[CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-19
Hi guys, What do you think if we make wiki background a little darker ?, see the following screenshot: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=modern-CentOS-1.7-18.png And, what do you think about the following messages style: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=modern-CentOS-1.7-18-msgs.png The relevant changes from version 1.7-12 to 1.7-19 are: 1.7-19 == - Update messages style. Add messages orange class. 1.7-18 == - Update messages style. Add classes green, red, blue, and violet to let you change the messages image background among these colors. Also fix spacing between the image and text, they are a bit closer now. The wiki code of messages is as follow: ||id=mimg :^ attachment: here id=mtxt (^ text here || or with classes: ||id=mimg class=red ^: attachment here id=mtxt class=red (^ text here || 1.7-17 == - Adjust credits position. 1.7-16 == - Before this update some links in the top edition bar were disabled. Due to the style used to locate locationline element. Now, the locationline elmenet is fixed and the edition links are fully active again. 1.7-15 == - Add a comment about wiki instance name, in the install.sh script file. - Change the default wiki instance name into wN. Where N is a number. The default value is `w0' now. - Update the position of pagelocation links. Now it's moved a little into the left. - Update page padding. The page padding is reduced 10px on left, right and bottom. - Update html background. Now it is dark. - Update pre tag code box color background. - Update lists presentation. The margin between them is a little reduced. - Update Admonition Messages style. - Other minors changes. modern-CentOS-1.7-19 download link: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=modern-CentOS-1.7-19.tar.gz Cheers, al. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-19
On Jan 7, 2008 8:23 PM, Mats Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Hi guys, What do you think if we make wiki background a little darker ?, see the following screenshot: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=modern-CentOS-1.7-18.png I wouldn't vote for it, hard contrast changes makes it harder to read and is causing a higher strain to the eye. I like the discrete border that breaks the normal text on white background with what is the border in the current design. Ditto, the only thing I would is maybe to try to darken the squares on the current design a bit, but to much. To much contrast hampers good reading. The point of the background is only to guide the eyes to stay where the text is (a.k.a. the indicate the borders where the text end). Regards, Tim -- Tim Verhoeven - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the microsoft approach to programming and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds) ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-19
On Jan 7, 2008 12:26 PM, Tim Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 8:23 PM, Mats Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Hi guys, What do you think if we make wiki background a little darker ?, see the following screenshot: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Wiki?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=modern-CentOS-1.7-18.png I wouldn't vote for it, hard contrast changes makes it harder to read and is causing a higher strain to the eye. I like the discrete border that breaks the normal text on white background with what is the border in the current design. Ditto, the only thing I would is maybe to try to darken the squares on the current design a bit, but to much. To much contrast hampers good reading. The point of the background is only to guide the eyes to stay where the text is (a.k.a. the indicate the borders where the text end). I agree with this. And if I may make a request, I'd like to see a bit narrower borders. It should still serve the purpose of indicating the borders where the text ends. With the way it is now, the background (both sides combined) is taking up close to 20% of the total width. I remember one of the main reasons against having the side navigation bar was that it would waste a lot of screen estate especially when the page is long. Right now, we are using space that would have been enough to accommodate the navigation bar. Akemi ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-es] Recompilar Squid
Enrique Rosario wrote: Saludos. Perdonen mi ignorancia pero necesito me digan si para recompilar squid con soporte para listas de acceso MAC es necesario hacerlo en la misma maquina hola Enrique no es dificil, es recompilar el src.rpm agregando una opción del configure, a mi amigo RAZA de ecualug le indiqué hace un tiempo cómo hacerlo y él posteó aqui la idea: http://www.ecualug.org/?q=2007/04/03/forums/squid_con_opcion_para_mac_address saludos! epe -- Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez http://www.ecualinux.com/ USA: +1 305 359 4495 / España: +34 91 761 7884 Ecuador: +593 2 341 2402 / + 593 9 9246504 Mexico: +52 55 1163 8640 / Italia: +39 06 916504876 ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con Postfix y Puerto 25
Enrique Rosario wrote: Saludos. Recien instale postfix como serv relay de correo, con la ayuda de la lista. Ahora todo ok y desde el servidor hago telnet a localhost 25 y al nombre de la maquina 25 y a 127.0.0.0 25 y todo ok. Pero si desde el mismo serv trato de hacer telnet al cname mail o a la ip del servidor 25 me pone el error conection refuse y aunque desabilito selinux y el firewall todo sigue igual. Con nslookup resuelvo bien el cname mail y la resolucion inversa de ip tambien me funciona ok. Realmente estoy en china por que no entiendo que con toda la seg desabilitada pueda hacer telnet al 25 del nombre de la maquina y no a su cname resuelto ni a su ip de interface interna. Aqui les mando resumen de la conf para ver myhostname = nombre.midominio.cu mydomain = midominio.cu myorigin = $mydomain inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain, mail.$mydomain local_recipients_map = unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 mynetworks = ip de serv interno de correo, ip interface interna, 127.0.0.0/8 relay_domains = $mynetworks, $mydestination relay_host = [dirección IP del servidor isp alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases # este fichero no existe en ningun directorio alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases # ident al anterior smtpd_banner = un mensaje desinformativo :D transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es si no me equivoco en el archivo master se pude configurar de donde escucha ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con Postfix y Puerto 25
On Friday 04 January 2008 21:08:22 Enrique Rosario wrote: Saludos. Recien instale postfix como serv relay de correo, con la ayuda de la lista. Ahora todo ok y desde el servidor hago telnet a localhost 25 y al nombre de la maquina 25 y a 127.0.0.0 25 y todo ok. Pero si desde el mismo serv trato de hacer telnet al cname mail o a la ip del servidor 25 me pone el error conection refuse y aunque desabilito selinux y el firewall todo sigue igual. Con nslookup resuelvo bien el cname mail y la resolucion inversa de ip tambien me funciona ok. Realmente estoy en china por que no entiendo que con toda la seg desabilitada pueda hacer telnet al 25 del nombre de la maquina y no a su cname resuelto ni a su ip de interface interna. ¿Estás haciendo nat? Si el cname apunta a un A con ip pública, postfix debe saberlo para aceptar las conexiones. Debes añadir la dirección pública al parámetro proxy_interfaces del main.cf. Y según como hayas hecho el NAT puedes o no acceder a tu postfix en su ip pública desde la red interna. Aqui les mando resumen de la conf para ver myhostname = nombre.midominio.cu mydomain = midominio.cu myorigin = $mydomain inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain, mail.$mydomain local_recipients_map = unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 mynetworks = ip de serv interno de correo, ip interface interna, 127.0.0.0/8 relay_domains = $mynetworks, $mydestination relay_host = [dirección IP del servidor isp alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases # este fichero no existe en ningun directorio alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases # ident al anterior smtpd_banner = un mensaje desinformativo :D transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport Un saludo, Juanjo ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] how can i upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1
Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; How can I upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1? make full backups of all your system volumes (/, /var, and so forth if you have them as seperate volumes), shutdown and boot the CentOS 5.x CD, run an upgrade. this will probably work if your system is quite stock and you've not installed any non-centos4 stuff on it.if you've got a mess of stuff from non-RPM sources and/or nonstandard repositories, chances are you''ll either spend about 60 hours picking through the pieces trying to get it all sorted out, or you'll end up restoring your backups. Personally, I recommend clean installs. backup your user stuff, config files, etc, then wipe and rebuild the system scratch, referring to the previous configs and stuff for reference. YMMV. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD
On Saturday 05 January 2008 21:19:28 MHR wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, from the kernel documentation -- The driver currently supports read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and very limited, but safe, write support and The biggest limitation at present is that files/directories cannot be created or deleted. Also, AIUI, permissions are nowhere near the *nix way. Good point. I was using the NTFS module, with write support, in CentOS 4.4, before I converted all my drives to ext3, but I don't recall if I ever tried to create a directory on the NTFS partitions. mhr Have a look at NTFS-3G. I have been using it for about two years now on my MDV boxes, without any problems reading and writing to a 60Gb laptop drive in a usb external enclosure. I will be installing it on my CentOS 5.0 box when I get the time to finish setting it up. Soon I hope ! -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems
On Sunday 06 January 2008 08:35:13 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking. Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map /etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive (16Gb are available and I was just sent a PR on a 32Gb, maybe I can get an eval device :) ). If you can boot from USB, why not get one of the laptop-drive based external units that are available up to 250 gigs now and do a full install on it? Duh.. I would have to get one that can be powered from that one USB port (fairly rare, the few that I have require external power or the power from a 2nd USB port). I would also have to be able to strap it to the bottom of the unit for easy management on a plane. Though if I can get that 32Gb USB flash drive that might almost be enough And too bad not a larger Compact Flash MicroDrive. Hey, wait. I run my Libretto's DSL off of one I can put one in a PCMCIA holder and map the swap drive to it and Now I am cooking. Maybe. But still down to can XEN run the content of the encrypted drive. How do I find out? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay. You might find that mounting /swap on a solid state device brings about its early demise. They can't be written to indefinitely. Looking at my two external HD enclosures the one in question has an IDE hard drive in it and the other which quite often need a double connection, (though not when connected to this note book HP 510), has the original SATA hard drive that was in this note book when I first purchased it. Note book runs Mandriva 2008. (puts tin helmet on !) -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems
John Bowden wrote: I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.5 watts, 500mA at 5V, per port. Typlical laptop HD is like 5 watts, more when spinning up. yes, I know it usually works. just saying... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Iptables and impersonating another O/S
Tom Laramee wrote: i have a CentOS 5.1 server running sshd (exposed to the outside world). i'd like to use iptables to fool nmap into thinking i'm running another O/S. How would that help? AFAIK, security via obscurity does not really take us long. i believe as long as you have a good set of rules protecting you, its unnecessary to do all the hard work in impersonating another OS. But its only me. -- Regards, Anup Shukla ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum-update error
Harry Sukumar wrote: Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=extras error was We had some problems with the mirrorlist.centos.org servers. All should be back to normal now ... Cheers, Ralph pgpEJJnkq6LLe.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Remote desktop...
Hi; I need any suggestions of remote desktop program. Can you advise me about that... ? thanks to everybody... -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 Tolun ARDAHANLI Computer Engineer E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't install pptp client
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:58:35PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Fabian Arrotin wrote: snip Ok... I finally got everything installed, however when ever I run the client and establish a connection, the moment any data begins to pass back and forth the entire system locks up tight and requires a hardboot to clear things up. I wonder since this laptop is an Athlon X2 (x86_64) based system is it possible that mixing i386 and x86_64 packages could make the system unstable? Yep : the mppe module is unstable on x86_64 (but it's stable on i386) : see the bug report : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2076 btw.. thank you very much for the info directing me to your repo. emmensely helpful. You're welcome .. :-) Fabian Arrotin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] how can i upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1
Robert Slade wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; How can I upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1? make full backups of all your system volumes (/, /var, and so forth if you have them as seperate volumes), shutdown and boot the CentOS 5.x CD, run an upgrade. this will probably work if your system is quite stock and you've not installed any non-centos4 stuff on it.if you've got a mess of stuff from non-RPM sources and/or nonstandard repositories, chances are you''ll either spend about 60 hours picking through the pieces trying to get it all sorted out, or you'll end up restoring your backups. Personally, I recommend clean installs. backup your user stuff, config files, etc, then wipe and rebuild the system scratch, referring to the previous configs and stuff for reference. I tried to 'upgrade' but ran into a number of problems some of which I still have not resolved - Messages and boot log not being written to for a start. I would strongly recommend backing up the data etc and doing a reinstall - I have spent more time fixing problems than the time to reconfig. I want to agree with this ... upgrades are usually bad ... and it doesn't matter what your OS. Windows server upgrades hardly ever go good from things like: WinNT = Win2000 Win2000 = Win2003 Nor do client upgrades like: Win2000 or Win90 = WInXP WinXP = WinVista It is just not good to bring over baggage that is the old registry ... same holds true for linux upgrades. Anaconda can change out some programs ... however, just like the windows registry, several config files and other things get orphaned. Also ... debian and ubuntu people say apt allows them to upgrade bwtween releases. In practice, that does not work much better when doing major version changes either. Nothing you can do is going to automatically make a apache 1.2 config work on apcahe 2.0 or 2.2 ... likewise, shifting from xfree86 to xorg or mysql-3.x to mysql-5.x, etc is going to require work. This is regardless of OS. With debian ... there are also many things that need to be resolved after an upgrade. It is almost always MUCH faster and easier to backup info, fresh install and bring over data. SO ... the recommendation is to do a fresh install ... see this link: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] PXE problem after CentOS reboot
