Re: [CentOS] Need help for write rpm spec

2015-03-18 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 13:16 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Jegadeesh Kumar wrote: > > > I am try to write rpm spec for install tomcat on a linux machine.But > > while build the rpm i found following error > > Why are you writing a new specfile, rather than just y

Re: [CentOS] how to add service at boot up

2015-03-24 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 08:36 +0100, robert wrote: > Hi there, > I am used to traditional update-rc.d et all. > > Now I wonder how to add a a script that used to called by init.d (wit > start/sop ..) to the new "service start xx" regime. > > All the tutorials I fou

[CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-21 Thread Earl A Ramirez
Dear All, About a week ago; I posted a proposal over on the centos-devel mailing list, the proposal is for a SIG 'CentOS hardening', there were a few of the members of the community who are also interested in this. Therefore, I am extending that email to this community; where there i

Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-22 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 10:16 +0200, Tim wrote: > I think, this SIG would/should care about hardening CentOS itself as a system > not a complete environment (proxies, firewalls, etc.) > The examples of the opener show this. > > Something else could be integrity checking possibly. &

Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-23 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 22 April 2015 at 20:49, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 04/22/15 01:13, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > About a week ago; I posted a proposal over on the centos-devel mailing > > list, the proposal is for a SIG 'CentOS hardening', there were a few of

Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-23 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 22 April 2015 at 20:49, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 04/22/15 01:13, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > About a week ago; I posted a proposal over on the centos-devel mailing > > list, the proposal is for a SIG 'CentOS hardening', there were a few of

Re: [CentOS] Best way to integrate CentOS in Windows AD environment

2015-05-08 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | We currently use a combination of Kerberos and NIS to manage users on our | CentOS 6 systems in a Windows AD environment. NIS is provided by Windows | Services for UNIX (or something named similarly), which has some issues, and | is also not going to be supported

Re: [CentOS] firewalld trouble opening a port

2015-05-09 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 9 May 2015 at 14:57, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm having a little trouble opening up a port on a C7 machine. > > Here's the default zone: > > [root@appd:~] #firewall-cmd --get-default-zone > home > > So I try to add the port: > > [roo

Re: [CentOS] mariadb fails to start under C7

2015-05-10 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 10 May 2015 at 14:47, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey all, > > I just unstalled MariaDB version 10 from the mariadb repositories under a > CentOS 7 host. > > The install went fine! > > [root@nfsdb1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mariadb > MariaDB-common-10.0.19-1.el7.centos.x86_64

Re: [CentOS] mariadb fails to start under C7

2015-05-10 Thread Earl A Ramirez
Hello Tim, On 10 May 2015 at 14:47, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey all, > > I just unstalled MariaDB version 10 from the mariadb repositories under a > CentOS 7 host. > > The install went fine! > > [root@nfsdb1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mariadb > MariaDB-common-10.0.19-1.

Re: [CentOS] mariadb fails to start under C7

2015-05-10 Thread Earl A Ramirez
tl start mariadb.service > Failed to issue method call: Unit mariadb.service failed to load: No such > file or directory. > > I guess I'll wait to see if anyone has any ideas on getting MariaDB 10 > working. I've already googled this to no avail. If nothing turns up on the >

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7. I'm seeing | performance which is considerably slower than a similar | server running CentOS 6.6. A 3Gb directory can be copied | to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in about 50 seconds. The | same directory takes abou

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 selinux policy bug

2015-05-29 Thread Earl A Ramirez
python: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/bash > from execute access on the file /usr/bin/mailx.#012#012* <...> > > I did do an ll =Z /usr/bin, and everything looks correct > (system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0). Given that, looks to

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-09 Thread James A. Peltier
's not been my experience... gparted does use ntfs-3g to work on NTFS | partitions (what linux-based tool doesn't?), but does not by default set | the dirty bit. Its GUI also offers much-finer granularity than microsoft's. Listen, it's far simpler than that. Call Microsoft and tell th

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-10 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 9 June 2015 at 21:41, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/9/2015 12:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > >> Listen, it's far simpler than that. Call Microsoft and tell them that >> you resized a file system with a third party tool and now your file system >> is corrupt and y

[CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

2015-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Hello All, I seem to have run into a bug with the new --bridgeslaves= option. It would seem that if I tell the bridge device to use a virtual interface (like bond0) rather than a physical interface (em1/em2) that kickstart completely barfs on it. I have provided my network section below

Re: [CentOS] PXE question

2015-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
| documentation. rather than use PXELinux, chainload iPXE and watch the world of PXE booting become like unicorns pooping Skittles. Your life will be much easier for it. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-25 Thread James A. Peltier
t;this opinion thread is getting really long" -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg P

Re: [CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

2015-06-26 Thread James A. Peltier
Sorry, just a follow up to see if anyone has similar experiences with the method of kickstarting bridges on CentOS 7.1. According to the docs things are correct for 7.1 and I just want to make sure I'm not doing something incorrectly before filing a bug with Red Hat - Original Me

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 gcc is a bit old

2015-06-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Take a look at Devtoolset, I think this will give you what you want: | https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-3/ | | | | On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Michael Hennebry | wrote: | > gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) is a

Re: [CentOS] get ride of initial screen on CentOS 7

2015-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Through kickstart I setup everything I need. | | On CentOS 7 I still get the "welcome" screen followed by | a couple more then your ready to start using centos | | how do I get Rid of those series of screens ? | | Thanks | | Jerry In your kicksta

Re: [CentOS] Bonds & Bridge best practices

2015-07-09 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi All | | I have two bond interfaces namely, bond0 and bond1. bond0 has two | ethernet interfaces associated with it and bond1 also has two ethernet | interfaces associated with it. | | Now i create a bridge interface namely br20 (20 being the VLAN) and | assign

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to IdM

2015-07-13 Thread James A. Peltier
Feel free to contact me off list to discuss this. We've recently gone through this entire process and quite in depth knowledge that we're willing to share on the process. At some point we'll likely write a few blog posts about it. ;) - Original Message - | I have just

Re: [CentOS] install nvidia driver on centos 7.1

2015-07-20 Thread James A. Peltier
> I used this to start: | > | > sudo yum install epel-release | > | > but yum list|grep nvidia doesn’t show anything in epel. | | EPEL is not elrepo ... | | | http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php You can also use the CUDA repo to get the latest nVidia drivers. Both ELRepo and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7

2015-08-01 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 2 August 2015 at 03:11, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > Greetings all, just wondering if anyone knows if / when there will be > training materials for RHEL 7 (CEntOS7) available? The last book I was able > to purchase was the study guide for the RHSCA / RHCE exam, (by Michal > Jang!) Does anyon

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-04 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | John R Pierce wrote: | > On 8/4/2015 7:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: | >> | >> CentOS 6.6 (well, just updated with CR). I have some xfs filesystems | >> on a RAID. They've been mounted with the option of defaults. Will it break | >>

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 8/4/2015 12:47 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Some older 32-bit software will likely have problems addressing any content | > outside of the 2^32 bit inode range. You will be able to see it, but | > reading and writing said data will likely be pr

Re: [CentOS] sed question

2015-08-25 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I am trying to use sed to change a value in a pipe. | | --- This is the two line script | CHANGE="1234" | | cat my_file.txt | sed 's/CANCELID/$CHANGE/' > cancel.txt | --- | | and the my_file.txt has: |

[CentOS] Inappropriate Message From Reply to List

2015-08-25 Thread James A. Peltier
This is probably going to sound a bit crazy, but did anyone else receive an e-mail after replying the sed question from someone with inappropriate content from one Julie Anna? I'm just wondering if it was only me. It was in fact quoting the CentOS list with the appropriate subject t

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-26 Thread James A. Peltier
to the list (which some people did on other lists ...) Please note | > that such user (or multiple ones from that domain) isn't/aren't | > subscribed to the list. In fact, I see a bunch of mails rejected at | > our level, from that domain, but from a *bunch* of different IP | > a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Bind and DLZ support

2015-08-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Is DLZ support enabled in the Centos 7 bind? | | building a Samba/sernet AD, and this looks to be the best way to handle | the DNS needs of the AD. | | thanks. | | Also any web tools for managing a mysql (mariaDB?) DLZ backend? Web, as | my AD will not have a GUI

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Bind and DLZ support

2015-08-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | | On 08/27/2015 12:49 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | Is DLZ support enabled in the Centos 7 bind? | > | | > | building a Samba/sernet AD, and this looks to be the best way to handle | > | the DNS

Re: [CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

2015-09-09 Thread James A. Peltier
mount doesn't like the short name and insists on using a FQDN, to get | around that you could try using the IP address rather than the hostname. | | On 09/09/15 16:31, Jason Welsh wrote: | > showmount -e | | -- | If money can fix it, it's not a problem. | -- Click and Clack the Tappet br

Re: [CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

2015-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
/ | Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on | server1:/home/jason 297M 19M 278M 7% /home/jason | [root@server2 home]# | | so it works manually, just not with the automounter. | | Jason Of course, because a manual mount expects a directory to already exist to mount on. Automounter

Re: [CentOS] Remote auth against Active Directory

2015-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I've got a new CentOS 7 server going into a remote location. I have | local servers that authenticate against Active Directory (2012 if it | matters) using winbindd. I'd like to have some method of using AD on | the remote server, but I need to be able to

Re: [CentOS] Is ATRPMs dead?

2015-09-14 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 14 Sep 2015 14:12, "Cal Sawyer" wrote: > > Haven't been able to reach atrpms.net for over a week from London, UK, when i last looked for it after a couple of intervening months. Did i miss something? > > And if atrpms is truly defunct, where's a good place to ob

Re: [CentOS] OOM and Swappiness

2015-09-16 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 13:36 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: | | > Excerpt on heavy-duty servers. We're certainly not going to allocate | > hundreds of gigs, or a terabyte or so, for swap. (Yes, we do have servers | > with that kind of RAM,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.6, apparent xfs corruption

2015-09-21 Thread James A. Peltier
comes from fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c which fails, and so reports | "Internal error xfs_trans_cancel". | | In other words, I would look at the memory corruption first. This | _could_ be a kernel problem, but I would suggest starting with an | extended memory check, it smells to me of a failing c

Re: [CentOS] EFI netboot to kickstart install

2015-10-23 Thread James A. Peltier
. | | | Just wondering if anyone has any experience setting up a net boot server that | can be used to kickstart EFI machines? | | | Thanks | | | Grant We use iPXE to boot the kernel and initrd files directly from our mirror. It was pretty much dead simple to do too. No need for unpacking

Re: [CentOS] Poor perfmance of bridged interfaces

2015-11-12 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi, | | I've created a bridge using 2 interfaces and have a lot of messages as | follows: | | nov 12 15:30:22 localhost kernel: br0: received packet on enp0s3 with own | address as source address | nov 12 15:30:22 localhost kernel: br0: received packet on e

Re: [CentOS] Poor perfmance of bridged interfaces

2015-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 11/14/2015 09:20 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: | > I'd want to connect a VM to another VM (or eventually to the host) via the | > "Linux bridge" so that I can demonstrate that capability in a classroom | > with only one laptop. If the purpose o

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help

2015-11-21 Thread Earl A Ramirez
_ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS@centos.org > > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > ___ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@centos.org > > https://lists

Re: [CentOS] Unit network.service has failed

2015-11-24 Thread Earl A Ramirez
hiva Prasad Nath > 92981134 > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Did you even attempt to do a little research on your own? Where is the output of the commands that you have tried. What version

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and ips.ko

2015-12-01 Thread Earl A Ramirez
___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > RHEL 7 drop a support for old controllers; for the old RAID controllers we kept RHEL 6. You can check and see if ELRepo include support for your specific RAID c

Re: [CentOS] CR getting 7.2 packages......

2015-12-02 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 3 December 2015 at 06:29, Lamar Owen wrote: > Heads-up to everyone: CR is getting CentOS 7.1511 (aka '7.2') > packages. just updated using CR, and, yeah, GNOME 3.14 is a bit > different from 3.8.. several things are in different places on the > screen. I d

[CentOS] CentOS 7.2 - no GUI login after upgrade

2015-12-03 Thread Earl A Ramirez
kernel, checked the journal and there were no errors that give me a hint of what is going wrong. There are no SELinux relabeling but I left the laptop on for a few hours because I was modifying a few directories to accommodate docker and KVM storage from the default setup. Any pointers on how to get

Re: [CentOS] firewalld clue needed

2015-12-14 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | >> I don't really understand the intent behind firewalld. The RHEL7 Security | >> Guide states "A graphical configuration tool, *firewall-config*, is used | to | >> configure firewalld, which in turn uses *iptables tool* to communicate |

Re: [CentOS] /bin/nmcli and connection names

2015-12-16 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 17 December 2015 at 06:06, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't been to find this (NetworkManager) change documented. > > On: > > CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) > > $ /bin/nmcli con > NAME UUID TYPEDEVICE > ens32 7629e52d-bd42-4cd5-a4

[CentOS] CentOS 7.2 - Fast TSC calibration failed.

2015-12-17 Thread Earl A Ramirez
Dear All, I have downloaded CentOS 7.2.1511 DVD and tried to install it on a new laptop that comes with an Intel i7 6th generation processor and don't matter which option I use (install, test media or troubleshooting); I get the following error: [ 0.00] tsc: Fast TSC calibration f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.2 - Fast TSC calibration failed.

2015-12-18 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 19 December 2015 at 12:18, Steven Tardy wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Earl A Ramirez > wrote: > > I get > > the following error: > > > > [ 0.00] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed > > TSC is a high accuracy CPU clock. TSC can fail du

Re: [CentOS] /bin/nmcli and connection names

2015-12-20 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 21 December 2015 at 03:37, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Earl A Ramirez > wrote: > > > I don't see 'System' in any of the CentOS 7.2.1511 boxes or VMs that were > > recently upgraded: > > > > ​Hi Earl, >

Re: [CentOS] Extending a CentOS disk without reboot

2015-12-21 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hello, | | Today a virtual server under my administration ran out of disk space, so | I had to get extra space to it.. while it was running, because it's an | important web server without any kind of HA/Load Balancing (don't do | that, kids). | | So wha

Re: [CentOS] No GUI with CentOS-7.2

2016-01-04 Thread Earl A Ramirez
Hello Timothy, On 5 January 2016 at 07:55, Timothy Murphy wrote: > When I re-booted my HP MicroServer into CentOS-7.2 > I was given a text console. > When I run "startx" I get the response on screen [edited]: > = > [tim@alfred ~]$ startx > xauth:

Re: [CentOS] SSD drives for the OS - 1 or 2?

2016-01-04 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 5 January 2016 at 09:26, Rob Kampen wrote: > Preparing to build a small replacement server (initially built in 2005) > and normally for the OS I would buy 2x500GB drives and deploy in a RAID 1 > configuration. > Now we have SSD drives available > - does just a single SSD drive

Re: [CentOS] Intel Xorg driver for Intel HD graphics

2016-01-24 Thread Earl A Ramirez
What happen if you append i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 to the kernel argument? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos hold me back from work - sshd ...bull

2016-04-28 Thread Earl A Ramirez
__ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos You will need to provide a little more information, what's the output when you use ssh -vvv user@host? ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Centos hold me back from work - sshd ...bull

2016-04-28 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 28 Apr 2016 11:11, "John R Pierce" wrote: > > On 4/28/2016 2:02 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote: >> >> what is wrong with the default sshd server. >> >> after retry to connect sshd - key changed from known hosts > > > I've installed centos a

Re: [CentOS] Centos hold me back from work - sshd ...bull

2016-04-28 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 28 Apr 2016 11:24, "Andreas Benzler" wrote: > > sure > > Am 28.04.2016 um 11:16 schrieb Earl A Ramirez : > > > > On 28 Apr 2016 11:11, "John R Pierce" wrote: > >> > >> On 4/28/2016 2:02 AM, Andreas Benzler wrote: > >>>

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 06:19:35PM +, Wes James wrote: | > I have a laptop that I put centos 7 on and I started out with a 30gig | > partition.  I resized the other part of the disk to allow more space for | > centos.  I then created an unformated par

Re: [CentOS] mysqldump file fails to load

2012-11-27 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Tue, November 27, 2012 3:53 pm, Rob Kampen wrote: > I have a newly developed app that has some 30+ tables, most with few > records at this time. However, it does contain a streets table with some > 43K records. > > I regularly dump the database using > >mysqldump -u rk

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-11-30 Thread Earl A Ramirez
>> Did you check the "Automatically connect"-check box in the network > >>> manager for you connection? > >>> > >>> If you've done a plain vanilla install and didn't look at the network > >>> settings at install time, odds ar

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3 live-cd no internet connection

2012-11-30 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 1 December 2012 03:05, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 30/11/2012 20:38, Earl A Ramirez wrote: > > On 1 December 2012 02:09, Johan Scheepers > wrote: > > > >> On 30/11/2012 10:52, Sorin Srbu (IMAP) wrote: > >>>> -Original Message- > >&g

Re: [CentOS] iptables port forwarding

2012-12-04 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 5 December 2012 03:38, Joseph Spenner wrote: > I have a simple requirement/test I'm trying to perform, but having > difficulty. > > I have a system with 2 interfaces, BoxA: > > eth0 172.26.50.102 > eth1 192.101.77.62 > > My goal is to have a tcp port buil

Re: [CentOS] grub.conf corrupt in boot grub, fine in rescue shell

2012-12-14 Thread James A. Peltier
It's quite likely a software RAID card and when the OS was installed it only installed grub on one of the hard disks, the one that it thought was primary. I've seen this happen with quite a few software cards. Each time the OS booted it would load a different hard disk as primary.

[CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-26 Thread James A. Peltier
I'm trying to find a way to exclude file systems during the autorelabel process. I have a file system (/exports) that has tens of millions of files on it and I *know* I don't want it relabeled. I've tried semanage fcontext -a -t "<>" "/exports(/.*)?" a

Re: [CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-26 Thread James A. Peltier
x27;ve google'd for stuff related to setting the context but that is NOT what I want to to. I want to strip the context entirely so that autorelabel won't look at the files and directories under exports and attempt to apply labels and I thought that semanage fcontext -a -t "

Re: [CentOS] Samba vs. Firewall and/or SELinux

2012-12-27 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 27 December 2012 21:09, Ibrahim Yurtseven wrote: > > Hi all. > > I created a smb-share on my el6 for all windows-pcs in my > home-network (I'm the only Linux-User in my family) for sharing all the > stuff we have, like music and videos and documents. The share will be &

Re: [CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On 12/27/2012 06:09 AM, Markku Kolkka wrote: | > 27.12.2012 3:03, James A. Peltier kirjoitti: | > | >> I'm really feeling dense today. I can't find anywhere in the FTP | >> man |

Re: [CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | What does matchpathcon /exports/foobar say after you add that rule? they all directories report <> including /exports itself. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-65

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 as Firewall/Router

2013-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | On 1/4/2013 12:21 PM, Tim Evans wrote: | > On 01/04/2013 12:01 PM, Tim Evans wrote: | >> I'm replacing an ancient Solaris 'ipf' firewall/router with a | >> brand new | >> CentOS 6.3 system. In the olden days, I successfully

Re: [CentOS] Anybody running cadence on CentOS 6 ?

2013-01-09 Thread James A. Peltier
e running Cadence on Scientific Linux 6. Do note that there | > are | > "multiple" Cadence products. Which specifically are you having | > issues | > with? | | Never mind. It is running on SL 5 . | | Can you add "real" graphics hardware such as a Nvidia card. | | -

Re: [CentOS] load balancer recommendations

2013-01-23 Thread Corey A Johnson
On 1/23/2013 12:22 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 1/23/2013 10:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> On 1/20/2013 10:12 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: >>>> You'll undoubtedly find more material on the iNet, but I hope the above >>>> ma

Re: [CentOS] Anything Like Solaris' Live Upgrade?

2013-01-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Does anyone know of any sort of Linux utility that does something | like | what Solaris' Live Upgrade | (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-7933/index.html) does? | | In my past life as a Solaris sys-admin, I found this an extremely | useful | too

Re: [CentOS] pymol

2013-02-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Anyone familiar with pymol? | | We're getting an error I find references to from a few years ago when | we | try to run remotely on a headless server. I can run it fine on my | machine | (CentOS 6.3, NVidia video), and on another person's workstation

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I | am | looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done. I | don't | want automatic updates; I want to control when and what gets updated. | | First I have to determine t

Re: [CentOS] xfsaild causing load, and stuck in D state - Centos 6.4 x64

2013-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
It's a kernel bug and can safely be ignored. - Original Message - | PowerEdge 2850 with PERC SCSI RAID controller. | 16GB RAM | Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz | Using megaraid driver and xfs on 3x 300GB SCSI disks as /dev/sdb | (total 572GB) (RAID-5) | | Stock Centos 6.

Re: [CentOS] xfsaild causing load, and stuck in D state - Centos 6.4 x64

2013-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
Indeed. We have the same issue. We stuck to a previous kernel release that we know doesn't have the bug to work around it. Each maintenance window we revisit this until we're sure the bug is solved at which point we will remove the workaround. I really feel for ya and was just po

Re: [CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-23 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Is there a way on Dell R320 (two power supplies and hardware RAID-1) | on | centos | to get a message that a power supply is failing or that one of the | hardware RAID disks is failing? | Sure there is the front panel - but no-one is there ... | | Is that reported

Re: [CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | > | > | > You can use IPMI if the machine has it. That way you get a | > consistent method to get many errors from the machine. | > | > - | James - I did the following... | | yum install ipmitool | modprobe ipmi_devintf | ipmitool chassis status |

Re: [CentOS] Missing Chrome Dependency

2013-06-17 Thread James A. Peltier
Say hello to unsupported chrome on CentOS - Original Message - | Hey All, | | What's with this? | | google-chrome-stable-28.0.1500.45-205727.i386 requires | libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15) : Success - empty transaction | | I got a software update notice that offered google-chrome

Re: [CentOS] Puppet el5 repo...

2013-07-02 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hey, | | any puppet user on CentOS 5 using puppet lab's repository...? | I installed their el5 repository but a puppet install asks for: | ruby >= 1.8.7 | | which is only available on CentOS 6... | Someone using their repo? | Or do you use the repof

Re: [CentOS] configuration of nagios

2013-07-03 Thread Earl A Ramirez
What have you done or tried? Did you check Google? On Jul 3, 2013 5:35 PM, "Rolly Aquino" wrote: > Hi Sir/Ma'am > > > can i request for configuration of CentOS nagios for moniotoring our > servers and switches > > > thank you, > rolly aquino > ___

Re: [CentOS] Puppet el5 repo...

2013-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
ailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | Been running fine here for years without issue. Mission critical servers and workstations ~2000 of them. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Cam

Re: [CentOS] odd inconsistency with nfs

2013-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I'm having an interesting/odd problem with nfs (I think). We recently | (Monday/Tuesday) upgraded our file server from an ancient redhat 7.3 | system to a shiny new centos 6.4 system. We don't see any issues | between | the other centos boxes, but things

Re: [CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
amazing for one node but for more it's another story. | I have heard about GFS2 and GlusterFS and read the docs and official | materials from RH on them. | In the RH docs it states the EXT4 limit files per directory is 65k | and I | had a directory which was pretty loaded with files and I am u

Re: [CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:37 AM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > | > As someone who has some rather large volumes for research storage I | > will say that ALL of the file systems have limitations, | > *especially* in the case of failures. I have typical

Re: [CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:15 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > | > | Is the (snicker) from the slow development or do you think the | > | goals | > | are impossible?Btrfs on top of ceph sounds as good as a | > | posix-looking fs could get. | >

Re: [CentOS] Firewall will not disable - stumped!

2013-07-07 Thread Earl A Ramirez
On 7 July 2013 20:57, Bob Metelsky wrote: > very perplexed here - I need to turn off iptables. Ive tried > > service iptables save > service iptables stop > chkconfig iptables off > > service ip6tables save > service ip6tables stop > chkconfig ip6tables off > > edited > OPGX280 ~ # cat /etc/sysc

Re: [CentOS] Replication with centos 6.4

2013-07-14 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi, | I need to create a real-time replication of a partition between two | servers | with centos 6.4, I am researching and finding difficulty with drbd, | corosync, | someone indicate material, do not need to run script automatically if | a node | drops only

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 3.10 and CentOS 5

2013-07-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I have a Centos 5 machine which I've just compiled the 3.10.4 kernel | on (remembering to set CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED) because I needed new | rtlwifi drivers for my rtl8192cu device. | | So far, so good. It seems to work. | | Except /proc/bus/usb doesn&#x

Re: [CentOS] How to know hardware RAID failure

2013-07-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi, | | We have on an old Dell 2850 with 4 SCSI drives, where we put a | Hardware | RAID5 on 3 disks and left 1 as spare. | I dont remember exactly, but the RAID was setup in the BIOS, and when | installing CentOS6, I just saw "1 drive". | | If it was sof

Re: [CentOS] back to: kernel: do_IRQ: 2.96 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2013-08-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I asked here a week or so ago, and referenced an older bug, but | haven't | seen any comments. Googling, I see others asking about the same. | Datum: | *every* one I've found is like this: they're all HP DL580's or | DL380's, or | such. |

Re: [CentOS] Fastest way of removing very large number of files?

2013-08-22 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi All. | | I currently have a problem on my backup server with very large number | of | small files in a large number of directories. I would like to delete | them | as fast as possible. Currently I use: | | rsync -a --delete /empty_directory/ dir_to_clean

[CentOS] System Hang on busy NFS server

2013-08-23 Thread James A. Peltier
On a busy NFS server I've started receiving the following error messages and the system hangs with high load but no work being done. The system is a Dell R510 with 12 x 3TB drives in a RAID-50 configuration. The RAID-50 device is a full disk LVM (no partitions) and one large (36TB)

Re: [CentOS] su logging

2013-08-27 Thread Jason A. Johnson
lman/listinfo/centos Eero, My suggestion would be logwatch. If you do not need a real time solution. You can have the server email you a nightly report that will include the day before su access. -J.J.- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nfs4, idmapd, users with same name, different uid?

2013-08-28 Thread James A. Peltier
s on server/client, just setting the | > domainname in idmapd.conf. Ldap is not obligatory. | | This is a small lab-type setting but I'm trying to merge two sets of | machines set up by different groups to have a common home directory | server that all the others automount. The number of users is

Re: [CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

2013-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I have a system running CentOS 6.3, with a SCSI attached RAID: | | | http://www.raidweb.com/index.php/2012-10-24-12-40-09/janus-ii-scsi/2012-10-24-12-40-59.html | | | For disaster recovery purposes, I want to build up a spare system | which could take the place

Re: [CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

2013-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 9/10/2013 10:23 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: | > But is there a way to stage the new system so all I need to do is | > move the RAID from the old system to the new system? | > Or do I need to do anything at all? | > I'm not sure if the existin

Re: [CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

2013-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > | are both systems totally identical hardware? in that case, I'd | > | simply | > | move ALL the disks, including the system volume. | > | > I agree here. Looking at the future,

[CentOS] Looking for input SELinux/Other & post-commit hooks.

2013-09-25 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I'm looking for input as to how I may restrict some post commit hooks by way of SELinux or some other mechanism. Here's a description of the problem that I need to solve. I have a source code server that support SVN and soon git. The server has no actual users on it and

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