Re: [CentOS] Updating kernel from CentOS 5 to 5.1

2007-12-06 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 6, 2007 5:40 PM, Andrew Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To upgrade the kernel to CentOS 5.1 (to take advantage of support for > Dell wireless card bcm43xx), should I update everything or just type > 'yum update kernel', or what? It's OK to just update the kernel, however, why not update

Re: [CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 6, 2007 11:22 PM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can take it further (if you have more than one site/port to > connect to) - install a proxy on the remote machine (e.g. "squid" or > maybe apache's mod_proxy) and forward a tunnel to it as you describe > then setup localhost:

Re: [CentOS] Where are my VIM colors?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 7, 2007 11:30 AM, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- If you didn't install vim-enhanced, I suggest getting the vim > source, preferably applying the patches, and compiling it yourself: Why? There would be nothing that we could do to support anything compiled form sou

Re: [CentOS] Minimal install for CentOS 5?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 7, 2007 3:48 AM, David Hrbáč <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And you can extend Karanbir's way by using kickstart, where you can > remove far more packages. Some hints: bluez*, up2date, wireless-tools, > wvdial, pcmcia-cs, etc. It all depends on the needs. > David Hrbáč This question comes up

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 strategy for a CentOS/Xen server?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 7, 2007 1:04 PM, Bob Tomkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To "best preserve" RAID1 mirroring protections of OS, Data, etc > > *AND* > > optimize performance, how should I setup RAID for the "new" configurations? The entire system I would install on HW RAID, and use LVM for flexibility

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 strategy for a CentOS/Xen server?

2007-12-07 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 7, 2007 2:33 PM, Bob Tomkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I correct in my understanding that each DomU contains an instance of > OS/kernel + app binaries in it's own virtual volume/file space, but that > *data* (effectively, *any* dynamic content) is written by the DomU processes > to/fr

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 kernel crash on 2.6.23.9

2007-12-09 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 9, 2007 7:39 PM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is running 2.6.23.9 as I wanted to use kvm-amd. There is no way that we can support this, since you are running a kernel that was not supplied with the distribution. The current kernel for CentOS 5.1 is 2.6.18-53.1.4. You may

Re: [CentOS] keeping a mirror of the updates repo

2007-12-10 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 10, 2007 11:11 AM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a local mirror of CentOS5 base and updates. Now with 5 having > become 5.1 and in case I just want to keep on updating (at the moment) is > it enough that I update the mirror of updates or do I also need an update > of the b

Re: [CentOS] module mppe with pptpd causes kernel crash

2007-12-11 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 10, 2007 8:08 AM, David Hláčik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking that CentOS 5.1 has allready a kernel patched , but as it > seems NOT. Or am i wrong? If upstream has not patched it, CentOS would not have either. It appears from the Red Hat Bugzilla entry that this is a likely c

Re: [CentOS] Debug symbols for CentOS server

2007-12-21 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 21, 2007 6:35 PM, Tom Laramee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yum install httpd-symbols > Well, once you enable or create (forget which) the debuginfo repo that's available at http://vault.centos.org, then you can do a 'yum install httpd-debuginfo'

Re: [CentOS] Help with dump/restore

2007-12-28 Thread Jon Stanley
On Dec 28, 2007 10:16 AM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > drive. Dump tends to be unhappy if the filesystem changes during the > run, so you might be better off using tar. Also, some tape drives are Note what Linus has to say on the topic here: http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3