Re: [CentOS] centos syslog?

2010-06-21 Thread Steven Vishoot
- Original Message > From: Tom Yates > To: hadi motamedi > Cc: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Mon, June 21, 2010 1:43:04 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos syslog? > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, hadi motamedi wrote: [Eero Volotinen had > written:] >> the very > bottom: >> >> *

Re: [CentOS] blog tool use the LDAP auth

2010-06-21 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Am 21.06.10 04:58, schrieb sync: > Hi, all: > > Are there any blog tools which can use the openldap to > authenticate the account or password? > > Could someone give some suggestions for it ? Thanks in advance... Wordpress should: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-ldap-login/

Re: [CentOS] centos syslog?

2010-06-21 Thread Eero Volotinen
> That person does not read documentation or bother investigating anything, you > are suppose to do the administration stuff for him! Well, just ask for address to send the bill for consultancy services. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

[CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Jane Curry
I'd try Zenoss. I wrote a big paper comparing Nagios, OpenNMS and Zenoss ( http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/jane/open_source_mgmt_options.html ) - it's nearly 2 years back now but many of the basics are the same. At that time, I plumped for Zenoss but, to be fair, my main negative on OpenNMS

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). No its not, the CentOS packages are no longer maintained... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Jane Curry wrote: > I'd try Zenoss. I wrote a big paper comparing Nagios, OpenNMS and > Zenoss ( > http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/jane/open_source_mgmt_options.html ) > - it's nearly 2 years back now but many of the basics are the same. > At that time, I plumped for Zenoss but, to be fair,

[CentOS] wine 1.2 on centos

2010-06-21 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
Hi, Has anyone tried the latest wine 1.2 RC on CentOS 5.5. We have some applications that don't work with the latest stable release. They require at least 1.1.34, but i would like to try 1.2. If someone has tried 1.2 on centos. Do you have build packages somewhere where i can get them? Regards,

Re: [CentOS] Kernel independent OCFS2 packages for RHEL, Scientific Linux and CentOS

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/19/2010 08:58 AM, Farkas Levente wrote: >> agree. Karanbir, you used to say that community is about those people >> who help the community and not about those who use the community. ihmo >> Dag is one of those the made most for this community. > > I don't see how any

[CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread Alexandre Lecuyer
Hi list, We've had an interesting NFS performance issue with the following setup. Clients : CentOS 5.5, kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 Server : Solaris 10 kernel Generic_142901-08 Reading a file (not cached) with dd : dd if=file1 of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=100 performance is around.. 700 kB/s ! /proc/mo

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Whit Blauvelt
> Jane Curry wrote: > > I'd try Zenoss. I wrote a big paper comparing Nagios, OpenNMS and > > Zenoss ( > > http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/jane/open_source_mgmt_options.html ) Thanks for sharing that, Jane. Great paper. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:40:10AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Also Op

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread John Doe
From: Alexandre Lecuyer > We've had an interesting NFS performance issue with the > following setup. > Clients : CentOS 5.5, kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 > Server : Solaris 10 kernel Generic_142901-08 > /proc/mounts shows rsize has been negotiated to 1mB > If we force rsize to a smaller value, 32kB, the

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread lhecking
> As Jane's paper makes clear, Nagios less the networking tool, and more the > extensible way to monitor specific systems and applications. If hand editing > configuration files scares you, it's not for you. But anything that's trying > to go fully GUI these days goes XML. And if hand editing conf

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 20/06/2010 10:20, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> of but dont seem keen on moving it forward. Which has the affect that >> everything on the management side ends up being point and click on a web >> interface ~ massive waste of time and counter productive. >> > > Care to talk a bit more about this

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 21/06/2010 10:48, Jane Curry wrote: > On the Zenoss front, my main winges were the quality and reliability of > the documentation and the code. The other problem with Zenos is that its extremely slow, regularly fails to guarantee schedules and needs lots of resources. I'm a firm believer in

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread Nataraj
Alexandre Lecuyer wrote: > Hi list, > > We've had an interesting NFS performance issue with the following setup. > Clients : CentOS 5.5, kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 > Server : Solaris 10 kernel Generic_142901-08 > > Reading a file (not cached) with dd : dd if=file1 of=/dev/null > bs=1024k count=100 > per

