Re: [CentOS] tcpdump; how to dump all

2011-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: >>How can I dump every packets received by filter ? > > I use the following command to make packet captures: > > tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -w capture.cap > > It creates a file capture.cap that can be read by a packet analyzer - e.g. > wireshark. I

Re: [CentOS] hardware problem with 5.6

2011-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 14, 2011 12:58:47 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Dumb question: have you contacted Dell? They *do* support Linux, and RHEL >> (at least on their servers). See if they have a driver, or can point you >> to one. > > They also sup

Re: [CentOS] RHCE question

2011-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > You have to make your own choice between 'stable and well tested' and > 'new with the latest features'.  You can't have both at the same time > and different distributions choose different balances.  If you'll lose a > lot of money over a few

[CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I'll ask this in the virt list later if this is not the appropriate forum... Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was unable to access the DNS service on a KVM virtual machine. After verifying that the vm allowed through the DNS ports (53 on UDP/TCP) and sti

Re: [CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On 19/01/11 11:21, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> Hello All: >>    I'll ask this in the virt list later if this is not the appropriate >> forum... >> >>    Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM h

Re: [CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/18/2011 02:21 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> >>     Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was >> unable to access the DNS service on a KVM virtual machine. After >> verifying that the vm al

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have seen over the past few months subjects on RHEL 6 and RHEL 5.6 > > Are these two different builds for Centos to chase or one in the same? > Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality. RHEL 5.6 is the current

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > May I say "no"? You looked for help when you needed it, you provided > the relevant information, and you provided more data when asked to > solve the issue. And you understood the answer. > > I've *met* lamerz. You are merely a person w

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm > building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I > need an easy way for the engineers to see which HDD has gone bad. > > Most of our NAS devic

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> This page might help: >> http://pikawarp.org/?p=139 >> >> >> Talks about setting entries in /sys/class/leds. > > > That's exactly what I want todo, but with drive cage LED's. Most hot > swap drive cages have 2 LED's, so I need a more unive

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, mahmoud mansy wrote: > hey guys, > i wanna update the kernel of thw centos 5.5,to the 2.6.32 version! > is there any compatablity issues with stuff like glibc or otheres! Someone suggested Fedora on the hardware and CentOS in a VM.. That works best if you're doing

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Bensley wrote: > So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in > I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither > of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to > correct this so I'm wonderin

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Larry Vaden wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >> you mean like the bind97 available in c5-testing right now, that should >> be in 5.6 soon ? > > Karanbir, > > WIth a lot of due respect, no, not exactly, since 9.7.0-P2 (if I'm > read

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > We have DELL R900 server with 128GB RAM (CENTOS 5.5)in it.  This server only > have one application running and few people use it. > > Every week I ata least get one or two messages from monitor tool mail to me > say: > > Message=Memory Utiliza

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM, wrote: > > Well, if you could get on the system at all, and had sudo privileges, no > problem. Well, the point was actually if you did not have sudo access to change the password, what else could you do. I.e., you had sudo to edit a particular file or do someth

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:18 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > kernel is: > > 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:20 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > What sort of application? Is it 64-bit aware? What is the monitor checking? Also, there are some things to keep in mind if it's a Java-b

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, kellyremo wrote: > > https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg > > "SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network > performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. > These buffers often en

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Buz Davis wrote: > I am running CntOS 5 with Gnome.  Every  now and then I have noticed > that the computer will somehow get the time wrong by several hours.  Is > there a simple way to adjust the time?  So far the only way I have found > is to boot into windows (it

Re: [CentOS] Configuring a cluster

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Johnny H wrote: [snip] > > The cluster is medium performance for something called bioinformatics; > we are looking at next generation sequence data. This sounds fascinating... Would very much like to hear how you proceed and pitfalls/successes you encounter. _

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > > · * switching / to /sysroot > > · Switch_root: bad newroot /sysroot > > · Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > > > I’ve changed the recovery system fstab to use the correct devices. I deleted > reco

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > My grub.conf is pointing to sdb1 for /. I've corrected to use > /dev/vg0/lv1. But after rebooting, I am getting the same error. I guess > I need to rebuild initrd.img file. How do I rebuild that file? You'd use the mkinitrd utility and specif

Re: [CentOS] yum is b0rked

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* > > I have tried rm -rf rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* and rebuilt my rpm > package database but that didn't move the needle on this problem > That actually won't do anything for yum. Try: yum clean headers If that

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment > using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts > resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other filesystem > issues - I can

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment > using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts > resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other filesystem > issues - I can

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: em and force a check with "fsck -f" and >> > occasionally find errors. >> http://communities.vmware.com/message/245983 >> The setting we used to resolve was vm.min_free_kbytes = 8192 >> Previous to this we were seeing the error pop up eve

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +, Keith Beeby wrote: >> Hi, >> So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, > > no, to the *guest* OS instances.  [please, do not top-post]. > >> is this the correct thing to do? >> sysctl -w vm.min_

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
>> It's certainly possible that the error I was receiving was a different >> reason, though similar symptoms. We started seeing filesystems go >> read-only, and only rebooting would clear it up. > > I use that setting on the "Host OS" for VMWare to prevent a whole vm > from getting killed. > > That

Re: [CentOS] Server Specs..

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Drew wrote: >> Recently a discussion around server >> specifications were floated with mention >> of routines to stress the configurations. >> >> Do these stress suites exist for server >> testing? > > http://www.stresslinux.org/ > > IMHO, contains one of the best

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
There used to be this farmer, Red, that sold the most delicious fruit. They were very good fruits. Many people liked them and bought them for their families. The farmer would make the fruit seeds available, as was the custom in the land. Another farmer, Fred, decided to take the seeds and start

[CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I've recently had to provision some RHEL and CentOS VMWare instances. There was no network connectivity so I had to use a kickstart floppy and DVD iso rather than installing from our repository. To create the floppy I used the following: As root: dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:28 AM, James Bensley wrote: > [root@server ~]# su - webdevuser > [webdevuser@server ~]# passwd > Changing password for user webdevuser. > Changing password for webdevuser. > (current) UNIX password: > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error A lot of things can c

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

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, James Pearson wrote: > Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as > above as a non-root user: > >  mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 :: >  mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg Well, hey now! That works nicely. Thank you! ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as > a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. > > My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and > above all well compatible w

Re: [CentOS] Looping Device unmounting problem

2011-02-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, dixan rodriges wrote: > Dear All, > > > > I have created  252 loop devices in my system and i mounted few iso filses > into loop devices .when i rebooting the system error showing "faild to > umount " > > > how can forcefully umount the loop device Not specific to

Re: [CentOS] ls returns file doesn't exist, find finds it??

2011-02-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:54 PM, neubyr wrote: > Howdy, > > I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is > able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I > was trying find and ls together as: > # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls > Instead of p

Re: [CentOS] Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi [snip] > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top? If this is a text file, you can

Re: [CentOS] Canon MX870

2011-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOjRQhj5A4 > > HP has its own "realities".  It is supported well under CentOS. In general, yes, HPs are pretty well supported. However, they have shipped non-standard printers that don't work so well. Fo

Re: [CentOS] fast processing and buffering

2011-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Michael D. Berger wrote: > I have a C++ program that opens, gets a little data from, and closes > about 5000 files.  Now if I run the program when I first boot up, > the running time is from about 10 seconds to a minute.  Subsequently, > the program runs in well in

Re: [CentOS] RFC: video call recommendations

2011-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: [snip] > > I believe google chat aka google talk works on linux too, and it has a > video option.   can't say I've tried it. > It works for me on Ubuntu/Fedora. Apparently some have gotten it to work on RHEL5/CentOS5 but I have not tried. _

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: > I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing > that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and > terminal size issues that seem to pop up.  The problem crops up when I > type or paste a really long command

[CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

2011-03-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to extend the CentOS 4 support window? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer wrote: > Personally, I'm really looking forward to Cluster 3 support. It will be > fun to see how Pacemaker compares to rgmanager. > > How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 > when it is released? I'm looking forward to the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR.  LPAR can be > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU.   The software to manage this is > now called PowerVM (its b

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: [snip] > If your hwclock is off by a lot when it comes up I believe it is from > one of the following: > A) bad cmos battery. > B) poor cmos clock > C) confusing info in /etc/adjtime due to using both hwclock --adj

Re: [CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

2011-03-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 03/03/2011 05:57 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: >> Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat >> has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to >> extend the CentOS 4 support wi

Re: [CentOS] Swap space for kvm virtual host

2011-03-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nataraj wrote: [snip] >  In recent years people seem to configure a wide range of different swap > allocations.  I was thinking initially to spread swap across seperate > non-raid partitions on 4 of these disks, but the downside of that is if I > put 2gb on each di

Re: [CentOS] OT LVM question

2011-03-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Steve Campbell wrote: > I've got a situation here where my LVM is showing the following problem: > > Found duplicate PV xx: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2 > > Not sure what causes this and I really don't have a clue as to what the > consequences

Re: [CentOS] SATA cards?

2009-09-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:52 PM, ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a server that is IDE drives and I dont have any so I wanted to > put in a sata PCI card. > > Will CentOS be able to see the drives as they will be connected to the > card? > My CentOS systems are all using SATA drives. All worked out

Re: [CentOS] Linux CD Stores

2009-10-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:23 PM, ML wrote: > HI All, > > It seems that the days of ordering burned CD's of distros has faded. > People just have fast internet now. I recall a number of times that I > ordered Slackware CD's or others because it was just easier than > downloading and burning myself.

Re: [CentOS] Update question

2009-10-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Ron Loftin wrote: > > I have some customer machines that have not been updated for some time, > and are still on CentOS 5.2.  While reading the release notes for 5.4, I > have not yet seen anything that looks like it needs attention, but are > there any known issue

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
> I'm pretty sure most corporations will continue to pay to use Red Hat. > It's pretty tough to go the head of IT and tell them you want to use > an OS without a corporate support license. Support is a security > blanket, if nothing else -- and it's a place to lay blame if something > goes wrong. (

Re: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-11-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, ken wrote: [snip] > The OS is already residing on a logical volume.  Is there any compelling > reason to bringing the new partition into lvm (aside from the ease of > resizing it... something I don't anticipate us doing)?  Or should I > simply create an ext3 partit

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
> However I never quite got it done, always seemed real close but not quite. > Did you document?? > I am now trying the RH / Fedora DS - no problem getting it installed but > configuration > Any pointers to docs that actually work. I have purchased books, read > magazines and spent probably

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
> In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem > is not "LDAP" itself, but how to structure it.  Most howtos walk you > through installing whatever software, and then say "OK, now you have > LDAP!" Agreed. > The problem is that LDAP is useless without a structure and dat

Re: [CentOS] Tripwire Question

2009-11-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Al Sparks wrote: >> > Al Sparks wrote: >> > Here's partial output.  The command I ran with strace was: >> >    strace /usr/loca/bin/tripwire -m i >> > >> > >> >> My apologies if this sounds like I'm doubting you, but can you paste the >> contents of /etc/mtab for me

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Alan McKay wrote: [snip] > And yes, I document everything very well!   My motto is "If you aren't > spending 5% to 10% of your time documenting what you do, then neither > you nor your manager are doing their job" These are words to live and die by :D I also agree

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > How did you get it from machine to machine?  This could be a line-ending issue > from a copy from windows or the wrong mode in ftp. That is my guess too. This exact error will happen if the file is copied in Dos format to Linux. __

Re: [CentOS] Some basic LVM questions

2009-11-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Monte Milanuk wrote: [...] > > What I have currently is an older PC that I'm hoping to use as a home server > / occasional 'workstation'.  One 13GB main drive, and a 500GB drive for > network storage.  The default install in CentOS 5.4 seems to want to just > lump e

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to CentOS Directory Server

2009-11-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > >        We currently are using OpenLDAP for our authentication needs for > CentOS, Redhat and Solaris clients. We are considering migrating to > CentOS DS, however, two of our LDAP replicas are on Solaris 10 machines > (different phys

Re: [CentOS] please suggest reading on Linux memory management

2009-11-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > This is sort of a follow up to my email yesterday about memory leaks. >  I'd found some really good reading material in my hour or so of > googling prior to sending that email.  Wondering if anyone can > recommend good reading on

Re: [CentOS] EMERGENCY: Server Crash

2009-11-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I went to install some s/w and it looked like there was a problem with > openssl. So I decided to uninstall it (yum remove) and reinstall it. When I > went to reinstall, I discovered I couldn't use yum. Then I discovered: Oh my. You

Re: [CentOS] simple NFSv4 setup

2009-11-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 at 4:05pm, Tim Nelson wrote > >> - "Joshua Baker-LePain" wrote: > >>> /export         $CLIENT(ro,fsid=0) >>> /export/qb3     $CLIENT(rw,nohide) > >> Your export: >> >> /export/qb3     $CLIENT(rw,nohide) >> >> An

Re: [CentOS] freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm rebuild failure

2009-11-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I was attempting to rebuild the Centos 5.4 freetype rpm > freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm and got the following > error. What do I need to do to solve it? > > ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftvalid' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' > in [/

Re: [CentOS] hard drive errors

2009-11-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:16 AM, ken wrote: > I get this kind of warning also, though the number of unreadable sectors > I get is in the single digits.  All disks have some unreadable sectors. >  It's just a product of the manufacturing process. Interesting...I only get these when my drive is ab

Re: [CentOS] install CENTOS 5.4 X86_64 failed???

2009-11-25 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/11/24 mcclnx mcc : > I just download CENTOS 5.4 DVD ISO X86_64 version from internet.  I tried to > install it on DELL server and get following error message before RPM start > install: > >   parted_1.8.1-23.els.x86_64.rpm can NOT open > > anyone know why? > > Should I download it again from

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eric B. wrote: > My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up, autofs never > seems to retry to connect to it, so all my /home mounts fail.  Basically, it > means I have to make sure that my LDAP server is never down while another > server is reboo

Re: [CentOS] Quagga ECMP

2009-12-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Cristian Carstea wrote: > > Hello, > > does anybody know if quagga for CentOS 5.3 is compiled with > -enable-multipath? > I want to implement ECMP over 2 ISP. > You can look in the /boot/config-* files. Those are the configs that it was built with. In my 5.4 syst

Re: [CentOS] Empty /var/log/messages

2009-12-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:08 PM, onay wrote: > > But only that what I get from /var/log/messages, nothing else. > > Best regards. You'll often see this when someone manually clears the messages file improperly. For example, instead of doing something like: "cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages" or

Re: [CentOS] how to delete file "--filename"??

2009-12-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/12/15 mcclnx mcc : > i have file on CENTOS 4.6 and I tried to delete it failed.  I have been tried > following way but NOT work: > > rm -i * > > rm --filename > > rm \--filename > > rm "\--filename" > > rm '\--filename' > > any ideal? Many ways to do it.. The method I prefer: List your file

Re: [CentOS] Frustrations with MySQL loss, tcpdump, netstat, etc

2009-12-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, ML wrote: [snip] > > I checked my hardware firewall (a dedicated UnTangle system) and that is > successfully allowing the passage. I know this because the firewall shows: > > 2009-12-22 6:29:41 am passed :35606 :3306 > > I checked the firewall (system-config-secur

Re: [CentOS] OT:Which filesystem to use with large files

2009-12-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:47 AM, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > >  Recently I have installed a centOS 5.4 server to use as a home NAS server. I > need > to use large files (8GB minimum) inside of it to serve via iSCSI services. > Which > filesystem do you recommends me to reach maximum performan

Re: [CentOS] OT:Which filesystem to use with large files

2009-12-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
>> With LVMs you'd of course lose the flexibility of file-backed targets >> and the ability to do sparse files are you're intending.. >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=iqn.2009-12.com.mydomain:storage.disk01.foo.foo >> bs=1 count=0 seek=16G > > LVM was my first option and performance it is very very good wi

Re: [CentOS] OT:Which filesystem to use with large files

2009-12-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
>> I actually prefer backing up LVMs.. I use the snapshot feature which >> means I can backup a live volume. Works well. > > But I can't use snapshot feature because under these lvm partitions there are > ZFS, > NTFS and so on filesystems that linux can't access ... Not sure that I'm understandin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 Upgrade installation failure

2009-12-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Edward Diener wrote: > CentOS 5.3 has been running fairly good except for a slow ethernet > connection so I thought I would upgrade to CentOS 5.4 to see if that > improved things. I had previously changed fstab and menu.lst to use UUID > instead of LABEL in order

Re: [CentOS] autofs problems

2009-12-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Mag Gam wrote: > We have about 800 CentOS 5.2 servers and our university. We use NFS > being served from over 10 NetApp frames. We use autofs for to mount up > our partitions. There have been times where we can't cd into the > directory. It says the directory does

[CentOS] kickstart and logins.def question

2010-01-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello all: Happy New Year to everyone and thank you for all the knowledge this past year. I have a hopefully simple question about kickstart. In the authconfig section I can enable ldap, credential caching, etc.. Using the GUI tool there's an option to create the user home directories on first

Re: [CentOS] kickstart and logins.def question

2010-01-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Hello all: > > Happy New Year to everyone and thank you for all the knowledge this past year. > > I have  a hopefully simple question about kickstart.   In the > authconfig section I can enable ldap, credential caching, etc

Re: [CentOS] kickstart and logins.def question

2010-01-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jay Leafey wrote: >> Anyone can shed light on why it does not auto-create the home >> directories on initial boot? > > I think the issue here is that the change has to be made in both the > authconfig file and in the /etc/pam.s/system-auth file.  Just changing > /e

Re: [CentOS] PAM configuration?

2010-01-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Roland Roland wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone please help out with configuring PAM? > I've checked a couple of tutorials online.. > though most of them are related to Login though I want to set PAM up for > SSH logins... > I've set the max erroneous logins to j

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issue

2010-01-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Clint Dilks wrote: > Yum using proxy that requires authentication and a Password that > contains the two characters \/ fails > > normally I can get yum to work with a proxy that requires authentication > when required by doing something like > > http_proxy=http://:@

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and HPLIP-3.9.12

2010-01-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:23 PM, wrote: > I recently purchased a HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a) and it's ethernet > attached.  It's been configured and works perfectly from WinXP, Win Vista, > Windows 7, and Fedora 11 x86_64. However, on my machine running CentOS 5.4 > x86_64 I can't get the confi

Re: [CentOS] cron job schedule problem

2010-01-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
2010/1/7 mcclnx mcc : > We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL server.  there has a cron job supposedly should > run on 1st and 3rd week on Saturday but it run everyday.  anyone know what > wrong? > > > 01 08 1-7,15-21 * 6 program.sh > >From "man 5 crontab" The time and date fields are:

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/7/2010 1:14 PM, Robert Heller wrote: >> >> Low-end (read: cheap) Dell laptops tend to be junk.  Dell is somewhat >> between a rock and a hard place WRT selling computers with an O/S >> *other* then MS-Windows, due to M$ OEM licensing.  Als

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to do some testing with 5.3 as its suggested that 5.4 has > "some bugs in the toolchain and libc". That being the case, I can > install with a url and repo line pointing to a mirror with 5.3 still > but how does one properly make sur

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

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:28 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Frankly, this error message means little to mean... in the course of > troubleshooting, I tried this: > # setenforce Permissive > # /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch > > And it worked! The logwatch email sends without error. If I turn SELinux > back t

Re: [CentOS] How do I...

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:05 PM, fred smith wrote: > Only tangentially on topic, at best... > > Given a pile of html files, comprising chapters of a book, with a single > html file that serves as a table of contents to the group, how would I > turn the entire book into a single PDF? > > I can't thi

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

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, James Rankin wrote: > For anyone else finding this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553492 > > and also > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553277 Oh whew...From the other thread it looks like this bit a few people. _

Re: [CentOS] rsync optimization

2010-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:36 AM, xufengnju wrote: > Hi, > > We currently have upload servers in one data center(A), and users upload the > images there. We have storage server in another data center(B). When users > upload many images at the same time, we face sync difficulties. > > On B, we use r

Re: [CentOS] VMWare server 2

2010-01-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> I have installed VMWare 2.0.2-203138_x64 on a CentOS 5.4 x64. >> Everything appears to work fine. >> I can create the virtual machine but when I power it on the whole vmware >> web access is unreachable on default port 8222/8333. > > There is

Re: [CentOS] kickstart %pre help on C5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > The following %pre script hangs on me - I get the little GUI window > that comes up and says "Running pre-install scripts" and it hangs > there [snip] > select STDISK in yes no > do >        [ "$STDISK" != "" ]     && break > done > PS3=$SAVEPS3

Re: [CentOS] High load since passing from rhas3 to centos4.8

2010-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, wrote: > We are migrating HP servers from RHAS3 to centos 4.8. Since, the load > average is reaching really high values. Under usage we see loads of 15-20 > instead of the 0.5-1.5 we were used to. > > I searched a lot for information on such an issue. Iostat, vmst

Re: [CentOS] High load since passing from rhas3 to centos4.8

2010-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:02 PM, wrote: >>Are you by any chance now running a CPU throttling program and weren't >>>before? > > ACPI is not enabled. Other than that I couldn't tell. Sorry if it sounds noob. > What can I check to be sure nothing is throttling the CPU? > Check if you're running c

Re: [CentOS] how to startup snmpd on debug mode

2010-01-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
2010/1/15 mcclnx mcc : > I tried to startup "snmpd" on debug mode but NOT successful (CENTOS 5.4).  I > have been tried following way: > > /etc/init.d/snmpd start -D > > /etc/init.d/snmpd -D start > > service snmpd -D restart > > any ideal??? Edit the /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options file to add the

Re: [CentOS] error rsyncing large file

2010-01-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Trying to rsync a rather large file from a windows server to a centos server > and all but this is working fine. > > As it's a 20 gig file I am trying to send the diff of with a -c, I suspect > over > the low bandwidth this presents an is

Re: [CentOS] perl updates always break perl programs, how to fix?

2010-01-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:46 PM, James Chase wrote: > I realize this is my fault because once upon a time I installed a package > using CPAN and probably other admins on the system have as well but now > whenever I update perl I have to jump through hoops to get perl applications > to work again (

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > Some really nice things are happening with postgresql as well, you > should check it out. > This was a great thread. For one, it's interesting to see the approaches you can take to solve an issue. I.e., we can tune the OS to quite a degree, b

Re: [CentOS] Xen, Amazon, and /proc/cmdline

2010-01-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Kurt Newman wrote: > Amazon (or perhaps Amazon's configuration of Xen) forces a machine to > come up at run level 4, regardless of what's in /etc/inittab. > > I've looked through /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/rc, to determine which > (if any script) looks at /proc/

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/26/2010 11:42 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> >> On Mon, January 25, 2010 13:40, Les Mikesell wrote: >> . >>> >>> I'd say it is more likely that the command that resulted in an error >>> wasn't exactly what was posted or there is a filesyste

[CentOS] Crash during yum update

2010-01-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello all: I was getting a reproducible crash during an update of a xen system. The problem went away after I set SELinux to permissive, but the fact that it crashed was alarming (first one on a non-dev system that I've had in over a year). I attempted the update earlier but it crashed at the sam

Re: [CentOS] question on virtual desktops

2010-01-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > centos has the 4 virtual desktops by default. > if I have a terminal window open in desktop 1 > is there a command I can execute (type in) to switch to desktop 2? > > The mouse will not be attached at this point and I want to switch views > usin

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