Re: [CentOS] how to install Atheros AR5008 on CentOS 5.5 in console-only mode?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On 2010/08/03 02:02 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I hope someone can help me. I'm trying to setup a D-Link DWA-547 on CentOS 5.5 x64 in console only mode, i.e. there's no X installed. The Wiki article suggests using NetWork Manager, but since there's

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

2010-08-03 Thread Agnello George
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Agnello George > wrote: > > Hi > > we had one of our mail servers , going on kernel panic mode ( not > syncing > > fatal exception) ... cause /var/queue/postfix was on reiserfs part .. it > has > > not been givi

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

2010-08-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/03/10 12:44 AM, Agnello George wrote: > > Thanks for you reply , currently we have the default kernel > 2.6.18-128.el5 ( centos 5.3 ) , can i install the > kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.src.rpm and add the patch to this or do i have > to download the kernel 2.6.21 then compile it and then in

Re: [CentOS] how to install Atheros AR5008 on CentOS 5.5 in console-only mode?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > I hope someone can help me.  I'm trying to setup a D-Link DWA-547 on > CentOS 5.5 x64 in console only mode, i.e. there's no X installed. The > Wiki article suggests using NetWork Manager, but since there's no X > installed on this server, it

Re: [CentOS] how to install Atheros AR5008 on CentOS 5.5 in console-only mode?

2010-08-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > scanpci -v shows the card isn't recognized: > > pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x0023 >  Atheros Communications, Inc.  Device unknown Luckily, you just showed the vendor:device ID pairing of your card by the a

[CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where they use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to print some advertisement material. But for everything else, they don't need it. And because

Re: [CentOS] JBD: failed to read block at offset

2010-08-03 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
(2010/08/02 21:28), cliff here wrote: > Im getting errors like JBD: failed to read block at offset 4360 on a > raid 5 parition , have run several fcsk on it are these Journal > errors recoverable? If its software bug, reformating may solve the problem. or your raid5 of 2-3 disks are broken.

Re: [CentOS] how to install Atheros AR5008 on CentOS 5.5 in console-only mode?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> scanpci -v shows the card isn't recognized: >> >> pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x0023 >>  Atheros Communications, Inc.  Device unknown > > Luckily, you

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Grasso
Hello, as for understanding the grub disk and partition numbering scheme, you should read : info grub and more specifically the "Naming convention" paragraph. Your issue is all about understanding this. Hope this helps --- Robert GRASSO – System engineer CEDRAT S.A. 15 Chemin de Malacher -

[CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread ken
Running "yum update", yum appears to perform fine and appears to finish but continues to reside in memory: ... Updating : lftp 2/4 Cleanup: lftp 3/4 Cleanup: freetype

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. > We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where > they use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to print some > advertisement mater

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread John Doe
From: Janez Kosmrlj >Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. >We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where >they > >use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to print some advertisement >material. But for everything else, t

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread John Doe
From: ken > Running "yum update", yum appears to perform fine and appears to finish > but continues to reside in memory: > Complete! > # ps -ef|grep yum > root 1384 1336 0 06:21 pts/000:00:00 grep yum > root 2229 1 0 Jul06 ? 00:00:11 /usr/bin/python -tt > /usr/sbi

[CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All On my centos machine, I need to install redhat on one of its partitions and so make it dual boot . Can you please let me know how this can be accomplished? Thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 August 2010 12:07, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > On my centos machine, I need to install redhat on one of its partitions and > so make it dual boot . Can you please let me know how this can be > accomplished? > Thank you > > ___ > CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread hadi motamedi
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:59 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=grub > > Seriously?! > ___ > Actually, my redhat version is an old one that does not recognize usb disk (but my centos can). So I thought if I can install redhat on one of

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > On my centos machine, I need to install redhat on one of its partitions and > so make it dual boot . Can you please let me know how this can be > accomplished? In case you didn't see my mail yesterday: Last warning. Do some researc

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread hadi motamedi
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > In case you didn't see my mail yesterday: Last warning. Do some > research for yourself before asking here. > > Ralph > ___ > If so, I can un-subscribe from the list.

