Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: > I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so > far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugin

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:38 +0530 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > Thanks > > What i am trying to achieve is; when executing > > # sudo make install > Password:* > > this password entered is root password. > > it gives is error > > Sorry, try again. Sudo asks for t

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Christoph Maser wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: >> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so >> far today after my upgrade.   Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? > > > Plugins often are a sour

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > nate wrote: >> slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos >>> 5.3 x_64. >> >> Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that >> you need that are

Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Myron Williams wrote: > Any help would be appreciated. I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage instead of having them in pem files. See README.nss for more hints. Regards, Ralph ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread mark
Christoph Maser wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: >> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so >> far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? > > Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) wrote: > I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, > > I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in > their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff. > such as repairing broken links, or j

Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

2009-10-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage > instead of having them in pem files. > > See README.nss for more hints. I found these remarks, as also /usr/share/doc/openssh-4.3p2/README.nss, more or less unintelligible. Does one really "have to"

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

2009-10-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
Les Mikesell wrote: > but out of curiosity, did you just do a > simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes > document? Where is this document? Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net t

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

2009-10-23 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Where is this document? ... There's a link to it on the front page of http://www.centos.org/ Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25

[CentOS] XFS might be available for i686 from the CentOS Plus repository.

2009-10-23 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, the topic is an excerpt of the 5.4 release notes and raises a question. I have a i386 server here, that has been running for nearly two years with xfs module from extras repo. When lookin at the module it was build against 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5. Question is, is it still safe to use this module

Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage >> instead of having them in pem files. >> >> See README.nss for more hints. > > I found these remarks, as also /usr/share/doc/openssh-4.3p2/RE

[CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

2009-10-23 Thread ken
Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning. (Kudos to those who did that!) That's probably irrelevant to this problem: "yum install mplayer" fails. Here's what happens: == # yum install mplayer Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-modul

[CentOS] Newsletter feedback

2009-10-23 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technica

Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

2009-10-23 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
ken wrote: > Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning. (Kudos to those who did that!) > That's probably irrelevant to this problem: > > "yum install mplayer" fails. Here's what happens: > > == > # yum install mplayer > * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net

Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

2009-10-23 Thread Majian
Have a try the rpmforge repo to install mplayer ~~~ O n Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:23 PM, ken wrote: > Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning. (Kudos to those who did that!) > That's probably irrelevant to this problem: > > "yum install mplayer" fails. Here's what happens: > > ===

[CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using "pidstat -d"? Thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Rob Kampen
mark wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox cra

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Alan McKay
> important to have curl installed so check > rpm -qa |grep curl [amc...@alan ~]$ rpm -qa |grep curl curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5 curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5 -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Nichols
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> but out of curiosity, did you just do a >> simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes >> document? > > Where is this document? > > Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. On the centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Majian
Is it the computer hardware problem? I meet this problem ago. The firefox in my computer sometimes was crashed, because my graphic card was too old . Maybe is it this problem? On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mark wrote: > Christoph Maser wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35

[CentOS] Problems with BCM5709 network

2009-10-23 Thread Toralf Lund
I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on an IBM server with a BCM5709 network adapter, and can't get networking to work. It looks like an appropriate driver (bnx2) is installed, lspci and the system log return sensible info on the unit, there are no specific error message anywhere, but I get "no link

Re: [CentOS] XFS might be available for i686 from the CentOS Plus repository.

2009-10-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 23, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > the topic is an excerpt of the 5.4 release notes > and raises a question. > > I have a i386 server here, that has been running for nearly two years > with xfs module from extras repo. > When lookin at the module it was build against 2.6.1

Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken wrote: > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
On 23.10.2009 12:35, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, > > Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when > using "pidstat -d"? > > Thanks in advance! > > Hi, You need a kernel from CentOS 5.4 (2.6.18-164.el5 or newer) to get the fancy new iostats ;) Bgrds, Finnzi _

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, > > Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when > using "pidstat -d"? > > Thanks in advance! > Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? ___

[CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello all: Is there a network switch that will give me traffic stats at an IP address level? Right now, I only get statstics at a port level, but that does not help since each of my servers run several virtual machines and I need to measure traffic per virtual machine. Thanks, Neil -- N

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread nate
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello all: > > Is there a network switch that will give me traffic > stats at an IP address level? any of these can: http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php Myself I'm biased towards Extreme networks having used them for almost 10 years now, very easy to use. nate ___

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Majian wrote: > Is it the computer hardware problem? It only started after my upgrade >  I  meet this problem ago. > The firefox in my computer sometimes was  crashed, because my graphic > card was  too old . Maybe is it this problem? Coincidentally, I replaced

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Nate: Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking into it now. Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming from my switches. Do you know if that will that work with any of these switches? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread nate
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Nate: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking into it > now. > > Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming > from my switches. Do you know if that will that > work with any of these switches? Cacti will work for port based monitoring, it won't work for flow-based

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Sergio Belkin
2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan : > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when >> using "pidstat -d"? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> > > Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating > from

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM, nate wrote: > Neil Aggarwal wrote: >> Nate: >> >> Thanks for the suggestion.  I am looking into it >> now. >> >> Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming >> from my switches.  Do you know if that will that >> work with any of these switches? > > Cacti will w

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php > > ntop would probably be the main "free" flow based monitor, > though there are some really really nice commercial > products. I just need something that gives me a usage graph at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95% line. It looks like

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
Sergio Belkin wrote: > 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan : > >> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when >>> using "pidstat -d"? >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >> Is pidstat available in t

Re: [CentOS] can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available

2009-10-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken wrote: > > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems > > freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. > Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working properly. Sharon

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread nate
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > I just need something that gives me a usage graph > at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95% > line. Don't use RRD for billing 95% it will not be accurate as RRD averages values over time. I use rtg (not mrtg, but rtg) together with SNMP to get accurate 95% readin

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

2009-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Where is this document? > ... > > There's a link to it on the > front page of http://www.centos.org/ > The link was also included in the announcements that 5.4 was ready. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Sergio Belkin
2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz : > Sergio Belkin wrote: >> 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan : >> >>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: >>> Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using "pidstat -d"? Thanks in advance! >>

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Alan McKay
> Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming > from my switches.  Do you know if that will that > work with any of these switches? Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on the box itself. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Polla

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread m . roth
> mark wrote: >> Christoph Maser wrote: >> >>> Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: >>> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? >>> Plugins often are a source

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: > Neil Aggarwal wrote: > >> I just need something that gives me a usage graph >> at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95% >> line. > > Don't use RRD for billing 95% it will not be accurate > as RRD averages values over time. I use rtg (not mrtg, > but rtg) together with SNMP

[CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread m . roth
I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse me if this has been answered My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l & burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th...

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, wrote: > I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse > me if this has been answered > > My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l & > burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is

Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade

2009-10-23 Thread m . roth
Someone wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mark wrote: >> Christoph Maser wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: >> >> I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so >> >> far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> Can one setup a Linux server to offer sflow? If the Linux host can run > sflow, then it's easy to capture the bandwidth usage on the host? That is a good idea. Since we have to have the host OS running, it might be able to do the collection activities for us. If anyone has a soution for this,

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread m . roth
Matt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, wrote: > >> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so >> excuse me if this has been answered >> >> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l & >> burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on > the box itself. I took a look and I think it requires software running on each guest to report the data back to the centralized system. Is that correct? If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require any software on the

Re: [CentOS] To all of the group

2009-10-23 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) wrote: > I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, > > I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in > their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff. > such as repairing broken links,

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
> But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that > folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD > version? > > mark > > Looking at the dates for the ISOs on the mirror I maintain, they are all from Oct. 1st or 2nd. Only the torrent

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on > > the box itself. > > I took a look and I think it requires software running on > each guest to report the data back to the centralized > system. Is that correct? > > If so, I

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Matt: > why not just use your current cacti setup and > enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like > the simplest and cheapest approach. As I understand it, I would actually have to enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. Am I wrong? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal,

