[CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
Hi, I was hoping someone would have an idea of what's going on here... We have two NFS issues. One of which is certainly centos based, one of which we're not sure of. First issue is: As of Centos 5, we can't make simultaneous access to a directory via NFS. To duplicate, I cd into a share in tw

Re: [CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
All 5.2 versions have this problem. --Russell On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, I was hoping someone would have an idea of what's going on he

Re: [CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
> > Example settings from my /etc/auto.* (automount): > * > -fstype=nfs4,rw,tcp,port=2049,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid > ://& > > Maybe the options *async* and the settings for rsize and wsize could be > helpful for you? We're using nfs3 over tcp. rsize and wsize are 32768. Async is

Re: [CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Russell Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > All 5.2 versions have this problem. > > > > --Russell > > You might want to look

Re: [CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Olaf Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > Funny thing is, turning on nfs debug and trying to trigger this > > problem > > seems to cause data corruption. Once it even managed to corrupt the > > local disk writes to the points where the journals aborted and I

Re: [CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Olaf Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Russell Miller wrote: > > Hello. > > > We're using nfs3 over tcp. rsize and wsize are 32768. Async is > > default, though I've tried sync. > Try rsize=8192 and wsize=8192. An

Re: [CentOS] Two NFS issues

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Miller
> Ok, but the portmap service have to run on the server. Correct me if I > get wrong, but the CentOS clients are asking the server for the port to > use and this is what portmap does. Actually I have a little more information, but I'm having a hard time putting the pieces together. It looks like

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Authentication and Authorisation.

2008-12-02 Thread Russell Miller
Friedrich Clausen wrote: > Does anyone have any real world, in the trenches experience they would > be willing to share? I would like to know which is the most > maintainable and easy to hand-over to more junior admins. > The way we did this was, we have an access.conf file that is automaticall

Re: [CentOS] nfs slow?

2008-12-10 Thread Russell Miller
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Davide Cittaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm migrating from Gentoo to CentOS... I'm experiencing a > rather low performance in NFS r/w (as client). > NFS server is solaris (which exports zfs volumes via nfs). The very > same exports were mounted with the

Re: [CentOS] nfs slow?

2008-12-16 Thread Russell Miller
> Well, you got what you asked for. There's lots of info on the > centos.org web site, including info about the standard vs. plus > repositories. You need to make an informed decision there, which it > looks like you're moving towards, so keep going. > Interestingly, as a project for work I've b

Re: [CentOS] nfs slow?

2008-12-16 Thread Russell Miller
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:10 PM, nate wrote: > Russell Miller wrote: > >> I have some pretty graphs, but the long and short of it is, while the >> read times are comparable, the write times for the stock kernel.org >> kernel are over twice as fast. I mean it's pr

Re: [CentOS] nfs slow?

2008-12-18 Thread Russell Miller
> Hi Russel, Are you Bonding the two Broad Com NICs? Can you give us an idea > speed wise of the performance for NFS? OT, are you doing any Samba testing? No, we're not bonding the NICs. Roughly, writes on the centos kernel are about 600K/s on average, and on the stock kernel about 1.3M/s. These

Re: [CentOS] flash fails to work on Los Angeles Times website - fix

2008-12-20 Thread Russell Miller
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Mark Pryor wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 32-bit install of C5.2 on my Intel Centrino Laptop (2005). > The Adobe flash plugin works fine in Firefox in all cases except on the Los > Angeles Times website http://www.latimes.com. > > I was baffled by this for a few mon

[CentOS] Server test suite

2009-05-01 Thread Russell Miller
Hi, I have an interest in software that will allow me to define test suites for servers. We have several thousand Linux systems, and after we build or rebuild each one, we have a checklist. I am trying to automate this checklist, and ideally have it run against all of our servers on a regular ba

Re: [CentOS] Server test suite

2009-05-01 Thread Russell Miller
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nate wrote: > What kinds of things are on the checklist? Perhaps you can use something > like cfengine or puppet to do this. cfengine essentially runs a checklist > for me every hour on every system and enforces the rules I have set in > it(roughly 15,000 lines of

