Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-15 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/15/10, Victor Padro wrote: > AFAIK, VT-d is only implemented LGA 1156/P55 and 34XX Chipsets: > http://www.intel.com/products/server/chipsets/3400-3420/3400-3420-overview.htm AFAIK from the last couple of weeks of looking for suitable parts, some of the desktop Q series chipsets (Q35, Q45 acc

Re: [CentOS] Unloking gnome keyring on login

2010-07-15 Thread Giulio Troccoli
No-one else has anything to say about this problem? > Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On

Re: [CentOS] GPT Partitions >2.2T with Centos 5.5

2010-07-15 Thread Jens Neu
> Do you see the slow behaviour (10 MiB/s) for all of the device or only for the > part that is >2T? > > Why use a partition table at all? run dd directly against the device. If this > is slow then you have a controller side problem. very true, back to "Go" :( Peter Kjellstrom Sent by:

Re: [CentOS] Linux Kernel Physical Interface Limit

2010-07-15 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/14/10, William Warren wrote: > On 7/14/2010 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> Googling up a really old 2005 newsgroup thread says some people had 24 >> physical NIC (6x 4quad) in a system before and one person vaguely >> remembers a hard 256 limit which would make sense if physical >> i

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Brian Marshall wrote: > My config files can be referenced on my forum post > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=27153&forum=42 Your /etc/nscd.conf is only configured to cache passwd/group/hosts. It's not configured

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
> The problem I am having is that shadow does not seem to get cached by > nscd. Here's how I have tracked this down. NSCD not caching shadow user credentials is a fact. There is nothing wrong with your configuration. NSCD just does not do what you seem to expect from it. You can't make it what yo

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
> Your /etc/nscd.conf is only configured to cache passwd/group/hosts. It's > not configured to cache shadow. > > (I don't know if nscd _can_ be configured to cache shadow or not; never > tried) > rgds > Stephen The nscd is a "name service caching daemon" and not an authentication credentials ca

[CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Jason Pyeron
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204 Given I can boot the install disk and chroot in, there must be away around Grub while still keeping LVM installed. Any ideas? Screen says: Booting Centos (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5) root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kern

[CentOS] error: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host [hostname]

2010-07-15 Thread ken
When launching oowriter and other apps, I get this error: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host myh.dom.tld The app -- oowriter or whatever I happen to be invoking-- starts okay. But this error message tells me something's not right. Curiously, the "hostname" command yiel

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread m . roth
Jason Pyeron wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204 > > Given I can boot the install disk and chroot in, there must be away around > Grub > while still keeping LVM installed. > > Any ideas? > > Screen says: > > Booting Centos (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5) > > root (hd0,0) > Filesyst

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:29 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread m . roth
Jason Pyeron wrote: >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us >> Jason Pyeron wrote: >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204 >> > >> > Given I can boot the install disk and chroot in, there must be away >> > around Grub while still keeping LVM installed. >>

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:09 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> [mailto:centos-boun...@cento

[CentOS] Disks for virtualization

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
I'm not looking to move virtual machines between physical platforms; just want some protection between applications sharing a physical server. They'll all be using local disk in one form or another. Much the easiest to manage is just having the virtual machine use a file in dom0 as its disk. Wit

[CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the "RHEL 5.4 and greater" OS option

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!). When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed OS subtype I chose the Red Hat Ent

[CentOS] Follow Up - Centos / Red Hat EL Broken 5.4 + 5.5, ** Alternative solution **

2010-07-15 Thread Seth Bardash
To the list: 1) Someone off the list (thanks!) offered to send me an RT kernel based on 2.6.23.X. So I thought why not try to build a standard / server type based on the standard 2.6.23 version. 2) Red Hat 6 Beta 2 is based on a similar starting point 3) I was not going to fix something Red H

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
Yes but I have worked in many organizations that use directory services for authentication and my machines with them have always cached authentication data so I can login if I'm not online. I can't expect laptop users to always have a network connection. If Mac OS and Windows can manage to cache

[CentOS] Paravirtualized Centos 5.5 guest under Xen

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
The virtualization manual doesn't seem to say; does one have to do anything to get the Centos 5.5 paravirtualization drivers installed? Or is it sufficient to specify a paravirtualized guest, and the Centos install will then detect that and load the right things? And, is there a way to check in th

Re: [CentOS] Follow Up - Centos / Red Hat EL Broken 5.4 + 5.5, ** Alternative solution **

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:25:55AM -0600, Seth Bardash wrote: > Officially, Red Hat does not support rebuilds of its kernel with > configurations other than the one Red Hat ships. In other news; water is wet, flames are hot, night follows day. But back to our lead story where RedHat only supp

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Todd Denniston
Brian Marshall wrote, On 07/15/2010 11:37 AM: > Yes but I have worked in many organizations that use directory services for > authentication and my machines with them have always cached authentication > data so I can login if I'm not online. I can't expect laptop users to always > have a network

Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the "RHEL 5.4 and greater" OS option

2010-07-15 Thread m . roth
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Had some trouble getting Centos x64 installed as a guest in my new Centos > 5.5 x64 server using Xen (thanks again for all the help getting the > hardware virtualization turned on and confirmed yesterday!). > > When I chose OS Linux, and whatever they called the detailed

Re: [CentOS] Redhat Exams.

2010-07-15 Thread kalinix
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 02:52 +, Ru-Benz Cáceres wrote: > > I want to take the exams of redhat.. I´m starting now.. > What advices I can get from you list? > > > __ > Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more! > > _

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
Hi Todd, Yes, I have already used authconfig to enable caching. If you have any questions about my configs I have a forum post with more details up there including the related ldap, and pam config files. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=27153&forum=42 T

Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the "RHEL 5.4 and greater" OS option

2010-07-15 Thread Whit Blauvelt
In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 guest (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It went forward successfully if I just went with the standard default at that

Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the "RHEL 5.4 and greater" OS option

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Thu, July 15, 2010 11:19, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 > guest > (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me > in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It > went forward

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
It seems there are some bugs discussed around this. http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2132 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488597 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599192 That being said, it does not seem like nscd is the way to solve this. Or at very leas

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 08:37 AM, Brian Marshall wrote: > Yes but I have worked in many organizations that use directory > services for authentication and my machines with them have always > cached authentication data so I can login if I'm not online. I can't > expect laptop users to always have a network co

Re: [CentOS] DomU install failure for Centos 5.5 using the "RHEL 5.4 and greater" OS option

2010-07-15 Thread m . roth
Whit Blauvelt wrote: > In using virt-install, and then virt-viewer to create a CentOS 5.5 x64 > guest > (in my case for KVM), using the text mode for the install, it failed on me > in a similar way just if I added extra package groups - just stalled. It > went forward successfully if I just went wi

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 09:15 AM, Brian Marshall wrote: > > The problem still remains, when the LDAP server is offline there is > no shadow data cached so LDAP users can not authenticate on cached > data despite caching and local auth sufficient being enabled in > authconfig . Most LDAP servers don't provi

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 04:57 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > Given I can boot the install disk and chroot in, there must be away around > Grub > while still keeping LVM installed. What do you mean? Do you think that LVM is causing the problem in some way? Where is the filesystem containing /boot located? >

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on ldap users when ldap is up but not when it's down? I guess I don't understand where that shadow data comes from when LDAP is up. I just did some brief testing on installing sssd and there's a ton of fedora packages I'll need

Re: [CentOS] Re-exporting an NFS mount.. Possible?

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
I think I'm more confused than before. On 07/14/2010 06:59 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > The clients cannot be upgraded for several more months, possibly over > a year from now. They do not support NFS3. Is that to say that they are Red Hat 2.1, from 1995? (not RHEL 2.1)? > The Windows server does > su

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
Does the fact that I am testing without SSL, TLS or Kerberos enabled have any effect on this? I figured I'd do the security and encryption last. I'm grasping at straws at this point. I'm starting feel like maybe LDAP was not such a great idea since linux clients can't operate in the absence of

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Greene
On 7/15/10 9:15 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: > Hi Todd, > > Yes, I have already used authconfig to enable caching. If you have any > questions about my configs I have a forum post with more details up there > including the related ldap, and pam config files. > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 7/15/10 9:15 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: >> Hi Todd, >> >> Yes, I have already used authconfig to enable caching. If you have any >> questions about my configs I have a forum post with more details up there >> including the related ldap, and

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Greene
On 7/15/10 11:29 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Gary Greene wrote: > >> On 7/15/10 9:15 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: >>> Hi Todd, >>> >>> Yes, I have already used authconfig to enable caching. If you have any >>> questions about my configs I have a forum post with

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
On Jul 15, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 7/15/10 11:29 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: >> >> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Gary Greene wrote: >> >>> On 7/15/10 9:15 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: Hi Todd, Yes, I have already used authconfig to enable caching. If you have

[CentOS] xm console -- what should I get?

