-download.com/winpower.htm > > > > As you can see, their SW is available for a variety of OS, including > > Linux (although not an .RPM). I am willing to bet

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:29 -0600, Robert wrote: > >> >> > > >> breakout box. Lacking one of those, you might find the statserial >> program to be of some use in figuring out what the control lines are doing. >> # yum --enablerepo=dag install statserial >

[CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-26 Thread chloe K
Hi all How can I enable CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHE to support multi path Thank you - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail __

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread nate
Anne Wilson wrote: > As in the instructions, I ran ' /usr/local/ups/sbin/upsd' - which should > have I think upsdrvctl is what you want to try, or try calling the driver directly, e.g. tux:~# /lib/nut/apcsmart -D -a primary Network UPS Tools (version 2.0.4) - APC Smart protocol driver Dr

Re: [CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-26 Thread nate
chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > How can I enable CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHE to support multi path If that option is not enabled in the stock kernels then you need to grab the kernel source and build your own kernel with that option enabled. Since your asking the question, I suspect your linux

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread nate
Anne Wilson wrote: > The docs that come with nut say that you can use either serial or usb. I certainly could be wrong but I would not expect the USB driver to work over a serial port. Though the serial driver could work over a USB->serial adapter as in my case, since the USB stuff is totally abs

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 2/26/09, Scott Silva wrote: > > (BTW, I have no idea what >> language some of the stuff on that page is in. It is not Spanish > > Kinda looks like Italian, or Portuguese. > Maybe online translated if the syntax or usage looks wierd. I agree with that. Italian or Portuguese. I am very cur

Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread Ned Slider
chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > ks there iptables rules to limit attack? > > Thank you > There are examples using the recent and limit modules on the Wiki (Securing SSH page): http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-a296ec93e31637aa349538be07b37f67d836688a It should be e

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 2/26/09, Lanny Marcus wrote: > I am very curious now. I am going to get the Serial cable that came > with the Nicomar Electronics (Bogota, Colombia) UPS we bought a few > weeks ago, hook the UPS up to my box and try that SW. First in M$ > Windows and then in Linux. Monitoring SW is working in

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > I recently bought a new UPS, and I'm attempting to use nut to  monitor it. > Following setup instructions everything seemed to go well until it came to > testing the connection, which failed. Possibly something on one of these URLs will help

Re: [CentOS] Is GFS for HPC?

2009-02-26 Thread Joe Barjo
I'd also like to test gfs for a 30 nodes cluster with sge. Tasks are often quite short, files are also quite small. Job rate can be quite high (can reach 10 to 20/second) We actualy use NFS under centos4.7 and experience coherency problems. I tested AFS, lustre, glusterFS. All showed too much overh

Re: [CentOS] Is GFS for HPC?

2009-02-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.02.2009 um 01:44 schrieb Joe Barjo: > I'd also like to test gfs for a 30 nodes cluster with sge. > Tasks are often quite short, files are also quite small. Job rate > can be quite high (can reach 10 to 20/second) > We actualy use NFS under centos4.7 and experience coherency problems. > I

Re: [CentOS] Is GFS for HPC?

2009-02-26 Thread Joe Barjo
Each node is also an nfs server (centos 4.7) One nfs server per user. I think it is still nfsv3, I will consider upgrading to v4. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 27.02.2009 um 01:44 schrieb Joe Barjo: > > > I'd also like to test gfs for a 30 nodes cluster with sge.

Re: [CentOS] HylaFax and Com Ports

2009-02-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:46 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > > We use Multitech modems exclusively, having tried many different > > manufacturer's modems over the years, they have consistently > > proved reliable, and rarely give problems. The MT5634ZBA has > > +1 > > Hav

Re: [CentOS] how can enable in mutltpath?

2009-02-26 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Hi all chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > How can I enable CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHE to support multi path No idea for your problem. BUT How can I use google to find things I am looking for? Thanks! Ralph pgpY5sqQLvx2B.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [CentOS] Is GFS for HPC?

2009-02-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.02.2009 um 01:53 schrieb Joe Barjo: > Each node is also an nfs server (centos 4.7) > One nfs server per user. > I think it is still nfsv3, I will consider upgrading to v4. Problem is CentOS4.7. You'll probably get an improvement with CentOS5. Rainer __

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:30, Scott Silva wrote: >> http://www.ups-software-download.com/winpower.htm >> (BTW, I have no idea what >> language some of the stuff on that page is in. It is not Spanish > > Kinda looks like Italian, or Portuguese. It's Italian (at least, definitely not Portugues

Re: [CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

2009-02-26 Thread Néstor
Italiano On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 15:30, Scott Silva wrote: > >> http://www.ups-software-download.com/winpower.htm > >> (BTW, I have no idea what > >> language some of the stuff on that page is in. It is not Spanish > > > > Kinda

[CentOS] ext3 heavy file fragmentation with NFS write

2009-02-26 Thread Andrzej Szymański
Hello, Does anybody know how to avoid the file fragmentation when a file is created over NFSv3? A file created locally is OK: dd bs=32k if=/dev/zero of=test count=32x1024 conv=fsync filefrag test test: 10 extents found, perfection would be 9 extents When I create the file in the same dir, but f