[CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: rsync -vrPtz -e ssh myu...@myserver:/remote/backup/folder/ /local/backup/folder/ This all

Re: [CentOS] Wake On LAN

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
OK, this is solved now so thought I would post back to the list in case future users search the archives for the same problem and for anyone who is interested ;) Thanks Tony, you answer was partially it. I hadn't correctly enabled WOL on the NIC card: > I don't know about your Dell, but on my HP

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 28.04.2009 03:37, schrieb David M Lemcoe Jr.: > If you are using PERC, it is simply not compatible with Linux, and > should never be. It is a terrible piece of hardware. I would recommend > using dmraid. Hmm, this used to be an issue in the PERC3 days when PERC3DC was a LSI/AMI controller and

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Bensley wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:14:54 +0100: > This all works great for the inital test except its prompts me for a > password for "myuser" (as you would except) but how can I embed the > password for ssh into the command line? Or can I not? You can't. You use a certificate. There are

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gregory P. Ennis wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:20:21 -0500: > The RAID controller appears to be on the mother board to me. It's then Intel fake RAID. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
hi Kai, > You can't. Thats what I thought, I have been looking into using certificates and passphrases and that will have to be it! Thank for your help! James ;) -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Anthony Kamau
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of James Bensley > Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 6:54 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem? > > hi Kai, > > > You can't. > > Thats what I thoug

Re: [CentOS] Update notification

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Simpson
On 28/04/2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 4/28/09, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net > wrote: > > CentOS 5.3 > > > > New updates available used to be flagged in the (Gnome) desktop > > notification > > area, but I don't get them any longer. What could be the problem? > > > > yum-updatesd is set up

[CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi
Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers (serving the same contents) later on. The issue we are facing at the moment is we found o

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
Thanks for your input, unfortunately the servers will be communicating via the inter-web-net-spagetthi. Its OK I have sorted this with ssh passphrases, the only reason I posted to the list instead of using them in the first place is that I was sceptical of the reliability of using them from a wind

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: > Interesting - why not do a pull from the CentOS box? He's doing that. > I mount Windows Server 2003 as follows: Mounting is completely different from using rsync on two hosts - e.g. you loose the delta algorithm advantage of rsync the w

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Warren Young
Beartooth wrote: >> Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? > > I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm > family Me, too, and it's rational in my case. I've experienced the whole range of both sets of tools, from the ground up. RPMs are simpler to build than DEBs, a

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Marc Grimme
Hi, independently from the results you have seen it might be always reasonable to tune a gfs filesystem as follows: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6533 specially mount with noatime and gfs_tool settune glock_purge 50 Regards Marc. On Wednesday 29 April 2009 13:01:17 Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fu

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use my eth0. >> >>Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine >> with all the same e

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Beartooth wrote: >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >> even use my eth0. >> >>Some one on a local LUG, wh

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article , Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: > > > >From here, I run the rsync command without the need for the -e option. > > ">" is a quote marker, don't write your own text after a quote marker! He probably didn't do it himself. Some mail transpo

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Warren Young wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > >>> Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? >>> >> I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm >> family >> > > Me, too, and it's rational in my case. I've experienced the whole range > of both sets of tools, from the g

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Michael A. Peters wrote: > nate wrote: > >> Beartooth wrote: >> >>> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on >>> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't >>> even use my eth0. >>> >>>Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned t

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:01 +0800, Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi wrote: > Hi all, > > We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. > Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem > (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more > file servers (serving

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems...

2009-04-29 Thread John Doe
From: John Doe > 4. OT: fs corruption ont he USB keys... >I copy the iso file on the key (no error message), then compare it to the > original and some random differences appear. I have corruption problems with both the i386 (3.7GB) and x86_64 (4.2GB) DVD iso files. But I tried the CDROM

Re: [CentOS] df -h shows system at 100% used, but there is space left

2009-04-29 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
> Has anyone seen output like this before? Notice on my > /dev/md0 That it reports 100% used, but also 5.3 Gb > available. What would cause this? > > > > # df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 71G 1.6G 66G 3% / > /dev/sda1 99

Re: [CentOS] df -h shows system at 100% used, but there is space left

2009-04-29 Thread Tom Brown
>> Has anyone seen output like this before? Notice on my >> /dev/md0 That it reports 100% used, but also 5.3 Gb >> available. What would cause this? >> >> >> >> # df -h >> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda2 71G 1.6G 66G 3% / >> /dev/sda1

Re: [CentOS] FTP transfer file question??

2009-04-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:02:16PM +0800, mcclnx mcc wrote: > When we used SFTP to transfer file it will keep file property like > "create date", "rwx". > > For FTP, is option can do that? > Certain FTP clients may simulate this with tricks (at least on downloads), but the FTP protocol itself do

Re: [CentOS] FTP transfer file question??

2009-04-29 Thread John R Pierce
mcclnx mcc wrote: > When we used SFTP to transfer file it will keep file property like "create > date", "rwx". > > For FTP, is option can do that? > tar, ftp, untar. but, seriously, don't use FTP, its a wretched krufty old protocol, with plaintext password authentication, and two different met

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt from c5-testing is the wrong version

2009-04-29 Thread Joe Pruett
Would you be willing to make the RPM available? On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Joe Pruett wrote: as i was waiting for the c5-testing repo to catch up with redhat, i went ahead and built my own.  i had to take the php-extras rpm and merge the php changes between 5.1.6 and 5.2.6 into it.  and

Re: [CentOS] FTP transfer file question??

2009-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: > mcclnx mcc wrote: >> When we used SFTP to transfer file it will keep file property like "create >> date", "rwx". >> >> For FTP, is option can do that? >> > > tar, ftp, untar. but, seriously, don't use FTP, its a wretched krufty > old protocol, with plaintext password aut

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 50, Issue 15

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Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:57:26 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: [] > The key - Don't use Open Office, use AbiWord and Gnumeric instead. > OpenOffice is total bloat. Is that still true if you install only OO-writer and its dependencies? Actua

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:00:24 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: [] > Oh, how do you unsoldier the drive? My understanding is this unit has > the drive hard wired You don't. Nobody touched it. What I know of hardware would go in a gnat's eye. But when the tech unsc

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 29, 2009, at 8:35, William L. Maltby wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that ls must sort the file list. If the > system load is high and memory is short, you may be getting into a > swap > situation. I suggest trying the test when the system is lightly loaded > to see if the results di

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, James Bensley wrote: >Hi All, > >I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On >the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS >server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: > >rsync -vrPtz -e ssh myu...@myserver:/remo

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread nate
Warren Young wrote: > I think much of the hype about how great the Debian packaging system is > came from the days before they adopted yum, so Debian fans could point > to apt-get and say "Isn't it great to be able to install packages from > the net directly from the command line?" Sure, once upo

[CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, nate wrote: > It's more about the repositories themselves, the QA behind them, > the integration of packages. A single unified source for patches, > security fixes etc. > >> From Debian 5.0 (lenny): > Total package names: 29647 (1186k) > Normal packages: 22400 > Pure virtual

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:35, William L. Maltby wrote: > One thing to keep in mind is that ls must sort the file list. Not only sorting, but usually "ls" ends up trying to find out if the file is a directory, which uses a "stat" syscall for each of the files. This is always expensive on re

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:13, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article , > Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: >> > >From here, I run the rsync command without the need for the -e option. >> >> ">" is a quote marker, don't write your own text after a quote

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > In general, having directories with a huge number of files tends to be > a bad idea, you will most likely have performance bottlenecks with > specific filesystems or tools. If possible, try to change the > application to create two or three levels of directories usi

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread nate
R P Herrold wrote: > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than > hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL > maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS Quality is implied by the hefty QA process debian goes through, and the long release cycles. I thought I had com

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Greene
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:51 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem? > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:13, Tony

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: > > > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than > > hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL > > maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS > > Quality is implied by the hefty QA process debian goe

[CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the acl option. It has been setup as follows: chown root:DOMAIN\AD_Group /mnt/Intuit_Data/ chmod 2770

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: > > > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than > > hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL > > maintainers

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem >to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared >is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the acl >option. > >It has been setup as follows: > chown r

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>You probably want to look at the ``force user'' and/or ``force group'' Well, I would need ``force group'', but I tried that with an AD group and it didn't work? I will dig into this again and see what went wrong. >(or look for a Real Accounting(tm) package in place >of QB :-). Don't even get m

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate wrote: > > R P Herrold wrote: > > > > > oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than > > > hijackin

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem > >to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared > >is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted wit

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:39 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate wrote: > > > R P Herrold wrote: > > > > > > > oh pleas

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:26 PM, JohnS wrote: > > Not crazy about smooching huh? Ever bother to really research the facts? > RedHat and MS are parteners! In the Virtualization area and more. > I used openSUSE for quite a while -- even after the agreement (11.0 is still on what is now my backup d

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I don't think that would even solve the problem because gamin reports to >QB and then QB makes the changes as per the FAM docs which is the older >of gamin. >http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/doc.html > >There is no explicit docs on gamin on the gnome site. They refer to FAM >as the per the document

Re: [CentOS] centos firewall?

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-24-2009 3:51 PM Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle spake the following: > Hi All, > > I am new to CentOS and I signed up for a Mosso Cloud Server that runs > Cent OS 5.2 > > I can ssh in. > > I ran: yum install vnc vnc-server > then: vncserver (and set desktop viewing password) > > But I cannot co

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem > >to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared > >is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with

[CentOS] tool for packet detection

2009-04-29 Thread Agnello George
Hi I have small query, all our server are centos based 5 and 5.2 . We are looking ofr a tool to that measure packet loss. we have servers in two IDC's bothin the US and we are trying to download a 2gb file from the internet. Some server are able to download the file at a higher b/w rate in one I

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
Maybe you guys should start your own thread about "how to reply to emails" and "how changing the subject isn't really appropriate"? -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++

Re: [CentOS] tool for packet detection

2009-04-29 Thread John R Pierce
Agnello George wrote: > Hi > I have small query, all our server are centos based 5 and 5.2 . We are > looking ofr a tool to that measure packet loss. we have servers in two > IDC's bothin the US and we are trying to download a 2gb file from > the internet. Some server are able to download the

Re: [CentOS] tool for packet detection

2009-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: > Agnello George wrote: >> Hi >> I have small query, all our server are centos based 5 and 5.2 . We are >> looking ofr a tool to that measure packet loss. we have servers in two >> IDC's bothin the US and we are trying to download a 2gb file from >> the internet. Some ser

Re: [CentOS] eth0 killed when adding virtual interface and multiple NICs are present

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 23:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > JohnS wrote on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:09:56 -0400: > > > If you don't mind when you come to an answer would you please let me > > know. I am interested to know. > > I could not find a real solution. I had to go to another way of creating > t