[CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart. So I cannot boot the Centos 5.4 net install CD. Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google an

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/28 Alan McKay : > Hey folks, > > I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a > faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via > Kickstart.   So I cannot boot the Centos 5.4 net install CD. > > Is PXE kickstart easy to set up?  I have a laptop here wit

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 Feb 2010, at 16:51, Alan McKay wrote: > I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a > faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via > Kickstart. Had a similar problem and easiest solution in the end was to buy a USB CD drive from local computer sto

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP >already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does >not look simple. Sure, http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installation_Guide/ch-pxe.html Also, if you have an OS on the server,

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 23:23 -0700, Craig White wrote: > Note that ldap 'client' applications like ldapsearch > use /etc/openldap/ldap.conf so I would suspect that the 'certificates' > used by the 2 machines are different. I thought I would follow up on this problem. I did finally get the ldapsear

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 17:24 -0700, Craig White wrote: > doing a new setup using methodologies that have already been tagged as > deprecated seems to be a really bad idea. Even though it currently > works, you can be certain that at some point down the road, it will > cease to work... that is what

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Ian Murray
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE , maybe it's a bit easier to > download full centos dvd and install from it? It's a hardware issue with the server drive. Having said that, the CentOS net install CD is pretty small, so server's drive might read it enough to get going... ___

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 February 2010 17:42, Ian Murray wrote: > It's a hardware issue with the server drive. Having said that, the CentOS net > install CD is pretty small, so server's drive might read it enough to get > going... Any virtual drive support in the ILO / similar? Ben __

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Barry Brimer
> Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP > already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does > not look simple. system-config-netboot should be able to take care of almost everything for you .. although you will need to add a statement like the followin

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:07 -0700, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 23:23 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > Note that ldap 'client' applications like ldapsearch > > use /etc/openldap/ldap.conf so I would suspect that the 'certificates' > > used by the 2 machines are different. > > I though

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Server Access Problem

2010-02-28 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > do you mean other than the fact that this simply talks about TLS Client > and that SSL is deprecated and generally ignored in the documentation? > > SSL communication is different than TLS. With all due respect deprecated doesn't me

[CentOS] cron mystery

2010-02-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've just noticed that cron.daily, etc, do not seem to be running on my CentOS-5.4 system. The scripts in /etc/cron.d/ all run fine, but those in /etc/cron.hourly, etc, seem to be ignored. I see that according to /var/log/cron these commands are seen, eg Feb 28 18:01:01 helen crond[6680]: (root)

Re: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed

2010-02-28 Thread Fernando Gleiser
- Original Message > From: Alan McKay > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Sun, February 28, 2010 1:51:18 PM > Subject: [CentOS] emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed > > Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP > already going. I google and a bunch of st

[CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread John R Pierce
this has never happened to me before, and I'm somewhat at a loss. got a email from the cron thing... /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check: WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md10 WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md11 ok, md10 and md11 are each raid1's made from 2 x 72GB scsi d

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/28 John R Pierce : > this has never happened to me before, and I'm somewhat at a loss.  got a > email from the cron thing... > >    /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check: > >    WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md10 >    WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md11 > > > ok, md10 and md11 are

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Hinse
Am 28.02.2010 22:03, schrieb John R Pierce: > WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on Have a look at http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=199 It says: > A `echo repair >/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action` followed by a `echo > check >/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action` seems to have corrected it. Now > `cat /sys/block/

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Clint Dilks
On 01/03/10 10:16, Peter Hinse wrote: Am 28.02.2010 22:03, schrieb John R Pierce: WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on Have a look at http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=199 It says: A `echo repair>/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action` followed by a `echo check>/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action` se

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread John R Pierce
Peter Hinse wrote: > Am 28.02.2010 22:03, schrieb John R Pierce: > >> WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on >> > > Have a look at http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=199 > It says: > > >> A `echo repair >/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action` followed by a `echo >> check >/sys/block/md0/md/sync_action` se

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Clint Dilks
On 01/03/10 10:23, John R Pierce wrote: > Peter Hinse wrote: > >> Am 28.02.2010 22:03, schrieb John R Pierce: >> >> >>> WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on >>> >>> >> Have a look at http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?p=199 >> It says: >> >> >> >>> A `echo repair>/sys/block/md0/md/syn

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread John R Pierce
Clint Dilks wrote: > It has to do with aborted writes in SWAP. Your data should be fine so swap on LVM on MD mirrors is a bad idea? frankly, I usually avoid LVM< but I figured I'd setup this system with it and see how it goes. its just a dev box, but we're about to put some oracle stuff on it

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Clint Dilks
On 01/03/10 10:27, Clint Dilks wrote: > On 01/03/10 10:23, John R Pierce wrote: > >> Peter Hinse wrote: >> >> >>> Am 28.02.2010 22:03, schrieb John R Pierce: >>> >>> >>> WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on >>> Have a look at http://www.arrfab.net/blog/?

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Clint Dilks
On 01/03/10 10:31, John R Pierce wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > >> It has to do with aborted writes in SWAP. Your data should be fine >> > so swap on LVM on MD mirrors is a bad idea? > > > frankly, I usually avoid LVM< but I figured I'd setup this system with > it and see how it goes. it

Re: [CentOS] cron mystery

2010-02-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 02/28/2010 01:00 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've just noticed that cron.daily, etc, > do not seem to be running on my CentOS-5.4 system. > The scripts in /etc/cron.d/ all run fine, > but those in /etc/cron.hourly, etc, seem to be ignored. > > I see that according to /var/log/cron > these comman

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-02-28 Thread Michael Klinosky
Eero Volotinen wrote: > On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 >> (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on >> it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. >> However, under

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread John R Pierce
Clint Dilks wrote: > SWAP inside LVM is fine in my experience. Personally I consider this a > benign error and generally ignore it unless the mismatch count is very high And how do I know all these mirror data mismatches are Swap? does not each mismatch mean the mirrors disagree, which means o

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin Franz
John R Pierce wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > >> SWAP inside LVM is fine in my experience. Personally I consider this a >> benign error and generally ignore it unless the mismatch count is very high >> > > And how do I know all these mirror data mismatches are Swap? does not > each mismat

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED - Shutdown/poweroff does not power off machine

2010-02-28 Thread Scot P. Floess
Neat - I'll give that a try. The machine is running Fedora right now...but maybe I'll reinstall CentOS :) On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Eero Volotinen wrote: >> On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: >>> I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 >>> (kernel 2.6

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Clint Dilks
On 01/03/10 11:37, John R Pierce wrote: > Clint Dilks wrote: > >> SWAP inside LVM is fine in my experience. Personally I consider this a >> benign error and generally ignore it unless the mismatch count is very high >> > And how do I know all these mirror data mismatches are Swap? does

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:37:13PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > And how do I know all these mirror data mismatches are Swap? does not > each mismatch mean the mirrors disagree, which means one of them is > wrong. Which one? since they aren't timestamped or checksummed (like This thread is v

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 28, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:37:13PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >> And how do I know all these mirror data mismatches are Swap? does >> not >> each mismatch mean the mirrors disagree, which means one of them is >> wrong. Which one? since th

[CentOS] CentOS 4.8 - PHP Version 5.1.6 and SQLite

2010-02-28 Thread Ron Young
I wish to use the SQLite extensions for php but the version I updated to with yum update (see above) was compiled '--without-sqlite'. I could sure use some help getting these extensions enabled. As I am unfamiliar with OOP the references to PDO on the web have been meaningless to me. Furth