Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Rubin
Hi Scott, Fwiw, I'm doing this for DMX 4 and DMX 5 (vmax) by 128k sectors, as recommended by EMC in their document "Implementing Virtual Provisioning On EMC Symmetrix DMX With Oracle 10g & Oracle 11g". Essentially, the DMX 3 and earlier had a 32kb tracksize (by default, afaik) which meant that th

Re: [CentOS] errors on multimedia guidance for x86_64

2009-11-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
David McGuffey wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 07:09 -0500, Steve Huff wrote: >> On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:43 PM, David McGuffey wrote: >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency:

[CentOS] Open Source (or Closed Source) multi-user password manager

2009-11-10 Thread Sven Aluoor
Hello We use an Open Source Windows software[0] with about 1200 passwords. The encrypted file is stored on a CIFS-share. When concurrent write occurs, the users overwrite other users passwords. Now we are searching for a mutli-user password manager. Open Source would be good, but Closed Source is

Re: [CentOS] Open Source (or Closed Source) multi-user password manager

2009-11-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
Quoting Sven Aluoor : > Hello > > We use an Open Source Windows software[0] with about 1200 passwords. > The encrypted file is stored on a CIFS-share. When concurrent write > occurs, the users overwrite other users passwords. > > Now we are searching for a mutli-user password manager. Open Source

Re: [CentOS] Open Source (or Closed Source) multi-user password manager

2009-11-10 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Try keeppass ? http://keepass.info/ Hello Eero thanks. Looks good and even multi-user support -> http://keepass.info/screenshots/windows_vista/syncorsave_big.png > Eero regards Sven ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

2009-11-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Have you updated the system after installing vanilla OOo? > If yes, then that may be the problem. Because similar thing happened > with me. Yes I did update... Could you then fix it? Do you think that I should force a reinstall? ___ CentOS mailing lis

[CentOS] Inquiry:How to check for IP conflict on my CentOS server?

2009-11-10 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Please be informed that I have set an secondary IP address on my CentOS server to be able to reach to another Intranet , as the followings: #ifconfig eth0:1 172.18.209.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 up But I am not aware if any other node on the new Intranet is making use of this IP address . Can

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread John Doe
From: Scott McClanahan > I'd like to use cobbler > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > force the alignment on a 4k boundary? Have any of you had to do this? Personaly, I run a pre_kicks

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to check for IP conflict on my CentOS server?

2009-11-10 Thread John Doe
From: hadi motamedi >Please be informed that I have set an secondary IP address on my CentOS server >to be able to reach to another Intranet , as the followings: >#ifconfig eth0:1 172.18.209.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 up >But I am not aware if any other node on the new Intranet is making use of this

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to check for IP conflict on my CentOS server?

2009-11-10 Thread hadi motamedi
Sorry . There are remote network elements that are not reachable from here . Can you please let me know if checking /var/log/messages can help resolving IP conflict ? On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:17 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: hadi motamedi > >Please be informed that I have set an secondary IP

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and KVM

2009-11-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
David McGuffey wrote on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:44:39 -0500: > Don't be so hard on him. I'm not trying to. Sorry, if it sounded like that. The point is that James still seems to mix some things in his mind which apparently are not to be mixed. He's to start over to succeed. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, B

[CentOS] Xen pci passthru problems with kernel -164.6.1

2009-11-10 Thread Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
Hi there, After updating a server from CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 my Xen pci-passthru setup has some troubles. The server has two NICs, one used by dom0 and the other assigned to a domU and one SCSI controler assigned to another domU. It has been working fine since CentOS 5.1, when I did the initial se

Re: [CentOS] Xen pci passthru problems with kernel -164.6.1

2009-11-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:01:32AM -0200, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote: > Hi there, > > After updating a server from CentOS 5.3 to 5.4 my Xen pci-passthru setup > has some troubles. > > The server has two NICs, one used by dom0 and the other assigned to a > domU and one SCSI controler assigned

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-10 Thread mark
MHR wrote: > I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA > C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio > is not working. > > I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what > it claims to have (see below), but that didn't wor

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to check for IP conflict on my CentOS server?

