[CentOS] Very unresponsive, sometimes stalling domU (5.4, x86_64)

2010-03-02 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, please forgive cross posting, but I cannot specify the problem enough to say whether list it fits perfectly, so I'll ask on both. I have some machines based with following specs (see at the end of the email). They run CentOS 5.4 x86_64 with

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

2010-03-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:47:23PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > 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

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

2010-03-02 Thread Niki Kovacs
JohnS a écrit : > No no No... > > Here I found my link I used to do it amnually: It is for system wide... > http://wiki.matusov.sk/howto/gnome-menu-edit > > This is what I went by to do it so I could include the files in my rpm > build, which took a whole afternoon about. Thanks very much for

Re: [CentOS] Very unresponsive, sometimes stalling domU (5.4, x86_64)

2010-03-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:50AM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi list, > > please forgive cross posting, but I cannot specify the problem enough to > say whether list it fits perfectly, so I'll ask on both. > > I have some machines based wit

[CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Mountifield
I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to do is, from the currently-running system, to invoke an installation kernel and initrd in just the same way that GRUB would, giving it a boot command line th

Re: [CentOS] Perl 5.10 as default version of Perl

2010-03-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
No. http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=5 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] Sendmail analyser

2010-03-02 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I have a message file from a certain sendmail server. I am expected to report about delivery failures and the reasons thereof. Any already invented wheels? I need to do it offline and not on the sendmail server. any ides? TIA Regards, Rajagopal __

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail analyser

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Hinse
Am 02.03.2010 12:33, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: > I have a message file from a certain sendmail server. I am expected to > report about delivery failures and the reasons thereof. Any already > invented wheels? I need to do it offline and not on the sendmail > server. > > any ides? A search f

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail analyser

2010-03-02 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Peter Hinse wrote: > Am 02.03.2010 12:33, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: > > > A search for "sendmail analyzer" at freshmeat shows some results: > http://freshmeat.net/search?q=sendmail+analyzer&submit=Search > Thanks Peter. In IRc somebody pointed out

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to > do is, from the currently-running system, to invoke an installation > kernel and initrd in just the sa

[CentOS] Problem.

2010-03-02 Thread Damas Ally
Greetings all, I am using Centos-5.3 in my server which is running dns, apache and mail. When the power went off and back then all of my services are not be able to run, i visited log files esp for httpd it says read-only and httpd cant start, this cause all of my services to stop. i tried to fix b

Re: [CentOS] Problem.

2010-03-02 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:08:22PM +0300, Damas Ally wrote: > Greetings all, > I am using Centos-5.3 in my server which is running dns, apache and mail. > When the power went off and back then all of my services are not be able to > run, i visited log files esp for httpd it says read-only and httpd

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <4b8d1650.1060...@mcclatchyinteractive.com>, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to > > do is, from th

[CentOS] Using USB Tape drive on Centos 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE)

2010-03-02 Thread Muro, Sam
Hello there I have been trying to install HP Storageworks DAT72 on CentOS 5 in vain. On system reboot, neither /dev/st not /dev/sg is available. May you please lead me through as this is my first time trying to do it lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 267617 40 xfrm

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:04:06PM +, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article <4b8d1650.1060...@mcclatchyinteractive.com>, > Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > > > or PXE server,

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

2010-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
Thanks Henry... On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:10 AM, henry ritzlmayr wrote: >> 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: > >

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

2010-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > It's not Xen renaming the script :) You changed the MAC address, so the > centos network init scripts will rename the ifcfg file, and generate > new default one (with dhcp). > > rhel/centos ifcfg-eth* are based on MAC addresses. Thanks Pas

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 03/02/2010 10:04 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article<4b8d1650.1060...@mcclatchyinteractive.com>, > Tom Georgoulias wrote: >> On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: >>> I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP >>> or PXE server, and I want to do a comp

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/02/2010 10:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to ... > If not, are there any other ways to achieve what I've described? Try this ( or a process like thi

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 at 10:10am, Tony Mountifield wrote > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to > do is, from the currently-running system, to invoke an installation > kernel and initrd in just

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <4b8d34be.3090...@mcclatchyinteractive.com>, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > On 03/02/2010 10:04 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > In article<4b8d1650.1060...@mcclatchyinteractive.com>, > > Tom Georgoulias wrote: > >> On 03/02/2010 05:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > >>> I have a remote CentOS

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <4b8d36f8.2070...@karan.org>, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 03/02/2010 10:10 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to > ... > > If not, are there any ot

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 03/02/2010 11:20 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: >> You can use cobbler and install clients without DHCP/PXE. When you run >> koan, you pass in all of the normal kickstart options you would use to >> configure a static network interface (ip, netmask, gateway, dns, >> ksdevice, etc.). Koan will do

Re: [CentOS] {Disarmed} Problem.

