Re: [CentOS] question on RAID performance

Have you tried RAID 10? It combines the security of RAID 1 with the speed of RAID 0. dmraid supports this RAID type. I was wonder what experiences there are out there with using RAID-X for performance increases. I do use RAID-1 (2 disks) but am interested in attemtps to gain higher R/W performa

Re: [CentOS] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xB887

ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xB007 ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xA887 I once had similar error messages, coming from a onboard Promise controler. I contacted Alan Cox - who is a kernel developper - about that and his answer was the following: « ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port

Re: [CentOS] ata1 bootup errors

ata1: port is slow to respond, this delay is known to occur on vacant SATA ports ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs) ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100) ata1: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs ata1: SRST failed (status 0xFF) ata1: SRST failed (err_mask=0x100)

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them. A filter that enables Office 2003 to open DocX files is available free from Microsoft.

[CentOS] Memory problems with CentOS box

Hello all I am running CentOS 5 on a small server and I am having very strange memory malfunctions. The computer runs perfectly with no problems whatsoever. From time to time, after a soft reboot, the computer emmits beeps corresponding to a memory fault. It never reboots again until I find and

Re: [CentOS] Disk errors on CentOS 5 - SOLVED

I would like to give feedback about some disk errors I reported here some days ago: The errors were the following with ICH5 controler: - ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

> Are there any KVM over IP switches that are not thousands of dollars? > Ideally a 3-4 port switch for a few hundred seems reasonable to me. > Try this 8-port one from LevelOne: http://global.level1.com/Business-Products/KVM-Switches---Extenders/Rackmount-KVM-Switches/KVM-0831/421.html It has

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

> Which is about $400, not counting cables, which are expensive. Well, you said "not thousands of dollars"... And I bought the cables for about 20 dollars each. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

> That part isn't a function of the iPEPS, it's a function of your > KVM switch. So yes, I was thinking about models that do it with > a particular key stroke. I've used the D-Link DKVM-8E as a decent > low cost unit, although it has the tendancy to get confused during > a full power outage of y

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

> Ok, I won't argue with that; a "it fails in this scenario" overrides > a "it works for me". I will add though, that were it got into the state > described above was where I was able to recover it by using the reset > button. You might want to try that next time instead of the cable > disconnec

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from some mirrors. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

The checksum files are also there. SHA and MD5. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

> I would strongly suggest that you wait for the actual announcements, but ymmv. > I noticed that the mirrors that don't have the images complete don't even allow you to enter the 5.4 directory. This particular one does and the checksum files check OK.

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

> How does one switch ssh ports? What is a good port to use? What > ramifications does it have when I need to ssh in? Is it as simple as > ssh u...@hots:port? > In /etc/ssh/sshd_config replace "port 22" with "port 1024) you like>" Then configure your ssh clients accordingly. I was havin

Re: [CentOS] Turning off X-Windows

> How does one best turn of X-Windows? I dont need it, ssh works just > fine for me. > Just boot the computer into runlevel 3. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

I am about to install a new server running CentOS 5.4. The server will contain pretty critical data that we can't afford to corrupt. I would like to benefit from the extra speed and features of a ext4 filesystem but I don't have any experience with it. Is there some member of the list who can en

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

> For enterprise environments my favorite FS is XFS, YMMV, though. > I also thought about using xfs, but I don't like the idea of it being dependent of an external kernel module that is always lagging behind the current kernel version. RedHat made the very questionable decision of NOT inclu

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

> (...) The xfs kernel module offered by CentOS > became kABI-compatible sometime ago -- meaning it survives kernel > updates. That is a clear improvement over the previous situation. I did suspect it but was not sure about it. Thank you for the information. I will do some tests with xfs, then.

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

> XFS is not stable on 32-bit systems. You should not use it there. You > need a 64-bit kernel. > > Default for servers should be 64-bit now anyway. Not many reasons left > for a 32-bit system, and more and more 3. party applications have less > and less support for 32-bit platforms in general.

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

> If they do what you want without making you wait, why even consider changing > the > filesystem that has been working for years on these machines? > Adding new, bigger disks and new filesystems? Wanting these to be the fastest that is reasonably possible? As for the system that arose the

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 - Problem with Enumeration of NICs

I just made a new CentOS 5.4 installation. The machine has an Intel 10/100 and an Intel GB on board, and a Broadcom GB card on a PCI-X (64 bit) slot. After the install finished, I noticed that the order and naming of the Ethernet interfaces is totally screwed up. Under Network Manager, the Inte

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 - Problem with Enumeration of NICs

> As I recall my solution was to comment out the modprobe alias created > for the network cards (/etc/modprobe.conf) and then in > network-scripts, use the HWADDR in each config script. Make sure the > device=ethX matches the name of the file, if nothing else, for your > own sanity - since the OS

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

> Overall using CAT5 is a lot easier, just don't make the mistake of > thinking that it's ethernet. CAT5 just provides the wires, the > signaling is proprietary and would probably fry an ethernet port if > you plugged one in. I suggest using different color cables > specifically for the KVM conn

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

> What you're referring to is accessing the KVM box itself via IP, which > the Aten does allow. What Aten *also* does is use CAT5 cable to link > the KVM switch to various adapters which plug into the server(s). It's > the signalling on those lines that Brian was referring to, not > remotely acces

Re: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

this is a production server, so running an extended memtest not going to happen. But I can swap it out and put it in a backup system to do the test. It's beginning to look a lot like a RAM issue as I have now seen a couple segfaults from programs that have always run fine. Every kernel panic m

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

Isn't the switch accessible via a Web interface? Most are. If so, why not use a browser to access it? It is much more practical nowadays. Of course, I don't know your concrete case, I am thinking generally. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Databas

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

Yes, it was accessible via the web, until I changed the IP - but forgot to change the subnet mask as well. (...) Can you configure some computer with a manual IP address and subnet mask to fit those the switch has now? You would then be able to change its setup. No virus found in this outgoing

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 is here!

Let me be the first (maybe): CentOS 5.2 is here (at least): http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.2/ Thank you all who worked on it! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1513 - Release Date: 22-06-2008 7:52 __

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

>> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3. I don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate kernel related issues, but it seems to me that there's some kind of confusion involved here. People are reporting problems with Intel Pentium II and III machines yet PowerNow is a speed thrott

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

> Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

> I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I can > host this in my garage. (Comcast offered me a 100 x 20 circuit for $99/mo > with 5 statics) > Thoughts, opinions, suggestions are welcome as to what to do! http://www.pfsense.org/ ___

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

> Now the machine is not particularly powerful: it is 64-bit machine, dual > core CPU, 3 GB RAM. So perhaps this is a factor in why I am having the > following problem: once in awhile that XFS partition starts generating > multiple I/O errors, files that had content become 0 byte, directories > di

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

> Correction to the above: the XFS partition is 26TB, not 16 TB (not that it > should matter in the context of this particular situation). Yes, it does matter: Read this: *[CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster* http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/10914

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

> > uname -a > Linux nrims-bs 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:18:21 EST > 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > this is clearly a 64-bit OS so the 32-bit limitations ought not to apply. > Ok! Since you didn't inform us in your initial post, I thought I should ask you in order to e

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM on a 64 bit system... Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. ___

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

> Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM > on a 64 bit system... > Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB > correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... > If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. ... and the fact t

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

> > You are right - it would indeed be desirable to have more than 3 GB of > RAM on that system. However it is not obvious to me that having that > little RAM should cause I/O failure? Why? That it would make the > machine slow is to be expected - and especially so given that I had to > jack

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

Why does it have to be CentOS? If you want a wonderful router/firewall that you can have up and running in a few minutes, you should look at this: www.pfsense.org I quote from their website: "pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored f

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

> For a newbie one like me ... which option you would advise me to go for? > I do not have any special preferences but I do care for the one that > is more stable and provide really more security. It seems to me that the last line of my previous post already contained my answer to your questio

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

> pfsense for a newbie? Yup! Based on the simple requirements that the OP expressed, i.e. "a firewall for the whole network in my place", I would again recommend pfsense. It may seem paradoxical but it's not. It just *works* after a very simple and quick installation. The user only has to answ

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

> pfsense for a newbie? > > A CentOS-like firewall would be ClearOS (formerly Clarkconnect) and again > would reduce the number of simultaneously-learned layers to wade through. > While it works very well, it is yet another layer and difference to learn, > and when learning is is really good to

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server from Asus with a SATA back

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

> the problem with that is when your boot drive dies your can't boot...with > ubuntu at least if any drive dies i can stilll boot off of the other 3..:) You don't need a boot drive, you only need a *boot partition*. So, you create a small *boot partition* with RAID1 and then allocate the rest o

