[CentOS] Unable to install 64 bit on x3650

2009-07-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I am trying to install Centos 5.3 on IBM x3650 with Adaptec based ServeRAID 8k Just two disk in RAID 1 When trying boot with CD1 the booting process aborts with a kernel panic saying that some unknown-de and some message saying to use the correct 'root=' boot parameter. Kindly help

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install 64 bit on x3650

2009-07-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to install Centos 5.3 on IBM x3650 with Adaptec based ServeRAID 8k Is this stuff real RAID or fakeraid? > When trying boot with CD1 the booting process aborts with a kernel > panic saying that som

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:31:36PM +0200, Geoff Galitz wrote: > > > is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? > > > > If this is a real zero-day exploit.. then yes, there is an issue. The > > following link may be the best source of

[CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Phil Savoie
Hello, Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl dependency missing. Does anyone know if it is a problem or just a sync thing and that I should be more patient. Error is below: --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.020 for package: perl-IO-Compress -

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/08/2009 10:26 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: > Hello, > > Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl > dependency missing. Does anyone know if it is a problem or just a sync > thing and that I should be more patient. Error is below: > did you go tell them about it ? ( http:

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Phil Savoie wrote: > Hello, > > Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl > dependency missing. Does anyone know if it is a problem or just a sync > thing and that I should be more patient. Error is below: > > --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.02

Re: [CentOS] Unable to install 64 bit on x3650

2009-07-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Rajagopal > Swaminathan wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I am trying to install Centos 5.3 on IBM x3650 with Adaptec based ServeRAID >> 8k > Seems somebody had faced the similar error The only di

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Olaf Mueller
Phil Savoie wrote: Hello. > Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl > dependency missing. Does anyone know if it is a problem or just a > sync It is a problem of the rpmforge repo. They build a lot of the perl packages new and that will break dependencies for a short (

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Les Bell
Karanbir Singh wrote: >> did you go tell them about it ? ( http://lists.rpmforge.net ) << I've contacted Christoph Maser directly about that specific problem, but have not heard back from him so far (no rush, from my perspective). I also tried grabbing the SPEC file from rpmforge along with th

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
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 > > "mkdir /mn

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Phil Savoie
Les Bell wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > did you go tell them about it ? ( http://lists.rpmforge.net ) > << > > I've contacted Christoph Maser directly about that specific problem, but > have not heard back from him so far (no rush, from my perspective). > > I also tried grabbing the SPEC

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-08 Thread Sander Snel
The tool you need is nfs-utils, if you do a # rpm -qi --provides nfs-utils you will get output of which software it provides, and some info about the package. Most of the nfs service is handled by the kernel: "Summary : NFS utlilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS serv

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-08 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
> is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? I > ask that cause of > http://www.h-online.com/security/Rumours-of-critical-vulnerabi > lity-in-OpenSSH-in-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux--/news/113712 > and http://secer.org/hacktools/0day-openssh-remote-exploit.html. > > Should ssh login fr

Re: [CentOS] Getting started with NFS

2009-07-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Sander Snel a écrit : > The tool you need is nfs-utils, if you do a > # rpm -qi --provides nfs-utils > you will get output of which software it provides, and some info about > the package. > Most of the nfs service is handled by the kernel: > "Summary : NFS utlilities and supporting clients an

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
o wrote: > Hi, > > I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 > Million fo files), and a node can have up to 40 files (and I don't have > any way to split this ammount in smaller ones). As the number of files grows, > my application ge

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:27 AM, o < hhh...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 > Million fo files), and a node can have up to 40 files (and I don't have > any way to split this ammount in smaller one

[CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread chloe K
Hi   How can I do the dhcp to assign ip for eth2 network only?   eth1 and eth0 can igorn   thank you __ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.a

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Nelson
- "chloe K" wrote: > Hi How can I do the dhcp to assign ip for eth2 network only? eth1 and eth0 can igorn thank you Edit your /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd file. Ensure the 'DHCPDARGS' line looks like this: DHCPDARGS=eth2 Save the file then restart DHCP. --Tim ___

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread chloe K
thank you   how can I put the name server in dhcpd.conf  for the client as I use ISP nameserver? this name server has to change when I change other ISP too   eg:   dhcpd.conf   option domain-name-servers   x.x.x.x;     thank you --- On Wed, 7/8/09, Tim Nelson wrote: From: Tim Nelson Subj

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
chloe K wrote: > thank you > > how can I put the name server in dhcpd.conf for the client as I use > ISP nameserver? > this name server has to change when I change other ISP too > > run your own local DNS caching server, and give the DHCP clients 192.168.0.1 or whatever your local network g

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Mr. X
--- On Wed, 7/8/09, Phil Savoie wrote: > From: Phil Savoie > Subject: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo? > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 2:26 AM > Hello, > > Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is > a perl > dependency missing. Does anyo

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread Mfawa Alfred Onen
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:03 PM, chloe K wrote: > thank you > > how can I put the name server in dhcpd.conf  for the client as I use ISP > nameserver? > this name server has to change when I change other ISP too > > eg: > > dhcpd.conf > > option domain-name-servers   x.x.x.x; > > > thank you Ch

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Gary Greene
On 7/8/09 8:56 AM, "Les Mikesell" wrote: > o wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 >> Million fo files), and a node can have up to 40 files (and I don't have >> any way to split this ammount in smaller ones). As

[CentOS] Correct way to disble TCP Segmentation Offload (tso off) in CentOS 5

2009-07-08 Thread Santi Saez
Hi, What's the correct way to disble TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) in RHEL5? I have tried adding those options in ifcfg-ethX configuration file: # grep ETHTOOL /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ETHTOOL_OPTS="tso off" And also with: ETHTOOL_OPTS="-K eth0 tso off" But when restating th

Re: [CentOS] Flash Drive problem?

2009-07-08 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > If there is a significant amount of data that must be written to the > device, then you get the pop ups.  If the device can immediately be > made ready to remove, then there are no messages.  In either case, > when the icon disappears from

[CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: According to the Red Hat Virtualization Guide, Windows Server 2003 32-bit will only run as a fully virtualized guest on an AMD64 system. I thought I have seen a lot of discussion about running paravirtualized Windows on CentOS. Is that a bad idea? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846

Re: [CentOS] Problems with rpmforge repo?

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 05:26, Phil Savoie wrote: > Tried yum update all yesterday and today and seems there is a perl > dependency missing. As pointed out in the rpmforge mailing list, if you are complaining about dependency issues not because you need the specific packages with problems, but

Re: [CentOS] yum update error

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 15:07, Olaf Mueller wrote: > since today I could not update my CentOS 5.3 system with yum cause of > the following error message. As pointed out in the rpmforge mailing list, if you are complaining about dependency issues not because you need the specific packages with

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Victor Padro
2009/7/8 Neil Aggarwal : > Hello: > > According to the Red Hat Virtualization Guide, > Windows Server 2003 32-bit will only run as > a fully virtualized guest on an AMD64 system. > > I thought I have seen a lot of discussion about > running paravirtualized Windows on CentOS.  Is > that a bad idea?

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I thought I have seen a lot of discussion about >running paravirtualized Windows on CentOS. Is >that a bad idea? It's not a bad idea, it's just not a possible one :) What you have seen is talk of the paravirt *drivers* that you use in an HVM domain to improve the otherwise useless performance. A

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>AFAIK you can only run any windows version in paravirtualized mode >only in vmware server, not in Xen or KVM which are the virtualization >technologies CentOS supports. No. Vmware is no different than Xen or any other in this respect, they also don't have access to the source and therefore cannot

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread chloe K
can i know how to set up dns cache server?   do you have any useful website?   thank you --- On Wed, 7/8/09, John R Pierce wrote: From: John R Pierce Subject: Re: [CentOS] dhcp question To: "CentOS mailing list" Received: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 1:08 PM chloe K wrote: > thank you >  > how

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
>Perhaps think about running tune2fs maybe also consider adding noatime Yes, I added it and I got a perfomance increase, anyway as the number of fields grows the speed keeps going below an acceptable level. >I saw this article some time back. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/127055 Good

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Victor Padro
2009/7/8 Joseph L. Casale : >>AFAIK you can only run any windows version in paravirtualized mode >>only in vmware server, not in Xen or KVM which are the virtualization >>technologies CentOS supports. > > No. Vmware is no different than Xen or any other in this respect, they > also don't have acces

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
(i resent thsi message as previous one seems bad formatted, sorry for the mess). >Perhaps think about running tune2fs maybe also consider adding noatime Yes, I added it and I got a perfomance increase, anyway as the number of fields grows the speed keeps going below an acceptable level.

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 17:59, o wrote: > My original idea was storing the file with a hash of it name, and then store > a  hash->real filename in mysql. By this way I have direct access to the file > and I can make a directory hierachy with the first characters of te

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:09:28 -0400 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > You can hash it and still keep the original filename, and you don't > even need a MySQL database to do lookups. Now that is slick as all get-out. I'm really impressed your scheme, though I don't actually have any use for it right a

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
> You can hash it and still keep the original filename, and you don't > even need a MySQL database to do lookups. There are an issue I forgot to mention: the original file name can be up top 1023 characters long. As linux only allows 256 characters in the file path, I could have a (very small)

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
chloe K wrote: > can i know how to set up dns cache server? > > do you have any useful website? > yum install caching-nameserver chkconfig named on service named start will work if that's all you want. But don't install that package if you also want it to act as a primary server for y

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
chloe K wrote: > can i know how to set up dns cache server? > > do you have any useful website? > > for your use, dnsmasq would do nicely. with the rpmforge repo configured... # yum install dnsmasq # chkconfig dnsmasq on # service dnsmasq start *done* dnsmasq has some configu

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
o wrote: >> You can hash it and still keep the original filename, and you don't >> even need a MySQL database to do lookups. > > There are an issue I forgot to mention: the original file name can be up top > 1023 characters long. As linux only allows 256 characters in the

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/08/2009 11:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > for your use, dnsmasq would do nicely. with the rpmforge repo > configured... whats wrong with the dnsmasq already included in C5 ? ( I am guessing the target is c5 ) > # yum install dnsmasq > # chkconfig dnsmasq on > # service dnsm

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> AFAIK you can only run any windows version in paravirtualized mode >> only in vmware server, not in Xen or KVM which are the virtualization >> technologies CentOS supports. > > No. Vmware is no different than Xen or any other in this respect, they > also don't have acces

Re: [CentOS] 2 servers cluster

2009-07-08 Thread sheraz naz
http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_heartbeat_centos ? --- On Mon, 6/29/09, Linux Advocate wrote: From: Linux Advocate Subject: Re: [CentOS] 2 servers cluster To: "CentOS mailing list" Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 12:12 AM thanx bro. yes i have been looking as well. have looked at dr

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>> No. Vmware is no different than Xen or any other in this respect, they >> also don't have access to the source and therefore cannot provide a modified >> version of the OS. > >But Vmware and I think Virtualbox are capable of running unmodified >Windows guests even on CPU's lacking the vt capabil

Re: [CentOS] 2 servers cluster

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Aggarwal
That is only suitable for apache, not for database nodes. -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask me about our geographically redudant database system.

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Joseph: OK, so the drivers are paravirtualized, not the entire OS. I think I get it. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask me about our g

Re: [CentOS] Window Server 2003 will not run as paravirtualized?

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>OK, so the drivers are paravirtualized, not the >entire OS. I think I get it. Yeah, instead of me paraphrasing and probably butchering what is well stated, have a quick read of this article. Lots of good info... http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1281856_mem

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread James A. Peltier
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, o wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 > Million fo files), and a node can have up to 40 files (and I don't have > any way to split this ammount in smaller ones). As the number of files grows

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread James A. Peltier
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, o wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 > Million fo files), and a node can have up to 40 files (and I don't have > any way to split this ammount in smaller ones). As the number of files grows

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/08/2009 11:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> for your use, dnsmasq would do nicely. with the rpmforge repo >> configured... >> > > whats wrong with the dnsmasq already included in C5 ? ( I am guessing > the target is c5 ) > oh is it? I did a rpm -qi and

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread nate
James A. Peltier wrote: > There isn't a good file system for this type of thing. filesystems with > many very small files are always slow. Ext3, XFS, JFS are all terrible > for this type of thing. I can think of one...though you'll pay out the ass for it, the Silicon file system from BlueArc (N

[CentOS] OT:CMS

2009-07-08 Thread madunix
Dear ALL, What are the experiences you have with various open source CMS products (Comparison of PHP-based CMS) such as (Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS, Typo3, eZ publish ..etc.) Security, Bugs, Performance, Support, Developer Community, learning curve, appearance..etc Thanks -mu

Re: [CentOS] OT:CMS

2009-07-08 Thread Greg Bailey
madunix wrote: > Dear ALL, > > What are the experiences you have with various open source CMS > products (Comparison of PHP-based CMS) such as (Drupal, Joomla, > OpenCMS, Typo3, eZ publish ..etc.) > > Security, Bugs, Performance, Support, Developer Community, learning > curve, appearance..etc >

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2009/7/9, o : > > After a quick calculation, that could put around 3200 files per directory (I > have around 15 million of files), I think that above 1000 files the > performance will start to degrade significantly, anyway it would be a mater > of doing some benchmarks. de

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
>There's C code to do this in squid, and backuppc does it in perl (for a pool directory where all identical files are hardlinked). Unfortunately I have to write the file with some predefined format, so these would not provide the flexibility I need. >Rethink how you're writing files or you'll

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-08 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/08/2009 11:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >> for your use, dnsmasq would do nicely.   with the rpmforge repo >> configured... > > whats wrong with the dnsmasq already included in C5 ? ( I am guessing > the target is c5 ) > >>      # yum ins

[CentOS] Add instantly active local user accounts *with* password using useradd -p option ?

2009-07-08 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I need to setup a load of user accounts on a series of machines, for testing purposes. I'm using a script to do this, but the only problem I have so far: I have to activate them all manually by doing passwd user1, passwd user2, passwd user3, etcetera. The useradd man page mentions a -p opt

[CentOS] ldap authentication

2009-07-08 Thread hqm8512
hello , we're using LDAP for user authentication I'm looking for a mechanism to automatically create a users home directory when he logs in for the first time Thanks, -- Best Regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai