Re: [CentOS] Backuppc-updates on CentOS

2010-03-01 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Les Mikesell >Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 5:53 PM >To: centos@centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backuppc-updates on CentOS > >All repositories are hard to use with other repositories.

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

2010-03-01 Thread Georghy
Benjamin Donnachie a écrit : > 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 en

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

2010-03-01 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/3/1 Georghy : > Benjamin Donnachie a écrit : >> 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 easi

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

2010-03-01 Thread Georghy
Eero Volotinen a écrit : > 2010/3/1 Georghy : > >> Benjamin Donnachie a écrit : >> >>> 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 vi

[CentOS] extras repository broken?

2010-03-01 Thread lhecking
Been getting this for the past few days: /etc/cron.daily/yum: Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: Current : Fri Feb 26 18:03:06 2010 Downloaded: Thu Nov 5 20:40:44 2009 Then I ran yum clean all ; yum -d0 check-update and got ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.8 - PHP Version 5.1.6 and SQLite

2010-03-01 Thread John Doe
From: Ron Young >Alternatively, can someone point me to a reference that >shows actual examples of how to use PDO and SQLite? http://tinyurl.com/yanb4o4 ^_^ JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listi

[CentOS] multi-core performance

2010-03-01 Thread Pete Kay
Hi, Does anyone know how to turn on TOE ( TCP offload engine ) and RSS ( Receive-Side Scaling)? Thanks, pete ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 28 February 2010 06:54, John R Pierce wrote: > atexit.py should be part of the base python RPM in EL5 > >    # rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py >    python-2.4.3-27.el5 Did this get solved in the end? Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-03-01 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 14:37 -0800, 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

Re: [CentOS] multi-core performance

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Billis
Pete Kay sent a missive on 2010-03-01: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to turn on TOE ( TCP offload engine ) and RSS ( > Receive-Side Scaling)? > > Thanks, pete ___ CentOS > mailing list CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cent

Re: [CentOS] cron mystery

2010-03-01 Thread John Doe
From: Timothy Murphy > The scripts in /etc/cron.d/ all run fine, > but those in /etc/cron.hourly, etc, seem to be ignored. Tried: printf "#"'!'"/bin/bash\ntouch /tmp/cron.test\n" > /etc/cron.hourly/cront.test; chmod 755 /etc/cron.hourly/cront.test Next hour: $ ll /tmp/cron.test -rw-r--r--

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Did this get solved in the end? > >Ben Nope:) I started writing a Perl script to accomplish what I need yesterday. Given I have zero experience with python, it was the easier solution although I would have loved to stick with a provided solution in the event I end up overlooking something. Thank

[CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty. I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it. Only thing I found is: if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then continue else groupadd medintux

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:03 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my > already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty. > > I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it. > > Only thing I found is: > > if [ grep

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2010/3/1 Niki Kovacs : > Hi, > > I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my > already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty. > > I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it. > > Only thing I found is: > > if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then >        

[CentOS] RE: Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Frank . Brodbeck
grep medintux /etc/group || groupadd medintux or in a if operation: if [[ ! grep medintux /etc/group ]] then groupadd medintux fi Regards, Frank. Niki Kovacs schrieb am 01.03.2010 17:03:46: > Hi, > > I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my > already limited B

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Galitz
> Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like > > if !(grep medintux /etc/group) > > Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ? > I'd do it like this: grep medintux /etc/group if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "Group not found" fi - Geoff

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: >> Niki > Why don't you use groupadd -f ? It will not override the group if it > already exists, and shortens the code :) > That gets my vote :) I have seen code that creates a temp file then does a chgrp on the file. If it fails then t

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:12:15PM +0100, Geoff Galitz wrote: > I'd do it like this: > > grep medintux /etc/group > if [ $? != 0 ]; then > echo "Group not found" > fi Or allow for naming services (NIS, LDAP, whatever) if [ -z "$(getent group medintux)" ] then groupadd fi --

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread m . roth
Niki wrote: > > I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my > already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty. > > I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it. > > Only thing I found is: > > if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then > continue > else >

[CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos

2010-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for centosplus reads: "Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database suppo

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

2010-03-01 Thread ken
On 02/28/2010 05:25 PM Michael Klinosky wrote: > Eero Volotinen wrote: >> On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: >>> ... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on >>> it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. >>> However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off what

Re: [CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos

2010-03-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >  http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > > and i have a couple questions and observations.  first, the entry for > centosplus reads: > > "Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database > support, a r

[CentOS] another small glitch regarding 3rd party repos -- samba sernet link broken

2010-03-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(sorry, i'm not *trying* to be a pain, i am merely succeeding.) once again, here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories there's a reference to "The SerNet Samba 3 Repository" -- that link is broken, the directory structure over at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ has change

[CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, The title says it all. My GNOME desktop is in French, so here's what my standard Applications (same word in french) menu looks like : Applications > Accessoires (Utilities) > Bureautique (Office) > Graphisme (Graphics) > Internet (Internet)

Re: [CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos

2010-03-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/1/2010 10:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >next, regarding remi collet's repo: > > "Has been recommended on the mailing list and forum for mysql 5.1 and > php5.2.9." > > however, if you check over there (say, under x86_64): > > http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/remi/x86_64/repovi

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 18:50 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > The title says it all. My GNOME desktop is in French, so here's what my > standard Applications (same word in french) menu looks like : > > Applications > Accessoires (Utilities) > > Bureautique (Office) >

Re: [CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos

2010-03-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert P. J. Day wrote on Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:54:53 -0500 (EST): > finally, all i want is to install PHP 5.3.x (and, obviously, > dependent packages) on a stock centos 5.4 system. is remi collet's > repo a good choice for that? the centos wiki recommends "extreme > caution" for that repo, which m

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > --- > That should be the right way /usr/share/apps then update it... 1) *What* should be the right way ? 2) then update it... update what ? Sorry, but this wasn't very helpful. I want to create a new *main* menu category Applications > Medintux. Just how should I go about t

[CentOS] Inquery: popular upload tools for customer codes in use

2010-03-01 Thread Robinson Tiemuqinke
Hi all,  I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to members inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite a while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and data will be verified later easily when in need.  Is there one or more popula

Re: [CentOS] issues with 3rd party repos for centos

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:54:53 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos > here: > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > > and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for > cento

[CentOS] Success moving Xen LVMs from 32 to 64bit host

2010-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
Just wanted to share some success I had moving some Xen guests from one server to another. Problem Recap We had Xen host on a single core 32-bit CentOS 5.4 installation on an AMD Athlon 2.1 GhZ system that was giving hard drive errors and needed to move the LVM-backed Xen images to another server.

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:47 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > JohnS a écrit : > > > --- > > That should be the right way /usr/share/apps then update it... > > 1) *What* should be the right way ? > > 2) then update it... update what ? > > Sorry, but this wasn't very helpful. > > I want to create a

Re: [CentOS] multi-core performance

2010-03-01 Thread Clint Dilks
On 02/03/10 00:41, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to turn on TOE ( TCP offload engine ) and RSS ( > Receive-Side Scaling)? > > Thanks, > pete > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-03-01 Thread John R Pierce
JohnS wrote: > Then any reason to not run the PERC in the 2850? Non of my DB machines > run SWAP period. My thoughts on Linux swap is if I were to use it, it > can't keep up the sync pace, been there. > > these 2850 have only JBOD SCSI. PERC was an option, i didn't buy these, I inherited th

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > 1. Ok what I said was you are on the right way to doing it > > 2. Heres the easy way. > Right Click on the Applications Menu Click on Edit Menus. I think you > can figure the rest out it's pretty easy. > > OK manually you can put the *.desktop entry into /YourHomeDir/.gnom

Re: [CentOS] Inquery: popular upload tools for customer codes in use

2010-03-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/1/2010 1:18 PM, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > Hi all, > I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to members > inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite a > while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and data > will be verified lat

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 22:15 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > That's on a per-user basis. I need the new menu entry for *all* > users. > Any idea how I could achieve that ? Do the users already exist? If not, put your custom setup into /etc/skel. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.me

Re: [CentOS] How do I create a new menu category in GNOME ?

2010-03-01 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:30 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 22:15 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > That's on a per-user basis. I need the new menu entry for *all* > > users. > > Any idea how I could achieve that ? > > Do the users already exist? If not, put your custom setup > into

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-03-01 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 13:02 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > Then any reason to not run the PERC in the 2850? Non of my DB machines > > run SWAP period. My thoughts on Linux swap is if I were to use it, it > > can't keep up the sync pace, been there. > > > > > > these 2850 have

[CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM (4gb) and I wish to add more. It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic. What I want going to move to is a dell board, Intel Pentium M dual code, which supports 8gb of RAM. Can I just unplug the HD and

[CentOS] UnRAID

2010-03-01 Thread Slack-Moehrle
has anyone heard of UnRaid at: http://lime-technology.com/ Seems interesting, runs from USB. What I like is that you can add drives to your array without having to destroy it. And it lets you add any size drive that you want. You can mix, say 1tb and 2tb drives. What other ways can I do this w

Re: [CentOS] Inquery: popular upload tools for customer codes in use

2010-03-01 Thread Robinson Tiemuqinke
On Monday, March 01, 2010 1:14 PMLes Mikesell Wrote >> Hi all, >> I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to members >> inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite >> a while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and >> data will be

Re: [CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM > (4gb) and I wish to add more. > > It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic. > > What I want going to move to is a dell board, Intel Pentium M du

Re: [CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:27 -0800, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM > (4gb) and I wish to add more. > > It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic. > > What I want going to move to is a dell board, Intel Pentiu

Re: [CentOS] Inquery: popular upload tools for customer codes in use

2010-03-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/1/2010 4:31 PM, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > > >> > I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to members > >> > inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite > >> > a while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and > >> > data will be

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

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
ken wrote: >> No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system. >> >> During boot, I noticed an error line -- >> "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix." >> >> So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown. > > Great work, Michael! Where did you

Re: [CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread John R Pierce
Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM > (4gb) and I wish to add more. > > It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic. > > What I want going to move to is a dell board, Intel Pentium M dual code, > which supports 8gb of

Re: [CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:27:36 -0800 (PST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM > (4gb) and I wish to add more. > > It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic. > > What I want going to move to is a dell boa

Re: [CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a server that is running nicely, except I have hit the maximum RAM > (4gb) and I wish to add more. > > It is an ASUS board, AMD X64 dual core, nvidia nic. > > What I want going to move to is a dell board, Intel Pentium M du

Re: [CentOS] Moving hard drives

2010-03-01 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Kwan, >BTW, prior to reading your email I'd posted another message about >moving Xen systems from one system to another. The Xen infrastructure >can hide a lot of the system specific internals so you may consider >virtualizing if you think this may be a regular occurence. Very good point and I

[CentOS] Perl 5.10 as default version of Perl

2010-03-01 Thread Arvind Chandra
Current release(5.4) comes with Perl 5.8 but I was wondering if next release has Perl 5.10 as default. Thanks Arvind ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Success moving Xen LVMs from 32 to 64bit host

2010-03-01 Thread henry ritzlmayr
> Next, we copied the /etc/xen/xm_c32_001 configuration file to the > replacement server. We generated a new UUID using the "uuidgen" > utility. We also created a new MAC address. Finally, we started the > instance: Since you moved your virtual machine, you wouldn´t have to create a new UUID and