[CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-19

2008-01-07 Thread Alain Reguera Delgado
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.
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Re: [CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-19

2008-01-07 Thread Tim Verhoeven
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

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Re: [CentOS-docs] modern-CentOS-1.7-19

2008-01-07 Thread Akemi Yagi
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
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Re: [CentOS-es] Recompilar Squid

2008-01-07 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
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!
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Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con Postfix y Puerto 25

2008-01-07 Thread Maximo Mosalvo

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
 
 
 



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si no me equivoco en el archivo master se pude configurar de donde escucha
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Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con Postfix y Puerto 25

2008-01-07 Thread Juan José Iglesias González
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
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Re: [CentOS] how can i upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1

2008-01-07 Thread John R Pierce

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.
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Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-07 Thread John Bowden
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 ! 

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Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread John Bowden
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?


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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 !) 
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Re: [CentOS] Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread John R Pierce

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...
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Re: [CentOS] Iptables and impersonating another O/S

2008-01-07 Thread Anup Shukla

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.

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Re: [CentOS] Yum-update error

2008-01-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
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


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[CentOS] Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread Tolun ARDAHANLI
Hi;

I need any suggestions of remote desktop program. Can you advise me about
that... ?

thanks to everybody...


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Re: [CentOS] can't install pptp client

2008-01-07 Thread fabian . arrotin
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 .. :-)

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Re: [CentOS] how can i upgrade my Centos from 4 to 5.1

2008-01-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
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



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Re: [CentOS] PXE problem after CentOS reboot

2008-01-07 Thread James Pearson

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


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Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box

2008-01-07 Thread Pete Geenhuizen



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

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Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread Tolun ARDAHANLI
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?






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Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala
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

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Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread empty521
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...


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell

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.


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[CentOS] Re: Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread Ugo Bellavance

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

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[CentOS] Re: DRBD NFS load issues

2008-01-07 Thread Ugo Bellavance

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?

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Re: [CentOS] yum update download only?

2008-01-07 Thread Lorenzo Quatrini

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

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Re: [CentOS] Re: DRBD NFS load issues

2008-01-07 Thread Jed Reynolds

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.


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Re: [CentOS] Remote desktop...

2008-01-07 Thread Alain Spineux
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?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[CentOS] Re: Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Silva

on 1/4/2008 5:11 PM Dan Carl spake the following:


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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 6:29 PM
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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.

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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.

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[CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Silva

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.



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[CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?

2008-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell
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?


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RE: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5 SOLVED

2008-01-07 Thread Dan Carl


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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:39 PM
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 Dan Carl wrote:
 I forgot to add the file system is riserfs.

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 5:43 PM
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 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

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[CentOS] Switching screen resolution on the fly

2008-01-07 Thread Jerry Geis

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
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[CentOS] Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread James B. Byrne
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?



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Re: [CentOS] can't install pptp client

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver

[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!


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Re: [CentOS] Switching screen resolution on the fly

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Heinlein

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.


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Re: [CentOS] Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread William L. Maltby
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.

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[CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread James B. Byrne
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?

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Re: [CentOS] Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread William L. Maltby
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?

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[CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver

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
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[CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
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


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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
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?

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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver

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.


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Re: [CentOS] Switching screen resolution on the fly

2008-01-07 Thread centos
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

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[CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread James B. Byrne
# 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?


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread William L. Maltby
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.

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RE: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?

2008-01-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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.

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[CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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!
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[CentOS] Intel SRCS16 Controllers

2008-01-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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!
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Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
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.

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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz

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


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Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Jed Reynolds

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.


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Almost solved not respecting group permisions for new groups after group #16 on NFS mounted dirs. was: [CentOS] I am confused. Chmod / chown issues?

2008-01-07 Thread Jason Pyeron
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]#
 

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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz



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.



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Re: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?

2008-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell

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.


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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
 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.

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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White

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

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Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell

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.


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz

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.




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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell

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.


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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Les Mikesell

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.


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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz

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.


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RE: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Jason Pyeron
 -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.
 
 
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[CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-07 Thread MHR
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.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz

Jason Pyeron wrote:

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz

Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25
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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.



  

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Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
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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

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Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-07 Thread Max Hetrick
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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

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Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Mauritz

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).


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RE: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Jason Pyeron

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 Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 20:02
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 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
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  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).

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Re: [CentOS] Log Monitoring Recomendation

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
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.

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[CentOS] Re: Strange Problem with dm-0

2008-01-07 Thread James B. Byrne
# 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
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Re: [CentOS] ARGH!!! Instal fails at drive format time

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Weaver

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.

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Re: [CentOS] aacraid hard/firmware differences?

2008-01-07 Thread Alain Spineux
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 ?



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Re: [CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?

2008-01-07 Thread Alain Spineux
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,

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Re: [CentOS] Intel SRCS16 Controllers

2008-01-07 Thread Alain Spineux
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!
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Re: [CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?

2008-01-07 Thread thad
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.


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Re: [CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?

2008-01-07 Thread Clint Dilks

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.


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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 :)


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz

Jason Pyeron wrote:

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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 20:02
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems

Jason Pyeron wrote:


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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.



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