[CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Dear all, I'm trying to setup a development server which hosts a number of virtual hosts.and i need your advice with the following: 1. What's the best Filesystem to be used with an apache server?Relevant info: i. Mysql DB size' 1 GBii. Code directory size' 8 GB (Max file size is 5 KB)2. What's

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread David Sommerseth
On 10/01/11 05:41, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Robert Spangler > wrote: >> On Sunday 09 January 2011 13:33, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >>> Our intranet's WAN interface just stopped working yesterday, and I >>> can't figure it out. >> >> Look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Re: [CentOS] rpm/yum/repo issue - Error: Package tuple could not be found in packagesack

2011-01-10 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: n...@li.nux.ro > Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpm/yum/repo issue - Error: Package tuple could not be > found in packagesack > > n...@li.nux.ro writes: *snip* > No ideas guys? What I could figure out is that the spec > f

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:05 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 10/01/11 05:41, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Robert Spangler >> wrote: >>> On Sunday 09 January 2011 13:33, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>>  Our intranet's WAN interface just stopped working yesterday, and I

Re: [CentOS] Could not setup Speed and Duplex on CentOS 5.5

2011-01-10 Thread Sikkandar Dulkarnai
Team, Thanks for the response. It looks like when we are using *Xen*, eth0 is become peth0. When I tried *ethtool -s peth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off* it works fine. I tested throughput and it is optimum. Regards, Sikkandar On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:57 AM, R Lists07 wrote: > Sikka

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread compdoc
I love realtek - the resources they use tend not to conflict with other cards or hardware, they don't use much cpu time, the drivers are mature, and they don't cost much. What could be better? There does seem to be at least one onboard realtek chipset that can have driver issues, but I use the 8169

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, compdoc wrote: > I love realtek - the resources they use tend not to conflict with other > cards or hardware, they don't use much cpu time, the drivers are mature, and > they don't cost much. What could be better? There does seem to be at least > one onboard realt

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread John Doe
From: Roland RoLaNd >1. Drive A (320 GB): OS >2. Drive B (1 TB): Mysql + /home >3. Drive C (1 TB): /development + /opt Does that mean no RAID and downtime to recover from backups is acceptable...? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]

2011-01-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, compdoc wrote: >> I love realtek - the resources they use tend not to conflict with other >> cards or hardware, they don't use much cpu time, the drivers are mature, and >> they don't cost much. What could be

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread Roland RoLaNd
I'm using rsync with a cronjob everynight at 11 pm to do the following: sync relevant directories to a running phsycial machine (same specs more or lesS)Sync relevant directories to a running Virtual Machine(vmware) On down time i'll run either one of those machines till problem is fixed. would

Re: [CentOS] 389 Directory Server & CentOS

2011-01-10 Thread sync
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Edgar Valdes wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone out there has successfully implemented 389 as a > replacement or to support to a windows AD environment. I'm just starting to > toy around with it in a few vm's and trying to get a feel for integra

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > I'm using rsync with a cronjob everynight at 11 pm to do the following: > > sync relevant directories to a running phsycial machine (same specs more or > lesS) > Sync relevant directories to a running Virtual Machine(vmware) > > On down time

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Sunday 09 Jan 2011 19:58:54 Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > But the request was for something that would retain the same screen > > dimensions while changing the lines/columns. > > Actually I believe the request is for something that will retain

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
I like your analogy David..." rock is too small to be turned around now" I think you put it in the right context. It is always a good idea to check on dmesg upon boot and make sure those modules are loaded as David mentioned. Try to start from the beginning to troubleshoot the problem. Tow cents

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread Barry Brimer
> Thank you for the discrimination, but it's not appreciated. This is > not a multi-million dollar enterprise cluster, so please don't see it > as such. It's an in-house development server and really doesn't > justify thousands of dollars' worth of hardware. The NIC was working > fine for about 2 y

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]

2011-01-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Rudi, Sounds like a module conflict/misconfiguration, but anyway glad its working back. have you upgrade this system with the latest kernel build. I am guessing both onboard NICs are the same brand, take a look at messages and see if the card give me problems in the future. make sure you look fo

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc

2011-01-10 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/10/11 3:12 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> My immediate hunch is ... and I'm sorry to say it ... but your NIC is >> often referred to as Realcrap NICs - unfortunately that's not without a >> reason. > > Thank you for the discrimination, but it's not appreciated. This is > not a multi-million dolla

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]

2011-01-10 Thread Tommy E Craddock Jr
Hey, If it happens again, or maybe it might show in /var/log/messages, if there was a MAC address conflict in the ifcfg files. I've seen where eth0 won't come on as the MAC address set in the cfg file wasnt matching. Some times it fails with a message on an ifdown ifup, sometimes it doesn't.

