[CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread LinuxIsOne
Hi, I was thinking from where the word 'centos' came and what it means? How they choose this word? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread Bent Terp
Community ENTerprise OS /Bent On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:36 PM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking from where the word 'centos' came and what it means? > How they choose this word? > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 12 December 2011 11:36, LinuxIsOne wrote: > I was thinking from where the word 'centos' came and what it means? > How they choose this word? In Swahili it means "don't ask questions before at least running a google query". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS ___

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Bent Terp wrote: > Community ENTerprise OS >> I was thinking from where the word 'centos' came and what it means? >> How they choose this word? Oh Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS Oh I read this. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Cannot remove a file

2011-12-12 Thread Theo Band
I have used restore to restore a snapshot of home data. From the root of this restore a file called aquota.user exists but cannot be removed: # mount|grep temp /dev/mapper/vgraid-temprestore on /mnt/temprestore type ext3 (rw) # cd /mnt/temprestore/home # ll -d . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 12

Re: [CentOS] Cannot remove a file

2011-12-12 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/12/2011 12:45 PM, Theo Band wrote: > Any ideas on what else I can do to get rid of this file? > Does man lsattr man chattr help you? Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, m...@lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists

Re: [CentOS] Cannot remove a file

2011-12-12 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Theo Band wrote: > I have used restore to restore a snapshot of home data. From the root of > this restore a file called aquota.user exists but cannot be removed: > > # mount|grep temp > /dev/mapper/vgraid-temprestore on /mnt/temprestore type ext3 (rw) > #

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Cannot remove a file

2011-12-12 Thread Theo Band
On 12/12/2011 01:04 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 12/12/2011 12:45 PM, Theo Band wrote: >> Any ideas on what else I can do to get rid of this file? >> > Does > > man lsattr > man chattr > > help you? > > Mogens > Thanks this is indeed the the answer: # lsattr aquota.user i--A- aquota.user

Re: [CentOS] Cannot remove a file

2011-12-12 Thread Theo Band
On 12/12/2011 01:04 PM, Rafa Griman wrote: > Have you checked attributes (lsattr)? Maybe it's got the immutable flag on. Yes that was indeed the case. > > In any case, the file is for quota definitions though it seems you > don't have quotas activated: The quota is enabled on the filesystem what wa

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 12 December 2011 11:42, LinuxIsOne wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS > Oh I read this. And you missed the first paragraph where it is explained? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

[CentOS] shadow.rpmnew...

2011-12-12 Thread John Doe
Hey, FYI, I just upgraded my 6.0 to 6.1 and saw: ... warning: /etc/shadow created as /etc/shadow.rpmnew ... # ll /etc/shadow.rpmnew ls: cannot access /etc/shadow.rpmnew: No such file or directory JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread lhecking
> Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction > can be detrimental to a file system's health. To get this back on-topic and closer to the OP's requests, are there any particular iscsi settings one should consider to increase resiliency and minimise the impact o

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: > >> Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction >> can be detrimental to a file system's health. > > To get this back on-topic and closer to the OP's requests, are there any > particular iscsi setti

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread John Broome
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:36, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking from where the word 'centos' came and what it means? > How they choose this word? You might also be interested in the etymology of the word 'FAQ'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faq _

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: >> >>> Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction >>> can be detrimental to a file system's health. >> >>  To get this back on-topic and closer

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 15:13, schrieb Rudi Ahlers: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: >>> Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction can be detrimental to a file system's

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction >> can be detrimental to a file system's health. > > To get this back on-topic and closer to the OP's requests, are there any > particular iscsi settings one

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/12/2011 09:13 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: >>> Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction can be detrimental to a file system's h

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 12, 2011 09:13:13 AM Rudi Ahlers wrote: > And then you still have the iSCSI applicance / server to worry about. > It can fail as well. Even with redundancy PSU's it could fail - the > RAM, CPU, motherboard, controller card, expensive RAID card, etc can > fail as well. These pro

[CentOS] bash on Centos 5 can not source FIFOs ...

2011-12-12 Thread Timothy Madden
Hello I run into this problem on CentOS 5.7 (Final), that if I try to source a FIFO in bash, my command will be silently ignored and nothing from the FIFO is interpreted. Here is a simple example: [root@appserver2 ~]# mkfifo /tmp/myfifo [root@appserver2 ~]# echo ls -l >/tmp/myfifo & [2] 23771 [

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > And you missed the first paragraph where it is explained? No man, I didn't miss it, thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What CentOS means?

2011-12-12 Thread LinuxIsOne
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:11 AM, John Broome wrote: > You might also be interested in the etymology of the word 'FAQ'. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faq Not really! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/ce

[CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root

2011-12-12 Thread Joseph Spenner
OS= CentOS 5.4, 64bit. I've always had great luck using dd to copy entire disks, and booting on other systems.  However, I'm having difficulty with a couple systems.  I boot using an install DVD so the OS disk is quiet, and dd to my target disk: # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k /dev/sdb i

Re: [CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root

2011-12-12 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Joseph Spenner To: "centos@centos.org" Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:51 AM Subject: [CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root OS= CentOS 5.4, 64bit. I've always had great luck using dd to copy entire disks, and booting on other systems

Re: [CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 17:01, schrieb Joseph Spenner: > > > From: Joseph Spenner > To: "centos@centos.org" > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:51 AM > Subject: [CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root > > OS= CentOS 5.4, 64bit. > > I've always had grea

[CentOS] CentOS 6.2 progress.

2011-12-12 Thread Lamar Owen
For those who don't follow the QA RSS, see: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/120 to get the latest info on the status of 6.2. Looks good so far! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 progress.

2011-12-12 Thread Patrick Lists
On 12-12-11 17:25, Lamar Owen wrote: > For those who don't follow the QA RSS, see: > http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/120 > to get the latest info on the status of 6.2. Looks good so far! Wow that is amazing progress. You guys are doing a great job! Kudos to all involved! Regards, Patrick __

Re: [CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root

2011-12-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > OS= CentOS 5.4, 64bit. > > I've always had great luck using dd to copy entire disks, and booting on > other systems.  However, I'm having difficulty with a couple systems.  I boot > using an install DVD so the OS disk is quiet, and dd to m

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 82, Issue 7

2011-12-12 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 progress.

2011-12-12 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:25 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > For those who don't follow the QA RSS, see: > http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/120 > to get the latest info on the status of 6.2. Looks good so far! > _ I am really impressed! That IS quick. ___

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/12/11 6:43 AM, Digimer wrote: > I handle this by setting up two servers running DRBD in active/active > with a simple two-node red hat cluster managing a floating IP address. > The storage network link uses a simple Active/Passive (mode=1) bond with > either link go to separate switches. DRB

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/12/2011 01:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/12/11 6:43 AM, Digimer wrote: >> I handle this by setting up two servers running DRBD in active/active >> with a simple two-node red hat cluster managing a floating IP address. >> The storage network link uses a simple Active/Passive (mode=1) bon

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 19:17, schrieb John R Pierce: > On 12/12/11 6:43 AM, Digimer wrote: >> I handle this by setting up two servers running DRBD in active/active >> with a simple two-node red hat cluster managing a floating IP address. >> The storage network link uses a simple Active/Passive (mode=1) bo

[CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-12 Thread Anne Wilson
For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is Skipping filters plugin, no data --> Running transaction check ---> Package p

[CentOS] NetworkManager turned off yet clobbered yp.conf on boot?

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Burns
A system had a disk problem, I took out the disk, mounted on another system, tweaked around until I thought the disk problem was fixed, then put it back in the original system. I did not edit any config files among the tweaks. When I booted the system, NIS was not working right. I found that these

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/12/11 10:23 AM, Digimer wrote: > Shared cache is, I think, a single-point-of-failure. no, its done with replication over a private channel between the storage controllers. standard feature on all redundant controller hardware/appliance storage controllers such as IBM DS series, HP MSA,

[CentOS] yum - sqlite SIGSEVG

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
I've got a CentOS 6.1 x86_64 VM running atop CentOS 6.1 x86_64 KVM host. The VM is in production, so any fix needs to be fairly non-intrusive. In the VM, yum consistently segfaults when reading non-base repositories. The problem appears to be related to the faulty creation of /var/cache/yu

[CentOS] not NetworkManager but dhclient turned off yet clobbered yp.conf on boot

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Burns
Oops! The actual clue in yp.conf is: ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script So I was looking in the wrong place. Dave On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Thomas Burns wrote: > A system had a disk problem, I took out the disk, mounted on another > system, tweaked around until I thought the disk prob

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 12, 2011 02:02:41 PM John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/12/11 10:23 AM, Digimer wrote: > > Shared cache is, I think, a single-point-of-failure. > > no, its done with replication over a private channel between the storage > controllers. standard feature on all redundant controller

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 progress.

2011-12-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, December 12, 2011 11:48:38 AM Patrick Lists wrote: > Wow that is amazing progress. You guys are doing a great job! > Kudos to all involved! Indeed. >From what I can tell, being that I have an upstream EL6.2 box running, the 6.0 >to 6.1 transition is much more disruptive (in terms of p

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/12/2011 02:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/12/11 10:23 AM, Digimer wrote: >> Shared cache is, I think, a single-point-of-failure. > > no, its done with replication over a private channel between the storage > controllers. standard feature on all redundant controller > hardware/applia

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 progress.

2011-12-12 Thread Jake Shipton
On 12/12/11 16:25, Lamar Owen wrote: > For those who don't follow the QA RSS, see: > http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/120 > to get the latest info on the status of 6.2. Looks good so far! > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.

Re: [CentOS] Perl package problems

2011-12-12 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/12/11 18:47, Anne Wilson wrote: > For a while now I've been seeing skipped-package notices, which I don't really > understand. I know it's a version mis-match, but all my attempts to sort it > out have failed, so I need help, please. The current state is > > Skipping filters plugin, no data

[CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just did an update on a system that is taking the better part of a day ( 5.3 ---> 5.7 ) mainly due to file download times. And I have 4 or 5 more systems to do. I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it - but that is difficult here because rsync is blocked (ggr

Re: [CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 21:49, schrieb Alan McKay: > Hey folks, > > I just did an update on a system that is taking the better part of a day ( > 5.3 ---> 5.7 ) mainly due to file download times. > > And I have 4 or 5 more systems to do. > > I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it

Re: [CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread William Hooper
On Monday, December 12, 2011, Alan McKay wrote: > Surely there must be a way to have yum on the first box automatically cache > everything and then have the other boxes use the cache? Maybe if not > directly, then with squid or something like that? You can find the RPMs in /var/cache/yum (from

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Drew
>> no, its done with replication over a private channel between the storage >> controllers.   standard feature on all redundant controller >> hardware/appliance storage controllers such as IBM DS series, HP MSA, >> etc etc. > > EMC Clariion CX/CX3/CX4 and VNX, also. Ditto D-Link's DSN-5110 series.

Re: [CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Alan McKay
> For CentOS 5 I've used automirror ( > http://terrarum.net/administration/caching-rpms-with-automirror.html), but > it has a note that it doesn't work with CentOS 6. I have tries what that > page suggests as a replacement. > > Bingo! That's exactly what I need! Thanks! -- “Don't eat anything

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread m . roth
Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 12.12.2011 15:13, schrieb Rudi Ahlers: >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald >> wrote: >>> Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: > Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear > mid-transaction can be detriment

Re: [CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/12/11 12:49 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it - but that > is difficult here because rsync is blocked (ggrr...) I use this script to create a full mirror of a repository, using LFTP rather than RSYNC... #!/usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/lftp

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Patrick Lists
On 12-12-11 22:11, Drew wrote: >>> no, its done with replication over a private channel between the storage >>> controllers. standard feature on all redundant controller >>> hardware/appliance storage controllers such as IBM DS series, HP MSA, >>> etc etc. >> >> EMC Clariion CX/CX3/CX4 and VNX, a

Re: [CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Christopher Mills
On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > > I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it - but that > is difficult here because rsync is blocked (ggrr...) > I had this same problem at work. RSync was blocked, and I had a bunch of machines to update. I installed a

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 22:37, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> get the right hardware and you do not have this problem >> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12169-304616-241493-241493-241493.html >> >> you have TWO of all components with hotplug > > Until you have a fire, or

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread m . roth
Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 12.12.2011 22:37, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> Reindl Harald wrote: >>> get the right hardware and you do not have this problem >>> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12169-304616-241493-241493-241493.html >>> >>> you have TWO of all components with hotplug

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.12.2011 23:25, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: > Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> Am 12.12.2011 22:37, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >>> Reindl Harald wrote: get the right hardware and you do not have this problem http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12169-304616-241493-241493-241493.

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-12 Thread Drew
> Isn't that D-Link DSN-5110 series a rebadged Dot Hill box? Rebranded iStor Networks iS512. Incidentally iStor was bought out by Promise so they now OEM the product line for D-Link. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie _

Re: [CentOS] find most recent file update in directory

2011-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:26:26PM +, Always Learning wrote: > > Its not intellectual enough and its too short and its also simple. You left out "incorrect". John -- Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.