Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus John R Pierce spake: > On 01/18/11 10:51 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: >>> Wrong on the demise of the Sparc. Oracle just posted a massively >>> record breaking TPC-C benchmark using their new Sparc T3 servers, >>> something like 30 MILLION TPM. >> Oracle has very publically committed to keeping

[CentOS] Access to a Power6/Power7 machine?

2011-01-27 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there anybody here who has access to such a machine and could test e... 'some software' there? Please mail me privately. Thanks & best, Timo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNQYqAfg746kcGBOwRArE2AJ4

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Peter Peltonen spake: > I have now partially solved my problem: > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Peter Peltonen > wrote: >> I need to do a new CentOS net install on a new server having the >> Supermicro X7DVL-3 motherboard: > > [...] > >> So I assume the controller is not supported and

Re: [CentOS] Gathering information about RAM in sockets

2009-09-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Marko A. Jennings spake: > On Wed, September 30, 2009 12:56 pm, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi list, >> >> I have an IBM xseries 345, running CentOS 5.3, ho

[CentOS] Reply to ICMP echo request (type 8) on different (ethernet) interface

2009-10-01 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have a weird (?) problem here on a setup running CentOS 5.3 x86_64 (and OpenVZ, and some home-brew L2TP daemons, RIPd, BGPd, etc). There's a (VE in OpenVZ speak) virtual machine that has two ethernet interfaces, seen as eth0 and eth1, resp

Re: [CentOS] Reply to ICMP echo request (type 8) on different (ethernet) interface

2009-10-02 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Giovanni Tirloni spake: | On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Timo Schoeler | wrote: | |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Hi list, |> |> I have a weird (?) problem here on a setup running CentOS 5.3 x86_64 |

Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode

2009-10-07 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus ML spake: > Nate, > >> ifconfig ethX IP_ADDRESS netmask NETMASK >> route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY > > OK, so I was correct, > > I am doing > > ifconfig eth0 172.16.254.80 netmask 255.255.255.240 > route add default gw 172.16.254.1 > > I a

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Brian Mathis spake: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: >> Thanks to everyone for their comments so far. >> >> The "server" in question is a basic 2 node cluster connected to an MSA500. >> >> It runs a variety of applications i

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Marcelo M. Garcia spake: > ML wrote: >> HI All, >> >> >> Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, >> postfix, mysql, etc. >> >> >> -Jason > > Hi > > There are some options, like Debian or Fedora 11 in case of Linux or

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Vaden wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, ML wrote: >> I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version >> of CentOS. >> >> Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, >> postfix, mysql, etc. >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent

2009-10-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus nate spake: | Yves Bellefeuille wrote: |> If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was |> made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that |> the entire file would be available as soon as possible aft

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Stephen Nelson-Smith spake: | Hi, | |> Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, |> postfix, mysql, etc. | | Do you have a specific reason not to use Solaris? | | If you don't want to do that I've had excellent results with

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

2009-10-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Morten Torstensen spake: | I am looking for yum-priorities or any info on any changes here for | CentOS 5.4. There is also a forum post for this here: | | | Is this missi

Re: [CentOS] Missing yum-priorities in 5.4?

2009-10-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Niki Kovacs spake: | Timo Schoeler a écrit : | |> I don't see it (any more!) running 5.3... But need it desperately. |> | | It got forgotten, obviously. Hm. | But in the meantime, you can do this: | | # wget -c | http://mirror.centos

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.4 with an existing XFS-filesystem

2009-10-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Ross Walker spake: | On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: | |>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:36:06 -0700 |>> "AY" == Akemi Yagi wrote: |>AY> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider |>AY> wrote: |> |>>> I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.3 yum-priorites

2009-10-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus James B. Byrne spake: > I visited http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > which tells me to install the package yum-priorities available from > extras. I try this and it fails. > > # yum install yum-priorities > Loaded plugins:

Re: [CentOS] Turning off X-Windows

2009-10-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus ML spake: > Hi All, > > How does one best turn of X-Windows? I dont need it, ssh works just > fine for me. > > I seem to recall it was complicated and since I know enough to do my > stuf and not well versed yet in fixing things I break, I do

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

2009-10-27 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Antonio da Silva Martins Junior spake: > Hi, > >We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC analist has > told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > >Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host t

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

2009-10-27 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Neil Aggarwal spake: >>We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the >> EMC analist has >> told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > > I have always taken the stance that if something works with > RHEL,

Re: [CentOS] yum clean all - adverse effects?

2009-11-04 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Jussi Hirvi spake: | Are there any adverse effects to "yum clean all"? Does the system | lose its memory of what is installed/updated? | | Regards, Jussi H. Hi Jussi, from the manpage: clean Is used to clean up various things which accumulate

Re: [CentOS] screwed up dependencies

2009-11-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus ken spake: | Subsequent to trying to "yum update"-- it failed--, I tried to resolve | the dependencies piecemeal: | | # yum update faad2 | | --> Processing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 for package: ffmpeg | ---> Package faad2.i386 0:2.7-1.el5.rf

Re: [CentOS] Berlin Beer event.

2009-11-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Kai Schaetzl spake: | Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:19 +: | |> After the London Beer event seams to become a regular thing I was |> wondering who in Berlin would want to participate in such a thing. I |> am visiting fo

Re: [CentOS] Berlin Beer event.

2009-11-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann spake: | On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Timo Schoeler | wrote: | thus Kai Schaetzl spake: | | Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:19 +: | | | |> After the London Beer event seams to becom

Re: [CentOS] screwed up dependencies

2009-11-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus ken spake: | On 11/11/2009 02:26 AM Timo Schoeler wrote: |> thus ken spake: |> | Subsequent to trying to "yum update"-- it failed--, I tried to resolve |> | the dependencies piecemeal: |> | |> | # yum update faad2 |>

[CentOS] Removing respawning process from inittab w/o killing it

2009-11-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I need to remove an entry of inittab which is used to (re)spawn a process: mydemon:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mydemon >/dev/null 2>&1 So, I would comment out that entry and reload init running ``telinit q''. IIRC, this would lead to the current

Re: [CentOS] Removing respawning process from inittab w/o killing it

2009-11-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus William L. Maltby spake: | On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:56 +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Hi list, |> |> I need to remove an entry of inittab which is used to (re)spawn a proc

Re: [CentOS] Removing respawning process from inittab w/o killing it

2009-11-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Timo Schoeler spake: | thus William L. Maltby spake: | | On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:56 +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: | |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | |> Hash: SHA1 | |> | |> Hi list, | |> | |> I need to remove an entry o

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-23 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Susan Day spake: > Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? > I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring? > TIA, > Suzie postfix rocks. :) HTH, Timo ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-23 Thread Timo Schoeler
>> As others have already suggested, consider Postfix. >> >> I'm putting in my $0.02(US) so I can add my experience when I first had >> a need for a decent MTA. I had used Sendmail in the past, but I didn't >> want to fight with the arcane syntax of the config files, and at that >> time the add-on

[CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC. Those screenshots show windows and buttons that exactly match my CentOS GNOME Desktop [1]. AFAIK, SuSE/No

Re: [CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Eduardo Grosclaude spake: | On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Timo Schoeler | wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Hi list, |> |> I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illus

Re: [CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Karanbir Singh spake: | On 11/24/2009 09:10 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: |>> I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate |>> the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC. |> Probably Scientific Linux

Re: [CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Jim Perrin spake: | On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: |> On 11/24/2009 10:19 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: |>> http://www.seoexpertconsultants.com/index.php?linux&release=Scientific%205.1 |>> |>>

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Eero Volotinen spake: >> Probably not, or someone would have found them in the last five years. > > Probably yes, it's hard to security audit complex software packages. Yes; my bet would be that OpenBSD's smtpd will be the most secure MTA (when it hits the streets for production). That does

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Eero Volotinen spake: >> An IP stack which is part of the kernel *is* (more or less) directly >> exposed to the internet as long as there's the appropriate cable >> connected to that machine. > > Yes, I hope that IP-stack is not so buggy. Anyway, I think that is > easier to exploit systems

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Robert Moskowitz spake: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> thus Eero Volotinen spake: >> >>>> Probably not, or someone would have found them in the last five years. >>>> >>> Probably yes, it's hard to security audit complex software pack

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Eero Volotinen spake: >> IP machinery is simple enough, but then there is ICMP and ICMP6, and >> IPv6 Neighbor discovery, and > > Yes and lot of firewalls even lacks IPv6 support even nowdays.. Don't buy them, so vendors get aware it's already 2009. Let's talk off-list. We're getting v

Re: [CentOS] install CENTOS 5.4 X86_64 failed???

2009-11-25 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus John R Pierce spake: > RedShift wrote: >> Burning at a slower speed usually does NOT increase burn quality. >> You may have a bad writer or bad DVD R's. Use DVD-R's for maximum >> compatibility. >> > > not quite. with modern high speed DVD burners, like 16X and such, > burns faster than 8

[CentOS] RIPd not announcing routes (CentOS 5.4)

2009-12-01 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, yesterday I sent this eMail to quagga mailing list, however I didn't receive an answer yet. Unfortunately, I really need this stuff running or have to switch to another strategy achieving the goals. Maybe one of you has some experience on th

Re: [CentOS] RIPd not announcing routes (CentOS 5.4)

2009-12-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho spake: | Timo Schoeler wrote: |> Hi list, |> |> yesterday I sent this eMail to quagga mailing list, however I didn't |> receive an answer yet. Unfortunately, I really need this stuff running |> or have

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-05 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Chan Chung Hang Christopher spake: > Miguel Medalha wrote: >> I am about to install a new server running CentOS 5.4. The server will >> contain pretty critical data that we can't afford to corrupt. >> >> I would like to benefit from the extra speed and features of a ext4 >> filesystem but I

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-05 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Miguel Medalha spake: > >> For enterprise environments my favorite FS is XFS, YMMV, though. >> > > I also thought about using xfs, but I don't like the idea of it being > dependent of an external kernel module that is always lagging behind the > current kernel version. OTOH XFS never w

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-05 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus John R Pierce spake: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> For enterprise environments my favorite FS is XFS, YMMV, though. >> > > I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL > anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories abou

Re: [CentOS] netflow colelction and analysis

2009-12-06 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Alan McKay spake: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: >> Anyone got a reco on a package that can collect netflow data and accept user >> defined queries >> for specific data, like what an ip did every hour for some said i

Re: [CentOS] netflow colelction and analysis

2009-12-06 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Alan McKay spake: >> Well, netflow is the appropriate technology for this: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflow > > Oh hey, look at that - I had no idea that was a specific thing :-) > > I've seen something like that before - not Netflow obviously - but > I've seen it. Now I'll just

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-08 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Christopher Chan spake: > Ian Forde wrote: >> On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei >> wrote: >> >>> John R Pierce wrote: I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic l

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-08 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Chan Chung Hang Christopher spake: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> thus Christopher Chan spake: >> >>> Ian Forde wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Florin Andrei >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >&

[CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-09 Thread Timo Schoeler
Hi list, during the last days there was a discussion going on about the stability of XFS; though I myself used XFS heavily and didn't run into issues yet, I'd like to ask something *before* we create our next generation data storage backend... Les Mikesell wrote in [0] about issues in the comb

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-09 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Ross Walker spake: > On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Timo Schoeler > wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> during the last days there was a discussion going on about the >> stability >> of XFS; though I myself used XFS heavily and didn't run into issues

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-09 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Ross Walker spake: > On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Timo Schoeler > wrote: > >> thus Ross Walker spake: >>> On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Timo Schoeler >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> during the last days

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-09 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Christopher Chan spake: >> Thanks for your eMail, Ross. So, reading all the stuff here I'm really >> concerned about moving all our data to such a system. The reason we're >> moving is mainly, but not only the longisch fsck UFS (FreeBSD) needs >> after a crash. XFS seemed to me to fit perfe

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
[off list] Thanks for your eMail, Ross. So, reading all the stuff here I'm really concerned about moving all our data to such a system. The reason we're moving is mainly, but not only the longisch fsck UFS (FreeBSD) needs after a crash. XFS seemed to me to fit perfectly as I

Re: [CentOS] sshfs & CentOS 5

2009-12-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
> Has anyone installed sshfs on CentOS 5 and used it sucessfully? Yup, running on 5.4 x86_64, connecting to i386 and FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE/i386. No problems. Timo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
>> I can't find information is there linux or BSD distribution with effective >> firewall that uses optimized algorithm to store hundreds of IPs and to >> forward huge traffic. Any idea? > > Hundreds? > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/tables.html > > "A table is used to hold a group of IPv4 and/

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
> after quick search in google: > > http://postfactum.pl.ua/pf/ > > I will test to patch latest linux kernel with pf. > What do you thing? Get OpenBSD. Honestly -- all the porting stuff of relatively kernel-close stuff is just braindead. Timo > >sadas sadas wrote: > > > >> I can't find info

[CentOS] RHEL 6 won't support Itanic, will support PowerPC, though

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
Hi list, after some discussion on #IRC on PowerPC I was waiting for some commitment on supported architectures in RHEL 6. As I just learnt, Itanic will be dumped, but there will be a PowerPC release: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/redhat_rhel6_itanium_dead/ Best, Timo (happy PowerPC en

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
> What about NetBSD? I heard that NetBSD has the best network stack out > there. Maybe NetBSD with pf is the best choice? NetBSD is a very nice OS, I personally like it most (out of all BSDs out there); however, as can be read on http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/pf.html there's the 'usual lag'

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/18/2009 10:05 PM, Peter Serwe wrote: > I don't know jack about IPSet, but I know enabling or disabling hosts in > bare stock PF without the gui in front of it is about as easy as it gets. > > The PF configuration file syntax was designed from the ground up to be sane, > unlike iptables, whic

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/18/2009 10:12 PM, Peter Serwe wrote: > You can't patch the Berkeley Packet Filter into Linux. Linux kernel doesn't > support it. > > and... > > Despite a cacophonous chorus of replies directing you to the right tool for > the job, you insist on sticking with Linux. > > If you want to use

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-21 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Pasi Kärkkäinen spake: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:36:57PM +0200, sadas sadas wrote: >>I will explain more deeply. I need to deploy a firewall(s) in front of web >>server farm because I need to do billing - I will use CentOS with iptables >>+ ipset to store a list if my clients so

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

2009-12-21 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Pasi Kärkkäinen spake: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:17:48AM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> thus Pasi Kärkkäinen spake: >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:36:57PM +0200, sadas sadas wrote: >>>>I will explain more deeply. I need to deploy a firewall(s) in front of

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 won't support Itanic, will support PowerPC, though

2009-12-21 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Mike A. Harris spake: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> Hi list, > >> after some discussion on #IRC on PowerPC I was waiting for some >> commitment on supported architectures in RHEL 6. As I just learnt, >> Itanic will be dumped, but there will be

Re: [CentOS] iptables ... *BSD pf ... pfSense

2009-12-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/22/2009 07:22 PM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: > Hi, > > I followed the "Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall" posting and as > some posters wrote pf is soo sooo sso mutch faster, I was thinking > to give it a try. But I'm not familier to BSD so I was looking for some > too

Re: [CentOS] partitioning order and IO performance

2009-12-23 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/23/2009 07:29 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> I think you might be confusing CAV with CLV of optical drives. >> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Angular_Velocity >> > > no, I'm not. most HD's ('green drives' complicate this some) spin at > a constant RPM, so t

Re: [CentOS] partitioning order and IO performance

2009-12-23 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/23/2009 08:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> On 12/23/2009 07:29 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >>> Ross Walker wrote: >>>> I think you might be confusing CAV with CLV of optical drives. >>>> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this "." directory

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: >>> On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp >>> It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this "." directory

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
Bob McConnell wrote: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: >>>>> On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: >>&

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/29/2009 11:13 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a > lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own > domain and server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why > not foster this interest. Hi Jason, > I ha

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/29/2009 11:28 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Timo, > >> I have an old ultra sparc 5. Are there any CentOS versions that >> support Sparc? > > IIRC there was CentOS 4.6, but I'm not sure. Is it a 'Sun Ultra 5' or a > 'SPARCstation 5'? > > It is a Sun Ultra 5 > >> He also says that ZFS rules al

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/29/2009 11:42 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi Tim, > >>> My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has >>> memorized a lot of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to >>> have his own domain and server on the web and I have enough >>> Static IP's, so why not foster this interes

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 12/30/2009 04:43 AM, Peter A wrote: >> OH, and I just remembered. the Ultra 10 uses the same memory board, but >> has a little more room in the chassis, and supports 4 x 256MB tall dimms >> of the right type, for 1GB.you can get away with this in hte U5 by >> hacking a bit on the inside.

Re: [CentOS] SSH slow

2010-01-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 01/19/2010 12:26 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > ML wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> All of my systems are running 5.4 x64. The are all AMD x64 >> processors with at least 2gb of RAM in each. >> >> I am running SSH on a non standard port. >> >> When I SSH into ANY of my systems, I get prompted for my passwo

[CentOS] Adobe 64Bit Flash Player 10 went alpha

2010-02-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, just for the ones who didn't hear about this yet: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html Best, Timo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLe517fg746kcGBOwRAmUXAJ44kADgA8Dj6HfntfnHa1Obn1xfZQCbB

Re: [CentOS] annoying random Firefox crash - how to debug?

2010-02-16 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Rudi Ahlers spake: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:51 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> Does anyone know how to check for a problem? >> The first thing to do is disable all firefox plugins and see if

Re: [CentOS] annoying random Firefox crash - how to debug?

2010-02-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Rudi Ahlers spake: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Bijnens > wrote: > >> On 2010-02-17 10:23, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> IS it the graphics card? Other programs, like Bluefish, Eclipse, Open >>> Office, etc doesn't crash. >> I also have the p

Re: [CentOS] annoying random Firefox crash - how to debug?

2010-02-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Timo Schoeler spake: > thus Rudi Ahlers spake: >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Bijnens >> wrote: > >>> On 2010-02-17 10:23, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>>> IS it the graphics card? Other programs, like B

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

2010-02-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
-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 somewhere in a datacen

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-28 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Drew spake: | Hi there, | | I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/ | ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The | hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so | we're okay ther

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Ralph Angenendt spake: > Timo Schoeler wrote: >> To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec >> ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and >> the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID Manager software

2009-05-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Drew spake: >>> To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec >>> ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and >>> the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm. >> The x345 seem

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 cbea

2009-06-12 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Marcelo M. Garcia spake: | Dmitry Zaletnev wrote: |> Hi! |> I have a question to ask: where can I download CentOS 5.3 for |> Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, and if this is impossible - |> ppc64 version. I want to install it onto my Sony PS3. |

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 cbea

2009-06-12 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Dmitry Zaletnev spake: >> What about >> >> http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/ > There's two versions of YDL 6.1 iso: 112008 and 022009 ("NEW"), > the first is fulfilled with bugs (rpc bind doesn't work, PS3 > forget IP after power down...) and the second with bug fixes > is suitable only for

Re: [CentOS] new RAID5 array: 3x500GB with XFS

2009-07-04 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus James A. Peltier spake: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have yesterday after some typos, sent my ext3 RAID5 array to the >> void... >> >> I want to recreate it now, but I read on >> http://wiki.centos.org/Ho

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 07/30/2009 07:26 PM, thus Robert spake: > some recent comments & speculation border on slander. > > slander is simply anything that can lower one's view of a person in > another's eye. > > the centos team has already done this, yet may i suggest to all that it > would be best to give Mr Davis

Re: [CentOS] so many arp caches why?

2009-08-06 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus nate spake: > MontyRee wrote: >> >> Hello, all. >> >> >> When I execute arp -a -n, there are lots of arp caches like below. >> Surely, I set netmask and Broadcast without problem and routing table also >> no problem. >> >> System is CentOS release 4.7 i386. >> >> I know how to delete the arp c

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project Infrastructure

2009-08-07 Thread Timo Schoeler
Dear Russ, > > [huge snip] > >> Look ... if you understand how build work, and I know you do, then you >> understand that one can not release updates that are built on 4.8 >> without releasing 4.8. >> >> If you need the updates faster, feel free to pay Redhat for them. >> >>> There - I feel

Re: [CentOS] How to clone CentOS server ?

2009-08-26 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Michael Kress spake: | przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: |> I'd like to clone existing CentOS server. Can anybody |> recommend any working solution to achieve that ? | | 1) virsh shutdown vmxx | 2) cp /etc/libvirt/qemu/vmxx /etc/libvirt/qemu/vmyy | 3) c

Re: [CentOS] How to clone CentOS server ?

2009-08-26 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Johnny Hughes spake: | R-Elists wrote: |>> Don't know if that is really true ... Anyway: |>> Install a minimal system and then rsync everything over. |>> |>> Kai |>> |>> -- |>> Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany |> Kai |> |> for list purposes, would you

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-14 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Chan Chung Hang Christopher spake: |> However, we are NOT accepting monetary donations at this point. We will |> not accept monetary donations until there is something in place where |> more than one person has to approve any spending and some ki

Re: [CentOS] Thermal information

2009-09-18 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Tim Nelson spake: > - "Sergio Belkin" wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd want know get thermal information on Centos 5.3 but get >> nohting. If I run acpitool -e, it outputs: >> > <...> >> Am I doing something wrong? >> > > You'll want to check out lm_sensors. Not sure off the top of my head > i

[CentOS] Gathering information about RAM in sockets

2009-09-30 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have an IBM xseries 345, running CentOS 5.3, hosting a few Xen domUs. However, I need more RAM -- but cannot remember if all (four) RAM sockets are populated (which would mean to buy higher capacity modules) or if there are two slots left

Re: [CentOS] Encrypted remote backup?

2010-08-08 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Michael A. Peters spake: > Can anyone recommend a commercial off site remote backup service with a > client (preferably FOSS) for CentOS 5, preferably that allows encryption > of the data being backed up? > > Small scale, I'm primarily looking

Re: [CentOS] Iptables questions

2010-08-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Eero Volotinen spake: I have a server sitting right on the net and the constant barrage of 100s >> of Ips trying thousands of times at port 22 is insane. >>> You're quite sane. Anyone likely to hit your ssh at its new port is likely >

Re: [CentOS] need help about top command and this deb ug message

2010-08-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus adrian kok spake: > Hi all > > When I run top command, it suddenly shows one message and few second shows > another one > > > debug2: channel 0: window 31129 sent adjust 34407 > > What is this? > > Thank you First thought: Kernel tells you

[CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-20 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have a *very* strange problem, unfortunately it's kind of a show stopper regarding the deployment of the machine. :( I have two Intel Gigabit Ethernet NICs on board (Supermicro-based Server), quoting lspci (full output see at the end of th

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-20 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Timo Schoeler spake: > Hi list, Little followup, > I have a *very* strange problem, unfortunately it's kind of a show > stopper regarding the deployment of the machine. :( > > I have two Intel Gigabit Ethernet NICs on boa

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-20 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus JohnS spake: > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 09:36 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > >> I tried with Intel's most recent driver, it shows the same behaviour: >> >> [r...@bla ~]# ip link set dev eth0 mtu 1576 >> SIOCSI

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-20 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus JohnS spake: > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:17 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> (from http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15817/eng/README.txt) > --- > I read that also. Will they work without using the Intel Driver? As in > using th

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-23 Thread Timo Schoeler
>> 0d:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet >> Controller (Copper) (rev 03) > > http://download.intel.com/design/network/specupdt/82573.pdf > 17 ASPM/Jumbo Frames Disabled Due to Early Receive Threshold Overrun >Buffer > Status: Intel does not plan to r

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-24 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Gordon Messmer spake: > On 08/23/2010 09:22 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> I'm amused about PeeCee hardware (sorry, only half of a pun intended)... >> There's those two NICs on board of a *server* grade machine, a 82573E >

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