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 9:24 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 20/06/2010 10:20, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >>> of but dont seem keen on moving it forward. Which has the affect that >>> everything on the management side ends up being point and click on a web >>> interface ~ massive waste of time and counter producti

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 21/06/2010 15:47, Les Mikesell wrote: > Did you consider opennms - and if so was there a reason for not using > it? It has some integration for provisioning, but I'm not exactly sure > how it works and the latest release made some changes. its on the list of things I want to get to one day,

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 8:57 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > >> Also OpenNMS has had a lot of development in the last couple of years. >> Maps are in the core code, much more configuration can be done through the >> web interface > > All good stuff. But there's a big trade off. Web-based GUIs get coupled with

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >>already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). > > No its not, the CentOS packages are no longer maintained... http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells

[CentOS] Querying netgroup information

2010-06-21 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi I have been searching for commands to "debug" netgroup membership. I am using netgroups provided by ldap. I can do a ldap query but it seems a bit unwieldy to do. I have found a package on ubuntu called ng-utils https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/ng-utils/0.7-1 which does what I require

Re: [CentOS] Querying netgroup information

2010-06-21 Thread Joshua Gimer
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis < gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two questions: > * Is there a similar package with similar commands to query netgroup > membership available for Centos? I have not been able to find such a > package yet. > > I believe that you can u

Re: [CentOS] Querying netgroup information

2010-06-21 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Joshua Gimer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis > wrote: > >> >> Two questions: >> * Is there a similar package with similar commands to query netgroup >> membership available for Centos? I have not been able to find such a >> package y

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: > >>> This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >>> already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). >> >> No its not, the CentOS packages are no l

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Still
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Nataraj wrote: [...] > Well, it's been a long time since I've done troubleshooting on large NFS > networks, but here's an idea... > > Are you seeing any kind of packet loss/retransmissions?  Take a look at > netstat  -s.  When I last did this work it was with NFS

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 11:21 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > > Now, it shouldn't really matter to users whether this is a duplication of > effort or not. Users will now have additional choice, if CentOS delays or > skips a release, ELRepo might have it available. Everybody wins. On the other hand, it is likely to c

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 10:01 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> Did you consider opennms - and if so was there a reason for not using >> it? It has some integration for provisioning, but I'm not exactly sure >> how it works and the latest release made some changes. > > its on the list of things I want to get to

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread Nataraj
Alex Still wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Nataraj wrote: > > [...] > > >> Well, it's been a long time since I've done troubleshooting on large NFS >> networks, but here's an idea... >> >> Are you seeing any kind of packet loss/retransmissions? Take a look at >> netstat -s. When I

[CentOS] MiscFixed fonts in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just did a fresh install of CentOS 5.5, as usual : base system, X Window system, GNOME, and then the apps I need. The MiscFixed fonts don't seem to be available in GNOME Terminal anymore. Has the package been renamed? Any idea where they went? It's my favourite font for the terminal. Ch

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this >time they will go into extras). Well, we talked about it for some time and I never saw an update to the effort someone made (my bad? I must have missed that). Couple this with the concerns posted by Dag that motivated him to s

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 21.06.10 18:21, schrieb Dag Wieers: > Once again, I didn't want any controversy, we are just looking for CentOS > people that are willing to test and provide feedback regarding the ELRepo > kmod-drbd packages (preferably on the ELRepo bug-tracker / mailinglist to > not cause even more contro

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 21.06.10 20:45, schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >> http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this >> time they will go into extras). > > Well, we talked about it for some time and I never saw an update to > the effort someone made (my bad? I must have missed that). Couple > thi

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-21 Thread Florin Andrei
On 06/18/2010 05:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 18/06/2010 22:28, Florin Andrei wrote: >> Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. > > While you are doing that - also think about this : Red Hat have a > policy, and they stick with it. Its something that works w

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 2:35 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Am 21.06.10 20:45, schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >>> http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this >>> time they will go into extras). >> >> Well, we talked about it for some time and I never saw an update to >> the effort someone m

