[CentOS] tick_divider

2007-12-06 Thread Scott McClanahan
Just installed CentOS 5.1 on VMware ESX and am attempting to play with the newly added tick_divider feature. It doesn't seem to be making any difference in the number of timer interrupts though. I set tick_divider=10 which should reduce the number of timer interrupts to 100. I wrote a nasty litt

Re: [CentOS] weird load values

2007-12-06 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:48 +0100, Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala wrote: > Wednesday 05 December 2007 15:39:41 J. Potter napisał(a): > > Hi List, > > > > I'm stumped by this: > > > > load average: 10.65, 594.71, 526.58 > > > > We're monitoring load every ~3 minutes. It'll be fine (i.e. something > > li

Re: [CentOS] tick_divider

2007-12-06 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 07:58 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 7:47 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just installed CentOS 5.1 on VMware ESX and am attempting to play with > > the newly added tick_divider feature. It doesn't seem to be making

[CentOS] HA software advice

2008-01-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
We are in need of some very basic software that will give us the ability to swing an ip address from one host to another during controlled maintenance or host failure. For now the IP address will be the only resource that is shared and there will never be a need for shared storage. Eventually we

Re: [CentOS] HA software advice

2008-01-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
I neglected one obvious detail, this will running on 32 bit CentOS 5.1. On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:51 -0500, Scott McClanahan wrote: > We are in need of some very basic software that will give us the ability > to swing an ip address from one host to another during controlled > maintenanc

Re: [CentOS] HA software advice

2008-01-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 22:20 +0100, Tomas Ruprich wrote: > yum install heartbeat > > Very robust, very reliable, easy to configure, easy to use :-) We use it > for almost every critical server for about 3 years without any problem. > > http://www.linux-ha.org/ > > Tomáš Ruprich <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] Re: tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:09 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > on 2/4/2008 1:56 PM Scott McClanahan spake the following: > > In centos 4 we used tail in the following way: > > > > tail +83 file > > > > That would tail the contents of the file starting at line 83.

[CentOS] tail command

2008-02-04 Thread Scott McClanahan
In centos 4 we used tail in the following way: tail +83 file That would tail the contents of the file starting at line 83. In centos 5 that same command complains about the file +83 not being found. It appears that the + option in tail doesn't work the same way in centos 5. Is there another eas

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > > I saw that there is a lo

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > > http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html > > > > And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 > > > > yum says the

Re: [CentOS] grep

2007-08-28 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:08 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > Not a CentOS specific question, although I am running grep on CentOS 4.3 > > but how would you grep out a series of lines in a file starting at a > > specific point. For instance, if I have a file named foo and I want to > > grep out the

Re: [CentOS] grep

2007-08-28 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:27 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Scott McClanahan wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:08 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > > > Not a CentOS specific question, although I am running grep on CentOS 4.3 > >

[CentOS] grep

2007-08-28 Thread Scott McClanahan
Not a CentOS specific question, although I am running grep on CentOS 4.3 but how would you grep out a series of lines in a file starting at a specific point. For instance, if I have a file named foo and I want to grep out the next 5 lines after the first and only instance of the string "bar" how c

Re: [CentOS] A special kernel for linux as guest os

2007-09-21 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:46 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 9/20/07, Yuji Tsuchimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Yagi-san, > > > > > I heard from the horse's mouth that the CentOS team is working on the > > > 100Hz centosplus kernel. I think your request triggered the action :-) > > > They w

Re: [CentOS] A special kernel for linux as guest os

2007-09-28 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 06:22 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 9/21/07, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:46 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > On 9/20/07, Yuji Tsuchimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear Yagi-san,

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation

2009-10-02 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:15 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > ML wrote: > > HI All, > > > > So I have 5 1U servers (running Windows) that have Ultra 320 SCSI > > Drives in them. > > > > The owner of these boxes wants the drives captured in their current > > states to .iso or .cdr or something wher

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation

2009-10-02 Thread Scott McClanahan
> It's still a one-way trip, though, where with clonezilla you can restore back > to the hardware. > Exactly. Once I do this type of operation I've made the decision that the OS will never need to run on physical hardware again. ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, > > Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when > using "pidstat -d"? > > Thanks in advance! > Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? ___

[CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-09 Thread Scott McClanahan
I'll be setting up a vSphere 4 environment hosting CentOS 5.4 on Netapp FAS and was curious how you guys are handling the automation of partition alignment within your linux guests. I'd like to use cobbler for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could align my disk during i

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 02:33 -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: Scott McClanahan > > I'd like to use cobbler > > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > >

Re: [CentOS] Why swap if there's still physical memory available

2009-11-19 Thread Scott McClanahan
> Also, the top values may not tell the whole story - RES should include > paged-in code plus memory allocated by the program. VIRT includes code > not paged in yet and linked shared libraries, so the difference may not > all be in swap. > I thought I remembered reading (maybe LKML) that RE

[CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-18 Thread Scott McClanahan
Would any of you be comfortable running the drbd packages from the extras repo? If so, any particular version .. I notice 8.0, 8.2, 8.3. I'll do my own due diligence but just curious if the list has any implementation based feedback. Thanks. ___ CentO

[CentOS] sed

2008-05-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
Not specific to CentOS but I know you guys would be really helpful anyhow. Basically, I have a file which has been editted in the past very similarly to the hosts file only now I want to use it as a hosts file and need to run some fancy sed to massage the data into shape. Currently, the data in th

[CentOS] [OT] Firefox 3

2008-06-17 Thread Scott McClanahan
This is completely off topic but just curious if you guys had any extra insight into what time today Firefox 3 will be released. Thanks. - scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox 3

2008-06-17 Thread Scott McClanahan
Sorry for the waisted disk space. Found it below. ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/linux-i686/en -US/index.html From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott McClanahan Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:48 AM To

[CentOS] [OT] DR

2009-05-26 Thread Scott McClanahan
I remember a thread many months ago where someone asked about a disaster recovery template or guide and several people on this list linked some really good content. I can't seem to find that thread now and neglected to make note of the links but I do recall that some of the guides came from a site

Re: [CentOS] authentication loosely tied to active directory?

2009-06-16 Thread Scott McClanahan
> > Same here - which is why I raised the question. Although I probably > could get permission to join the domain I want to be able to add users > on the Linux side that don't exist in AD. Pam_smb works but I think > something that used LDAP would be better if the ldap server could have > l

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-22 Thread Scott McClanahan
Not knowing what country your from but at a U.S. taxpayer I have no reservations about using time.nist.gov myself, some people think it's rude to directly query stratum 1 servers. I typically have 2-3 NTP servers per location behind a load balancer and my internal servers sync against the load b

[CentOS] [OT] Conference room software

2009-09-04 Thread Scott McClanahan
We have a very decentralized user base with no standard operating system or utilities except for a web browser of some kind (no Exchange either). What recommendations does the list have for software to coordinate conference room reservations? It doesn't need to be responsible for any kind of invit

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Scott McClanahan
On 09/17/2010 03:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >(note: i asked this a few days ago but it *appears* that that post > was tossed due to getting excessive bounces from my account. so i'm > posting it again, apologies if you're seeing it a second time.) > >over the next several weeks, i'm t

Re: [CentOS] bind-9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2 and rrset-order: order 'fixed'not fully implemented

2008-08-12 Thread Scott McClanahan
> According to this page, BIND can be compiled with the "enabled-fixed-rrset" > option to support this. How to determine what switches were used to compile > the BIND RPM I downloaded with "yum update?" I was recently curious about this too. Is there an easier way than peering into the spec fi

[CentOS] [OT] VPN/DMZ best practices

2008-08-14 Thread Scott McClanahan
There is such a wealth of knowledge and personal experience on this list that I'd like to get your opinions on our current situation. Currently, we have a simple tri-homed firewall with the internal network on one interface, the dmz on another, and the dirty internet on the last. Also, there is a

Re: [CentOS] device driver useage

2008-10-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:22 +0200, Geoff Galitz wrote: > > > Under Centos 5.X, how can I determine with 100% certainty what driver is > associated with a given device other than referencing dmesg? For example, > what tool can I use to tell for sure what driver is attached to my eth0 > device?

Re: [CentOS] LDAP and expired passwords

2008-10-31 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:32 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > CentOS 5.2 with OpenLDAP 2.3.27, nss_ldap_253.13, using TLS, i686 and > x86_64. > > LDAP password information update failed: Referral > > If I comment out "ssl start_tls", the referral to the master is followed > and the password

Re: [CentOS] BiND Failover

2009-02-20 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:36 +0100, Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi All > > Thanks for all your answers, I agree it would be better with heartbeat then > to mock around with dns and a very slow update time. > > Regards > Per Qvindesland > Another benefit is that failover occurs much more quickly whe

Re: [CentOS] cisco netflow analyzer?

2009-02-25 Thread Scott McClanahan
> > > > i've been pretty impressed with nfsen. took a little bit of fiddling to > > figure out, but lets me drill down into things pretty well. > > Seconded. nfsen is awesome. Bit of a learning curve, but extremely > powerful once you get the hang of it! > > You can also use iptables and the

[CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-23 Thread Scott McClanahan
I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which would be a major upgrade from the cheap unmanaged things we currently have. Basically, just users, servers, and other simple network devices will be plugged into them but I'd like to start doing some testing with iSCSI for variou

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-26 Thread Scott McClanahan
> > > A 3548 is only layer 2 anyway, i.e. ethernet switching, i.e. below > IP... A model sometimes confused with the 3548 is the 3550-48, the > 48x100M member of the 3550 series that replaced the 3500 series and as > such the 3548, which does have layer 3 functionality in the EMI > relea

[CentOS] [SPAM] Employee Needed

2011-06-27 Thread Scott McClanahan
u think you are a seriously bad ass SA please reach out to me. -- Scott McClanahan W: 321-253-7892 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos