[CentOS] Console priority

Hi all, A while back I vaguely remember someone posting a link to documentation on how to prioritise console access (for want of a better expression). For the life of me I can't find it in the archives or via Google; Can anyone provide a URL? Basically, I have a remote server that thrashes (that'

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: > List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ > Thanks for not reading my post. See "I can't find it in the archives or via Google" in the text below. > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Bird wrote: > >>

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

Jonathan Moore wrote: > Spent a few minutes looking at the the archive at gmane.org and found one > post that might be of interest. It's from back in 2006, but a quick read > seems > to be on the same track. HTH. > > > Tha

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

Thomas Harold wrote: > Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can > handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side. I've been using the AdderView CatX series of IP KVM's for quite a while. They are very good. http://www.adder.com/uk/catx-kvm-switches.aspx Remot

Re: [CentOS] Cloned Centos Boxes - First Run to run again?

Mr Gabriel wrote: > > I want each box to appear like a fresh unique install. man sys-unconfig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] need content of /etc/redhat-release

mcclnx mcc wrote: Thanks. what I need is "original REDHAT version" /etc/redhat-release not CENTOS. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/looking-for-redhat-release-file-for-rh45-538031/ Plus RHEL 5.1 x86_64 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) RHEL 5.2 x8

[CentOS] Missing SDLT600's

Hi All, I have a CentOS5.2 server using a Qlogic QLE220 HBA, connected to Quantum DX30 and M1800 libraries via a Qlogic SANbox 5600 switch. I've installed the latest (v8.02.14) drivers from Qlogic for the HBA The issue I have is I am missing 2 of the 4 SDLT drives provided by the M1800 Libr

Re: [CentOS] Missing SDLT600's

nate wrote: Daniel Bird wrote: Using the QLoigic SAN Surfer software all the LUN's/devices are visible to the host. Do you see the devices in /proc/scsi/scsi ? Actually, no. Below is the output from /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lu

Re: [CentOS] Missing SDLT600's

nate wrote: You can try rescanning the bus: http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-scan-scsi-bus-with-26-kernel.html But it sounds like despite what the qlogic app says the devices are not exported to the host. Thanks Nate, I've tried that solution and a whole bunch of other tools fro

Re: [CentOS] School cloud solution

On 06/11/2011 00:49, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Look into google 'apps' (which is really corporatized google > > documents). you edit your documents via your web browser, everything > > is hosted in googles cloud so its accessible everywhere. It supports > > written 'word' style documents, spr

Re: [CentOS] NFS options in fstab

On 29/12/2011 14:25, Daniel Bird wrote: > Hi All, > I've a quick question I'm hoping someone can help out on; One of our NFS > servers has an intermittent hard lock problem under high load. This is a > CentOS 5.7 box. It's due for replacement sometime next year. Howev

[CentOS] NFS options in fstab

Hi All, I've a quick question I'm hoping someone can help out on; One of our NFS servers has an intermittent hard lock problem under high load. This is a CentOS 5.7 box. It's due for replacement sometime next year. However... The issue is when this box dies the boxes that mount the NFS exports hav

Re: [CentOS] NFS options in fstab

On 29/12/2011 15:23, Marc Deop wrote: > On Thursday 29 December 2011 14:35:34 Daniel Bird wrote: >> retry=n The number of minutes to retry an NFS mount operation in the >> foreground or background before giving up. The default >> value for forground moun

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

ing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ____ Daniel Bird Network and Systems Manager Computing Services Information Services St. George's, University Of London Cranmer Terrace London SW17 0RE Email: db...@sgu

[CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put them in another box running CentOS 5 and can see the disks OK. hda thru hdd looks li

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

>> dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images. >> >> > > If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition > you want from the image. > > http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/ Thanks Scott, That was going to be my next question! ;-

[CentOS] Sparse LUN's

Hi All, I've been chasing down a problem with LUN masking on CentOS5/RHEL5 hosts with QLogic HBA's for a few hours and seem to have got to an impass; Any device (disks in my case) on Non-sequential LUN's are not registered with the OS. This happens across various HBA models and kernel versions. F

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

On 17/09/2010 13:41, Les Mikesell wrote: > Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access. And how about Serial Over LAN using IPMI if your kit supports it? Very useful is you've broken things... (speaking from experience :-) D ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Is "OS install mode" set to "On" in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb Dan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dell PE2850 with 4GB RAM (Was Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM)

Sorin Srbu wrote: > > What is that "install mode" for anyway?? According to my Dell docs, some OS's had/have trouble with >2GB RAM during install, so this was the recommended setting for new installs. > You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? I have a hunch that you will

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host

Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Sorry for an off topic post, but a lot of you folks are sysadmins here or > there, and just might have a suggestion... ;-) > > I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years (yes, > I know, it sounds ridiculous, but still...). What I need is remot

Re: [CentOS] Can't update CentOS 5.2

> >From here in Ireland. > > [r...@nogs ~]# ping mirrorlist.centos.org > PING mirrorlist.centos.org (72.21.40.11) 56(84) bytes of data. > > --- mirrorlist.centos.org ping statistics --- > 22 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 21082ms > > > Tony > Same here in London ... [r

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 - latest rpms for mailcanner , clamav and spamassassin

Linux Advocate wrote: > Guys, > > What repo has rpms for mailscanner, clamav and spamassasin? > There is a subscription based repo available from FSL: http://www.fsl.com/index.php/barricademx/mailscanner-repository D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

> How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is > connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the > mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but > I'm not having much luck. How would you tackle this problem? > Take a look at Netd

Re: [CentOS] local repo

On 27/05/2011 16:22, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > > When I am installing I use kickstart and have a line like: > repo --name=Updates > --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/ > and that works great for installing the OS. > > After that the machine reboots and I have it automa

Re: [CentOS] Will QA web site have CentOS 6.1 status?

On 19/07/2011 19:42, David Lemcoe wrote: > I haven't heard a single bit of news about CentOS 6.1, and that's a > little frustrating seeing how quick 5.1 was from 5.0... From the front page of http://centos.org/ "Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a Continous Rel

Re: [CentOS] Installing a .ko file?

On 10/04/2010 22:59, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. > FYI http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546 D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

On 16/04/2010 14:00, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

On 04/16/2010 04:23 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Daniel Bird > >> Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf >> fixed it. >> > Keep in mind that: > "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific > service, as lack of lock

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

> Can't you samba-export at the source instead of the nfs mount? Even if it > works > it seems like an inefficient way to do things. > Yes, that makes perfect sense and thats the second stage of our migration from the old E450 Solaris 8 box (which hosted everything via a single samba inst

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and Intel vPro?

On 16/11/2013 04:26, Lists wrote: > From what I've read, Intel's vPro allows for all of > these possibilities, although it does seem to be heavily Windows oriented. Does this help? https://communities.intel.com/community/vproexpert/blog/2011/11/03/intel-setup-and-configuration-service-72-designe

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5: NFS server crashes with list_add corruption errors

On 30/01/2014 11:24, Alessio Cecchi wrote: > he error is exactly like this: > > https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/166583 > | > > Does anyone know if the problem is solved and how? > Thanks That page lists the workaround if you log in, but no "resolution" as yet. Although there are internal B

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

On 31/01/2014 15:52, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go > looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a > motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price > (this is a US federal gov't agency, and

Re: [CentOS] [OT] how do I remove a battery

On 22/04/2014 21:08, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I've got an MSI K9N Platinum MS 7250 VER 1.1 > motherboard with a dead battery. > The battery mounts vertically: > http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/computer/battery.png > To me, the tab on the right would seem to need moving. > It does not want