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread James Pearson
Alexandre Lecuyer wrote: > Hi list, > > We've had an interesting NFS performance issue with the following setup. > Clients : CentOS 5.5, kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 > Server : Solaris 10 kernel Generic_142901-08 > > Reading a file (not cached) with dd : dd if=file1 of=/dev/null > bs=1024k count=100 > p

[CentOS] Increasing NFS Performance

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings all- I have a CentOS 5 (Final) system that is serving up content to several other hosts via NFS. The amount of data transferred is rather small as most of the files are under 100kb and each export has maybe 100 files that are accessed regularly. I'm finding that as I add more hosts ac

Re: [CentOS] Increasing NFS Performance

2010-06-21 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:08:05PM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings all- > > I have a CentOS 5 (Final) system that is serving up content to > several other hosts via NFS. The amount of data transferred is rather > small as most of the files are under 100kb and each export has maybe > 100 files

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Phil Manuel
- Original Message - > >> Did you consider opennms - and if so was there a reason for not using >> it? It has some integration for provisioning, but I'm not exactly sure >> how it works and the latest release made some changes. > > its on the list of things I want to get to one day, not

[CentOS] How to specify the default route?

2010-06-21 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a machine with two net interfaces. it seems to always pick the wrong one (eth1) as the default route. I can change it with route del default route add default eth0 after it's up (or in rc.local, of course), but I'd like to figure out what I need to do this "the CentOS w

Re: [CentOS] How to specify the default route?

2010-06-21 Thread Whit Blauvelt
It's getting set from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth, line 285 and following - although I haven't traced out the logic it's using to begin to say why it's coming to the wrong conclusion in your case. Whit On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:57:13PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I have a machine wi

Re: [CentOS] How to specify the default route?

2010-06-21 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On the other hand, which interface is listed in the /etc/sysconfig/network file? Is it your desired default? Whit On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:57:13PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I have a machine with two net interfaces. > > it seems to always pick the wrong one (eth1) as the default route. __

Re: [CentOS] How to specify the default route?

2010-06-21 Thread ken
On 06/21/2010 07:57 PM Rick Thomas wrote: > I have a machine with two net interfaces. > > it seems to always pick the wrong one (eth1) as the default route. > ... > > after it's up (or in rc.local, of course), but I'd like to figure out > what I need to do this "the CentOS way" (e.g. edit

Re: [CentOS] blog tool use the LDAP auth

2010-06-21 Thread Cia Watson
On 06/20/10 07:58 PM, sync wrote: > Hi, all: > > Are there any blog tools which can use the openldap to > authenticate the account or password? > > Could someone give some suggestions for it ? Thanks in advance... I see you've already had a couple of responses, thought I'd throw in my

Re: [CentOS] Increasing NFS Performance

2010-06-21 Thread sorrillo
What kind of local(on the box themselves) read/write speeds are you observing. What is the specs on your server: memory, # cpus, cpu speeds, any raid? What kind of remote access read/write are your observing? Try doing a dd or something to get a ball park idea. To first order in NFS performance tu

Re: [CentOS] Increasing NFS Performance

2010-06-21 Thread sorrillo
I meant the number of NFS thread CAN help. And yes, generally, async gives better performance than "sync" See if your clients are showing state "D" in top for your nfs client process. Check for iowait states in iostat. > What kind of local(on the box themselves) read/write speeds are you > obser

[CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-21 Thread Eric Deis
I have recently upgraded to 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and within several days the machine crashed with the following error (repeating in mcelog): MCE 0 HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! Please contact your hardware vendor CPU 2 BANK 8 MISC 41 MCG status: MCi status: Error overflow Uncorr

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 6/21/10, Jane Curry wrote: > > If you want further help, please ask! > Havwe you tried Zabbix, the NextGen NMS? Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Has anyone looked at using icinga ? The forums are nearly dead, doesn't look like much of the Nagios folk jumped ship yet. Archives show next to no activity. Frankly, if I am migrating away from Nagios, I would likely be compelled to put any effort into a significant improvement like Zenoss or O