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

> i then have to redo my entire array...and loose space inside the > array. Plus if i raid1 it then i only have two bootable disks..at > least this way i have 4 bootable disks..:) Lose space? 100 or 200MB? Why the heck wouldn't you be able to spare 100 or 200MB of the gigantic size of today's

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

>> Plus if i raid1 it then i only have two bootable disks..at least this way i have 4 bootable disks..:) No, you don't have 4. Please study the way a RAID10 array works. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] HELP SAMBA + LDAP

> Please does some one have any "documentation", "tutorial", "how to" > about setting up a PDC basing on Samba with a LDAP (OpenLDAP) backend ? > "Samba 3 by Example", included with Samba in HTML and PDF formats: "Chapter 5. Making Happy Users" You can also find it online here: http://us3.samb

Re: [CentOS] GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin (users & groups)

> Does there exist a GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin for CentOS 5 (RHEL > 5)? > From a Windows client you can see and manage your LDAP directory with the free LDAP Admin: http://ldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ Under Linux, Luma http://luma.sourceforge.net/ You can also manage your directory

Re: [CentOS] GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin (users & groups)

> We don't have any MS-Windows clients. The GUI must be Linux-based (this > includes a web-based system accessed via a standard web browser). > > >> Under Linux, Luma >> http://luma.sourceforge.net/ >> >> You can also manage your directory with a browser using the following >> (among others):

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

> Enjoy this..., 8000+ attempts. I moved the ssh port from the standard 22 to a high port. The attempts to break into my servers disappeared. The logs are clean now. I would advise you to do the same. Choose a high (> 1024) unused port and configure the clients accordingly. __

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

>> Using a non default port is not the solution, because history has learned >> that security by obscurity never worked. >> > > It's not "security by obscurity", moving the default port is just to not > see all that garbage in the log files - as the automated scripts don't > check for ss

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

> Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user > management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit > of a pain to do it manually all the time. > > Is there not an easier / faster way Smbldap-tools https://gna.org/projects/smbldap-tools/ _

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

>> Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user >> management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit >> of a pain to do it manually all the time. >> >> Is there not an easier / faster way >> > Smbldap-tools > https://gna.org/projects/smb

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

> Isn't that only for samba-ldap? Can I still use them if I am not running > samba? I don't want to install and run Samba for no particular reason.. It can be used to create Posix accounts only. The documentation resides here: http://download.gna.org/smbldap-tools/docs/

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

> You can try "libuser", it's available in CentOS 5 (yum install > libuser) and apparently has support for LDAP. > > "libuser" is an attempt to generalize the useradd/mod/del, > groupadd/mod/del commands to work with generic backends. The > implementation includes a module to work with an LDAP bac

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> Can someone please assist met with some software RAID 1+0 setup > instructions? I have searched the web, but couldn't find any. I found > a lot of RAID 10 setup instructions, but it doesn't help me. > As Oliver Ransom replied to you, RAID 1+0 (not to be confused with RAID 0+1) is RAID 10. m

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> what is your purpose with this Level? I'm asking because I had done some > raid level tests some time ago with hardware raid controllers/systems > from 3ware, sun and iscsi-raidsystems and some softwareraid setups. > The purpose of using RAID 10 is, of course, performance coupled with ful

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> Although they work, and do the same, the installer CD & mdadm needs to > support it. The specific appliance that I want to install, doesn't > support RAID 10, so I need to install RAID 1 + RAID 0, i.e. setting 2x > RAID 1 mirrors, and then stripe then in RAID0 - but once the first 1 > mirrors ar

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

This page from openfiler.com clearly states the following: "Openfiler supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID 10." http://www.openfiler.com/products/openfiler-architecture ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> This page from openfiler.com clearly states the following: > > "Openfiler supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID 10." > > http://www.openfiler.com/products/openfiler-architecture > The page even shows the dialog box to create a RAID 10 group! ___

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> Yet, I can't setup the RAID 10 they talk about, I only have RAID0, > RAID1, RAID5 & RAID6 in the setup options, which is why I'm thinking > of doing this another way. > Then maybe there is something wrong with your partitioning scheme or even physical layout. What drives do you have and how

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> Then maybe there is something wrong with your partitioning scheme or > even physical layout. What drives do you have and how are they > partitioned? How are they physically connected? > I beg your pardon, I didn't see your previous post with the above information. At this point, I think

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> I don't know if this makes sense, but to get their RAID10, I first > need to install it, then use the web interface to setup RAID 10. > Instead I would like to have openfiler running on the RAID 10 setup as > well. > I don't think that you have a significant gain by doing so. Aren't you bei

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

> There is no option to setup RAID 10. > > > But, let's get back to my previous request, > > How would one setup RAID 1+0 (i.e. 2x mirror'ed RAID1's and then a > RAID 0 on top of it) on say CentOS 4.6 ? > > There is no option to setup RAID 10 because you are trying to create an unsupported co

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

>> You might be interested in this article: >> >> "Why is RAID 1+0 better than RAID 0+1?" >> http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ >> >> > > > The whole raid1+0 or raid0+1 argument was really only relevant in the > days of pata when one disk dying on one channel might take out the other > disk

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

in /etc/ldap.conf: bind_policy soft ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Understanding FS ACLs

On 2010-08-20 08:34, Silviu Hutanu wrote: > I have problem understanding FS ACLs.Can someone explain me why the > following behaviour occur? > > setfacl -m d:g:admins:rwx shared > You have only defined the default ACL for the directory, which only affects newly created files and directories wi

Re: [CentOS] Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

I don't quite understand why all this fuss about some DVD ISOs... At least the Portuguese mirrors work very nicely... Here's an example: ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/centos/5.5/ Regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/

Re: [CentOS] how to show that a filesystem is ACL-enabled?

> >can someone clarify this? is there a command that shows whether a > filesystem is currently acl-enabled? and is the mount man page > simply incomplete in that respect? thanks. tune2fs -l /dev/[hda1,sda1] The values between [ ] are an example only. Replace, of course, with your own

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

> And don't do it that way. > > If you have a single drive failure with RAID 0+1 you've lost *all* of > your redundancy - one more failure and you are dead. If you create two > RAID1 sets and then strip them into a RAID0 you get pretty much the same > performance and space efficiency characteristi

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

> Mdraid10 actually allows for a 3 drive raid10 set. It isn't raid10 per say > but a raid level based on distributing copies of chunks around the spindles > for redundancy. Isn't this what they call RAID 1e (RAID 1 Enhanced), which needs a minimum of 3 drives? This seems to me a much better n

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

> The raid1e type probably didn't exist when Neil Brown came up with the > algorithm. You are probably right. > He should have patented it though... Maybe... > Maybe he started out with the idea to create a raid10, but didn't want the > complexity of managing sub-arrays so decided just to re

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

Can you give us the output of "tune4fs -l /dev/sdb" ? Does it show " has_journal" under "Filesystem features"? If it doesn't, you can input the following: tune4fs -o journal_data The option "journal_data" fits the case in which you don't care about the fastest speed but you put your focus on

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

> Below is the output from "tune4fs". From what people are saying it > looks like et4 may not be the way to go. > "What people are saying"? So instead of understanding and solving some issue you just jump wagon, maybe only to find some other issue there? ext4 is stable and works perfectly. You

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

> Filesystem state: not clean > You should really look at that line and at why it is there. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

> I was just a little worried at the response from Brent earlier quote > "Don't play Russian Roulette and use ext4." . Maybe he was referring to some old information dating back to the development period. ext4 has been declared stable by the kernel people. As a matter of fact it is now the d

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

> The defaults are determined by /etc/mke2fs.conf. If you've modified or > removed that file, mkfs.ext4 will behave differently On my CentOS 5.5 systems, defaults for ext4 reside on "/etc/mke4fs.conf". ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

Are you aware that SSL on port 636 is now considered deprecated in favor of START_TLS on port 389? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

>> Are you aware that SSL on port 636 is now considered deprecated in favor of >> START_TLS on port 389? > No, I'm not (I actually thought that it was the other way round) > > (...) > > What are the pro and cons of both approaches? > > Comments more than welcome You can, as an example, consult th

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

> The reason why I (think I) need both is that many third party apps on > the server (PHP applications typically) do not easily manage StartTLS. > Meanwhile, having two different ports make it easier to manage via iptables. > You can also use StartTLS over the network and LDAPI (connection over

Re: [CentOS] how to set ACLs on windows share

> I have to get/set acls on a windows share by script. > I can mount the windows share by mount.cifs but I don't know how to > set/get acls... anyone could help me ? > thx so much. You would benefit from posing this question to the Samba mailing list: sa...@lists.samba.org Do you want to set t

[CentOS] Building Samba RPM packages for RHEL/CentOS 5 - Needed corrections to the .spec file

I just built from source the Samba 3.5.6 RPM packages for CentOS 5.x/RHEL5.x. I found some glitches in the included samba.spec file and I thought someone else might benefit from my recent experience. The spec file for RHEL/CentOS resides, on the sources tree, under "samba-3.5.6\packaging\RHEL\

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 (X86 32 bits) only support 16 Gb RAM???

> I think I did not say clearly. It is NOT application can use 4GB MAX. What > I say is HARDWARE(server) HAVE 64gb ram OR 128 gb ram but O.S. only > understand 16 GB. That was clear from the beggining. With that amount of RAM you should really use a 64 bit OS. Otherwise, you will be doing

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding samba3x rpms results in size doubled

> I have rebuilt samba3x SRPM in Centos 5.5. The resultings RPM's are > nearly in triple size of the original RPMs. I have installed and > checked the binary files are stripped. What can result in such > difference in RPM sizes? Debugging information not removed from binaries? ___

Re: [CentOS] unix2dos did NOT fix line wrap problem on PC

Do a google search for "pfe.exe" (Programmers File Editor). Its a freeware windoz text editor that handles linux / Unix or dos / windows end of line characters with out any problems. If you can't find it e mail me off list and I can attach it to my reply, its only a 2/3mb file. Regards John

Re: [CentOS] Hiding Files in Samba

I may need a strong shot of coffee but I though putting "hide files = /~*/" as follows in the samba config file would hide files with a tilde. [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes hide files = /~*/ Unfortunately after restarting the server the files

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 with IBM SERVERAID 6i

It's a real raid adapter and the linux kernel is able to handle it with the standard ips module I found some references in Google that seemed to indicate a "fakeraid" controller, one that depends on the driver to do the RAID calculations... It's always up to you to decide but i'd prefer usi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 with IBM SERVERAID 6i

I've installed RHEL 4 on several IBM eSeries servers with ServeRaid controllers and I despise them. They fail too often and often don't tell you that they are having problems until it is too late. My suggestion is to use Linux software for your RAID array, and bypass the ServeRaid controller e

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 with IBM SERVERAID 6i

I've installed RHEL 4 on several IBM eSeries servers with ServeRaid controllers and I despise them. They fail too often and often don't tell you that they are having problems until it is too late. Are you referring to the SATA controllers or to the SCSI ones? __

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

US Robotics produces a USB modem that they present as compatible with Linux. It even has a sticker on the box stating that. The product's page is here: http://www.usr.com/products/modem/modem-product.asp?type=features&sku=USR5637 Linux Format magazine has a review of this modem on their Christ

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

Well, you never mentioned broadband or wireless... Your original post only referred to "USB or PCI dialup modems". ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB or PCI dialup modem supported by Centos

In Europe at least, the Huawei modems provided by Vodafone work with Linux out of the box. Someone I know bought a Asus EeePC with Linux and the modem just worked on the first attempt. It seems that Vodafone is actively supporting Linux. ___ CentOS mai

[CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

I hope someone familiar with the way Linux processes files can enlighten me on the following: I recently replaced an old Windows 2000 server with a new machine running CentOS 5.2. It uses Samba 3.2.7 to serve a network of Windows XP clients. We are a newspaper. We use Acrobat Distiller to batc

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/111044-change-order-files-directory.htm I searched Google too, and I read that page. That doesn't work for us: the Windows users won't touch anything on the server (or Linux, for that matter) and I am not there every day. The file names change cons

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

> The Windows users wouldn't have to know that they are "touching" anything on > the server. If that script will in fact work and getting it to run at the > appropriate time is the only problem, then set up something from the Windows > box > to trigger it on your server. "Click the pretty icon r

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

> If you are processing on the linux side and not via samba, and > your program will take a list of files on the command line instead of > groveling through the directory itself, you might simply start it with a > wild-card filename on the command line. The shell will sort the list as > it ex

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

> If the linux FS is efs2, maybe the "dir_index" option of mke2fs will doo > what you want? See "man mke2fs". It says it uses hashed b-trees, but for > speed. > That is the kind of information I am looking for. Thank you! ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

> You might want to look closely at the file names in Linux. > > Windows is not case sensitive but Linux is. > > In Windows, you cannot create the 2 files, TEST.DOC and test.doc in the > same directory but in Linux you can. It may be that some of these files > are stored differently as in file1.ps

Re: [CentOS] Support for i7 architecture?

Well, you must concede that it is *somewhat* ridiculous to read a one-line innocent email containing a twelve-line dense disclaimer... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

"Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server

I just verified the filesystem features with tune2fs -l and the dir_index feature is already present. So, no luck here. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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