[CentOS] CentOS5 w winbind samba integrated w Win2k8 AD

2011-11-30 Thread james
Is anyone out there using CentOS5 integrated correctly with a Windows 2008 domain so that active directory authentication can be used for samba shares? I have tried the newer RPM's from SERNET up to 3.5 and 3.6 without any luck. The usual behavior is wbinfo returns the active directory users an

[CentOS] Server unresponsive until reboot, memory exhausted

2010-12-28 Thread james
at is consuming all that memory. I know of the server-status module for apache but that is only useful if you can get to the server during the crash (I can't) and doesn't have any historical data. The issue occurs seemingly randomly, last time in the middle of the night with little or no user t

Re: [CentOS] Server unresponsive until reboot, memory exhausted

2010-12-28 Thread james
>Do you have everything *else* updated? And what kind of web service >are you running? >There's a lot of third party freeware and commercial tools that was >not written with any kind of resource management in mind, and which >may require a simple web server restart on a regular baris to free >memo

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-22 Thread James
On 4/22/2010 6:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > jchase wrote: > >> We currently have a MD3000i with an iSCSI LUN shared out to our apache >> web server. We are going to add another apache web server into the mix >> using LVS to load balance, however, I am curious how well iSCSI >> handles file loc

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread James
> http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/doc/nfscookbook.pdf > > I think it'd be much easier if you just replicate the data between > the servers with rsync or something. GFS sounds like way overkill > for a couple of web servers. > Maybe you're right that GFS would be overkill -- I know you have t

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-27 Thread James
> Web servers are mostly read-only, so unless your web servers are going > to do a lot of writing to shared storage I would simply use rsync to a > local disk in each server, or use NFS, even NFS and heartbeat for > redundancy will be 100 times simpler to setup and maintain. > > GFS/OCFS2/Gluster/

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 - VMware Fencing in Cluster

2010-05-19 Thread James
I'm trying to use the newly integrated fence_vmware script within luci. I add it as a shared device and assume it is setup right (it is added as a device but it doesn't seem to do any connection test). When I try and add my shared fencing device as the primary device to a node it says it is upd

[CentOS] 3TB External USB Drive isn't recognized

2013-08-12 Thread james
We have a 3TB external USB drive that I am trying to attach to some CentOS5 servers. I have tried an older Dell PE1950 and a newer R310 but neither one seems to be able to read the drive. It works no problem on windows servers/workstations and I was able to format with NTFS. I know there are di

[CentOS] Debugging I/O Errors that abort the journal

2012-10-18 Thread james
I got a I/O error on one of my disks that caused the journal to abort (error below) and be mounted in read only mode. I rebooted and the file system check ran automatically and resolved the error. I did some searching around and couldn't find a likely cause (the disk is a virtual disk, shared f

Re: [CentOS] File system cache corruption with CentOS4?

2007-12-06 Thread James Pearson
Dan Halbert wrote: James Pearson wrote: Just wondering if anyone else has come across an issue where files cached in memory appear to become 'corrupted' - for example, on one workstation, I've just had the issue: There is a kernel bug for this kind of problem but it is for A

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 kernel crash on 2.6.23.9

2007-12-10 Thread James Pearson
twice. Funny thing is it happens when I am NOT using the machine. Any thoughts? Have you tried running fsck over the disks? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PXE problem after CentOS reboot

2008-01-07 Thread James Pearson
d console redirection over SOL with PXE - the PXE boot would reset the NIC and break the SOL connection - so we gave up and decided to separate IPMI from PXE and the OS James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 and Xen HVM guest networking problem

2008-01-14 Thread James Fidell
rface (the driver doesn't load in the domU because it can't find a suitable device). Is there anything obvious I might have done wrong or missed out? There are no ethernet-related or network device errors in the logs that I can see. James _

Re: [CentOS] NIS and NIS+

2008-01-22 Thread James Pearson
Jason Pyeron wrote: How can I tell if I am using NIS+? I would like the data to be encrypted on the lan. I don't think NIS+ is 'supported' on Linux - see: <http://www.linux-nis.org/nisplus/> James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] discrepancy between what quota reports and what du reports (second time post)

2008-02-19 Thread James Pearson
stead of the '-exec ls -l' You should also run the find from the top level of this file system James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS5.1 PHP 5.2 RPMs?

