Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Michael Schumacher
Eric, On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 you wrote: > 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): [...] > Would this error indicate a motherboard or CPU problem? How can I > diagnose? or is there something

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
Hi! Eric (2010/06/22 13:11), Eric Deis wrote: > Transaction: Address/Command error Its mother board (memory controller) problem. Its *not* DIMM problem.(memtest can't detect this error.) your data transfer(read/write) sometimes met bit errors. This is Nehalem cpu's error detecting feature.(MCE) T

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Eric Deis wrote: > 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): I'm guessing the old kernel just didn't notice. The below MCEs indicate bad hardware. Since the DIMMs are a lot

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/22/10 12:21 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Eric Deis wrote: > >> 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): >> > I'm guessing the old kernel just didn't notice.

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > On 06/22/10 12:21 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Eric Deis wrote: > >> 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): > > > > I'

Re: [CentOS] Increasing NFS Performance

2010-06-22 Thread lhecking
Tim Nelson writes: > 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

Re: [CentOS] MiscFixed fonts in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread John Doe
From: Niki Kovacs > The MiscFixed fonts don't seem to be available in > GNOME Terminal anymore. I can find misc-fixed in gnome terminal and xfontsel... I have these packages... bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.1 bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-7 chkfontpath-1.10.1-1.1 dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.10-1 fontconfig-2.4.1-7.e

Re: [CentOS] blog tool use the LDAP auth

2010-06-22 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Wordpress should: > > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-ldap-login/ I have already tested this Wordpress plugin a few months ago (on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 with EPEL's Wordpress). I needed to fiddle a bit with the UI, but quickly got an LDAP integration working. As whether it is 100% secure

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

2010-06-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Florin Andrei wrote on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:42:46 -0700: > No, that's fine, really. I was just pointing out that, for some > Internet-facing systems, this policy may be inadequate, due to the > fast-changing nature of the Internet. I disagree. The included Postfix works just fine. You have a ver

Re: [CentOS] Increasing NFS Performance

2010-06-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 22/06/2010 09:52, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > So, this is CentOS 5.0 or 5.1. You should upgrade to at least CentOS 5.2. The > 5.2 kernel fixes serious performance problems with NFS. I agree, getting to the latest distro packages is a good idea. There were some nfs issues in < 5.2

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

2010-06-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 22/06/2010 11:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:42:46 -0700: > >> No, that's fine, really. I was just pointing out that, for some >> Internet-facing systems, this policy may be inadequate, due to the >> fast-changing nature of the Internet. > > I disagree.

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 22/06/2010 00:52, Phil Manuel wrote: > Has anyone looked at using icinga ? I know it replaces the front end of > nagios, and uses the same (slightly modified ?) backend, using the same > plugins. > Icinga is an interesting project, and there is work going on under the hood to make it a more

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 21/06/2010 18:05, Les Mikesell wrote: > I didn't know about that, but the first googled hit says you are > supposed to be able to write reusable tests in a human-readable language > which sounds way too unrealistic to ever work. And I want a tool that > understands network equipment natively

[CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread Digimer
Hi all, We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, most of our customer's end-users have accessed the application using either PuTTY or Teraterm. I was asked yesterday to try and find internationalized add ons or alternatives for our new Asian customers (Japan, Korea

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

2010-06-22 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 17:11 +0200, 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 pac

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 07:23 -0400, Digimer wrote: > Hi all, > >We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, > most of our customer's end-users have accessed the application using > either PuTTY or Teraterm. I was asked yesterday to try and find > internationalized add

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

2010-06-22 Thread Bob Beers
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:03 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 17:11 +0200, 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 i

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread Digimer
On 10-06-22 09:19 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 07:23 -0400, Digimer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, >> most of our customer's end-users have accessed the application using >> either PuTTY or Teraterm. I was asked yesterday

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

2010-06-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 21, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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 th

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Still
[..] >> /proc/mounts shows rsize has been negotiated to 1mB > > Have you tested the same thing with a Linux NFS server? > > The CentOS 5.x kernel has a maximum server [rw]size of 32Kb, so you > would need to use something with a more recent kernel to get [rw]sizes > to be 1Mb. > Haven't tried wit

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:26 PM, 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 lo

