Centos wrote:
any thing specific for centos ?
If you build and test the package on CentOS and it works, then you've
built a package for CentOS. There's no need to make it any more
difficult than that.
All that changes when you move an RPM from one system to another is how
packages are nam
Niki Kovacs wrote:
when doing a backup database dump,
the resulting dumpfile will be iso-8859-1.
This is controlled by the setup for the tables themselves. MySQL does
have a default character set, but it will let you create each individual
table in any character set you like, and even mix
James B. Byrne wrote:
I am not a fan of security through obscurity.
You're diluting a useful phrase.
It originally referred to practices where obscurity was the _only_
source of security. As soon as you saw through the obscurity, there was
no security. Of course, this means that there w
Mark Weaver wrote:
I've got a server that I'm rebuilding and I've been given an Adaptec
2100S single channel scsi card to use. Problem is I can't find drivers
for CentOS 4 anywhere.
The driver is included in the kernel now, though apparently not built by
default upstream. You'll need to rebu
Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs?
Why not?
Because Linux is a perfectly good operating system already without
layering Emacs on top of it.
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Jimmy Bradley wrote:
would I really gain anything right now by going to a 64bit machine?
Not unless you put at least 4 GB of RAM in it, and from your description
of what you do, you have no good reason to do that.
If you don't have enough RAM to need 64-bit addressing, you're just
slowing t
Les Mikesell wrote:
when has anyone seen a Centos system die from an update?
Just a few months ago, one of the Samba updates caused it to drop all
our Windows systems' mapped drives every 10 minutes or so. You'd be in
the middle of a big copy, and boom, there goes your share, and you have
t
ann kok wrote:
inet addr:0.0.0.6 Bcast:255.255.255.255
What is this address meaning?
It means something's misconfigured. Can you post the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ?
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ann kok wrote:
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:1B:21:07:A5:94
ONBOOT=yes
# BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
# BOOTPROTO=dhcp
Nowhere in here do you give the device a way to get an IP address.
You've turned off DHCP, but don't give a static address, so I guess it's
just picking a random value from somewhere
Ray Leventhal wrote:
Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving
from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to
recreate the users manually?
Merge your RH8 copies of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow into the CentOS
ones, preferring the new ver
Brian Mathis wrote:
Messing with DNS is really the wrong way to go on this. You'd be
forcing all of the DNS servers involved to start messing with their
caches, update more frequently, etc.., pushing the problem out onto
"everyone else", and you have no control over any of it really. Cache
tim
Scott McClanahan wrote:
grep out the next 5 lines after the first and only instance
The scope of grep's view of the world is a single line. At any one
time, it knows nothing more.
If you need to deal with multiple lines, I suggest perl. Untested code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>) {
Scott McClanahan wrote:
I'd like to skip those lines. I'd like to skip the line with "bar" and
the following five lines.
In that case, the perl code would be:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$eat = 0;
while (<>) {
if (m/bar/) {
$eat = 6;
}
if ($eat) {
--$eat;
}
else {
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
- Have the script dump the results of the job to a text file. I tried
this with /path/to/dump my switches -v >> /home/me/dump.log
But that just produced an empty file.
Try appending "2>&1" (without the quotes) to that command.
- Have the dump file be date-stamped with
Feizhou wrote:
If you understand 'automated deployment' to mean just merely clobbering
an installation with another Linux distro then I cannot help you.
You're right, we are not using the same terms. I understand "automated
deployment" to include things like yum.
one does not leave out s
On Nov 14, 2023, at 13:44, lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
>
> How do you emulate AMR arch
With QEMU:
$ uname -r
5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.x86_64
$ sudo dnf install qemu-user-static-aarch64
$ docker pull --platform=linux/arm64 tangentsoft/iperf3
$ docker export $(docker create --name iperf3 tangentsoft/
On Nov 15, 2023, at 20:11, Warren Young wrote:
>
> Docker also uses QEMU in this fashion:
I forgot to point out that “docker” is actually an alias for Podman on the test
system, which fully satisfies your wish for using only things that come with
the platform, no third-party programs,
NVMe requires EFI booting. In some UEFI implementations, if you say "BIOS +
UEFI" or however it puts it, CentOS will put a `/biosboot` partition on the
disk, not `/boot/efi`, giving exactly the symptom you report.
Put it into pure UEFI mode, ensure the partitioning step creates
`/boot/efi`, and I
On 3/27/2011 3:07 PM, Jure Pečar wrote:
>
> It's interesting that nobody so far mentioned openVZ
I wouldn't use it since being bitten by its lack of swap support.
I run a couple of web sites on a fairly "heavy" web stack which loads up
a bunch of dependencies that don't actually end up being use
On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote:
> I do want to
> use ZFS and I thus far I have only found information about the ZFS-Fuse
> implementation and unclear hints that there is another way.
Here are some benchmark numbers I came up with just a week or two ago.
(View with fixed-widt
On 4/4/2011 9:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> try iozone
Maybe on the next server. This one can't be reformatted yet again.
> bonnie++
That's what I used. I just reformatted its results for readability.
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On 4/5/2011 11:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> Dropping to 16.37 TB on the RAID configuration by switching to
>> RAID-6 let us put almost the entire array under a single 16 TB XFS
>> filesystem.
>
> You really, really, really don't want to do this.
Actually, it seems that you can't do it any more. I
On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote:
>
> Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries
> exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really*
> need 32-bit.
Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talking about when I
wrote that we had a hard
On 4/6/2011 11:40 AM, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote:
>
> Just a shot in the darkbut can't you have a x86_64 NFS server export
> a fs larger then 16TB and mount that on your x86 machine for use with
> your application?
I already ran the two-server idea past the decision makers. It was
rejected
On 4/6/2011 1:16 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> There are other issues with XFS and 32-bit; see:
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3364
> and
> http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov/msg05347.html
> and google for 'XFS 32-bit 4K stacks' for more of the gory details.
Tha
On 4/6/2011 12:25 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
>
> Don't scream: I'm using RedHat 7.3 for related reasons.
Yep, we've still got a bunch of those running in the field, too, and
many older besides. We still build new boxes using CentOS 3, also for
legacy compatibility reasons.
> can a 64-bit sys
On 4/13/2011 7:58 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
So when is DEntOS 6.0 going to be released?
>>>
>>> What's that? The latest electronic flossing toothbrush?
>>
>> The "fresh maker"!
>
> With the great new "hot silicon" flavor!
Hot silicon? I thought that smell was smoldering Nomex underwear, fr
On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>
>> Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me
>
> The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops
Fast boots also matter for embedded systems.
We integrate a series of Linux-based boxes made by another company into
ou
On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw wrote:
>
> Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems over
> unreliable
> connections?
I don’t have a good answer for you, because if you’d asked me without all this
backstory whether NFS or SSHFS is more tolerant of bad connections, I’d hav
On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis wrote:
>
>> I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created
>> using dd.
>>
>> First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ...
>
>
> fdisk has been deprecated for quite a long t
On Sep 24, 2020, at 10:25 PM, Amey Abhyankar wrote:
>
> I referred = https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product
> But slightly confused with the 'maximum file size' row for ext4 FS.
CentOS 8 defaults to XFS, not to ext4, so that row has no bearing on your use
case.
Although I wouldn’t recommend ove
On Oct 31, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
wrote:
>
> Are you sure you have opened 53/udp ?
Good call, but you left out the “how”:
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-service dns
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-service dns --permanent
Without the second command, it affects the runtime fi
On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:01 PM, hw wrote:
>
> I have yet to see software RAID that doesn't kill the performance.
When was the last time you tried it?
Why would you expect that a modern 8-core Intel CPU would impede I/O in any
measureable way as compared to the outdated single-core 32-bit RISC CPU
On Nov 11, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> how do you map failed software RAID drive to physical port of, say,
> SAS-attached enclosure.
With ZFS, you set a partition label on the whole-drive partition pool member,
then mount the pool with something like “zpool mount -d
/dev/disk/
On Nov 11, 2020, at 7:04 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>
> zpool mount -d /dev/disk/by-partlabel
Oops, I’m mixing the zpool and zfs commands. It’d be “zpool import”.
And you do this just once: afterward, the automatic on-boot import brings the
drives back in using the names they had befo
On Nov 14, 2020, at 5:56 AM, hw wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 16:38 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>> On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:01 PM, hw wrote:
>>> I have yet to see software RAID that doesn't kill the performance.
>>
>> When was the last time you tried it
On Nov 24, 2020, at 10:43 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote:
>
> On 24/11/2020 18:32, John Pierce wrote:
>> zpool create newpool mirror sdb sdc mirror sdd sde mirror sdf sdg mirror
>> sdh sdi spare sdj sdk
>> zfs create -o mountpoint=/var/lib/pgsql-11 newpool/postgres11
>
> This *might* be a valid answer
On Nov 24, 2020, at 10:05 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>
> Why is a layered approach
> worse than a fully included solution like ZFS?
Just one reason is that you lose visibility of lower-level elements from the
top level.
You gave the example of a bad block in a RAID. What current RHEL type system
On Dec 3, 2020, at 5:26 PM, mark wrote:
>
> 4's ancient, move to another distro"
Do you mean GCC 4.8.5 from CentOS 7, or GCC 4.47 from CentOS 6, or GCC 4.2.1
from CentOS 5?
If we’re talking about CentOS 6, then even Red Hat agrees with the Calibre
folks: it’s now officially past time to get o
On Jan 2, 2021, at 7:44 AM, Fred wrote:
>
> I'm further guessing that "xhci_hcd" has something to do with USB
Yup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Host_Controller_Interface#Virtualization_support
> If so I don't know what it would be...
My guess: you have USB-attached storage that’s
On Jan 2, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Fred wrote:
>
> Plantronics USB headset/microphone?
> Yottamaster RAID-1 storage (USB3)?
> Behringer USB audio interface?
> Logitech wireless mouse?
> Leopold USB keyboard?
HID devices won’t go to sleep when the computer does, else they couldn’t wake
it back up. (Ke
On Jan 2, 2021, at 11:17 AM, Fred wrote:
>
> I assume that the yottamaster device runs Linux, just like 99% of other
> such devices.
99% of NAS boxes, maybe, but not dumb RAID boxes like the one I believe you’re
referring to.
(And I doubt even that, with the likes of FreeNAS extending down fro
On Feb 3, 2021, at 5:28 PM, Lists wrote:
>
> I had the impression that MacOS' Rosetta II might do what I need
That’s rather difficult when the x86 code in question is on the other side of a
virtualized CPU. It’s a double translation, you see: real x86 code run on a
virtual x86 CPU under your
On Feb 4, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> I posted a pretty complete rundown on the scientific linux users mailing
> list, so I won't recap it all here.
Link?
> the transition was not any more difficult, really, than moving from CentOS 7
> to CentOS 8.
That’s not my experience.
I ke
On Feb 5, 2021, at 9:03 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
>> 1. The package names are often different, and not always differing by an
>> obvious translation rule. ...
>
> I consider this to be very minor in comparison to other items.
If you’re making a wholesale transition, sure, but when you’re mainta
On Mar 4, 2021, at 7:04 AM, Adrian Sevcenco
wrote:
>
> What is the proper solution for a local mirror for centos 7 (or oven 8)
> repositories?
https://www.osradar.com/how-to-create-centos-8-local-repository-mirrors-with-rsync-nginx/
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Is anyone else getting this on dnf upgrade?
[MIRROR] sssd-proxy-2.3.0-9.el8.x86_64.rpm: Interrupted by header callback:
Server reports Content-Length: 9937 but expected size is: 143980
[MIRROR] sssd-proxy-2.3.0-9.el8.x86_64.rpm: Interrupted by header callback:
Server reports Content-Length: 993
On Mar 26, 2021, at 7:08 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>
> Is anyone else getting this on dnf upgrade?
>
> [MIRROR] sssd-proxy-2.3.0-9.el8.x86_64.rpm: Interrupted by header callback:
> Server reports Content-Length: 9937 but expected size is: 143980
The short reply size made me
On Apr 2, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
> We just can't risk putting private keys for centos.org on
> machines that are donated.
I guess I don’t understand how the mirror system works, then, because I thought
DNF/YUM contacted a central server (presumably under centos.org) which then
On Apr 5, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
> wrt private keys .. we don't want any to live on machines we
> don't physically own.
Yeah, I get that.
What I don’t get is why, if DNF goes to http://foo.centos.org to pull metadata,
and it tells DNF to go to https://bar.qux.example.edu to d
On Apr 9, 2021, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
> donated machines that are part of the
> mirror.centos.org dns name.
My key incorrect assumption was that this is just a front end, and all of the
actual file pulls came from other second-level domains. I didn’t realize you
were allowing oth
On Jun 23, 2021, at 7:12 AM, Hooton, Gerard wrote:
>
> The users are authenticated using OpenLDAP.
> On LDAP the default shell is csh.
> When ssh to login it works, i.e. $SHELL = /bin/csh
> Also, when using xrdp it works.
> However, a login from the keyboard and screen attached computer we get
On Aug 20, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> What other things do folk usually remove to make their installation smaller?
Our post-install removal command here is:
dnf -y remove cockpit* pcp*
But we’re old-school Unix geeks, so there you go. :)
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Toby Bluhm wrote:
>
> Try fail2ban from rpmforge.
The main problem with fail2ban is that it's based on Python, so it takes
a fair bit of memory. This isn't a big problem on a dedicated server or
on a system with swap, but a lot of these attacks are made against
shared servers or those running
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I received at least one email suggesting a Windows-based rendering
> farm - likely to consist of a few rack systems all running 64-bit
> Windows. I read an article on Tomshardware which gave some decent
> insight. What can list participants offer on this concept?
Well, si
mark wrote:
>
> It's not anything I had ever looked into, or needed, but thanks for the
> view into the heavy duty rendering field.
I'm glad you were able to extract some value from my incoherent
babbling. (No false modestyon re-reading the post it's clear the
caffeine isn't working y
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> I'm still missing why you'd need to sudo inside the remote shell instead
> of ssh'ing as the right user in the first place.
Perhaps he doesn't know the user@ syntax.
Tony, try this:
[localu...@host1 ~]$ ssh r...@host2 remotecmd
This requires that the public k
On 12/17/2009 3:59 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:37:52PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>>
>> what I meant was, without working video, how does he know what the error is?
>
> POST beep codes I would think.
Yes, he confirmed that in a later message.
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On 12/29/2009 11:49 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>
>>> You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
>>> Linux-only.
>>> The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
>>
>> having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a
On 1/6/2010 2:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
>
> we are trying to set
> up some storage servers to run under Linux
You should also consider FreeBSD 8.0, which has the newest version of
ZFS up and running stably on it. I use Linux for most server tasks, but
for big storage, Linux just doesn't have
On 1/7/2010 6:01 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> I'm not recommending OpenSolaris on purpose.
>
> Serious system administrators are not Linux fans I don't think.
I think I must have been sent back in time, say to 1997 or so, because I
can't possibly be reading this in 2010. I base this on the f
On 1/29/2010 2:53 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Idiot "change battery" led stays on.
By chance, I just did an RBC 23 change the other day.
The docs I got with it said to let it charge for 8 hours, then do the
self-test. On my UPS, that means holding the On button for a few
seconds. (A single
On 2/4/2010 7:10 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 02:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> ...
>> how about mounting that drive on rc.local ?
>
> That's too late; I need it before /etc/init.d/mythbackend
> starts.
# ls /etc/rc`runlevel | cut -c3`.d/*myth*
Then write a script in /etc/init.d to wai
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I am trying to determine the root of an issue I am having.
How can I watch traffic destined to a specific port on my CentOS 5.1
box to see if its even hitting it? It would be udp traffic.
# yum install wireshark
# tshark udp port 1234
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John R Pierce wrote:
raid50 requires 2 or more raid 5 volumes.
with 4 disks, thats just not an option.
for file storage (including backup files from a database), raid5 is
probably fine... for primary database tablespace storage, I'd only use
raid1 or raid10.
RAID-10 has only one perfect appli
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
So, how does it perform with 6 discs for example? Say I have 3 HDD's in
RAID-0, and another 3 in RAID-0, then RAID-1 the 2 RAID-0 stripes.
There's actually two kinds of RAID-10. Some like to say RAID-01 or
RAID-1+0 or things like that to distinguish them. It's a matter
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I get pings around 60ms.
Pings within the same LAN? If so, that's slow even for 100BaseT. It
should be under 10 ms.
When I switch the cards around, the addon card attached to my
network, I get pings that alternate with one being ~1488ms and the
next 488ms! This i
Ron Loftin wrote:
I'm considering a color laser printer
instead of the inkjets that I've been using, and I'm dithering back and
forth over the question of direct-connect or networked printer.
In that case, I'd get something with Postscript support. The "native"
printer language driver will u
On 1/4/2012 12:30 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
>
> this wasn't possible without a program like ChiliASP,
...which is now dead, apparently.
> noow I heard
> rumor that apache might have a plugin to allow it to read ASP.
Rumor, really? I don't think open source works like that. We're not
talking
On 1/11/2012 6:10 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 06:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> It is for devices with IP, but to find names that aren't officially
>> registered in a DNS server. For example if you have a Playstation 3,
>> or a newer blu-ray player that supports network streaming it
On 1/11/2012 6:42 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>
> They did a great job with RHEL6 and I'm
> curious what was changed in order to accomplish this.
It's probably the PowerTop work, primarily done to get better battery
life on laptops by throttling the CPU down when it's idle:
http://www.less
On 2/21/2012 5:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Things like boot process rarely break.
I can't remember the last time I caused a system to outright fail to
boot, but I *do* get unclean boots regularly.
Examples:
- Build and install some needed driver from source, yum upgrade
repeatedly, implicitl
On 2/21/2012 1:45 AM, Alex Walker wrote:
>
> I've been looking into some ways to break a CentOS system so I can
> perform some simulated disaster recovery
Bring up a fresh CentOS 6.0 system. Disable automatic updates. Add a
bunch of third-party software. Install at least one bit of hardware so
On 2/27/2012 9:31 AM, admin lewis wrote:
> I need of to mount an XFS partition on Centos 6.2 .. but I cant find
> the kernel module..
# rpm -ivh
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
# yum install kmod-xfs xfsprogs
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On 3/7/2012 11:16 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 03/07/12 6:47 AM, Ross Walker wrote:
>> These days XFS should always be inode64 enabled, given the size of disks,
>> and NFS should have been fixed a long, long time ago.
>
> yes. problem is, we have clients that are running all sorts of OS's,
> inc
Justin Bull wrote:
>
> I don't know if you can disable su -
Sure: usermod -L root. Before you do that, you need to have a user in
/etc/sudoers that has root equivalence. Ubuntu does this by default.
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Robert Heller wrote:
> (eg 'sudo su -' which is kind if redundant).
A shortcut that I just recently learned: "sudo -s" gives you a root
shell, like "su". Not like "su -", because it's not a login shell, so
you don't get root's .bashrc and such, but you can then "su -" from
within the root shel
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I still don't understand how using sudo instead of su makes it more secure.
Let's start with the simple case where only one person needs superuser
type privileges on a given machine. What, then, is the difference
between sudo and su -? There has to be one all-powerfu
Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:05:58 -0700
> Gary Greene wrote:
>
>> . With sudo,
>> you get a record of what command was executed with superuser rights by whom
>> at whenever given hour.
>
> sudo bash
If that's a problem for you, don't let people run bash via sudo.
There's an entire
Scott Silva wrote:
> USB I believe is not a DMA based port, so the processor has to do a lot of
> work, especially at higher speeds. Rsync can also be a resource hog, as it
> keeps most of the hash tables in memory it uses to compare files with.
True enough, though I wouldn't say USB is the whole
ML wrote:
>
> Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re-
> writing it for him
There used to be a project called ChiliSoft ASP that did this, but it
appears that Sun bought them and then killed the product.
As John R. Pierce noted, if his site is actually using ASP
Dave wrote:
> Has anyone got this combination working?
This was asked and answered on this very list just two weeks ago:
http://www.linux-archive.org/centos/348850-asp-pages.html
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On 8/5/2010 11:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> When someone says, "I'm writing a shell script, and hereabouts I need
>> $TOOL to do such and such," a good answer is usually forthcoming.
>>
>> When someone says, "Tell me how to script this $PROJECT," the
>> commmunity usually points the OP off to Goog
On 8/12/2010 5:07 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
> [r...@devserver21 ~]# cat /etc/ntp.conf | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
> restrict default nomodify notrap noquery
> restrict 127.0.0.1
> server 192.168.1.67
> server 192.168.1.66
> server 192.168.1.65
Some HOWTOs tell you that more time servers is better, o
On 8/12/2010 3:43 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
> Okay, I only have one timeserver,
I meant that your on-site time server should be relying on only one
other outside time server, one stratum up.
> but the ntp clients cowardly refuse to use
> less than 3.
Only one server on a given LAN should be run
On 8/12/2010 4:15 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>On 08/12/10 2:51 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>>
>> Only one server on a given LAN should be running ntpd. It's overkill
>> for every machine to keep themselves synced with such a complex and
>> fussy server. All the ot
On 8/12/2010 9:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> ntpd always tries to move the clock fractional seconds at a time
msntp does that, too, if you give the -a flag. (You have to give either
-a or -r for it to change the system time at all.)
ntpdate also does this, as long as the delta is less than half
On 9/24/2010 10:54 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's
> universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain "not installed -
> ever" on many people's systems, including mine. It is completely
> unacceptable that it is happy to install, but
On 9/27/2010 2:10 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> Another is ``GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool'' by Vaughan,
> Elliston, Tromey, and Taylor.
Vaughan is still active on the autotools lists, and he occasionally pops
in on threads mentioning his book, telling people they should be careful
in apply
On 10/8/2010 6:14 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> is on Linux servers, but OS X Just Works(tm), and I don't have to be
>> constantly fiddling to get tools working.
>
> I here that occasionally; since you switched to OS X "shortly after it
> came out", which is like 5 years ago now
OS X came out
On 10/8/2010 4:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> But OS X can legally only run on Apple (tm$$$) systems, where Linux can
> run on *anything* and anybody's inexpensive hardware.
Apple hardware is fairly priced when compared on quality. Yes, there
are cheap POS PCs that compare favorably on feature
On 10/8/2010 4:40 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 10/8/2010 5:25 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>>
>> But a fair comparison would be the Adobe Creative Suite, since Adobe
>> presumably wants their software used everywhere. You can't blame Adobe
>> for not porting it. They&
On 10/8/2010 4:29 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 03:25 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> There's more to a PC than [a] spec list.
>
> Apple runs commodity hardware that is essentially identical to everyone
> else's - just priced 3X more.
...says the guy comparing mac
On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
> So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
> another HDD utility to clean the disk again
...
> So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
> the result was OK.
A complete disk wipe brings bad sectors to the drive's att
On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon:
More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :)
It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot.
> one server that's got two bad sectors, which SMART reports. I've followed
> the ins
On 11/3/2010 12:22 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> Maybe try fsck -cc for a non-destructive read-write test.
Good call. That's resilvering.
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On 11/3/2010 4:18 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I might shell out some dosh for a copy if it can
> non-destructably repair bad sectors.
Try fsck -cc first. (Or badblocks -n) These do part of what SR does
already, so if they work, that's all you need. Step up only when you
need something that tri
On 11/4/2010 1:31 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>
> I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see complaints.
Good to hear it.
Minor nit: I called "fsck -cc" resilvering, but that's not in spirit of
the term. The name comes from the practice of taking an old mirror,
stripping off the o
On 11/11/2010 7:53 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> It does not pay to replace the memory on these test systems. I
> can pick up 1Gb used SFF systems for about the same price as 512Mb
> memory for these old boxes.
How much time (money) do you spend waiting on installers to run, when
you force the
On 12/3/2010 6:20 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote:
>> What about the XFS admin tools - do these get installed when
>> you format a partition as XFS from anaconda, or are they a
>> seperate rpm package, installed later?
>
> They are in a separate rpm (xfsprogs, repository: extras).
On that topic, there
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