2010-03-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Damas Ally wrote on Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:08:22 +0300: > After running fsck and reboot now it reached:- > (none) login: > and if i type root gives incorrect. Haven't seen this prompt for a while. Is it possible that it just wants the root password? (not "root" by itself, it will log you in as roo

Re: [CentOS] Using USB Tape drive on Centos 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE)

2010-03-02 Thread John Doe
From: "Muro, Sam" > I have been trying to install HP Storageworks DAT72 on CentOS 5 in vain. > On system reboot, neither /dev/st not /dev/sg is available. May you please > lead me through as this is my first time trying to do it What does lsusb show? Just a thought; did you check in the BIOS if t

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Re: [CentOS] Problem.

2010-03-02 Thread John Doe
From: Damas Ally >When the power went off and back then all of my services are not be able to >run, i visited log files esp for httpd it says read-only and httpd cant start, >this cause all of my services to stop. i tried to fix by fsck but still i cant >be able to log in my mails via web acces

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

2010-03-02 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article , Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 at 10:10am, Tony Mountifield wrote > > > I have a remote CentOS 4 machine on a network where I can't put a DHCP > > or PXE server, and I want to do a complete reinstall. So what I want to > > do is, from the currently-running system, to

[CentOS] Virtual Machine Path Issue

2010-03-02 Thread gene . poole
All, I'm running CentOS 5.3 x86_64 and I decided to install VMware Server 2.0.2 and all went without a hitch. I then created a Virtual Machine and used CentOS 5.4 x86_32 ISO image to build it. While I was customizing the built image, I attempted a 'find' command and received a message that th

[CentOS] DHCP client not working with Windows DHCP / dynamic DNS server

2010-03-02 Thread Florin Andrei
# Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:22:19:XX:XX:XX ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=centos.XX.local In this particular instance, it's a place where Windows is used for DHCP and DNS servers. :( I have no control over the Window

Re: [CentOS] DHCP client not working with Windows DHCP / dynamic DNS server

2010-03-02 Thread nate
Florin Andrei wrote: > Is there anything else I can do on my side to make it happen? Any > particular options in dhclient.conf or something like that? See the man page ? DYNAMIC DNS The client now has some very limited support for doing DNS updates when a lease is acquired. This is p

Re: [CentOS] Using USB Tape drive on Centos 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE)

2010-03-02 Thread Muro, Sam
John Doe wrote: > From: "Muro, Sam" >> I have been trying to install HP Storageworks DAT72 on CentOS 5 in vain. >> On system reboot, neither /dev/st not /dev/sg is available. May you >> please >> lead me through as this is my first time trying to do it > > What does lsusb show? I have lost the con

[CentOS] Wireless Made Easy (for Home Desktops)

2010-03-02 Thread Ron Blizzard
For those of you who use a wireless router and may work on one or two (or even several) machines in your computer room, an AP Client is a nice solution. When you move to another machine you can just move the wireless net adapter to the new machine and you're up and running on the network immediatel

[CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-02 Thread m . roth
Ok, so another apc UPS 3000 complained about bad batteries, and I changed them out from the same order that I'd gotten in a couple of months ago. The APC SmartUPS 3000 started connecting and disconnecting the USB connection. I brought down and up the service, no joy. Finally, after googling, I fo

Re: [CentOS] Back to apcupsd

2010-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > ...that while the nominal voltage for the APC > SmartUPS 3000 is 48V, the new batteries are showing 55.4V. lead acid batteries are 2.1-2.15V per cell when fully charged, and the trickle charging float voltage is more like 2.3V per cell. 2.3 * 6 cells/battery * 4 batt

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

2010-03-02 Thread Ted Kaczmarek
The network should not have been an issue, are you sure you used the same vm config on both hosts? That means the mac address would stay the same, and their should not be any L2 related issues, that are related to vm anyway. Ted On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Just wanted to sh

Re: [CentOS] Problem.

2010-03-02 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
That is the root password you need to specify. then you need to look BEFORE that line and find out what fsck cannot check with the "-a" flag set. You need to run fsck on the partition in question, then correct all errors and type exit at the end. the machine will then reboot. jobst On Tue, M

Re: [CentOS] Using USB Tape drive on Centos 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE)

2010-03-02 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
I use a lot of tapes but never a USB, but from my knowledge I would try lsusb then read the output and look at the id's, find the one that has the usb tape drive attached to it, then use lsusb -vv and find the matching id to get more info. You could also try: modprobe usb_storage then