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:09:47PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: > If so, I can un-subscribe from the list. Please? Pretty please? Or, even better Just learn to do some amount of research on your own so we don't feel you are just using the list to do your work

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread John Doe
From: hadi motamedi > Actually, my redhat version is an old one that does not recognize usb disk > (but > > my centos can). So I thought if I can install redhat on one of my centos > partitions and then copy its contents to usb disk via 'dd if of' utility.Can >you > > please let me know how c

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

2010-08-03 Thread Agnello George
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/03/10 12:44 AM, Agnello George wrote: > >> >> Thanks for you reply , currently we have the default kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 >> ( centos 5.3 ) , can i install the kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.src.rpm and add >> the patch to this or do i have t

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:09:47PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: >> If so, I can un-subscribe from the list. > > Please? Pretty please? > > Or, even better > > Just learn to do some amount of research on your own so we don't > feel you are jus

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:41 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Janez Kosmrlj > >Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. > >We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices > where they > > > >use centos 5.5 as their OS. They need the printers to pri

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
> > Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so > easy > for you...  Or if you can't, please avoid polluting future searches with > non-answers. > > Specifically, he needs a search result that shows how to get the older RedHat > installed on the USB disk it doesn't r

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:56:42AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > John R. Dennison wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:09:47PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> If so, I can un-subscribe from the list. > > > > Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so > easy > fo

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
>> > > Hi > I have install the  kernel using the Centosplus repo .. currenlly the kernel > is > 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.centos.plus > but how would i know if that patch is fixed in this version of the kernel >  as mentioned in http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3156 > -- > Regards > Agnello D'souza > >

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:56:42AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so > easy for you... Or if you can't, please avoid polluting future searches with > non-answers. Please quote the part where I said it was easy if yo

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: > From: ken > >> > > yum-updatesd is not yum. > man yum-updateeresd > > JD Thanks, JD. Sorry, I copy-and-pasted from the wrong machine. Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run "yum update", it fails like this: The other

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:10:39AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > There is also the lighter, and at this point, probably less feature-ful > VirtualBox, of course. VirtualBox works ... until it doesn't. Quality control, in my experience (it would really take a survey of hundreds of users to be su

Re: [CentOS] how to install Atheros AR5008 on CentOS 5.5 in console-only mode?

2010-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> >>> scanpci -v shows the card isn't recognized: >>> >>> pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x168c device 0x0023 >>>  A

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:09:47PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: >>> If so, I can un-subscribe from the list. >> >> Please? Pretty please? >> >> Or, even better >> >> Just learn to do some amount of research on your own so we don't

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
> I don't have his first post, but am I misremembering that his .sig said he > was RHCE? > >        mark > Never seen an RHCE sig for him to my knowledge... A quick gmail search of my archive had this as his first post September last year Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know w

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:09 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > quite frankly after seeing his noise on here for so long (and now at > the ubuntu-users mailing list... oh yay?!) with not even the least > amount of research I'd rather he just unsubscribed and stopped > pestering with any task he needs to

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread m . roth
ken wrote: > On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: >> From: ken >>> > Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run "yum > update", it fails like this: > > The other application is: yum-updatesd-he > Memory : 31 M RSS ( 74 MB VSZ) > Started: Tue Aug 3 04:40:0

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > ken wrote: > > On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: > >> From: ken > >>> > > > Trying again: it's happened to me a few times now that when I run "yum > > update", it fails like this: > > > > The other application is: yum-updat

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:13 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:09 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > quite frankly after seeing his noise on here for so long (and now at > > the ubuntu-users mailing list... oh yay?!) with not even the least > > amount of research I'd rather he just unsu

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 10:13:39AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > Hadi's emails go straight to trash for me but I see responses to his > queries. He regularly posts similar questions to three lists to which > I subscribe: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-August/097561.html > On my centos

Re: [CentOS] how to install Atheros AR5008 on CentOS 5.5 in console-only mode?

2010-08-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Using the pair, I see: >> >> $ grep -i 168c /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 0023 >> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/modules.alias:alias >> pci:v168Cd0023sv*sd*bc*sc*i* ath9k

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/10, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual > machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN > VPS servers. > > Does anyone use Lustre in a production environment? > What is your opinions / experiences with it? I have

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 8:18 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:56:42AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so >> easy for you... Or if you can't, please avoid polluting future searches with >> non-answers. > > Pl

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Lars Hecking
Emmanuel Noobadmin writes: > On 8/3/10, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual > > machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN > > VPS servers. > > > > Does anyone use Lustre in a production environment? > > What is you

Re: [CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

2010-08-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
hadi motamedi a écrit : > Dear All > I want to install win xp on my centos machine . Can you please let me > know how can I reformat a partition to ntfs? 1) Insert CentOS install CD until you come to the first screen. 2) Open virtual console : Alt+F2 3) # shred -vzn 65536 /dev/hda 4) Watch mes

