Re: [CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Khusro Jaleel wrote: > I have experienced strange behaviour from Firefox once or twice after > doing a yum update. I believe it was not because Firefox was updated but > because a bunch of GTK related stuff was updated which Firefox uses, > hence why it got confused. I don't r

[CentOS] yum bug...

Hey, recently I experienced yum bugs on some servers... A simple 'yum update' gives me the yum usage... I noticed a difference between it and a simple 'yum':   # yum udpate   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities   usage: yum [options] COMMAND   # yum   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, prior

Re: [CentOS] yum bug...

On 29.6.2011 12.56, John Doe wrote: > I noticed a difference between it and a simple 'yum': > ># yum udpate >Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities >usage: yum [options] COMMAND > > ># yum >Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities >You need to give some command >usag

[CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of mirrors more than a dozen times. Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to upgrade I upgraded just yesterday without a problem on anot

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.6 and intel MHD4500 graphics card

On 06/28/2011 11:06 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Hüvely Balázs wrote: > >> I've a toshiba satellite notebook, and I tried to install centos 5.6. >> The installer starts, but when it turns to graphical mode, the backlight >> goes off. I see the windows, buttons, but it's very dark,

Re: [CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database?

Hello Keith, On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:46 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > I've also noticed that Firefox will not operate correctly > after some updates, and a reboot seems to fix this. Logging out from your X session and then restarting it (ctrl-alt-backspace) should suffice to get Firefox to work

Re: [CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database?

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Leonard den Ottolander > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database? > > Hello Keith, > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:46 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: >> I've also noticed that Fir

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.6 and intel MHD4500 graphics card

Hüvely Balázs wrote: > On 06/28/2011 11:06 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Hüvely Balázs wrote: >> >>> I've a toshiba satellite notebook, and I tried to install centos 5.6. >>> The installer starts, but when it turns to graphical mode, the >>> backlight goes off. I see the windows, b

[CentOS] Kernel Errors

Checking my daily logwatch file, I see the following kernel error: - Kernel Begin WARNING: Kernel Errors Present end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...: 1 Time(s) -- Kernel End - The thi

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors

On 29.6.2011 20.37, Keith Roberts wrote: > Checking my daily logwatch file, I see the following kernel > error: > >- Kernel Begin > >WARNING: Kernel Errors Present > end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...: 1 Time(s) > >--

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Jussi Hirvi > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors > > On 29.6.2011 20.37, Keith Roberts wrote: >> Checking my daily logwatch file, I see the following kernel >> error: >> >>- Kernel Begin -

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors

>> Is there any mention of a floppy in output of "mount"? > Hello Jussi. > On 29.6.2011 20.51, Keith Roberts wrote: > None at all using 'mount' or 'df -h' Here is somebody having the same problem, though on Suse: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/linux-kernel-end_request-i-

Re: [CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, ken wrote: > Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: > > [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > > I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of > mirrors more than a dozen times. > > Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Jussi Hirvi > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors > >>> Is there any mention of a floppy in output of "mount"? >> Hello Jussi. >> > On 29.6.2011 20.51, Keith Roberts wrote: >> None at all using 'mount' or 'df -h' > > Here

[CentOS] Repo question

Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6, and would like to add one or more additional repositories for yum a/o PackageKit to draw on. (In particular, at the moment, I can't seem to find an rpm for Pan that doesn't come up against dependency hell.) There

Re: [CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

On 06/29/2011 02:06 PM Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, ken > wrote: > > Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: > > [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > > I'm getting this on every mirror and have

Re: [CentOS] Repo question

BeartoothHOS wrote: > Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6, > and would like to add one or more additional repositories for yum a/o > PackageKit to draw on. (In particular, at the moment, I can't seem to > find an rpm for Pan that doesn't come up against depende

Re: [CentOS] Repo question

On 6/29/2011 3:35 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > BeartoothHOS wrote: >> Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6, >> and would like to add one or more additional repositories for yum a/o >> PackageKit to draw on. (In particular, at the moment, I can't seem to >> find

Re: [CentOS] Repo question

http://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/ is where you can sign up for the various SL lists... On 6/29/2011 3:35 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > BeartoothHOS wrote: >> Not quite OT, I think. On one PC, I'm running Scientific Linux 6, >> and would like to add one or more additional reposit

Re: [CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

ken wrote: > Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors... > nothing blocking it. > > So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed > on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years and > there's been no changes to yum.conf. > > I've up

Re: [CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > ken wrote: >> Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors... >> nothing blocking it. >> >> So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed >> on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years and >> there's been no

[CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

I was having problems with the same server locking up to the point I can't even get in via SSH. I've already used HTB/TC to reserve bandwidth for my SSH port but the problem now isn't an attack on the bandwidth. So I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to ensure that SSH is given cpu and i/o pr

Re: [CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

On 06/29/2011 03:42 PM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > ken wrote: >> Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors... >> nothing blocking it. >> >> So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed >> on the problem machine. But it's been working fine for years

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: > > Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely > access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a > solution that didn't involve somebody/something hitting the power > button? Yes, it's called "out of

Re: [CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> ken wrote: >>> Good thought. But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors... >>> nothing blocking it. >>> >>> So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed >>> on the problem machine. But

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

> > Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: > >> >> Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely >> access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a >> solution that didn't involve somebody/something hitting the power >> button? > > > > Yes, it's c

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Yes, it's called "out of band management". > Have dial-in access to IPMI/iLO interfaces or just an APC remote > controlled power-switch to power-off the server. I don't want to reboot the server everytime something like that happens. I'll expect pretty nasty p

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Am 29.06.2011 um 22:08 schrieb Max Pyziur: >> >> Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: >> >>> >>> Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely >>> access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a >>> solution that didn't involve somebody/someth

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Am 29.06.2011 um 22:15 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: > On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Yes, it's called "out of band management". >> Have dial-in access to IPMI/iLO interfaces or just an APC remote >> controlled power-switch to power-off the server. > > I don't want to reboot the server eve

[CentOS] perl PDF parser

Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser? I just had two users come begging me to install it instantly, and I can't find it. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] perl PDF parser

It's probably not what you want but I found this on a quick search, seems like an rpmforge package? wget 'http://packages.sw.be/perl-PDF-API2/perl-PDF-API2-0.73-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm' rpm -Uvh 'perl-PDF-API2-0.73-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm' On 6/30/11, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Anyone know the package n

Re: [CentOS] perl PDF parser

On Wed, June 29, 2011 4:26 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser? I use PDF::API2 and PDF::API2::Simple (from rpmforge). ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I was having problems with the same server locking up to the point I > can't even get in via SSH. I've already used HTB/TC to reserve > bandwidth for my SSH port but the problem now isn't an attack on the > bandwidth. So I'm trying to fi

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner wrote: > If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have IPMI > on board. Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define server by purpose and not specifications. So very often they buy servers based on budget and that it's good

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Yes, it's called "out of band management". >> Have dial-in access to IPMI/iLO interfaces or just an APC remote >> controlled power-switch to power-off the server. > > I don't want to reboot the serve

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/29/2011 3:26 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have IPMI >> on board. > > Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define > server by purpose and not specifications. So very

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

At Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:08:02 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > > Am 29.06.2011 um 21:50 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: > > > >> > >> Since I'm not the only person who face problems trying to remotely > >> access a locked up server, surely somebody must had come up with a > >> solution

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Am 29.06.2011 um 22:26 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: > On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have >> IPMI >> on board. > > Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define > server by purpose and not specifications

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:50:30AM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I was having problems with the same server locking up to the point I > can't even get in via SSH. I've already used HTB/TC to reserve > bandwidth for my SSH port but the problem now isn't an attack on the > bandwidth. So I'm tryi

Re: [CentOS] perl PDF parser

Marko A. Jennings wrote: > On Wed, June 29, 2011 4:26 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Anyone know the package name that contains the perl PDF parser? > > I use PDF::API2 and PDF::API2::Simple (from rpmforge). Thanks, guys. He came back to tell me he could try the former, and I'd found it via rpmfor

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/29/2011 3:43 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O- > constrained anyway, virtualization won't help. > Everything will just be even slower. That's sort-of true, but you don't have to manage the host through the same interface the

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > I would approach this issue from another perspective: who's locking up the > server (as in eating all resources) and how to stop/constrain it. You can > try to renice the sshd process and see what happens. I'm not entirely sure > what 'locked up' means in this

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Keith Keller wrote: > In addition to the suggestions already made, one possibility is to > attach a serial console or IP KVM. Logging in may still be awful, > but at least you won't have to go through sshd. I've been able to > log in through a serial getty when sshd was n

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Les Mikesell wrote: >>> You can buy add-on PCI-cards for OOB-management, though. >> Thanks for the information, although unless they are really cheap... > > The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on > hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would n

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell wrote: > The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on > hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need. Actually THAT is the fundamental problem ;) The physical server is frankly much more powerful than the two guest runni

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein wrote: > I actually relied for a while on the last choice. I had a remotely > accessible root shell that never logged out. When things got sluggish, > I was able to /bin/kill to my heart's content. It wasn't a pretty > solution, but it kept me running until I was able to

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > > I would approach this issue from another perspective: who's locking up > the > > server (as in eating all resources) and how to stop/constrain it. You can > > try to renice the sshd process and se

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Robert Heller wrote: > If the problem is excessive load because Sendmail / Mimedefang / spamd / > etc. is too busy handling tons of mail/spam being dumped on your server, you > might want to look at these sendmail options: Mail was my first suspect because I had similar issues with ex

[CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

Hello listmates, Yes, I know - Macs and NFS do not co-exist easily. Still I've got to make this happen somehow. In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., t

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/29/2011 4:04 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell wrote: >> The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on >> hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need. > > Actually THAT is the fundamental problem ;) > The physical serv

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 04:43:09 PM Rainer Duffner wrote: > Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O- > constrained anyway, virtualization won't help. > Everything will just be even slower. That depends. More expensive servers that would be suitable for virtualiz

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Am 29.06.2011 um 23:17 schrieb Lamar Owen: > On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 04:43:09 PM Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/ >> O- >> constrained anyway, virtualization won't help. >> Everything will just be even slower. > > That depends. Mo

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Les Mikesell wrote: > On 6/29/2011 4:04 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on >>> hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need. >> >> Actually THAT is the fundamental pro

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote: > In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a > variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X > 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain > yet reads nothing over the NFS. I hav

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/29/2011 4:12 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Robert Heller wrote: >> If the problem is excessive load because Sendmail / Mimedefang / spamd / >> etc. is too busy handling tons of mail/spam being dumped on your server, you >> might want to look at these sendmail options: > > Mail w

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote: > >> In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a >> variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X >> 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a > variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X > 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e., the Mac does not complain > yet reads nothing over t

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> I actually relied for a while on the last choice. I had a remotely >> accessible root shell that never logged out. When things got >> sluggish, I was able to /bin/kill to my heart's content. It wasn't >> a pre

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > Linux includes I/O in how it calculates the load average so you're not > measuring CPU alone. On the host, it's expected, I've got two qemu-kvm process loading up 100% cpu. Within the guest VM, top looks like this, high load but low cpu %. top - 10:21:40 up

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: watch > out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've assigned > 4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 virtual CPUs. > As of '09, VMware was recommend

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/29/2011 4:22 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: watch > out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've assigned > 4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 virtual CPUs. > As of '09, VMware wa

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote: > Thanks. I am only doing NFS over TCP and still no dice. Any special > options you use either on the client or on the server side? As Tom mentioned, you need the "insecure" exports option on the NFS server side, otherwise I don't do anything special on

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 6/29/2011 4:04 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >>> On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell  wrote: The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell wrote: > OK, but without knowing the cause, you already know the cure. Make the > virtual servers not share physical disks - they will always want a > single head to be in different places at the same time. Same old problem: budget :D Also, I expect similar setups in th

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, wrote: >> Here's another one, that I got from another admin talking to VMware: >> watch out just how many virtual CPUs you assign to each VM. If you've >> assigned 4, it is actually going to sit there waiting until it gets 4 >> virtual CPUs.

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

--On Thursday, June 30, 2011 04:15:07 AM +0800 Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > Would ILO work on a server that's unresponsive due to heavy load? ILO or any other OOB solution gives you the functionality of sitting at the console. So if the problem is one that would cause the console to be unrespons

Re: [CentOS] Redirecting PHP error messages into a log file

Alexander Farber wrote on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:47:05 +0200: > First I tried adding that file name to /etc/php.ini: > error_log = "/var/log/httpd/php_log" I can assure you that you don't have to go the syslog way. Logging to a php errorlog file of your choice works just fine. Check the file permi

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On 6/29/2011 4:47 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > >> OK, but without knowing the cause, you already know the cure. Make the >> virtual servers not share physical disks - they will always want a >> single head to be in different places at the same time. > > Same old problem: budget :D If an extra

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

--On Thursday, June 30, 2011 05:04:07 AM +0800 Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/30/11, Les Mikesell wrote: >> The seriously on-the-cheap approach is to run a few virtual servers on >> hardware slightly better than one of the individual servers would need. > > Actually THAT is the fundamental pr

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:30:02PM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > Thanks. I am only doing NFS over TCP and still no dice. Any special > options you use either on the client or on the server side? Two things to be aware of on a Mac 1) default mounts are from a non-privileged port. So your exports o

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:12:12 +0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 6/30/11, Robert Heller wrote: > > If the problem is excessive load because Sendmail / Mimedefang / spamd / > > etc. is too busy handling tons of mail/spam being dumped on your server, you > > might want to look at these sendm

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:31:05 +0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 6/30/11, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > > Linux includes I/O in how it calculates the load average so you're not > > measuring CPU alone. > > On the host, it's expected, I've got two qemu-kvm process loading up > 100% cpu. Within

[CentOS] preventing symlinks?

This may be more of a general linux question but is there a simple way of preventing users from creating symlinks to or from certain directories? I have a /scratch dir that's a single 27TB volume and I don't want users linking their home dirs as there's a chance it will screw up our external bac

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 05:20:26 PM Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 29.06.2011 um 23:17 schrieb Lamar Owen: > > More expensive servers that would be suitable for > > virtualization host use also tend to have better I/O subsystems and > > faster disks. Relative to a 'cheap' system with much poor

Re: [CentOS] preventing symlinks?

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:56:07AM +1200, Smithies, Russell wrote: > This may be more of a general linux question but is there a simple way of > preventing users from creating symlinks to or from certain directories? > I have a /scratch dir that's a single 27TB volume and I don't want users > lin

[CentOS] unsubscribes

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Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

> Although it would really be interesting to me to see scheduler settings that > would indeed allow something of a 'privileged' ssh or an OOB console that > would be responsive even under a punishing load with lots of swapping, which > is what the OP originally asked about. I'd be interested to

Re: [CentOS] Anyway to ensure SSH availability?

> Although it would really be interesting to me to see scheduler settings that > would indeed allow something of a 'privileged' ssh or an OOB console that > would be responsive even under a punishing load with lots of swapping, which > is what the OP originally asked about. I should add, we hav