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]

2011-01-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Tommy, I think your scenario only pertain to those of us that clone macs with different prefixes, we are assuming that rudi is using the original MAC from the actual device. Not two macs are equal unless you change the physical device parameters via mac-changer/modification. Let's hope he is not

Re: [CentOS] replace x86 with x64 system and reuse existing LVM

2011-01-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:31:25 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I want to replace an existing 32bit with a 64bit installation (Centos 5). > There's an existing LVM with lots of partitions. Most are used for Xen > guests. The system itself uses only one of them plus a separate /boot > parti

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > Dear all, > I'm trying to setup a development server which hosts a number of virtual > hosts. > and i need your advice with the following: > > 1. What's the best Filesystem to be used with an apache server? > > Relevant info: > > i. Mysql DB

Re: [CentOS] yum difference

2011-01-10 Thread Matej Cepl
Dne 10.1.2011 00:35, derleader __ napsal(a): > Red hat yum downloads packages from RHN > Centos yum downloads packages from the fastest mirror? > > There is difference in configuration. yum can use plugins and in this case RHEL yum uses rhnplugin for communicating with RHN/Satellite. Yum itself (

Re: [CentOS] Helper variables like %{rhel} on CentOS

2011-01-10 Thread Santi Saez
El 05/01/2011 20:05, Akemi Yagi escribió: > (..) > So, it will be: > > %rhel 0%(/bin/rpm -q -f /etc/redhat-release --qf '%{VERSION}\n') Akemi and Nico, thank you very much for those tips! Finally I will use the last version proposed by Akemi, thanks! Regards, -- Santi Saez http://woop

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 9, 2011 04:26:50 pm Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Can you pass along a copy of your configuration, especially > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and relevant /etc/ settings for a > working KVM domain and network? I'd like to compare. Sent offline. ___

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:45:25 + Michael Gliwinski wrote: > IIRC PuTTY on Windows has such option and there is a GNU/Linux version, may > be worth checking out. It should also be possible to run a normal (local) > shell under PuTTY instead of SSH but not sure if it's exposed (via options > that

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, January 7, 2011 15:00, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >>I have attempted to set the font size using xrdb and a custom >>.Xresources file. I can change the colour scheme. I can create a >>scrollbar. I can move the scrollbar to either the right or left

Re: [CentOS] latest kernel - version question

2011-01-10 Thread Santi Saez
El 09/01/2011 16:31, Robert Heller escribió: > The kernel itself is optimized for the i686 processor. It is possible > to custom build a kernel for the i586, i486, or i386 if you really have > a processor that old. What is the sense of optimize a kernel for i686 and then distribute most of pack

[CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Jerry Geis
I am trying to plug a USB 2 device in a USB 3 slot. Nothing is being detected in "lsusb". Is there something special I need to do? I am running centos 5.5 x86_64. I thought 3.0 was backward compatible. Nothing special about my device its an RS232 to USB device. It works in 2.0 slot. Thanks, Je

Re: [CentOS] replace x86 with x64 system and reuse existing LVM

2011-01-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Answering here to all three replies, and thanks for all of them! I think it should have been clear from my wording that I want to install from scratch and wipe the existing OS. I do not want to dualboot or "save" anything (or much) from the existing OS. I just want to reuse the existing LVM str

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am trying to plug a USB 2 device in a USB 3 slot. Nothing is being > detected > in "lsusb". Is there something special I need to do? I am running centos > 5.5 x86_64. > I thought 3.0 was backward compatible. Nothing special about my device > i

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Jerry Geis
> > It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be > supported. What does lsdev show for the port? > I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is this what you meant? 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 10, 2011 12:37, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >> I copied your file into my home directory as ~/XTerm and took a >> look at its contents. As far as I can see you did not intend >> for me to make any alterations to it to begin with. > > James: >

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
I don't have a lsdev either, I hope he meant lspci | grep usb* or something along those lines...:-) >>> Jerry Geis 1/10/2011 2:36 PM >>> > > It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be > supported. What does lsdev show for the port? > I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Jerry, See the /var/log/messages and see if you see the device being detect by the kernel when you plug in. tail /var/log/messages should hint you something.. >>> Jerry Geis 1/10/2011 2:36 PM >>> > > It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be > supported. What does lsdev show

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be >> supported.  What does lsdev show for the port? >> > I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is this what you meant? :D Working on AIX at the moment so got my ls*'s mixed.. [snip

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be >> supported.  What does lsdev show for the port? >> > I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is this what you meant? [snip] > 01:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Unknown device

Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm

2011-01-10 Thread James B. Byrne
I now have fonts! I added the font directories found by /usr/sbin/chkfontpath to the Files Section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and following a restart things began to work. The system startup script for xfs makes reference to a /tmp/.font-unix directory. An error message appears on the boot details

Re: [CentOS] latest kernel - version question

2011-01-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:25:22 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > El 09/01/2011 16:31, Robert Heller escribió: > > > The kernel itself is optimized for the i686 processor. It is possible > > to custom build a kernel for the i586, i486, or i386 if you really have > > a processor that old. >

Re: [CentOS] replace x86 with x64 system and reuse existing LVM

2011-01-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:51:57 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Answering here to all three replies, and thanks for all of them! I think > it should have been clear from my wording that I want to install from > scratch and wipe the existing OS. I do not want to dualboot or "save" > anythin

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Lisandro Grullon
It would be great if you can post the output of this command to see the device ID /sbin/lspci - n | grep '01:00.0' >>> Jerry Geis 1/10/2011 3:12 PM >>> sure - I can wait for 6. Was hoping it would be here by now. Jerry Lisandro Grullon wrote: Likely support for 3.0 hasn't reach that kerne

Re: [CentOS] latest kernel - version question

2011-01-10 Thread Kevin K
On Jan 10, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Santi Saez wrote: > El 09/01/2011 16:31, Robert Heller escribió: > >> The kernel itself is optimized for the i686 processor. It is possible >> to custom build a kernel for the i586, i486, or i386 if you really have >> a processor that old. > > What is the sense of

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]

2011-01-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Tommy, > I think your scenario only pertain to those of us that clone macs with > different prefixes, we are assuming that rudi is using the original MAC from > the actual device. Not two macs are equal unless you change the physical > dev

Re: [CentOS] how to recreate eth0 - Realtek 8169sc [SOLVED]

2011-01-10 Thread compdoc
>> (Don't *GET* me goiing devices changing from /dev/hda to /dev/sda[>] ...) [>] In centos, you can at least mount your storage drives like this: [r...@yourpc ~]# blkid /dev/sdb1: LABEL="sixtb" UUID="f5ef20af-fd54-4f5e-8fce-2d4f262fcfbf" TYPE="ext4" Then add this at the bottom of fstab: (using y

[CentOS] RAID configuration suggestion???

2011-01-10 Thread mcclnx mcc
we have several DELL R900 with PERC 6/E adapter in it. R900 using Redhat Linux. Each R900 have two PERC 6/E adapter and at least two MD1000 connect to it. Configuration 1: PERC 6/E -- two MD1000 PERC 6/E -- empty Configuration 2: PERC 6/E -- MD1000

Re: [CentOS] RAID configuration suggestion???

2011-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/10/11 5:41 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > 2. put two MD1000 on same PERC 6/E adapter will cause battery life shorter? raid batteries only get used when your power fails while the system is running, and are used to maintain the write cache so when power is restored any dirty data in the cache can

Re: [CentOS] rpm/yum/repo issue - Error: Package tuple could not be found in packagesack

2011-01-10 Thread nux
Keith Roberts writes: > Maybe it's ypur build environment? Try creating a new user > and build environment to build RPM packages, and test that > out with a simple package you know works first. > > HTH > > Keith Changing the user account didn't help. I ended up building a new kvm virtual mac

Re: [CentOS] logical volume management:problem solved

2011-01-10 Thread Ritika Garg
I updated the package system-config-lvm, so now i can see system->administration->logical volume management ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos