Re: [CentOS] Adaptec 6405 and Centos 5.6

2011-05-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, Am 11.05.2011 08:32, schrieb Maciej Jan Broniarz: > > Wiadomość napisana przez John R Pierce w dniu 2011-05-11, o godz. 01:51: > >> On 05/10/11 3:46 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: >>> I am sure it doesn't. I have booted 5.5 and 5.6 in linux dd mode. Then I >>> have loaded the drivers from: aa

Re: [CentOS] Drive recovery?

2011-05-11 Thread Tom Grace
On 11/05/11 02:52, Dag Wieers wrote: > If you finished your dd_rescue/ddrescue copy, you may want to look into > the testdisk utility to see if somehow the partition-table was not > tampered with. testdisk can provide you with different layouts based on > filesystem patterns. I've had good luck wit

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/10/2011 05:42 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 04/26/2011 08:24 AM, Steve Clark wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the >> VIA Eden Processor? >> >> cat /proc/cpuinfo >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : CentaurHauls >> cpu family : 6 >> model

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> If you take a look on google for "CentaurHauls i686" you will see that > this CPU/chipset SAYS it fully supports i686 but it really does not. > All of EL6 is i686 and not i586 (which CentaurHauls really > fully supports). > > I think you are going to have issues with this CPU and EL6 forever. >

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/11/2011 05:46 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/10/2011 05:42 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 04/26/2011 08:24 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Hello, Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the VIA Eden Processor? cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu fami

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/11/2011 05:46 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 05/10/2011 05:42 AM, Steve Clark wrote: On 04/26/2011 08:24 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Hello, Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the VIA Eden Processor? cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu fami

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Steve Clark wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone have updates to this page for 6.0. I would like > to try to build a 2.6.32.xx kernel.org kernel and see if I still gets > hangs on my CentuarHauls boxes. > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel check out the elrepo-kernel repo: http://elrepo.org/

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Steve Clark wrote: Hello, does anyone have updates to this page for 6.0. I would like to try to build a 2.6.32.xx kernel.org kernel and see if I still gets hangs on my CentuarHauls boxes. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel check out

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Steve Clark wrote: >On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> Steve Clark wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> does anyone have updates to this page for 6.0. I would like >>> to try to build a 2.6.32.xx kernel.org kernel and see if I still gets >>> hangs on my CentuarHauls boxes. >>> >>> http

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 09:17:39 PM Craig White wrote: > Upstream released exactly 6 months ago and still > nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until > CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Please read the CentOS-devel list and IRC channe

Re: [CentOS] No sound on HP 8540w, guidance requested

2011-05-11 Thread David
At 01:35 PM 5/7/2011, you wrote: >On 07/05/11 20:32, David wrote: > > > > I got two recommendations: > > a) Used 'alsamixer' to unmute all channels. The were, as a responder > > suggested, muted. > > b) Installed kmod-alsa from elrepo. It produced a bunch of warnings > > which I ignored. > > c) I

Re: [CentOS] No sound on HP 8540w, guidance requested

2011-05-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 11 May 2011 07:31:37 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > At 01:35 PM 5/7/2011, you wrote: > >On 07/05/11 20:32, David wrote: > > > > > > I got two recommendations: > > > a) Used 'alsamixer' to unmute all channels. The were, as a responder > > > suggested, muted. > > > b) Installed kmo

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[CentOS] iptables to block region-specific ip's?

2011-05-11 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I'm running fail2ban on my centos machine. It's handling sshd and postfix, and is working quite well. From the reports I'm seeing all the atempts are from a certain registrar's region, I won't name it, and was wondering instead of blocking individual ip's if there was a way I could block wit

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Steve, On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: > On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0. > > Just checking now and still don't see any. Am I missing something? The fact that 6.0 hasn't been released ye

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 8:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > In my case, I have essentially three choices: > 1.) Use SL 6; > 2.) Wait on C6; > 3.) Buy RHEL6. > > All of the three have costs, visible and hidden. 3 obviously has monetary > costs, but both 1 and 2 have time and risk costs, since neither SL nor CentO

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 12:32 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Steve, > > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >> On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0. >> >> Just checking now and still don't see any. Am I

Re: [CentOS] iptables to block region-specific ip's?

2011-05-11 Thread Robert Spangler
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 12:58, the following was written: > I'm running fail2ban on my centos machine. It's handling sshd and > postfix, and is working quite well. From the reports I'm seeing all > the atempts are from a certain registrar's region, I won't name it, > and was wondering instead

Re: [CentOS] iptables to block region-specific ip's?

