Re: [CentOS] new "large" fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2012-10-02, John R Pierce wrote: >> >> a server makes very little use of its system disks after its booted, >> everything it needs ends up in cache pretty quickly. and you typically >> don't reboot a server very often. why waste S

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Dogsbody
>> On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> >> I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos 6. >> >On 02/10/12 23:48, Craig White wrote:> > > That said, the Galaxy S III has a slot for a mini-SD card and you should be > able to make it exchange files via the usb cable bu

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Aft nix
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Dogsbody wrote: > >>> On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >>> >>> I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos 6. >>> >>On 02/10/12 23:48, Craig White wrote:> >> >> That said, the Galaxy S III has a slot for a mini-SD card and you should

[CentOS] Logrotate "firstaction" with non-0 exit status. Or: How to keep logrotate from rotating via scripts?

2012-10-03 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience with the "firstaction" script in logrotate config files, or more specifically, the behaviour with a non-0 exit status. The logrotate manpage says: firstaction/endscript The lines between firstaction and endscript (both of which must a

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 02.10.2012 23:29, Frank Cox wrote: > My cell phone provider just sent me a letter stating that my 3 year > contract is > up and they will give me a Samsung Galaxy 3 if I will sign a new > contract. > > I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos 6. > My > existing Samsung

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Manish Kathuria
> > The routes-x.y-z.diff is a unified patch containing different parts > which include support for Dead Gateway Detection as well. However, > since that is limited to the first hop, it is preferable to have a > userspace script as you are doing. I also use a script to check the > accessibility of

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/3/2012 7:17 AM, Nux! wrote: > On 02.10.2012 23:29, Frank Cox wrote: >> My cell phone provider just sent me a letter stating that my 3 year >> contract is >> up and they will give me a Samsung Galaxy 3 if I will sign a new >> contract. >> >> I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Christian Anthon
Sounds like an issue similar to what I experienced when trying to force all outgoing ssh traffic on a NAT'ed network to go through a particular interface. I've forgot the details, but running the following on the firewall helped for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 0 > $f

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Steve Clark
On 10/03/2012 08:46 AM, Manish Kathuria wrote: >> > I was under the impression that you are running a FTP server inside > and were facing problems with the incoming traffic for the same. If > you are primarily concerned with the outgoing traffic through two ISP > links, please follow the following

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Manish Kathuria
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 10/03/2012 08:46 AM, Manish Kathuria wrote: > > I was under the impression that you are running a FTP server inside > and were facing problems with the incoming traffic for the same. If > you are primarily concerned with the outgoing traffic

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Re: [CentOS] new "large" fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-10-03, Rafa Griman wrote: > > If it works with you ... I mean, there's no perfect partition scheme > (IMHO), depends greatly on what you do, your budget, workflow, file > size, ... So if you're happy with this, go ahead. Just some advice: > test a couple of different options first just in

[CentOS] CentOS 5.8, xen kernel, and nfs4

2012-10-03 Thread Wade Hampton
G'day, I have a workstation running CentOS 5.8 with kernel 2.6.18-308.el5. This workstation needs to mount a NFS4 directory on a server (mysvr in the example below). If the computer is running the XEN kernel (uname -a reports ...2.6.18-308.el5xen), my NFS4 share is mounted but "ls" reports an er

[CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
I have a couple development servers running centos 6.3 64bit that have LSI 9211-8i SAS2 controllers connected to a SAS2 backplane.these work fine with SATA hard disks (populated with a bunch of 3TB SATA drives)... I'm trying to install a OCZ Vertex3 SSD on each of the two servers to do som

Re: [CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 > > and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather > is related to 'trim' aka 'discard'. and exactly the same behavior with the latest kernel 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 and e2fsprogs-1.41.12-12.el6.x8

Re: [CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:18:13PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 > > > > and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather > > is related to 'trim' aka 'discard'. > > and exactly the same behavior with

Re: [CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/12 2:35 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:18:13PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: >> >On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >>> > > # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 >>> > > >>> > >and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather >>> > >is related to 'trim

Re: [CentOS] new "large" fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/02/12 2:10 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Nux! wrote: > >> >I'd use the SSDs for bcache/flashcache. > Try kmod-flashcache [1] and flashcache-utils [2] from ELRepo. Still in > the testing repository but seems to work well. Some testimony and > additional package by J

Re: [CentOS] new "large" fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/12 7:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > I'm looking for those, but not seeing them... never mind. My eyes saw EPEL when you said ELrepo. :-/ -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast _

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-03 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
- Original Message - From: "James Pearson" > fred smith wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:36:19PM -1000, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: >> >>>I have some clients that run centos6 and I need to have users be able to >>>access the "failsafe terminal" from the login screen. The old options