Re: [CentOS] Is this right? -- Centos 6 and RHEL 6 infrastrure for continuous update/upgrade

2013-02-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/08/2013 07:45 PM, Gelen James wrote: > Hi all, > > Both RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 can be installed from any minor releases DVDs: 6.0, > 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, etc. And then got continuous upgrade/update with command 'yum > -y upgrade' if repos are setup correct. > > But the repos infrastructure is differ

Re: [CentOS] Is this right? -- Centos 6 and RHEL 6 infrastrure for continuous update/upgrade

2013-02-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/08/2013 07:45 PM, Gelen James wrote: > supposed I installed with Centos 6.2 last year, and let's say Centos 6.4 > comes out two months later and I have not updated a single package since > initial installation until Centos 6.4 comes out (I am way too lazy :) That would be extremely unfor

[CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread George R Goffe
Hi, I'm probably doing something wrong or misunderstanding how this is supposed to work. I have written this ".iso" image to a DVD and booted from it. I then selected the first install option from the menu. I get some prompts and then I'm asked to specify where the media is. I assumed (there's

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Re: [CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread pnorton3 . 14
Hello George. I had the same problem on an old proliant. Settled for a min install CD iso and then updated. All the best Paul -- -Original Message- From: George R Goffe Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 03:07:38 To: centos@centos.org Reply-To: CentO

Re: [CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 12:07:16PM +, pnorton3...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello George. I had the same problem on an old proliant. Settled for a min > install CD iso and then updated. All the best Paul Please don't top post. See http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php among others. To

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild for different architecture [OT?]

2013-02-09 Thread Jake Shipton
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:08:15 -0500 Steve wrote: > As far as I can tell, the rpm-list went defunct circa 2008 so I'm > asking here. No doubt someone will let me know if this is not OK. > > I'm trying to build an RPM on a CentOS VM targeted to run on an ARM > architecture machine. > > I have a tes

Re: [CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread Joseph Spenner
Not sure if this would matter, but try burning to a CD instead. I think it will fit. This is what I have been doing. -- Get your "heart sticker" fixer! http://microflush.org/stuff/stickers/heartFix.html Sent from my iPad On Feb 9, 2013, at 4:07 AM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I'

Re: [CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/09/2013 05:07 AM, George R Goffe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probably doing something wrong or misunderstanding how this is supposed > to work. > > I have written this ".iso" image to a DVD and booted from it. I then selected > the first install option from the menu. I get some prompts and then I'

Re: [CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread jonc
On Feb 9, 2013, at 4:07 AM, George R Goffe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm probably doing something wrong or misunderstanding how this is supposed >> to work. >> >> I have written this ".iso" image to a DVD and booted from it. I then >> selected the first install option from the menu. I get some prompts

Re: [CentOS] Is CentOS-6.3-x86_64-netinstall.iso broken?

2013-02-09 Thread jonc
On Feb 9, 2013, at 4:07 AM, George R Goffe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm probably doing something wrong or misunderstanding how this is supposed >> to work. >> >> I have written this ".iso" image to a DVD and booted from it. I then >> selected the first install option from the menu. I get some prompts

[CentOS] Performance issue

2013-02-09 Thread Carlos Henrique Reimer
Hi, I suspect a CPU bottleneck in one of our PostgreSQL servers but not sure how to confirm the suspect. It's a DELL Box running CentOS 5.4 with 64GB RAM and 16 XEON E7430 2.13 GHz processors. vmstat r column "run queue" usually indicates values higher than 2 and less than 5 but "Load Average" va

Re: [CentOS] Performance issue

2013-02-09 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:24:19PM -0200, Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote: > processors. vmstat r column "run queue" usually indicates values higher > than 2 and less than 5 but "Load Average" values from top, sar -q and other > commands show always values less than 1. > > Should not these values be

Re: [CentOS] Performance issue

2013-02-09 Thread Carlos Henrique Reimer
Hi, All 16 core show always %idle greater than 95% (mpstat -P ALL). So can I assume there is no CPU constraint in this box? Thank you! On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:24:19PM -0200, Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote: > > processors. vmstat r colum

Re: [CentOS] Is this right? -- Centos 6 and RHEL 6 infrastrure for continuous update/upgrade

2013-02-09 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 02/09/2013 05:58 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/08/2013 07:45 PM, Gelen James wrote: > > >> supposed I installed with Centos 6.2 last year, and let's say Centos 6.4 >> comes out two months later and I have not updated a single package since >> initial installation until Centos 6.4 comes out

[CentOS] A problem

2013-02-09 Thread Bassem Sossan
Hello every one I am a new user of CentOS, I have installed "CentOS-5.8-i386" as a virtual machine on VMware Workstation 9.0 for learning purposes. There is a frequented problems, when I want to use "Add/Remove software", I get this error message: "another application is currently running which

Re: [CentOS] A problem

2013-02-09 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:49:27PM -0800, Bassem Sossan wrote: > Hello every one > > I am a new user of CentOS, I have installed "CentOS-5.8-i386" as a virtual > machine on VMware Workstation 9.0 for learning purposes. > > There is a frequented problems, when I want to use "Add/Remove software",

Re: [CentOS] DNS caching is not working on CentOS

2013-02-09 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/08/2013 03:09 PM, Ed Morrison wrote: > The services start fine but when telling to perform a dig using itself > as the resolver the queries fail Check the following line in /etc/named.conf and make sure you have both ip addresses: listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.1.6; }; Also, if y