2008-03-07 Thread James Fidell
Is there a PHP 5.2 build for CentOS5.1 anywhere? Unfortunately I need a fix for a SOAP bug that is present in the current 5.1.6 release. James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5.1 PHP 5.2 RPMs?

2008-03-10 Thread James Fidell
Karanbir Singh wrote: James Fidell wrote: Is there a PHP 5.2 build for CentOS5.1 anywhere? Unfortunately I need a fix for a SOAP bug that is present in the current 5.1.6 release. Not yet, but we are working on it - there should be something there in the next few days. Will this be as part

[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 install via PXE Failure

2008-03-12 Thread James Gray
4.rpm, and sourcing a real package for sysklogd-1.4.1-39.2.x86_64.rpm. These last two attempts have still resulted in the installer claiming the RPM is corrupt, not available etc. This is killing us :( The odd thing is the James -- There will be big changes for you but you will be happy. #

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 install via PXE Failure

2008-03-12 Thread James Gray
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:11:42 pm James Gray wrote: > This is killing us :( The odd thing is the The last part, after the :(, was not supposed for the e-mail...sometimes sloppy focus is a little sloppier than my fingers...or maybe the other way around ;) James smime.p7s Description: S/M

Re: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread James Gray
e others available in SVN (at least that's my experience anyway). Good luck :) -- James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 install via PXE Failure

2008-03-13 Thread James Gray
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:24:39 am Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 5:11pm, James Gray wrote > > > The installer starts, loads the kickstart script (attached), successfully > > verifies the installation media, checks the dependencies for the packages > >

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 did not detect marvell e-net controller

2008-03-28 Thread James Fidell
whilst it appears to work ok at 100Mb/s, I get a huge number of framing errors at 1000Mb/s. I've not tried enabling jumbo frames yet though. James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 did not detect marvell e-net controller

2008-03-28 Thread James Fidell
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: James Fidell wrote: John wrote: There's a more recent driver available than the one on the Asus site. Google found it for me. Unfortunately I can't recall were I downloaded it from now. Unfortunately whilst it appears to work ok at 100Mb/s, I get a huge

Re: [CentOS] alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-31 Thread James Pearson
.1.14.el5/build/include/linux/utsname.h (which is really under /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5-x86_64) Where does the output of configure say about this? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 did not detect marvell e-net controller

2008-04-01 Thread James Fidell
ds in and test those on the gig-e switch. I'll also try dropping back to the release on the Asus site, though it does look like it's just an earlier release of the same driver as the Marvell one, rather than a different codebase altogether. James _

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread James Pearson
True Drop-in Exchange Alternative' - I believe parts of it are based on Postfix and Zimbra. I've never used it, but would be interested in anyone that has ... as I'm looking for something that can work with Exchange, but without the '2nd class citizen' approach that Exc

[CentOS] GFS/LVM/RAID1 recovery question

2007-07-23 Thread James Fidell
. However, my google-foo is weak today and I can't find any information on how to get LVM to tag the broken half of the mirror as failed and then how to get it to resynchronise the mirrors once the disks are replaced. Can anyone explain how to do this? Is it even possible?

