[CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error

2009-07-04 Thread Kurian Thayil
Hi All, We have installed CentOS 5.3 x86_64 in an HP DL585 server with AMD Opteron 64 bit processor and 16 GB RAM. The kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5 . Now this has thrown an error message in /var/log/message, Jul 3 21:41:11 db1 kernel: EDAC k8 MC0: general bus error: participating processor(l

Re: [CentOS] Replicate desktop configuration for other users using /etc/skel

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > yum install Sabayon.i386 This looks exactly like the tool I need. But isn't the project abandoned? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
>The project is a confluence of a sub-project under the cAos project, Is this still true? Is Centos still officially associated with cAos? Or was that supposed to be in the past tense? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http

Re: [CentOS] new RAID5 array: 3x500GB with XFS

2009-07-04 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus James A. Peltier spake: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have yesterday after some typos, sent my ext3 RAID5 array to the >> void... >> >> I want to recreate it now, but I read on >> http://wiki.centos.org/Ho

Re: [CentOS] Replicate desktop configuration for other users using /etc/skel

2009-07-04 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 09:08 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > JohnS a écrit : > > > yum install Sabayon.i386 > > This looks exactly like the tool I need. But isn't the project abandoned? --- Niki. I don't see how it is abandoned when upstream slaps an article in rh magazine plus it is in fedora. Suppo

[CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've never been using NFS before, but I'm going to need it. I gathered some documentation (Deployment Guide, RHEL 5 Unleashed, general NFS docs) and I have a few machines to experiment with. After about two hours of reading and experimenting, I must admit the documentation is confusing, to

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:02:44 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: > 1) Can you suggest some reliable and well-written (think: > newbie-friendly) documentation about NFS? There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS fileserver and client mount. Set up /etc/exports on the server (this assumes your client is 1

Re: [CentOS] software raid1 syncing

2009-07-04 Thread Kay Diederichs
luc...@lastdot.org schrieb: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Steven Vishoot wrote: >> hello all, >> >> I have a setup that is raid 1 and put the mirrored drive back in and now it >> is still showing as degraded saying: raid1: raid set md6 active with 1 out >> of 2 mirrors with this message on al

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 10:02 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > For example, the RHEL > deployment guide mentions NFSv2, NFSv3 and NFSv4... but as much as I > poke around, I don't even find a way to checkout which one of the > version I'm running. > --- That's because you have to specify what version

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > > It is in the man page which is astonishing to me. > Neither 'man nfs' nor 'man exports' specify any version. But I tried again to mount the NFS share, this time by specifying a filesystem, like this: # mount -t nfs4 raymonde:/data /home/shares Here's what I got this time:

[CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
--- Begin Message --- Frank Cox a écrit : There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS fileserver and client mount. Set up /etc/exports on the server (this assumes your client is 192.168.0.3) /whatever/where-ever/ 192.168.0.3(rw) Start the nfs service. Create a mount point on the client "mk

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 10:46 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > JohnS a écrit : > > > > It is in the man page which is astonishing to me. > > > > Neither 'man nfs' nor 'man exports' specify any version. But I tried > again to mount the NFS share, this time by specifying a filesystem, like > this: > >

Re: [CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error

2009-07-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi All, > > We have installed CentOS 5.3 x86_64 in an HP DL585 server with AMD Opteron > 64 bit processor and 16 GB RAM. The kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5 . Now > this has thrown an error message in /var/log/message, > > Jul  3

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-04 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 10:46 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > Here's what I got this time: > > Warning: rpc.idmapd appears not to be running. --- You need to start up your RPC services on the client service rpcidmapd status service rpcidmapd start and chkconfig John __

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement like "...latest release has many up-to-date desktop packages..." or any other statement that might imply, suggest, hint, or even smell of breaking compatibility with RH, for whatever reason,

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: >> >>> BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement >>> like "...latest release has many up-to-date desktop >>> packages..." >> >> ummm -- it is of course true that changes happen; rebasings do

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/04/2009 08:07 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote: >> The project is a confluence of a sub-project under the cAos project, > > Is this still true? Is Centos still officially associated with cAos? Or > was that supposed to be in the past tense? No, CentOS has nothing to do with caos in quite a few years

Re: [CentOS] Multiple Internet facing Nics - Gateway issue

2009-07-04 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> Now where would the proper place be to put a route for load balancing like: > > ip route add default scope global nexthop via xx.yy.51.46 dev eth2 weight 3 > nexthop via aa.bb.166.2 dev eth3 weight 1 > > Hey Doug, Congrats! Now that we have helped you, it is your turn to help us! :-D Let u

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Bogdan Nicolescu
the end of this circle for me ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Didi
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ned Slider wrote: >> Didi wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2558/3679382429_d535f79823_o.jpg (info offered by NedSlider) >>> >>> Have a look at t

[CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-04 Thread fred smith
I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. Though I'm partial to AMD processors, and would like to use one in my new configuration, that's not a requirement, if the most appropriate board happens to be intel-compatible.

Re: [CentOS] what would be happen if swap partition is not?

2009-07-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 02:18:57PM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > > > If you do run without page space, you should configure the kernel > overcommit > > options. > > Is there a good, consistent, complete source of documentation for these > optio

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 53, Issue 3

2009-07-04 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-04 Thread nate
fred smith wrote: > I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard > that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. What role is that system going to play? I assume server because I'd put money down that in excess of 99% of CentOS installations are servers. (that numbe

Re: [CentOS] x86_64 EDAC throwing error

2009-07-04 Thread nate
Kurian Thayil wrote: > I understand this is an error message from Error Detection And Control > module and just wanna confirm that this is not a kernel or software related > issue. If Hardware related is it confined only to the Physical memory stick > installed or processor related? Any hint on thi

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote: > also, I completely lost interest in this thread when it went into > ranting lands, guess it might be worth catching up on. > not really. :-/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:48:37 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: > Any idea what might go wrong here? firewall problem? Try disabling your firewall and see if it works. If it does, then here is my note about how to do make NFS work through a firewall. HOW TO SET UP A FIREWALL THAT ALLOWS NFS Create the

[CentOS] Question on security issue alert from recent centos-announce

2009-07-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
What exactly does the announcement mean to the CentOS community? >From what point in the past to what point present/future should the user community be concerned? Once you find the final culprit, how sure will you be whether any issue is/was malicious vs benign? Do you perform regular server che

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Dag Wieers wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: BUT... when someone from the Centos team makes a statement like "...latest release has many up-to-date desktop packages..." or any other statement that might imply, suggest, hint, or even smell of breaking compatibility with RH, f

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Rob Kampen
Niki Kovacs wrote: Subject: Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS From: Niki Kovacs Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:33:31 +0200 To: Frank Cox To: Frank Cox Frank Cox a écrit : There isn't much to setting up a simple NFS

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thanks everybody for the detailed hints and answers, on the list as well as offlist. I got myself a second "sandbox" PC today, and I just installed two vanilla CentOS 5.3 systems on them. It'll be much easier to figure out the innards of NFS without the constantly nagging fear of breaking some

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: Getting started with NFS]

2009-07-04 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Thanks everybody for the detailed hints and answers, on the list as well > as offlist. > > I got myself a second "sandbox" PC today, and I just installed two > vanilla CentOS 5.3 systems on them. It'll be much easier to figure out > the innards o

Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5

2009-07-04 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:18:56AM -0700, nate wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > I'm considering upgrading, and am trying to choose a modern motherboard > > that nevertheless fully works with Centos5/RHEL5. > > What role is that system going to play? > > I assume server because I'd put money down th

Re: [CentOS] Question on security issue alert from recent centos-announce

2009-07-04 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Scott Ehrlich wrote: > What exactly does the announcement mean to the CentOS community? This is not an easy answer. > From what point in the past to what point present/future should the > user community be concerned? This happened currently. And as far as we can say now it only concerned our CMS

Re: [CentOS] software raid1 syncing

2009-07-04 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > > > I have a setup that is raid 1 and put the mirrored drive > back in and now it is still showing as degraded saying: > raid1: raid set md6 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors with this > message on all the raids.i know i am wrong by saying this but > i thought putting in the driving and rebo

Re: [CentOS] Question on security issue alert from recent centos-announce

2009-07-04 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Scott Ehrlich wrote: > >> What is the level and mitigation of damage control - current and >> future? > > What are you trying to get at? This issue *only* concerned our web > server. None of the machines actually "doing" the distribution are