2009-11-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Hadi motamedi wrote on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:22:35 +: > Can you please let me know if checking /var/log/messages can help resolving > IP conflict ? Yes, it will normally tell you if there is a conflict. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://w

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to check for IP conflict on my CentOS server?

2009-11-10 Thread mark
John Doe wrote: > From: hadi motamedi >> Please be informed that I have set an secondary IP address on my CentOS >> server to be able to reach to another Intranet , as the followings: >> #ifconfig eth0:1 172.18.209.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 up >> But I am not aware if >> any other node on the new In

Re: [CentOS] Xen pci passthru problems with kernel -164.6.1

2009-11-10 Thread Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > I think 5.4 adds Xen VT-d pci passthrough support.. maybe that has caused > bugs in the normal non-vt-d passthrough. > > Have you searched Redhat bugzilla about these problems? And they call this "enterprise level", anyway, as you said RH has backported a lot of stuff

Re: [CentOS] Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

2009-11-10 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On 11/10/2009 03:11 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> Have you updated the system after installing vanilla OOo? >> If yes, then that may be the problem. Because similar thing happened >> with me. >> > Yes I did update... > Could you then fix it? > > Do you think that I should force a reinstall? >

[CentOS] London Beer event today, last reminder

2009-11-10 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey Some of us are yet-again going to be getting together for a CentOS Beer evening on the 10th Nov 2009 at the Kings and Queens. The Pub is mostly quiet during the week, has a fair selection of drinks and is central enough to most people in the city. The full address is : King & Queens, 1 Foley

Re: [CentOS] Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

2009-11-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Most probably, the update you installed includes update for OOo. Since > your version is vanilla and you are updating it with CentOS repos, this > problem appears. > > The only thing I can suggest is simply remove and install the vanilla > OOo and *don't* update it with yum using the CentOS repo.

Re: [CentOS] Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

2009-11-10 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
I also install RPMs from OO.org. To make file associations work, you have to modify /usr/share/applications/defaults.list here is what i did, to make it work: *cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list.orig sed -i 's#openoffice.org-1.9#openoffice.org3#g' /usr/s

Re: [CentOS] Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

2009-11-10 Thread Digvijay Patankar
On 11/10/2009 06:52 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> Most probably, the update you installed includes update for OOo. Since >> your version is vanilla and you are updating it with CentOS repos, this >> problem appears. >> >> The only thing I can suggest is simply remove and install the vanilla >> OOo

[CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I installed mysql using yum, so I have an /etc/init.d/mysqld file. For some reason, however, mysqld doesn't boot on reboot of the machine. Please advise. TIA, Victor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

Re: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread Gabriel Rosca
maybe " chkconfig mysqld on " will help Gabe From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Victor Subervi Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:00 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot Hi; I installed mysql using yum,

Re: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/11/10 Victor Subervi : > I installed mysql using yum, so I have an /etc/init.d/mysqld file. For some > reason, however, mysqld doesn't boot on reboot of the machine. Please Execute the command "chkconfig mysqld on" Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread John Doe
From: Victor Subervi >I installed mysql using yum, so I have an /etc/init.d/mysqld file. For some >reason, however, mysqld doesn't boot on reboot of the machine. Please advise. Did you use chkconfig like several people advised you to in previous posts? JD __

Re: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread Victor Subervi
That helped :) Thanks, V On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Victor Subervi > >I installed mysql using yum, so I have an /etc/init.d/mysqld file. For > some reason, however, mysqld doesn't boot on reboot of the machine. Please > advise. > > Did you use chkconfig like sever

Re: [CentOS] mysqld not starting on reboot

2009-11-10 Thread Sergey Smirnov
or use text interface for this - ntsysv On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > That helped :) > Thanks, > V > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:08 AM, John Doe wrote: >> >> From: Victor Subervi >> >I installed mysql using yum, so I have an /etc/init.d/mysqld file. For >> > some rea

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 5

2009-11-10 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] KVM + KSM?

2009-11-10 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
Hi guys, Any chance we could get KSM support in centos 5.4? Maybe the centosplus ones or a gift from elrepo. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-10 Thread MHR
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, mark wrote: > MHR wrote: >> I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA >> C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio >> is not working. >> >> I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which is what

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-10 Thread m . roth
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:30 AM, mark wrote: >> MHR wrote: >>> I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA >>> C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installed CentOS 5.4 on it and the audio >>> is not working. >>> >>> I looked around for a sound driver for the VIA vt1708/a, which

Re: [CentOS] KVM + KSM?

2009-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > Hi guys, > > Any chance we could get KSM support in centos 5.4? Maybe the > centosplus ones or a gift from elrepo. > if its not in upstream, it won't ever be in the base distribution. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] KVM + KSM?

2009-11-10 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> Any chance we could get KSM support in centos 5.4? Maybe the >> centosplus ones or a gift from elrepo. >> > > > if its not in upstream, it won't ever be in the base distribution. > > > > > ___

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 02:33 -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: Scott McClanahan > > I'd like to use cobbler > > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > > force the alignment on a 4k boundary?

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-10 Thread Ilya Ponetayev
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:40:28 -0800 MHR wrote: You can try to install fresh alsa-driver package from Elrepo repository (which named kmod-alsa there). http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php > I just bought a new (refurbished) Everexe StepNote laptop with a VIA > C7-M CPU and a VIA chipset, installe

Re: [CentOS] KVM + KSM?

2009-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > Nor in centosplus? > are you taking about Kernel Samepage Merging ? thats a kernel 2.6.32 feature thats still considered somewhat experimental? I'm guessing noone is going to backport it into 2.6.18, probably far too many complications there. anyways, I'm not

[CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread James Bensley
Hey Guys, I have some questions regarding a new home server I am going to build in the hopefully very near future (ASAP, I just need to finish planning everything and this is the penultimate hurdle), I will be creating a software RAID... Lets say I have three drives "knocking" around which are al

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread Drew
> Lets say I have three drives "knocking" around which are all 1TB SATA > II drives but each made by a different manufacturer. I am going to > guess that these couldn't be used in a RAID 5? Or could they? They can in fact. There might be minor differences of a few sectors between the drives but md

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread nate
James Bensley wrote: > Lets say I have three drives "knocking" around which are all 1TB SATA > II drives but each made by a different manufacturer. I am going to > guess that these couldn't be used in a RAID 5? Or could they? RAID is a manufacturer independent concept. Though depending on who you

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
James Bensley wrote: > > I have some questions regarding a new home server I am going to build > in the hopefully very near future (ASAP, I just need to finish > planning everything and this is the penultimate hurdle), I will be > creating a software RAID... > > Lets say I have three drives "knoc

Re: [CentOS] Audio issue(s)

2009-11-10 Thread lostson
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:38 +0300, Ilya Ponetayev wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:40:28 -0800 > MHR wrote: > > You can try to install fresh alsa-driver package from Elrepo repository > (which named kmod-alsa there). > http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php > > > I just bought a new (refurbished)

[CentOS] problem: iptables -j QUEUE

2009-11-10 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
On my new CentOS 5.4 box I cannot get -j QUEUE to work. I am using the same setup I used on a CentOS 5.2 box. Is there anything new I should know? Thanks, Mike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:26:37 + CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > I have some questions regarding a new home server I am going to build > in the hopefully very near future (ASAP, I just need to finish > planning everything and this is the penultimate hurdle), I will be > creating

[CentOS] Berlin Beer event.

2009-11-10 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey After the London Beer event seams to become a regular thing I was wondering who in Berlin would want to participate in such a thing. I am visiting for BLIT [1] on the 21. November to promote CentOS and was wondering how many people would participate? It is always good to meet fellow Linux /

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread James Bensley
Thanks all for the promptness of your responses and the details you have provided it is greatly appreciated. Since this is a home media server performance isn't imperative and mirroring and RAID 10/0+1 are too expensive so I am going to use my three existing drives of different manufactures as the

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread nate
James Bensley wrote: > suffice (simple because my budget is low and hardware RAID controller > cards are more expansive, in my experience but if you know of a good > bargain I'm all ears!). Budget RAID cards should be avoided like swine flu, your better off with non RAID cards with linux software

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
James Bensley wrote: > I have read a few articles about mdadm and I have devised the > following strategy in my head and am looking for some confirmation of > its theoretical success: > > Two of my existing three drives are full of data. I will purchase two > more drives to go with my existing blan

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
Robert Heller wrote: > No. You can use as many disks as you like for RAID 5. The 'parity' is > not actually 1 bit. The capacity of a N disk RAID 5 (where N >= 3), is > (N-1)*sizeof(one disk). > within reason. Its usually not a good idea to make a single raid5 set much over 7-8 disks as th

Re: [CentOS] KVM + KSM?

2009-11-10 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: >> Nor in centosplus? >> > are you taking about Kernel Samepage Merging ?   thats a kernel 2.6.32 > feature thats still considered somewhat experimental? > > I'm guessing noone is going to backport it into 2.6.18,

Re: [CentOS] KVM + KSM?

2009-11-10 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Lucian: > Hmm.. It seems KSM is already included, dumb me! > > modinfo ksm > filename: > /lib/modules/2.6.18-172.el5/weak-updates/kmod-kvm/ksm.ko That is good to know. I did not realize it was installed on my system either! Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://w

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
James Bensley wrote: > Thanks all for the promptness of your responses and the details you > have provided it is greatly appreciated. > > Since this is a home media server performance isn't imperative and > mirroring and RAID 10/0+1 are too expensive so I am going to use my > three existing drives

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread Keith Keller
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:07:21AM +, James Bensley wrote: > > Also I was initially going to get a PCI-E SATA card to connect up all > these drives and use mdadm to make a software RAID, for this > particular setup is that ill advised or do people think this will > suffice (simple because my b

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-10 Thread Keith Keller
Just for a practical scenario, here's the machine I have at my home. The front has four hot-swap drive bays, backed by a 3ware 4 port controller (IIRC a 9500 series). Two drives form a RAID1, which is where everything is kept. One drive is a hot spare. The fourth drive is a backup drive; my /ho

[CentOS] Build a LiveCD?

2009-11-10 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I have a highly customized desktop built from CentOS 5.4 and RPMForge repos (plus some stuff of my own). I'd like to build a LiveCD from that, for one very specific reason. I have a medical application (MedinTux) that would be very handy to demonstrate to doctors, hospital staff, etc. with

Re: [CentOS] Build a LiveCD?

2009-11-10 Thread Larry Brigman
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I have a highly customized desktop built from CentOS 5.4 and RPMForge > repos (plus some stuff of my own). I'd like to build a LiveCD from that, > for one very specific reason. I have a medical application (MedinTux) > that would be ver

Re: [CentOS] Build a LiveCD?

2009-11-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I have a highly customized desktop built from CentOS 5.4 and RPMForge > repos (plus some stuff of my own). I'd like to build a LiveCD from that, Did you try revisor? http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/ It is in EPEL and more or less work for CentOS. Available Packages revisor.noarch

Re: [CentOS] screwed up dependencies

2009-11-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus ken spake: | Subsequent to trying to "yum update"-- it failed--, I tried to resolve | the dependencies piecemeal: | | # yum update faad2 | | --> Processing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 for package: ffmpeg | ---> Package faad2.i386 0:2.7-1.el5.rf