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Edward Diener
On 8/3/2010 12:22 AM, Mark Pryor wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 8/2/10, Edward Diener wrote: > >> From: Edward Diener >> Subject: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode >> To: centos@centos.org >> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 9:07 PM >> I boot from the installation DVD, >> with an

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
On 3 August 2010 15:45, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/3/2010 8:18 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:56:42AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> >>> Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so >>> easy for you...  Or if you can't, please avoid pollutin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:36 -0700, Mark wrote: > Did most of that (except spamd in Evo) and nothing showed up in top - > the big CPU hog was SeaMonkey at 23% of one core, the others were all > idle or lower use. Almost no swapping: --- Try killing Seamonkey/nspluginwrapper ie, shutdown then try.

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Edward Diener
On 8/3/2010 4:53 AM, Robert Grasso wrote: > Hello, > > as for understanding the grub disk and partition numbering scheme, you should > read : > > info grub > > and more specifically the "Naming convention" paragraph. > > Your issue is all about understanding this. > > Hope this helps No, it does

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Edward Diener
On 8/3/2010 12:19 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:07:58AM -0400, Edward Diener wrote: > >> Attempting to use 'rescue mode" to automatically mount my system under >> /mnt/sysimage eventally fails with an error message, which essentially >> says 'mount error' and nothing else. I

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 9:56 AM, Edward Diener wrote: > > I am at the shell prompt but in order to get grub to work, don't I need > to mount my actual boot and root partitions for grub to know that > (hd0,9) refers a valid boot partition when I tell grub: > > root (hd0,9) > setup (hd0,9) No, grub doesn't need

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/10, Lars Hecking wrote: > What do Gluster or Lustre offer that the builtin Red Hat Cluster Suite > does not? Being a noob admin, I'm not sure and still haven't decided fully on which way to go, largely because it seems the technologies of choice are both still maturing (gluster + non-Sol

[CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> ken wrote: >>> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: >> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not* >> have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 9:49 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so easy for you... Or if you can't, please avoid polluting future searches with non-answers. >>> >>>Please quote the part where I said it was easy if you

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: > On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> ken wrote: On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: > >>> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not* >>> have yum-upd

Re: [CentOS] how to dual boot centos with redhat?

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 8:10 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> >> VMware on the best machine you have and run the OS in question as a guest. >> In >> many cases you can find an image already installed that you can just download >> and run under VMware player. If you have to build your own, you'll probably >> wa

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:30 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: > > On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> ken wrote: > On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: > > > >>> Yep - if any version o

Re: [CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

2010-08-03 Thread m . roth
Niki Kovacs wrote: > hadi motamedi a écrit : >> Dear All >> I want to install win xp on my centos machine . Can you please let me >> know how can I reformat a partition to ntfs? > > 1) Insert CentOS install CD until you come to the first screen. > > 2) Open virtual console : Alt+F2 > > 3) # shred -

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 8/3/10, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual >> machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN >> VPS servers. >> >> Does anyone use Lustre in a production e

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: > Emmanuel Noobadmin writes: >> On 8/3/10, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> > I'm considering setting up a Lustre cluster system for our XEN virtual >> > machines as shared storage, mainly for high availability on our XEN >> > VPS servers. >> > >> > Does a

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 8/3/10, Lars Hecking wrote: >>  What do Gluster or Lustre offer that the builtin Red Hat Cluster Suite >>  does not? > > Being a noob admin, I'm not sure and still haven't decided fully on > which way to go, largely because it seems t

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread m . roth
JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:30 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: >> > On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> ken wrote: >> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: >> > >> >>>

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

2010-08-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, James Hogarth wrote: >> Hi >> I have install the  kernel using the Centosplus repo .. currenlly the kernel >> is >> 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.centos.plus >> but how would i know if that patch is fixed in this version of the kernel >>  as mentioned in http://bugs.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread ken
On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: >> On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ken wrote: > On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote: >> Yep - if any version of yum is running,

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Janez Kosmrlj > Subject: [CentOS] force b/w printing > > Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. > We are in the process to deploy color printers to some of our offices where > they use ce

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

2010-08-03 Thread Agnello George
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, James Hogarth > wrote: > > >> Hi > >> I have install the kernel using the Centosplus repo .. currenlly the > kernel > >> is > >> 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.centos.plus > >> but how would i know if that patch is fixed in

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/3/2010 12:12 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > JohnS wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:30 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: So is there a way to configure yum and/or yum-updatesd so that I get a GUI notice that updates are available, but then run the actua

Re: [CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:18 -0400, ken wrote: > On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote: > > On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: > >> On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > ken wrote: > > On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote

Re: [CentOS] VM's compared (Was how to dual boot centos with redhat?)

