[CentOS] centos vs rhel vs scientific linux

i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about 3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL (apparently 5.1). but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs, i'm just going to hand everyone a centos 5.4 DVD and take it from there. as part of the intro, i

[CentOS] Kickstart wrong swap size

All machines kickstarted here consistently have a swap partition with the wrong size. According to the RHEL5 manual: | To determine the size of the swap partition automatically, use the | --recommended option: | | swap --recommended | | The recommended maximum swap size for machines with less t

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

Hi, We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The 64 bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS only finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). I would much prefer to use CentOS (most of the software we use is specifically designed for CentOS).

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

what kernel are you running? On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The 64 > bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS only > finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). I would

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

[r...@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:48:13 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux On 7 dec 2009, at 13:12, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > what kernel are you running? > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Diederick Stoffers > wrote: >> Hi, >

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

Les Mikesell wrote: > mark wrote: >> hadi motamedi wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM, mark wrote: John Doe wrote: > From: hadi motamedi >> Can you please do me favor and let me know if I can go further and try for >> advanced search like finding how many rows inside

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

Hi, It seems that this links shed light on the question: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-08/msg00934.html http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Virtualization_Guide/ch-virt-hw-support.html On 12/07/2009 02:05 PM, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > > We have a new 24-core De

Re: [CentOS] centos vs rhel vs scientific linux

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about > 3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL > (apparently 5.1).  but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs, > i'm just going to hand everyone a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > > We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The > 64 bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS > only finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). I would much prefer to > use CentOS (most of the software we use

[CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

I seem to have broken my laptop and have been unable to figure it out. Name resolution works great, except one address, which seems to be resolving to 0.0.0.1. Could you help me figure out what I have done and fix it? The following lines are in /etc/hosts 192.168.11.1dev.example.com 192.16

Re: [CentOS] NFS new security requirements?

This now mysteriously resolved after both servers have rebooted. The long delay is due to the importance of high availability over the nfs links. Mike Yates Hawkgrove Ltd - Software Systems Design 2, The Business Courtyard, Marl Pits Lane, Trudoxhill, Frome, Somerset, BA11 5DL, UK +44 (0)1373

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart wrong swap size

Lars Hecking writes: > > All machines kickstarted here consistently have a swap partition with the > wrong size. According to the RHEL5 manual: > > | To determine the size of the swap partition automatically, use the > | --recommended option: > | > | swap --recommended > | > | The recommended m

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

On Monday, December 7, 2009, John Thomas wrote: > I seem to have broken my laptop and have been unable to figure it out. > > Name resolution works great, except one address, which seems to be > resolving to 0.0.0.1.  Could you help me figure out what I have done and > fix it? > > The following lin

[CentOS] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

LinkedIn Gustavo Pastorino requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Romeo, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Gustavo Accept invitation from Gustavo Pastorino http://www.linkedin.com/e/c640Z0zoY42Hba6yQ

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

On 12/07/2009 05:09 AM, Jon Moore wrote: >> The following lines are in /etc/hosts >> 192.168.11.1dev.example.com >> 192.168.11.1dev1.example.com >> >> Pinging any other address that I try works, except dev.example.com. >> > > try having both host names on the same line. Thanks, but this di

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, John Thomas wrote: >>> Pinging any other address that I try works, except dev.example.com. >> try having both host names on the same line. > > Thanks, but this did not help.  I had tried many, many things before > posting.  I tried this to be sure, but no help. do

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

On 12/07/2009 05:21 AM, Arturas Skauronas wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, John Thomas > wrote: Pinging any other address that I try works, except dev.example.com. >>> try having both host names on the same line. >> >> Thanks, but this did not help. I had tried many, many things bef

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

On 12/07/2009 04:59 AM, John Thomas wrote: > I seem to have broken my laptop and have been unable to figure it out. > > Name resolution works great, except one address, which seems to be > resolving to 0.0.0.1. Could you help me figure out what I have done and > fix it? > > The following lines are

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

Thanks! Virtualisation limits RAM to 32GB, removing this from the package does the trick. Cheers, Diederick On 7 dec 2009, at 13:35, Nickolay Bunev wrote: > Hi, > It seems that this links shed light on the question: > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-08/msg00934.html > h

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:33:59AM -0800, John Thomas wrote: > Possibly fixed. There is possibly a bad entry in the nscd cache. > Restarting nscd did not solve the problem until I changed /etc/nscd.conf > from: enable-cachehosts yes > to: enable-cachehosts

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

mark wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Awk is just too weird for normal people. I wouldn't even suggest reading >> that >> manual. If you can't do what you want with regexps and a pipeline of >> simpler >> programs, you might as well use perl. > > Who have probably almost all started someth

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

On Monday 07 December 2009, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > > We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The 64 > bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS only > finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). Hmm.. maybe this has to do with the Xen

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart wrong swap size

From: Lars Hecking > All machines kickstarted here consistently have a swap partition with the > wrong size. According to the RHEL5 manual: > > | To determine the size of the swap partition automatically, use the > | --recommended option: > | > | swap --recommended > | > | The recommended maximum

Re: [CentOS] Name Resolution Broken for One Address

> The following lines are in /etc/hosts > 192.168.11.1    dev.example.com > 192.168.11.1    dev1.example.com > > Pinging any other address that I try works, except dev.example.com. Same IP? Aren't you supposed to do that like this? 192.168.11.1 dev.example.com dev1.example.com -- “Don't e

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

> mark wrote: >> Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Awk is just too weird for normal people. I wouldn't even suggest >>> reading that manual. If you can't do what you want with regexps and a >>> pipeline of simpler programs, you might as well use perl. >> >> > Reading the response, I realize you were serio

[CentOS] Resizing / partition ?

Hi. I know this has probably been discussed a lot so I'm sorry, noob here. I found a good tutorial here: http://fedorasolved.org/Members/zcat/shrink-lvm-for-new-partition My only problem is understanding this. "To calculate the new End sector, ADD the partition Start sector to the PV P

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart wrong swap size

Lars Hecking wrote: > > The kickstart setup is currently based on CentOS 5.2 (and I cannot move to > 5.4 yet as this is a corporate setup affecting hundreds of machines). > Hardcoding swap size isn't a good idea either because there's a range of > different memory configurations. I could howev

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

XFS is the most stable file system I've seen or used. I've seen it survive power failures and disk problems with out a problem. It is the ONLY file system I trust. It is stable, reliable, dependable, and practically bullet proof. I've been using XFS almost since it came into existence on S

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009/12/7 Brent L. Bates > XFS is the most stable file system I've seen or used. I've seen it > survive power failures and disk problems with out a problem. It is the > ONLY > file system I trust. It is stable, reliable, dependable, and practically > bullet proof. I've been using XFS almo

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> mark wrote: >>> Les Mikesell wrote: Awk is just too weird for normal people. I wouldn't even suggest reading that manual. If you can't do what you want with regexps and a pipeline of simpler programs, you might as well use perl. >>> > Reading the respons

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

Brent L. Bates wrote: > XFS is the most stable file system I've seen or used. I've seen it > survive power failures and disk problems with out a problem. It is the ONLY > file system I trust. It is stable, reliable, dependable, and practically > bullet proof. I've been using XFS almost sin

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> mark wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: > Awk is just too weird for normal people. I wouldn't even suggest > reading that manual. If you can't do what you want with regexps and > a > pipeline of simpler programs, you might as well use perl. >> Read

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

On 12/7/2009 7:24 AM, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > [r...@localhost ~]# uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 > 16:48:13 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > If you dig back through the xen-users mailing list, there's a thread that discusses this rec

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to compare two files but not in line-by-line basis?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Awk is just too weird for normal people. I wouldn't even suggest >> reading that manual. If you can't do what you want with regexps and >> a >> pipeline of simpler programs, you might as well use perl. > >>> Reading the response, I realize you wer

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

I guess I forgot to include that some of those Linux systems I've used XFS on were 32 bit OS installs. However, lvm was not used on them, md & NFS were, but not lvm. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

[CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

Hi, Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having problems with dependencies perl is installed. Cheers, Diederick --> Finished Dependency Resolution R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64 from R-project has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: perl(File::Copy::Recur

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 at 6:45pm, Diederick Stoffers wrote > Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having > problems with dependencies perl is installed. I use the packages from EPEL without a problem. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having > problems with dependencies perl is installed. > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64 from R-project has depsolving problems >

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

On Monday 07 December 2009, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having > problems with dependencies perl is installed. R is in epel and should as such be trivial to install. /Peter > Cheers, > > Diederick > > --> Finished Depe

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

Diederick Stoffers wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having > problems with dependencies perl is installed. > > Cheers, > > Diederick > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64 from R-project has depsolving problems

[CentOS] lvm monitoring

Hi, At the moment, I am monitoring my lvm resources on a machine with the usual 'pvs;vgs;lvs' output and comparing with whatever is a known good state. But this has a few problems: 1- I need to setup a known good state per machine, which can look quite different from each other : specially whe

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

John R Pierce wrote: > > I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL > anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss > problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what > have you I've both heard about and experienced fir

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> >> I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in >> RHEL >> anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic >> loss >> problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL >> anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss >> problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what >> have you > > I've both hea

[CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

Hello, I've just finished installing Atlassian's bamboo it comes with two ways to start it up one through a bash shell script bamboo.sh and another through java script (this one is better as it has the ability to start up the service if it got shutdown for any reason) so I'm wondering how can I

Re: [CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

>any suggestion? >I've looked around about none interactive shells and so on.. so if I did a >symbolic link from bamboo.sh script to /etc/init.d would that work? >what about variables inside the script would they b read ? Well, you can add an entry for that shell script to rc.local (unsexy). Ope

Re: [CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

Depending on the script placing it in /etc/init.d could work (with appropriate symlinks to /etc/rc.x) however does the script follwo standard behaviour for /etc/init.d scripts? (eg start, stop, restart, status.) If you just want the script/java file called you could just pop it into /etc/

[CentOS] firefox-3.0.15 on CentOS 4

Hi - I updated firefox-3.0.5 from firefox-3.0.15on CentOS 4 this weekend and now I can't start it because it has the wrong version of NSS and I can't update NSS to the correct version. Does anyone know where I can find the RPM for CentOS 4 version of firefox-3.0.5? Or how I can tell yum to ins

Re: [CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

Roland Roland wrote: > Hello, > > I've just finished installing Atlassian's bamboo > > it comes with two ways to start it up one through a bash shell script > bamboo.sh > and another through java script (this one is better as it has the > ability to

Re: [CentOS] firefox-3.0.15 on CentOS 4

Opps - on CentOS 4 I upgrade from firefox-3.0.5 to firefox-3.0.15 and now I need to back out to version firefox-3.0.5. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Agile Aspect wrote: > Hi - I updated firefox-3.0.5  from  firefox-3.0.15on CentOS 4 this > weekend and now I can't start it  because it has the w

Re: [CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

On Monday 07 December 2009 12:10:50 pm John R Pierce wrote: > Roland Roland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just finished installing Atlassian's bamboo > > > > it comes with two ways to start it up one through a bash shell script > > bamboo.sh > > and anot

Re: [CentOS] how to do startup scripts?

Roland Roland wrote: > > I've just finished installing Atlassian's bamboo > > it comes with two ways to start it up one through a bash shell script > bamboo.sh > and another through java script (this one is better as it has the > ability to start up th

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

On Monday 07 December 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL > > anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss > > problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what >

Re: [CentOS] firefox-3.0.15 on CentOS 4

> Opps - on CentOS 4 I upgrade from firefox-3.0.5 to firefox-3.0.15 and now > I need to back out to version firefox-3.0.5. > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Agile Aspect > wrote: >> Hi - I updated firefox-3.0.5  from  firefox-3.0.15on CentOS 4 this >> weekend and now I can't start it  because i

Re: [CentOS] firefox-3.0.15 on CentOS 4

I'm using yum and I when I specify the version if comes back with nothing to install. Hence the request for the RPM. I found the RPM in the http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4 mirror. Thanks for the reply. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:27 PM, wrote: >> Opps - on CentOS 4 I upgrade from firefox-3.0

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Diederick Stoffers wrote: > [r...@localhost ~]# uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:48:13 > EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > On 7 dec 2009, at 13:12, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > what kernel are you running? > > On

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Diederick Stoffers > wrote: > > [r...@localhost ~]# uname -a > > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 > 16:48:13 > > EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > On 7 de

[CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

I'm setting up a Rocks Cluster Linux system using Centos 5.3 as the OS. Rocks is an organizing framework for multi node systems, it tries to orchestrate kickstart installs across many systems and interaction among those many systems as a compute cluster. One problem

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before > Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in > other words. Crap, I just removed one with no backups. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "I

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before >> Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in >> other words. > > Crap, I just removed one with no backups. Actually, nope, I still have a copy.All

[CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Alan McKay wrote: >> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before >> Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in >> other words. > > Crap, I just removed one with no backups. and 1) as it was partially inconsistent with upstream,

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

> Any ideas about how to go back in time and get the last 5.3 update batch?? Grab a copy of centos/5.3/updates along with centos/5.3/os from your nearest CentOS mirror and set up your own local repository. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

Paul Johnson wrote: > I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before > Centos 5.4 was released. The last update set that applied to 5.3,in > other words. But I can't figure how to get that, because Centos > servers just have the current updates under a folder marked 5. If I >

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

Lars Hecking wrote: >> Any ideas about how to go back in time and get the last 5.3 update batch?? >> > > Grab a copy of centos/5.3/updates along with centos/5.3/os from your > nearest CentOS mirror and set up your own local repository. > thats been purged from the mirrors.

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Lars Hecking wrote: >>> Any ideas about how to go back in time and get the last 5.3 update batch?? >>> >> >>  Grab a copy of centos/5.3/updates along with centos/5.3/os from your >>  nearest CentOS mirror and set up your own local repository.

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > >>> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before >>> Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in >>> other words. >> >> Crap, I just removed one with no backu

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

On 07/12/09 23:19, Brian Mathis wrote: > Not true, and it's the thing that's most irritating about this policy. > The RPMs are still there, just not the sqlite repodata files that yum > needs. So if you got to a mirror, you can see all of the files, but > yum doesn't work. well, Brian - you se

[CentOS] Xorg goes bonkers, bazillion NVIDIA errors...

on one of my Centos 5.4 boxes, a machine that's around 5 years old and has always run Centos and X, and has had the same Nvidia card in it for its entire life, I'm suddenly getting these lines in the xorg log file: (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x, 0x03c0) (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed

Re: [CentOS] Xorg goes bonkers, bazillion NVIDIA errors...

At Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:58:40 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > on one of my Centos 5.4 boxes, a machine that's around 5 years old and > has always run Centos and X, and has had the same Nvidia card in it for > its entire life, I'm suddenly getting these lines in the xorg log file: > > (WW) NV

Re: [CentOS] Xorg goes bonkers, bazillion NVIDIA errors...

fred smith wrote: > other than some vaguely-defined "nvidia driver problems", what may be > going on here? (I can buy an nvidia conflict with the stock centos > kernel, but I'd be dubious, since it's been running this driver for > two years and earlier versions for 4 or 5. any such conflict would

Re: [CentOS] Xorg goes bonkers, bazillion NVIDIA errors...

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:24:01PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:58:40 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > on one of my Centos 5.4 boxes, a machine that's around 5 years old and > > has always run Centos and X, and has had the same Nvidia card in it for > > its en

Re: [CentOS] Xorg goes bonkers, bazillion NVIDIA errors...

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:46:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > other than some vaguely-defined "nvidia driver problems", what may be > > going on here? (I can buy an nvidia conflict with the stock centos > > kernel, but I'd be dubious, since it's been running this driver for > >

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

Florin Andrei wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL >> anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss >> problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what >> have you > > I've both hea

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

Ian Forde wrote: > On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei > wrote: > >> John R Pierce wrote: >>> I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in >>> RHEL >>> anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic >>> loss >>> problems and day long FSCK ses

[CentOS] Does CentOS provide commerical support ?

Hi , I wanted to know about any commercial support for centOS 5.3 like kernel customization and others from centOS community or developers. Please provide information on the same Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Limited and is intended

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS provide commerical support ?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:19 AM, wrote: > > Hi , > > I wanted to know about any commercial support for centOS 5.3 like kernel > customization and others from centOS community or developers. Please provide > information on the same > > Regards, > Premraj M > > If I'm not mistaken, this is where R

Re: [CentOS] Does CentOS provide commerical support ?

> > I wanted to know about any commercial support for centOS > 5.3 like kernel > > customization > If I'm not mistaken, this is where Redhat comes to play. Will RedHat compile a custom kernel for one user? I think they are too large an organization for that. I think the OP is looking for a cons