Re: [CentOS] Mounting LUNs from a SAN array - LUN mappings to devices in /dev/ - are they static?

2014-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/04/2014 12:22 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi All :) I am currently involved in a project in which there is a SAN array (Sun Storagetek 2540) which exports LUNs for some servers with Centos 5.2 x86. I will be performing a migration to Centos 5.9 x86_64 in some time and am gathering needed info

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic on boot after upgrading kernel to 2.6.32-431.29.2

2014-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/13/2014 11:18 PM, Joakim Ziegler wrote: I'm on a Supermicro server, X9DA7 motherboard, Intel C602 chipset, 2x 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-2665 8-core CPU, 96GB RAM, and I'm running CentOS 6.4. I just tried to use yum to upgrade the kernel from 2.6.32-358 to 2.6.32-431.29.2. However, I get a ke

Re: [CentOS] System Time Source

2017-05-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On 05/24/2017 11:29 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: ... The terrestrial radio clocks are actually not that accurate. They are not designed for keeping things like a system clock "correct". Commercial solutions only keep to within about +/- 0.5s per day, with resynchronisation happening about once a day. T

Re: [CentOS] System Time Source

2017-05-25 Thread Lamar Owen
[Going a bit off-topic here, and going to do a bit of a deep-dive on RF stuff, but maybe it will be useful to Chris] On 05/24/2017 12:20 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: It is insightful, yet... There are a bunch of other factors that may need to be taken into account. Angular transmission pattern of

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 52.2.x and javascipt issues

2017-07-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On 07/05/2017 03:27 PM, Bernard Lheureux wrote: Hi all, Is it me or there are a lot of troubles with Firefox ESR 52.2.x and javascript ??? I face a lot of troubles with pages I used before correctly running javascript, since the update to firefox-52.2.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64 on my EL7 laptop

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SDR Support

2017-08-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On 07/19/2017 11:02 AM, Chris Olson wrote: We have been following up with regard to how SDR capabilities might be used for obtaining time using SDR dongles as well as using the time source product referenced in that response. ... One thing that we did not find was any reference at all to SDR

Re: [CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

2017-08-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On 07/27/2017 04:16 PM, wwp wrote: ... It is as simple as unknown hardware at boot up, it's a well known issue w/ *Lake hardware (modern hardware) that kernel 3.x cannot handle. CentOS7 has a kernel which is simply not modern, unable to handle lots of computers sold currently. That said, there m

[CentOS] Odd switch of running MTA during update through CR to 7.4.1708

2017-08-26 Thread Lamar Owen
ings.  I would probably be well-off to remove sendmail altogether, but I would have thought that the startup settings would have been honored anyway. -- Lamar Owen Chief Technology Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman,

Re: [CentOS] Update to 7.4 using DVD

2017-09-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/13/2017 04:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: I am running the propriatry NVIDIA driver 384.69 for GT 720 support. The ELrepo driver works very well for me with CentOS 7.4.1708 on a Dell Precision M6700.  Here's what I have: ++ [lowen@localhost ~]$ nvidia-detect -v Probing for supported NVIDIA

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7.4.1708 dependency problems

2017-09-16 Thread Lamar Owen
Greg, according to the release notes "Known Issues" section (  https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7?action=show&redirect=Manuals%2FReleaseNotes%2FCentOS7.1708#head-281c090cc4fbc6bb5c7d4cd82a266fce807eee7c ) you need to run "yum downgrade libgpod" first.  I have updated a doze

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition too small

2017-10-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/10/2017 09:20 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: For you, there really is no way around the messy and delicate process of shrinking and relocating a filesystem and the LVM volumes to make space for a larger /boot partition. Frankly, I would hesitate to do that in place on my own system, and I have

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/10/2017 11:22 AM, Mark Haney wrote: We have this discussion on every list I've ever been, or currently are on about every 6 months or so.  I do my best to contribute to the list as often as I can, but I can't help people when they are deadset on doing dangerous things.  Posts like his,

Re: [CentOS] /var/run/... being deleted :((

2017-10-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On 09/21/2017 08:14 AM, hw wrote: what keeps deleting files and directories under /var/run?  Having them deleted is extremely annoying because after a reboot, things are suddenly broken because services don´t start. You've received a lot of advice, criticism, and information from this original

