Re: [CentOS] strange cron message

2012-02-29 Thread John Doe
From: Michael Schumacher > environment: new Centos 6 installation out of the box. > somebody has an idea what causes this error mail to be sent? > This pops up every three minutes. There is no ascservicemonitor on > that machine, I cannot find any reference to a file with this name and > I cannot

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread William Warren
first off..if you are using the on bios raid turn it off. Secondly black drives form WD intentionally put themselves into deep cycle diags every so often. This makes them impossible to use in hardware and FRAID setups. I have 4 of them in raid 10 under mdraid and i had to disable bios raid f

Re: [CentOS] OT: Sysadmin position

2012-02-29 Thread Giles Coochey
On 2012-02-28 19:04, Markus Falb wrote: > On 28.2.2012 19:49, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Tony Placilla >> wrote: >>> >>> I have an opening for a full-time Systems Administrator. >>> >>> Please contact me off list for details >> >> Is this app

Re: [CentOS] build rpm from tar.xz tarball

2012-02-29 Thread Marc Deop
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 02:11:25 fakessh @ wrote: > What is the correct procedure to build an rpm with this type of package > tar.xz AFAIK the %setup macro should be able to handle the decompression. If not, just do it yourself within the %prep section Regards PS: there's an rpm-list ( rp

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-29 Thread Marc Deop
On Sunday 26 February 2012 20:39:03 Michael Lampe wrote: > So I can build, but the resulting RPM cannot be installed -- if not > forced. (No problems then as everything is there.) Why don't you add the files needed as dependencies to the spec file? (it's one of the beautis of the rpm system over

Re: [CentOS] centos4 and rhel4 upstream effective eol

2012-02-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/28/2012 10:49 AM, R - elists wrote: > what exactly is the planned day and time that centos4 will be moved removed > from working "yum update" & current mirrored functionality ?? > > march 1st or a day or two later please? > > - rh > CentOS 4.9 is currently (and will remain forever) at: htt

Re: [CentOS] Centos6: Boot from usb 3.0ls /

2012-02-29 Thread Volker Poplawski
On 23.02.2012 14:25, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 09:52:54 AM Volker Poplawski wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm booting Centos6 from a usb 3.0 stick. >> >> This works fine as long as the usb-stick is connected to a usb 2.0 port. >> Once I plug the the usb-stick into a blue usb 3.0

Re: [CentOS] Centos6: Boot from usb 3.0ls /

2012-02-29 Thread John Doe
From: Volker Poplawski > The required xhci_hcd kernel module is not part of the 260 modules in > the initrd for some reason. Sony Memory-Stick is included, if you happen > to have one of these... > I was able to rebuild the initrd plus the xhci_hdc module: > mkinitrd -v --with=xhci_hdc > /boot

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread Miguel Medalha
A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server from Asus with a SATA back

Re: [CentOS] build rpm from tar.xz tarball

2012-02-29 Thread fakessh @
Le mercredi 29 février 2012 à 10:18 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby a écrit : > On 02/29/2012 04:11 AM, fakessh @ wrote: > > What is the correct procedure to build an rpm with this type of package > > tar.xz > > the standard package rebuilding, I guess. > just have to change the decompression utili

Re: [CentOS] build rpm from tar.xz tarball

2012-02-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:52:09 +0100 fakessh @ wrote: > any idees My "idee" would be to de-archive your xz file and create a new tar.gz (or tar.bz) file using the result, then use that to build the rpm. unxz gnutls-3.0.9.tar.xz bzip2 gnutls-3.0.9.tar Now you have a gnutls-3.0.9.tar.bz2 -- MELVI

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread m . roth
Miguel Medalha wrote: > > A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand > why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly > changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it > turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server

Re: [CentOS] Is there a way to _remove_ dependencies from an RPM built from source?

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Lampe
Marc Deop wrote: > On Sunday 26 February 2012 20:39:03 Michael Lampe wrote: >> So I can build, but the resulting RPM cannot be installed -- if not >> forced. (No problems then as everything is there.) > > Why don't you add the files needed as dependencies to the spec file? (it's > one of the beaut