Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: > Simon Billis wrote: > > > Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the > > functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM > > image or files from the VM filesystem. Entry level storage from s

Re: [CentOS] xentop batch mode

2010-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:06:37AM +0200, Nux wrote: > Hi guys, > First of all, sorry to send this one here on the centos ml. I know it's kind > of off-topic, but the xen-users list seems a dead end, I was hoping some of > you guys are experienced in this. > > I have a problem with a xen 3.4.2 o

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Billis
Pasi Kärkkäinen sent a missive on 2010-02-09: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: >> Simon Billis wrote: >> >>> Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the >>> functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete >>> VM image or files

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines fromCitrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Geoff Galitz
If the goal is to backup the VMs rather than the Citrix XenServer Dom0, I find that exporting each VM to a shared disk (NFS, iSCSI, whatever) is the easiest solution. If you need zero-downtime, then make a snapshot of the VM and then export it. I did this specifically for the purpose of disaste

[CentOS] Asus Xonar DX PCIe sound card?

2010-02-09 Thread Tony Mountifield
Can anyone here report success or failure at making the Asus Xonar DX PCI-express sound card work under CentOS 4? Or failing that, 5? Google only turned up people using it on Ubunt or SuSE... I need to specify the addition of audio outputs to a HP DL360 system, and don't want to buy stuff that wi

[CentOS] strange disk error

2010-02-09 Thread Алексей
tabase 4850 (20100209) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.esetnod32.ru ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] strange disk error

2010-02-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Алексей wrote: > Hi everyone . > > Recently I had a strange error on one of my servers ,running Centos 5.4 > 64bit > > FAILED > kernel: status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 > kernel: <6>sd: Current: sense key: Illegal Request > kernel: Add. Sense: Logical block address out of

Re: [CentOS] strange disk error

2010-02-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Алексей wrote: > Hi everyone . > > Recently I had a strange error on one of my servers ,running Centos > 5.4 > 64bit > > FAILED > kernel: status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 > kernel: <6>sd: Current: sense key: Illegal Request > kernel: Add. Sense

Re: [CentOS] Using (was: Announcing) Gluster Storage Platform

2010-02-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > > Alan McKay wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Christopher Chan > >> wrote: > >>> A cluster filesystem > >> OK, but you've just given me a circular definition. > >> > >>> When you do not need/w

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Bishop
I looked over an most of which I have already done, the last piece that I am trying to address is how to do authentication with Apache against active directory, mod_auth_pam is one way but I have not had any luck getting it to compile with the latest ApacheThanks On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:49 PM

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Pat and Lori Boyer
I've had decent luck with LDAP authentication for Apache. AD does not support anonymous LDAP searches so you have to have a user account that has the ability to search AD. Here's a modified sample config (.htaccess or httpd.conf) that includes security group membership checks. This would require th

[CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
we're having a weird disk I/O problem on a 5.4 server connected to an external SAS storage with an LSI logic megaraid sas 1078. The server is used as a samba file server. Every time we try to copy some large file to the storage-based file system, the disk utilization see-saws up to 100% to seve

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Bishop
This looks like the way to go, I don't like the username /pass stored in plain text but maybe if I create a special group that doesn't really have any privileges this would work, geez AD is just plain bad...lol, Thanks. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Pat and Lori Boyer wrote: > I've had decent

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread nate
Fernando Gleiser wrote: > we're having a weird disk I/O problem on a 5.4 server connected to an > external SAS storage with an LSI logic megaraid sas 1078. Not sure I know what the issue is but telling us how many disks, what the RPM of the disks are, and what level of RAID would probably help. I

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>This looks like the way to go, I don't like the username /pass stored in plain >text but maybe if I create a special group that doesn't really have any >privileges this would work, geez AD is just plain bad...lol, Thanks. I guess you think insecure would be better? If I understand your need, yo

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Bishop
Point taken and I do understand, in reality I would rather have nothing to do with MS which is insecure from the start, ever try to firewall an SBS 2003 install, good luck, they recommend turning it off, go figurelol On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >This looks like

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> Take my advice: >>> yum erase samba == uber happiness >>> >>> Get ldap working, no interop issues with the old samba version in rhel and >>> newer ms servers. Plus you will be using something forward compatible that >>> a txt edit could

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>That RID map feature of samba is great. Forgot about that, AFAIK, you can do that w/ SFU & pam mods. I have two Samba servers left that I want to get rid of:) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] xentop batch mode

2010-02-09 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:06:37AM +0200, Nux wrote: >> Hi guys, >> First of all, sorry to send this one here on the centos ml. I know it's kind >> of off-topic, but the xen-users list seems a dead end, I was hoping some of >> you guys are

Re: [CentOS] Lightscribe

2010-02-09 Thread Robert
Arun Khan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Robert wrote: > >> I just bought an HP DVD Writer 1040r (as identified by k3b), an external >> USB-connected CD/DVD burner. The drive gets assigned /dev/scd0. I can >> burn CDs and DVDs, read from CDs and DVDs, boot from DVDs (and, I >> ass

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 18:08 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >This looks like the way to go, I don't like the username /pass stored in > >plain text but maybe if I create a special group that doesn't really have > >any privileges this would work, geez AD is just plain bad...lol, Thanks. > > I gu

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-09 Thread Alan McKay
> I mean if you go from supplying perl and some perl-scripted functionality, you > either have to drop the functionality or some engineer has to rewrite the code > in a different language - something that usually isn't cheap.  I've never > tried > perl2c - if such a thing exists it probably embeds

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread Fernando Gleiser
- Original Message > From: nate > > Not sure I know what the issue is but telling us how many disks, > what the RPM of the disks are, and what level of RAID would probably > help. > > It sounds like perhaps you have a bunch of 7200RPM disks in a RAID > setup where the data:parity ratio

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>seems to me that permitting an anonymous bind to LDAP is inherently more >secure than requiring a user/password combination so I don't think that >your explanation is exactly true. There are ways to create accounts just for this with reduced privileges. Research technet... >In Microsoft's view,

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread nate
Fernando Gleiser wrote: > yes, ita bunch of 12 7k2 RPM disks organized as 1 hot spare, 2 parity disks, > 9 data disks in a RAID 5 configuration. is 9/2 a "high ratio"? Perhaps RAID 6, as I've never heard of RAID 5 with two parity (two parity is dual parity which is RAID 6). RAID 6 performance ca

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread nate
nate wrote: > Perhaps RAID 6, as I've never heard of RAID 5 with two parity (two > parity is dual parity which is RAID 6). Forgot to mention my own personal preference on my high end SAN at least is for RAID 5 with a 3:1 parity ratio, or a max of 5:1 or 6:1, really never higher than that unless a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>That RID map feature of samba is great. > > Forgot about that, AFAIK, you can do that w/ SFU & pam mods. > > I have two Samba servers left that I want to get rid of:) You can do it with SFU, but SFU doesn't create UID/GIDs for existing use

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems with LSI Logic RAID controller

2010-02-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: nate >> >> Not sure I know what the issue is but telling us how many disks, >> what the RPM of the disks are, and what level of RAID would probably >> help. >> >> It sounds like perhaps you have a bun

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Burkland
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ross Walker [rswwal...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:08 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jose

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Jay Leafey
If you are using AD for JUST authentication and not user information, you can use the PAM Kerberos stuff. We've been using it for a couple of years from both CentOS/RHEL 4 and 5 systems with good results. It was actually pretty easy to do (once we figured out which type of chicken bones to bu

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Tom Bishop
I just need something for apache auth. I have winbind working just fine for the other stuff...Thanks On 2/9/10, Jay Leafey wrote: > If you are using AD for JUST authentication and not user information, > you can use the PAM Kerberos stuff. We've been using it for a couple of > years from both Ce

Re: [CentOS] Lightscribe

2010-02-09 Thread MHR
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Robert wrote: > > Yes, I have tried DVD media that is peddled as being lightscribe capable > and just minutes ago, opened a 20-pack of CD+R that are supposedly also > lightscribe capable.  I have tried both the LaCie 4L s/w and > lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-0 a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD (Server 2008r2)

2010-02-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Ross Walker [rswwal...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:08 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 authenticating against AD

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 21:29 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >seems to me that permitting an anonymous bind to LDAP is inherently more > >secure than requiring a user/password combination so I don't think that > >your explanation is exactly true. > > There are ways to create accounts just for this

[CentOS] what causes CUPS to dis-enable a printer?

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Johnson
In our computer lab, there are 6 Centos 5.4 workstations. There is an HP printer with jet direct card. It often works. But sometimes users come and get me saying the printer is broken, but it is actually working fine for *most* of the workstations. On the troubled system, I run system-config-prin

[CentOS] R package on centos 5.1

2010-02-09 Thread hersh parikh
Hi    I want to install R package on centos 5.1, however I am not able to install it . Can anyone please tell me how can I install R on centos 5.1? Thank you Hersh Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/_

Re: [CentOS] R package on centos 5.1

2010-02-09 Thread Les Bell
hersh parikh wrote: >> I want to install R package on centos 5.1, however I am not able to install it << I'm running it here on Centos 5.4. What problem are you having? Error messages? Best, --- Les Bell [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 __

Re: [CentOS] what causes CUPS to dis-enable a printer?

2010-02-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > But sometimes users come and get me saying the printer is broken, but > it is actually working fine for *most* of the workstations. > > On the troubled system, I run system-config-printer and I check the > printer in question (un

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen Carville
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Setting up a new backuppc for a small group of device and I am running > centos 5.4 with winbind setup and working.  Everything is working and I > would like the users to authenicate using their AD creds and was wondering > what folks are using t

Re: [CentOS] R package on centos 5.1

2010-02-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, hersh parikh wrote: > Hi > >    I want to install R package on centos 5.1, however I am not able to > install it . Can anyone please tell me how can I install R on centos 5.1? I am able to install it after enabling epel and rpmforge repo: yum insta

Re: [CentOS] R package on centos 5.1

2010-02-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, hersh parikh wrote: >    I want to install R package on centos 5.1, however I am not able to > install it . Can anyone please tell me how can I install R on centos 5.1? yum -y install R Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cache

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using Active Driectory auth with Centos 5.4.....?

2010-02-09 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:21 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 18:08 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >This looks like the way to go, I don't like the username /pass stored in > > >plain text but maybe if I create a special group that doesn't really have > > >any privileges this

Re: [CentOS] what causes CUPS to dis-enable a printer?

2010-02-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > In our computer lab, there are 6 Centos 5.4 workstations. There is an > HP printer with jet direct card. It often works. > > But sometimes users come and get me saying the printer is broken, but > it is actually working fine for *most* of the