Andrey Slepuhin wrote: Dear folks, We are installing a large diskless cluster using CentOS 5.1. The hardware is pretty new - Supermicro X7DWT boards with Harpertown CPUs. Unfortunately we have some PXE-related problems described by the following scenario: 1) Set up DHCP, TFTP and NFS on a server, prepare PXE kernel and initrd - fine. 2) Start up the node using PXE for the first time - fine. 3) Reboot the node - PXE boot fails for all next attempts. We see that a server gets DHCP requests and answers them, but a node doesn't response with DHCP ack. The typical DHCP log is: Jan 5 09:14:34 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:34 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.5.2 to 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:36 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:36 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.5.2 to 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:40 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:40 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.5.2 to 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:48 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 Jan 5 09:14:48 shoffner dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.1.5.2 to 00:30:48:7e:24:a6 via eth1 4) Anything like DHCP server restart, node reset, node power on/off doesn't help 5) The only thing that will enable system to boot again over PXE is to perform bmc reset cold command on a node using ipmitool - yes, we have IPMI card sharing the same Ethernet interface. After that we can boot CentOS again. 6) When Linux is loaded, if we reboot a node using bmc power cycle instead of reboot or shutdown, a node will boot for the next time without problems 7) There are no problems with a second GbE interface (without IPMI) 8) So our guess is that Linux on a reboot leaves Ethernet device in some state that cause brain damage for IPMI+PXE combination. We tried to play with some e1000 driver options, we are also tried latest Intel driver - nothing helps. Do you have any idea what goes wrong? Any help will be much appreciated. I don't, but we don't share the IPMI interface with PXE and the OS i.e. we set things up so IPMI uses the first interface and it boots via PXE off the 2nd and the OS uses the 2nd interface only. We do this as we had problems using the IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (SOL) and console redirection over SOL with PXE - the PXE boot would reset the NIC and break the SOL connection - so we gave up and decided to separate IPMI from PXE and the OS James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box
On Sun, January 6, 2008 23:12, Joe Klemmer wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 00:39 -0800, Garrick Staples wrote: Rock-n-roll, man. That did the trick. You know, there would probably be use for a tool that checked the files and made sure they weren't out of sync. Isn't pam supposed to have that capability? I have avoided reading/learning anything about it for years. And I mean YEARS. Maybe I'll take a peek and see what's in there. And maybe I'll get off my @$$ and figure out Bind/DNS. Right. And maybe Microsoft will change the licensing for Windows to GPL. Anyway, thanks much, Joe man pwck -- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...
Hi; I want to connect from linux to Centos;) what should i use at user side and server side? thanks... 2008/1/7, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jim Wildman wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; I need any suggestions of remote desktop program. Can you advise me about that... ? thanks to everybody... yum install rdesktop rdesktop is a remote desktop for connecting from linux to windows machines ... nx/freenx setup a secure remote desktop for access a linux machine from either a linux or windows machine. Which are you trying to accomplish? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 Tolun ARDAHANLI Computer Engineer E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...
Monday 07 January 2008 13:32:32 Tolun ARDAHANLI napisał(a): Hi; I want to connect from linux to Centos;) what should i use at user side and server side? thanks... If you need something with experience similar to RDC, I'd suggest NX/FreeNX Regards, -- Tomasz Napierala System Administrator QXL Poland - Allegro.pl Team http://www.allegro.pl/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...
You could share your kde desktop, setup a password and encrypt with ssh. At the client side you could use krdc. You would typically use Remote Desktop Connection with the KDE VNC server, which is Desktop Sharing, since it closely matches the special features of Remote Desktop Connection. Take a look here http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdenetwork/krdc/index.html On Mon, January 7, 2008 11:58 am, Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; I need any suggestions of remote desktop program. Can you advise me about that... ? thanks to everybody... -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Remote desktop...
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; I want to connect from linux to Centos;) what should i use at user side and server side? SSH :). More seriously... x terminal, vnc, but inside an SSH tunnel would be even better. If you are on a fast local network, configure gdm to permit remote logins, bring up your local linux without starting X, then run 'X -query other_host' to run the whole desktop from the other machine. Or let X start normally locally, and do approximately the same in a window with 'Xnest -query other_host'. Or run individual remote windows through ssh tunnels like: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] command_name which will open a new window on your local box. But, the nicest way is probably freenx on the server side and any of the cross-platform NX clients that you can download from http://www.nomachine.com. This has the advantage of working well even on slow connections and the ability to reconnect to running sessions - and some other things. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Remote desktop...
Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; I want to connect from linux to Centos;) what should i use at user side and server side? SSH :). More seriously... x terminal, vnc, but inside an SSH tunnel would be even better. Ugo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: DRBD NFS load issues
Jed Reynolds wrote: Jed Reynolds wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Can you send us the output of vmstat -n 5 5 when you're doing a backup? This is with rsync at bwlimit=2500 This is doing the same transfer with SSH. The load still climbs...and then load drops. I think NFS is the issue. I wonder if my NFS connection settings in client fstabs are unwise? I figured with beefy machine and fast networking, I could take advantage of large packetsizes. Bad packet sizes? Are you backing up nfs to nfs? From where to where are you doing backups? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum update download only?
Johnny Hughes ha scritto: Kenneth Porter wrote: Googling for this feature, I saw reports from the yum developer that it wasn't yet implemented. This was in mailing list posts from a year or more ago. Did it ever make it into the yum code? I want to start downloading the updates for a server going from 5.0 to 5.1 and then do the actual installation once I'm on site. I don't want to have to wait around while there for the download to proceed. I'd rather have all the packages ready in the yum cache when I get there. There is a yum plugin to do this ... it is called yum-downloadonly, so yum install yum-downloadonly Afterwards do this to see how to use the pluging: yum --help Basically ... yum --downloadonly upgrade This will put all the updates into the /var/cache/yum/ (This will be all the updates for the packagelist on the current machine ... so if you want to get them all, make sure to duplicate the machine packagelist you want to get the downloads for) you can then copy these files to the new machine(s) /var/cache/yum/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes What about centos 4? Does exists something similar? TIA Lorenzo Quatrini ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: DRBD NFS load issues
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Jed Reynolds wrote: Jed Reynolds wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Can you send us the output of vmstat -n 5 5 when you're doing a backup? This is with rsync at bwlimit=2500 This is doing the same transfer with SSH. The load still climbs...and then load drops. I think NFS is the issue. I wonder if my NFS connection settings in client fstabs are unwise? I figured with beefy machine and fast networking, I could take advantage of large packetsizes. Bad packet sizes? Are you backing up nfs to nfs? From where to where are you doing backups? The source data is on a ext3 partition, LVM volume, backed by a 15krpm raid 10 volume. Both rsyncs where conducted from the source host (the db server) to the backup server (which hosts nfs). In the nfs backup, I was rsyncing from the db filesystem to an NFS mount, and the ssh backup, I was rsyncing from the db filesystem to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups. Jed ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...
On Jan 7, 2008 1:32 PM, Tolun ARDAHANLI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I want to connect from linux to Centos;) I made two thinks. First for my xen domU I configured a Xvnc server. When I connect, I get the GDM asking me my login/password. I was so happy, that for my laptop, I configured the VNC module in Xorg. The difference is that for my laptop I can control an already open X session or come back to my laptop and continue on an remotely open connection. That way from any client: Windows or any linux; I can use the RealVnc client to connect to both. I use RealVnc because I solved any keyboard mapping problem with it. Regards T what should i use at user side and server side? thanks... 2008/1/7, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jim Wildman wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote: Hi; I need any suggestions of remote desktop program. Can you advise me about that... ? thanks to everybody... yum install rdesktop rdesktop is a remote desktop for connecting from linux to windows machines ... nx/freenx setup a secure remote desktop for access a linux machine from either a linux or windows machine. Which are you trying to accomplish? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 Tolun ARDAHANLI Computer Engineer E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq:326600 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5
on 1/4/2008 5:11 PM Dan Carl spake the following: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 6:29 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 Dan Carl wrote: I forgot to add the file system is riserfs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Carl Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:43 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 I have a SUSE 9.0 box with a software raid. It consists of 6 IDE drives and three different controllers The OS is on a separate drive. What I want to do is put a new boot drive in load Centos on it. Then I want to be able to mount the raid without loosing any of the data on it. What information do I need from the SUSE OS (raid info etc...) to tell Centos how to recognize it? The data is backup on DVD's but it would be a real pain to reload it.(its around a terabyte of data) So I'm writing here for some advice. I've setup many raids in the past but only fresh installs. Thanks After you do your base Centos install and 'yum update', do: yum --enablerepo=centosplus update kernel yum --enablerepo=centosplus install reiserfs-utils Then reboot, and you should be able to mount the raid and add it to /etc/fstab. Ok but how does Centos recognise the ARRAY? Is the Array's configuration stored some where? SUSE uses raidtab. The only raid type conf file on my other Centos boxes is /etc/mdadm.conf So you mean to tell me I just have to make sure reiserfs is installed, then just mount like this in fstab /dev/md0 /home/tera reiserfs defaults 1 2 #mount -a and bang everything in done? Something tells me it can't be that easy. As long as the partitions were created as raid autostart (type 0xFD) they should have all the info needed to start. If you aren't sure, why not DL the CentOS live CD and see if you can start the array from it? If the live CD can see it, then an installed version should. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
on 1/7/2008 1:46 AM John R Pierce spake the following: John Bowden wrote: I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.5 watts, 500mA at 5V, per port. Typlical laptop HD is like 5 watts, more when spinning up. yes, I know it usually works. just saying... Sometimes you can find small 4 to 6 gig closeout drives with lower power requirements. And you can look around for 1.8 inch drives and enclosures. That should run on a single port. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?
This isn't really a Centos question but it affects the systems so I'll ask here anyway. I've noticed when swapping disks around on IBM 3550 boxes that some of them see one more cylinder on drives than others but I can't find any settings or differences that might control this. It's an obvious problem when you fdisk/format on the one that sees the additional cylinder, then move or copy this disk to one that doesn't. Does anyone know what controls this or if it is just a hardware or firmware version difference? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 SOLVED
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:39 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 Dan Carl wrote: I forgot to add the file system is riserfs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Carl Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:43 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 I have a SUSE 9.0 box with a software raid. It consists of 6 IDE drives and three different controllers The OS is on a separate drive. What I want to do is put a new boot drive in load Centos on it. Then I want to be able to mount the raid without loosing any of the data on it. What information do I need from the SUSE OS (raid info etc...) to tell Centos how to recognize it? The data is backup on DVD's but it would be a real pain to reload it.(its around a terabyte of data) So I'm writing here for some advice. I've setup many raids in the past but only fresh installs. Thanks After you do your base Centos install and 'yum update', do: yum --enablerepo=centosplus update kernel yum --enablerepo=centosplus install reiserfs-utils Then reboot, and you should be able to mount the raid and add it to /etc/fstab. Ok but how does Centos recognise the ARRAY? Is the Array's configuration stored some where? SUSE uses raidtab. The only raid type conf file on my other Centos boxes is /etc/mdadm.conf If the partition type is FD, the kernel will autodetect and assemble it at boot time. So you mean to tell me I just have to make sure reiserfs is installed, then just mount like this in fstab /dev/md0 /home/tera reiserfs defaults 1 2 #mount -a and bang everything in done? Something tells me it can't be that easy. Before putting it in /etc/fstab, do a 'cat /proc/mdstat' to be sure that md0 really exists and includes the right underlying devices, but yes, it should be that simple. Dan Carl wrote: Sorry, I forgot to follow-up You're right it was that easy. Thanks Dan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Switching screen resolution on the fly
Is there any way other than CTL ALT + and CTL ALT - to set and or change the resolution of the X server when I want to. Is there a way to so take me to 1920x1080 mode and then later take me to 1366x768 mode. With xvidtune I see the -next and -prev options but I was hoping for jumping to specific modes. I so realize I can also edit out unwanted modes in the xorg.conf but I'd rather not manually change items on a machine. Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Strange Problem with dm-0
I began an update of one of our servers via yum and, coincidentally or not, I have been getting the following logged into the message file since: messages:Jan 7 15:55:51 inet07 kernel: post_create: setxattr failed, rc=28 (dev=dm-0 ino=280175) Now, this tells me that dev dm-0 is out of space but, what is dm-0? So, can anyone tell me what is happening and why? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't install pptp client
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 05:58:35PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Fabian Arrotin wrote: snip Ok... I finally got everything installed, however when ever I run the client and establish a connection, the moment any data begins to pass back and forth the entire system locks up tight and requires a hardboot to clear things up. I wonder since this laptop is an Athlon X2 (x86_64) based system is it possible that mixing i386 and x86_64 packages could make the system unstable? Yep : the mppe module is unstable on x86_64 (but it's stable on i386) : see the bug report : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2076 btw.. thank you very much for the info directing me to your repo. emmensely helpful. You're welcome .. :-) Fabian Arrotin Ah well... since it's the only thing that isn't working and everything else works so awesomely (not sure that's even a word) I'm not going to complain, but will work on a solution... Overall it feels REAL good to get back into a RedHat (CentOS) system. OpenSUSE 10.3 is nice and all, but it ain't CentOS! Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switching screen resolution on the fly
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jerry Geis wrote: Is there any way other than CTL ALT + and CTL ALT - to set and or change the resolution of the X server when I want to. Is there a way to so take me to 1920x1080 mode and then later take me to 1366x768 mode. See the xrandr(1x) man page. xrandr comes with the xorg-x11-server-utils package. -- Paul Heinlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange Problem with dm-0
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:22 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: I began an update of one of our servers via yum and, coincidentally or not, I have been getting the following logged into the message file since: messages:Jan 7 15:55:51 inet07 kernel: post_create: setxattr failed, rc=28 (dev=dm-0 ino=280175) Now, this tells me that dev dm-0 is out of space but, what is dm-0? On my system, ]# ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 0 Dec 29 10:07 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 3 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroup01-Home01 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 2 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroupAA-lvol1 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 1 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroupAE-LogVolTemp crw--- 1 root root 10, 63 Dec 29 10:07 control [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/dm* brw-r- 1 root root 253, 0 Dec 29 10:07 /dev/dm-0 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 1 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-1 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 2 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-2 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 3 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-3 S/b very similar on yours. So, can anyone tell me what is happening and why? NP here. Do a df or du on the equivalent LVM(?) item. snip HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0
