Re: [CentOS] Gathering information about RAM in sockets

2009-09-30 Thread Marko A. Jennings
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, hosting a few Xen domUs. > > However, I need more RAM -- but cannot remember if all (four) RAM > s

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. > > I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that > the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) > > We've just discovered thanks to a new Mun

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, James A. Peltier wrote: > > Are you seeing any high I/O waits and lots of kjournald's running? Sorry, what I meant to say here is, are you seeing logs of long running kjournald's. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director

Re: [CentOS] Dell Equallogic

2009-10-12 Thread James A. Peltier
ot capability of the system as it is not as fine grained as we would like. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website :

Re: [CentOS] Dell Equallogic

2009-10-14 Thread James A. Peltier
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hmm.. what kind of problems do you have with snapshots? Let's see They take up 16MB of space regardless of the amount of data that changes. A single bit changes and 16MB is taken up. This is not tunable. Mounting a snapshot require

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread James A. Peltier
VMWare tools that are installed on the guest. Once I did this the drift disappeared. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website :

[CentOS] unsuscribe

2009-10-20 Thread Miguel Varas A.
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Re: [CentOS] adding SAN "diskspace" to CentOS system residing on VMware

2009-10-30 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Given with "VMware VM" you mean a virtual machine on an ESX(i) system > and that the admin just increased the disk size for the VM, you will see > the additional disk space using fdisk / cfdisk as unallocated space. > Eithe

Re: [CentOS] Cluster server options?

2009-11-07 Thread James A. Peltier
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a 10 blade cluster of just hardware - I can install what I want, how I want.   What options are there if I wanted to build the 10 blades as one large beast, but _NOT_ necessarily for someone doing grid-type work?    Some users don't now h

Re: [CentOS] What's wrong with yum-priorities?

2009-11-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
t; the priorities plugin. > > It doesn't matter how you do it. There is still a chance that a file > included > in a 3rd party package that you install will subsequently be included in a > base > package update. And then you'll have the conflict regardless of any way

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

2009-12-08 Thread James A. Peltier
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 at 6:45pm, Diederick Stoffers wrote > >> Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having >> problems with dependencies perl is installed. > > I use the packages from EPEL with

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

2009-12-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 a PowerPC rel

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

2009-12-24 Thread Mike A. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: >> mark > > We have been searching the internet since Tuesday. > > We have already tried installing a video card, that didn't work. The beeps > at start up indicate to check the video ram. It w

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this "." directory

2009-12-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > I have this . folder under tmp > > 1/ How they can make it this folder? > > 2/ How can I remove it? Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this, but it made my day. :)

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread James A. Peltier
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > While I have built many, I can tell you that buying a turnkey solution > is *always* worth it if its mission critical. When you piece something > together, you are always in for potential surprises and other caveats. > > Like the rest

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread James A. Peltier
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > Seconded. Also you can chain a couple of MD1000s at the back of the > MD3000 to get even more storage over SAS. We have a number of those > with the upstream OS installed but usually a single MD3000 is enough > for what we use them for (main

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Robert Heller wrote: > > Just about all of the low-end Dell boxes (laptops or desktops) tend to > be low-quality boxes -- you gets what you pay for. Higher end Dells > seem to be OK (eg 'Workstations', servers, etc.). In October I found a discard Dell Optiplex GX5

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
wer... For one thing the powerbooks got 'close > lid, sleep, open lid wake up, grab a fresh network connection and > continue' right about a decade ago but they still only have one mouse button, making them a PITA for anything other than OS X.

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-10 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Back to laptop question - I have always preferred the Thinkpad T20 > series should read "T Series" - T20 is quite deprecated now ;) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

2010-01-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > Anyone know what else I need to make rhythmbox recognize/play mp3 files? I don't know about rhythmbox - but fluendo has a free mp3 plugin that works extremely well for other GStreamer apps. http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/

[CentOS] [story] Thank goodness for links and caching DNS

2010-01-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
Right in the middle of doing something important on my Ubuntu box, the web quit working. However, I could get to sites in my /etc/hosts file. Sure enough, all three of my ISPs nameservers were down. I'm not a DNS guy, but on my CentOS boxes I always installed a caching DNS out of the box

Re: [CentOS] [story] Thank goodness for links and caching DNS

2010-01-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Thursday 14 January 2010 12:52:15 Michael A. Peters wrote: >> This is the second time in the last 6 months that all three of my ISP's >> nameservers have gone down, > > You can also use Google's free Caching Nameservers (a recent offering

Re: [CentOS] how to send mail from console

2010-01-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Here is what I use: > > mail -s "My email subject" m...@domain.com <$myfile > > On some (older?) systems the command is email instead of mail. Check > man mail > > Regards, > Jussi mail is the standard unix command. Has been as long as I can remember, and I believe it

Re: [CentOS] OT TTW Email Interface

2010-01-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
I set up an imap server (dovecot) but firewall the standard ports, providing access via squirrelmail. It works quite well. I also set up SpamAssassin and ClamAV with a web interface for adding to their personal whitelist and blacklist. Procmail filtering is also possible (I use it on mine) but I have n

Re: [CentOS] totem: something wrong with gstreamer-plugins-ugly

2010-01-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
${base}.mkv ${audTrack}:${base}.ac3 a52dec -o wavdolby ${base}.ac3 > ${base}.wav rm -f ${base}.ac3 normalize-audio ${base}.wav ffmpeg -i ${base}.h264 -i ${base}.wav -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -y -f mp4 ${base}.mp4 rm -f ${base}.h264 ${base}.wav -=-=- It also d

Re: [CentOS] streamripper & CentOS?

2010-01-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly >> installed. >> configure: error: Glib 2.16 or greater required > > that's glib not glibc. > Current version in C5 is > $ rpm -q glib2 > glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1 > > your program needs a newer glib than that provid

Re: [CentOS] Firewire issues with CentOS/RH?

2010-01-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
MHR wrote: > I read in another forum that CentOS has problems with Firewire drives, > something along the lines of whenever a new kernel is booted, the > drives are gone. > > Can anyone elaborate on that? I don't use Firewire drives (at all, > yet), but information abou

Re: [CentOS] movie software

2010-01-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > Any open source software can open quick time? > > and can covert from quick to other movie also? > > Thank you ffmpeg2theora does a good job at converting the h.264 that modern quicktime uses into Ogg Theora. VLC does a good job at playing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

2010-01-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Does there exist *anywhere* a Java web browser plugin for 64-bit >> FireFox? The SUN 1.6 JDK (jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rpm) does NOT >> include the Java web browser plugin library. >> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm does not have

Re: [CentOS] Installing an SSL Cert

2010-01-28 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ml wrote on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:38:00 -0800: > >> Where can I find instructions on how to install the certificate? > > Exactly where you buy it. Please don't abuse this list as support for > everything. > > Kai > In fairness, when I bought my cert from godaddy, their lin

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

2010-01-30 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Sat, January 30, 2010 1:42 pm, Andrew wrote: > I've only had this problem since I upgraded to CentOS 5.3 - skype worked > absolutely fine with CentOS 5.0, so I'm wondering if anybody else has > experienced this with CentOS 5.3? I have experienced the same problem with three different (in practi

Re: [CentOS] DynDNs.org compatible server scripts

2010-02-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
sed to listen > to request from DynDNS.org clients which can be found commonly in the > devices? > > I have a scenario wherein many devices having Dynamic IP scattered > across a geographical region. most have an embedded Dyndns.com client > which can be enabled. > > I c

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, February 4, 2010 11:26 am, Geoff Galitz wrote: > >> I think the problem boils down to this : >> >> "How can I run a graphical application from crontab ?" >> >> I gave it a shot with a simple one (/usr/bin/gcalctool) and didn't >> succee

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, February 4, 2010 12:07 pm, Niki Kovacs wrote: > I'm really grateful for all the responses. But could someone please just > simply write down a *working* crontab line for this ? *If* the issue has to do with one user trying to display the message on a desktop owned by another

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread James A. Peltier
S level, i.e. LVM snapshots or ZFS snapshots than EQ is a pretty nice piece of equipment, otherwise, don't even get me started. :) -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax

Re: [CentOS] USB GPS

2010-02-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Anyone ever used the iGPS-500 under CentOS 5? Any recommendations on a > USB-based GPS that "just works"? > I do not have personal experience but I hear the Garmin models work well. I have a serial port Garmin model that works well with gpsbabel,

Re: [CentOS] USB GPS

2010-02-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
John R Pierce wrote: > Mathieu Baudier wrote: >>> Anyone ever used the iGPS-500 under CentOS 5? Any recommendations on a >>> USB-based GPS that "just works"? >>> >> I use the Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx on CentOS. >> This is a very good device (bu

[CentOS] RE: Create Local CentOS 5.1 repo

2008-04-12 Thread Mark A. Lewis
Local CentOS 5.1 repo I am trying to create a local base repo from the DVD on a webserver as I am not able to install with the x64 DVD. I have done this before I recall by placing the DVD contents in the root of an empty webserver, but I have many existing repo's on this current server and

[CentOS] No Network = slow ??

2008-04-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
and gnome terminal. It would pause for several seconds before finally starting them. The machine does run bind as a caching nameserver - as I've found that to be more reliable than using my ISPs nameserver, so I'm guessing the slowdown was with bind not being able to resolve

Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

2008-04-17 Thread Michael A. Peters
Bart Schaefer wrote: You can fix *most* of this by making sure that there are entries in /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1, etc., but I was never able to get the problem to entirely go away in all circumstances. OK - my /etc/hosts file contained the following EXCEPT for the last line (fqdn) added thi

RE: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-07 Thread Clonch, Christopher A.
>> The main function of a switch is to keep irrelevant packets away from >> hosts, but packets to unknown (to the switch) hosts get sent >> everywhere, just like a Hub would do. >> > >yes - thanks all, it appears its a cross network 'issue' > >thanks

RE: [CentOS] NMAP - reveal MAC address

2008-05-08 Thread Clonch, Christopher A.
> This will only work on a local network: > once you have the IP address, you can do an arp -v > > You cannot get the MAC address of a routed IP address, it only exist on a > local network. Heres the code snippet I've used to walk a router's MAC table: snmpwal

Re: [CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-24 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Sat, May 24, 2008 12:47 pm, Joe Pruett wrote: > after this latest centos 5 kernel update, i am seeing 40 second delays on > automount points. nothing in the rpm changelog looks obviously related to > autofs and the autofs module seems to be the same as the previous kernel. > i'm starting to do

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:14 pm, Alfred von Campe wrote: > So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X > (particularly Gnome) is a little less stable than CentOS 4.X or is it > just me? Alfred, I can tell you that five (very different) desktop machines that I manage work wi

Re: [CentOS] General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?

2008-06-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:52 pm, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> On Wed, June 4, 2008 4:14 pm, Alfred von Campe wrote: >> >> > So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X >> > (particularly Gnome) is a little less stable than

Re: [CentOS] Problem with nvidia-drv-x11 when upgrading to CentOS 5.2

2008-06-24 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Tue, June 24, 2008 3:08 pm, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > > Hi! > > I know that the nvidia-drv-x11-package is from RPMForge, but I thought > I might mention it here. > > I have a machine with a NVidia-card and because of the ease of use I > use the rpmforge-package for t

[CentOS] What torrent are y'all using?

2008-06-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
I grabbed the torrent off of one of the iso mirrors, but it is coming down so slow - I have to wonder if the torrent file is the incorrect one for the bad file mentioned on the list earlier. Would someone be kind enough to point me to a mirror with a known good torrent file

Re: [CentOS] What torrent are y'all using?

2008-06-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
Karanbir Singh wrote: Michael A. Peters wrote: I grabbed the torrent off of one of the iso mirrors, but it is coming down so slow - I have to wonder if the torrent file is the incorrect one for the bad file mentioned on the list earlier. You should be able to check the tracker, make sure its

Re: [CentOS] What torrent are y'all using?

2008-06-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: That appears to have been my problem - 184da12dd38aeb2b813104214889211b CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent nevermind - that was md5 not sha1 - my file was good, guess it's just slow right now. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

2008-06-25 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, June 25, 2008 11:01 am, Lanny Marcus wrote: > FOLLOW ON: On my box, when it is trying to boot the latest Kernel > (2.6.18-92.1.1el5) the last thing I see on the CRT is "starting udev" > and after that, the screen goes blank and there is no HD activity. This sounds a l

Re: [CentOS] What torrent are y'all using?

2008-06-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
My ISP caps bt to ~ 20K/s - I'm seeing about half of that right now. When 5.1 shipped, I saw the full 20K/s within a few minutes of starting the client. Sorin Srbu wrote: I got mine down at 10-12Mbps at work, and nearly as fast at home. And that was yesterday when supposedly everybod

[CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
My laptop is a Thinkpad T20 running CentOS 5.1 The reason it is running CentOS at all is because Fedora Core 6 was workable on it, but Fedora 8 was a complete dog. Anyway - with all the new desktop stuff in CentOS 5.2 I'm wondering if I would be happier just leaving it at 5.1 rather

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
entOS 5 is based on Fedora Core 6 as I recall. The difference is with CentOS you get a LONG life, more stability and more security, along with super support from this mailing list. I believe that Firefox 3.0 requires a bunch of other stuff that is not in CentOS 5.1, to run. It took me just ov

Re: [CentOS] 5.1 to 5.2 upgrade - perfectly smoothe

2008-06-28 Thread Michael A. Peters
Alain Terriault wrote: the only problem I had was with ldap. the fix is at http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/nss_ldap/5/x86_64/ without this update, I am not sure anyone can have a stable 5.2 on ldap it all my problems with Mailscanner (email), perl and webmin thanks, The only problems I

Re: [CentOS] Yogunluk

2008-06-28 Thread Michael A. Peters
Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 22:26 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-Original Message- > >If I send him a message directly, an

Re: [CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: > 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to > stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the > command-line with the "-d" flag and it serves up leases. But without > the -d flag, it just silently dies...

Re: [CentOS] Couple of CentOS 5.2 dhcp notes

2008-07-06 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: > 1. Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to > stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the > command-line with the "-d" flag and it serves up leases. But without > the -d flag, it just silently dies...

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Marko A. Jennings
re you view the entire document as one page > yet, but this is huge improvement, after having Firefox 3.0 and GNOME > crash, while trying to view the document. The same happens on my machine with Firefox under KDE. After the crash, in /var/log/messages I see the following: Jul 8 21:45:50

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

2008-07-08 Thread Marko A. Jennings
I am using KDE >> and Konqueror. I can view the SME Server document Ross has the link >> for, without any problem, and without my browser and desktop crashing. >> I haven't found the place where you view the entire document as one >> page yet, but this is huge improvemen

Re: [CentOS] Simple IP Question

2008-07-17 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, July 17, 2008 12:39 pm, Matt wrote: > I have a server located remotely running CentOS 5.x. I need to have > two IP's on the same interface. So I have this: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=none > BROADCAST=69.x.x.199 > H

[CentOS] Send smtp email with mailx on centos

2008-07-18 Thread Miguel A. Velasco
Hi all, I´d like to know what may I configure to send emails from my server with mailx please. I need to send mails to my email adress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with logs and I am not able to do. Best regards and thanks for your time, Miguel ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] Nautilus Behavior

2008-07-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
In CentOS 5.1 - if I had a folder open on my desktop on one worskspace screen and I was in another workspace, and I double clicked the folder icon on my desktop, it would bring the open folder to my current workspace. In CentOS 5.2 it does not do that. I can't find a setting to chang

Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, July 24, 2008 7:47 am, Tony Mountifield wrote: > Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine > whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? dmidecode | grep -iq " vmware " This returns 0 if it is a VMware system a

[CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
ke on C6 if you use a package selection like this, you also need to specify the yp-tools package as part of the kickstart *even though* you specify an authentication method of NIS in the kickstart. Seems like a bug to me?!? auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain test --niss

Re: [CentOS] VLAN support?

2011-09-30 Thread James A. Peltier
dule will load automatically when it sees any ifcfg-* entry that contains . or for hosts with ifcfg-vlan and the VLAN_NAME_TYPE=VLAN_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD. Below is the configuration that I use for my VLANs for KVM. # configure a bridge device for NAT VLAN support /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread James A. Peltier
ple and easy | > and | > still functional. | > | > I'll also readily agree I wouldn't want NIS on internet-facing | > systems, | > but for things like automount maps on the internal corporate LAN, is | > it really a catastropic problem? | | The problem you get is

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
Okay, I'm getting frustrated here. C6 has been a bit of a bear. It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 with just @core as well. At least with the NIS stuff I was able to determine rather easily why it wasn't working, but with rsh on workstation working and only on

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Okay, I'm getting frustrated here. C6 has been a bit of a bear. It | looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 with just @core as | well. At least with the NIS stuff I was able to determine rather | easily why it wasn't working, but with rsh on w

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | | rsh was deprecated 10+ years ago, along with all the other r things... | they aren't even remotely secure and using them is sloppy practice, | e

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | > | rsh was deprecated 10+ years

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:12 AM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | | > Did you install just @core? I have done @core as described earlier | > with rsh and rsh-server and it just hangs so I'm missing something. | > On the workstation install it works using

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:39 AM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > Okay, I'm getting frustrated here. C6 has been a bit of a bear. It | > looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 with just @core | > as well. At least with the NIS stuff I was abl

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Active Directory 2008 R2 kickstart

2011-11-07 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, Anyone have a working CentOS 6 kickstart file that they are using to bind a host to Active Directory 2008 R2? I'm working on a full AD/Linux environment and would like to stand on the shoulders of others if they are already doing such a thing. I'm thinking I need to enabl

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:41:22PM -0500, Mike VanHorn wrote: | > How can I restrict access to a system based on NIS netgroups? | | Change nsswitch.conf so that it reads | passwd: compat | passwd_compat: nis | | And then in /etc/passwd | +@netgro

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > acccess.conf supposed to support this type of functionality thereby | > not needing to modify /etc/passwd / /etc/shadow!?! | | You'll probably need to add a pam_access.so reference to the stock | /etc/pam

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | This is a continuation of the thread about redhat vs centos and the | thought of moving from centos | due to redhats new business model. Forgive the length, but I had to | share. | | I went ahead and downloaded the 5 year supported version of ubuntu | server

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Bob Hoffman wrote: | Yes. Just like the grub ubuntu uses, that is a bloody script, and a .d | directory *full* of files, rather than the clean, simple menu with | RHEL/CentOS. | | | I don't want to have to read scripts to find out how to configure | some

Re: [CentOS] clustering

2011-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hey folks, | | I just went through the archives trying to find some info on this but | did not come up with much other than it seems there are a few experts | here on the list. | | I have no experience with clustering and have just taken over a Stem | Cell Research

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
We use who disk LVM on our VMs. No partitioning except for the root disk which is separate for all our VMs. Since for us the root disks are largely static and all other components are on the full disk LVM volumes growing them doesn't require a reboot at all. Just rescan the scsi bu

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-17 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | > I've tried that, it returns a warning about kernel unable to reread | > partition table and requiring a reboot to see any modifications. | > Then the next call to pvcreate fails as it can't find the partition. | > | > --Russell | >

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-21 Thread James A. Peltier
e happened at all. As I said, you must have done something incorrectly. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http:

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-12-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 18:12 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: | | > I'd expect it to be at least typical to firewall direct ssh access | > from the internet. | | A Linux newcomer, untrained and a self-learner, I made an abrupt | immersion into Linux on 1 June 2

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hey folks, | | I had some general questions and when reading through the list | archives I | came across an iSCSI discussion back in February where a couple of | individuals were going back and forth about drafting up a "best | practices" | doc and putting

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | > The Dell 6224 or 6248 switches are priced low | | Hmmm, we seem to have different definitions of "priced low" :-) | | http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=bsd&c=ca&l=en&cs=cabsdt1&k=PowerConnect+6224&cat=all&x=0&y=0 |

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:49 PM, "James A. Peltier" | wrote: | | > Jumbo frames is really the important thing when it comes to iSCSI. | > Having 9000 byte packets verses 1500 byte packets will dramatically | > increase your performance per inte

Re: [CentOS] Reboot problem with Apache

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
s you. | | Ernesto Is there another web server starting before Apache? For example, nginx. You could try and use lsof -p or lsof -i :80 to see what is holding the port before Apache. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] Reboot problem with Apache

2011-12-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Telnet into port 80 and issue a get / and see what answers. | Look for headers | A | -- | Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. | Yes, of course! That's the most reliable way to check that it is the correct web server and

Re: [CentOS] Ad integration with centos 6

2011-12-28 Thread James A. Peltier
though! | | D Now try diagnosing the problem when you have no idea what LWO did or continues to do to make things work. We had a great deal of problems with LWO. It was a cinch to set up but debugging it quickly became tedious because troubleshooting a system we didn't understand how al

Re: [CentOS] Cannot use kickstart file to install CentOS 6.2 into a blank harddisk

2012-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I am trying using a kickstart file to install CentOS 6.2 into a new | virtual machine (the MBR sector | of the harddisk is all zero), however I found that the installer | cannot go through the harddisk | partition. It failed after I chose "Use All Space" a

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-13 Thread James A. Peltier
; > but when I login to the machine, the maps are not available | > > until I issue | > > a service autofs restart. | > > | > > Any pointers on what to check? | > | > I guess CentOS doesn't use pid randomisation. autofs does start | > before |

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-15 Thread James A. Peltier
ot to be managed by NM in order for it to work. | | Won't help in this case, I think, as this behaviour already makes my | kickstart | %post fail. Once you make the network interface no longer NM managed you can then perform a service network restart in your post and all network functio

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Mar 6, 2012, at 6:59 PM, John R Pierce | wrote: | | > On 03/06/12 3:51 PM, Ross Walker wrote: | >> Is there a need for inode64? Is it too late to back-out of it, or | >> have you pickled the file system already. | > | > as i undertsand it

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability

2009-05-18 Thread Michael A. Peters
sbeam wrote: > On Monday 18 May 2009 19:46, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: >> Is there a repository that has php version 5.2 or greater available for use >> with the Centos 5.3 distribution? >> This includes the development libraries package. Thanks. > > Just finished compili

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-20 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, May 20, 2009 6:46 pm, Scott Silva wrote: > It seems that Johnny did a lot of work on 4's updates, and now with him > MIA, the load has to fall on somebody else (Karanbir right now). CentOS > doesn't have that many devels that the loss of one doesn't cause a > pr

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-20 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, May 20, 2009 7:04 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/20/2009 11:55 PM, Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> Would it be possible to increase the number of developers? Is there a >> way >> additional bodies can be put to work to relieve some of the pressure off >>

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-20 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Wed, May 20, 2009 8:15 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/21/2009 12:59 AM, Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> I am an RHCE with, among other things, 20 years of Unix experience. >> How exactly can I contribute, aside from answering occasional question >> on the mailing list? >

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-22 Thread Michael A. Peters
JohnS wrote: > > My sejustion is unplug everything hooked to it but the power and network > cabling. Open it up while it is running, and shake the cables lightly > ( don't jerk on them). External disk array, unplug it also. USB floppies > and cd drives unplug emmm all. >

Re: [CentOS] USB issues

2009-05-22 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jerry Geis wrote: > I am using centos5.3 x86_64 on a gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H motherboard. > > When I insert a USB thumbdrive its detected with dmesg, I mount it and > start to copy files. > Then I start getting errors: > sdd: assuming drive cache: write through > sdd: s

Re: [CentOS] madwifi not working for 5.2 x64

2009-05-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: > >> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working >> any clues? > > For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros > support, the elrepo repository is tesing n

Re: [CentOS] madwifi not working for 5.2 x64

2009-05-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: >> >>> i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working >>> any clues? >> For people with madwifi issues or looking for a better solution to Atheros >

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