[CentOS] Preserving LVM after after os reload

2010-10-22 Thread Sherin George
Hi guys, I have two disks, one with OS and a second disk containing an LVM. I would like to OS reload the server without losing LVM. I heard that LVM is self sustaining. Is that true ? Should I backup something(using vgcfgbackup & vgexport ?) to get LVM running after os reload. Thanks in adva

Re: [CentOS] Preserving LVM after after os reload

2010-10-22 Thread nux
Sherin George writes: > Hi guys, > > I have two disks, one with OS and a second disk containing an LVM. I > would like to OS reload the server without losing LVM. > > I heard that LVM is self sustaining. Is that true ? Should I backup > something(using vgcfgbackup & vgexport ?) to get LVM run

Re: [CentOS] Preserving LVM after after os reload

2010-10-22 Thread Sherin George
Thanks Nux :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mount/automount fails with krb5-enabled nfs4

2010-10-22 Thread Hans Persson
tor 2010-10-21 klockan 17:21 -0700 skrev James A. Peltier: > | I've run into issues unless I was running the latest version of > | mount-utils, which I _think_ included rpc.gssd and rpc.svcgssd. > > nfs-utils is also a package of issue. Neither working nor non-working machines have any mount-util

[CentOS] Adding SAMBA users in Centos 5.5

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Crighton
I have SAMBA working on Centos 5.5 - I can see and access my "home" directory from a Windows machine. I have created a new folder to share, changed the owner and group to my username and chcon -t samba_share_t to allow SELinux to share the folder. I can see this folder from Windows but not access

Re: [CentOS] Getting Wake on lan to work

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Crighton
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:38:43 -0400, you wrote: >On 10/20/2010 02:13 PM, cen...@crighton.me.uk wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:04:51 -0400, you wrote: >> >> >> >>> To get mine to work under fedora I had to run ethtool and turn on the >>> wol option. >>> Also it seemed to get reset after used w

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for network performance comparison chart

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, > Does anyone have, or know of a comparison chart of the different > network adapters, i.e. 1GB / 10GB, Infiniband, etc. And if possible > with a few top brand NIC's and switches listed as well. > > I would like to see, for example, what the max throughput is of a 1GB > NIC (and this co

Re: [CentOS] Mount/automount fails with krb5-enabled nfs4

2010-10-22 Thread Hans Persson
tor 2010-10-21 klockan 10:34 -0700 skrev James A. Peltier: > - Original Message - [...] > Please post a copy of your /etc/* files listed above so that we might > be able to look to make sure everything is correct. You may want to > look at ensuring that > > SECURE_NFS="yes" > RPCGSSDARGS

Re: [CentOS] temp dir, httpd and selinux

2010-10-22 Thread Ned Slider
On 21/10/10 11:57, admin lewis wrote: > Hi, > I have a php software installed on a centos server with selinux > enforced activeted. > The php software (glpi --> http://www.glpi-project.org) have a plugin > that must write on a temp dir... but selinux dont give access to that > dir to write. > How

[CentOS] Howto align partitions in Linux + NetApp

2010-10-22 Thread Santi Saez
Hi, NetApp support has suggested us aligning partitions to improve performance, in short: starting sector must be divisible by 8. How can I move the start point in a misaligned partition -in production, with ext3- under Linux? A screenshot with a misaligned (start=63s) and aligned (start=64s)

Re: [CentOS] Adding SAMBA users in Centos 5.5

2010-10-22 Thread James Bensley
Dump you smb.conf here, what would probably be easier to resolve :) -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Howto align partitions in Linux + NetApp

2010-10-22 Thread Brian Mathis
AFAIK, you cannot do what you are trying to do. The point of file system alignment is to lay down the tracks on the entire disk so they align with the sector boundaries of the underlying device. Once everything is laid down and you have installed OS and written data, all of those blocks are alrea

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for network performance comparison chart

2010-10-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Simon Billis wrote: > Hi Rudi, > >> Does anyone have, or know of a comparison chart of the different >> network adapters, i.e. 1GB  / 10GB, Infiniband, etc. And if possible >> with a few top brand NIC's and switches listed as well. >> >> I would like to see, for e

Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-22 Thread John Hinton
On 10/22/2010 1:31 AM, Ritika Garg wrote: I havent't tried nofb. If I write "linux nofb" at boot:, then will the innstallation take place in text mode or graphical mode? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] POP3 server

2010-10-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/10/10 3:10 AM, David wrote: > I was hoping Dovecot could be not so RFC compliant in this matter. Anyway if > gets the DELE command the message arrived safely to the client. > > Any other POP3 server not so RFC compliant? > > Thanks for the answer. Breaking RFCs to get the functions you wa

Re: [CentOS] POP3 server

2010-10-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 01:32 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 22/10/10 3:10 AM, David wrote: > > I was hoping Dovecot could be not so RFC compliant in this matter. Anyway > > if > > gets the DELE command the message arrived safely to the client. The feature you want would result in inconsistencie

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 68, Issue 11

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Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for network performance comparison chart

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 22 October 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have, or know of a comparison chart of the different > network adapters, i.e. 1GB / 10GB, Infiniband, etc. And if possible > with a few top brand NIC's and switches listed as well. Iperf(tcp) Good 1G eth: 945 Mbps Good 10G et

Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-22 Thread Ritika Garg
I tried "linux nofb" and "linux xdriver=VESA" but the problem persists. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey listers! silly quesion: if I generate an RSA key on an NFS shared home directory, then cat >> it into the .ssh/authorized_keys file in the same location, shouldn't I then be able to ssh into each host that shares the NFS home directory without entering a passphrase (assuming the key doesn't ha

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/22/2010 11:38 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > silly quesion: if I generate an RSA key on an NFS shared home > directory, then cat>> it into the .ssh/authorized_keys file in the > same location, shouldn't I then be able to ssh into each host that > shares the NFS home directory without entering a pas

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 hangs on Acer Veriton X498G

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Ortega
I have installed CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18-194.17.1.el5PAE) on a number of Acer Veriton X498G desktop computers. They seem to randomly hang when nobody is logged in at the console, i.e. I notice a hanged computer but have not heard complaints about computers hanging while a user was at the keyboard.

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
hmm.. ok then gordon thanks for the input! how do these permissions grab ya? [bluethu...@lcent01 ~]$ ls -alh | grep .ssh -rw--- 1 bluethundr summitnjops70 Oct 17 14:04 .lesshst drwx-- 2 bluethundr summitnjops 512 Oct 22 14:06 .ssh [bluethu...@lcent01 ~]$ ls -lah .ssh total 34K

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote > > > > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct. Otherwise, yes. --- chmod 755 ~/.ssh chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys John drwxr-xr-x 2 ethan ethan4096 Oct 10 17:16 .ssh -rw-r--r-- 1 ethan ethan 396 Oct 10 17:16 aut

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 hangs on Acer Veriton X498G

2010-10-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Paul Ortega wrote: > I have installed CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18-194.17.1.el5PAE) on a number of Acer > Veriton X498G desktop computers. They seem to randomly hang when nobody > is logged in at the console, i.e. I notice a hanged computer but have > not heard complaints about compute

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Todd Denniston
Tim Dunphy wrote, On 10/22/2010 03:30 PM: > hmm.. ok then gordon thanks for the input! how do these permissions grab ya? > > > [bluethu...@lcent01 ~]$ ls -alh | grep .ssh > -rw--- 1 bluethundr summitnjops70 Oct 17 14:04 .lesshst > drwx-- 2 bluethundr summitnjops 512 Oct 22 14:06

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:53 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote >> > >> > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct.  Otherwise, >> > yes. > --- > chmod 755 ~/.ssh > > chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > > John > > drwxr-xr-x  2 ethan ethan  

[CentOS] dual external monitors via an NVIDIA laptop?

2010-10-22 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I have a Dell M6400 with an NVIDIA Quadr FX 3700M card. Is there any way for me to setup 2 external monitors as opposed to one external monitor and the laptop screen? Thanks in advance ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
guys awesome advice!! I will try your suggestions sometime tonight, I am backing up the virtual network at the moment and it is therefore shutdown until the backup is done. thanks !! tim On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Todd Denniston wrote: > Tim Dunphy wrote, On 10/22/2010 03:30 PM: >> hmm.. o

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 16:25 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:53 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote > >> > > >> > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct. Otherwise, > >> > yes. > > --- > > chmod 755 ~/.ssh > > >

Re: [CentOS] dual external monitors via an NVIDIA laptop?

2010-10-22 Thread Nataraj
Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi All; > > I have a Dell M6400 with an NVIDIA Quadr FX 3700M card. Is there any way > for me to setup 2 external monitors as opposed to one external monitor > and the laptop screen? > > > > > Thanks in advance > > ___ > CentOS ma

[CentOS] DRBD update 8.3.9 (Was: drbd update 8.3.8.1)

2010-10-22 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Shad L. Lords wrote: > >> Can we get a refresh of the drbd packages to 8.3.8.1 >> >> There was a fix to the resync protocol. 8.3.8 would stall under certain >> circumstances. > > If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:30:03 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > hmm.. ok then gordon thanks for the input! how do these permissions grab ya? > > > [bluethu...@lcent01 ~]$ ls -alh | grep .ssh > -rw--- 1 bluethundr summitnjops70 Oct 17 14:04 .lesshst > drwx-- 2 bluethundr s

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:38:37 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > hey listers! > > silly quesion: if I generate an RSA key on an NFS shared home > directory, then cat >> it into the .ssh/authorized_keys file in the > same location, shouldn't I then be able to ssh into each host that > shares t

Re: [CentOS] POP3 server

2010-10-22 Thread David
ok, I will keep tight to RFC then. Thanks for the answers. David - Original Message - From: "Adam Tauno Williams" To: Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] POP3 server On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 01:32 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 22/10/10 3:10 AM, David wrote:

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
cd ~bluethundr/.ssh/ [bluethu...@virtcent01 ~]$ ls -al | grep .ssh -rw--- 1 bluethundr 1005 70 Oct 17 14:04 .lesshst drwxr-xr-x 2 bluethundr 1005 512 Oct 22 14:06 .ssh -rw-r--r-- 1 bluethundr 1005 1047 Sep 16 01:22 sshd-prop.txt [bluethu...@virtcent01 ~]$ ls -lh .ssh total

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:29 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > still failed... :( > > [bluethu...@virtcent02 ~]$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > [bluethu...@virtcent02 ~]$ ssh virt1 > bluethu...@virt1's password: > Last login: Fri Oct 22 22:31:41 201

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:29 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: Would someone @ mail dot centos dot org delete this email expung it from public view??? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-October/100563.html; ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
PermitEmptyPasswords no In sshd_config on the server ??? That would work for keys that do not have a password. You created the key without a password right? yes I created it without a key.. and enabled PermitEmptyPasswords yes in sshd_config > Would someone @ mail dot centos dot org d

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 23:17 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > uhm.. what's your problem, dude? > My problem is you Private Key is Wide Open to the whole World so now go and create a new one, unless you the world to have it. :-) John ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 23/10/10 2:17 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > >> Would someone @ mail dot centos dot org delete this email expung it >> from public view??? > > uhm.. what's your problem, dude? He's probably referring to the private RSA SSH key that has been posted in that message. Actually, that would be *your* p

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/22/10 8:13 PM, JohnS wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:29 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Would someone @ mail dot centos dot org delete this email expung it > from public view??? > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-October/100563.html; it wouldn't matter. those keys are

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > this is mighty puzzling!! Have you investigated whether SELinux is stopping this? If so, this will probably fix it: chcon -RP /home/user/.ssh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.

Re: [CentOS] POP3 server

2010-10-22 Thread Drew
> Anyway if gets the DELE command the message arrived safely to the client. Not guaranteed. DELE command can be issued on an email before the client reads the email. I've used this in the past to remove large emails from a mailbox so the client could finish downloading the rest of their email. Not

[CentOS] How to install and update a src rpm?

2010-10-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, is there please a way to install and later update a src rpm - instead of locating and downloading that package manually? I've run: "yum install rpm-build mock yum-utils" successfully. But when I try to run "yumdownloader --source httpd", I get the error listed at the bottom of my mail. D