Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access

2011-04-26 Thread Monty Shinn
On 04/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote: > Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop with Samba > providing access to my Linux server. Since Linux is more > reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to access my Linux > (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully via VNC or some

Re: [CentOS] Still Confused about Firewalling

2009-10-19 Thread Monty Shinn
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry, I am still confused about implementing a firewall without > having my ISP static route all of my traffic to my public IP's to a > single public IP. > > So before when I have done this for work all traffic has been > statically routed. > > Now I have a comcast

[CentOS] rpm and yum issues

2009-11-04 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am having issues with rpm/yum on a centos 5.2 x86_64. I am trying to update from 5.2 to 5.4. During yum update, the application became unresponsive during the package search. It had not begun to download any packages. I tried to do a "yum clean all", but that wouldn't complete eit

Re: [CentOS] 2 TB limit on a samba share

2009-11-09 Thread Monty Shinn
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/11/6 Monty Shinn : >> Setting the blocksize did the trick for me. > > Not so sure you need to do that, I have a 40TB share over samba that > presents itself properly with no additional confi

[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB limit for ext3 filesystems. I looked at the specs for 5 on the "upstream" vendor's website,

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Monty Shinn
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Monty Shinn
Florin Andrei wrote: Martyn Drake wrote: Having worked for a large film and television post-production facility in London for just over six years, XFS has been the primary filesystem for all our servers. Much of the data was split across multiple disk servers - each with around 2-3Tb of data.

Re: [CentOS] DNS

2008-05-09 Thread Monty Shinn
gopinath wrote: hi I have defined search localhost in /etc/resolv.conf cat /etc/resolv.conf search localhost i did not define any nameserver ip address in this file i have given the gw ip from where the internet can be reached no dns is running in gateway. no dns service is running o

Re: [CentOS] FW: Partitioning help

2008-06-03 Thread Monty Shinn
Rajeev R. Veedu wrote: Hi, I have Centos server 4.5 with 3.3TB raid disk on a 3 ware controller. Now the problem is that I am not able to see the partition in full since it shows only 1.2TB. I have created a partition with Parted and (GNU PARTED) and I have seen it is 3.3 T there.

Re: [CentOS] remote access info please

2008-06-18 Thread Monty Shinn
Gary wrote: Hi ya'll, I built a new CentOS 5.1 server for a client, housing a Lotus Notes / Domino server, and various other virtualized IBM software server guests, and soon will have to physically move that server to another distant location. My question is that I will need secure access to th

[CentOS] centos 5.1 install failure

2008-06-19 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am attempting to install 5.1 x86_64, but it is dumping out during the post-install section. I was able to send a debug to a remote system. I've never looked through an install debug log before, but everything seems to be in order until after the "tar" install, at which point I

[CentOS] nfs high load issues

2008-07-18 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. When I "pull" data from server A to server B, with nfs, server B reports a high load when viewed via uptime. The load is upwards of 6.x. Server A's load remains light. When I "push" the data, server A's and B's loads are relatively light. When I change the mount point from nfs

[CentOS] OT: backup media options

2008-07-24 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. Sorry for the OT, but I'm looking for some advice regarding archiving. I've always been a tape archive believer, but with SATA drives becoming more reliable and much larger, I'm wondering if it is time to change my opinion. What are the benefits/pitfalls to begin archiving to "ent

[CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

2012-01-03 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am running vmware fusion 4.1.1 on a OSX host. Centos6.2 is a guest. The box is a macbook laptop running leopard. Before upgrading to 6.2, the display auto-resize (or auto-fill) was working fine. After 6.2, it has stopped working. Centos is fully updated to 6.2. I have tried to

Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

2012-01-04 Thread Monty Shinn
On 1/4/12 7:03 AM, Peter Eckel wrote: > > My current versions are: > >xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6 >xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse.x86_6412.7.0-1.el6 >xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64 11.0.3-1.el6 > > HTH, > >Peter. > Peter, Which repository did you get the abo

Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem

2012-01-04 Thread Monty Shinn
On 1/4/12 9:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr >> enabled on my box. > http://packages.vmware.com > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

Re: [CentOS] vmware fusion display auto-size problem SOLVED

2012-01-04 Thread Monty Shinn
On 1/4/12 9:08 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Which repository did you get the above drivers from? I have base and cr >> enabled on my box. > http://packages.vmware.com > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Monty Shinn
Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 14:49 +0200, Tim Verhoeven wrote: >> If people want more background information, please read the blogs of >> some of the developers available at : >> >> http://planet.centos.org/ >> >> That should give everyone a idea of what has happened and where the >>

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

2009-08-28 Thread Monty Shinn
Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up an iscsi 12.5 TB storage for some data backup. > > Doing so, I had some difficulties to find the right tool, maybe it's > also a question of the system settings... > > The server is a 32Bit CentOS 5.3 with the recent updates. T

[CentOS] OT: redhat training and RHES6

2010-08-24 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am planning on getting my RHCE in the near future. I thinking I should wait until 6 comes out before proceeding. That being said, I don't want to wait past the end of this year. That being said, do you all have any information about how long it takes for their training platform

[CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-28 Thread Monty Shinn
Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. I want the 8006 board to be /dev/sda, and the 9550 to be /dev/sdb. My plan is to install the os on /dev/sda (8006), and data on /dev/sdb (9550).

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-29 Thread Monty Shinn
Phil Schaffner wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:59 -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am in the process of installing 5.1 64 bit on a server. The server has 2 3ware cards: 9550SX 12 port, and a 8006 2 port, both SATA. Any reason not to use 5.2? Will save a lot of updates, and perhaps

Re: [CentOS] changing partition priority on install

2008-10-29 Thread Monty Shinn
Phil Schaffner wrote: A GRUB boot CD (or floppy) will allay the above concerns. Do an "info grub" to find out how to create one. Can also boot from install media to recover a lost GRUB. I did not find an option during the install prep to re-locate grub to the MBR of /dev/sdb. I probably

Re: [CentOS] Check my math please

2008-11-05 Thread Monty Shinn
Sean Carolan wrote: Ok this is kind of a goofy question but I want to make sure I get it right. Suppose we have a 25 mb video, that is 117 seconds long. If we wish for this streaming video to play smoothly with no compression, buffering or skipping, the following bandwidth requirements must be m

Re: [CentOS] Check my math please

2008-11-05 Thread Monty Shinn
Sean Carolan wrote: The size of the file doesn't make much difference. What matters is the resolution and framerate of the vide For a back-of-the napkin calculation can we not assume that data equal to the entire size of the file will be streamed to the client during playback? I understand th

Re: SOLVED Re: [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Monty Shinn
Thanks to all who replied. / filled up when my nightly rsync snapshot did something which I'm still looking into. I run a nightly rsync script to make copies (to an external HDD connected via USB) of user data files: #backup to USB drive location for /home # /media/bkup is /dev/sdg1 (USB

Re: [CentOS] OT supermicro server chassis?

2008-12-15 Thread Monty Shinn
Gordon McLellan wrote: > Does anyone have a supermicro 942i server chassis? I'm trying to > figure out if it has a true nine 5.25" drive bays, or if the one > occupied by the 3.5" caddy is special / crippled. > > What I want to do is install three of the supermicro 5x3 hot swap > backplanes and

Re: [CentOS] SELinux settings for directory shared via NFS and samba?

2019-07-19 Thread Monty Shinn
> On Jul 19, 2019, at 8:27 AM, Leon Fauster via CentOS > wrote: > > Am 19.07.2019 um 14:51 schrieb hw : >> Hi, >> >> what do I need to do to share the same directory with both NFS and samba? >> SElinux requires 'samba_share_t' for samba and 'nfs_t' for NFS, and AFAIC >> I can't set both at the

Re: [CentOS] Can't connect trough SSH to a new fresh CentOS 7 minimal server

2016-08-04 Thread Monty Shinn
A few things you might try: 1. Verify ssh is listening: netstat -antp | grep :22 | grep -i listen 2. Verify you can ssh locally: ssh localhost 3. Try to telnet to ssh port: telnet 22 4. run nmap against the ipaddress to verify port 22 is seen. Hope this helps. Regards, Monty On 08/04/