[CentOS] Is there a Centos 3 around ?

2011-02-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! I think one of my machine got hacked, but I can figure out from where... I found some suspicious file in /bin and /usr/bin directories that are owned by user id 122, where this machine doesn't a userid 122. So, does anyone hav a centos 3.9 install arround that can send me the info about (

Re: [CentOS] Is there a Centos 3 around ?

2011-02-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> I think one of my machine got hacked, but I can figure out from where... >> >> I found some suspicious file in /bin and /usr/bin directories that are >> owned >> by user id 122, where this machine doesn't a userid 122. >> >> So, does anyone hav a centos 3.9 install arround that can send me the

Re: [CentOS] Is there a Centos 3 around ?

2011-02-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
> On 02/07/11 10:06 AM, Nicolas Ross wrote: >> I found some suspicious file in /bin and /usr/bin directories that are >> owned >> by user id 122, where this machine doesn't a userid 122. >> > > oh. get and run rkhunter. preferably do it on read only medi

[CentOS] RHEL 6 <-> CentOS 6 ?

2011-02-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! We are curently deploying an 8 nodes cluster where we have a RHEL 6 license at great costs (~14 k$/y). It will be our new production environment for mission-critical services. Now our aging developpement server (old p4 with 1.5 gig of ram) need to be updated. We will be installing on hard

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 <-> CentOS 6 ?

2011-02-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> But 6 isn't out yet. (by the way, when ;-) > > Oh mani padmay when it's done That I already know, that was kinda of a sarcastic question that required kinda sarcastic answer ;-) I know that 5.6 is on it's way relatively soon, and work on 6 will continue afterwards... __

Re: [CentOS] Configuring a cluster

2011-02-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Dear Centos users, > I am not sure if this the correct place to post but it seems sensible. > I have an 8 node cluster which I want to install/configure Centos. As > I am not a sys-admin, can anyone advise me on what I should do? Hi ! What kind of cluster ? Is it for high-availibity ? Will ther

Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!

2011-02-21 Thread Nicolas Ross
> John Hinton wrote: >> All, >> >> (and please do not turn this into the next long thread) >> >> > > > I am not a man of many words.. and i am usually very quiet on this > list. But would just like to say that i appreciate all the CentOS team > members immensely. I sincerely thank you all

Re: [CentOS] Watching a directory

2011-03-17 Thread Nicolas Ross
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, R P Herrold wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jason Slack-Moehrle wrote: >> >>> Would anyone have thoughts? >> >> don't reinvent the wheel >> >> inotify builds and works fine on CentOS 5 > > And it should be available by default in CentOS 6. > > -Connie Sieh (sorry, I don't h

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.6 live cd - not installable to " hard drive?"

2011-04-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Downloaded centos 5.6 live cd from... > > http://mirror.nexcess.net/CentOS/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso > > it is dated 06-04-2011. > > No option to install on hard disk. > > Have I missed it somehow? > > Please some advice. > > Maybe the address if an installable cd iso please.

[CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
5.6 is out. That is good news. I did a yum update on one of my non-critical server, and the server stoped responding to ping after the reboot, and never answered back. It's now been 10 minutes, so I'll have to take a ride to the colo... Nice work dev team, keep up the good work. Let's hope that

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 07:26:55PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> Remember, you could have been at the limit of reboots before it does a >> automatic fsck. Been there, done that. > ...or time, if the filesystem has a force-fsck-after-N-days feature. Yes, it could have, but it's been 2 hours n

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-09 Thread Nicolas Ross
(...) >> Please post a follow-up, I'm curious what went wrong. :) >> > Maybe your server is hanging at fsck recovery shell waiting for root > password (or user interaction). Probably that. > Do you have a option to reboot you system into rescue mode or better a > KVM over IP ? Sorry, no, that serv

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-11 Thread Nicolas Ross
>>> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 07:26:55PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: Remember, you could have been at the limit of reboots before it does a automatic fsck. Been there, done that. >>> ...or time, if the filesystem has a force-fsck-after-N-days feature. >> Yes, it could have, but it's been

Re: [CentOS] 5.6 is out, great my first upgrade didn't work...

2011-04-11 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> To follow-up on my own storry, I got there this morning, expecting to >> find the server stuck at fsck or somthing similar, only to find it with >> only the sord "GRUB" on the screen, and beeping like crazy. I didn't >> have any iso nor centos cd with me, so I'll get back there this >> after-no

Re: [CentOS] Sangoma A101DE 1 Port E1/T1 With Hardware Echo Cancellation ( PCI Express ) Card installed on the box

2011-04-13 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> I have Sangoma A101DE 1 Port E1/T1 With Hardware Echo Cancellation ( PCI >> Express ) Card installed on the box. Its not detected. Details are as >> below >> :- > > Sounds like a hardware problem. I'm running CentOS 5.5 with three > Sangoma cards and Asterisk. The one is showing up as a A200 ca

Re: [CentOS] Sangoma A101DE 1 Port E1/T1 With Hardware Echo Cancellation ( PCI Express ) Card installed on the box

2011-04-13 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Hi > > I get anaconda.log:23:07:59 DEBUG : ignoring driverless device Sangoma > Technologies Corp. A200/Remora FXO/FXS Analog AFT card > Linux asterisk 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > lspci | grep sangoma does not return anything > > P

Re: [CentOS] Sangoma A101DE 1 Port E1/T1 With Hardware Echo Cancellation ( PCI Express ) Card installed on the box

2011-04-13 Thread Nicolas Ross
> (...) > You need to contact the vendor and ask them for a driver for the card. > anaconda's *telling* you that it has no driver for the card, at least as > far as I can tell. Even so, the card with no driver would be listed in lspci... ___ CentOS maili

[CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

2011-04-16 Thread Nicolas Ross
Is it possible that the kernel in the centosplus repo is not up to date ? The centosplus kernel I have is kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 and the regular one is 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5... I need the plus because of the firewire drivers. Regards, ___ CentOS m

Re: [CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

2011-04-16 Thread Nicolas Ross
> I *believe* it's been already built. But it needs to be released. > Karanbir is away this weekend. Can other dev push it? Johnny? Tru? > > Akemi It's not that urgent, it's just that yum sees that the update from the regular repository, and I ended up with no external drive to my backup storage

Re: [CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

2011-04-16 Thread Nicolas Ross
> If it is the classic stack of firewire drivers that are required, and > there is nothing else needed from the centosplus kernel, a good > solution is to get the kABI-tracking firewire modules from ELRepo: > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-ieee1394 > > It provides: > > dv1394.ko

Re: [CentOS] centosplus kernel not up to date ?

2011-04-16 Thread Nicolas Ross
>>> Because they survive kernel updates transparently and you can run the >>> distro kernel, there will be no "waiting" for each kernel update. >> That is indeed what I need, I use ieee1394, raw1394 and sbp2 to access >> my 2tb firewire external drive that is used for backup rotation. >> >> I will

[CentOS] Finding wich files a writen to

2011-05-04 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! I have a server (Centos 5) that is using a pair of SAS drives to store the data. (Mail server) They are on an adaptec raid controler with a battery backup and write back cache active. >From time to time, I have sever peak io to those data disks (> 400 to 500 iops, > 70 to 100 megs/sec).

Re: [CentOS] Finding wich files a writen to

2011-05-04 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Just out of curiosity I decided to write a simple script which checks all the > files from all pids on the system. > > Here is what I got: >http://hydra.azilian.net/scripts/read_fds.pl > > The idea is to read all the /proc/PID/fdinfo/ files and check the difference > in > the pos lines (the

Re: [CentOS] Finding wich files a writen to

2011-05-04 Thread Nicolas Ross
(...) > This is excellent, and sooo clever... Except that I don't have the > /proc/*/fdinfo directories. It seems that theses directories appeared in > 2.6.22, and, since I am in centos5, I only have 2.6.18... > > I tested it on SL6 machine, and it works perfectly... Upgrade is not an > option for

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Nicolas Ross
> I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I > understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to > roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is > looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout >

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> While waiting >> for C6, I installed an unsubscribed version of RHEL6, but it was >> troublesome >> to install packeges. So for those servers that were already installed, I >> switched them to SL6 without having to re-install, and it went great >> without >> a pain. > > Did you perform a yum

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-26 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> I did used these utilities, while it can help see what processes are >> generating IO, it doesn't show what files on the file system are being >> asked >> or waited for. >> >> Basicly, what I'm searching is an equivalent for fs_usage on Mac OS X, or >> tcpdump, but on a bloc device... > > Not s

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-26 Thread Nicolas Ross
>>> Not sure what those do, but lsof should show what files are open, and >>> 'strace -p process_id' would show the system calls issued by a >>> process. >> >> Thanks, that might be usefull. I'ill just have to find a way to strace >> multiple process at once and find the usefull info among that loa

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-28 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Not sure how gfs2 deals with client caching, but in other scenarios > it's probably easier to just throw a lot of ram in the system and let > the filesystem cache do its job. You still have to deal with > applications that need to fsync(), though. Our nodes all have 12 gigs of ddr3 ram, that sh

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-28 Thread Nicolas Ross
> >> Not sure how gfs2 deals with client caching, but in other scenarios > >> it's probably easier to just throw a lot of ram in the system and let > >> the filesystem cache do its job. You still have to deal with > >> applications that need to fsync(), though. > > > > Our nodes all have 12 gigs of

[CentOS] Design question about VG / LV in a clustered environement

2011-12-06 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! Since the last couple of months, we had a few problems with the maner we designed our clustered filesystem and we are planing to do a re-design of the filesystems and how they are used. Our cluster is composed of 8 nodes, connected via fibre channel, to a raid enclosure where we have 6 pa

[CentOS] Cause for kernel panic

2011-12-14 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! On an 8-node cluster, one of the node did a kernel panic. The only bit of information I have is on a ssh console I had open, which said : Message from syslogd@node108 at Dec 14 19:00:15 ... kernel:[ cut here ] Message from syslogd@node108 at Dec 14 19:00:15 ...

Re: [CentOS] Cause for kernel panic

2011-12-15 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> From this, is there a way to determine the cause ? kdump is not >> confirgured nor used, since the fencing of the node renders kdump >> useless. >> >> This is the second time in a few weeks it happens. > > /var/log/messages should have more information; could you include it? No, unfortunentl

[CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-05 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! As some of you might know, Apple has discontinued it's xServes server as of january 31st 2011. We have a server rack with 12 xserves ranging from dual G5's to dual quand-core xeon lastest generation, 3 xserve-raid and one activeraid 16 TB disk enclosure. We also use xSan to access a share

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
Thanks, > On 11/05/2010 04:34 PM, Nicolas Ross wrote: >> Now with this said, I am searching for documentation on operating a SAN >> under linux. We are looking at Quantum StorNext FS2 product for the SAN >> itselft. > > I'm not sure how much help you'll g

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Perhaps FreeNAS would fit the bill? > > http://freenas.org/features > Thanks for the suggestions (others also), but I don't beleivee it'll do. We need to be able to access the file system directly via FC so we can lock files across systems. Pretty much like xSan, but not on apple. xSan is rea

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolas Ross
> KB, I think the OP is looking for a nice set of userland tools which > was included in xServer Pretty much. Since we were about to purchase about 8 new xserve to build a new xSan on top of an active raid 16 1 tb disk enclosure as our new production environement, we are exploring other possibili

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Have you looked at Red Hat's GFS? That seems to fit at least a portion of > your needs (I don't use it, so I don't know all that it does). I've spent better part of the last day to read documentation on gfs2 on redhat's site. My god, that's pretty much what I'm looking for... To the point tha

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolas Ross
> The linux-cluster mailing list is super friendly, has both developers > and consumers of the entire RHCS & associated packages - and CentOS > friendly :) I seriously recommend anyone looking to do any sort of work > with this toolchain should be on that list. Thanks, I'll surely make a visit

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-09 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> The linux-cluster mailing list is super friendly, has both developers >> and consumers of the entire RHCS & associated packages - and CentOS >> friendly :) I seriously recommend anyone looking to do any sort of work >> with this toolchain should be on that list. > > Thanks, I'll surely make a vi

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-11 Thread Nicolas Ross
On another note, on the same subject (xServes being disontinued), one feature we use heavily on our os-x server is the ability to load / unload periodic jobs with launchd. With it we're able to schedule jobs let's say every 5 minutes, and so on. One could say I could do something like "*/5 * *

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-11 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Sure, but you also need to start the loop and make sure it doesn't die. > You could use a script like this to repeat a script and then wait: > > --- > #!/bin/sh > > delay="$1" > shift > > "$...@}" > > at now + "$delay" < "$0" "$delay" "$...@}" > EOF > --- > > Run "repeat.sh 5m /path/to/wh

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-12 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> > while true; do >> > your stuff >> > sleep 60 >> > done; >> >> Sure, but you also need to start the loop and make sure it doesn't die. > > Put in /etc/inittab > ms:2345:respawn:/path/to/my/loop_script > > (where "ms" is unique). > > If the loop dies then init wil

[CentOS] Upgrade from RHEL 6 beta ?

2010-11-16 Thread Nicolas Ross
I've installed rhel 6 beta to start playing around with clustering, gfs2 and ldap. Will I be able to upgrade to centos 6 final or I'll have to re-install ? Nicolas ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from RHEL 6 beta ?

2010-11-16 Thread Nicolas Ross
> > Recently there was a discussion about upgrading to rhel6 on the > > rhelv6-beta list > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rhelv6-beta-list-h+wxahxf7alqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org/msg00076.html > > Where did I got that link ? Here is a hopefully working one: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rhelv6-b

Re: [CentOS] SMS Gateway

2010-11-18 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Hi list-people! > > Is there anybody who has expiriences with sms gateway on Centos? Our > customer has a Siemens modem (connected via serial port) and finds any > tool for sending and receving sms. I found something like gammu and > smstools but I'm not sure with it.. Have you any tips? We user

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from RHEL 6 beta ?

2010-11-23 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi again ! I am begining to play with my new servers. I got for starter 2 nodes (1u intel server platform, with a LSI Logic FC949ES FC card). I am like a child playing with his new toys at christmas... I can't wait for CentOS 6 to come out. I do not want to clutter the list about requests for Ce

Re: [CentOS] Checking what's running inside a httpd process

2010-11-26 Thread Nicolas Ross
Bonjour Robert. From experience with this kind of problems, you need to check what script (php or other) is served by that process at the moment it takes that much ram. The first thing you need to look is was the httpd process is responding to. If it's not, switch the ExtendedStatus to on, and

Re: [CentOS] Checking what's running inside a httpd process

2010-11-26 Thread Nicolas Ross
Also, a thing I've notice is that httpd process tend not to relase it's used memory very fast. So if you see that the process is not doing much (via server-status), you can safely kill it. The parent httpd process will create a new one when needed. Regards, Nicolas Le 2010-11-26 à 16:06, Pasca

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-27 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Thanks for all the input. Particularly John and Patricks URL's for reading > material. Starting with the stuff here > http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml > Which is really good. Verry interesting collection. The document for rhel5 is verry wel

Re: [CentOS] 1 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC under CentOS

2010-12-01 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> Is there a list somewhere out there listing what card features what >> chipset? >> >> It definitely looks like it is best to just stick to the better >> chipsets - might be a little more expensive but definitely worth the >> money. > > You get what you pay for -- this is a valid rule of thumb t

[CentOS] Specifying 2 LDAP Server for auth

2010-12-13 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! We are planing on deploying an ldap master and replica to serve as our new authentication server for our soon to be RedHat cluster. But, we need to be able to function if the master is down for whatever reason. So, I tried to specify 2 servers in the setup-authentification servername secti

Re: [CentOS] Specifying 2 LDAP Server for auth

2010-12-13 Thread Nicolas Ross
> It works, but the Red Hat tools don't create the optimal configuration > files. The following works in our environment (two LDAP servers, TLS > required). I set the various timelimit values low to facilitate a > fairly robust failover: > > # /etc/ldap.conf > # > # failover doesn't seem to work wo

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 x86_64 mixing with i386 rpms

2010-12-17 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Good day, > > What will happen if on x86_64 some i386 rpms get installed, please. > Thanks > Johan You'll need some libraries, like libstdc++ in i686 version, but they'll be installed and they'll run. Regards, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

2010-12-19 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> >> > This is not FOSS stuff, but something like ioncube might > help you speed things up. > > http://www.ioncube.com/comments.php > > HTH You can also use xCache, we've had dramatsic performance improvement with it. From .12 s page load tome to 0.007 for some case. It was not druppal, bu

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 >> "# Set up SSL protection on your website." >> is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip >> address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? > > Yes. > > Reverse DNS has to be working. Why is that? I have several ssl sites, and many

Re: [CentOS] parsing an e-mail with perl

2011-01-12 Thread Nicolas Ross
> I need to be able to pull off attachments from e-mails on the fly and > then demime them and print them. I have been studying MIME::Tools but > was hoping someone could point me to a script example of something I > could use. Here's a little sniplet from a perl script I have to filter some atta

Re: [CentOS] BIND9 - automatic zone definition replication to slave

2011-05-30 Thread Nicolas Ross
> I have simple question - is there a way to automatically replicate zone > definition (not zone itself - this is easy) to slave server using BIND9? Is > it BIND built-in or are there prebuilt scripts? Or I have to write that > script on my own (started by Cron, transfer file with zone names, c

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
>I have a RHEL system and I'm thinking of changing to CentOW. How can > this be done most easily. It is important that the e-mail setup not be > disturbed, since it was crafted to work with an IP that requires > authentication. I switch a RHEL machine in EL6 to scientific linux a while ago, and I

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:30:18 AM Dvorkin, Asya wrote: >> On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:43:24 AM Nicolas Ross wrote: >> >> I switch a RHEL machine in EL6 to scientific linux a while ago, and I >> >

[CentOS] daemon user can't acess file while nobody user can.