After finishing the update I ran yum clean and then rebooted the server. On startup the following were logged: Jan 7 16:43:39 inet07 kernel: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly file system. Jan 7 16:43:39 inet07 kernel: EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during reco very. Jan 7 16:43:39 inet07 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Jan 7 16:43:39 inet07 kernel: EXT3-fs: dm-0: orphan cleanup on readonly fs Jan 7 16:43:40 inet07 kernel: EXT3-fs: dm-0: 1 orphan inode deleted Jan 7 16:43:40 inet07 kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete. Jan 7 16:43:40 inet07 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mod e. I would appreciate it very much if somebody could enlighten me as to what happened and why. Is this indicative of a hardware failure? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange Problem with dm-0
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:59 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:22 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: snip On my system, ]# ls -l /dev/mapper total 0 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 0 Dec 29 10:07 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 3 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroup01-Home01 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 2 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroupAA-lvol1 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 1 Dec 29 10:08 VolGroupAE-LogVolTemp crw--- 1 root root 10, 63 Dec 29 10:07 control [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/dm* brw-r- 1 root root 253, 0 Dec 29 10:07 /dev/dm-0 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 1 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-1 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 2 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-2 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 3 Dec 29 10:08 /dev/dm-3 S/b very similar on yours. So, can anyone tell me what is happening and why? NP here. Do a df or du on the equivalent LVM(?) item. s/LVM/mounted LVM/ For the raw device, stat --filesystem yours should be the ticket? snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?
Hi all, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the command line. After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for the wireless lan card is off, so I need to know how to turn the wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. thanks, Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format? Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM If I'm understanding you correctly you want to forgo the task of choosing all the packages. If this is the case you might try going through the installation on a test machine (a machine that doesn't really matter how the installation resolves) and when it's time create a kick-start disk. That you can essentially fire-and-forget when you start the install of your live system. Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switching screen resolution on the fly
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:18:36 -0500 Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way other than CTL ALT + and CTL ALT - to set and or change the resolution of the X server when I want to. Is there a way to so take me to 1920x1080 mode and then later take me to 1366x768 mode. System Preferences Screen resolution -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0
# ls -l /dev/mapper /dev/dm* brw-r- 1 root root 253, 0 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-0 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 1 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-1 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 2 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-2 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 3 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-3 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 4 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-4 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 5 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-5 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 6 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-6 /dev/mapper: total 0 crw--- 1 root root 10, 63 Jan 7 16:42 control brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 0 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 2 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-LogVol01 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 1 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-LogVol02 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 3 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--IMAP brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 6 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--IMAP--2 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 4 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--MailMan brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 5 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--webfax I infer that dm-0 === VolGroup00-LogVol00 and that VolGroup00-LogVol00 === / so df / gives # df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 8256952 6677880 1159644 86% / I am guessing that the yum update caused the file system to fill and to precipitate this problem. Is the the probable cause? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:22 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: # ls -l /dev/mapper /dev/dm* brw-r- 1 root root 253, 0 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-0 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 1 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-1 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 2 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-2 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 3 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-3 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 4 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-4 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 5 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-5 brw-r- 1 root root 253, 6 Jan 7 16:42 /dev/dm-6 /dev/mapper: total 0 crw--- 1 root root 10, 63 Jan 7 16:42 control brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 0 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 2 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-LogVol01 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 1 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-LogVol02 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 3 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--IMAP brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 6 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--IMAP--2 brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 4 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--MailMan brw-rw 1 root disk 253, 5 Jan 7 16:42 VolGroup00-lv--webfax I infer that dm-0 === VolGroup00-LogVol00 and that VolGroup00-LogVol00 === / so df / gives # df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 8256952 6677880 1159644 86% / I am guessing that the yum update caused the file system to fill and to precipitate this problem. Is the the probable cause? With appx 1.19GB available, by itself I don't think so. There are underlying tmpfs files systems associated with the LVs. A stat on those will show a different set of numbers. Maybe one of these filled? # stat --filesystem /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 File: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 ID: 0Namelen: 255 Type: tmpfs Blocks: Total: 194473 Free: 194415 Available: 194415 Size: 4096 Inodes: Total: 194473 Free: 194075 # stat --filesystem /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-Home01 File: /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-Home01 ID: 0Namelen: 255 Type: tmpfs Blocks: Total: 194473 Free: 194415 Available: 194415 Size: 4096 Inodes: Total: 194473 Free: 194075 # df -H / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 19G11G 7.4G 59% / I *guess* that when doing the update, there were some components that were in use and could not be *truly* deleted. When the update was being done, in addition to temporary high-water marks achieved while transactions were being done, rpms shuffled, etc., there was probably additional space not yet released by some component that was replaced but could not yet be deleted. There is also the possibility that your i-nodes were used up. Since I set my file systems to 4K blocks, I use fewer than normal. Do df -i on mounted FSs. I *suspect*, relative to your orphaned i-node, that this same underlying situation was the cause? Some component that couldn't be released was still active when the file system had to be unmounted. It should no re- cur unless it really is some other problem. -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?
Does anyone know what controls this or if it is just a hardware or firmware version difference? I have seen this before with different controllers. I believe it to be as you think, differences in controllers and how they access the hardware. jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as 'messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Intel SRCS16 Controllers
I have a centos box with a few of these in it. Its shipped monitoring/alerting software needs X, and this server only has a console installed. Does anyone have any experience with or a suggestion on how I could monitor these cards with something 3rd party based that doesn't need a gui, or Java at that matter! Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Rights is a fictional abstraction. No one has ``Rights'', neither machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use. -- Lazarus Long ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Mark Weaver wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format? Um. I'll try the Alt-F2. But the formatting was AFTER all the selection steps. What I want is just format. Then I will leave it as is... And if the format fails again, maybe I will learn more than 'critical formatting error, install aborting' or words similar! Oh, and this IS a test machine to get a kickstart file from ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as ‘messages’ on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course…). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc… Depends on if you're monitoring just one server or a bunch. I'd google for these things: LogWatch epylog big syster oak Then there's various things that read syslog and can read reports for you. Google around for things like syslog-ng, nagios, zenoss, whatnot, if you're looking at larger scope. Jed ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Almost solved not respecting group permisions for new groups after group #16 on NFS mounted dirs. was: [CentOS] I am confused. Chmod / chown issues?
This is almost solved. Test case: [EMAIL PROTECTED] asdasd]# for i in `id jpyeron | perl -pe 's/,/\n/g'| perl -ne 'm/\((.+?)\)/g and print $1,\n'`; do mkdir -m 750 $i chgrp $i $i; done [EMAIL PROTECTED] asdasd]# su jpyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] asdasd]$ for i in *; do pushd $i; popd 2 /dev/null /dev/null; done /home/asdasd/aepi /home/asdasd bash: pushd: ai: Permission denied /home/asdasd/apache /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/assistantchef /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/burtshare /home/asdasd bash: pushd: busdev: Permission denied /home/asdasd/c600312 /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/chinalane /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/cvs /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/dadweb /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/dante /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/ftp /home/asdasd bash: pushd: graffitiweb: Permission denied bash: pushd: inventory: Permission denied bash: pushd: jobs: Permission denied /home/asdasd/jpyeron /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/kingspizza /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/kingspizza2 /home/asdasd /home/asdasd/mkruger /home/asdasd bash: pushd: pdinc: Permission denied bash: pushd: projrejistor: Permission denied bash: pushd: rejistor: Permission denied /home/asdasd/share /home/asdasd bash: pushd: smime: Permission denied /home/asdasd/swindellweb /home/asdasd bash: pushd: upcup: Permission denied bash: pushd: urbana: Permission denied bash: pushd: vongartenstadt: Permission denied bash: pushd: votetech: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] asdasd]$ id uid=500(jpyeron) gid=500(jpyeron) groups=500(jpyeron),48(apache),50(ftp),400(cvs),507(mkruger),531(assistantch e f),533(chinalane),537(c600312),539(dadweb),522(kingspizza),544(kingspizza2), 546(swindellweb),558(share),561(aep i),563(burtshare),568(dante),582(busdev),570(smime),574(urbana),578(ai),592( inventory),595(upcup),602(projrejis tor),603(votetech),604(rejistor),609(vongartenstadt),611(graffitiweb),617(pd inc),56736(jobs) busdev is the 17th group. 14 aepi 20 ai 2 apache 6 assistantchef 15 burtshare 17 busdev 8 c600312 7 chinalane 4 cvs 9 dadweb 16 dante 3 ftp 27 graffitiweb 21 inventory 29 jobs 1 jpyeron 10 kingspizza 11 kingspizza2 5 mkruger 28 pdinc 23 projrejistor 25 rejistor 13 share 18 smime 12 swindellweb 22 upcup 19 urbana 26 vongartenstadt 24 votetech But if we try on a non nfs mounted dir like /tmp all is fine either way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sadfsdaf]$ for i in *; do pushd $i; popd 2 /dev/null /dev/null; done /tmp/sadfsdaf/aepi /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/ai /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/apache /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/assistantchef /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/burtshare /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/busdev /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/c600312 /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/chinalane /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/cvs /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/dadweb /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/dante /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/ftp /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/graffitiweb /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/inventory /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/jobs /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/jpyeron /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/kingspizza /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/kingspizza2 /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/mkruger /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/pdinc /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/projrejistor /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/rejistor /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/share /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/smime /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/swindellweb /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/upcup /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/urbana /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/vongartenstadt /tmp/sadfsdaf /tmp/sadfsdaf/votetech /tmp/sadfsdaf -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 16:15 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] I am confused. Chmod / chown issues? Where did I go wrong? [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]# stat . File: `.' Size: 4096Blocks: 16 IO Block: 32768 Directory Device: ah/10d Inode: 147591 Links: 5 Access: (0750/drwxr-x---) Uid: (56755/ busdev) Gid: (56755/ busdev) Access: 2008-01-06 15:49:53.0 -0500 Modify: 2008-01-06 15:49:15.0 -0500 Change: 2008-01-06 15:59:59.0 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]# grep ^jpyeron: /etc/group grep ^busdev: /etc/group jpyeron:x:500: busdev:x:56755:jpyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]# su jpyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]$ ls -al ls: .: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]$ exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]# uname -r 2.4.21-37.EL [EMAIL PROTECTED] busdev]# -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant10 West 24th Street #100- - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists options like linux askmethod. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Does anyone know what controls this or if it is just a hardware or firmware version difference? I have seen this before with different controllers. I believe it to be as you think, differences in controllers and how they access the hardware. I could understand that between different types of controllers - or maybe even with a different setup. These appear to be the same with individual drives set up as separate volumes in all cases. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists options like linux askmethod. Nope, boot up normally. Once you're at the welcome screen in the installer, then you can press CLTR-ALT-F2 to drop to a console prompt. Here you'll be able to set up a /boot partition, mkfs.ext3 it, tag the remaining space as LVM and then use the lvm tool to create your volumes and logical volumes and create the filesystems on top of them. Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:04 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists options like linux askmethod. I think he meant ControlALTF2 Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
Bill Campbell wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Did you have to do something to it to make it work with centos? I have one running on a machine that collects a lot of router syslogs and it has the annoying habit of resending a bunch of old notifications whenever a new one is noticed. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
Just to let you all know (and the reason for top posting) The install of Centos with XEN went with no problems. Just had to be VERY careful and NOT touch hda1. Booting was taking 10min or more. Timeouts. On study, it was USB related and the drive I am using is .7A (3.5W ie more than USB spec...). So I have to look for a .5A drive! BTW, I have some internal IDE 3.5:2.5 converters and these are ONLY booting .5A laptop drives. Won't even spin up .7A drives. But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside of XEN. You have to set up an LVM partition then install XP into it withing XEN. And I cannot touch that drive. Sigh. Back to other projects. Scott Silva wrote: on 1/7/2008 1:46 AM John R Pierce spake the following: John Bowden wrote: I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.5 watts, 500mA at 5V, per port. Typlical laptop HD is like 5 watts, more when spinning up. yes, I know it usually works. just saying... Sometimes you can find small 4 to 6 gig closeout drives with lower power requirements. And you can look around for 1.8 inch drives and enclosures. That should run on a single port. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists options like linux askmethod. No, you have to answer the startup questions first. By the time or before you get to the disk partitioning screen you can use alt-F4 to get a text-mode shell in a virtual console. Usually it is alt-f7 to get back to the X install screen. If you've already gotten to the disk setup screen, there should be a 'back' button at the bottom. Going to the previous screen and back will make it re-detect your new partitions. I do this the hard way a lot of times because I like to make /boot, swap, and / partitions in that order and raid1-mirror them and the builtin setup wants to rearrange the partition order if it hasn't already been created. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:04 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists options like linux askmethod. I think he meant ControlALTF2 Yes, if you are in X, you need ctl-alt-fkey to switch VCs. If you aren't already in X you can do it with alt-fkey. Regardless, you have to be a little farther along in the install before it works. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Ray Van Dolson wrote: You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... Do you mean right after booting off CD #1? alt-F2 does nothing F2 lists options like linux askmethod. Nope, boot up normally. Once you're at the welcome screen in the installer, then you can press CLTR-ALT-F2 to drop to a console prompt. Here you'll be able to set up a /boot partition, mkfs.ext3 it, tag the remaining space as LVM and then use the lvm tool to create your volumes and logical volumes and create the filesystems on top of them. Oh, that is going to be a lot to read up on. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside of XEN. You have to set up an LVM partition then install XP into it withing XEN. And I cannot touch that drive. Have you tried Vmware? We have used it many a time to mount a physical drive and boot it. Sigh. Back to other projects. Scott Silva wrote: on 1/7/2008 1:46 AM John R Pierce spake the following: John Bowden wrote: I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.5 watts, 500mA at 5V, per port. Typlical laptop HD is like 5 watts, more when spinning up. yes, I know it usually works. just saying... Sometimes you can find small 4 to 6 gig closeout drives with lower power requirements. And you can look around for 1.8 inch drives and enclosures. That should run on a single port. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant10 West 24th Street #100- - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?
I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone here might have an insight on this. I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm running x86_64 CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7. Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I noticed that every so often, seemingly at random, although it appears most frequently when I click on something that wants to interact with the file system, the SeaMonkey window just closes. If I reopen it and go to the same place and try the same thing, it works just fine (and usually, the second SM window is more stable and doesn't do that again). This frequently happens when I try to save a web page, load an email attachment, print a page, or anything that interacts with the file system. Just now it happened when I tried to switch tabs, but that's unusual. Anyone have a clue? TIA. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside of XEN. You have to set up an LVM partition then install XP into it withing XEN. And I cannot touch that drive. Have you tried Vmware? We have used it many a time to mount a physical drive and boot it. oh, I thought VMware had the same limitations. So the OS on the physical drive was installed directly with that OS, no touching it by VMware? It is strictly hands off the drive in this case. Sigh. Back to other projects. Scott Silva wrote: on 1/7/2008 1:46 AM John R Pierce spake the following: John Bowden wrote: I have a external USB HD enclosure that takes its power from the one USB socket. Its only failed to do so on one oldish tower that a friend of mine has, on that machine it needed the second power connection. Got it from Ebay thts also out of spec, as USB is speced for 2.5 watts, 500mA at 5V, per port. Typlical laptop HD is like 5 watts, more when spinning up. yes, I know it usually works. just saying... Sometimes you can find small 4 to 6 gig closeout drives with lower power requirements. And you can look around for 1.8 inch drives and enclosures. That should run on a single port. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant10 West 24th Street #100- - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MHR wrote: I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone here might have an insight on this. I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm running x86_64 CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7. Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I noticed that every so often, seemingly at random, although it appears most frequently when I click on something that wants to interact with the file system, the SeaMonkey window just closes. If I reopen it and go to the same place and try the same thing, it works just fine (and usually, the second SM window is more stable and doesn't do that again). This frequently happens when I try to save a web page, load an email attachment, print a page, or anything that interacts with the file system. Just now it happened when I tried to switch tabs, but that's unusual. Anyone have a clue? I've been having this happen on Firefox the last week or two since I loaded CentOS 5.1 on my laptop, on just a plain old 32 bit system. firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.centos I thought it was perhaps one of my plugins I have installed, so I've just been dealing with it because I haven't had time to check it out. Mine is doing exactly the same thing. Regards, Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHgs8MIXSX/6LmsXkRAmvRAJ0ZkVgsf32ZoruJ+/iD7KrQZvzpWwCfctjI qBjOIMBlTgV/s8CkPmN6fqo= =d67d -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fred smith wrote: Firefox does this to me quite frequently, and it always has. every new release they say they've improved the stability, but it hasn't made any improvement for me in terms of this issue. I've never had Firefox do this before. Max -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHgtH1IXSX/6LmsXkRAoWGAJ0YfBzSFPGMrRbaaKyvwug9tdx45ACfbPG9 4LYbBFH2wyLEGPS8Ou9C4p4= =uwmi -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?
