[CentOS] NTFS read and write support in CentOS 5.4 centosplus kernel?

2009-11-08 Thread Xin Yang
Hi everybody, I am a CentOS newbie, and I want to know whether the recent centosplus kernel supports read and write ntfs file systems or not. Regards Xin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 22:22 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been 'away' from all things Linux in general and RH in particular > for a long while, so I've got some catching up to do ;) > > I've got a pretty fair collection of tabs reading on LVM and how it > works and why its suc

Re: [CentOS] Problem: NVIDIA C73 & 1440x900

2009-11-08 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:09:05AM +, MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:42:11 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:31:20PM +, MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> As mentioned in my previous thread, I can't get my Video card: NVIDIA > >> C73 [GeForce: 71

Re: [CentOS] NTFS read and write support in CentOS 5.4 centosplus kernel?

2009-11-08 Thread Lee Perez
Xin Yang wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am a CentOS newbie, and I want to know whether the recent centosplus > kernel supports read and write ntfs file systems or not. > > Regards > > Xin > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I've been doing a lot of research on virtualization (VMWare, EXSi, xen, > kvm, VirtualBox, etc.) and ended up choosing kvm. I'm very surprised at > how quick I was able to bring up a WinXP VM. > # FUTURE OF KVM David, I'm currently doing exactly the same (researching and comparing various virtu

Re: [CentOS] Question about aspell, alpine and a Xen guest

2009-11-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:39:06AM -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: > I have some weird behavior I can't explain... I've noticed this behavior > since CentOS 5.2 (version I started running) through 5.4... > > I am running a Xen host/VM. On my guest VM, I use Alpine as my email > client and Aspell

[CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Markus Falb
Hi, I tried: mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=x86_64&repo=os but it gives me ...snippel 5.4 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/ snappel... Why is that ? -- best regards, markus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] Centos HP Pavilion box

2009-11-08 Thread mark
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:33:08 -0500, mark wrote: > >> Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >>> Has anyone put Centos 5.4 (or ant version on aHP Pavilion box? I'm >>> having some problems. For example, I can't get my Dell E198WFPV >>> 1440x900 monitor to work correctly. >> Wh

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-08 Thread mark
John R Pierce wrote: > Kwan Lowe wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Les Mikesell >> wrote: >> >>> How did you get it from machine to machine? This could be a line-ending >>> issue from a copy from windows or the wrong mode in ftp. >>> >> That is my guess too. This exact error will hap

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-08 Thread mark
Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:10:30 -0500 > Victor Subervi wrote: > >> It's been a while, but now I remember what a dos file looks like in a unix >> environment. No, these files look like unix files (without the carets and >> crap). > > The file command will verify that for you. > >

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Simon Wesp
Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 15:06 + schrieb Markus Falb: > mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5.4&arch=x86_64&repo=os mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem schönen Hainzell Simon Wesp http://www.fedoraproject.

[CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)

2009-11-08 Thread Roland Roland
Hello all, am considering setting up centos as a file storage/ backup destination for Mac's TimeMachine. all my users would get synced directly to specific folders on this machine.. needless to say space is of importance. where every user has an average 200 GB of data to b synced (entire system

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Markus Falb
Simon Wesp wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 15:06 + schrieb Markus Falb: >> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/? release=5.4&arch=x86_64&repo=os > mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=os > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus dem schönen Hainzell Simon We

Re: [CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Roland Roland wrote: > Hello all, > > am considering setting up centos as a file storage/ backup destination > for Mac's TimeMachine. > > all my users would get synced directly to specific folders on this > machine.. > needless to say space is of importance. where every user has an > average 200

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Monte Milanuk
M. Hamzah Khan wrote: > There won't be any issue in doing this. The installer just tries to make > things easier by creating one big volume group. > > I'd say that in some ways seperating the two disks in this case would > actually be better. :) > My last 'serious' experience with Linux was some

Re: [CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)

2009-11-08 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:26 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > Roland Roland wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > am considering setting up centos as a file storage/ backup destination > > for Mac's TimeMachine. > > > > all my users would get synced directly to specific folders on this > > machine.. > > need

Re: [CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)

2009-11-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Roland Roland wrote: > Hello all, > > am considering setting up centos as a file storage/ backup destination > for Mac's TimeMachine. > > all my users would get synced directly to specific folders on this machine.. > needless to say space is of importance. where every user has an average > 200

Re: [CentOS] Centos as a file storage/backup destination (Advice)

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Craig White wrote: > agreed but I am not a fan of RAID-5 any more because it is so slow. > Suggest RAID 10/0+1 > generally, I'd agree, but for bulk storage like a backup server, the drive count gets kind of higher. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/936/SC936E1-R900.cfm would be

Re: [CentOS] Net-SNMP interfaces out of order

2009-11-08 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bob p...@nle wrote: > Hello Centos People, > > I have a CentOS 5.3 box that had a total of 5 ethernet cards in it. It > functions to share an internet connection with 4 different subnets. All > works fine, except I'm noticing that my MRTG traffic graphs are wrong

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:44 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > M. Hamzah Khan wrote: > > There won't be any issue in doing this. The installer just tries to make > > things easier by creating one big volume group. > > > > I'd say that in some ways seperating the two disks in this case would > > actually

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote: > M. Hamzah Khan wrote: > > With both drives in one big volume group, failure of one drive will > > (most likely) cause both the OS and data to be lost. > > > There in lies some of my confusion with this subject; correct me if I'm > wrong in my

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Simon Wesp
Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 18:20 + schrieb Markus Falb: > I know that release=5 is working, but this is not what i want. really? think about again, please! > In my Experience it is not always possible to upgrade all machines to the > newest and shiniest OS out there. This is not a distro l

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Markus Falb wrote on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:20:14 + (UTC): > In my Experience it is not always possible to upgrade all machines to the > newest and shiniest OS out there. Not within the first week at least. So > I have to maintain machines with 5.3 and machines with 5.4 and ... > My argument is

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Monte Milanuk
M. Hamzah Khan wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:44 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > What I think most people do (and what I am doing now), is to setup > RAID-1 or so behind the volume group. This way you will still be safe if > one of the drives fail. Keep in mind that RAID is not a backup solution

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Wesp wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 18:20 + schrieb Markus Falb: >> I know that release=5 is working, but this is not what i want. > really? think about again, please! Aha... > >> In my Experience it is not always possible to upgrad

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Markus Falb wrote on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:20:14 + (UTC): > >> In my Experience it is not always possible to upgrade all machines to the >> newest and shiniest OS out there. Not within the first week at least. So >> I have to

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Falb wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > I have machines with 5.3 and machines with 5.4 and therefore I need a > local mirror for 5.3 > If i mirror release=5 i destroy the 5.3 mirror. > Anyway, I was not asking "Am I wrong" > What i was trying t

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Monte Milanuk wrote on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:13:17 -0800: > In practical terms, it may all be a moot point. I'm not too sure how > much more I can jam in that mini-tower case without other problems, and > (hopefully) 500GB should be enough storage for now; intended usage is > just backing up use

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Monte Milanuk : > M. Hamzah Khan wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 10:44 -0800, Monte Milanuk wrote: >> >> What I think most people do (and what I am doing now), is to setup >> RAID-1 or so behind the volume group. This way you will still be safe if >> one of the drives fail. Keep in mind th

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/11/09 22:46, Markus Falb wrote: > What i was trying to ask is: > is it per purpose that there is a "release=5" and "release=5.3" is > working but not "release=5.4" or in other words '5.3' is only working since it hasent been moved away to vault.c.o as yet, which will happen during this week

Re: [CentOS] connection refused resolving - after 5.4 upgrade

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Kampen
Rob Kampen wrote: Hi all, prior to 5.4 upgrade, my two DNS servers would only get 'connection refused resolving .' on rare infrequent occasions (once or twice a month) after upgrade to 5.4 I get 500+ per day. Google has suggestions for |logging category lame-servers null; ; ; |however this

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist for 5.4

2009-11-08 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/11/09 22:46, Markus Falb wrote: >> What i was trying to ask is: >> is it per purpose that there is a "release=5" and "release=5.3" is >> working but not "release=5.4" or in other words > > '5.3' is only working since it h

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: [...] > > What I have currently is an older PC that I'm hoping to use as a home server > / occasional 'workstation'.  One 13GB main drive, and a 500GB drive for > network storage.  The default install in CentOS 5.4 seems to want to just > lump e

[CentOS] How Can I change CentOS CLI Screen Resolution to smaller text (without GUI)?

2009-11-08 Thread Sam Acosta
Hi, I'd like to view the Screen resolution in smaller text on my server terminal. The server is not installed with any GUI so it's in plain text mode. Thanks. Sam - NOTE: The information contained in this document and its attachments, if any, may be confidential

Re: [CentOS] How Can I change CentOS CLI Screen Resolution to smaller text (without GUI)?

2009-11-08 Thread Barry Brimer
> Hi, > > I'd like to view the Screen resolution in smaller text on my server > terminal. The server is not installed with any GUI so it's in plain text > mode. Google for linux vga modes Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] How Can I change CentOS CLI Screen Resolution to smaller text (without GUI)?

2009-11-08 Thread Robert Spangler
On Sunday 08 November 2009 20:59, Sam Acosta wrote: > I'd like to view the Screen resolution in smaller text on my server > terminal. The server is not installed with any GUI so it's in plain text > mode. Try adding 'vga=795' to the end of the kernel line in grub.conf file. -- Regards Rob

Re: [CentOS] errors on multimedia guidance for x86_64

2009-11-08 Thread David McGuffey
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 20:44 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: > I have a fresh install of 5.4 x86_64 from a dvd .iso. All has worked > well for several days, including kvm and WinXP running in a vm. > > Decided it was time to get the multimedia stuff up and running so I > could listen to music CDs an

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-08 Thread David McGuffey
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 14:50 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > I've been doing a lot of research on virtualization (VMWare, EXSi, xen, > > kvm, VirtualBox, etc.) and ended up choosing kvm. I'm very surprised at > > how quick I was able to bring up a WinXP VM. > > > > # FUTURE OF KVM > David, I'm

[CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Manish Kathuria
Hello, Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( > 2 TB) external storage devices using GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the main OS resides on smaller hard disks using MBR. In this scenario, what can be the largest possible size of an ext3 partition (and filesystem) which can be created on the storage ar

Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Phil Manuel
This might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table We certainly have a GPT partition of 15Tb but I know it can go much larger. Phil. Manish Kathuria wrote: > Hello, > > Does CentOS 5.4 support large ( > 2 TB) external storage devices using > GPT (GUID Partition Tables), while the

Re: [CentOS] How Can I change CentOS CLI Screen Resolution to smaller text (without GUI)?

2009-11-08 Thread Sam Acosta
Thanks for the inputs guys... But how could I reload the grub config file after boot. Of course, I just could easily re-start our server without prior scheduling... Sam WEB: www.SamAcosta.net * E-MAIL: m...@samacosta.info - NOTE: The information contained in this

Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Manish Kathuria
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Phil Manuel wrote: > This might help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table > > We certainly have a GPT partition of 15Tb but I know it can go much larger. > > Phil. > Thanks Phil. I had seen that site before and I wanted to know the status on the curre

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread Bent Terp
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >  Some code is designed for a single, powerful workstation.  I'd like > this cluster to act as one powerful workstation. I was going to suggest OpenMOSIX but that turned out to be quite dead :-( 2 minutes of frantic googling led to this proje

Re: [CentOS] GUID Partition Tables and Ext3 Partition Size

2009-11-08 Thread Phil Manuel
Manish Kathuria wrote: > > > Thanks Phil. I had seen that site before and I wanted to know the > status on the current CentOS kernels. Are you running CentOS 5.x and > using LVM for this partition or have you formatted it as ext3 > filesystem directly ? > > -- > Manish > ___

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Bent Terp wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >>  Some code is designed for a single, powerful workstation.  I'd like >> this cluster to act as one powerful workstation. > > I was going to suggest OpenMOSIX but that turned out to be quite

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I > want, how I want. What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 > blades as one large beast, but _NOT_ necessarily for someone doing > grid-type work?Some users don't now how to program that way, b

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Bent Terp wrote: >> 2 minutes of frantic googling led to this project: >> http://www.kerrighed.org which at least seems to be alive, but I >> haven't tried it myself. >> > You might also want to look at this one: http://www.xtreemos.org/ > those are both grid solutions. as any high perfor

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/04/scalemp_vsmp_smb_cloud/ > Is the only product I've heard of that claims to do what your > aiming for. > um, that just does away with the expensive infiniband switch in favor of an infiniband 'loop' architecture (eg, each host still uses an