2011-06-07 Thread Nicolas Ross
I have a server where /home is on a nfs. I installed an apache (my compile) server. By default, it runs as daemon. That user can't acces files in /home/*/public_html, while the nobody user can. So if I change my apache config, it now can. /home is : drwxr-xr-x /home/user is : drwxr-xr-x /home/u

Re: [CentOS] Changing from RHEL to CentOS

2011-06-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> By looking at the man page, distro-sync wouldn't re-install a package >> with >> the same version. For exemple, on my rhel boxes, I have >> tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch installed, and on my sl6's one, I have >> tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch. It's the same exact version number. So the >> installed pack

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolas Ross
> How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user > password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. If you want 2 factor authentication, you can add yubikeys. They are little usb dongle that provides one-time-password. And the server-side for those is open-source if you don

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> If you want 2 factor authentication, you can add yubikeys. They are >> little >> usb dongle that provides one-time-password. And the server-side for those >> is >> open-source if you don't want to use their authentication servers. And >> they >> are relatively cheap. >> >> We use these here o

[CentOS] Switch from SL -> Centos

2011-07-11 Thread Nicolas Ross
For those interested, I switched a SL 6 desktop I use at my desk to CentOS 6 without a hurt... Did : Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.no

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL -> Centos

2011-07-11 Thread Nicolas Ross
> The above would only update a package if the centos repos had a higher > version number than the installed SL one I would strongly suggest > something akin to yum reinstall \* and leave it to chug away (backups > first naturally) for a while to refresh all the packages and teh rpm > database

[CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-20 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi list ! We have a very busy webserver hosted in a clustered environment where the document root and data is on a GFS2 partition off a fiber-attached disk array. Now on busy moments, I can see in htop, nmon that there is a fair percentage of cpu that is waiting for I/O. In nmon, I can spot th

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-21 Thread Nicolas Ross
> Hi Nicolas, > > While this doesn't exactly answer your question, I was wondering what > scheduler you were using on your GFS2 (Note: I have not used this file > system before) block. You can find this by issuing 'cat /sys/block/ block device>/queue/scheduler' ? > > By default the system uses cfq,

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-26 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> In the meen time, I'd still like to find a tool to know what files are >> requeted to the filesystem and what ones are being waited for... >> > > atop and iotop are tools that do that...when the kernel has been > appropriately patched or the kernel is of an appropriate version... I did used the

Re: [CentOS] EPEL no php-pear package?

2015-04-08 Thread Nicolas Ross
James B. Byrne a écrit : Does anyone know what package provides the pear utility for php on CentOS? I tried installing a php-pear module from epel and got this error: Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-pear-DB.noarch 0:1.7.13-3.el6 will be installed --> Proces

[CentOS] Question about storage for virtualisation

2012-06-25 Thread Nicolas Ross
Hi ! I'm about to deploy a new server that will host several virtual host for mainly website hosting purposes. My server will be a Xeon 3440 or 3450 with 32 gigs of ram (the max of that board). So I will have 8 logical cores. At the moment, I don't know how many vms I will have, in the order o

Re: [CentOS] leap second

2012-07-06 Thread Nicolas Ross
> You could have just done: > service ntpd stop; date -s "`date`"; service ntpd start > Fixed here without even stopping any jvm. Would have loved to know that then ;-) We have 2 8-node clusters that runs many java applications, and many java applications on seperate servers. I went nuts when all

[CentOS] Can,t get pam_mkhomedir to work...

2012-07-30 Thread Nicolas Ross
On a ldap enabled CentOS 6.3 x64 system, I try to make it so home directories are auto-created. I added this : session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0077 to my /etc/pam.d/system-auth And it does nothing. I restarted messagebus (I've seen references to that) and sshd,

Re: [CentOS] Can,t get pam_mkhomedir to work...

2012-07-30 Thread Nicolas Ross
Nicolas Ross a écrit : > On a ldap enabled CentOS 6.3 x64 system, I try to make it so home > directories are auto-created. I added this : > > session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0077 > > to my /etc/pam.d/system-auth > > And it does nothing. I re

Re: [CentOS] Can,t get pam_mkhomedir to work...

2012-07-31 Thread Nicolas Ross
James A. Peltier a écrit : > | And it does nothing. I restarted messagebus (I've seen references to > | that) and sshd, and logs don't mention anything in regards to > | pam_mkhomedir... > | > | Any hints ? > | ___ > | CentOS mailing list > | CentOS@cento