Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized

2011-09-08 Thread benedict dcunha
Dear Guys, First of all thanks for all your wise replies.. a little late since was tied with some other stuff and wanted to test the change I made on my xen server actually as dennis says ... and hes perfectly right actually what I did was restrict my DOM0 mem size to 1 gb with dom0_mem=1024M in

Re: [CentOS] rsync -x does not do the same on EL 5.6 and 5.7

2011-09-08 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le jeu 08 sep 2011 08:32:20 CEST, Simon Matter a écrit: > Hi, > > We re doing backups of all filesystems to a dedicated server using "rsync > -x". Now, the latest CentOS versions (5.7/6.x) come with rsync-3.0.6 > instead of rsync-2.x. That's nice but unfortunately it doesn't do the same > as 2.x

Re: [CentOS] rsync -x does not do the same on EL 5.6 and 5.7

2011-09-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Philippe Naudin wrote: > This is not the only difference between rsync-2.x and 3.x. > > We are doing > rsync -azX --delete-after etc... > and it fails with rsync-3. > > On the server (still running rsync-2), /var/log/secure shows the > difference (sorry for the long lines). >> From a rsync-2 client

[CentOS] CentoOS 6 x86_64 Updates

2011-09-08 Thread Timothy Kesten
Hi Folks, is it correct that there were for a long time no more updates for CentOS 6 x86_64? I think the last update was offered before more than one month Thx Timothy P.S. sorry for that terrible english :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] CentoOS 6 x86_64 Updates

2011-09-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> is it correct that there were for a long time no more updates for CentOS 6 > x86_64? My understanding is that updates are on hold until the (imminent) release of CentOS 6.1. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] KVM on CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread Nick
On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote: > Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems. The host is > CentOS 6, as are the two VMs with this problem. Disclaimer: I can't claim this matches your circumstance exactly, but it is something you might check. I have seen problems with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Michael D. Berger > I learned from Anne that if I boot to level > 5, after I enter the username, can select > Gnome or KDE.  I note that the default is > always Gnome. >   How can I make the default KDE? >   How can I get KDE with startx after booting to level 3? Maybe try:   yum info sw

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Devin Reade wrote: > Jeremy Sanders wrote: > >> Assuming it is the same as fedora, put the lines >> >> DESKTOP="KDE" >> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" >> >> in /etc/sysconfig/desktop to change it for all users. > > IIRC, setting DESKTOP there only has an effect for new users

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis >   I grabbed a new SSD  M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > I am disappointed.  I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive > that was in it. > The SSD is giving me (in the zotac running

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/07/2011 10:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. > > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. > > The SSD is givin

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 09/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 09/07/2011 10:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> I grabbed a new SSD M4-CT064M4SSD2 from Crucial. >> >> I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with >> CentOS 6 on the disk. >> It really doesn't "feel" faster than the p

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/07/2011 09:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am disappointed. I stuck the unit in an Atom machine (zotac) with > CentOS 6 on the disk. > It really doesn't "feel" faster than the previous 5400 RPM drive that > was in it. I'm going to guess, off the top of my head, based on my experience, that yo

[CentOS] Conga problems

2011-09-08 Thread James Edwards
Hi all, I've spent the past little while attempting to setup Conga on a two node CentOS 6 cluster. While I do have the cluster up and running, I'm running into problems attempting to start services through luci on either node. A little background information: -Both nodes have dual NICs, one i

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/08/2011 02:05 PM, John Doe wrote: > # hdparm -t /dev/sda > Timing buffered disk reads: 636 MB in 3.01 seconds = 211.58 MB/sec > # hdparm -T /dev/sda > Timing cached reads: 18016 MB in 2.00 seconds = 9023.48 MB/sec I'm not a big fan of using hdparm for real benchmarking or comparing

Re: [CentOS] Conga problems

2011-09-08 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Hi James, I have been having all sort of issues playing with conga is 6.x as well. To the point that I am giving up on it until I find a how to properly configure this . >>> James Edwards 9/8/2011 9:36 AM >>> Hi all, I've spent the past little while attempting to setup Conga on a two node Cent

Re: [CentOS] Networking question

2011-09-08 Thread David G . Miller
writes: > After checking with Verizon on their mobile Hotspot plans, it isn't feasible. However, I can do it through > my unlimited data plan for my iPhone. 3G is faster than the Road Runner service I have. > > If I use the IPhone, I can use a USB connection. My centos machine acts as my fire

Re: [CentOS] Conga problems

2011-09-08 Thread James Edwards
On 9/8/2011 9:40 AM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Hi James, > I have been having all sort of issues playing with conga is 6.x as > well. To the point that I am giving up on it until I find a how to > properly configure this . > I've been pulling my hair out about this, and its just one of many thin

Re: [CentOS] Conga problems

2011-09-08 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Certainly something of concern James...the best thing for us is to keep digging and see if we find anything in howtoforge or other sites as such. information for RHEL 6.x appears very limited in a cluster like fashion. keep us posted if you find the solution. >>> James Edwards 9/8/2011 10:15 A

Re: [CentOS] new ssd to play with

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Karanbir Singh > get a copy of iozone setup on the box, and get it to run through a few > iterations with the 5400rpm disk and then the SSD. FYI, here's an iozone of my SSD (some numbers look a bit strange)... Dunno if I used correct parameters... Auto Mode Command line used: iozone -a -

[CentOS] Centos6: missing link for mysqlclient

2011-09-08 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
Hallo, I am installing snort from source. Besides of a lot of additional libraries, I needed a link ln -vfs /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so Are there reasons not to install with yum install mysql-devel ? I have found many discussions to add this link in

Re: [CentOS] KVM on CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread m . roth
Emmett Culley wrote: > On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote: >> On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote: >>> Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems. The >>> host is CentOS 6, as are the two VMs with this problem. >> >> Disclaimer: I can't claim this matches your circumstance e

Re: [CentOS] Centos6: missing link for mysqlclient

2011-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Helmut Drodofsky >I am installing snort from source. >Besides of a lot of additional libraries, I needed a link >ln -vfs /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.16 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so >Are there reasons not to install with yum install mysql-devel ? >I have found many discussions to add

Re: [CentOS] Have not had any updates to Centos 5.5

2011-09-08 Thread Todd Cary
Many thanks! Installed and now it is performing 118 updates. Out of curiosity, how should I have known about this addition to yum? I am not an active Linux server user in that, Centos just runs and runs providing me with FTP and HTTP that is used to share photographs with others and exchange

Re: [CentOS] KVM on CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread Emmett Culley
On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote: > On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote: >> Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems. The host is >> CentOS 6, as are the two VMs with this problem. > > Disclaimer: I can't claim this matches your circumstance exactly, but it is > somethi

Re: [CentOS] Have not had any updates to Centos 5.5

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 09:22 -0700, Todd Cary wrote: > Out of curiosity, how should I have known about this addition to > yum? It was announced either on this list and/or on the Centos Announcements list. Centos Announcements has very low traffic and is a useful list to subscribe to. ht

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
John Doe wrote: >> How can I make the default KDE? >> How can I get KDE with startx after booting to level 3? > > Maybe try: > yum info switchdesk [tim@grover ~]$ yum info switchdesk ... Error: No matching Packages to list [tim@grover ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final

Re: [CentOS] KVM on CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread Emmett Culley
On 09/08/2011 09:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Emmett Culley wrote: >> On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote: >>> On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote: Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems. The host is CentOS 6, as are the two VMs with this problem. >>> >>> Di

Re: [CentOS] KVM on CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread m . roth
Emmett Culley wrote: > On 09/08/2011 09:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Emmett Culley wrote: >>> On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote: On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote: > Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems. The > host is CentOS 6, as are the two VMs w

[CentOS] Samba4: Current Packages? (CentOS6)

2011-09-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I see that Samab4 alpha11 is packaged in the repo. Are there any repo's out there with current S4 alpha packages? Or does anyone know where such packages might be found (OBS?, etc...) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

[CentOS] Problems with the epel GPG key

2011-09-08 Thread m . roth
I just went to install fail2ban, and it kept failing, complaining about the EPEL GPG key. It was installed... and yum worked, once I did ln -s /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL Small problem there mark __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Scot P. Floess
Yeah - that package isn't available at all... I've done some googling but have no idea what the replacement is for switchdesk (or if there even is one)... On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: > John Doe wrote: > >>> How can I make the default KDE? >>> How can I get KDE with startx after b

Re: [CentOS] "Continious Repo" vs. 'normal' Centos-Base/Updates questions

2011-09-08 Thread WBEL-User03
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Hooper wrote: === > As the > announcement states, when CentOS 5.7 is released, the CR repo will be > emptied, because all those packages will be part of CentOS 5.7. === According to the September 7th tweet on Karanbir's Twitter page[1], Cen

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 15:05 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > I've done some googling but have no idea what the replacement is for > switchdesk (or if there even is one)... I'm on Centos 5.6 X64 with the 'normal' repos. Just typed-in:- yum install switchdesk and got . switchdesk.n

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 15:05 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > >> I've done some googling but have no idea what the replacement is for >> switchdesk (or if there even is one)... > > I'm on Centos 5.6 X64 with the 'normal' repos. > > Just typed-in:- > > yum install switchd

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Scot P. Floess
For 5.6 perhaps...but 6.0 no dice ;) switchdesk is also available in Fedora 15... On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 15:05 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > >> I've done some googling but have no idea what the replacement is for >> switchdesk (or if there even is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 21:03 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > I'm on Centos 5.6 X64 with the 'normal' repos. > > Just typed-in:- > > yum install switchdesk > > and got > > . switchdesk.noarch 0:4.0.8-6 > > ... switchdesk noarch 4.0.8-6 base 15 k > > > So it is there It is also

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Scot P. Floess
Here is my Centos 5.6 VM: uname -a ; yum search swtichdesk Linux centos-workstation 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.centos.plus.i686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 26 15:21:38 BST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.us.leaseweb.net * epel

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Scot P. Floess
Ah type-o before any corrects me :) uname -a ; yum search switchdesk Linux centos-workstation 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.centos.plus.i686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 26 15:21:38 BST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Repository 'flossware' is missing name in configuration, using id Loading mirror speeds from cached host

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:16 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > Here is my Centos 5.6 VM: > > uname -a ; yum search swtichdesk > > Warning: No matches found for: swtichdesk > No Matches found ERROR ** Just noticed, after typing the bit below, your American spelling

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:18 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > And yes, it is discontinued as Paul stated - I saw it was in the RHEL > release notes as well... Can you use the Fedora version ? Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

[CentOS] Trying to understand SELinux MSG

2011-09-08 Thread Robert Spangler
Hello, I received the below SELinux message today and I am trying to figure out what caused it. I see what it says under Allow Access but I am not sure this is what I really want to do without know why it happened in the first place. What should I be looking at to understand what or why this h

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand SELinux MSG

2011-09-08 Thread Aaron Krohn
I'm not a pro or anything, but this bug report gives a bit more info. Have you made any changes to the disk lately? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485921 > find / -context "*:file_t:*" The above command will show you what file is causing the messages. On 09/08/2011 04:45 PM, Rober

[CentOS] Please confirm: Centos 6's Anaconda doesn't install i686 RPMs on x86_64 arch

2011-09-08 Thread Robinson Tiemuqinke
Hi all,    I just like to confirm whether this is true: on x86_64 arch machines, Centos 6's anaconda/kickstart will install only noarch and x86_64 arches RPMs, and no i686 arch RPMs installed by default.  This seems like exactly different from Centos 5   --- Centos 5 anaconda/kickstart install a

[CentOS] HBA port

2011-09-08 Thread Paras pradhan
Hi, I have a host which is connected to SAN via single Fibre channel HBA (qlogic). I have several LUNS assigned to this (sdc, sdd). I added another single port HBA to this host. I can now see two world wide names. Now the confusion is which world wide name does sdc and sdd is/was using. scsi_id

Re: [CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

2011-09-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Always Learning wrote: > Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a > new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to > maintain programmes. RHEL needs to keep the same ABI (application binary interface) for both ker

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Scot P. Floess
Sorry, yet another type-o... My VM is CentOS 6.0...uname spells it out ;) On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:16 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > >> Here is my Centos 5.6 VM: >> >> uname -a ; yum search swtichdesk >> >> Warning: No matches found for: swtichdesk

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Scot P. Floess
To be honest, I don't need it. I was just commenting to the original poster... On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:18 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > > >> And yes, it is discontinued as Paul stated - I saw it was in the RHEL >> release notes as well... > >

Re: [CentOS] Networking question

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Dukes
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of David G. Miller > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:47 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Networking question > > writes: > > > > > After checking with Veriz

Re: [CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 20:00 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > > Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a > > new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to > > maintain programmes. > RHEL nee

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
Hi Scott, Can you use one of the alternatives for Switchdesk ? Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: Making KDE Default

2011-09-08 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 20:08 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: > To be honest, I don't need it. I was just commenting to the original > poster... Just the answer to my previous question. What is C6 like compared to 5.6 ? Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

2011-09-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 20:00 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> >>> Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a >>> new version and discard all the patches ? Patches

[CentOS] Postfix Question - CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread John Hinton
I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug... I'm running Postfix with Dovecot Authentication and have Amavisd-new as the front end. I fought with the install and in particular being able to send mail Auth failed. Hours of looking through all the config files yielded nothing... so I started

Re: [CentOS] Postfix Question - CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread Steve Walsh
On 09/09/2011 03:10 PM, John Hinton wrote: > So, can somebody check to see if this is there in a CentOS 6 Postfix > install where Amavis is not installed? And if so, what are the default > permissions? Not present on a clean C6 install. Mind you, it's also not present after installing dovecot a

Re: [CentOS] Postfix Question - CentOS 6

2011-09-08 Thread John Hinton
On 9/9/2011 1:28 AM, Steve Walsh wrote: >On 09/09/2011 03:10 PM, John Hinton wrote: >> So, can somebody check to see if this is there in a CentOS 6 Postfix >> install where Amavis is not installed? And if so, what are the default >> permissions? > Not present on a clean C6 install. > > Mind you