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/11/2017 04:05 PM, Mark Haney wrote: On 10/11/2017 02:44 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: Hi Mark, been a while since I saw you last in Asheville. Hey Lamar, long time no see.  ... [snip] Yeah, too long.  Come by and visit some time. The core issue in the /var/run thread is one of lack of

Re: [CentOS] /var/run/... being deleted :((

2017-10-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/11/2017 03:42 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: When I need daemon (or other not human user) produced data to persist a reboot, I use /srv - I don't know if that is technically correct or not, but it seems highly unlikely /srv would ever be a candidate for wipe on boot. Perhaps the package in que

Re: [CentOS] /var/run/... being deleted :((

2017-10-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/13/2017 10:02 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: I see at least two possible intermediate results: The RHEL 7 folks do something, perhaps make a package, to  make pseudo-persistence super easy to get. ... This already exists as systemd-tmpfiles, as was mentioned in the thread by someone else.  An

Re: [CentOS] /var/run/... being deleted :((

2017-10-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/13/2017 10:19 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: .. Stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Whee, I just _know_ I'm going to be positively skewered (and maybe even plonked!) for this but, hey, it's Friday, and this post is meant to be a bit funny.  So lighten up, and enjoy a short

Re: [CentOS] How to encourage maintainers to update their software

2017-11-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/28/2017 01:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote: It didn't seem to use to be that case. IMO it makes a lot more sense to wrap distro-specific .spec file changes in conditionals and let the rpmbuild do the right thing than to post and maintain separate versions for Fedora, EPEL, and anything else.

Re: [CentOS] Comparing directories recursively

2017-11-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/27/2017 05:27 PM, H wrote: What is the best tool to compare file hashes in two different drives/directories such as after copying a large number of files from one drive to another? I used cp -au to copy directories, not rsync, since it is between local disks. I typically use 'rsync -av -

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/27/2017 02:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Pete Biggs wrote: - don't run ssh on 22, use a different port. I consider that pointless security-through-obscurity. Security through obscurity it may be, but it isn't pointless. Tarpits are in a similar class; they don't help with security in

Re: [CentOS] Admins supporting both RHEL and CentOS

2017-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/28/2017 08:06 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What is the case with users on this list who support both [rolling releases like the normal CentOS model and 'constrain to the point releases' as is possible with RHEL]? I personally run RHEL just like my CentOS installs, as a rolling release. I

Re: [CentOS] Failed attempts

2017-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/28/2017 12:04 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Thanks, Lamar! that is very instructive. You're welcome. I was always unimpressed with persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder cased locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird locations/angles). The best way to

Re: [CentOS] Firefox print to file fail silent & side notes of cms4all.

2017-12-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/06/2017 05:08 PM, Andreas Benzler wrote: Hello everyone, in time when i start to rebuilt my csm4all-media, I tryed to print into file from firefox. The print box close but no pdf is created. While attempting to print to PDF today I ran into this same issue. It's SELinux throwing the error

Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

2018-02-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/15/2018 08:41 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: It looks like the setup requires the use of software; they have some packages that are ready made for Ubuntu and Debian, but not RedHat https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro Have any of you tried or succeeded in installation this on

Re: [CentOS] Ubiquiti Model UAP-AC-PRO

2018-02-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/27/2018 08:31 AM, Bill Gee wrote: 1) The resolution of "unifi" by DNS is to the machine hosting the Unifi Controller software. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. How did you add an FQDN of "unifi" to your DNS? I added a new zone to /etc/named.conf for the ZONE 'unifi' pointing to a h

Re: [CentOS] Down C6 ALL without torrent ?

2018-04-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/18/2018 09:58 PM, Always Learning wrote: ... It would be nice to have everything (part 1 and part 2) on the same bootable USB stick. You should be able to install most things with just DVD1, and there are good instructions on the CentOS Wiki about how to go about generating the USB stick

Re: [CentOS] Vmware - Slightly off topic

2018-04-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On 04/24/2018 01:26 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: What is the correct way to provide a CentOS 7 - WMware image for ESX ? ... I just want to be able to provide a pre-built image with CentOS 7 and my other programs on a bootable VMware image that is easily imported into any VMware platform - Workstation,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + GNOME : all icon themes broken after update from CR

2018-11-18 Thread Lamar Owen
I did the update from CR, and have some pretty serious issues.  Until I blew away (by mv to a different name) the .local and .config directory trees, I couldn't log in to GNOME at all.  After doing that, I can log in, but if I do any actual work, GNOME crashes, and abrt-cli from root in v

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 + GNOME : all icon themes broken after update from CR

2018-11-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/20/18 8:48 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 11/18/2018 09:01 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 18/11/2018 à 15:30, Lamar Owen a écrit : I did the update from CR, and have some pretty serious issues. ... Since Red Hat decided to roll in some major GNOME updates between minor releases, I&#

[CentOS] Mail server with both postfix and sendmail installed, active MTA gets switched.

2019-01-04 Thread Lamar Owen
Ok, so a bit of a long subject line there... I'm running an email server using postfix, but a critical third-party package being used requires 'sendmail' the package.  No, I can't uninstall that package, please don't suggest that, and I don't have control of its requires.  So both postfix and

Re: [CentOS] Mail server with both postfix and sendmail installed, active MTA gets switched.

2019-01-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/5/19 2:18 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 1/4/19 8:29 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: I have had updates twice now switch the active MTA to sendmail, and I have to manually 'systemctl disable sendmail; systemctl stop sendmail' and 'systemctl enable postfix;systemctl start postfix&#x

Re: [CentOS] Opinions on using CR repository in production environments.

2019-09-13 Thread Lamar Owen
On 9/12/19 3:10 PM, Gwaland wrote: ... So would you treat it as a production repository or for testing only? Do we know how it's actually intended to be treated? Well, like virtually everything else, It Depends (TM). The first depends, for me, is how critical are the fixes relative to what I

Re: [CentOS] C8 install libreoffice

2019-09-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On 9/27/19 6:07 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: How do you install libreoffice. yum install libreoffice did not do it, doing a search on "centos 8 install libreoffice" did not provide anything. Thanks Well, libreoffice packages ARE in AppStream, and a 'yum list|grep ^libreoffice shows a bunch, but there'

Re: [CentOS] kpatch (live kernel patching) in CentOS 7.7?

2019-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/4/19 9:35 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: ... I'm still puzzled why RedHat is doing it then, and making it more generally available (to paying customers even), if it's so dire a proposition that it will fail so badly, so often. That seems counter-intuitive to me. It would likely boil down

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/4/19 10:00 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 10/4/19 3:03 PM, Chris Adams wrote: ... See the NetworkManager-config-server package. Ahh, thanks. I was wondering about it but never investigated. H. Description : This adds a NetworkManager configuration file to make it behave more

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/4/19 10:40 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: My impression is younger generation doesn't value rules that programmers were following 2-3 decades ago. One of which is: Do not make any changes [in the program] unless they are absolutely necessary. I have in the past agreed with this assessment m

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/4/19 11:02 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: ... It is OK if your KVM host is on LAN cable that never is disconnected or power goes down. But I have a laptop I use first at work where I use LAN and then at home where I use WLAN only, and suspending laptop is same as disconnecting LAN, bridg

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/4/19 11:39 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: ... I have VM in NAT mode mostly these days, but sometimes I need bridged network to recognize some hardware on the network, Mikrotik WiFi routers or printers so I need ability to go to bridge. I've kludged together a solution for those times her

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/5/19 11:29 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: ... On the other hand, most of the idea that the old config scripts were deterministic and imperative was built on a large amount of hacks to try and make it so. Having spent more time than I want dealing with systems which seem to be just like eve

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 network-scripts

2019-10-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/5/19 2:14 PM, Always Learning wrote: Technically [the new automobile] was never an "upgrade" but a brand new and alternative system. ... The automobile was originally billed in many areas as the 'horseless carriage,' an upgrade. Luxury. Try running on a 32k single processor computer, sta

Re: [CentOS] Gstreamer1

2019-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/14/19 9:06 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: How do I tell from source rpm's: 1) the build order of gstreamer packages I replied from my phone yesterday, and it doesn't appear to have gone through... The _chronological_ build order is most easily inferred from the RPM tag %{BUILDTIME}.  Usage e

[CentOS] Odd issue with 7.7.1908 updated with qemu-kvm-ev

2019-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
So, I have a client that has an internal use application that needs an ancient version of libc5.  That's not a typo; libc5.  Before the server that ran it died about a year and a half ago (said server was an AMD K6-2/450 with a 6GB Western Digital Caviar drive that had been spinning nearly cont

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with 7.7.1908 updated with qemu-kvm-ev

2019-10-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On 10/15/19 10:28 AM, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: Hi, ... After the update on the host to 7.7.1908, the network stopped running. The host also has a CentOS 7 guest that is still working properly.  If I change the 2.1 system to not automatically load the e1000 driver and console in and 'modp

Re: [CentOS] C8: Wayland Session / Cut and Paste

2019-11-07 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/7/19 3:13 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: Is this the normal behavior now? Cutting text in gedit and pasting it into the terminal needs that the source application stays running? I've run into this behavior for a while, for several CentOS versions, depending upon the application. ___

Re: [CentOS] State of CentOS 8

2019-12-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/23/19 3:16 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 23/12/2019 à 02:48, Akemi Yagi a écrit : You may want to watch the "CR work" on that wiki page. CR seems to be empty right now. Not any more; updating one of my testing C8 VMs to the CR content now. __

Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/10/20 2:33 AM, Frank Cox wrote: Back in the days of DOS I had a program that I obtained from somewhere called FILL. ... Before I re-invent the wheel here, does someone already have a way to do this with Linux so you can write a series of flash drives and fill them with the contents of a sp

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911)

2020-01-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/16/20 6:49 AM, Peter wrote: On 16/01/20 4:14 am, Brian Stinson wrote: Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911) We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 8. CentOS 8 was released in September 2019.  Don't you mean 8.1? No, they mean CentOS 8 (1911).  This was hashed to

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 8 (1911)

2020-01-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/16/20 2:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: On Jan 16, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: ...or maybe even 8.1.1911 (which is part of the name of the DVD ISO file), but officially it's CentOS 8 (1911). $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: C

Re: [CentOS] transition to ip6

2012-03-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 06:44:38 AM Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > We've been running out of IPV4 address and needing to convert someday > > soon for the last 10 years..., but yet the vast majority of broadband > > providers and even most ISP's don't support it yet. > You've got another couple

Re: [CentOS] Problem with PHP / Postgresql on CentOS6.2

2012-03-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 08:08:09 AM Rudinei Dias wrote: > Thanks, John. > that is was i look for. > The postgreSQL documentation about yum/centos/rhel must be updated. [Mostly for the archives.] The CentOS AdditionalRepositories Wiki page provides the links necessary to find the latest

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2 netinstall does not offer "create custom layout" at "Select type of installation " in text mode installation

2012-03-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 06:29:12 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > you can still run a vnc install from the netinstall emdia and get the > complete installer going. With 512MB of RAM? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] nfslock

2012-03-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 05:22:53 AM Lars Hecking wrote: > But making it the default on an *Enterprise* distribution makes little > sense. *Enterprise* != *server* ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] selinux on/off percentage

2012-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 02, 2012 08:51:46 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > Another statistic I'd like to see is how much admin time this costs on > the average to learn and implement. No more than proper firewalling techniques cost, really. > Has anyone really measured this? Probably not. > Are there tra

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2 netinstall does not offer "create custom layout" at "Select type of installation " in text mode installation

2012-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 06:29:49 PM John Stanley wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 12:38 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 06:29:12 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > > > you can still run a vnc install from the netinstall emdia and get the > > &g

Re: [CentOS] transition to ip6

2012-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 02, 2012 11:11:29 AM Stephen Harris wrote: > One of my providers gave me a single(!) IPv6 address. Another one has > subdivided a /64 into multiple /96's (one for each customer). > > You might want to rethink the /64 concept! Subscribe to the NANOG list, and let that group know

Re: [CentOS] selinux on/off percentage

2012-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 02, 2012 11:27:54 AM John Doe wrote: > ...self-compiled... As Jamie Hyneman would say, "well, there's your problem." Having said that, I run Plone on a few sites, and the only way to run Plone reliably on CentOS is to use the Plone-distributed unified installer, which compiles

Re: [CentOS] selinux on/off percentage

2012-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 02, 2012 10:34:58 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > So at least another grumpy, overworked full-time administrator for a > typical company? Perhaps. It depends upon how willing the existing admins are to learn something new, and on how overworked they are. I'm as overworked as anyone; i

Re: [CentOS] Block outgoing connections for certaing uids (root, apache, nobody)

2012-04-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 05:13:11 AM Alexander Farber wrote: > Good morning > > With iptables in CentOS 5 and 6 Linux - how can you please > prevent processes running as "root", "apache" or "nobody" > from initiating outgoing connections? This sounds more like something an SELinux rule could

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and 802.1x on wire

2012-04-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 03:48:27 AM John R Pierce wrote: > ethernet has no concept of authentication inherent in it. See packetfence and 802.1x used together with the appropriate ethernet switch. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

2012-04-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:38:03 PM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I also did try manually doing (hd0,1), (hd1,0) but none of it seemed > to be a "findable" device. For what it's worth, the installer did see > them as sda and sdb. The grub order and names and the linux kernel/udev order and nam

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 How to change hostname for each individual IP

2012-04-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 06, 2012 09:18:27 AM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: > No matter what I do when I connect to the application it read > "example.example.org" which is the hostname of the machine rather then > the hostname I want it to read on a particular IP. Is this possible to > change? Well, it prob

Re: [CentOS] System hanged - no info in logs.

2012-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:13:00 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Time to use smartctl, if not fsck -c. Another useful fsck variation is fsck -cc which will do a nondestructive 'read-write' to trigger on-drive bad sector remapping. Takes a long time to do, but does the work. It's documented in

Re: [CentOS] Build one VM with two 5.7 DVD iso

2012-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:19:54 AM Phil Schaffner wrote: > In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two > images into one. > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia I have used this to create 'DL' media for both 5.8 and 6.2; for 6.2 I then followed the U

Re: [CentOS] 3TB system drive partitioning question

2012-04-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote: ah, I can't see anywhere in the BIOS for this SuperMicro X8DT6 mobo where to enable EFI, I guess its not supported. There are other ways to get booting from GPT, involving shadow EFI bootloaders and a shadow MBR. Most of this was developed

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2; mount 6TB OSX formatted FW

2012-04-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 19, 2012 02:49:41 PM aurfalien wrote: > Trying to mount an FW800 6TB volumes. > The logs say; > cannot find hfs+ superblock Aurf, (it's Friday: and now I'm channelling Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf pronouncing that name... sorry). My first question is: which HFS+ filesystem mo

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 20, 2012 10:54:51 AM Les Mikesell wrote: > The CPU has to do the work of the transfer over usb - which is why it > is cheap. Real disk controllers use DMA without a lot of CPU > involvement. And this includes USB 3.0, incidentally. I have found that on my Fedora 14 (soon to be

Re: [CentOS] A request from the CentOS Project

2012-04-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, April 20, 2012 02:07:39 PM Al Sparks wrote: > > From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > > Usenet is, of course, still alive, though a lot of folks know it as google > > groups > My first usenet browser was "rn." Anybody know if 'trn' and C-News are in any CentOS 6 repos? I want to re-live

Re: [CentOS] LVM: PV on 2 external USB drives

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 06:43:12 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: > the drive ordering will not matter as long as the bios isnt mapping the > usb disk as sda and/or trying to inject them into boot ordering FWIW, and for the archives, we have a Dell Precision 690 that does exactly that. I have a Seaga

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 06:51:36 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > They have been put there recently ... I am conflicted about making vault > easy to use. Johnny, speaking of vault, there is a minor issue I see with vault: + rsync rsync://vault.centos.org/ msync.CentOS.org rsync service (ce

[CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
Good afternoon, CentOS list. I am beginning triage of a rather wierd issue I experienced Saturday with CentOS 6.2 LiveDVD, x86_64. I'm posting this information in hope that someone may have seen something similar. I use a USB key with CentOS 6.2 LiveDVD loaded, with an encrypted home filesyst

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me!

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 12:14:22 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > Rsync is setup on all the vault mirrors ... there are more than 1. > (There are currently 4 and one master ... these are in both the US and EU) ... Thanks, Johnny. Nice to know the mirror police won't be after me. :-) _

Re: [CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 01:48:59 PM Lamar Owen wrote: ... > So, if anyone has had specific experience with a Dell Inspiron 1420n (came > with Ubuntu pre-installed, incidentally) and CentOS 6 64-bit, I'd be > interested in hearing it. ... Additional information, from the F14 FS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 4 repos help me! [OT]

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 02:39:10 PM Jason Pyeron wrote: > We have been migrating a single RHEL3 box for several years. Shoot me now > please. I still have a 'not internet-connected' CentOS 2.1 server for one particular application. Hrmph, I still have a Red Hat Linux 5.2 box in production for

Re: [CentOS] Networking issue, C6.2 LiveDVD x86_64

2012-04-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 23, 2012 02:32:56 PM Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Hmm, tigon III. I'm getting ready to look around, but anyone know of > > issues with tg3 and the EL6 kernel as shipped in the LiveDVD? > > There

Re: [CentOS] strange partitioning problem

2012-04-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 05:40:50 PM Gé Weijers wrote: > Any way you'd like. CentOS can't BOOT from a GPT partitioned device if > the BIOS does not support it, but you can certainly use GPT on > non-boot devices. While I can't confirm for a drive larger than 2TB, it is not true that you can't b

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 01:28:04 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:36 AM, James B. Byrne > wrote: > > Now, consider upstream's decision to enable network-manager by default on an > > enterprise distro. THAT I both understand and fundamentally disagree with. > Yes, that's a

Re: [CentOS] Not Quite Minimal CentOS 6.2

2012-04-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 02:12:20 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Yes, that's a horrible thing for servers. > > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: enterprise != servers. > How's tha

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager frustration...

2012-05-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, May 11, 2012 06:16:44 AM Timothy Madden wrote: > How can such software be part of CentOS _base_ distribution ? Upstream put it there; CentOS simply replicates upstream's behavior (bug for bug compatibility is one of the distribution's goals, after all). You would need to file a bugzil

[CentOS] Notes on booting CentOS 6 natively on GPT with an EFI bootloader such as Chameleon without BIOS GPT/EFI support.

2012-05-16 Thread Lamar Owen
g machine to boot directly on a 2TB+ drive using GPT without having EFI or variant in the BIOS. Once I get a single drive large than 2TB, or free up a machine with an FC connection and a > 2TB LUN attached to it, I'll try that out, and attempt to do a Chameleon installation without the OSX

Re: [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

2012-05-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:17:07 PM Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I am running Cent OS 5.8 in production. Can someone please explain me about > various repositories available in CentOS 5.8 and which third party repos ( > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) i should use it in > Prod

Re: [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

2012-05-23 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 01:11:54 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > 1.) EPEL doesn't make it a priority (or even a goal) to work well with any > > other third-party repository; > True enough as a fact, but it sort-of soun

Re: [CentOS] Repositories in CentOS 5.8

2012-05-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 09:22:34 PM Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand when i install CentOS > 5.8 on a fresh server, what are the available repositories by default yum repolist enabled That command works on both CentOS 6.2 and CentOS 5.8. Use that

[CentOS] Third party repo differences (was: Re: Repositories in CentOS 5.8)

2012-05-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:42:59 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > But odds are pretty good that you could grab the scalpel src rpm from > epel and fix it to rebuild against the newer libtre in a matter of > minutes. - just changing the spec, not the source... Probably so, and I know how to do that, bu

Re: [CentOS] Third party repo differences (was: Re: Repositories in CentOS 5.8)

2012-05-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, May 24, 2012 03:26:02 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > But many, probably most of those cases are revs with forward/backward > compatibility. It's hard to generalize about that, though. Yep, it sure is. Forward/backward compatibility is almost entirely in the hands of the upstream projec

Re: [CentOS] Third party repo differences (was: Re: Repositories in CentOS 5.8)

2012-05-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, May 26, 2012 05:15:41 AM David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 25.5.2012 02:00, Lamar Owen napsal(a): > > At the moment both EPEL and RPMforge are on a 2.6.x amavisd-new; 2.7 makes > > some changes in the AM.PDP protocol that can break, for instance, > > amavisd-milter (d

Re: [CentOS] Third party repo differences (was: Re: Repositories in CentOS 5.8)

2012-05-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, May 26, 2012 12:47:04 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > Have you looked at MimeDefang's ability to run all of your scanners > out of one milter? Yes. Doing the same thing with amavisd-new on the few sendmail installs I still have running; amavisd-new runs clam (or, at one site, the sopho

Re: [CentOS] Third party repo differences (was: Re: Repositories in CentOS 5.8)

2012-05-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, May 28, 2012 02:22:32 AM David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 26.5.2012 18:33, Lamar Owen napsal(a): > > Which is just as well, since this amavisd-new-milter is different from > > amavisd-milter, which is currently at version 1.5.0, the version that is > > compatible with ama

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this?

2012-05-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 02:56:24 PM Max Pyziur wrote: > My hope is to upgrade; that way I don't have to change/specify partition > topology, and hopefully only minimally adjust the existing configurations. I have tried this type of upgrade before; I have not had it go well for the most part.

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 05:49:50 AM Tim Dunphy wrote: > > # Turn off SELinux. > > selinux --disabled > > Might want to try that in addition to ripping out the RPMs, tho I'm not > sure doing both would be necessary. > Maybe it's the CPU that's having a problem with SELinux under CentOS 6? Tim,

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:16:23 AM Lars Hecking wrote: > > > I think SELinux is a red herring in this case; I'm running upstream RHEL > > Server 6.3 32-bit with SELinux in enforcing mode on an older Supermicro > > system (motherboard P4DP6, has a DVD-ROM CD-RW drive in it) with the > > foll

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Bug 800181: NFSv4 on RHEL 6.3 over six times slower than 5.8

2012-07-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:28:00 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > But the thing with the spinning disks is the thing that will go down. > Not much reason for a network to break - at least since people stopped > using thin coax. Just a few days ago I watched a facility's switched network go basically 'do

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: Bug 800181: NFSv4 on RHEL 6.3 over six times slower than 5.8

2012-07-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 03:31:53 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > Sure, everything can break and most will sometime, but does this > happen often enough that you'd want to slow down all of your network > disk writes by an order of magnitude on the odd chance that some app > really cares about a random

Re: [CentOS] installing centos 6 on an old bird

2012-07-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, July 16, 2012 06:59:03 PM Tim Dunphy wrote: > >Have you tried using the minimal install iso? It will fit on a CD. > > Bingo! That was it. Thank you list! You guys rock. Always appreciate your > advice. Glad that worked! ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, July 20, 2012 10:19:05 AM Chris wrote: > Hello CentOS Guys :-) > > Oracle has created a new Website to capture CentOS Users :o > > http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ They also mention Scientific Linux in their 'Q&A.' ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] kmod-nvidia?

2012-07-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, July 20, 2012 05:30:14 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:44:07PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Available Packages > >> kmod-nvidia.x86_64 295.59-1.el6.elrepo > > Yes, and it showed up in your list... > > Or am I

Re: [CentOS] system-config-network-tui not part of base install... wtf

2012-07-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:55:07 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > My point is simple: I install the base config. I'm in text mode. I > need networking to work to install extra packages and begin setting up > my system, users, permissions, packages, etc. I have no problem doing > that manually AFTER I

Re: [CentOS] system-config-network-tui not part of base install... wtf

2012-07-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:42:05 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > My opinion after this experience is that it'd help for CentOS to > include system-config-network-tui as part of the base install. The question becomes "Does upstream include it in their upstream EL?" If the answer is yes, it will be

Re: [CentOS] IP range

2012-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
[For the archives, since I think Johnny just hit the wrong number key.] On Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:24:27 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > If you want 8 usable addresses (including the Network number, a gateway > address, and a Broadcast address), that would mean you need at least 11 > IPs in tha

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:24:46 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var ... This sort of things pops up from tim

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, August 03, 2012 12:03:01 PM Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/03/2012 04:25 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > rpm -qa | while read line; do echo $line && rpm --setugids $line; done > > should handle ownerships. Then, reenable selinux in permissive mode, and

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