2011-05-11 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 11.5.2011 18:58, David Mehler napsal(a): > With regards blocking ip's and fail2ban, which method is better in > terms of system resources, blocking via iptables as in the case of > sshd or blocking via hosts.deny as in the case of postfix? > http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_use_geo

Re: [CentOS] iptables to block region-specific ip's?

2011-05-11 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Robert Spangler wrote: > On Wednesday 11 May 2011 12:58, the following was written: >> the atempts are from a certain registrar's region, I won't name it, > > iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -s x.x.x.x/24 -j DROP I do not consider /24 subnet a "region subnet". You would need to use something like sop

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Steve, > > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >> On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0. >> >> Just checking now and still don't see any. Am I missing something? >

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Clark
On 05/11/2011 04:01 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hello Steve, On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0. Just checking now and still don'

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:51:08 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > I've always been a fan of the > coordination they have among the additional repositories that is lacking > in yum/rpm equivalents and was impressed when my 9.0.4 installs > painlessly upgraded themselves to 10.0.4. You must not have

Re: [CentOS] iptables to block region-specific ip's?

2011-05-11 Thread David Mehler
Hello Everyone, Thanks for all your suggestions. I have gone with iptables and blocked off the necessary region ip blocks in my firewall. If anyone is interested i'll send the list. Thanks again. Dave. On 5/11/11, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Robert Spangler wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 May 2011 12

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 3:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 01:51:08 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >> I've always been a fan of the >> coordination they have among the additional repositories that is lacking >> in yum/rpm equivalents and was impressed when my 9.0.4 installs >> painlessly upgraded

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
[drifting farther off-topic] On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 04:34:49 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/11/2011 3:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > And you must not use PostgreSQL, which won't painlessly upgrade on > > anything. > > Automatically doing the dump/load (and magically finding the space f

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until > CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. Apparently they did admit and it does change: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=31347&forum=53 ___

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 11/05/11 19:01, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/11/2011 12:32 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: >> Hello Steve, >> >> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: >>> On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>>I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0. >>> >>>

[CentOS] bizzare performance problem

2011-05-11 Thread Mag Gam
I had a rather strange problem last week with one of our 8 core servers. The users complained the performance was "slow" so I checked the basic things, processes on top, vmstat for memory and context switching, i/o stats for internal disk I/O, netstat for any network issues and other things like ne

[CentOS] [OT] Co-location center in Holland

2011-05-11 Thread Craig White
Anyone have recommendations for a highly reliable datacenter located in Holland? Thanks -- Craig White ~~ craig.wh...@ttiltd.com 1.800.869.6908 ~~~ www.ttiassessments.com Need help communicating between generations at work to achieve your de

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Co-location center in Holland

2011-05-11 Thread Patrick Lists
On 05/12/2011 12:48 AM, Craig White wrote: > Anyone have recommendations for a highly reliable datacenter located in > Holland? Global Switch is a good one. Lots of carriers too. Contact info here: http://www.globalswitch.com/en/locations/amsterdam-data-center If you need "100% uptime" and got t

Re: [CentOS] iptables to block region-specific ip's?

2011-05-11 Thread David Milholen
On 5/11/2011 2:08 PM, Robert Spangler wrote: On Wednesday 11 May 2011 12:58, the following was written: I'm running fail2ban on my centos machine. It's handling sshd and postfix, and is working quite well. From the reports I'm seeing all the atempts are from a certain registrar's region,

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec 6405 and Centos 5.6

2011-05-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
2011/5/11 Rainer Traut : > You could also ask on the elrepo mailinglist. > There was a request not too long ago. > > http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2011-April/000637.html > > So maybe you can install centos 5.4, then install their newer aacraid > driver and then you can update the kernel

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Steve Clark wrote on 05/11/2011 04:12 PM: ... > Thanks, but I am already using that kernel. I want to get a vanilla > kernel.org 2.6.32.xx kernel running > on 6.0. > > In fact following AY directions I was able to rebuild the srpms for > kernel-2.6.32-71.29.2, but again that > is not the generic ke

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Mathieu Baudier wrote on 05/11/2011 04:59 PM: >> nothing and apparently today's target date has slipped, and 2) until >> CentOS admits that there is a problem, nothing will actually change. > > Apparently they did admit and it does change: > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/10/2011 08:12 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > >> Alain Péan wrote: >> > The problem is that when C6.0 will be released, it is likely that RHEL >>> 6.1 will be already released. So there will be no security updates for >>> C6.0, and it will be better

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-11 Thread Mark Bradbury
> > > > > > Do you expect the C6.0 -> C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less > > complex than the C5.5 -> C5.6 differences ? > > > > And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would > > take no more than 1 month ? > > Get over yourself Dag ... for goodness sake. > > > >