Re: [CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-24 Thread John Doe
From: Joseph Hesse > The problem is my wife's Win7 laptop which is running some sort of home > edition of Win7.  I did everything I could in control panel to enable > file sharing but I still can't see the Samba share.  I can ping the > computer running Samba?  I tried to launch "gpedit.msc" b

Re: [CentOS] htdocs on NFS share / any pitfalls?

2013-10-24 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 23.10.2013 um 17:18 schrieb Les Mikesell : > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Leon Fauster > wrote: >> Am 23.10.2013 um 07:52 schrieb James A. Peltier : >>> | i have a new setup where the htdocs directory for the webserver >>> | is located on a nfs share. Client has cachefilesd configured. >>>

Re: [CentOS] baby blue screen of permanent death

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Clark
On 10/23/2013 12:01 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> To view the startup, when you boot, hit any key, then hit e as in edit (I >> think--otherwise, just use the arrow key to get down to the line beginning >> with Linux and when you highlight that line hit

[CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, I am running CentOS 6.4 on a remote server. when i run the below command, it prints out the headers too. is there a way to remove headers using the below command line *top -b -p 22657 > topcpu.txt* Regards, Kaushal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

Re: [CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread Giles Coochey
On 24/10/2013 12:20, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am running CentOS 6.4 on a remote server. when i run the below command, it prints out the headers too. is there a way to remove headers using the below command line *top -b -p 22657 > topcpu.txt* Perhaps the 'ps' command in a sleep 3 loop is mo

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 104, Issue 11

2013-10-24 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] ddclient stops running

2013-10-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
I find ddclient stops running after a time on a remote CentOS-6.4 server. Has anyone else found this? I think it has been happening for a couple of months. I notice because I get complaining messages in my logwatch. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trini

Re: [CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 24/10/2013 12:20, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running CentOS 6.4 on a remote server. when i run the below command, >> it prints out the headers too. is there a way to remove headers using the >> below command line >> >> *to

Re: [CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread Giles Coochey
On 24/10/2013 13:29, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: On 24/10/2013 12:20, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am running CentOS 6.4 on a remote server. when i run the below command, it prints out the headers too. is there a way to remove headers using t

[CentOS] anyone running both GTK 2 and 3 ?

2013-10-24 Thread Patrick
I really love Centos. I loaded Ubuntu last night on another drive and booted from that because I want to develop an application to run on a tablet and GTK 3 seems like a better route for a touch screen device. However I really hated Ubuntu and I was so happy to get back to Centos on my first d

[CentOS] CentOS Dojo at Madrid, Spain - Nov 8th 2013

2013-10-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Our next Dojo is going to be taking place at Madrid on the 8th Nov 2013. Details on the venue and registration are on the wiki page at http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Madrid2013 As has now become tradition, the Dojo will start at 9:30am and wi

Re: [CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread John Doe
From: Kaushal Shriyan > I am running CentOS 6.4 on a remote server. when i run the below command, > it prints out the headers too. is there a way to remove headers using the > below command line > *top -b -p 22657 > topcpu.txt* If you want to stick to top:   top -b -p 22657 | grep -v '^[a-z ]\|^

[CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread m . roth
Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620). The thing that drives me crazy is, when I reinstalled the whole system, whatever video driver the insta

Re: [CentOS] baby blue screen of permanent death

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
n Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Steve Clark wrote: > Have you looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log file - it sounds like there is a > problem with X. Not yet, but I will. > Also someone mentioned editing /etc/inittab and setting the run level to 3. > id:5:initdefault: - change the 5 to a 3. > If it boots > to a

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I > updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported > any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620). Google says it's from 2007 which make it ancient

Re: [CentOS] htdocs on NFS share / any pitfalls?

2013-10-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: >> >> What kind of throughput and latency are you talking about here? NFS >> shouldn't add that much overhead to reads compared to disk head >> latency and if you enable client caching might be considerably >> faster. If you are writing ove

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread Steve Clark
On 10/24/2013 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I >> updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported >> any more (and it's *not* that old - an RV620).

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists < centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 box. I > > updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card seems to not be supported > >

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread m . roth
Btw, one more note: taking out all kernel lines, blacklist, and just a *real* basic xorg.conf, in Xorg.0.log, the very first thing I see is X.Org X Server 1.14.3 Release Date: 2013-09-12 [56.756] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [56.756] Build Operating System: 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread m . roth
SilverTip257 wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Lists < > centos-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> On 10/24/2013 04:42 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> > Hi, folks. This is, in fact, off-topic: I'm fighting a user's FC19 >> > box. I updated him, rebooted... and his ATI video card s

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/24/2013 07:03 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Btw, one more note: taking out all kernel lines, blacklist, and just a > *real* basic xorg.conf, in Xorg.0.log, the very first thing I see is > X.Org X Server 1.14.3 > Release Date: 2013-09-12 > [56.756] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > [

Re: [CentOS] A last, desperate hope - video modes

2013-10-24 Thread m . roth
Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/24/2013 07:03 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Btw, one more note: taking out all kernel lines, blacklist, and just a >> *real* basic xorg.conf, in Xorg.0.log, the very first thing I see is >> X.Org X Server 1.14.3 >> Release Date: 2013-09-12 >> [56.756] X Protocol Ve

[CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel > 2.6.32-279 won't boot on ABIT AB9

2013-10-24 Thread Tony Schreiner
I was trying to install CentOS 6.4 a workstation with an Abit AB9 motherboard on a machine that had been running 5.9 Installation completed, but upon boot, it hangs hard after acpiphp: ACPI Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version 0.5 ipmi message handler version 39.2 … then 3 attempts to locate

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel > 2.6.32-279 won't boot on ABIT AB9

2013-10-24 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Tony Schreiner wrote: > I had used the the 6.3 net installer disk (and the 6.4 repo) which I noticed > had kernel 2.6.32-279, so I retrieved that kernel from the vault and it works. > > The 279 and earlier kernels don't display any ipmi messages during boot (in

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel > 2.6.32-279 won't boot on ABIT AB9

2013-10-24 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Tony Schreiner mailto:anthony.schrei...@bc.edu>> wrote: I had used the the 6.3 net installer disk (and the 6.4 repo) which I noticed had kernel 2.6.32-279, so I retrieved that kernel from the vault and it works. T

[CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
We are a CentOS shop, and have the lucky, fortunate problem of having ever-increasing amounts of data to manage. EXT3/4 becomes tough to manage when you start climbing, especially when you have to upgrade, so we're contemplating switching to ZFS. As of last spring, it appears that ZFS On Linux

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/24/2013 1:41 PM, Lists wrote: > Was wondering if anybody here could weigh in with real-life experience? > Performance/scalability? I've only used ZFS on Solaris and FreeBSD.some general observations... 1) you need a LOT of ram for decent performance on large zpools. 1GB ram above your

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread SilverTip257
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Lists wrote: > We are a CentOS shop, and have the lucky, fortunate problem of having > ever-increasing amounts of data to manage. EXT3/4 becomes tough to > manage when you start climbing, especially when you have to upgrade, so > we're contemplating switching to Z

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel > 2.6.32-279 won't boot on ABIT AB9

2013-10-24 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Tony Schreiner wrote: > Try adding the following kernel parameters and see if the 6.4 kernel boots: > > ipmi_si.tryacpi=0 ipmi_si.trydmi=0 ipmi_si.trydefaults=0 > Akemi > > Awesome, that did the trick. > I do not see those parameters in > https://www.kernel.org

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 01:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > 1) you need a LOT of ram for decent performance on large zpools. 1GB ram > above your basic system/application requirements per terabyte of zpool > is not unreasonable. That seems quite reasonable to me. Our existing equipment has far more than eno

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-10-24, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Lists wrote: > >> We are a CentOS shop, and have the lucky, fortunate problem of having >> ever-increasing amounts of data to manage. EXT3/4 becomes tough to >> manage when you start climbing, especially when you have to upgrad

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:44 -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use > on your CentOS machines? Not which version of the CentOS kernel, but > which repository. Here are some examples I can think of off the top of > my head:

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/24/2013 2:59 PM, Lists wrote: >> >(*) ran into a guy who had 100s of zfs 'file systems' (mount points), >> >per user home directories, and was doing nightly snapshots going back >> >several years, and his zfs commands were taking a long long time to do >> >anything, and he couldn't figure out

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/23/2013 10:30 AM, Morgan Cox wrote: > If you want SSD + MDRAID you need to use a 3.8+ kernel to have TRIM. > > The speed difference between the stock 2.6.32 -> 3.10 kernel with SSD + > MDRAID is insane. > has someone quantified what this 'insane' amounts to ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0

Re: [CentOS] baby blue screen of permanent death

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013, Steve Clark wrote: > Have you looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log file - it sounds like there is a > problem with X. I have now, but I do not know what to do with the information. I understand line 15 and 111. Any ideas? [root@localhost log]# grep -n EE Xorg.0.log 15: (WW) wa

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 03:48 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 10/23/2013 10:30 AM, Morgan Cox wrote: >> If you want SSD + MDRAID you need to use a 3.8+ kernel to have TRIM. >> >> The speed difference between the stock 2.6.32 -> 3.10 kernel with SSD + >> MDRAID is insane. > has someone quantified what this 'in

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 02:47 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > You didn't mention XFS. > Just curious if you considered it or not. Most definitely. There are a few features that I'm looking for: 1) MOST IMPORTANT: STABLE! 2) The ability to make the partition bigger by adding drives with very minimal/no downtim

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.10.2013 um 00:47 schrieb John R Pierce : > On 10/24/2013 2:59 PM, Lists wrote: (*) ran into a guy who had 100s of zfs 'file systems' (mount points), per user home directories, and was doing nightly snapshots going back several years, and his zfs commands were taking a long lo

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread George Kontostanos
We tested ZFS on CentOS 6.4 a few months ago using a descend Supermicro server with 16GB RAM and 11 drives on RaidZ3. Same specs as a middle range storage server that we build mainly using FreeBSD. Performance was not bad but eventually we run into a situation were we could not import a pool anymo

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/24/2013 4:12 PM, Lists wrote: > On 10/24/2013 02:47 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: >> >You didn't mention XFS. >> >Just curious if you considered it or not. > Most definitely. There are a few features that I'm looking for: > > 1) MOST IMPORTANT: STABLE! XFS is quite stable in CentOS 6.4 64bit. ther

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Jake Shipton
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:44:44 -0700 Keith Keller wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you > use on your CentOS machines? > I use kernel-ml from elrepo for my Desktop due to hardware support as my hardware fails to even try to boot with the stock

[CentOS] problem in installation

2013-10-24 Thread Sam Suresh
as i was trying to install in my laptop , it was stuck will an problem, the graphics was not seen on the display, means display goes black, when i look into display closely negative images were seen, thought might be a problem in dispaly drivers , but other OS are installed properlly and working g

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Warren Young
On 10/24/2013 17:12, Lists wrote: > > 2) The ability to make the partition bigger by adding drives with very > minimal/no downtime. Be careful: you may have been reading some ZFS hype that turns out not as rosy in reality. Ideally, ZFS would work like a Drobo with an infinite number of drive b

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Warren Young
On 10/24/2013 14:59, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/24/2013 1:41 PM, Lists wrote: > > 1) you need a LOT of ram for decent performance on large zpools. 1GB ram > above your basic system/application requirements per terabyte of zpool > is not unreasonable. To be fair, you want to treat XFS the same wa

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/24/2013 5:31 PM, Warren Young wrote: > To be fair, you want to treat XFS the same way. > > And it, too is "unstable" on 32-bit systems with anything but smallish > filesystems, due to lack of RAM. I thought it had stack requirements that 32 bit couldn't meet, and it would simply crash, so i

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/24/2013 5:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: > The least complicated*safe* way to add 1 TB to a pool is add*two* 1 TB > disks to the system, create a ZFS mirror out of them, and add*that* > vdev to the pool. That gets you 1 TB of redundant space, which is what > you actually wanted. Just realiz

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-10-23, Keith Keller wrote: > > I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use > on your CentOS machines? Thanks to all for what was a surprisingly interesting thread! Here are my very informal and unscientific tallies. This isn't actual systems, of course; it's

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
> Hi all, > > I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you > use on your CentOS machines? > We're all stock, all the way. Figure 30 servers configured like this, including dev/test and embedded servers. We'll soon have a true "Disaster Recovery" setup with another 8 ser

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 05:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 10/24/2013 17:12, Lists wrote: >> 2) The ability to make the partition bigger by adding drives with very >> minimal/no downtime. > Be careful: you may have been reading some ZFS hype that turns out not > as rosy in realiIdeally, ZFS would work like

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Lists wrote: > Not sure enough of the vernacular Yes, ZFS is complicated enough to have a specialized vocabulary. I used two of these terms in my previous post: - vdev, which is a virtual device, something like a software RAID. It is one or more disks, configured

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/24/2013 11:18 PM, Warren Young wrote: > All of the ZFSes out there are crippled relative to what's shipping in > Solaris now, because Oracle has stopped releasing code. There are nontrivial > features in zpool v29+, which simply aren't in the free forks of older > versions o the Sun code.