Re: [CentOS] GFS/LVM/RAID1 recovery question

2007-07-23 Thread James Fidell
Tru Huynh wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:07:57PM +0100, James Fidell wrote: > ... >> lvcreate -m 1 ... /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd > > or use pvreate /dev/md0 (md raid1 mirror of sda/sdb/sdc)? AIUI, MD isn't cluster-{aware,safe} though, so I could end up with all t

Re: [CentOS] The CentOS-Plus kernel

2007-08-08 Thread James Gray
d the standard centos kernels. These modules are newer XFS code from SGI than the standard 2.6.9 modules included in the CentOS kernel. ... They also include the userspace tools for the supported file systems too. HTH, James ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread James Pearson
Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: Thanks for response. On Friday 10 August 2007 14:45:31 James Pearson wrote: The 'noarch' rpms normally don't build anything - so they could be a good starting point - the crontabs spec file is a simple example - although if you are generating platfor

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread James Pearson
specific RPMS, you won't want the 'BuildArchitectures: noarch' line. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dns propagation problem

2007-08-12 Thread James Gray
en you have a firewall that's matching the source IP of TCP/53 connections (zone transfers always happen over TCP). But seeing as the OP can refresh the zones after hosing the slave's cache, I doubt this is a network problem. Overall, Dns is easy to debug in the log files… Here, here :) -

Re: [CentOS] Help with nis password changes

2007-08-30 Thread James Pearson
NIS password has not been changed on the server. > > The server was rebooted, but that didn't help. > > What am I missing? I assume yppasswdd is running on the server? Is there anything in /var/log/messages on the server? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] controlling module load order

2007-08-31 Thread James Pearson
Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a method to control module load order? I want to ensure that the e1000 module loads before the forcedeth driver. The following might work in /etc/modprobe.conf: install forcedeth /sbin/modprobe e1000; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install forcedeth James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] MD5 and NIS

2007-09-11 Thread James Pearson
be passed about. If Linux can use MD5 NIS passwords, then you might still have problems if you also have non-Linux NIS clients. I guess the easiest way to test is to generate an MD5 passwd string and update your NIS source passwd file for a test user and see what happens ...

Re: [CentOS] Trying to create a custom initrd that will work with PXE Booting

2007-10-18 Thread James Pearson
nt to try the RHEL4 kernels at <http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/> - these will become (with possibly some more tweaks) the 4.6 kernels They might have e1000 updates you need. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-18 Thread James Pearson
et up slave servers. NIS clients shouldn't need to do anything special on clients to bind to a server, all that needs to be done is to set up /etc/yp.conf James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5 centosplus kernel + kmod-gfs

2007-10-19 Thread James Fidell
5) is already installed Should it work, or is there a separate centosplus build that I've not found, or do I need to roll my own? James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-23 Thread James Pearson
at is the output of 'rpcinfo -p' on the NIS clients and server? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
ewall setup on the server and/or clients? What does 'rpcinfo -p' give on the server and clients? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Pearson wrote: Do you have any firewall setup on the server and/or clients? Disabled all around. What does 'rpcinfo -p' give on the server and clients? Exactly what the referenced URL says should be running. It would still b

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
the problem via google, and am open to any responses people have here... What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file contain? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Pearson wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I did discover tcpdump produces an ICMP host unreachable error during ypbind, but does NOT do so when ypbind is not running. I also was reminded the firewall on the server is running, but I had these

[CentOS] yum update question and kernel-smp-devel

2007-10-25 Thread James Pearson
i.e. I end up with multiple versions of the kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-smp packages, but only the latest kernel-smp-devel What do I need to do to get the kernel-smp-devel RPMS to 'install' instead of 'update'? Thanks James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] yum update question and kernel-smp-devel

2007-10-25 Thread James Pearson
Johnny Hughes wrote: James Pearson wrote: I have a local yum repository for CentOS4, and from time to time I add new (custom) kernel RPMS. However, when I run 'yum update' on an SMP box, yum 'installs' the new kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-smp packages, but 'upda

Re: [CentOS] Firfox plugins but no sound

2007-11-12 Thread James Pearson
> firefox using > > > nspluginwrapper. I get the movies but there is no sound. > > > > Make sure the 32-bit alsa-lib is installed. > > alsa-lib.i3861.0.6-5.RHEL4 installed Can you playback sound using other 32 bit apps? e.g. using

Re: [CentOS] Firfox plugins but no sound

2007-11-15 Thread James Pearson
Robert Spangler wrote: On Mon November 12 2007 15:54, James Pearson wrote: On 12/11/2007, Robert Spangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon November 12 2007 13:30, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Robert Spangler wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Firfox plugins but no sound

2007-11-16 Thread James Pearson
iver/> I have my own alsa-lib and alsa-utils 1.0.15 RPMS - but you could probably use the ATrpms versions as well. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kernel-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL not booting (lvm? 3ware?)

2007-11-30 Thread James Pearson
em has a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller Model: 9500S-4LP Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052, Ports: 4. Anyone seen this? Does your 2.6.9-55.0.12 initrd image(s) contain the module for this controller? James Pearson ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Persist perms on devices after reboots

2007-11-30 Thread James Pearson
, 49 Nov 30 10:40 /dev/emcpowerd1 any thoughts? man udev You probably need to create a suitable config file in /etc/udev/permissions.d James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Archive search + xen

2007-12-03 Thread James Wilde
a problem with a foreign-language keyboard in the guest installation (which is also Centos5). Thanks in advance. //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] File system cache corruption with CentOS4?

2007-12-05 Thread James Pearson
entOS4.4 kernel - it includes a few small non-standard patches - but nothing that touches the VFS layer (AFAIK). The issue occurs on i686 or x86_64 boxes. All machines have at least 4GB of memory. They also use the nVidia binary-only module. Anyone seen issues like this? Thanks James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] Unable to Compile a LAN Card Driver on Centos4.4

2007-06-15 Thread James Pearson
SMP Disabled * An updated driver for that card went into the 2.6.21 kernel - see the thread at: <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116560940703099&w=2> I doubt very much that the 2.6.21 driver will work 'as is' with the 2.6.9-xx.EL ker

Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-15 Thread James Pearson
s/100:00:00 ps -ef Allother active users show the user. Ideas? The username is probably more than 8 characters James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] network raid file system/server

2007-06-19 Thread James Fidell
xport /md0 to other servers using GFS. Do I have to hand-craft my own scripts to start the md devices at boot time and get the filesystems mounted before starting GFS, or is there already a way to do that? (I don't have a problem with doing so, but if there&#

Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-19 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather than the user (alpha) on the ps command. The /etc/passwd file shows: theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid: 500

Re: [CentOS] ipmi regression in 4.5?

2007-06-21 Thread James Pearson
use of this issue ... the comment is the change log is: - Added patch to fix sensors problems on Woodcrest (#228679) I guess you could rebuild the OpenIPMI without that patch James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ipmi regression in 4.5?

2007-06-22 Thread James Pearson
Gavin Carr wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:13:56AM +0100, James Pearson wrote: Gavin Carr wrote: I've been monitoring CPU temperature on a few Dell SC1435s running CentOS4 via OpenIPMI and 'ipmitool sdr'. It's been working very nicely, but the upgrade to 4.5 not so lo

[CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread James Bensley
x27; ? **Note: I have used sudo to replicate permissions through the directy structure: [user2@host test]$ sudo ls -l folder1/ drw-r- 2 user1 user2 4096 Jan 24 06:49 sub-folder -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread James Bensley
over smb so I could set up a create mask but other folders accessed by users1 not via smb (ssh, rsync etc) I still want user2 to have read only access. Can you implement smb style create masks at a file system level? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of pe

Re: [CentOS] Basic Permissions Questions

2011-01-26 Thread James Bensley
Thanks to all for your replies; the ability to set the group ID (SGID) was the solution I needed, thanks very much guys :D -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread James Bensley
Hello all, I've been reading this thread and have a question. I would like to set up passwordless ssh between two servers for some automated tasks but I don't like the paswordless key's option. How can I supply a passphrase when generating my keys but still have this process auto

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread James Bensley
lf. Ah yes, I see thats what Nico also suggested. Thanks you two, this is all up and working just great :D -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? _

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
running on 6.0 will run on 6.X. James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Package updates for 5.4?