2010-08-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:25:57AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:10:39AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > There is also the lighter, and at this point, probably less feature-ful > > VirtualBox, of course. > > VirtualBox works ... until it doesn't. Quality control, in

Re: [CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 11:05 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> hadi motamedi a écrit : >>> Dear All >>> I want to install win xp on my centos machine . Can you please let me >>> know how can I reformat a partition to ntfs? >> >> 1) Insert CentOS install CD until you come to the first screen.

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Edward Diener
On 8/3/2010 11:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/3/2010 9:56 AM, Edward Diener wrote: >> >> I am at the shell prompt but in order to get grub to work, don't I need >> to mount my actual boot and root partitions for grub to know that >> (hd0,9) refers a valid boot partition when I tell grub: >> >> r

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 11:47 AM, Edward Diener wrote: > On 8/3/2010 11:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 8/3/2010 9:56 AM, Edward Diener wrote: >>> >>> I am at the shell prompt but in order to get grub to work, don't I need >>> to mount my actual boot and root partitions for grub to know that >>> (hd0,9) refer

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 3:45pm, Lars Hecking wrote > Emmanuel Noobadmin writes: >> >> I haven't used Lustre but was also researching on using it for same >> purpose as shared storage for VMs. Dropped it in the end from >> consideration after some discussion on the Lustre mailing list points >> out t

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 6:11pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin > wrote: >> From what I understand, I cannot do the equivalent of network RAID 1 >> with a normal DRBD/HB style cluster. Gluster with replicate appears to >> do exactly that. I can have 2 or more

Re: [CentOS] how to reformat a partition to ntfs?

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/3/10, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/3/2010 11:05 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Niki Kovacs wrote: >>> hadi motamedi a écrit : Dear All I want to install win xp on my centos machine . Can you please let me know how can I reformat a partition to ntfs? >>> >>> 1) Insert

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread m . roth
Edward Diener wrote: > On 8/3/2010 11:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 8/3/2010 9:56 AM, Edward Diener wrote: >>> >>> I am at the shell prompt but in order to get grub to work, don't I need >>> to mount my actual boot and root partitions for grub to know that >>> (hd0,9) refers a valid boot partiti

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/3/10, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. Strange how come people miss out the loclhost:631 on the system hosting the printer and check out the printer options button. I swear, it is gui. This is in addition to command

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/3/10, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 3:45pm, Lars Hecking wrote > > nodes. Also, according to RH's site, RHCS is limited to 16 nodes. Huh! Last time I checked it, it was far over 1024 nodes or something like that considering the MRG and RHEV. Correct me if I

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 13:12 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Also, according to RH's site, RHCS is limited to 16 nodes. > Gluster has no such limit. --- https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2010-May/msg3.html Thus you can have more than 16 Non Supported. A Single node is support

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:19 AM, JohnS wrote: > > Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update > will not run!  IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why > yum update ran. > Oh? I run yum-updatesd as a service (by dafult, not by any specific intent), but as

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
I normally use a live CD for this sort of thing... in that case you don't need to cheroot at all. Just make sure your /boot/grub/device.map is correct and do grub-install --root-directory= /dev/sda (assuming you want the mbr on sda) James On 3 Aug 2010 18:21, wrote: > Edward Diener wrote: >> On

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread m . roth
Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:19 AM, JohnS wrote: >> >> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update >> will not run!  IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why >> yum update ran. > > Oh? I run yum-updatesd as a service (by dafult, not by any specif

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Edward Diener
On 8/3/2010 2:27 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > I normally use a live CD for this sort of thing... in that case you > don't need to cheroot at all. Just make sure your > /boot/grub/device.map is correct and do grub-install > --root-directory= /dev/sda (assuming you want the mbr on > sda) I am booting

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/4/10, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > With lustre, from what I understand, I could use say 3 or 5 or 50 > servers to spread the load across the server and thus have higher IO. > We mainly host shared hosting clients, who often have hundreds & > thousands of files in one account. So if their files were "

Re: [CentOS] yum doesn't exit

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 14:33 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:19 AM, JohnS wrote: > >> > >> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update > >> will not run! IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why > >> yum update ran

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/3/2010 2:08 PM, Edward Diener wrote: > On 8/3/2010 2:27 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> I normally use a live CD for this sort of thing... in that case you >> don't need to cheroot at all. Just make sure your >> /boot/grub/device.map is correct and do grub-install >> --root-directory= /dev/sda (a

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/4/10, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I'm thinking more in the lines of network RAID10, if it's possible? Yes, that's one of the thing about Gluster that makes it rather attractive in theory to me. We can stack various translators in different ways, in this case, distribute + replicate for effectively

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > > One of the problem with Lustre's style of distributed storage which > Gluster points out is that the bottleneck is the meta server which > tells clients where to find the actual data. Gluster supposedly scales > with every client machin

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 03:16 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I don't have a link because it's in my inbox but you might be able to > find it "Question on Lustre redundancy/failure features" in Lustre > mailing list archive around 28 Jun 2010. --- Would this be it? http://www.mail-archive.com/lu

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 10:04pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin > wrote: >> >> One of the problem with Lustre's style of distributed storage which >> Gluster points out is that the bottleneck is the meta server which >> tells clients where to find the actual

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 10:04pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote > >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin >> wrote: >>> >>> One of the problem with Lustre's style of distributed storage which >>> Gluster points out is that the bottlenec

Re: [CentOS] Announce list digest ??

2010-08-03 Thread Ron Loftin
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 21:16 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Am 30.07.10 16:03, schrieb Ron Loftin: > > > > It seems that the past month or so the CentOS Announce list digest has > > no longer been sent out to the general CentOS list ( this list ) > > although the CentOS Web site still says that t

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 at 10:26pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote > Thanx for the feedback. This is what I hoped to get from someone > running lustre :) > > But I guess I'll look at gluster instead. You may want to head over to the beowulf mailing list -- you've probably got a higher probability of finding Lustr

Re: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode

2010-08-03 Thread James Hogarth
True... but the checks it does such as the device.map are usually beneficial. No the live CD (or is it a DVD now? I forget...) is not the same as the install CD. An error saying hd2 doesn't exist does sound like it could be an incorrect map in your boot filesystem... did you add or remove any dri

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS wrote: > > Try killing Seamonkey/nspluginwrapper ie, shutdown then try. > No difference. > What is your running kernel? Newest.  Asking because it may be that your > problem is machine independent as a client of mine on a Compaq had the > same problem 6 month

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread Mark
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS wrote: > >> What is your running kernel? Newest.  Asking because it may be that your >> problem is machine independent as a client of mine on a Compaq had the >> same problem 6 months ago.  Fix it I just removed t

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/4/10, JohnS wrote: > Would this be it? > http://www.mail-archive.com/lustre-disc...@lists.lustre.org/msg06952.html Yes, that is my thread :) > This is something like Virtual Storage like Covalent and IBM have. Very > costly to implement the right way and interesting also. That's what I en

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow

2010-08-03 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:01 -0700, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:54 AM, JohnS wrote: > > > >> What is your running kernel? Newest. Asking because it may be that your > >> problem is machine independent as a client of mine on a Compaq had

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On 8/3/10, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > > Has anyone an idea, how to force users to print b/w on a color printer. > > Strange how come people miss out the loclhost:631 on the system > hosting the pr

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/4/10, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 8/4/10, JohnS wrote: > > Only concern now is the usual split-brain issue and whether linuxZFS > is matured enough to be used in conjunction as the underlying fs on > Centos5. Dunno if its relevent, but are we talking about inband/power or sto

Re: [CentOS] force b/w printing

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/4/10, Janez Kosmrlj wrote: > The best solution would be command line and if possible bash scriptable. Ignore the previous jest. In your scenario, puppet would possibly be one of the components twiddling the /etc/cups* stuff in the clients across location etc. *assuming* the clie

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/03/10 11:31 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > But then is ZFS a Cluster filesystem at all like GFS2/OCFS? Haven't > studied that angle as yet. its not. and, afaik, the linux implementation of ZFS is not very well supported, I certainly wouldn't commit to a project relying on it without

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

2010-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 8/4/10, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/03/10 11:31 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: It just triggered an idea, why not leave the storage blocks as clvm bricks and the BMR/Restore and the such be delgated to a lower lever mechnism such as clvm replication/snapshot. Somebody in this

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