Re: [CentOS] ekiga

2011-09-19 Thread Christopher Chan
Hadi, Forget it. I suspect you would have to upgrade a whole load of libraries and if it were you doing it, you will break your system beyond recognition. Christopher On Monday, September 19, 2011 12:48 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have installed Asterisk on my centos 5.0 and I have

Re: [CentOS] ekiga

2011-09-19 Thread hadi motamedi
On 9/19/11, Christopher Chan wrote: > Hadi, > > Forget it. I suspect you would have to upgrade a whole load of libraries > and if it were you doing it, you will break your system beyond recognition. > > Christopher > > On Monday, September 19, 2011 12:48 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: >> Dear All >> I h

Re: [CentOS] Safely Remove Disk on LVM

2011-09-19 Thread Muhammad Panji
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Theo Band wrote: > On 09/16/2011 05:03 AM, Muhammad Panji wrote: > > Dear All, > > I plan to replace an error disk that is part of an LV. from LVM how-to > > it could be done with using pvmove to move all PE from old disk to new > > disk.But the howto also said th

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > I simply installed CentOS 6.0, downloaded kernel from SL6.1 repo, and > installed it. Basically this is what was needed to make Intel graphics work, > I think there were 1-2 other rpms I needed to upgrade too to fix > dependencies, but this was easy to n

Re: [CentOS] ekiga

2011-09-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, September 19, 2011 03:30 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: > On 9/19/11, Christopher Chan wrote: >> Hadi, >> >> Forget it. I suspect you would have to upgrade a whole load of libraries >> and if it were you doing it, you will break your system beyond recognition. >> > Thank you very much for you

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-19 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
Hello all I had the same problems with centos 6.0 and a SandyBridge laptop (Dell Latitude E5420 i5 2410M) On 09/19/2011 12:24 PM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > >> I simply installed CentOS 6.0, downloaded kernel from SL6.1 repo, and >> installed it. Basi

Re: [CentOS] ekiga

2011-09-19 Thread hadi motamedi
On 9/19/11, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Monday, September 19, 2011 03:30 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: >> On 9/19/11, Christopher Chan wrote: >>> Hadi, >>> >>> Forget it. I suspect you would have to upgrade a whole load of libraries >>> and if it were you doing it, you will break your system beyond >

[CentOS] mount exFAT filesystem on centos

2011-09-19 Thread MOKRANI Rachid
Hi, Is there some simple tool to mount exFAT filesystem on CentOS (2.6.18)? Regards. __ Notre adresse de messagerie évolue pour plus de simplicité vers : prenom@ifpen.fr. La racine @ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr reste néanmoins active. Our e-mail address is changing to fi

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Update request

2011-09-19 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: > I had the same problems with centos 6.0 and a SandyBridge laptop (Dell > Latitude E5420 i5 2410M) > openGL and DRI now work. (for my laptop also screen brightness and > suspend to RAM work ok) Thanks a lot for this info, it's much appreciated. Whe

Re: [CentOS] mount exFAT filesystem on centos

2011-09-19 Thread John Doe
From: MOKRANI Rachid > Is there some simple tool to mount exFAT filesystem on CentOS (2.6.18)? Google says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Support_on_Other_Platforms JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

[CentOS] run without sendmail

2011-09-19 Thread Jerry Geis
I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off sendmail and run without it. Are there issues with doing that or is all Ok. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] run without sendmail

2011-09-19 Thread Jim Wildman
The machine will run fine. The question is do you need it to send you email for alerting reasons? On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off > sendmail > and run without it. >

Re: [CentOS] run without sendmail

2011-09-19 Thread Jerry Geis
> The machine will run fine. The question is do you need it to send you > email for alerting reasons? > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Jerry Geis wrote: > > >/ I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off > />/ sendmail > />/ and run without it. > / Jim Thanks - I thought it w

[CentOS] CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern installations with FAI

2011-09-19 Thread lange
I'm very happy to announce, that FAI (Fully automatic Installation) now can install and configure CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern (SLC). You can use a Debian FAI server for installing CentOS version 5 and 6 or SLC 5 and 6. As an example I've also built a FAI multi-distribution CD which installs t

Re: [CentOS] mount exFAT filesystem on centos

2011-09-19 Thread MOKRANI Rachid
Hi, I found. Install this rpm and it's working on CentOS 5. http://exfat.googlecode.com/files/fuse-exfat-0.9.5-1.fc14.i686.rpm Regards. __ Notre adresse de messagerie évolue pour plus de simplicité vers : prenom@ifpen.fr. La racine @ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr reste né

[CentOS] questions about upgrading

2011-09-19 Thread Jon Detert
I'm pretty new to the task of upgrading CentOS or RedHat o.s.'s. I'm more familiar with upgrading Debian based o.s.'s. Here are my questions: 1) will yum ever upgrade the major version? I understand that there is no upgrade path from v5.x to v6.x, but is that always the case? e.g. was there

[CentOS] eth enumeration order

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Poplawski
I have installed Centos 6 on a server with two NICs. It so happens that the NIC with the lower ARP adr is assigned 'eth1' and the NIC with the higher ARP 'eth0'. (Not sure if this a bug but it is at least inconvenient) I have modified the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules b

Re: [CentOS] questions about upgrading

2011-09-19 Thread m . roth
Jon Detert wrote: > I'm pretty new to the task of upgrading CentOS or RedHat o.s.'s. I'm more > familiar with upgrading Debian based o.s.'s. Here are my questions: > > 1) will yum ever upgrade the major version? I understand that there is no > upgrade path from v5.x to v6.x, but is that always t

Re: [CentOS] questions about upgrading

2011-09-19 Thread isdtor
> 2) can I upgrade a minor version to any other greater minor number, or only > to the greatest?  E.g. if i have a v5.4 box, can i upgrade to v5.5 or v5.6, > or only to v5.7 (currently the latest)? Yes if you configure the repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d accordingly (i.e. use the vault). > 3)

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread Maurice Batey
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:22:34 +0100, I wrote: > there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition? Seems not, so - sadly - have crossed Centos off my list. -- /\/\aurice ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread m . roth
Maurice Batey wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:22:34 +0100, I wrote: > >> there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition? > > Seems not, so - sadly - have crossed Centos off my list. Sorry, I seem to have missed the start of this thread, and certainly don't understand it. Certa

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread Drew
>>  there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition? > >  Seems not, so - sadly - have crossed Centos off my list. Did the installer try to install /boot in the same partition as / ? CentOS6/SL6 does support ext4 as a root device (My webserver is currently doing so) but I still k

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread Maurice Batey
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:08:20 -0700, Drew wrote: > Did the installer try to install /boot in the same partition as / ? That's what it did. > I still keep /boot as ext3. OIC. So it needs an extra (ext3) /boot partition, as well as /. Now, if the installer had offered that, things might have bee

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread John Hinton
On 9/19/2011 2:18 PM, Maurice Batey wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:08:20 -0700, Drew wrote: > >> Did the installer try to install /boot in the same partition as / ? >That's what it did. > >> I still keep /boot as ext3. > OIC. So it needs an extra (ext3) /boot partition, as well as /. > Now, if

[CentOS] mdadm and drive identification?

2011-09-19 Thread David C. Miller
I have a server that has 16 drives in it. They are connected to a 3ware 9650SE-16ML SATA RAID card. I have the card set to export all the drives as JBOD because I prefer Linux to do the reporting of drive and RAID health . I'm using mdadm to create a RAID6 with a hot spare. Doing this I can take

Re: [CentOS] Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader

2011-09-19 Thread Maurice Batey
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:31:41 -0400, John Hinton wrote: > I > selected 'Customize' at the point where you can choose your packages and > then I selected that I wanted to set the partitions myself. That's what I did. > I got the > same partition interface I've always gotten with CentOS insta

Re: [CentOS] run without sendmail

2011-09-19 Thread Spiro Harvey
Jerry Geis wrote: > I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off > sendmail > and run without it. > Are there issues with doing that or is all Ok. Mail delivery can still work with sendmail turned off. The daemon is just there to receive mail. This guy explains it bette

Re: [CentOS] eth enumeration order

2011-09-19 Thread Robert Spangler
On Monday 19 September 2011 11:04, the following was written: > So > How do you specifiy the order in which NICs are enumerated? > or at least how to tell centos to stop messing with the > 70-persistent-net.rules? Add the hardware addresses to their ifcfg-eth# files. HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:x

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it > becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that > security updates have been non-existent all this time. I'm sorry I don't follow you here? I'm fairly c

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White wrote: > > > At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it > > becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that > > security updates have been non-existent

[CentOS] LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?

2011-09-19 Thread Johnny Tan
Side note: In CentOS-6, I noticed a new option in lvresize / lvextend: -r, --resizefs Resize underlying filesystem together with the logical volume using fsadm(8). Nice. Two steps (lvresize and resize2fs) can now be combined into one! Works great. But that has

Re: [CentOS] ekiga

2011-09-19 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, September 19, 2011 06:30 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you very much for your help. Excuse me, do we have other sip > clients rather than ekiga that I can give them a try? The ekiga 2.0.2 > is too old to work with my new Asterisk version on my centos 5.0 . I > will upgrade my other

[CentOS] reading vdump files?

2011-09-19 Thread Smithies, Russell
I have a lot of data in some vdump files backed up from a Tru64 system that I now need to recover to a Centos server. We no longer have any servers running Tru64, is there any way to extract/convert them on a "standard" linux system? Ideally converting in bulk to a tar would do. Any ideas? Russ

Re: [CentOS] LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?

2011-09-19 Thread Stefan Held
Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 19:15 -0400 schrieb Johnny Tan: > Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6: > You would deal with the same issues in older lvm versions. > [root@jttest ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_main

Re: [CentOS] LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?

2011-09-19 Thread Johnny Tan
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Stefan Held wrote: > Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 19:15 -0400 schrieb Johnny Tan: >> Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6: >> > You would deal with the same issues in older lvm versions. Thanks Stefan. I guess I just never noticed previously.

Re: [CentOS] LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?

2011-09-19 Thread Keith Keller
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:15:09PM -0400, Johnny Tan wrote: > Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6: > > [root@jttest ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/vg_main-lv_root >1548144 1548144

Re: [CentOS] LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?

2011-09-19 Thread Johnny Tan
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:15:09PM -0400, Johnny Tan wrote: >> Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6: >> >> [root@jttest ~]# df >> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/mapper/vg_mai

Re: [CentOS] ekiga

2011-09-19 Thread hadi motamedi
On 9/20/11, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Monday, September 19, 2011 06:30 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> Thank you very much for your help. Excuse me, do we have other sip >> clients rather than ekiga that I can give them a try? The ekiga 2.0.2 >> is too old to work with my new Asterisk version on

Re: [CentOS] Submitting patches from upstream fixes/bugs

2011-09-19 Thread Trey Dockendorf
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 09/14/2011 01:59 PM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > > Based on the bug report for the snapshot-create issue, it seems it's in > > libvirt 0.9.0 and that it's something that may be solved completely in > > Fedora 16. Is there a good way to find