Re: [CentOS] Flushing RAM contents?

2008-02-11 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 03:05:10PM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > A user wants to time a command/program/application and ensure the full > contents of that command's data management has been flushed from RAM/cache > and saved to disk. Is there a way to ensure the cache/RAM is flushed to > disk,

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:08:54PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of nate > > Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 2:46 PM > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails o

Re: [CentOS] GRabbing MAC address

2008-02-28 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:13:17AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > >I am trying to grab the mac address for eth0 on centos 5.1 with > > > >ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 5 and I dont get anything. > > > >What am I not doing right? > > > >ifconfig | grep eth0 | cut -d ' ' -f 1

Re: [CentOS] looking for kernel sources

2008-03-04 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Tru Huynh wrote: [...] > > > >Caveat: if you make your own kernel, you keep the pieces if you break your > >system. Don't expect support here. > > > >Tru > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Yum equivalent of rpm -i --test

2008-04-09 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > How does one do this? Reading through the man pages for yum it doesn't look > like its possible? I could use rpm, but I was hoping to pull down deps > through yum automagically. > > Thanks! > jlc For CentOS5, you could use yum-d

Re: [CentOS] Yum equivalent of rpm -i --test

2008-04-10 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 01:43:45PM -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >For CentOS5, you could use yum-downloadonly plugin : > > Wojtek, > Will this still allow rpm to "--test" the install of a local rpm and pull in > the deps and simulate the install? When you have the plugin installed and enabled

Re: [CentOS] mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /blah busy

2008-04-23 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:39:41PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote: > How do I go about troubeshooting this? I'm using RHEL 4 update 6. > >mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /blah busy > > It's actually an iSCSI LUN (NetApp filer). I successfully configured (ext3) > and mounted it, but when I rebo

[CentOS] total server lock-up during CentOS5.1 installation with vnc

2008-05-08 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
Hi, I would like to share my experience with total server lock-up during CentOS5.1 installation using vnc installation method. My setup was as follows +--+ | my_PC, CentOS4.6 | | X, KDE, vncviewer| | 100Mbit/s eth0

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-29 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:31:17AM -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > Good morning, > > I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to > use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12" screen). The > bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. > Has anyone played with using C

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-29 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:12:38PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > >Good morning, > > > >I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to > >use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12" screen). The > >bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. > >Has

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-06-25 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ] crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000 with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03, CPU1 the same). I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3. The previ

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-06-25 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:49:08AM +0200, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Wojtek Pilorz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ] > > crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq P

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-06-26 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Wojtek Pilorz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:49:08AM +0200, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Wojtek Pilorz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kerne

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-07-03 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Wojtek Pilorz wrote: > >After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 > >] crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000 > >with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CP