fred smith wrote: Firefox does this to me quite frequently, and it always has. every new release they say they've improved the stability, but it hasn't made any improvement for me in terms of this issue. I recently downloaded the firefox source and did my own build, just to see if the failures might have been due to some small incompatibility between the target system the official binaries are built for, and my box. Sad to say that while it may not die as often, it still does it. This doesn't answer the original poster's question, but As far as Firefox is concerned you might want to try giving 3.0b2 a try. I found it to be significantly more stable than the 1.5.X branch under Winders and on various Macs (haven't gotten around to trying it on a CentOS 5.X desktop box yet). Best, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 20:02 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside of XEN. You have to set up an LVM partition then install XP into it withing XEN. And I cannot touch that drive. Have you tried Vmware? We have used it many a time to mount a physical drive and boot it. oh, I thought VMware had the same limitations. So the OS on the physical drive was installed directly with that OS, no touching it by VMware? It is strictly hands off the drive in this case. The existing computers were remove from their cpu/cases and installed as extra drives in our VMWare hosts. We then created new vm instances and pointed them to a the /dev/hdx (physical drive) for the presentation of the guest OS. Now for the caveats. Some Os'es and configs wont like the hardware change. Are you allowed to clone the drive? If so the try with the clone first. If not where are the ramifications of hosing the XP install (accidentally). VMWare reccommends running a prep tool first (we don't use it). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant10 West 24th Street #100- - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as `messages' on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course...). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc... We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related. Did you have to do something to it to make it work with centos? I have one running on a machine that collects a lot of router syslogs and it has the annoying habit of resending a bunch of old notifications whenever a new one is noticed. Not really. Swatch is pretty straightforward perl, using gnu-tail to watch the end of log file(s). The only issue I've seen is that it will sometimes report old things on occassion when starting if there are matching entries near the end of the files. One place where I used this is on an openldap server that would occassionally get into a ``too many open files'' situation, and swatch would call a routine that restarted slapd when this happened. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Capitalism works primarily because most of the ways that a company can be scum end up being extremely bad for business when there's working competition. -rra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0
# stat --filesystem /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 File: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 ID: 0Namelen: 255 Type: tmpfs Blocks: Total: 258475 Free: 258421 Available: 258421 Size: 4096 Inodes: Total: 224103 Free: 223740 It seems that I have plenty of free inodes now at least. If it of interest, I did an uptime just prior to shutdown and the server up was 101 days. I did not run any of the utilities discussed in this thread prior to the reboot so I cannot say if there was any evidence of a resource starvation that might relate to uptime. Thank you very much for your assistance. My postings are a little disjointed because I subscribe to the digest and have to use the archives for questions demanding more immediate responses than once a day. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:14:05PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Got all the way through the selection of packages. All those time consuming tasks and the install got to formating the drive and crashed on a format error! Since I know exactly how I want to lay out the partitions, is there a way I can boot from CD, and get into Disk Druid to set the partitions and do the formating. Then when I come to the install just select to keep the drive how it is? And I have to have LVM You could hit ALT-F2 and set everything up from the console by hand (including formatting) and then just tell disk druid _not_ to format. I haven't tried that, but it feasibly might work... What hardware are you on? And what error are you getting exactly on format? Um. I'll try the Alt-F2. But the formatting was AFTER all the selection steps. What I want is just format. Then I will leave it as is... And if the format fails again, maybe I will learn more than 'critical formatting error, install aborting' or words similar! Oh, and this IS a test machine to get a kickstart file from well... if it's a test machine then were it me I'd stick different hard drive in the machine to test and see if the current drive might be the problem. barring that I'd try switching out the CD drive. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?
On Jan 8, 2008 1:06 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Does anyone know what controls this or if it is just a hardware or firmware version difference? I have seen this before with different controllers. I believe it to be as you think, differences in controllers and how they access the hardware. I could understand that between different types of controllers - or maybe even with a different setup. These appear to be the same with individual drives set up as separate volumes in all cases. In the past, when IDE/ATA drive was the king, their was lot of different cylinder mapping (LBA) to break the successive 32Mo, 512Mo, 2Go ... barrier Depending the BIOS options, the drive had a different geometry, then when changing these options, or changing of motherborad, linux was still working, but fdisk was complaining about cylinder not on a boundary. Do you remember ? To avoid this linux kernel added smart geometry detection, looking at the partition table, linux was guessing the geometry used at partitioning time. But sometime it was wrong and the disk was unusable. But not really, because usually only the first controller was doing smart geometry detection, and the second one was still using the geometry given by the BIOS. Then switching a drive from first controller to the second one, or maybe from SLAVE to MASTER was able to change the reported disk geometry. Then my question. Is it the same controller or the same linux distribution ? -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?
On Jan 7, 2008 6:10 PM, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the command line. what about running your script from the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Start it at the end of it, but be careful if your scrip block the boot process, your systm will block! Be sure to have a rescue CD ready. Regards After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for the wireless lan card is off, so I need to know how to turn the wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. thanks, Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Intel SRCS16 Controllers
On Jan 8, 2008 12:23 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a centos box with a few of these in it. Its shipped monitoring/alerting software needs X, and this server only has a console installed. Does anyone have any experience with or a suggestion on how I could monitor these cards with something 3rd party based that doesn't need a gui, or Java at that matter! No idea, but you could start a Xvnc server and start these monitoring tools in this display, then connect to this screen time to time to check if your Inter controller is ok. Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?
Have you try checking your bios if the wireless is default to off? On 1/7/08, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the command line. After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for the wireless lan card is off, so I need to know how to turn the wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. thanks, Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?
Mark Weaver wrote: Alain Spineux wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 6:10 PM, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the command line. what about running your script from the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Start it at the end of it, but be careful if your scrip block the boot process, your systm will block! Be sure to have a rescue CD ready. Regards well... I've got it starting as a service, however it doesn't make the connection. when the system starts to run the script the script runs fine but the wireless doesn't make the connection. Network is down is reported to the console as the system is booting. Once the desktop loads and I'm logged in, if I issue service wireless restart (I've got it setup as a sysV init script) the wireless connects perfectly every time. Mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi This is probably a timing issue. If your initscript follows the conventions required for chkconfig you should have a line that looks something like # chkconfig: 2345 10 90 The first setting representing the levels to start at, second being the start sequence number, and the third being the kill sequence number. So in my example the service starts in runlevels 2,3,4, and 5. The order it started in is determined by S10service name The Order it is killed in is K90service name You may want to try changing the S Value to 99 Initially so that it is one of the last things started and if this works then identify what needs to started before your script will work that wasn't with the original S Value. Hope this helps, have a nice day :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 20:02 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside of XEN. You have to set up an LVM partition then install XP into it withing XEN. And I cannot touch that drive. Have you tried Vmware? We have used it many a time to mount a physical drive and boot it. oh, I thought VMware had the same limitations. So the OS on the physical drive was installed directly with that OS, no touching it by VMware? It is strictly hands off the drive in this case. The existing computers were remove from their cpu/cases and installed as extra drives in our VMWare hosts. We then created new vm instances and pointed them to a the /dev/hdx (physical drive) for the presentation of the guest OS. Now for the caveats. Some Os'es and configs wont like the hardware change. Are you allowed to clone the drive? If so the try with the clone first. If not where are the ramifications of hosing the XP install (accidentally). VMWare reccommends running a prep tool first (we don't use it). Fortunately I am going the other direction. The XP drive stays in the system. I will have a Centos install on a USB attached drive. To this I will add VMware to boot up and run the OS on that drive. Well, thank you for this input. I will put it on sort of a back burner. I received company email saying that we will be getting Dell 630s later this month to fit in with the greater company standard. I am not happy to get an even larger unit. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos