[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5

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[CentOS] Systemd sessions

2014-09-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
As a matter of interest, why does systemd start sessions every couple of minutes? And if it is completely standard, is it necessary to inform me of this in /var/log/messages? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _

Re: [CentOS] Bare drive RAID question, was RE: *very* ugly mdadm issue [Solved, badly]

2014-09-06 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:05 PM, wrote: > > > That's why I like the [block] device naming strictly derived from > topology > > of machine (e.g. FreeBSD does it that way), then you know, which physical > > drive (or other block device, e.g. attached hardware RAID) a device > > /dev/da[x] is. I reme

Re: [CentOS] Systemd sessions

2014-09-06 Thread David Both
Sessions of what? Posting log entries here would help. On 09/06/2014 08:01 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: As a matter of interest, why does systemd start sessions every couple of minutes? And if it is completely standard, is it necessary to inform me of this in /var/log/messages? -- **

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Fri, September 5, 2014 2:20 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > By the bye, about firmware updates: I like Dell's the best of all. HP, run > it from some kind of DOS, and hope. Dell, you can do from a running CentOS > system (I've done it a few times), and unlike everyone else's firmware > updates, i

Re: [CentOS] Could not resolve host: mirror.centos.org

2014-09-06 Thread Fabian Arrotin
On 05/09/14 21:15, ?? wrote: > There seems to be a problem with my local dns server resolving > mirror.centos.org. > I know something about dns but obviously not enough to figure out what > might be wrong here or how to fix > this in bind configs. The SERVFAIL err

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Steven Tardy
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I was always fascinated: why [some] people are dying to upgrade firmware? > It doesn't matter whether by firmware you mean system board BIOS, or > firmware of some card. Why taking chance having your machine hosed? Because BIOS updates o

Re: [CentOS] Could not resolve host: mirror.centos.org

2014-09-06 Thread Александр Кириллов
There seems to be a problem with my local dns server resolving mirror.centos.org. I know something about dns but obviously not enough to figure out what might be wrong here or how to fix this in bind configs. The SERVFAIL errors below seem to be related to and MX queries for the domain. Pleas

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 9:21 am, Steven Tardy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> >> I was always fascinated: why [some] people are dying to upgrade >> firmware? >> It doesn't matter whether by firmware you mean system board BIOS, or >> firmware of some card. W

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2014 7:46 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in the first place. Or at least stop buying the crap made by_this_ manufacturer in a future. I'm still not convinc

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 10:07 am, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 7:46 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold >> with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in >> the first place. Or at least stop buying the

[CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Gergely Buday
Hi there, I installed centos 7 -- it works great. What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop with some add-ons. As usual, there might be a solution for this already but I do not know it. Would it be possible to create one big package for a standard Desktop? Then an

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Gergely Buday
oh Harald, you did not change at all since I saw you last time On 6 September 2014 18:52, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 06.09.2014 um 18:46 schrieb Gergely Buday: > > I installed centos 7 -- it works great. > > > > What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop > > wit

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Andrew Holway
On 6 September 2014 17:46, Gergely Buday wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed centos 7 -- it works great. > > What made me think is that installation took 1300 packages for a Desktop > with some add-ons. > > As usual, there might be a solution for this already but I do not know it. > Would it be po

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
FreeBSD base system is installed similarly to what you suggest: just by unpacking a few tgz files containing it. This, however, only comprises base system; the rest necessary for workstation (such as Xwindow system, office suites, etc) are to be added separately. However, once the system is instal

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Luckily, there is nice equivalent of what you would like standard Desktop installation would be, or anything else which you can tweak to your needs once and then install that tweaked system with one go on as many boxes as you wish. It is called "kicksta

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I get rackmount > ones assembled by small company (companies) and about 1/2 of cost of > similar hardware from Dell. Those are for the most part based on Tyan > barebones. And during last at least decade I never had a "must to" flash > newer BIOS situation wi

Re: [CentOS] Systemd sessions

2014-09-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
David Both wrote: >> As a matter of interest, why does systemd start sessions >> every couple of minutes? >> And if it is completely standard, is it necessary >> to inform me of this in /var/log/messages? > Sessions of what? Posting log entries here would help. -- [tim@al

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold > with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in > the first place. Or at least stop buying the crap made by _this_ > manufacturer in a f

Re: [CentOS] Systemd sessions

2014-09-06 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:26:32PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > -- > [tim@alfred ~]$ tail /var/log/messages > Sep 6 21:20:01 alfred systemd: Created slice user-0.slice. > Sep 6 21:20:01 alfred systemd: Starting Session 2158 of user root. > Sep 6 21:20:01 alfred systemd:

[CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-06 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi folks, Is able SAMBA on CentOS 7 to work as Active Directory Domain Controller? If it's not, what is the recommended way of doing? Compiling from sources? Install packages from SerNet? Thanks in advance! -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com LPIC-2 Certified - http://www.lpi.org __

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:27 pm, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold >> with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in >> the first place. Or

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:16 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> I get rackmount >> ones assembled by small company (companies) and about 1/2 of cost of >> similar hardware from Dell. Those are for the most part based on Tyan >> barebones. And during last at least

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 1:57 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Luckily, there is nice equivalent of what you would like standard >> Desktop >> installation would be, or anything else which you can tweak to your >> needs >> once and then install that tweake

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-06 Thread Aly Khimji
Yes Samba4 is capable of working as a AD domain controller and more. See link. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO Aly On Sep 6, 2014 4:16 PM, "Sergio Belkin" wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is able SAMBA on CentOS 7 to work as Active Directory Domain Controller? If > it's not, what is t

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2014 1:53 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, ati... A few months ago, I had to flash the firmware on a LSI 2008 aka 9211-8i because I needed the card in "IT" (Initiator Target) mode rather than "IR" (Integrated Raid), and this

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-06 Thread Sergio Belkin
H perhaps I don't explain myself enough. I already know that Samba "capable of working as a AD domain controller and more". I'm asking about the official packages of CentOS, I mean from official repo's. Thanks in advance 2014-09-06 18:01 GMT-03:00 Aly Khimji : > Yes Samba4 is capable of

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sat, September 6, 2014 4:52 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 1:53 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> ... I've mentioned manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, >> ati... > > A few months ago, I had to flash the firmware on a LSI 2008 aka 9211-8i > because I needed the card in "IT" (In

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/6/2014 4:02 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: That doesn't mean that you have to flash firmware onto LSI controller every so often after you placed controller into production because original version of firmware is crap, and updated version will turn out to be crap several Months after its release,

Re: [CentOS] installing Desktop faster

2014-09-06 Thread zep
On 09/06/2014 02:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 11:06 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> > and my experience is, kickstart installs off a reasonably fast NFS > server over gigE are /way/ faster than CDROM/DVDROM installs. > which totally makes sense (stolen from wikipedia): CD, DVD and Blu-ra

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-06 Thread Aly Khimji
It would appear the samba4 DC isn't available for C7 just yet. "As Fedora and RHEL are using MIT Kerberos implementation as its Kerberos infrastructure of choice, the Samba Active Directory Domain Controller implementation is not available with MIT Kereberos at the moment." Ref: http://community.

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-06 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, ati... Even 3ware has had buggy firmwares. I once had to flash a 3ware card years into production because it was not until then that this particular bug was exposed by my configuration.