[CentOS] Unable to get software using Yum

2010-03-31 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I am new to CentOS and been into Linux for about 3 months now. I first started off with fedora and also trying my hands on CentOS now. Basically i used yum to download softwares on the fedora box. I mainly require the snmp agent for my linux boxes so as to test my network management product

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get software using Yum

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks John. Actually had to use "yum clean all" and then used yum to install the net-snmp package and it worked great. Good to go with my testing. Appreciate your help in this regard. Thanks Jatin On 4/1/2010 11:39 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote:

[CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I wanted to download and install the net-snmp package. Usually on my other CentOS boxes i use the following command to do it: yum install net-snmp I was able to successfully install net-snmp on 4 of my CentOS boxes but not on one of them. It reports me the following error message: [r...@lo

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
//mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Thanks Jatin On 4/2/2010 9:08 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: > Hi > &

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
through this then i can replicate the configuration from the above host to the hosts that are not getting connected to the internet. Thanks Jatin On 4/2/2010 10:28 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I wanted to

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Ok, i figured out the issue , Did some google on it and found this useful link on usage of proxy. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-proxy-environment-variable/ Thanks Kwan , Thanks kwan for questioning me on the proxy usage. Thanks Jatin On 4/2/2010 10:51 AM, Jatin Davey wrote

Re: [CentOS] Could not retrieve mirror list while using yum command

2010-04-01 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks Cornel. Thanks Jatin On 4/2/2010 11:22 AM, cornel panceac wrote: 2010/4/2 Jatin Davey mailto:jasho...@cisco.com>> Ok, i figured out the issue , Did some google on it and found this useful link on usage of proxy. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set

[CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Jatin Davey
How do i know which NTP server is my linux box contacting to synchronize its time with that of the server ? Thanks Jatin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Viewing the NTP Server configured

2010-04-15 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks for all the support , i found that i dont have the ntp daemon running on my box which will contact the server. once i have it i could use the support provided. Thanks Jatin On 4/15/2010 2:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote: > >> How do i know which NTP

[CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All Yesterday i had installed wireshark on my centos box which does not have the GUI , It is actually a hardened box. I installed the tool using the following command: yum install wireshark After installation i dont know how to proceed further in capturing the packets. I basically want to

Re: [CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread Jatin Davey
Is the installation of tcpdump similar to wireshark , which is : yum install tcpdump ? How about getting started with it , Any documentation available for it ? Thanks Jatin On 4/22/2010 5:30 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 22 April 2010 12:57, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Hi All >

Re: [CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks James, I will install it on my box. Thanks for the support. Thanks Jatin On 4/22/2010 5:40 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 22 April 2010 13:03, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Is the installation of tcpdump similar to wireshark , >> >> which is : yum install tcpdump ?

Re: [CentOS] Using Wireshark on CentOS without UI

2010-04-22 Thread Jatin Davey
Thanks Michel I would explore more on the tshark usage. Thanks for the support. Thanks Jatin On 4/22/2010 5:31 PM, Michel van Deventer wrote: > Hi, > > >> Yesterday i had installed wireshark on my centos box which does not have >> the GUI , It is actually a hardened box. I installed the tool

[CentOS] Total Threads used in a system

2010-04-28 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I know we can get the total number of processes running in the system using the 'ps -A' command but is it possible to get the total number of threads running in the system ? Is this information exposed using any of the MIB's ? Thanks Jatin ___ Cen

[CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

2010-05-11 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I am using CentOS 5.3 and after installing the OS i scrolled to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory and i could not find any repositories being present there. So i googled a bit on adding the repositories and found the link: http://www.osresources.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=11&id=6&artlang

Re: [CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

2010-05-11 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/12/2010 11:49 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am using CentOS 5.3 and after installing the OS i scrolled to the >> /etc/yum.repos.d directory and i could not find any repositories being >> present there. So i googled a bit

Re: [CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

2010-05-12 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/12/2010 1:33 PM, Tom G. Christensen wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am using CentOS 5.3 and after installing the OS i scrolled to the >> /etc/yum.repos.d directory and i could not find any repositories being >> present there. So i googled

Re: [CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

2010-05-12 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/12/2010 12:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:18:59PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> I follwed the link that you have given but in it the explanation is >> given assuming that the Base repo is already present in the >> /etc/yum.repos.d d

Re: [CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

2010-05-12 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/12/2010 2:48 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:27:56PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> [r...@sc-devld-1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp >> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin >> This system

Re: [CentOS] Adding Repositories and using yum to download packages

2010-05-12 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/12/2010 3:11 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:55:49PM +0530, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> [r...@sc-devld-1 etc]# rpm -q centos-release >> package centos-release is not installed >> > Not CentOS :) > > >> Also i fou

[CentOS] Naming of a Java Process in Linux

2010-05-23 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi Not a specific question on CentOS but in general about java processes running on Linux boxes. I have a couple of java processes running on my linux boxes , They basically form a component of a bigger application. My point of interest is to monitor the resource usage of the java processes ru

[CentOS] Unable to execute a script , Permission denied

2010-05-25 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I have a linux box which has CentOS running in it. I logged into the box using root and wrote a script in the /home/proc_threads directory. saved the file and quit. I changed the file permissions such that any user could execute it using the "chmod 777 filename" command. When i log out and

Re: [CentOS] Unable to execute a script , Permission denied

2010-05-25 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/25/2010 6:20 PM, Jakub Jedelsky wrote: On 25.5.2010 14:27, Jatin Davey wrote: Hi I have a linux box which has CentOS running in it. I logged into the box using root and wrote a script in the /home/proc_threads directory. saved the file and quit. I changed the file permissions such that

Re: [CentOS] Unable to execute a script , Permission denied

2010-05-25 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/25/2010 6:44 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Here is the script that i am trying to execute as a non-root user: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> ps -C java -o thcount> /home/proc_threads/tempfile >> awk ' { total += $1 } END { print total }

[CentOS] Running yum shows errors

2010-07-13 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I am getting the following errors when i try to use yum to install the net-snmp paclages. [r...@sc1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sy

[CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi Users I am using RHEL 6.5 on my server. From top command i can see that the processors in my server are spending a lot of time on wait for I/O. I can see high percentage in terms of 30-50% on "wa" time. Here is the df output about the disk space in my system: ** [root@localhost im

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/29/2015 4:50 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/28/2015 04:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Could someone point me on how to improve the disk I/O on my server and reduce the wait time on I/O. Start by identifying your disk and controller. Assuming that this is a single SATA disk: # smartctl

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/28/2015 11:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/28/2015 4:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: I am using RHEL 6.5 on my server. From top command i can see that the processors in my server are spending a lot of time on wait for I/O. I can see high percentage in terms of 30-50% on "wa" time

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/30/2015 1:53 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/29/2015 05:07 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Yes , it is a SATA disk. I am not sure of the speed. Can you tell me how to find out this information ? Additionally we are using RAID 10 configuration with 4 disks. What RAID controller are you using

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-01 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/30/2015 9:44 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/29/2015 7:21 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: [root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep RAID 05:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] (rev 02) to get info out of those, you need to install MegaCli64 from LSI Logic

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/2/2015 10:32 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/1/2015 8:25 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: On 2/2/2015 9:25 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/1/2015 7:31 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: I ran your script and here is the output for it: Start of the Output*** [root@localhost bin]# lsi

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/3/2015 10:00 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/2/2015 8:11 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: disk 252:1 | 0-0-0 | 9XG7TNQVST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:2 | 0-0-1 | 9XG4M4X3ST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:3 | 0-1-1 | 9XG4LY7JST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:4 | 0-1

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/3/2015 10:44 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/2/2015 8:52 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: So , You dont think that any configuration changes like increasing the number of volumes or anything else will help in reducing the I/O wait time ? not by much. it might reduce the overhead if you use LVM

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/3/2015 11:06 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 02/02/2015 08:52 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: So , You dont think that any configuration changes like increasing the number of volumes or anything else will help in reducing the I/O wait time ? No, because that won't change the number of heads

[CentOS] Cluster gets stopped

2015-04-24 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I am using a two node cluster to achieve high availability. I am basically testing a scenario where in if i shutdown my node (node-1) then the other node (node-2) should start functioning like node-1. Currently what i am observing is that the entire cluster gets into "Stopped" state. Her

[CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All My guest is a CentOS 5.4 VM: [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/*release CentOS release 5.4 (Final) I wanted to know if the virtio drivers on this guest are stable.

Re: [CentOS] VirtIO drivers and CentOS 5.4(Final)

2015-05-06 Thread Jatin Davey
On 5/6/2015 1:18 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 06.05.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Jatin Davey : My guest is a CentOS 5.4 VM: Best practice: update to the latest OS version: # cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.11 (Final) [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu

[CentOS] Gracefully powering off system in case of power failure

2015-07-03 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi I am using the system as shown below. * [root@localhost sbin]# cat /etc/*release LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphi cs-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Re: [CentOS] Gracefully powering off system in case of power failure

2015-07-04 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/4/2015 12:27 PM, g wrote: On 07/04/15 01:27, Jatin Davey wrote: <> In case of power failure on this server , how can i make the system to shutdown gracefully so that it unmounts the file-system and cleans up the required buffers. My server does have a battery backup so it will h

Re: [CentOS] Gracefully powering off system in case of power failure

2015-07-04 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/4/2015 1:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 7/4/2015 12:28 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: My server supports ACPI 4.0 standard , Will that be helpful ? does `init 0` as a root command cause it to gracefully shut down and power off ? thats all the ACPI support you need. [Jatin] Yes, init 0

Re: [CentOS] Gracefully powering off system in case of power failure

2015-07-04 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/4/2015 1:32 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: On 7/4/2015 1:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 7/4/2015 12:28 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: My server supports ACPI 4.0 standard , Will that be helpful ? does `init 0` as a root command cause it to gracefully shut down and power off ? thats all the ACPI

Re: [CentOS] Gracefully powering off system in case of power failure

2015-07-04 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/4/2015 1:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 7/4/2015 1:02 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: [Jatin] I am still reading through the documentation of my server to find out the battery backup in it. Is there any command within the OS that i can use to find out this information ? I've never heard

[CentOS] Bonds & Bridge best practices

2015-07-08 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All I have two bond interfaces namely, bond0 and bond1. bond0 has two ethernet interfaces associated with it and bond1 also has two ethernet interfaces associated with it. Now i create a bridge interface namely br20 (20 being the VLAN) and assign it a IP Address , subnet mask and the defa

[CentOS] Optimum Block Size to use

2015-08-18 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All We use CentOS 6.6 for our application. I have profiled the application and find that we have a heavy requirement in terms of Disk writes. On an average when our application operates at a certain load i can observe that the disk writes / second is around 2 Mbps (Average). The block siz

Re: [CentOS] Optimum Block Size to use

2015-08-19 Thread Jatin Davey
On 8/19/2015 1:54 PM, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Jatin Davey wrote: Hi All We use CentOS 6.6 for our application. I have profiled the application and find that we have a heavy requirement in terms of Disk writes. On an average when our application operates at a certain load i

Re: [CentOS] Optimum Block Size to use

2015-08-19 Thread Jatin Davey
On 8/19/2015 4:17 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 19.08.2015 um 10:24 schrieb John Hodrien : On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Jatin Davey wrote: Hi All We use CentOS 6.6 for our application. I have profiled the application and find that we have a heavy requirement in terms of Disk writes. On an average when

[CentOS] Static routing on CentOS

2014-02-25 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All I have two hosts. Host A and Host B Host A routing table [root@localhost ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 172.29.110.0172.29.109.1255.255.255.0 UG0 00 eth0 172.

[CentOS] Balancing IRQs

2014-07-28 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi All I am using the following Linux version for my application: [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdom 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 03:28:30 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: [CentOS] Balancing IRQs

2014-07-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/29/2014 12:43 PM, IP wrote: > W dniu 2014-07-29 08:16, Jatin Davey pisze: >> Hi All >> >> I am using the following Linux version for my application: >> >> >> [root@localhost ~]# uname -a >> Linux localhost.l

Re: [CentOS] Balancing IRQs

2014-07-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/29/2014 12:02 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 7/28/2014 11:16 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: >> When my application is running on the server i can see only one core >> being used heavily while the other cores are not being used much. My >> application has a major workload is col

Re: [CentOS] Balancing IRQs

2014-07-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 7/29/2014 12:03 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 29.07.2014 08:16, schrieb Jatin Davey: >> From the above output i can see that all the interrupts are hitting the >> cpu0 and thats why it is used more than any other core in the system. >> >> Can someone please

[CentOS] CentOS 7 for i686

2014-09-12 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi List Is there going to CentOS 7 for i686 architecture ? If yes , when will it be released ? Thanks Jatin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos