[CentOS] EDAC error

2008-01-19 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello, I upgraded to CentOS 5.1 and everything went smoothly (Thanks for the awesome work!). But after rebooting, I get the following error: EDAC MC: Ver: 2.0.1 Nov 30 2007 EDAC e7xxx: error reporting device not found:vendor 8086 device 0x2541 (broken BIOS?) I found http://edacbugs.butter

Re: [CentOS] EDAC error

2008-01-28 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:46 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: It's safe to not load EDAC at all, but also safe to leave it loaded and ignore the error (I'd actually call it a warning). If the functionality is very important to your then you might want to do as EDAC suggests and investigate BIOS upgr

Re: [CentOS] crontab won't work

2009-10-30 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Oct 30, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Now here's what I have on the local backup server : [r...@grossebertha:~] # crontab -l 24 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/sauvegarde.sh You may have checked already, but make sure that crond is running, i.e. /sbin/service crond status. I get crond (pid

Re: [CentOS] Problem YUM Centos 5

2009-10-30 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Oct 30, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Adriano Frare wrote: Dear Friends, Today , I ran command yum update and I received follow error below. === BEGIN = Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 2

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-13 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:54 PM, James Rankin wrote: > For anyone else finding this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553492 > Here's a stupid question, can we install the rpm provided on the link above (see comment 12)? Or is the correct way to modify the local policy? Thanks, Di

Re: [CentOS] Closest Fedora to CentOS 4?

2008-04-18 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: Hi, I want to take a SRPM that is available for various versions of Fedora and rebuild it on a CentOS 4 system. I read from somewhere that RHEL 4 is based on Fedora Core 3, but can't find the article now. Somebody will correct me though

[CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello everyone, I was hoping to get recommendations on the proper way to test a RAID 1 hardware configuration. The controller is an Adaptec 2200S. I found an article, but not for this controller, that suggests to power off the system, pull one of the drives, boot the OS and power off aga

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Dianne Yumul
Thanks for the help Karanbir and Rainer. > That sounds quite silly - also going through reboots means downtime, > isnt that the sort of thing that raid1 was designed to protect against > anyway. I guess it would be silly :). I just wanted to make sure it was doing what it ought too. >> Have yo

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Dianne Yumul
Thanks Scott and Guy, I appreciate the advice/warning. I can't download it at the moment because the Adaptec site requires the serial number. I have to reboot and get it from the SMOR (Storage Manager on ROM) utility. Then I'll have to see if it's worth the trouble to install and run :) Wou

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Dianne Yumul
On May 28, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > If you feel you must test the functionality of the ability of the > RAID1 > to recover from a failed drive, the power down, remove drive, boot, > power down, replace drive, boot process will test the ability of the > system to re-sync the driv

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Dianne Yumul
On May 28, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: what sort of license is this distributed under ? I'm sorry but I'm not sure. It's software that supposedly comes with it when you buy it. But the server was assembled by somebody else and they probably neglected to include the CD when they

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Dianne Yumul
On May 28, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > The thing you need to know about RAIDs at runtime is whether or not > one > or more of the drives have already failed since their job is to hide > this fact from you but you still need to replace it before you lose > the > other one and your d

Re: [CentOS] Odd SELinux messages during+after 5.3 upgrade (system_mail_t and postfix_postdrop_t access rpm_var_lib_t)

2009-04-16 Thread Dianne Yumul
Dan Mensom wrote: Does anyone know what these accesses are? Also, on a related note, is it normally best practices to 'setenforce 0' during a 5.x upgrade? I also got these type of messages. I just did a yum update from 5.2. Output from audit2allow are as follows: allow useradd_t rpm_

Re: [CentOS] Odd INFO "120 seconds" in logs for 2.6.18-194.3.1

2010-06-08 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello, I'm getting the same thing on one of our servers since upgrading to CentOS 5.5: INFO: task pdflush:21249 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. pdflush D 1EE1 3540 21249 11 21226 (L-TLB)

Re: [CentOS] Odd INFO "120 seconds" in logs for 2.6.18-194.3.1

2010-06-08 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Jun 8, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Dianne Yumul wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting the same thing on one of our servers since upgrading to CentOS > 5.5: > > INFO: task pdflush:21249 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs