Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Christopher Chan wrote: > Keith Keller wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:07:17AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux > >> kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case.

Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-12 Thread John R Pierce
hadi motamedi wrote: > > Thank you for your reply . Can you please help me on the real scenario > , as the followings? if you can't figure it out from the man pages and the hints I gave, hire someone who can ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] digikam and mp3 sound on RHEL

2010-01-12 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/12/2010 07:28 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi All; > > after years of running free Linux distros I've finally come to a place where I > must have solid stability for my work laptop so I've purchased RHEL > Workstation. > > I like it well enough - however I'd like to install digikam and get my s

Re: [CentOS] update of openssh-server i386 4.3p2-36.el5, dependencies

2010-01-12 Thread Christopher Thorjussen
>On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Akemi Yagi >>On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Filipe Brandenburger >> wrote: >> >> This ecryptfs-utils 75-5.el5 is actually a backport of a RHEL 5.4 >> package that was released early for being a "critical" security >> update. I have no idea if the issue will be fi

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: >> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running > Centos 5.4 on it... I've got a couple of DL380's at one

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail >>> >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running >> Centos 5.4 o

[CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread attila.mathe
Hi All, I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. Everything appears to work fine. I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. [r...@panda]# uname -a Linux Panda 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread Eero Volotinen
Quoting attila.ma...@orange-ftgroup.com: > Hi All, > > > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware > web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. > > [r...@pand

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread attila.mathe
Yep, here's the output: [r...@panda vmware-server-distrib]# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Server are stopped. Stopping VMware autostart virtual machines: Virtual machines[FAILED] Stopping VMware management services: VMware

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the > >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > >> > >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanki

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread John Doe
From: Karanbir Singh > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the > >> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > > Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running > > Centos 5.4 on it... > I'

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the >>> world is littered with stores of cciss fail >> Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6 and running >> Centos 5.4 on it... > > I'v

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Per Qvindesland
Hi Appologies I have not been following the thread here so am just wondering if you have a MSA, EVA, XP left hand san or if this is just storage that sits on the server with samba share? also what link is between fc or ethernet. Regards Per Qvindesland At Tisdag, 12-01-2010 on 11:57 "Chan Chung

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher : > Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better > memorize the after hours password for HP support. I have had lots[1] of problems lately with DIMMs becoming defective in six month old G5 HPs. Could just be bad luck or maybe just pu

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM, wrote: > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. What does that mean? Does it work fine or does it only pretend to work (fine)? > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware >

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
>> Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I >> don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsiste

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher : >> Eeek! That thing will be hosting the school's vle. Looks like I better >> memorize the after hours password for HP support. > > I have had lots[1] of problems lately with DIMMs becoming defective in > six month old G5 HPs. Cou

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 12.01.2010 09:01, schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? > Enjoying the fact that "sh

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi > > Appologies I have not been following the thread here so am just > wondering if you have a MSA, EVA, XP left hand san or if this is just > storage that sits on the server with samba share? also what link is > between fc or ethernet. If you are asking me, then there

[CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hi, we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two different types of server by a provider: - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_best_of.xm

[CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download

2010-01-12 Thread Anas Alnaffar
>From where can I download Centos5.4 Thanks Anas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download

2010-01-12 Thread Pintér Tibor
Anas Alnaffar wrote: > From where can I download Centos5.4 > > Thanks http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30 t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:27 AM, wrote: > Hi All, > > > I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. > Everything appears to work fine. > I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware > web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. There is a kn

Re: [CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download

2010-01-12 Thread Anas Alnaffar
Thanks a lot Anas -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Pintér Tibor Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:41 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] need Centos5.4 url download Anas Alnaffar wrote: > From where can I d

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. >> Everything appears to work fine. >> I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware >> web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. > > There is

Re: [CentOS] digikam and mp3 sound on RHEL

2010-01-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > I like it well enough - however I'd like to install digikam and get my system > to play mp3's.  I'm thinking I could get both of these from a centos > repository. What do you'all think? There is a known issue (and a workaround) with digika

Re: [CentOS] Setup multiple bridges for use with KVM

2010-01-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jacob Hydeman wrote on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:50:17 -0800: > I've setup just the IPADDR= and NETMASK= to have different static IPs in > different subnets and changed to the BOOTPROTO=static in each of the > ifcfg-brX scripts. > > This hasn't fixed my issue. Perhaps it's because of the way I'm trying

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/1/12 Chan Chung Hang Christopher : > Boy, a Tyan or Supermicro solution is looking better by the minute for > the new server I plan to get the school for its library server and other > uses. If only Supermicro had a local distributor...I have not had a good > look at their solutions yet becaus

[CentOS] Strange problem updating machine

2010-01-12 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi Today I updated one machine with CentOS-5.4 (2.6.18-164.6.1.el5) x86_64 (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz) to "2.6.18-164.10.1.el5", but in some places, like /boot[1] and in the menu /boot/grub/menu.lst[2], appeared as 2.6.18-164.1.10 - the "1" and the "10" swapped. Did anybody else had

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread m . roth
> Hi, > > we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two > different types of server by a provider: > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). > http://www.ovh.co.uk/produc

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 2.0.2 and Centos 5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: >> I know of the issue using vmware server 2.0.2 and centos 5.4, but is their >> any reason not to use the .rpm install of  for centos?  I have always used >> the .tar file but this time used t

Re: [CentOS] Strange problem updating machine

2010-01-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
those are 128 figures, a 5.3 kernel. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS

2010-01-12 Thread Anas Alnaffar
I have just installed an SVN server on a CentOS 5.4 machine. how I can start the SVN server automatically at the boot of the machine. Anas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hi, > > we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two > different types of server by a provider: > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > - B: the other with 750

Re: [CentOS] I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS

2010-01-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I have just installed an SVN server on a CentOS 5.4 machine. Did you install mod_dav_svn (Apach httpd module) or the standalone svnserve? > how I can start the SVN server automatically at the boot of the machine. If it is mod_dav_svn, just make sure that Apache httpd is started automatically:

[CentOS] KVM management tools.....

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Bishop
Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. Running Centos 5.4 and have several machines and want to migrate off of vmware server 2.x. So far it appears that the management tools haven't quite cought up to Vmware but are gaining and closing. I have been looking at convirt, and oth

Re: [CentOS] I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS

2010-01-12 Thread John Doe
From: Anas Alnaffar >I have just installed an SVN >server on a CentOS 5.4 machine. >how I can start the SVN server >automatically at the boot of the machine. How did you install it... from rpm? source? Using builtin auth or ssh? What does the documentation say? Does it provide an init.rd script?

Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....

2010-01-12 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 09:13 -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: > Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. Running > Centos 5.4 and have several machines and want to migrate off of vmware > server 2.x. So far it appears that the management tools haven't quite > cought up to Vmware but are

Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....

2010-01-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/01/10 15:13, Tom Bishop wrote: > Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. consider posting to the centos-virt list ? -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : h

Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks and will do... On 1/12/10, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 15:13, Tom Bishop wrote: >> Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. > > consider posting to the centos-virt list ? > > -- > Karanbir Singh > kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh >

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:41:19AM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the > >> world is littered with stores of cciss fail > > Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370 G6

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > And I've been running DL380 and DL360 G3/G4 servers for years without > problems.. with CentOS and Xen.. using cciss local storage. :) I've used HP/cciss on a couple hundred systems over the past 7 years, can only recall 2 issues, both around a drive failing the controlle

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/01/10 12:22, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Which is probably the reason why the ZFS-folks are trying to move as > much intelligence out of the HBA into the OS. not something that is really working - given that I've seen centos stock with a few hba's easily our perform raid-z - with better reliabil

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Mathieu Baudier wrote: > My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD > drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and > the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services > should be fast, always available, and the related data as safe a

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread m . roth
> Mathieu Baudier wrote: > >> My question is whether it is worth using one of type A (with SSD >> drives) in order to host the critical data such as the web sites and >> the subversion repository (critical in the sense that these services >> should be fast, always available, and the related data as

Re: [CentOS] multipath

2010-01-12 Thread Paras pradhan
Upgrding the kernel to 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5xen brought back /dev/dm-* and now multipath -ll has the ouput. I am curious about what has caused the lost of /dev/dm* in my previous kernel. Any ideas? Paras. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Yes every thing's loaded. > > Here

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > >> Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I > >> don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring > >> wise. > > > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/12/2010 10:39 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. >>> >>> Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share >>> of

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> impressive, though they are pricey. If you have simple requirements > it's probably not bad though(will be a few times more $ than the > hosting provider your looking at, but hey you wanted fast, always > available, and safe, those aren't cheap). You can provision machines We don't have extremel

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:16 -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > CentOS 5.4 x86_64 works fine on the x4540s, I've installed it myself and > didn't have to do anything special to see and use all of the disks. > > In my testing, the IO was faster and the storage easier to administer > with when us

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Eero Volotinen
Quoting Mathieu Baudier : >> impressive, though they are pricey. If you have simple requirements >> it's probably not bad though(will be a few times more $ than the >> hosting provider your looking at, but hey you wanted fast, always >> available, and safe, those aren't cheap). You can provision m

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Well, if you really want to buy fast and expensive ssd from intel then > just do it, but do not go with cheap ssds. Ok, I see your point (also putting it in relation with other helpful comments from this thread): you mean that the SSD drives that this provider offers: http://www.intel.com/design

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Mathieu Baudier wrote: > http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm > are mainstream SSD (not enterprise) and thus are likely to bring me > problems. At this point I would say any SSD that is not from STEC is not "enterprise", it seems most vendors at least for the moment have pa

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 01/12/2010 12:20 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:16 -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: >> CentOS 5.4 x86_64 works fine on the x4540s, I've installed it myself and >> didn't have to do anything special to see and use all of the disks. >> >> In my testing, the IO was faster and the stora

Re: [CentOS] multipath

2010-01-12 Thread Paras pradhan
Can anybody tell me if my multipath o/p is fine? I have a active/active setup and when I unplug the FC SAN cable on one of the ports of my HBA my host is being un responsive and need to reboot it. When I do multipath -ll I can see: [r...@cvprd2 etc]# multipath -ll mpath2 (360060e8004770d00

[CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks! I'm doing some %pre work for the first time in a very long time, and have been at this all day so far and still don't have anything sorted out properly. First I tried just doing some simple bash stuff like this %pre #!/bin/bash # stuff I reduced "stuff" down to basically a simple "se

Re: [CentOS] multipath

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Paras pradhan wrote: > Can anybody tell me if my multipath o/p is fine? Hitachi support should be able to > I have a active/active setup and when I unplug the FC SAN cable on one of > the ports of my HBA my host is being un responsive and need to reboot it. Sounds like it is mis configured, doin

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: > What am I missing here? Is /bin/bash even available during %pre ? I just started testing CentOS 5.4 yesterday w/kickstart, currently all of my systems are 5.2. Tested this under ESX 4.0 this morning. This is what my %pre looks like now, I consolidated all configs into a sing

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, nate wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: > >> What am I missing here? > > Is /bin/bash even available during %pre ? I was wondering that myself, but it did not complain, and seems to run, and it is given as an example here : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstar

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs there %pre #!/bin/sh # exec 1>&3 # exec > /dev/tty # chvt 3 # exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 # clear SAVEPS3=$PS3 PS3="Use standard disk partitioning? " STDISK="" sel

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: > The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window > that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs > there Maybe a different approach? I set variables on the kickstart command line for custom options and have the installer evaluate those opt

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, nate wrote: > Maybe a different approach? But this should work ... > I think your %pre command is hanging because it's waiting for > input. I think you are right, but I just don't get why it is behaving the way it is. Either hangs up front, or at the back end,

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Keith Keller
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:01:42AM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? I don't

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window > that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs > there [snip] > select STDISK in yes no > do >        [ "$STDISK" != "" ]     && break > done > PS3=$SAVEPS3

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > But this works: > .. > for item in ${DISABLE_LIST}; do chkconfig ${item} off; done Mine is working fine when I do this first : chvt 3 But then when I get to the end it hangs.I am now trying to figure out what my console number was before t

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
OK, at the end of my %pre I do chvt 1 and it at least goes further and says it is starting the X server 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... (etc) started successfully But it does not switch to it. Which just reminded me that I could just run this in text mode! That would probably solve the problem, but now I'

[CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I have a CentOS 5.4 web server. I have some stuff that runs on 443. When I hit https:// The user gets a warning saying that site identity could not be verified and the user can add an exception if they want. How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't these

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> The user gets a warning saying that site identity could not > be verified and the user can add an exception if they want. Those are SSL Cert warnings. You will get to get a signed cert to avoid them. SSL Certs are pretty cheap now. http://startssl.org will generate certs for free but you h

[CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all; I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the following: yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugin

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread m . roth
> Hi All, > > I have a CentOS 5.4 web server. I have some stuff that runs on 443. > > When I hit https:// > > The user gets a warning saying that site identity could not be verified > and the user can add an exception if they want. > > How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert?

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Slack-Moehrle wrote on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:18:15 -0800 (PST): > How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Either that or allow the exception or import the CA cert to the browser. This is not a CentOS issue at all. Folks, please keep off-topic questions off the list. Kai --

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
chvt 2 takes me to a root command prompt! from there I tried manually "chvt 3" which took me back where I was chvt 4 does not seem to do me any good 5 ... nada 6 ... now we're somewhere! It is coming back for me and giving me errors in my disk partitioning. Within the X GUI! I think I have som

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi, >> How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't >> these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do >> this too. >The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And >you'll have to answer a *lot* of questions Security

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 10-01-12 à 15:32, Slack-Moehrle a écrit : Hi, How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do this too. The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And you'll ha

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > Hi, > >>> How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't >>> these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to do >>> this too. > >>The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitena

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:23 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav > lsdvd mplayerp

Re: [CentOS] Get Me Outta Here! Web site security issue

2010-01-12 Thread m . roth
Jason wrote: > mark wrote: >> Jason wrote: >>> How do I stop this from happing? Do I need to buy an SSL cert? Aren't >>> these really expensive per server and I have 5 servers I would need to >>> do >>> this too. > >>The *only* way is to buy certs. And it'll be one for each sitename. And >>you'll h

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread lostson
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:23 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: > > > yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav > lsdvd mplayerp

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Steve Huff
On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? i have the following packages installed: rhythmbox-0.11.6-4.el5 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf and my RHEL 5.4 system plays MP3s. -steve -- If this were pl

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. > Use the rpmfusion repo then do a I can't say that I've ever had a single system every trashed by using RPMForge. This is why the yum-priorities package exists for any repo you want to use, so you don't

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:47 -0600, lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Discussion on that for us? > Use the rpmfusion repo then do a > > yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad > > And now Rhythmbox will play mp3's witho

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi all; > > I'm actually running RHEL 5.4 > > I installed the rpmforge centos repo (and disabled it). Then I installed the > following: Before you get your system all hosed using ANY third-party repos, I suggest you read these two pages first. This explains the prioriti

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? I don't know about rhythmbox - but fluendo has a free mp3 plugin that works extremely well for other GStreamer apps. http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ It won't allow you

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread m . roth
> Kevin Kempter wrote: > >> Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? > > I don't know about rhythmbox - but fluendo has a free mp3 plugin that > works extremely well for other GStreamer apps. > > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ > > It won't a

[CentOS] Vmware server 1.x

2010-01-12 Thread mattias
Anyone running centos 1.x on centos 5.3? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread Carlos Santana
Hi, I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new file the default permissions are again username:username. How can I give ownership permissions

[CentOS] Trip to FOSDEM from London

2010-01-12 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hello We are organizing a trip to Brussels for Fosdem in February starting from London. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Development European Meeting) is a European event centered around Free and Open Source software development. It is aimed at developers and all interested in the Free and Open Sourc

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread nate
Carlos Santana wrote: > How can I give ownership permissions on a particular directory so > that any files created in that directory will always have specifc > username:groupname permissions? make the directory setgid chmod g+s > Also is there any option that would allow only owner to delete fi

Re: [CentOS] Trip to FOSDEM from London

2010-01-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/01/10 21:36, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > We will be leaving London on Friday (5. Feb) evening and returning on > Sunday (7. Feb). One of our goals is it to keep the total cost for the > weekend under 200 Pounds, which is quite cheep for a weekend in > Brussels. I'll see you guys at the o

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: > Hi, > > I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that > it is owned by username:groupname , where groupname is not the > default group, i.e., username. However, when a user creates a new > file the default permissions are again

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x

2010-01-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/01/10 21:34, mattias wrote: > Anyone running centos 1.x on centos 5.3? > Do you have something to talk about or are you just conducting a survey ? hint: email and mailing lists are not IM or SMS style interactive to-fro media! -- Karanbir Singh kbsi...@karan.org | http://www.karan.org/ |

Re: [CentOS] Trip to FOSDEM from London

2010-01-12 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 12/01/10 21:36, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: >> We will be leaving London on Friday (5. Feb) evening and returning on >> Sunday (7. Feb). One of our goals is it to keep the total cost for the >> weekend under 200 Pounds, which is quite c

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x

2010-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/12/2010 3:34 PM, mattias wrote: > Anyone running centos 1.x on centos 5.3? > If you mean vmware 1.x, I have a few of them - or did, the Centos servers may all be updated to 5.4 now.. Starting over, I'd probably run ESXi on the hardware and Centos as one or more of the guests, though. --

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
Just to confirm - working great! Just have to do "chvt 2" at the beginning of the %pre to get into text mode, and then "chvt 6" at the end to flip back to X mode. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread Carlos Santana
Thanks nate and Paul.. Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you mentioned? - CS. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have changed directory ownership permissions recursively such that >> it

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 1.x

2010-01-12 Thread Max Hetrick
Les Mikesell wrote: > If you mean vmware 1.x, I have a few of them - or did, the Centos > servers may all be updated to 5.4 now.. Starting over, I'd probably run > ESXi on the hardware and Centos as one or more of the guests, though. Agreed. That's exactly what I started to do too. You get a lo

[CentOS] offtopic repo's further discussion

2010-01-12 Thread lostson
Hello All I may have ruffled some feathers with a comment i made earlier about rpmforge. This was posted back on the ML. On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:47 -0600, lostson wrote: > For one stop using rpmforge this repo does nothing but trash a system. Discussion on that for us? So to oblige here i

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: > Thanks nate and Paul.. > > Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you > mentioned? I'd be leery of doing that unless the only items below the top directory are other directories (i.e., no regular files). If you have subdirector

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions

2010-01-12 Thread Rob Kampen
Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks nate and Paul.. Do I need to use -R recursive option for any of the commands you mentioned? - CS. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I have changed directory ownership permissions recur

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Drew
>> ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply >> sucks ;-( > > So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? > That the software raid people were and have always been right? Depends what the software raid people were saying. :) Hardware & Softwar

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