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
If I type "xm console 6", say (when I have a virtual machine 6 running), what should I get? The documentation seems to indicate that I should get something that behaves like a telnet to a serial console. What I actually get is a connection that might show me a couple of lines of output that do lo

[CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
If I can log in to the guest through the console, I can of course find out what IP DHCP has assigned it. If I configure a static IP I can of course connect to the system there (if it runs services, the firewall allows it, all the usual caveats). Does there happen to be any way to determine from d

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > If I can log in to the guest through the console, I can of course find out > what IP DHCP has assigned it.  If I configure a static IP I can of course > connect to the system there (if it runs services, the firewall allows it, > all the u

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Thu, July 15, 2010 14:08, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:03 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> If I can log in to the guest through the console, I can of course find >> out >> what IP DHCP has assigned it.  If I configure a static IP I can of >> course >> connect to the system the

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Greene
On 7/15/10 11:49 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: > On Jul 15, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Gary Greene wrote: >> On 7/15/10 11:29 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: >>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Gary Greene wrote: On 7/15/10 9:15 AM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: > Hi Todd, > > Yes, I have already us

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 15.07.2010 19:26, schrieb Brian Marshall: > Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on ldap > users when ldap is up but not when it's down? I guess I don't understand > where that shadow data comes from when LDAP is up. /etc/nsswitch.conf Alexander ___

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
> What you're looking for is information on sitecustomize. Look at > /usr/lib/python2.4/site.py for more information. > > -- > Gary L. Greene, Jr. > IT Operations > Minerva Networks, Inc. > Cell: (650) 704-6633 > Phone: (408) 240-1239 > > ___ > CentOS

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 15.07.2010 19:26, schrieb Brian Marshall: > >> Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on ldap >> users when ldap is up but not when it's down? I guess I don't understand >> where that shadow data comes from wh

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 15.07.2010 22:16, schrieb Brian Marshall: > On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >> Am 15.07.2010 19:26, schrieb Brian Marshall: >> >>> Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on ldap >>> users when ldap is up but not when it's down? I guess I don't

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 15.07.2010 22:16, schrieb Brian Marshall: >> On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> >>> Am 15.07.2010 19:26, schrieb Brian Marshall: >>> Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on ldap >>

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 13:25 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue > > On 07/15/2010 04:57 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > Given

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Greene
On 7/15/10 1:14 PM, "Brian Marshall" wrote: >> What you're looking for is information on sitecustomize. Look at >> /usr/lib/python2.4/site.py for more information. >> >> -- >> Gary L. Greene, Jr. >> IT Operations >> Minerva Networks, Inc. >> Cell: (650) 704-6633 >> Phone: (408) 240-1239 >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 02:08 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > No, but lilo does not support lvm. As long as /boot isn't on the LVM, it shouldn't need to. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 01:14 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: > > I don't have a file /usr/lib/python2.4/site.py On a 64 bit system, it'll be /usr/lib64/python2.4/site.py The easiest way to extend the path is to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable. # env PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages py

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 10:26 AM, Brian Marshall wrote: > Then am I misinterpreting the fact that getent shadow returns data on > ldap users when ldap is up but not when it's down? It would be unusual, but not impossible for "getent shadow ..." to have the password hashes available. If that is the case, y

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 10:32 AM, Brian Marshall wrote: > Does the fact that I am testing without SSL, TLS or Kerberos enabled > have any effect on this? No, it doesn't. > I'm grasping at straws at this point. I'm starting feel like maybe > LDAP was not such a great idea since linux clients can't operate i

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 05:09 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Did you build it from source or were you trying to install one of the > binary packages? You'll definitely want to build from source. I take that back. Don't build it from source, that's silly. Install the EPEL repo. You can then "yum install s

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 19:57 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue > > On 07/15/2010 02:08 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > No, b

Re: [CentOS] LDAP / NSCD shadow caching problem

2010-07-15 Thread Brian Marshall
On Jul 15, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/15/2010 05:09 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> >> Did you build it from source or were you trying to install one of the >> binary packages? You'll definitely want to build from source. > > I take that back. Don't build it from source, that

[CentOS] Disks for virtualization

2010-07-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Much the easiest to manage is just having the virtual machine use a file > in dom0 as its disk. Without pre-allocating, this lets me over-commit > somewhat to cover unknown future needs, for example. One sees this a lot in the writeups; one assumes

Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue

2010-07-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/15/2010 05:21 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > I have read in many places that I cannot do it, since > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > I will try, if you think it could work. It should be fine. lilo will load the kernel and initrd into RAM from the /boot partition. Only the kernel cares abou

Re: [CentOS] Finding DHCP IP of guest system

2010-07-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > My dom0 /var/log/messages doesn't have anything on assignments to guests. > bs004 (ID 9), for example, currently has 192.168.1.143, but there's > nothing about that IP in dom0 /var/log/messages. > > Are you maybe running a dhcp server