[CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
le? The server is in use and presently doesn't have any memory problems, and while it's not mission critical server I'd rather not mess it up with any ill-thought out tinkering. If anyone can give me some advice on this I'd be very grateful. Thanks Ian Masters __

[CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
ion, using the GUI install method. Any ideas on that? I'd prefer not to be in this situation again. Thanks Ian Masters ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
John R Pierce wrote: > what does > > # swapon -s > > show? According to 'man swapon', swapon -s means: Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". Not available before Linux 2.1.25. > for example, one of my systems shows... > > # swapon -s > F

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Masters
Christopher Chan wrote: > Maybe you configured the swap lv but forgot to tell the installer to use > it as swap. Well that's entirely possible. The logical volume manager had me fairly confused. I would have thought the installer might have told me that I had not set its file system type ... ___

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Masters
Christopher Chan wrote: > Well...it won't do that...but it should raise a flag on no swap being > configured after you were done partitioning and assigning/setting > filesystems. As far as I can remember there was no such 'flag'. That's precisely the kind of thing that would have made me jittery a

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Masters
Christopher Chan wrote: > Was it Centos 5 that you installed? IIRC, the Centos/RHEL 4 installer > would have asked you about the lack of swap assigned. I have only done > one Centos 5 installation and I did not miss telling it to use the swap > lv as swap so I cannot say whether the Centos 5 instal

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Masters
houldn't the fstab entry be: /dev/VolGroup00/swap swapswapdefaults 0 0 Just want to double-check before I dive in. Thanks Ian Masters ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-30 Thread Ian Masters
7044 0 30876 350164 -/+ buffers/cache: 821683878084 Swap: 2031608 02031608 Thanks to the list and Nate in particular for the assistance. Ian Masters ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

[CentOS] No "you have new mail" message on login

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Masters
Hello I have a few servers running CentOS release 5.4 (Final) and none of them are displaying a "you have new mail" message on login. I've asked Professor Google but he is strangely silent. Have I neglected an important setting? I thought this was a default on most linux ditributions. Any help m

[CentOS] No "you have new mail" message on login

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Masters
Hello I have a few servers running CentOS release 5.4 (Final) and none of them are displaying a "you have new mail" message on login. I've asked Professor Google but he is strangely silent. Have I neglected an important setting? I thought this was a default on most linux ditributions. Any help m

Re: [CentOS] No "you have new mail" message on login

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Masters
To answer my own mail ... I've never had to do this before but this is what did the trick to show mail on login and ssh login: /etc/pam.d/login - add the following line: sessionoptional pam_mail.so standard /etc/pam.d/sshd - add the following line: sessionoptional pam_mail.so sta