RedShift wrote:
> Dave Stevens wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> In the not too distant future I will be commissioning a new CentOS
>> (5.4?) box with 4 identical SATA drives. I'd like to set them up as
>> RAID 1+0 for speed and redundancy. I've read the RHEL 5 deployment
>> guide on raid setup
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale
wrote:
>>which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken?
>>"reinstall windows"
>
> FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are
> trying to murder your family or sabotage your life is such BS.
On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to sum and limit quotas for one user across multiple
> filesystems?
>
> E.g. I'd like to use different mountpoints on a mailserver for /var/mail
> and /home but the user should have only a total of 1GB.
Th
>Remember that windows integration website ( don't remember the name
>but related to nLite and ryanvm) shutdown by Microsoft - it made a
>great deal of news because they had scripts to take out annoyances
>such as balloons popping up in the taskbar. MS lawyers had them
>disbanded
For a good reaso
>I called them and explained to them that I couldn't get it to boot --
>they gave me instructions on reinstalling
So Windows is garbage because one support tech is an idiot? There are
no idiots in the Linux world?
>The KSOD "event" occurred after an automatic Windows update (which
>isn't all that
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 11:47am, Joseph L. Casale wrote
> This useless thread will never end, FOSS guys have their sh!t in a knot
> over MS for reason of which I have my own opinions.
I wonder what those opinions are. One of the main reasons *I* am no fan
of MS is their clear subversion of st
more rant on
@ChrisG: maybe you should check your ironyEnabled flag is set to TRUE
and the personalSensitivity enum is not WALLFLOWER but SELFCONFIDENT
thx for your advises and lessons, the best lesson for me now was to see that
trying to refresh a stalled thread by using kind of humor isn't acc
Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just
> about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks,
> current song playing in MPD :o)
>
> Here's what it looks like :
>
> http://www.microlinux.fr/images/bureau_conky.png
>
> And
>I wonder what those opinions are.
That would just start a useless flame..
>One of the main reasons *I* am no fan
>of MS is their clear subversion of standards for their own ends.
Well, they do some stupid things. No Linux vendor ever did?[1]
>Exchange, e.g., has a *horrible* IMAP implementatio
I am trying to put the dvd iso image of CentOS-5.4 onto a DVD. I
have an LG multi-writer installed. I have used this device on this
host to created CDs in the past but this is my first attempt at
creating a dvd.
When I put a blank DVD-R media in the drive then I see a desktop
icon for "CD-ROM Di
Hi all,
Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat /
Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import
extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at
least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried
pdfedit under Linux
Hello all:
I am trying to follow the RHEL virtualization guide.
According to Chapter 17, I have a processor without
a constant Time Stamp Counter (Its an Opteron).
According to that guide, I need to set the MIN_SPEED and
MAX_SPEED variables in /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed to the
highest frequency sho
James B. Byrne wrote:
> I am trying to put the dvd iso image of CentOS-5.4 onto a DVD. I
> have an LG multi-writer installed. I have used this device on this
> host to created CDs in the past but this is my first attempt at
> creating a dvd.
>
> When I put a blank DVD-R media in the drive then I
Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> I took a look at my system (CentOS 5.4) and there are no
> cpufreq directories in the cpu folders.
I think that's probably because the associated driver is
not loaded.
nate
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wrote:
>
> I am trying to put the dvd iso image of CentOS-5.4 onto a DVD. I
> have an LG multi-writer installed. I have used this device on this
> host to created CDs in the past but this is my first attempt at
> creating a dvd.
>
> > I took a look at my system (CentOS 5.4) and there are no
> > cpufreq directories in the cpu folders.
>
> I think that's probably because the associated driver is
> not loaded.
I did some reading on the cpufreq and actually think it
is better that it is not enabled.
Thanks,
Neil
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>Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat /
>Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows?
Ughh, I am in this mess right now myself.
>I have tried to use the PDF Import
>extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at
>least it is so slow as to be almost impractical
Andrew Hull wrote:
>
>
> I do exactly what you suggest. I keep a minimal X install on most of my
> headless machines -- I still boot run level 3. This lets me "ssh -X" to
> a machine and execute graphical commands, and up the come on my local
> Linux workstation.
>
> Occasionally, this is very
Les Mikesell a écrit :
>
> If you use X remotely much, just take the whole desktop with freenx on the
> server and the NX client that you can download from http://www.nomachine.com.
>
> It is very efficient and lets you disconnect/reconnect with everything still
> running, even from a differen
Not sure what you are looking to do but have a look at pdfedit. You can
get it from the rpmforge repo.
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat /
>> Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows?
>>
>
> Ughh, I am in this mess right now myself.
>
>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat /
> Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import
> extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at
> least it is so slow
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo
> some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to
> export some of the HDD space (about 500GB) as iSCSI LUN's
Sorry for the thread necromancy here, but
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:18:16 -0400:
>
>
>> The destination address is the private IP of the server. These
>> seem to be related to outgoing email connections based on the source
>> IPs
>>
>
> Is 195.140.240.6 the public IP of that machine? Why do yo
Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Les Mikesell a écrit :
>
>> If you use X remotely much, just take the whole desktop with freenx on the
>> server and the NX client that you can download from http://www.nomachine.com.
>>
>> It is very efficient and lets you disconnect/reconnect with everything still
>> runni
ken wrote:
> Okay, here's one. Maybe someone here can figure it out.
> Upgrading from 4.5 to 4.5. From a 4.6 ISO I copied all the RPMs into a
> directory... let's call it c:/install :). Now the oracle dba has
> strict parameters on what versions can be installed and which can't.
> The rpms in c:
Upgrade to RHEL 5.4's glibc has rendered vmware-hostd inoperable in
some systems. I don't know if Centos 5.4 has the same conflict between
glibc and VMware Server as RHEL (no reason it shouldn't).
If you run VMware Server 2.0.1 make a copy of /lib64/libc-2.5.so (or /lib/libc-
2.5.so) before up
Hello all,
I am setting up freenx on a machine and I am able to connect to it
remotely. However, when I connect and start xfce it does not appear to
use the correct settings. It acts like it is a whole different user.
It is starting the desktop environment as the nx user rather than
myself.
> conversation. The question is: why are all of these remote servers
> trying to make connections back to me on high-numbered ports? Should I
> be allowing these connections somehow?
The remote server probably thinks that it's still supposed to be
making connections back to you -- a couple of t
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote:
>> conversation. The question is: why are all of these remote servers
>> trying to make connections back to me on high-numbered ports? Should I
>> be allowing these connections somehow?
>>
>
> The remote server probably thinks that it's still supposed to be
> making
On 10/20/2009 09:31 AM, Ben Mohilef wrote:
> Upgrade to RHEL 5.4's glibc has rendered vmware-hostd inoperable in
> some systems. I don't know if Centos 5.4 has the same conflict between
> glibc and VMware Server as RHEL (no reason it shouldn't).
>
> If you run VMware Server 2.0.1 make a copy of /l
> We have decided to get the Thecus 8800N NAS devices at the end of the
> day, since they're about 40% cheaper than having to build one. They
> run a Linux based OS, and uses software RAID, but I can't build a new
> server at this price, even with software RAID.
Hey Rudi, I'm finding myself tracin
Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am setting up freenx on a machine and I am able to connect to it
> remotely. However, when I connect and start xfce it does not appear to
> use the correct settings. It acts like it is a whole different user.
> It is starting the desktop environment as
> But these aren't SMTP connections. The source is port 25, but the
> destination is not. The mail server is running normally. I'm allowing
> new SMTP connections and traffic for established connections.
They are SMTP connections -- your server initiates a connection to
port 25 on the remote se
Hey folks,
I don't seem to be able to get a response from the openfiler forums
(and they want 40 quid for the fine manual!), and since there has been
a lot of chat about it here lately, I figured I'd ask here.
Please forgive my terminology as I am just making my first baby steps
into iSCSI and Fi
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote:
>> But these aren't SMTP connections. The source is port 25, but the
>> destination is not. The mail server is running normally. I'm allowing
>> new SMTP connections and traffic for established connections.
>>
>
> They are SMTP connections -- your server initiates a
Hi!
I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the
/home-partition being an XFS-filesystem. I use the kmod-xfs from
extras. It works great ;)
Now: as I understand it from the release-notes the 5.4 kernel has XFS
already built-in. Right? Or is it just a kmod-package ("technology
previ
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider
wrote:
> I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the
> /home-partition being an XFS-filesystem. I use the kmod-xfs from
> extras. It works great ;)
>
> Now: as I understand it from the release-notes the 5.4 kernel has XFS
> alrea
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider
> The -164 kernel is indeed from 5.4 and has xfs as a built-in kernel
> module. If you are already running this kernel, that indicates all is
> well and no further action is needed.
In tha
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale
wrote:
>>I called them and explained to them that I couldn't get it to boot --
>>they gave me instructions on reinstalling
>
> So Windows is garbage because one support tech is an idiot? There are
> no idiots in the Linux world?
Support techs usua
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
>> We have decided to get the Thecus 8800N NAS devices at the end of the
>> day, since they're about 40% cheaper than having to build one. They
>> run a Linux based OS, and uses software RAID, but I can't build a new
>> server at this price, even
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo
>> some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I would prefer to
>> export some of the HDD space (about 500GB)
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Rudi Ahlers wrote
> Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web
> server / data base server as well. The purposes I needed is to replace
> SMB on the network, and iSCSI seemed like a good alternative. The
> server in question is a dev server, which I thought would be
> benefi
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> Simple, it's only a NAS device, and not really a file server / web
> server / data base server as well.
Here is something I am currently lokoing at, and wondering if you'd
considered it or if anyone here has done it.
I've got a bunch of existing hardware - really good IBM stuff that is
all inst
nate wrote:
> Check your bios/system event log for any indication that it
> is logging memory errors? Most modern server class motherboards
> (past 5 years) do this, though not always reliably.
Nothing in the logs, it's a Supermicro X7DVL-E (fyi).
> I've also had trouble with memtest86 myself,
Alan McKay wrote:
> This may seem redundant vs just doing it without openfiler, but as
> mentioned a lot of the fancy features you only get with virtualized
> disk.
Doing that for the most part defeats the purpose of using things
like Vmotion in the first place, that is being able to evacuate
a s
absolutely CRITICAL to any SAN implementations is that the storage
controller (iscsi target, be it openfiler or what) remain 100% rock
solid tsable at all times.
you can NOT REboot a shared storage controller without shutting all
client systems down first (or at least unmounting all SAN volum
John R Pierce wrote:
> absolutely CRITICAL to any SAN implementations is that the storage
> controller (iscsi target, be it openfiler or what) remain 100% rock
> solid tsable at all times.
>
> you can NOT REboot a shared storage controller without shutting all
> client systems down first (or a
John R Pierce wrote:
> absolutely CRITICAL to any SAN implementations is that the storage
> controller (iscsi target, be it openfiler or what) remain 100% rock
> solid tsable at all times.
>
> you can NOT REboot a shared storage controller without shutting all
> client systems down first (or at
Hi all,
A while back I vaguely remember someone posting a link to documentation
on how to prioritise console access (for want of a better expression).
For the life of me I can't find it in the archives or via Google; Can
anyone provide a URL?
Basically, I have a remote server that thrashes (that'
Clint Dilks wrote:
> Dell have recently announced a product that may help a lot with this
> they call it Virtualized ISCSI devices see
> http://www.cns-service.com/equallogic/pdfs/WP910_Virtualized_iSCSI_SANs.pdf
Getting OT but
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/92113
http://h18006.www1.
> Getting OT but
>
> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/92113
> http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/vsa/index.html
That's not off topic for me - that's where I started in fact :-) But
the HP sales reps evidently do not want to sell the product because
nobody has gotten bac
nate wrote:
> Network RAID – only available from HP
>
Fantasy ideas (eg, I've only thought of this and never tried it). YMMV,
caveat emptor, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear, etc etc.
1) two ISCSI servers, each with identical storage. each offers the same
sized iscsi target t
On 10/21/2009 03:34 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> 1) two ISCSI servers, each with identical storage. each offers the same
> sized iscsi target to the host. the host uses mdraid 1 to mirror these.
I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
machines, doing raid-10 ( not md
Alan McKay wrote:
>> Getting OT but
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/92113
>> http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/vsa/index.html
>
> That's not off topic for me - that's where I started in fact :-) But
> the HP sales reps evidently do not want to sell the product b
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 10/21/2009 03:34 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> 1) two ISCSI servers, each with identical storage. each offers the same
>> sized iscsi target to the host. the host uses mdraid 1 to mirror these.
>
> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
> machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of
> raid-1's 0'd )
Can you give more detail on what you've got there?
Sounds interesting.
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> Some other divisions in my company seem to like these:
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/
> but they are a little out of my league.
I did not have to read past "high end" to know I cannot afford it.
My entire IT budget is about $50K / year!
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> I thought the original object was to make the space available to
> multiple VMware ESX(i) servers so you could vmotion guests among them.
> Can ESX construct raids out of multiple iscsi sources?
Well, my original may have been a bit obtuse because I do not really
know what I am looking for :-)
On 10/21/2009 03:55 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
>> machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of
>> raid-1's 0'd )
>
> I thought the original object was to make the space available to
> multiple VMware ESX(i
Alan McKay wrote:
>> I thought the original object was to make the space available to
>> multiple VMware ESX(i) servers so you could vmotion guests among them.
>> Can ESX construct raids out of multiple iscsi sources?
>
> Well, my original may have been a bit obtuse because I do not really
> know
> If you don't need vmotion you could just use a small local disk to boot
> the guest OS and let the guest do the iscsi connections itself for the
> main part of its storage - in which case the software raid from
> different targets should work.
Vmotion is a great selling feature of virtualization
On 10/20/2009 10:44 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> James B. Byrne wrote:
>> I am trying to put the dvd iso image of CentOS-5.4 onto a DVD. I
>> have an LG multi-writer installed. I have used this device on this
>> host to created CDs in the past but this is my first attempt at
>> creating a dv
Alan McKay wrote:
>> If you don't need vmotion you could just use a small local disk to boot
>> the guest OS and let the guest do the iscsi connections itself for the
>> main part of its storage - in which case the software raid from
>> different targets should work.
>
> Vmotion is a great selling
Alan McKay wrote:
> Vmotion is a great selling feature of virtualization to win over nay-sayers
> :-)
Oh so OT but I can't resist!
Also can be a good way to kill off prospects of using vmware if
budgets are tight. When people think vmware most of them
instantly think enterprise version and sever
> Oh so OT but I can't resist!
But I'm running CentOS on top of it everywhere ;-)
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Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads
(and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this
possible!) I'm wondering when the updates will begin flowing so that those
of us running 5.3 can do "yum upgrade" and enjoy all the benefits too?
Thanks in
Alan McKay wrote:
>> Oh so OT but I can't resist!
>
> But I'm running CentOS on top of it everywhere ;-)
yeah that's true, as of my last inventory in August I had
180 CentOS VMs running on vmware in production, another
80 in QA.
nate
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat /
>> Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import
>> extension to the Open Off
John R Pierce wrote:
> nate wrote:
>
>> Network RAID – only available from HP
>>
>>
>
> Fantasy ideas (eg, I've only thought of this and never tried it). YMMV,
> caveat emptor, objects in mirror may be closer than they appear, etc etc.
>
> 1) two ISCSI servers, each with identical stora
I saw this in the openfiler thread, and realised it is another major
hole in my knowledge
What do you all use for clustering, and does it run out-of-the-box with CentOS?
My main areas of interest are :
- DB clustering (PostgreSQL) - yeah, we're looking at commercial stuff
and skytools
- web serve
fred smith wrote:
> Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads
> (and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this
> possible!) I'm wondering when the updates will begin flowing so that those
> of us running 5.3 can do "yum upgrade" and enjoy all t
Shh... you are going to upset the gods of syncing :)
mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofile /mount-point
Ex. mkdir /tmp/centos54
mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofile /tmp/centos54
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, fred smith
wrote:
> Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads
>
Okay,
Well, alot of education out there by watching movies, however noone ever
brought up the most complex driven sub-culture of geeks and nerds worldwide.
THE MATRIX (muhahahahah)
But of course, after sending out my request about the whole server /
security thing, someone did manage to break i
use power ISO
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, ken wrote:
>
> On 10/20/2009 10:44 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> > James B. Byrne wrote:
> >> I am trying to put the dvd iso image of CentOS-5.4 onto a DVD. I
> >> have an LG multi-writer installed. I have used this device on this
> >> host to
Alan McKay wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
>> machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of
>> raid-1's 0'd )
>>
>
> Can you give more detail on what you've got
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM, fred smith
wrote:
> Now that it appears that some folks are able to get the 5.4 downloads
> (and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the centos team members who make this
> possible!) I'm wondering when the updates will begin flowing so that those
> of us running 5.3 can
Christopher Chan wrote:
> Alan McKay wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4
>>> machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of
>>> raid-1's 0'd )
>>>
>>
Please take this elsewhere. We do not care about compromised cpanel
rubbish. Nothing to do with Centos because it is NOT Centos.
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> Well, alot of education out there by watching movies, however noone
> ever brought up the most complex driven sub-culture of geeks and
> nerds worldwide.
>
> THE MATRIX (muhahahahah)
Well, all trinity really did was run nmap, big deal
he he
-Jason
Alan McKay wrote:
> My main areas of interest are :
> - DB clustering (PostgreSQL) - yeah, we're looking at commercial stuff
> and skytools
No DB clustering here, though if I had to pick I'd probably go for
Oracle RAC. MySQL clustering doesn't seem good, Postgres sounds
interesting, their Enterpr
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
>
> Acrobat isn't easy to use either. i find it kinda clunky and not
> intuitive. Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text.
>
> InkScape for graphics imports / exports pdf.
> The SVG can be edited in theory in a text editor because it
On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
>> I thought the original object was to make the space available to
>> multiple VMware ESX(i) servers so you could vmotion guests among
>> them.
>> Can ESX construct raids out of multiple iscsi sources?
>
> Well, my original may have been a bit obt
Hello,
We just had our servers fitted with more disks. Most of the disks are
growing existing RAID 1+0 channels, some are in new channels.
Controllers and disks support live installation.
I'd like to avoid a reboot just to let the system find that the disks
are larger.
All I can find so far sugg
I'm running Centos on 12 machines.
Colleague runs Redhat Enterprise Linux and while studying his system,
I see some gibberish/complication about his system being a "Client"
install, not a "Server" install. Apparently, RH provides completely
different disk sets for Server and Client installs. I've
Paul Johnson wrote:
> What I really want to ask here is: what is the relationship between
> the several RHEL install types and the Centos disks? Does Centos
> collect up all the SRPM/RPM packages from both RHEL Client and Server?
>
centos corresponds to the advanced server version, which includ
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