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

2011-02-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 16.02.2011 um 22:29 schrieb Larry Vaden: > > > Even further, the resistance to properly funding this project is > truly amazing. Well, with money come a lot of strings attached. Most likely, one would either have to incorporate a business or found some not-for-profit entity if large amo

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.02.2011 um 21:24 schrieb John R Pierce: > On 02/26/11 12:12 PM, Always Learning wrote: >> Because : is sometimes used in an address to indicate the start of a >> port number, examplehttp://www.anyonejunk.com:1234, the IP6 address >> can >> be enclosed within [ ] with the port number remai

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-02-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.02.2011 um 04:15 schrieb Ray Van Dolson: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 07:13:32PM -0800, JD wrote: >> Any word on approximate release date of Centos 6? >> >> Cheers, >> >> JD > > Seriously? Seriously?! It's like Sesame Street, you know... There's a new audience coming every week ;-) ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-02-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
>> > OK, as a measuring yardstick: approximately how many > months after RHEL5's release date was Centos 5 released? > That might give people an approximate idea. "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future". While extrapolating from past data is legitimate, it does not appl

Re: [CentOS] My new server

2011-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.03.2011 um 13:39 schrieb Timothy Murphy: > > Also there is no CD drive. > But there are extensive instructions (on a CD!) > about how to instal RHEL-5.5. > Best to use cobbler for that anyway. > > One last thing - there is only one ethernet socket. > This surprised me a little, > as I

Re: [CentOS] My new server

2011-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.03.2011 um 20:55 schrieb John R Pierce: > On 03/26/11 12:51 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Use VLAN-trunks. > > someone using a $350 micro server as his ADSL gateway is highly > unlikely > to have layer 2 managed switches capable of handling VLANs. E.g. the HP Proc

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.03.2011 um 22:16 schrieb Gary Scarborough: > There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer > list and this list about CentOS. My initial thought was why not > have CentOS and SL merge. Since they have different goals I can > understand the reason not to. So my n

Re: [CentOS] rssh / scponly

2011-03-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.03.2011 um 21:53 schrieb Gregory P. Ennis: > List, > > I am putting together a sftp server and would like to use a > restrictive > shell with a chroot jail. I was wondering what members of the list > thought about rssh as opposed to scponly. If you use sftp, it can be chroot'ed by defa

Re: [CentOS] rssh / scponly

2011-03-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.03.2011 um 22:57 schrieb John R Pierce: > On 03/27/11 1:03 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> If you use sftp, it can be chroot'ed by default (see man-page). >> (In reasonably recent version of sshd) > > I gather thats a sshd somewhat newer than the one included in C

Re: [CentOS] rssh / scponly

2011-03-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.03.2011 um 00:20 schrieb Gregory P. Ennis: > > I am running Centos 5.5. which has OpenSSH_4.3p2. I guess this > means I > am back to using rssh or scponlyc. So far I have not been able to get > either of these to work properly with chroot. > > Any suggestions ? > > I haven't been usi

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.03.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Timothy Murphy: > I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server, > which has no CD drive. > > I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, > and can access cobbler-web from my laptop. > > I have 3 queries about the installation. > > 1. Is there

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.03.2011 um 17:37 schrieb Timothy Murphy: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: 2. The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs. (I tried downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent, but this was a complete failure. It started OK, but then created literally thousands of links to one file, which brought

Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

2011-03-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.03.2011 um 17:45 schrieb Timothy Murphy: > > So I'll repeat my query, which as far as I can see no-one has > answered: > how do I use cobbler with 8 CD ISOs? > To be specific, what exactly do I "cobbler import"? You don't. You import the DVD(s). __

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 08.12.2020 um 15:32 schrieb Phelps, Matthew : > > This is really, really bad for the majority of us using CentOS. > Of course it is. > Is there any way we can lobby for the reversal of this decision? Remember > that the -devel mailing list, and IRC channels *do not* represent the vast

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 08.12.2020 um 18:02 schrieb Phelps, Matthew : > > The whole point of CentOS was so that we didn't have to "engage." We don't > have time for that. > You do understand that Open Source does not work like that? > We just want a stable re-compile of RHEL, as promised. CentOS has been > di

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 13.12.2020 um 20:44 schrieb Simon Avery : > >> >>> And there's *a lot* more than five of us. >> >> Here is number six. >> > > Just one of those groups energised from this decision is Rocky Linux. There > are 4,606 people on their Slack right now, which did not even exist a week > ago.