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

2010-06-22 Thread Enrique Verdes
El lun, 21-06-2010 a las 19:57 -0400, Rick Thomas escribió: > 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, o

Re: [CentOS] Samba3x daily logged errors with Win7 clients

2010-06-22 Thread Steve Snyder
On 05/25/2010 08:08 AM, Steve Snyder wrote: > In the course of upgrading from CentOS 5.4 to CentOS 5.5 I changed from > using the samba (v3.0.x) packages to the samba3x (v3.3.8) packages, > mostly because the newer version was said to better support Win7. The > Samba server services Linux, WinXP,

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:24 -0400, Digimer wrote: > On 10-06-22 09:19 AM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 07:23 -0400, Digimer wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, > >> most of our customer's end-users have accessed the app

[CentOS] problem rebuilding kvm package on centos 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread David Mansfield
Hi All: I'm trying to rebuild the kvm SRPM (kvm-83-164.el5_5.9.src.rpm) on a centos 5.5 x86_64 and it's failing with the message: error: Failed build dependencies: kernel-devel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-194.el5 is needed by kvm-83-164.9.x86_64 I have already run "yum-builddep " and here is the out

[CentOS] NFS exports network mask

2010-06-22 Thread Carlos S
Hi, I need to export NFS shares to all clients in a subnetwork, except that one client will have different NFS options. I am not sure how to write subnest mask for this in exports file. For all clients it was easy as all I had to do was 10.0.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/255.255.0.0. How do I modify exports

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/22/2010 6:06 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 21/06/2010 18:05, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I didn't know about that, but the first googled hit says you are >> supposed to be able to write reusable tests in a human-readable language >> which sounds way too unrealistic to ever work. And I want a tool

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Still
[...] >> On some servers this behavior returned despite rsize being set to 32k, >> I had to set it to 8k to get reasonnable throughput. So there's >> definitly something fishy going on. This has been reported on over 20 >> machines, so I don't think it's faulty hardware we're seeing. >> >> Any tho

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 11:27 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> 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

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:44 +0200, Alex Still wrote: > > Clients are blade servers. The blade chassis have integrated cisco > switches, which are plugged to a cisco 6509. The NFS server is on > another site 40km away, directly connected to another 6509. These > datacenters are linked via DWDM.

Re: [CentOS] NFS exports network mask

2010-06-22 Thread James Pearson
Carlos S wrote: > Hi, > > I need to export NFS shares to all clients in a subnetwork, except > that one client will have different NFS options. I am not sure how to > write subnest mask for this in exports file. For all clients it was > easy as all I had to do was 10.0.0.0/16 or 10.0.0.0/255.255.0

[CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be able to support XFS on your CentOS machine? Just seems a little odd given how muc

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread aurfalien
On 06/22/2010 08:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, > OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather > requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be > able to support XFS on yo

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Athmane Madjoudj
On 06/22/2010 04:57 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, > OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather > requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be > able to support XFS on yo

Re: [CentOS] problem rebuilding kvm package on centos 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:02 AM, David Mansfield wrote: > Hi All: > > I'm trying to rebuild the kvm SRPM (kvm-83-164.el5_5.9.src.rpm) > on a centos 5.5 x86_64 and it's failing with the message: > > error: Failed build dependencies: >        kernel-devel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-194.el5 is needed by kvm-83-

Re: [CentOS] NFS exports network mask

2010-06-22 Thread Carlos S
Thanks James. So does exports list has any priority for loading config. e.g. I have general rule as 10.0.0.0/16 for read-only and then 10.0.0.20 as read-write. Then 10.0.0.20 overrides (default) 10.0.0.0/16 options? -- CS. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Carlos S wrote:

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, > OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather > requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be > able to support XFS on your CentOS machine? Just seems a little odd > given how m

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, aurfalien wrote: > On 06/22/2010 08:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, >> OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather >> requires custom modifications after the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread Simon Billis
Digimer sent a missive on 2010-06-22: > Hi all, > >We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, > most of our customer's end-users have accessed the application using > either PuTTY or Teraterm. I was asked yesterday to try and find > internationalized add ons or alterna

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Steve Huff
On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > why does RHEL not support XFS straight out of the box? i suspect you would be more likely to receive a meaningful answer from one of these sources: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:48:42PM -0400, Steve Huff wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > > why does RHEL not support XFS straight out of the box? > > i suspect you would be more likely to receive a meaningful answer > from one of these sources: > > https://listman.

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-22 Thread Andres Lucena
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > > On 6/21/10, Jane Curry wrote: >> >> If you want further help, please ask! >> > > > Havwe you tried Zabbix, the NextGen NMS? > +1 to Zabbix LAMP software, agent for all plataforms, script friendly, SNMP, IPMI, all t

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

2010-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! to all who replied. I solved it by putting identical "GATEWAY=" clauses in each of /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 This works without error, even though the gateway IP address in question is not accessible from e

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Alex Still wrote: > [...] > >>> On some servers this behavior returned despite rsize being set to 32k, >>> I had to set it to 8k to get reasonnable throughput. So there's >>> definitly something fishy going on. This has been reported on over 20 >>> machines, so I do

Re: [CentOS] problem rebuilding kvm package on centos 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread David Mansfield
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:25 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:02 AM, David Mansfield wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > I'm trying to rebuild the kvm SRPM (kvm-83-164.el5_5.9.src.rpm) > > on a centos 5.5 x86_64 and it's failing with the message: > > > > error: Failed build dependencies:

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

2010-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/22/2010 1:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks! to all who replied. > > I solved it by putting identical "GATEWAY=" clauses in each of > > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1 > > This works without error, even though the gateway

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminalsoftware

2010-06-22 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: Digimer > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 7:24 > Subject: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminalsoftware > > Hi all, > >We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. > Until now, most of our customer's end-users have ac

Re: [CentOS] problem rebuilding kvm package on centos 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread William Hooper
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:02 PM, David Mansfield wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:25 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:02 AM, David Mansfield >> wrote: >> > Hi All: >> > error: Failed build dependencies: >> >        kernel-devel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-194.el5 is needed by >> > kvm

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

2010-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
So I tried moving the GATEWAY clause into etc/sysconfig/network and out of the individual ifcfg-eth? files. It works. So I guess that's the preferred solution, because it puts the information in a single place. There's no need to make sure two or more places are synchronized if anything c

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > On 06/22/2010 04:57 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, > > OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather > > requires custom modifications after t

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, > OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default It does, try "modinfo xfs" or "yum list xfsprogs". > but rather > requires custom modifications after the i

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> It's not available in the installer since it's considered a "technology > preview" by Redhat. > ... which causes no problem whatsoever. It is normally used for data partitions, not system partitions. One can install the OS and then create the necessary partitions with XFS.

Re: [CentOS] NFS exports network mask

2010-06-22 Thread James Pearson
Carlos S wrote: > Thanks James. > > So does exports list has any priority for loading config. e.g. I have > general rule as 10.0.0.0/16 for read-only and then 10.0.0.20 as > read-write. Then 10.0.0.20 overrides (default) 10.0.0.0/16 options? I don't believe the order is important - however, I sug

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Deis
Thanks Guys! Your advice helped me fix the problem. Yes, it was the motherboard that was the issue. I update the firmware and must have had some microcode fixes to support my CPU (John mentioned the memory controller is in the CPU for Xeon 5500). Now upon reboot using 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 no err

[CentOS] 2 DVDs for CentOS 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread David McGuffey
Just finished downloading the DVD with bittorrent. Ended up with two iso files (1 of 2 and 2 of 2). sha1sum checks out on both. This is the first time I've encountered two DVDs. Will the install politely ask for DVD #2 when it is time? ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] 2 DVDs for CentOS 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread Baird, Josh
DVD2 only contains OpenOffice packages. Unless you need to install these from the DVD, you should be fine without DVD 2. Josh From: centos-boun...@centos.org on behalf of David McGuffey Sent: Tue 6/22/2010 9:46 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] 2 DV

Re: [CentOS] NFS exports network mask

2010-06-22 Thread Carlos S
Had to put exclusive IP address before subnet-masked entry. Thanks for the pointers. -- CS. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, James Pearson wrote: > Carlos S wrote: >> >> Thanks James. >> >> So does exports list has any priority for loading config. e.g. I have >> general rule as 10.0.0.0/16 for r