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
workmanager service and enabling the old network one... In fact on a server no point even installing the networkmanager packages... However that is pretty much OT from the original question and point of this thread which is that from 5.4 to 5.6 (and onwards) there will

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 x64

2011-01-27 Thread James Hogarth
On 27 January 2011 15:06, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > For those of you that have been using the ext4 technology preview on CentOS > 5.5, how has it panned out? Does it perform as expected? How do you feel the > stability, creation of the FS and the administration of it is? Ideas and > comments

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread James Hogarth
Work is currently ongoing on QA for 5.6 ... once that is out then you'll start seeing the other updates that depend on that. James ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread James Hogarth
> > Ah, so that's what it is.  I had kind of assumed everyone had been > distracted by work on CentOS 6, until I saw the recent massive update > to CentOS 4. > Centos6 is pretty much on hold until 5.6 is out the door due to the number of systems it has an impact on (ie no existing C6 systems to up

[CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread James Bensley
on another VM, browsed the file system and delete /etc/shadow would this have wiped all users passwords meaning I could regain access again? (This is past tense because its sorted now but I'm curious if this would have worked? And if not, what could I have done?). -- Regard

[CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread James Bensley
d: command not found (This is the same for my normal user and when logged in as root) -How to set/change an existing users home folder path -How to list all users -How to list all groups Sorry if this seems trivial but I am actually stuck on this :) -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread James Bensley
passwords meaning I could > > regain access again? > > No, it would not have. It would have resulted in NOONE having access. > > What you could have done is chroot to the secondary device on the other > VM and then simply reset the root password with the passwd c

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread James Bensley
On 2 Feb 2011 16:36, wrote: > > Well, if you could get on the system at all, and had sudo privileges, no > problem. > > mark No sudo priv's, remote VM so ssh only to a stanard user not in sudoers. --James. (This email was sent

Re: [CentOS] Does anybody know a PeerGuardian like app?

2011-02-03 Thread James Nguyen
a happy christmas! > > > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- James H. Nguyen CallFire :: Systems Architect http://www.callfire.com 1.949.625.4263

Re: [CentOS] Was, Re: CentOS 6.0 alpha testers, is features (actually syslogd)

2011-02-05 Thread James Pearson
log config should do that same as the default config settings for syslog I believe RHEL6/CentOS6 uses rsyslog by default James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] premature question on 5.6

2011-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
other (or a full backup of disk then restore all the files) due to existing files on the ext3 system not gaining the benefits from ext4 - only new files. Personally I'm skipping such an extensive change until Centos 6 is due and I'll need to test on that anyway - and can verify an appropria

[CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
d? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >>I've been trying to work out how the various sound modules get loaded at >>boot time on CentOS 5 - but I can't find anything obvious under /etc/rc.d/ >> >>CentOS 4 did this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - but t

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
probe and where in the startup sequence is this done? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 19:43 +0000, James Pearson wrote: > > >>I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work >>out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence >>is this done? > > > I told y

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-08 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work > out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence > is this done? After adding various debug echo's to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, the sound modules are load

[CentOS] write-back cache question

2011-02-11 Thread James Chase
I have a perc5i (and perc5e) raid controller in my poweredge 2970 running centos 5.5. The RAID controller config is set for write-back policy, which I can confirm by checking in OpenManage. I also called Dell and ran their reporting application and had them double check to make sure everything

[CentOS] Are some CentOS package out of date compared to RH?

2011-02-14 Thread James Chase
According to the RH5 Errata, the most recent package for scsi-target-utils is scsi-target-utils-1.0.8-0.el5.x86_64.rpm However the latest update via yum on CentOS is labeled scsi-target-utils-0.0-6.20091205snap.el5_5.3 Additionally, the package info says it is not compatible with iSCSI yet, wh

Re: [CentOS] Are some CentOS package out of date compared to RH?

2011-02-14 Thread James Chase
> probably due to the fact that centos 5.6 hasn't been released yet, any > packages released by RH in 5.6 and afterwards aren't in centos yet. Looks like you are correct -- I didn't realize RH5.6 had been released. Thanks for that. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-15 Thread James Bensley
very much :D Despite being told here the answer, I found it myself when logged in as root, 'which' showed me the full path, like 'locate' so logging back in as my normal user I was able to 'sudo /usr/sbin/useradd '. Many thanks all! -- James. http://www.jamesbe

Re: [CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-15 Thread James Pearson
similar as above as a non-root user: mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 :: mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
swd and /etc/shadow files and by deleting /etc/shadow and using pwconv to recreate shadow and the same for /etc/groups, deleting gshadow recreating it with grpconv will solve the problem but I still can't login as the web dev user. Any ideas anyone? -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ T

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
p and /etc/gshadow. Do you mean duplicate entries? If so there are none of those. > Do you have other users who > can still log in or not? There is only the root and web dev user on this box. Thanks for your input Nico :) --James. (This email was sent from a mobile device) ___

Re: [CentOS] write-back cache question

2011-02-16 Thread James Chase
ld just be good to know it is indicated as functional in this way for others so I can have something to go on with Dell. On 2/11/2011 10:00 AM, James Chase wrote: > I have a perc5i (and perc5e) raid controller in my poweredge 2970 > running centos 5.5. The RAID controller config is se

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
er= rhost=1.2.3.4 user=webdevuser /var/log/secure: Feb 16 13:53:50 server1882 sshd[16225]: Failed password for futuread from :::1.2.3.4 port 1536 ssh2 On 16 February 2011 13:08, Kwan Lowe wrote: > A lot of things can cause this, including a full /var filesystem :/ Nope, only %75 full (

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
a > "mere mortal" (not root) login, try: > >   su - > > as that may give you some feedback. something like having an invalid > shell will cause what you're seeing. As root, if I 'su - webdevuser' it doesn't prompt me for a password and drops me

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
y voodoo magic here? Perhaps I should change the password for the webmaster account (this doesn't have one according to the passwd file), so I could 'su - webmaster', set a password and then try and login as the webdev user? Or is this possibly going to make matters worse? -- James

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
don't normally allow root ssh, I would have probably installed fail2ban, set up SELinux blah blah blah and many other things but this isn't my VPS, I've just been tasked with it so this is the way it is! :s -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
pam.d stuff :) cat /etc/nsswitch.conf SNIP. passwd: files shadow: files group: files -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread James Bensley
I'm just glad its over, thanks everyone for your support :D -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

[CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-16 Thread James Smallacombe
We have about 50 CentOS servers with software RAID level 1 (mirroring). Each week, we swap out one of the drives (the one in the second of four hot-swap bays, only the first two of which contain drives) on each server and take them offsite for safekeeping. The problem is, the kernel seemingly ran

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-16 Thread James Smallacombe
> At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:00:27 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> We have about 50 CentOS servers with software RAID level 1 (mirroring). >> Each week, we swap out one of the drives (the one in the second of four >> hot-swap bays, only the first two of which contain drives) on each >

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-16 Thread James Smallacombe
> On 2/16/2011 12:09 PM, compdoc wrote: >>> The problem is, the kernel seemingly randomly switches between >>> /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc for these devices. >> >> I use the UUID in fstab rather than '/dev/sda', etc > > In this case it would be something you give to mdadm to add a device > back to a set.

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-16 Thread James Smallacombe
> At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:38:53 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> > At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:00:27 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list >> > wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> We have about 50 CentOS servers with software RAID level 1 >> (mirroring). >> >> Each week, we swap out one of the drives (th

Re: [CentOS] write-back cache question

2011-02-17 Thread James Chase
> You can verify your cache policy with MegaCLI tool. Check your output > from `MegaCli -CfgDsply -a0' command. > What a cool tool. It looks like it should be active according to MegaCli, though strange that Scott sees his drives in write-back mode via CentOS and I do not and I also have these h

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-18 Thread James Bensley
No --James. (This email was sent from a mobile device) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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