Re: [CentOS] [OT] interesting hobbies (was Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS)

2014-04-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 12, 2014, at 4:09 PM, eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: > H.guess everyone's definition of fun is different?.LoL! > I think it's tremendous fun to rehabilitate old electronics. A few months ago, I picked up a Sony Tektronix 390AD digitizer. There was nothing wrong with it, excep

Re: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

2014-04-12 Thread Russell Miller
(If this double posts, my apologies. The first one was sent from the wrong address and I'm not sure it went through) On Apr 12, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > It seems the only stumbling block for me so far is > 1. Finding a 48V power supply How much current do you need? I bet

Re: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

2014-04-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 12, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Russell Miller wrote: > >> >> How much current do you need? I bet I could find you one (if it's not a >> ridiculous amount). There's a surplus place here in the Portl

Re: [CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

2014-04-12 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 12, 2014, at 10:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > I've retired all the older xeon "P4" class hardware from my development > lab as its increasingly unreliable as it gets older than 5 years old. > a huge 6000 watt chassis of 8 dual single core servers with 8gb max ram > each can *easily*

Re: [CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-13 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > > In the context of the OP, when mutt tries to deal with a message (e.g., > deleting, moving to a folder), it can be boatloads faster, since > handling the message works on a small file which contains just that > message. Deleting a message f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 mount of ntfs formatted usb stick fails

2014-04-14 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 14, 2014, at 7:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/14/2014 6:06 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> I recently received an 8GB usb stick that fails to mount on my fully >> patched CentOS 6.5 desktop machine. >> >> The stick works just fine on a windoze 7 laptop (my daughter's) with >> no special d

Re: [CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-14 Thread Russell Miller
> > We have been using Maildir with courier-imap for decades, and > haven't had an issue with this. My security folder typically has > 25,000+ messages for the last 7 days messages, and accessing > either with IMAP or directly with mutt isn't a problem. > > I have written various scripts over th

Re: [CentOS] Kernel panic when booting into FIPS mode

2014-04-20 Thread Russell Miller
On Apr 20, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Dale Harris wrote: > > > But that file does exist on the system. I guess the initramfs may not > see the /boot directory on the system? Or is it trying to look for > /boot inside the initramfs? If so that would explain my problem. I > haven't verified any of this

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-17 Thread Russell Miller
On May 17, 2014, at 3:29 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning: >> >> Top posting ALWAYS makes sense when the poster has included nearly 200 >> lines of redundant and time-wasting waffle from previous posters. > > False argument. In reading through this pe

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-07 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 7, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > No systemd in FreeBSD. It isn't Linux, and like any O/S, has its own > oddities. > > It would take more adjustment, IMHO, to go from CentOS 6.x to FreeBSD than > to go to 7.x. (I'm saying this as someone who uses both FreeBSD and > Fedora

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 8, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > That presumes that your conservative attitude is the majority opinion > though. Systemd is one of the features that I have been looking forward > to in CentOS 7 because of the new capabilities it provides so while this > will surely dr

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 8, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > and the next one talking before try to get informations > there is no monolithic daemon damned > > there is one project with one source tree maintaining > a lot of daemons and binaries - so be quite before > you tried to learn some basics Ge

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 8, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:21:43PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > >> Wow. This was my bad in assuming everyone knows who Adam is--a very good >> natured and helpful person. > > I should also add that Adam's comment was very tongue-in-chee

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 8, 2014, at 1:03 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:05:07AM -0700, Russell Miller wrote: >> >> And that's all I'm saying in response to you. Keep this up >> and my killfile will have one more entry. > > Please stop replying

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 8, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > ] > Ah, we will be at Centos 11 by then :) > > Systemd will be a thing of the past and we will be dealing with systemq. It'll be named "kitchensink", there will be only one process in the process table, and every bit of computation will be

Re: [CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread Russell Miller
On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > That is a fundamental worry. Everything, except the kernel, dependent on > Poettering's (employed by Red Hat) windows-style gigantic systemd. > Nothing can run without systemd's prior consent. One tiny bug in systemd > and everything crashes