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Matt: > > > why not just use your current cacti setup and > > enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like > > the simplest and cheapest approach. > > As I understand it, I would actually have to > enable snmp on each of the guests, no

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Matt: > depending on what your using for virtualization, you might be able to pull all > of those stats with snmp on the host. I am using KVM on CentOS 5.4 Let me know if you think it is possible to gather everything I need at the host without requirining anything from the guests. Thanks,

[CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process

2009-10-23 Thread Kemp, Larry
I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boo

[CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello everyone: I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned many switches have port mirroring. According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using will copy all traffic to the mirror port. Then, I can monitor what is going on from there. That seems like a good way to do this. Are there

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Matt: > >> why not just use your current cacti setup and >> enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like >> the simplest and cheapest approach. > > As I understand it, I would actually have to > enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. > > Am I wrong? >

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/23/2009 07:37 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does > kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man > page says :) but I wonder if that kernel has that customization > 2.6.28-164 has TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOU

Re: [CentOS] Sudo command

2009-10-23 Thread Patrick McEvoy
Are you trying to run sudo when logged in as root? sudo is only used by non root users. Robert Heller wrote: > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:38 +0530 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > >> >> Hi guys, >> Thanks >> >> What i am trying to achieve is; when executing >> >> # sudo make install >> Passw

[CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox $ sudo yum -y install firefox . Installed: firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos firefox.x86_64 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos $ firef

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread Robert
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Matt wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, wrote: >> >> >>> I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so >>> excuse me if this has been answered >>> >>> My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l & >>>

Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

2009-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned > many switches have port mirroring. > > According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using > will copy all traffic to the mirror port. Then, > I can monitor what is going on from there. > > That seems l

Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

2009-10-23 Thread Larry Brigman
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned > many switches have port mirroring. > > According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using > will copy all traffic to the mirror port.  Then, > I can monitor what is goi

Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

2009-10-23 Thread nate
Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Are there any pitfalls with this approach? Performance is the biggest one. Port mirroring often involves the CPU, and is really not built for scaling. If your traffic levels are very low it may work fine. Port mirroring is often a low priority task so if the switch is busy

Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig > ports. heck, > ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full > duplex connection That is a good point. My traffic is light right now so I might be able to use it until the traffic grows. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Ag

Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

2009-10-23 Thread Keith Keller
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > > We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think > it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current > trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and > enterta

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce wrote: > > Could not find compatible GRE between version As root: "xulrunner --register-global" should do the trick... -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda) _

[CentOS] Bootable 5.4 USB key...

2009-10-23 Thread John Doe
Hi, I tried to convert my working 5.3 USB bootable key to 5.4 and I apparently cannot get syslinux to find/read its configuration file anymore... I followed the same process as before: mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdg1 syslinux -s /dev/sdg1 cd /media/BOOT cp -rv /mnt/cdrom/isolinux syslinux

Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

2009-10-23 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, > We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...] What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org. frank ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Could not find compatible GRE between version >> > > As root: "xulrunner --register-global" should do the trick... > thats what google says, but its not working. I do note my xulrunner is 1.9.0.14, wh

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
John R Pierce wrote: > I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 > platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox > > $ sudo yum -y install firefox > . > Installed: > firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos firefox.x86_64 >

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:47, John R Pierce wrote: > Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> Could not find compatible GRE between version >>> >> >> As root: "xulrunner --register-global" should do the trick... >> > > thats what google says, but it

Re: [CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process

2009-10-23 Thread Bob Beers
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kemp, Larry wrote: > I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a > few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the > pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it > is o

Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)

2009-10-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Neil Aggarwal wrote: >> yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig >> ports. heck, >> ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full >> duplex connection > > That is a good point. My traffic is light right now > so I might be able to use it until the traffic grows. W

Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Carl
Frank Thommen wrote: > Hi, > > >> We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...] >> > > What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter > offer on centos.org. > > frank > Its in the wiki http://wiki.centos.org/ __

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

2009-10-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote > > I can't answer your question, but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple > yum > update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? > Since I was unaware that CentOS-5.4 was released I had no reason to look

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread Ian Murray
>The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. Therefore, >if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, >then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The ISOs are based on >the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red H

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting John R Pierce : > I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 > platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox > > $ sudo yum -y install firefox > . > Installed: > firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos firefox.x86_64 > 0

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- "Les Mikesell" escreveu: > Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > Matt: > > > >> why not just use your current cacti setup and > >> enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like > >> the simplest and cheapest approach. > > > > As I understand it, I would actually have to > > enable snmp on eac

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Sergio Belkin: > 2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz : > > Sergio Belkin wrote: > >> 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan : > >> > >>> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > >>> > Hi, > > Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statist

Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD

2009-10-23 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > > >The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. > Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found > with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The > ISOs are based on th

[CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.

2009-10-23 Thread James B. Byrne
I am trying to get a logwatch summary emailed to a central address from a cron job. The tasd was copied verbatim from a system which does this already. Both are shown below. host1 crontab -l as root 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --s

Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > edit /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini (and/or > /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini), search for Gecko entry and > replace MinVersion and MaxVersion with 1.9.0.14. > Ahh, Gracias! in fact, its firefox-3.0.12 I have, and I left MinVersion alone and set

[CentOS] prioritizing repos (was: Re: can't "yum install mplayer" : no libmpcdec.so.3 available)

2009-10-23 Thread ken
On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken > wrote: > > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving > problems > >

Re: [CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.

2009-10-23 Thread Andrew Hull
James B. Byrne wrote: > host1 crontab -l as root > > 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd > --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service > zz-disk_space --service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto > supp...@harte-lyne.ca > > host2 crontab -l as root > > 45

Re: [CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.

2009-10-23 Thread James B. Byrne
lists-centos wrote: > Do you really have the comment on the line with the command in the > second one? That's not allowed, and will mess things up, see the > crontab(5) man page - second paragraph under "description". > > If you have that comment there it's hard to tell exactly what will > happen

Re: [CentOS] prioritizing repos

2009-10-23 Thread Brian Kirkman
ken wrote: > On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt > > >> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken > > wrote: >> > mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving >> p

Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?

2009-10-23 Thread Alan McKay
> I took a look and I think it requires software running on > each guest to report the data back to the centralized > system.  Is that correct? Yes > If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require > any software on the guest machines. Oh well, it is not for you then. But it is a prett

[CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread Alan McKay
In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day. And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on. H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Alan McKay wrote: > In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the > upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day. > > And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, > the clock, menu and so on. > > H ... methinks it may final

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: >> In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the >> upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day. >> >> And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, >> the

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
Ron Blizzard wrote: > Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine. > > ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox > firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos > huh. something sketchy happening on my centos5 test system, then... # yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Cleaning up Everything Cleaning

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: >> Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine. >> >> ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox >> firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos >> > > Installed Packages > firefox.i386 > 3.0.12-1.el5.centos                              

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread nate
MHR wrote: > Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works > better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough > to see this), it happens more frequently. I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use... On both my win32 and my debian system

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, MHR wrote: > > But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before, > similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time.  After some > period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos > properly and I get long periods of silenc

[CentOS] MAC address generating script

2009-10-23 Thread Eugeneapolinary Ju
ust can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S Has anyone has one? thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems

2009-10-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:25 -0700, nate wrote: > > I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use... > > On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the > prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I > usually keep it off unless I need it but i

Re: [CentOS] MAC address generating script

2009-10-23 Thread Lincoln Zuljewic Silva
I didn't test it: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=451219 Source: "http://www.google.com.br/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_pt-BRBR323BR323&ie=UTF-8&q=generate+mac+address"; On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Eugeneapolinary Ju wrote: > ust can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S > > Has an

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-23 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Try this > http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade. Would excluding everything up to the 5.4

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
Jonathan Moore wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Rob Kampen > wrote: > >> Try this >> http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos >> > > What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what > I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upg

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