Re: [CentOS] Intel/64 CentOS VM running on a Mac M1?

2021-01-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 29.01.2021 um 02:11 schrieb Lists : > > My Dell Precision M3800 running Fedora works great but is really starting to > show its age, and I'm thinking about getting a new Mac M1-based laptop as it > would really be useful for Video production. > > But I really need to have a IA64 CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Intel/64 CentOS VM running on a Mac M1?

2021-01-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 29.01.2021 um 10:27 schrieb Thomas Bendler : > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:06 AM Rainer Duffner > wrote: > >> [...] >> Apple’s M1 are (probably) great - but only if you want to run macOS on it. >> Anything else and the compromises will likely be even m

Re: [CentOS] Expand XFS filesystem on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

2021-03-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 12.03.2021 um 15:23 schrieb Thomas Mueller : > > On 3/12/21 1:45 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> Is there a way to expand xfs filesystem /dev/nvme0n1p2 which is 7.8G and >> occupy the remaining free disk space of 60GB? > > parted porbably could do it. there is also a gparted gui > (https://

Re: [CentOS] Centos versions in the future?

2021-07-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 08.07.2021 um 17:38 schrieb Nikolaos Milas : > > On 8/7/2021 6:19 μ.μ., Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> ... >> Of course, tastes differ, but still, only those who tasted both things can >> have fairly say what is better to one's own taste. >> ... >> But even as part of our infrastructure fled

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.10.2009 um 00:18 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: > Hi all, > > We are busy developing some software (some is web based, others not) Licenses are only about the source-access and how contribution/ deviations are licensed. You can charge any amount you want for your GPL'ed stuff - but the source

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
R-Elists schrieb: >> Specific arguments I can think of would be: >> - Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware >> - Lack of support for both H/W and S/W >> - Possibly unable to run current versions of CentOS >> - Higher probability of hardware failures over time >> - Performance bottlenecks >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - "debate"

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Niki Kovacs schrieb: > Les Mikesell a écrit : > > >> I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality >> is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should >> repeat their mistakes. >> >> > > Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: > Toby Bluhm wrote: >> You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? >> >> We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of >> this "soon" crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages >> built, isos transfered, server update progress

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Late follow-up: Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > Now, my question(s) is as follows: > > Can I sell one script as GPL, but another as AGPL, or even BSD under > the same company name? And if these 2 are tied together (i.e. being > able to be used together, although seperate programs / script - for > example A

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

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Amos Shapira schrieb: > 2009/10/19 ken : > >> In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on >> just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely >> useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat charges us for >> > > The only guy I pers

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb > > John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned > through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, > and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that > iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding a

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > > Hi Rainer, > > I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system > like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e. > limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's, etc) > we already have. CentOS is my preferred OS o

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: > > I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is > concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single > disk from the array. > But the latency over the net is much higher. Who knows if the kernel can handle this

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Drew schrieb: > Hey, > > The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. > > Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using > for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the > various fans and it's location in the living room, I'v

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
ML schrieb: > Hi Everyone, > > I want to be sure the data is protected, but machine resources and > money are limited. > Why don't you rent a VPS for the time being and rsync the file+data to your MacPro, where you can use TimeMachine to create further backups? Rainer

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.10.2009 um 21:50 schrieb Curt Mills: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Matt wrote: > >> What is the cheapest SATA hardware raid card I can get at newegg.com? >> Seems like most turn out not to be true hardware raid that I have >> found and will not run on CentOS 4.8 without a great deal of grief. > >

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra help?

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Neil Muller schrieb: > > I run Zimbra (commercial) on Centos for my employers and there is no > problem running Zimbra on Centos or on getting support from Zimbra for > Zimbra on Centos. Where did this idea of "no support for Zimbra on > Centos" come from? > > It comes from the fact t

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra help?

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Neil Muller schrieb: > On 04/11/2009, at 9:50 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > >> It comes from the fact that if a problem with Zimbra can be tracked >> down >> to a problem in RHEL, Zimbra will work with RedHat to get a fix. >> If the problem is in CentOS, you

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

2009-11-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Robert Heller schrieb: > At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with >> external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an "Adaptec SCSI Card >> 2930LP". However I was not able to f

Re: [CentOS] What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ?

2009-11-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.11.2009 um 23:10 schrieb zeroironhack: > What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ? There's SUN's Webstack 1.5 for RHEL. We only use it on Solaris, though. Unless you pay, there are no patches - they release a new version from time to time and you can update pretty easily.

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Keith Keller schrieb: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> NFS mounts for Linux users >> Samba for Windows users >> Netatalk for Macintosh clients >> > > Wow, I didn't even know netatalk was still around! How does it compare > to SMB on OS X clients? I'm thi

Re: [CentOS] Latency Monitor

2009-12-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 02.12.2009 um 22:41 schrieb Matt: > Does anyone know of a utillity I can run on a server to periodically > ping several hosts and record the result? Does not need to be > anything fancy at all. I think smokeping does that. I must get around to configure it. I've already installed it... R

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 10.12.2009 um 01:39 schrieb Alvaro Schneider Guevara: Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to

Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

2010-01-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Mathieu Baudier schrieb: >> Not saying that I know anyone who works in these place, or that I've >> done a test to see how many of them are on the list - but just thinking >> out loud. >> > > Nothing to do with CentOS, but just yesterday this page from a tech > guy by LinkedIn, saved me quite

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Christopher Chan schrieb: >> cause when I did - the x45xx's/zfs were between 18 to 20% slower on disk >> i/o alone compared with a supermicro box with dual areca 1220/xfs. >> >> the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for >> online high density storage. >> > > > Sp

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Karanbir Singh schrieb: > On 01/08/2010 01:58 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >>> the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for >>> online high density storage. >>> >> I wonder how much that would change with a bbu NVRAM card for an >> external journal for ext4 and

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.01.2010 15:26, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: > > It seems X4500 (not available anymore) had Marvell SATA controllers, that > are not supported with RHEL5. > > X4540 uses LSI SATA controllers, that are supported. > Indeed: http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/os.jsp 5.3+ is needed. Of cours

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 12.01.2010 09:01, schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > > Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of > stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent > behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? > Enjoying the fact that "sh

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > thus Niki Kovacs spake: > >> Hi, >> >> Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on "desktop" hardware, >> meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for >> the network, or I rented some dedicated server some

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
> > On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Hello there, > > I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any > problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that > Rainer is absolutely right. You have to

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
/targetfs /targetfs is a NFS mounted filesystem. What network link is there between these hosts? Are these 1 or 2 million small files or bigger ones? Does the data change a lot? Is it a SAN or JBOD? cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.06.2008 um 21:51 schrieb Mag Gam: Network is a 10/100 You're kidding? 1 million large files No SAN, JBOD Move the data by moving the storage itself. It will take months to transfer 100 TB via FastEthernet. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROT

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
lems. In a SAN, you would have the possibility of synching the data outside of the filesystem, during normal operations. 100 TB is a lot of data. How do you back that up, BTW? What is your estimated time to restore it from the medium you back it up to? cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CI

Re: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

2008-06-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
would be better ;-) Actually, the calculation is that it needs a GB of RAM for every TB of managed data. So, if RAM is scarce and the feature of ZFS are not needed (for whatever reason), CentOS may be still be a good option. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISS

Re: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?

2008-06-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
hat simple. But it made sense in the early days, when SUN's thumper (X4500, 2*DC Opteron, 48 disks, 16 GB RAM) more or less fit the requirements perfectly. cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Rescan /dev/sd* without reboot?

2008-07-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
heap MSA70 that eliminates most these inconveniences and happens to save a huge amount of money compared to a SAN from HP). cheers, Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] tape drive

2008-07-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
nate schrieb: Pitshou Asingalembi wrote: the hp smart array 6400 controller. It's usually not a good idea to connect a tape drive to a raid controller. Exactly. Buy a dedicated SCSI-card for that. Tapes sometimes produce "interesting" events on the SCSI-bus (you might have got to s

Re: [CentOS] Understanding iptables

2008-07-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Filipe Brandenburger schrieb: P.S.: Once again: although it's great that you are digging into the problem, using iptables, and learning a lot on the process, you should *REALLY* consider ditching rsh/rlogin and sticking to SSH. I would consider using rsh/rlogin instead of SSH today about the sa

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Upgrade and RAID Card

2008-07-13 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 13.07.2008 um 22:14 schrieb Ryan Nichols: Johnny Hughes wrote: If it works ok on the old kernel, it should also work OK on the new one. Not if it's a binary-driver... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Upgrade and RAID Card

2008-07-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Ryan Nichols schrieb: So its junk? Basically, yes. Just worded more politely in the original mail by Paul. What would you recommend we move to then? RAID5+6: Areca, recent 3Ware SATA2 controllers, cciss (HP/CPQ). RAID1: If the system doesn't come with a decent RAID-controller, I'd r

Re: [CentOS] Hardware Compatibility List (looking for a gigabit nic on RHEL4)

2008-07-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
John R Pierce schrieb: Jason Pyeron wrote: Where should I start on my quest to find gigabit ethernet cards for all our workstations? Intel pro1000 cards or onboard chips. I'm not sure if RHEL4 has support for the latest Intel Pro 1000 cards - though Intel cards are definitely recommen

Re: [CentOS] SERIOUSLY OT STREAM EDITING IMAGES

2008-07-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 15.07.2008 um 21:47 schrieb Chris Geldenhuis: Hi All, I have been Googling my head off but cannot find a method to stream edit all the images in a directory and to resize them. I have a large number of images of up to 3GB in size that I want to put in albums on a website, but before I

Re: [CentOS] can I host a Ubuntu / Gentoo repository on a CentOS server?

2008-07-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 16.07.2008 um 00:29 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I was wondering if someone could answer this one for me. How do I host a different Linux OS repository(s) on my CentOS server? Have you looked at the click-through EULA when you installed C

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: This isn't the right place, but a bit of help is always welcome :) Windows XP, as with most other Windows' has the irritating habit of pilling up junk in the registry, and other places. My first check is always to check for viruses - update the virus definitions, and scan

Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management

2008-07-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Terry schrieb: Hello, I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. What is everyone else doing in this arena? I investigated this earlier. The only thing that seems halfway usable is pakiti: h

Re: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Guy Boisvert schrieb: A discussion about slowliness or not of Winblows SP3 is *SURELY* off topic in the CentOS list! I still don't know how the original poster came with all this in the CentOS list. I mean, for Winblows stuff, i'd post to a Winblows list first! Because the idiot-density i

Re: [CentOS] Personal Wiki for CentOS

2008-07-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 19.07.2008 um 19:01 schrieb Craig White: On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:38 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: For ages I have been keeping docs and notes in Public Folders inside an Exchange server and want to move this out to a more modern facility that allows tagging and searching via a web inte

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.07.2008 um 14:51 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: It seems I can't smarm monitor disks on RAID controllers? I tried on several machines with two different controllers and on all I get this when starting up smartd: Jul 27 14:36:43 c1 smartd[5944]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jul 27

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.07.2008 um 20:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Robert - elists wrote on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:35:24 -0700: /dev/ida/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0 I looked around, but none of these :-( /dev/disk points to pci ids and then to /dev/sda etc. It's a PCI-based controller that HP calls "HP 8 Port HBA Co

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.07.2008 um 16:36 schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was done to the internal hard drive... Well I mi

Re: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

2008-07-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.07.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Mhr wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:41:17 -0700: Or maybe it makes the machine feel good Funny that you say that. Believe it or not, but after I found that hpasm didn't provide any useful for me (at least at the moment) and I shut down the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Duplicate PV on HW RAID?

2008-07-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.07.2008 um 23:04 schrieb Eduardo Grosclaude: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Eduardo: To give you something else to consider, as an alternative: I believe there was a long thread here, awhile back, about using Software RAID, instead of fake R

Re: [CentOS] Windows XP fixmbr from Centos?

2008-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Robert Moskowitz schrieb: My corporate tech guy told me the first step is to get a standard XP mbr back on the system, and then he believes he can talk me through getting the encryption working again. If you really have SafeBoot, I have my doubts about that. cheers, Rainer

Re: [CentOS] Rapid deployment of CentOS on HP Proliant machines

2008-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Handloser, Fred (IHPS Corvallis) schrieb: Has anyone successfully deployed CentOS on HP Proliant servers using the Altiris Rapid Deployment (RDP) framework?This works out of the box with RHEL 5.1 but I have not been able to get this to work with CentOS 5.1.If anyone knows of an articl

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: php-eaccelerator

2011-11-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 06.11.2011 um 05:01 schrieb Reindl Harald: > has anybody ever got eaccelerator working with open_basedir on CentOS? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751569 > > i wonder that the last build is more than a yaer ago and nobody hitted until > now > or nobody is secring his vhsost an

Re: [CentOS] School cloud solution

2011-11-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:34:09 -0500 schrieb Doug Coats : > This really isn't a CentOS specific queation but that is our server > OS of choice. > > I manage a student file server and i would like to add cloud access > to it. Basically i would like our students to have access to the > same files at

Re: [CentOS] UC What happened to 6.1

2011-11-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 16.11.2011 um 19:07 schrieb Nataraj: > On 11/16/2011 02:21 AM, Rushton Martin wrote: >> One exception is those machines behind a firewall that does not allow >> downloads. The only upgrade path then is to download on another machine >> and burn DVDs. CR repos are not helpful in such a case!

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:02:01 +0200 schrieb Rudi Ahlers : > Back to the topic though, how does one guarantee 100% uptime on the > firewall level when you use a standard dedicated server? > pfSense offers failover via CARP ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone talk infrastructure with me?

2012-01-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.01.2012 um 00:53 schrieb Jason T. Slack-Moehrle: > Hi All, > > I started a 501c3 (not-for-profit) organization back in February 2011 to deal > with information archival. A long vision here, I wont bore you with the > details (if you really want to know, e-mail me privately) but the gist

Re: [CentOS] Anyone recognize "www-mysql"?

2012-03-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.03.2012 um 22:18 schrieb John R Pierce: > On 03/07/12 1:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> This a binary that executes HTML >> pages containing embedded SQL statements. > > > I found the debian package here: http://archive.debian.net/etch/www-mysql > > ah, and peeking into the source t

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.05.2009 um 21:25 schrieb Bart Schaefer: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider > wrote: >> >> One of the "problems" with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for >> the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. > > An option I haven't seen suggested yet For a r

Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.05.2009 um 00:10 schrieb Lanny Marcus: > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 > years What did stop you from replacing it 2.5 years ago, BTW? What's the warranty-policy for OEM-drives of

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Karanbir Singh schrieb: > > Have you looked into adaptec supplied management s/w ? In pretty much > ever case with such hba's the most functional way to look at state and > do any management on raid tends to be from vendor supplied s/w > > > 3Ware and Areca supply quite useful utilities that

Re: [CentOS] External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?

2009-06-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 01.06.2009 um 23:57 schrieb Benjamin Smith: Tired of "little problems" trying to keep 7 drives working in an old desktop computer, I'm considering an external SATA drive enclosure with a controller card based on the Sil3124. http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=152 I'm a bit conce

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 18:22 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Hi, > > I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning > application sending disk images to an FTP server. > > The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and > then > stores it remotely. Due to this approa

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 19:27 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Kevin Krieser a écrit : > >> >> I've done the zeroing out thing on mounted filesystems before when I >> wanted to move the contents of a drive to another. zeroing out >> before >> would be best if you planned to do an install, then back it up for >

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 19:54 schrieb Niki Kovacs: > Rainer Duffner a écrit : >> >> Ever booted a live-CD? >> It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the >> CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't >> reco

Re: [CentOS] NAS Storage server question

2009-06-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Coert Waagmeester schrieb: > Hello all, > > > At our office a have a server running 3 Xen domains. Mail server, etc. > > I want to make this setup more redundant. > > There are a few howtos on the combination of Xen, DRBD, and heartbeat. > That is probably the best way. > > Another option I am look

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

2009-06-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Jerry Geis schrieb: > Hi all, > > I have a kickstart file that works for /dev/sda. > I now need to detect an HP server and use /dev/cciss instead of hard > coded /dev/sda. > > How can I detect what the name of the device is and use /dev/cciss and > not /dev/sda? > > Jerry > __

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.06.2009 um 20:00 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: > Hi, > > I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but > specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / > databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. > > I already know PHP, but realize it's n

Re: [CentOS] NAS Storage server question

2009-06-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Coert Waagmeester schrieb: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 22:59 +0200, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > >> 2009/6/11 Coert Waagmeester : >> >>> Hello all, >>> >> Hi, >> >> >>> At our office a have a server running 3 Xen domains. Mail server, etc. >>> >>> I want to make this setup more redund

Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options

2009-06-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 24.06.2009 um 23:59 schrieb Bart Schaefer: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, nate wrote: >> >> Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >>> My requirements are only that the software should be simple to >>> install, >>> maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like >>> it...) when >>> it c

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.07.2009 um 22:31 schrieb Geoff Galitz: > > > >> is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? > > If this is a real zero-day exploit.. then yes, there is an issue. The > following link may be the best source of information at the moment: > > http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?story

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-10 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rob Kampen schrieb: > Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it just makes it slower > for the script kiddies that try brute force attacks - they have to > pace themselves to one try per minute rather than one or two per > second. Thus they normally move on to an easier target. > You can als

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on IBM Bladecenter HS21

2009-07-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Tim Verhoeven schrieb: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Andrei F wrote: > >> I have CentOS 5.2 installed on two of the afore-mentioned blades. >> I've noticed that the OS started to crash lately (kernel panic) and I've >> been assigned the task to troubleshoot this issue. >> >> I would like to

Re: [CentOS] Drupal installation

2009-07-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.07.2009 um 20:33 schrieb Geoff Galitz: > > >> Honestly, I think you would then be better off with something else. >> Drupal >> is one of the more powerful, but also more complex CMS systems >> available. > > I strongly agree with this statement. I was using Drupal for my > personal >

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.07.2009 um 03:23 schrieb Robert Heller: > > Right. The other option, if there is some specific thing you need > changed is to grab the source RPM and tweek the .spec file and include > your own patch(es). Keep the patch(es), along with a patch file for > the > .spec file someplace, so y

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Craig White schrieb: > > Perhaps you can just say to Lance, thanks and keep whatever money, just > turn over the domain name and then you can get your own paypal & adsense > accounts. > > I suspect this is exactly what they are trying to do. Does anybody know where he lives? Can somebody from

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Craig White schrieb: > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:18 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Craig White schrieb: >> >>> Perhaps you can just say to Lance, thanks and keep whatever money, just >>> turn over the domain name and then you can get yo

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 30.07.2009 um 23:32 schrieb Neil Aggarwal: >> http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private > > That posting states: > I heard some vague numbers, likely in the 4 digits EUR range > per month but real figures are only known by one person. > > For at least three years peopl

Re: [CentOS] Install 32 or 64 bits

2009-08-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Yaovi Atohoun schrieb: > Hi all, > > I am going to install CENTOS 5..3 on three HP Proliant ML 350G > servers. The processor is Quad-core Xeon E5420 and E5335 for one of > them. They all have 1GB Memory. Should I install a 32 bits version or > 64 bits versions? > > The servers will be used an org

Re: [CentOS] Install 32 or 64 bits

2009-08-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
mcclnx mcc schrieb: > Not all 32 bits applications can run on 64 bits O.S. > > ORACLE is one of that. ORACLE web site say very clearly 32 bits ORACLE can > NOT install on 64 bits LINUX O.S. I personal tried to do that several times, > but failed. This include 32 bits ORACLE 10Gr2, ORACLE EBS R

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but >>> not fast. >> >> Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something >> better >> next time, what have you f

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 21:07 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >> If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- >> end 3Ware models. > > Well, for non Solaris/non file servers, hardware raid is easiest. True. Replacing disks is much easier for sure. > I am > hesitant to go with Arec

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