[CentOS] rpm and md5sum query

2009-06-05 Thread Philip Manuel
Hi, If I do an md5sum across 4 machines all running Centos5-x86_64 on /bin/bash why does it show a different checksum ? -> ssh box4 md5sum -b /bin/bash 53d2152059125e221a38099369e5777e */bin/bash -> ssh box6 md5sum -b /bin/bash e22fb934b0a4a840a330f47559d27205 */bin/bash -> ssh box5 md5sum -

Re: [CentOS] rpm and md5sum query

2009-06-05 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:16:07PM +1000, Philip Manuel wrote: > Hi, > > If I do an md5sum across 4 machines all running Centos5-x86_64 on > /bin/bash why does it show a different checksum ? it's a feature of prelink(8), rpm(8) is aware of prelinked files so it reports no error. Cheers. Tru --

[CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

2009-06-05 Thread James Bensley
Hey Listee's I have a CentOS server with 2GB of ram and a swap drive of 4GB; swapon -a shows my swap drive as 4GB with only about 350 bytes in use (which is fine as my server idles with about 350-400MB ram usage so no swap should be in use. However my one and only swap drive had a priority of -1.

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-05 Thread Theo Band
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 08:37, Theo Band wrote: > >> When I use top, I see that running processes use 245% instead of 100%. >> If I use gkrellm, I just see one core being used 100%. >> There are all single threaded programs, so it's not that more cores are >

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-05 Thread Theo Band
Scott Silva wrote: > on 6-4-2009 5:37 AM Theo Band spake the following: > >> I have a quad core CPU running Centos5. >> >> When I use top, I see that running processes use 245% instead of 100%. >> If I use gkrellm, I just see one core being used 100%. >> >> > This one is easy. 4 cpu's, 100%

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
> I'm looking for a provider that runs on CentOS.  asmallorange.com runs on CentOS-4, shared hosting: Linux ivan.asmallorange.com 2.6.9-78.0.22.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 30 19:17:40 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux No /etc/redhat-release available for shared accounts. Their list of servers

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Matt Harrington wrote: > I need a hosting provider just like Dreamhost.net's shared hosting > service, but with a CentOS shell instead of Debian. Any pointers? Linode offers you a xen virtual host - you can pick any distro you want, including CentOS, and you get root. About $20 a month.

[CentOS] DRBD+GFS - Logical Volume problem

2009-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
Hi list. I am dealing with DRBD (+GFS as its DLM). GFS configuration needs a CLVMD configuration. So, after syncronized my (two) /dev/drbd0 block devices, I start the clvmd service and try to create a clustered logical volume. I get this: On "alice": [r...@alice ~]# pvcreate /dev/drbd0 Phys

Re: [CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

2009-06-05 Thread RedShift
James Bensley wrote: > Hey Listee's > > I have a CentOS server with 2GB of ram and a swap drive of 4GB; > > swapon -a shows my swap drive as 4GB with only about 350 bytes in use > (which is fine as my server idles with about 350-400MB ram usage so no > swap should be in use. However my one and on

Re: [CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

2009-06-05 Thread Ralph Angenendt
James Bensley wrote: > Basically I have read difference things from difference source on the > old interwebwrok and seek clarification. In the confusion I set my > swap drive priority from -1 to 1 because I thought that if the drive > priority were a negative value it might not actually use the swa

Re: [CentOS] DRBD+GFS - Logical Volume problem

2009-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
2009/6/5 Giuseppe Fuggiano : > Hi list. > > I am dealing with DRBD (+GFS as its DLM).  GFS configuration needs a > CLVMD configuration.  So, after syncronized my (two) /dev/drbd0 block > devices, I start the clvmd service and try to create a clustered > logical volume.  I get this: ...snip... > Wha

Re: [CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Les Mikesell wrote: > Rob Kampen wrote: by default base+updates should get priority over anything else including epel, don't you agree? >>> Not necessarily. I don't see any inherent reason that I would want >>> openjdk-b09 over b12 and I'd expect the reverse since b12 fixes kn

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Ron Lorah
http://securefoundations.com Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: --- On Fri, 6/5/09, Matt Harrington wrote: I need a hosting provider just like Dreamhost.net's shared hosting service, but with a CentOS shell instead of Debian.  Any pointers? http://www.asmallorange.com/ R-C

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:44:01 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ed Donahue wrote: > > > > You mean bash instead of korn or c-shell? > > > I meant that some hosting providers give you a shell account -- access > to a shell -- in addition to Apache, PHP, MySQL,

Re: [CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

2009-06-05 Thread James Bensley
> It will kick in, regardless of priority. > > But probably someone will come up with a small c program which eats all > available memory :) > > Regards, > > Ralph I would be interested in such a program if anyone has one or a mega bash script that can achive the same? > If your system starts to

Re: [CentOS] How to remove the wrong wireless firmware module

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 05/06/2009, David McGuffey wrote: > Welcome to the wonderful world of broadcom wifi. I use a bcm4306 rev3 with the stock kernel. I followed the instructions from using the bcm43xx legacy instructions The main difference was that i used the rp

Re: [CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

2009-06-05 Thread John Doe
From: James Bensley > > But probably someone will come up with a small c program which eats all > > available memory :) > I would be interested in such a program if anyone has one or a mega > bash script that can achive the same? Quick, dirty and unoptimized (and barely tested, might not work p

Re: [CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

2009-06-05 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
James Bensley wrote: >> It will kick in, regardless of priority. >> >> But probably someone will come up with a small c program which eats all >> available memory :) >> >> Regards, >> >> Ralph > > I would be interested in such a program if anyone has one or a mega > bash script that can achive

[CentOS] authentication loosely tied to active directory?

2009-06-05 Thread Les Mikesell
What's the best authentication scheme when you are dealing with an active directory that someone else controls? I've been using pam configured for smb and local passwords where a local account is needed for real logins (but either the domain or local password will work) and web services don't

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread jacob
www.slicehost.com from their questions section Which distributions do you offer? Currently the following distributions are available for install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Ubuntu 8.04.2 (Hardy Heron) LTS Debian 5.0 (Lenny) Gentoo 2008.0 Centos 5.3 Fedora 10 Arch 2009.02 and the important b

[CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Ke
Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread John R Pierce
Tim Ke wrote: > > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? > centos5 comes with php5.1.6, what are you trying to achieve? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Pintér Tibor
Tim Ke írta: > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? ./configure. make make install t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-05 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: >> > I wrote a few scripts that get CPU usage and feed it into SNMP for > retrieval for my cacti systems. > > My company used to rely on the built in linux SNMP stuff for cpu > usage(before I was hired) and they complained how it always seemed > to max out at 50%(on a dual cpu system)

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 22:41 -0700, Matt Harrington wrote: > I need a hosting provider just like Dreamhost.net's shared hosting > service, but with a CentOS shell instead of Debian. Any pointers? I have used both Linode and Slicehost for years. Both are good, but of the two I prefer Linode.

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-05 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: > nate wrote: >>> >> I wrote a few scripts that get CPU usage and feed it into SNMP for >> retrieval for my cacti systems. >> >> My company used to rely on the built in linux SNMP stuff for cpu >> usage(before I was hired) and they complained how it always seemed >> to max out a

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Michael A. Peters
Tim Ke wrote: > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? If you need newer than php 5.1.x you can start with the current Fedora src.rpm - all the build dependencies are in EPEL. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Ke
I am on an old version of Cent OS, and not able to use yum to update the packages. Any way to build php-cgi executable from the php source code? 2009/6/6 Pintér Tibor > Tim Ke írta: > > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? > > ./configure. > make > make install >

Re: [CentOS] hosting provider with CentOS shell?

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 05/06/2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Matt Harrington wrote: > > I need a hosting provider just like Dreamhost.net's shared hosting > > service, but with a CentOS shell instead of Debian. Any pointers? > > Linode offers you a xen virtual host - you can pick any distro you want, > including Ce

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Ke
./configure ... make && make install doesn;t generate the php-cgi though. 2009/6/6 Michael A. Peters > Tim Ke wrote: > > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi from source? > > If you need newer than php 5.1.x you can start with the current Fedora > src.rpm - all the build dependenc

Re: [CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

2009-06-05 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: > >>> >>> That particular cacti server is collecting roughly 20 million data >>> points daily(14,500/minute). *Heavily* customized for higher >>> scalability. >> Have you looked at OpenNMS for this? It's java with a postgresql >> backend for some data and jrobin (equivalent to rrd) fo

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread RedShift
Tim Ke wrote: > I am on an old version of Cent OS, and not able to use yum to update the > packages. Any way to build php-cgi executable from the php source code? > > 2009/6/6 Pintér Tibor mailto:tib...@tibyke.hu>> > > Tim Ke írta: > > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi

Re: [CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

2009-06-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > OK, found it, I'll go knock some skulls @ epel. Bug filed, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504189 folks poked, hopefully will see a resolution soonish. -- Rex ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

[CentOS] Server Build Example

2009-06-05 Thread gene . poole
I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application server, and several other server type functions. Is there an example of bui

Re: [CentOS] Server Build Example

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:03:58 -0400 gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a > production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every > 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application > serv

Re: [CentOS] Server Build Example

2009-06-05 Thread John R Pierce
gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would > call, a production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to > upgrade every 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss > hybrid application server, and several other server type fu

Re: [CentOS] authentication loosely tied to active directory?

2009-06-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the best authentication scheme when you are dealing with an > active directory that someone else controls? I've been using pam > configured for smb and local passwords where a local account is needed > for real logins (but either the domai

Re: [CentOS] Server Build Example

2009-06-05 Thread nate
gene.po...@macys.com wrote: > I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a > production server. I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every > 6-months. I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid application > server, and several other server type funct

Re: [CentOS] Server Build Example

2009-06-05 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, nate wrote: > gene.po...@macys.com wrote: >> I'm coming from the Fedora arena and I want to build, what I would call, a >> production server.  I'm to the point where I don't want to upgrade every >> 6-months.  I'm running Oracle DB 11g, a Tomcat/JBoss hybrid applica

Re: [CentOS] Server Build Example

2009-06-05 Thread John R Pierce
luc...@lastdot.org wrote: > I'm no Oracle user/expert, but isn't Oracle DB 11g free (as in beer)? > So my take is he's not paying anything. > AFAIK, its only free for your initial development work. As soon as you deploy a production app, you have to get support, and as soon as you have a sup

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

2009-06-05 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 02:43 +0800, Tim Ke wrote: > I am on an old version of Cent OS, and not able to use yum to update > the packages. Any way to build php-cgi executable from the php source > code? You should be able to "yum update" on any currently-supported CentOS version. Could this be the

[CentOS] question on whiptail

2009-06-05 Thread Jerry Geis
There is a script that uses whiptail command. Is there a way to wrap the script that calls whiptail 4 times and just send a carriage return to each character window that pops up? I want it to basically just accept the default option for each of the four prompted windows. without me hitting return