[CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Jatin Davey
How do i know which NTP server is my linux box contacting to synchronize its time with that of the server ? Thanks Jatin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Wahyu Darmawan
You can use /var/log/messages info for your synchronized time server. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: > How do i know which NTP server is my linux box contacting to synchronize > its time with that of the server ? > > Thanks > Jatin > _

Re: [CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Wahyu Darmawan spake: > You can use /var/log/messages info for your synchronized time server. > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: >> How do i know which NTP server is my linux box contacting to synchronize >> its time with

Re: [CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread John R Pierce
Jatin Davey wrote: > How do i know which NTP server is my linux box contacting to synchronize > its time with that of the server ? > $ /usr/sbin/ntptrace localhost: stratum 3, offset 0.17, synch distance 0.07758 io.sf.netdot.net: stratum 2, offset 0.000548, synch distance 0.04774 bigben.ca

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.x and Fedora

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > why dont you download the source and compile it, its really easy. > Source installs are not encouraged: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks for all the support , i found that i dont have the ntp daemon running on my box which will contact the server. once i have it i could use the support provided. Thanks Jatin On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote: > >> How do i know which NTP server is my linux

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:36 -0700, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: > -- > Problem: > Postfix is doing RBL lookups on zen.spamhaus.org. > Everything goes along groovy - but then lookups start failing. > Does your network interface show any abnormalities - dropped packets etc? I assume you have no

[CentOS] Power consumption monitoring

2010-04-15 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hi, I have quite a few low-end development/test servers running continuously and I would like to better manage their power consumption. I have found interesting information on how to perform CPU scaling (e.g. [1] or [2]). But I cannot find if there is a way to (software) monitor power consumption

Re: [CentOS] Power consumption monitoring

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hi, > > I have quite a few low-end development/test servers running > continuously and I would like to better manage their power > consumption. > I have found interesting information on how to perform CPU scaling > (e.g. [1] or [2]). > > But I can

Re: [CentOS] Power consumption monitoring

2010-04-15 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:31:11 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > On Thursday 15 April 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have quite a few low-end development/test servers running > > continuously and I would like to better manage their power > > consumption. > > I have found

Re: [CentOS] Cloud on CentOS

2010-04-15 Thread Scot P. Floess
You mention 200 locations... Do you want to consolidate the application to 1 location and those locations use this? Not clear to me what it is you want to accomplish... On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, CList wrote: >> For what its worth...I do a little cloud-y type stuff at home. Mostly >> spinning up

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-15 Thread Fernando Gleiser
- Original Message > From: Jobst Schmalenbach > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Thu, April 15, 2010 1:20:45 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How Do I ... > > ;-) > in the olden days it was so easy, you had PCI cards and they were > named by the slot number, starting with eth0 in PCI slot 1

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>We had to trunk the 4 internal switches for the install, then we had to... Actually all you had to do was utilize ks config params for this scenario. See the link I posted earlier or read the ks deployment chapter. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/15/2010 10:32 AM, Fernando Gleiser wrote: >> in the olden days it was so easy, you had PCI cards and they were >> named by the slot number, starting with eth0 in PCI slot 1 and so on. >> Then >> came the inbuilt nics >> Then came the PCIx built nics >> Then came the PCI-e >> built nics > >> O

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread listserv . traffic
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:36 -0700, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >> -- >> Problem: >> Postfix is doing RBL lookups on zen.spamhaus.org. >> Everything goes along groovy - but then lookups start failing. >> > Does your network interface show any abnormalities - dropped packets > etc? I assume

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread listserv . traffic
>> > Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug > reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC > version of bind. In particular I believe that they disabled or otherwise > modified the caching behavior back about 6-8 months ago when there were

Re: [CentOS] timeout problem

2010-04-15 Thread tony . chamberlain
Oh, static IP on the computer. Yeah, already did that to no avail. -Original Message- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:08:16 -0400 From: JohnS Subject: Re: [CentOS] timeout problem To: CentOS mailing list Message-ID: <1271264896.3366.23.ca...@ethies> Content-Type: text/plain On We

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Nataraj
listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >> Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug >> reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC >> version of bind. In particular I believe that they disabled or otherwise >> modified the caching behavior back a

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread sys Admin
What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? On 4/15/10, Nataraj wrote: > listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >>> Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug >>> reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC >>> version of bind

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread listserv . traffic
> What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? I haven't tried this, but from reports, spamhaus.org blocks google's dns. [The traffic limits are too high. If they didn't, no one would buy a commercial zone transfer license...] So, while it's not likely to fix this problem, even i

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
sys Admin wrote: > What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? > > Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) a

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: >> What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? >> > I haven't tried this, but from reports, spamhaus.org blocks google's dns. [The > traffic limits are too high. If they didn't, no one would buy a > commercial zone transfer license...] > > So

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > > Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going > to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these > services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) > access to Spamhaus. Au contra

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >> Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going >> to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these >> services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) >> access

[CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? If so, maybe someone can point me to it. Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is that the "cpan" command seems to always re

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of >CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is >that the "cpan" command seems to always return 0 regardless of whether >or not the install completed. While I can't answer that, I might try to actually call a

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/15/2010 3:00 PM, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: > >> What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? > I haven't tried this, but from reports, spamhaus.org blocks google's dns. [The > traffic limits are too high. If they didn't, no one would buy a > commercial zone transfer li

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? > If so, maybe someone can point me to it. > > Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of > CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up against is > that the "

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Alan McKay
> While I can't answer that, I might try to actually call a Perl check after > which although slightly extra work would yield the answer. Hmmm, good point - I could do that. I've come across several methods of checking module versions and none of them seemed "perfect" to me. Can you recommend a m

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going >>> to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these >>> services. Otherwise it

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Hmmm, good point - I could do that. I've come across several methods >of checking module versions and none of them seemed "perfect" to me. >Can you recommend a method? Well, depends if you are in Perl, or bash, but really something as simple as: perl -e 'use HTML::Parser;' echo $? Aside from t

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/15/2010 3:23 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > Maybe there is a Perl/CPAN list that is a better place to ask this? > If so, maybe someone can point me to it. > > Anyway, I want to be able to script the installation of a bunch of > CPAN modules, and the first basic problem I am coming up a

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >> Larry Vaden wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Changing dns to public services such as google or

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Nataraj
Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider

[CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-15 Thread Jim Davis
We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4192) but otherwise it

Re: [CentOS] (semi-) rugged laptop running CentOS 5?

2010-04-15 Thread John R Pierce
Jim Davis wrote: > We're looking for a laptop to run in a 10,000', cold, occasionally wet > environment, and it needs to run CentOS 5. Perhaps something like the > Dell Latitude E6400 ATG? There's a reference to a minor trackball bug > for the 6400 under CentOS 5 (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.x and Fedora

2010-04-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
That is NOT a CentOS thing, **ONLY**. It is valid for ANY distribution, indeed! Most computers would be stable including windows machines if people would stop installing crap, e.g. why did Mircosoft "invent" the feature of restoring system32 (from dllcache) or any of their other "features" to m

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Yeah, but that has an advantage! After you plug in the USB-nic you can do an ifconfig and immediately know the HW address ... make up an "ifcfg-ethX" for that ... plug in the next one ... ifconfig ... make up an "ifcfg-ethx" for that one and so on. I use this method to tap into bridged adsl conn

Re: [CentOS] How Do I ...

2010-04-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
> Then came blade servers with built-in nics you can't unplug because they're > plugged to the blade center enclosure's internal switches :) ok, granted: 2 (OUCH) Jobst On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:32:06AM -0700, Fernando Gleiser (ferglei...@yahoo.com) wrote: > > > > > - Or

Re: [CentOS] scripting CPAN installs

2010-04-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:31:08PM -0400, Alan McKay (alan.mc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > While I can't answer that, I might try to actually call a Perl check after > > which although slightly extra work would yield the answer. > snip > We don't do auto-updates on production boxes so this is not a

Re: [CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 03:42:22PM +0700, Wahyu Darmawan (wahyu.darma...@gmail.com) wrote: > You can use /var/log/messages info for your synchronized time server. > That is only for the standard config, if you inherit machines this could be in /var/log/ntp.log or something as you can specify e.g

Re: [CentOS] Building an "instant on" X terminal

2010-04-15 Thread Reynolds McClatchey
> > Huh. A small version of Debian Etch. Boots (once POST has complted) > in under 25 seconds. > > Hmm, old versions of software, and "apt-get upgrade" causes the system > to die (root disk filled out) but definitely a possibility. I believe Synaptic is installed. I did not upgrade but used Syna

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-15 Thread david walcroft
On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: >> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos >> before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far >> to burn one has produced coasters,what do I do to get an ima

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-15 Thread david walcroft
On 04/15/2010 10:58 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:58:40 +1000 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos >> before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far >> to burn one has produced coaste

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-15 Thread Rob Kampen
david walcroft wrote: On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every attempt so far to burn one has produced coasters,wha

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-15 Thread david walcroft
On 04/16/2010 01:02 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > david walcroft wrote: >> On 04/15/2010 11:10 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: >>> On 15/04/10 09:58, david walcroft wrote: I downloaded CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso but I haven't used Centos before and I've haven't used a -bin-DVD.iso before,every att

Re: [CentOS] OpenJDK vs Sun JDK

2010-04-15 Thread Agile Aspect
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > Hi all, > > Any comments as to Centos/RHEL 5.3's openjdk implementation versus Sun's? > > cheers, > > Christopher > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailma

[CentOS] OpenJDK jvm vs Sun jvm was Re: OpenJDK vs Sun JDK

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Chan
On Friday, April 16, 2010 11:44 AM, Agile Aspect wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Christopher Chan > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Any comments as to Centos/RHEL 5.3's openjdk implementation versus Sun's? > > RedHat has acknowleged that Sun's JDK is faster - despite the fact > OpenJDK is nati

[CentOS] memory leak observed with valgrind on CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

2010-04-15 Thread Jai Prakash
Hi All, Not sure exactly a memory leak or not. I was porting my nagios from Redhat 7.3 to CentOS 5.4 and I observed the memory usage was gradually increasing on the new centos box. When I ran all my perl plugins with Valgrind -3.2.1, all the plugins complained about a memory leak. Not sure

Re: [CentOS] burning an image

2010-04-15 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 04/16/2010 04:59 AM, david walcroft wrote: ... > I tried your command but this error came up > > [da...@reddwarf ~]$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z > /dev/dvd=rpm/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso > :-( /dev/dvd: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 0 What does this command say? dvd+rw-mediainfo /

Re: [CentOS] Building an "instant on" X terminal

2010-04-15 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by > the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried > it: It was impressively fast. I was curious about this and installed one of these on an amd64

Re: [CentOS] Building an "instant on" X terminal

2010-04-15 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: >> If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by >> the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried >> it: It was impressively fast. > Will it run in 256Mb RAM and on 512Mb of disk?  'Cos that'

Re: [CentOS] OpenJDK vs Sun JDK

2010-04-15 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> RedHat has acknowleged that Sun's JDK is faster - despite the fact > OpenJDK is native. Since it's native, it also means it's not platform > independent (in the sense of compile once run anywhere.) What do you mean "is native" ? The JDK (or rather the JVM) is native on all OS, since it is the l